This is a comprehensive program covering frontline research in multiple disciplines of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. The program will be organized in two parts:(i) Winter School on Astronomical and Cosmological Surveys, Dec. 10-17, 2012(ii) Young Astrophysicists’ Symposium, Dec. 19-21, 20012The school will expose young Indian researchers to the underlying physics and data analyis issues in large scale observational surveys and subsequent use in addressing outstanding problems in astronomy and astrophysics. The underlying aim is to prepare the students with the capability to exploit the huge astronomical database that the different surveys and astronomy missions (for example VLT, Gemini, Subaru, XMM-Newton, Chandra, Spitzer, Herschel, ALMA, Astro-H, JWST, Suzaku, eROSITA, DES, LSST, Euclid, LOFT, ATHENA, Kepler etc.) will create. The topics to be coverd in the school lectures will include Surveys of the Local Universe (stars, interstellar medium, exoplanets)High Energy Surveys...
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