Pulastya Science Festival 2020
Channel: IUCAA SciPOP
Date: 07/11/2020

Muktangan Vidnyan Shodhika (MVS) at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, will be celebrating the PuLastya Science Festival on November 7th (English) and November 8th (Marathi), 2020. This program is organized every year by IUCAA to commemorate the birth anniversary of Shri P. L. Deshpande who donated generously to set up the building of MVS at IUCAA. This year, the festival will be conducted online considering the worldwide pandemic situation of Covid-19.
On these days, we have planned science activities to spread awareness about issues related to viruses, current happenings in the solar system, live programs like Question and Answer session with IUCAA academics, Public Talks on Nobel Prize 2020 followed by live Sky Watch sessions.
As the activities will be Online Only, there is no restriction on the number of participants or the age group. The program will be open for all.

 Link for interview with Prof. Rainer Weiss: https://www.youtube.com/LIGOIndia/live