ASI Symposium : Cosmology and Galaxy Formation 

The first ASI (Astronomical Society of India) symposium titled Cosmology and Galaxy Formation was held at IISER Mohali during Nov.5–7, 2011. More than 40 participants attended the meeting and close to 30 talks, including six review talks were scheduled over a period of 3 days. The agenda of the meeting included two discussion sessions on the topics of galaxy formation and dark energy. The meeting was featured as the lead story by Vigyan Prasar in its weekly science news bulletin on Loksabha TV.