Event

AstroReflections is a Technical Poster Making Competition cum Exhibition on Astronomy and Astrophysics, on the lines of international conferences. This is a great opportunity to present your findings and research in these areas to the very people who work with it day and night.

Format

You are required to make a technical poster on a topic of your choice from the area of astronomy/astrophysics.There will be two stages for this event.

Prelims/Shortlisting
Participants will need to send an abstract of their poster (in less than 250 words) in .pdf format to the email ID mentioned under Rules. The format for the poster will be made available on this website. They will be shortlisted for the final round on the basis of their abstracts.

Finals
Participants will need to make their technical poster (A1 size or 4 A3 coalesced into an A1) and present it before a panel of judges.

Rules

• A team may consist of a maximum of 2 members.
• Only one entry per team is allowed. In case of multiple entries, only the first entry will be considered.
• References must be mentioned explicitly.
• Participants need to get their posters printed on their own. The poster may not be a single A1 sheet. You can combine 4 A3 sheets.
• Deadline for abstracts: 20th February 2010.
• Participants must send their entries in .pdf format only to the email ID mentioned below, with the subject: ASTROREFLECTIONS ABSTRACT.
• Do not forget to mention your name, contact details and Conscientia 2010 Registration ID in your entry.
• For queries, clarifications and submissions, contact aparimit[at]conscientia[dot]co[dot]in.

Eligibility
Only college students are allowed to participate.

Evaluation

A panel of judges will decide the winner according to the following criteria:

• Content quality
• Knowledge of the topic
• Presentation skills
• Design of the poster

The decesion of the judges will be final and binding on all.

Finalists

The finalist entries for AstroReflections are (in order of registration ID):

• Space Colonization
  ASR001 Rachana Reddy M, Surekha Pullagura | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• The Endless Universe
  ASR002 Tiragabatti Jaibharath | Chadalawada Venkata Subbaiah College Of Engineering
  
  
• The History and Fate of the Universe
  ASR003 Ramiz Ahmad | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Development in Indian Satellites
  ASR004 Chandrapati Avinash, Avileli Swathi | SASTRA University, Thanjavur
  
  
• Sun and Space Weather
  ASR005 Tejaswita Sharma, Sudha Bendapudi | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Quasar Accretion Disks
  ASR007 Deepthi Anna George, Aswani A | Mar Baselios College of Engineering And Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• The Beginning of the Universe
  ASR008 Ajish R | IIT, Gandhinagar
  
  
• ISS
  ASR009 Surbhi Baghotia, Kirtana Puthran | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• The Mystery of Solar Neutrinos
  ASR011 Prashant Kumar, Bhavesh Jaiswal | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Gravitational Time Dilation
  ASR015 Dinesh Dhankhar | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Beyond the Solar System and Back
  ASR016 P S V R V Tejasvi, U Sai Bharath | Manipal Institute of Technology
  
  
• Large Hadron Collider
  ASR018 Bhavesh Jaiswal, Tushar Golani | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Sun Pillars
  ASR020 Etika Agarwal, R Aditya | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Death of the Stars
  ASR021 Brajpal Singh, Akshay Sharma | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Space Debris
  ASR022 Gaurav Upadhyay, Mayur Bhilawe | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Orion Nebula
  ASR024 Divyanshu Poddar, Vishesh Gupta | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Origin and Scale of Neutron Stars
  ASR025 Debashish Thaosen, Manish Manjhi | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Dark Matter and Energy
  ASR026 Amit Upadhyay, Ankur Verma | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  ASR027 Tanul Gupta, Sakham Joshi | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  
• Exoplanets
  ASR004 Chandrapati Avinash, ASR029 M Divya Bhargavi | SASTRA University, Thanjavur
  
  
• Orbital Perturbations
  ASR004 Avileli Swathi, ASR029 M Divya Bhargavi | SASTRA University, Thanjavur
  
  
• The Coldest Region in Space
  ASR030 Afaque R Khan | NIT, Bhopal
  
  
• Cosmology
  ASR031 Vishnupriya Konidala, Kavitha G | SASTRA University, Thanjavur
  
  
• Multiverse
  ASR003 Ramiz Ahmed, ASR032 Aditya Chaudhary | IIST, Thiruvananthapuram
  
  

Instructions for Finalists

Sample Poster
Click here for a sample poster. It is a participant entry from Aparimit 2009.

General Instructions:

• Poster size: 4×A3.
• Send your poster as 4 (four) .png files, which, when put together, make your A1 sized poster.
• Get your posters printed well in advance. If you want the organisers to get your posters printed, send the image files in the above mentioned format before 2359hrs, 27th February 2010 to the email address mentioned below. Do not forget to mention your names, contact details and Conscientia 2010 registration IDs.
• The participants coming from outside IIST have to pay the printing cost of Rs 85/- per FULL poster on arrival.
• Participants from IIST also have to email their posters and pay the cost as mentioned in the two previous points.
• Participants must be present at the notified venue at least 1 hour before the scheduled commencement of the competition .
• For any queries or clarifications, contact: aparimit[at]conscientia[dot]co[dot]in, or call 09847267170.

DISCLAIMER
The organizers of Conscientia 2010 and IIST will not be responsible for any printing/formatting errors arising out of negligence on part of the participants, including those cases where the posters have been printed by the organisers. Make sure that your poster is as per the instructions before you get it printed.