INDIA’S MEGA PROJECTS IN ASTRONOMY

Ranjan Gupta –  IUCAA, Pune, India

Extraordinary seminar (unusal day and time)

India in recent years has entered into several mega projects (India’s contribution will be approximately 300 Million US$ in each of these project) in the area of physics and astronomy where it has collaborations with various international communities in these areas.

The main eight of these are: ITER; LHC & FAIR; INO; SKA; TMT; LIGO; ASTROSAT and ADITYA-L1.
The talk will highlight these mega projects and future prospects.