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Joysankar Majumdar
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Joysankar Majumdar
Astronomy - Photography - Sleeping

Teaching
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  • Advances in Modern Astronomy (Summer Semester 2026) at Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, PL

Telescope time
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  • 30 hours on the Baldone Schmidt Telescope (BST), Latvia
  • 10 hours on the Joan Oró Telescope (TJO), Spain
  • 35 hours on the Kottamia Astronomical Observatory (KAO), Egypt
  • 6 hours on the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) 0.4m
  • 8.5 hours on the Liverpool Telescope (LT), Canary Islands, Spain
  • 30 hours on the University of Zielona Gora Observatory (UZO), Chile
  • Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (SWIFT) - RIP: ToO triggers for PKS 2208-137, Gaia DR3 277817015341, OQ 334, AT2024agoe, AT2025acft, SDSS J080622.15+21262, AT2026gz, GB6 J0742+5444, AT2026ava

Conferences & Schools
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  • HERA 2026 – Black Holes at Different Flavours in Warsaw, Poland (Sep 21 - 25, 2026)
    • Talk: AT 2020xys: Discovery, Classification, and Multi-Wavelength Observations of a Bowen Fluorescence Flare in an AGN
  • ePESSTO+ meeting in Cardiff, UK (Sep 14 - 15, 2026)
    • Talk: SN 2019qem: A Luminous Type IIn Supernova Seen Through Three Years of Interaction
  • 17th Gaia Science Alerts workshop and the ACME Time-Domain Workshop in Fréjus, France (Aug 31 - Sep 4, 2026)
    • Talk: SN 2019qem: A Long-Lived, Luminous Type IIn Supernova with Sustained Circumstellar Interaction
    • Talk: New features in BHTOM3 - data services, photometry, spectroscopy
  • Tidal Disruption Events and Nuclear Transients in Crete vol. 2 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Aug 24 - 28, 2026)
    • Poster: BHTOM: A Platform for Coordinated time-domain studies of accreting supermassive black holes
  • RAPID Response: Hot-wiring the Next Generation of Time-Domain Science at Caltech, Pasadena, USA (March 23 - 27, 2026)
    • Talk: BHTOM: Standardized, automated time-domain follow-up from a global volunteer telescope network
  • EDUCADO-MWGaiaDN training school on astro-AI and ML in Ghent, Belgium (Mar 2 - 6, 2026)
  • National Workshop on Hands-on Data Analysis of XSPECT onboard XPoSat at URSC, ISRO, Bengaluru, India (June 2 - 4, 2025)
    • Project & Talk: Investigating the X-ray Spectral Evolution in Circinus X-1 Using XSPECT/XPoSat
  • The second International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT-2025) Workshop at ARIES, Nainital, India (April 14 - 17, 2025)
  • 7th Regional Science and Technology Congress by West Bengal Govt. at Malda College, India (January 7 - 8, 2025)
    • Talk: Multi-wavelength study of a transitioning blazar Op 313
  • High Energy Astrophysics Workshop (as LOC) at BHU, Varanasi, India (November 25 - 27, 2024)
  • ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy (ATSOA) at ARIES, Nainital, India (April 22 - May 3, 2024)
    • Project & Talk: Photometric Study of an Open Cluster Berkeley 65
  • Space science and Technology AwaReness Training (START) at BHU, Varanasi, India (April 15 - May 3, 2023)
  • IIA Summer School remotely (May 31 - June 3, 2023)
  • Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics at IUCAA, India (May 16 - June 17, 2022)
  • Students’ Seminar at Malda College, Malda, India (June 2022)
    • Talk: Quantum Biology
  • International Summer Program at the University of Osaka, Japan (July, 2021)
  • Workshop on Space Technology and Its Application by ISRO (January, 2021)
  • SciPy India 2020 by FOSSEE & IITB (December, 2020)
  • Webinar on Recent Advancements in Astrophysics at Kaliyaganj College, India (August 26, 2020)