CEntre for
Space Sciences, India (cessi.in)
ABOUT
The Centre for Space Sciences, India (CESSI) is a
multi-institutional Centre of Excellence hosted by the Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata and is being established
through funding from the Ministry of Human Resource Development. CESSI aims to
explore the Sun’s activity, generate the understanding necessary for space
weather forecasting, hunt for gravitational waves, support national space science
initiatives, participate in international capacity building activities and
pursue public-private partnerships in space science research. The Centre will
take advantage of high-performance computing facilities, cloud computing and
the high-speed National Knowledge Network grid to achieve its goals. CESSI
faculty are drawn from IISER Kolkata, IISER Pune,
Indian Institute of Astrophysics (Bangalore), Udaipur Solar
Observatory-Physical Research Laboratory (Udaipur) and the Indian Space
Research Organization (Bangalore), have wide-ranging interests in the
astrophysical space sciences, and have the experience of handling international
and national space science projects.
FACULTY
Dipankar Banerjee
(Co-Investigator, IIA Bangalore), Dibyendu Nandi
(Principal Investigator and Centre Coordinator, IISER Kolkata), Rajesh Nayak (Co-Investigator, IISER Kolkata), Paul Rajaguru (Co-Investigator, IIA Bangalore), K. Sankarasubramanian (Co-Investigator, ISRO Bangalore), Nandita Srivastava
(Co-Investigator, USO-PRL Udaipur), Prasad Subramanian (Co-Investigator, IISER Pune)
CONTACT
Coordinator, CESSI
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Mohanpur 741 252, West Bengal, India
cessi@iiserkol.ac.in