Thursday 25 March 2021 Dr Federica Bianco (University of Delaware, US) TBD https://list.saao.ac.za/wws/subscribe/saaotalks

Thursday 1 April 2021 Dr Rajeev Manick (SAAO) Discovery of a long period binary in a pre-planetary nebula Current models predict that a binary nucleus is an essential ingredient in producing bipolar structures seen among pre-planetary nebulae (PPNe). Despite years of attempts to detect binaries…

Thursday 8 April 2021 Dr Chandreyee Maitra (MPE, US) X-raying the Magellanic Clouds: A roadmap from XMM to eROSITA The Magellanic Clouds are an ideal site to study X-ray source population of a galaxy including supernova remnants, high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) and super-soft sources.…

Thursday 15 April 2021 Tshiamiso Makwela (UCT) Astronomy Education Research: towards teaching for diversity and inclusivity in South Africa South Africa has chosen Astronomy as one of its flagship sciences exploiting the geographical advantage of the southern skies. However, professional Astronomy is not well known…

Thursday 29 April 2021 Dr Ajil Kottayil (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India) The Science of Atmospheric Sounding from Space Satellite datasets play a vital role in monitoring the day-to-day weather activities over the globe, and atmospheric datasets generated from them have huge applications…