Measuring the Universe
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Course Dates
8 July to 29 July
Timings
6:00 pm to 8:00
(Mon,Wed, Fri)
Commitment
Price
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A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION FROM ASHOKAX
LIFE-LONG ACCESS TO A HIGH-GRADE PEER NETWORK
About The Course
How large is the Earth? How far away are the stars? What is the weight of the Moon? How fast does a comet move? How old is the Universe? We’ve been asking these questions for thousands of years but only in the last century have we been able to find ways of measuring distances, sizes, ages, speeds and masses of most things in the Universe. Some of these answers lead us to deeper questions, many of them related to our existence on this small planet orbiting a minor middle-aged star in a vast and old Universe.
Fees after 50% scholarship for this course – ₹20,000 plus GST
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Faculty
Somak Raychaudhury
PHD cambridge; BA Oxford
Somak Raychaudhury, a world renowned astrophysicist, currently serving as the Director of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune. A curious student from his early days, he has been an Inlaks Scholar at Oxford, earned the Issac Newton Studentship at Cambridge, and has been awarded Smithosnian postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is known for co-building NASA’s flagship-class space telescope the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Raychaudhury champions the cause of astronomy to the wider public, especially to schoolchildren and their teachers. At present, he is helping the Pune local authorities beat the COVID-19 pandemic using his expertise as a leader and data scientist. His students remember him for his attention to detail, his empathetic teaching methods and his depth of knowledge.
