Mayuri Rao
Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
Mayuri Rao is Associate Professor at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore. She completed her PhD in 2017 from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University (ANU). Her research interests include building instruments and techniques to detect faint distortions in the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation. She is also interested in foreground modeling and subtraction as applicable in low, mid-frequency radio astronomy, with a special interest in the diffuse radio emission from our galaxy. She was elected as Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Session 2C: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows/Associates
Naba Kumar Mondal, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Experimental cosmology at radio frequencies
There remain some open problems in Lambda-CDM cosmology. The speaker will explain various foregrounds to cosmological observations focusing on a few of these, and discuss some experimental activities pertaining to the Array of Precision Spectrometers for the Epoch of RecombinAtion – APSERa – an upcoming cosmology experiment at radio frequencies to study the formation of the first atoms over the epoch of recombination.