2024
Oct 2024: 3 out of 8 MeerRings datasets reduced (6/17 tracks).
12 Nov 2024: MeerKAT open-time proposal “The first multiphase study of star-formation driven outflows below the star-forming main sequence” gets allocated 15 hours at priority A.
4 Sep 2024: Completed 6-month PhD milestone - Research Proposal.
2 to 7 Jun 2024: Presented at the final ASTRO3D Science Legacy Meeting in Sydney.
May 2024: MeerRings observations completed (7 targets, 15 tracks).
22 Feb 2024: Moved to Perth and joined ICRAR/UWA as an ASTRO3D PhD Student.
2023
Nov 2023: MeerRings observations begin.
11 Sep 2023: MeerKAT open-time campaign “MeerRings” gets allocated 50 hours at priority B1.
25 Jul to 11 Sep 2023: Visited Tel Aviv University to work on a research project with Dr. Jonathan Stern.
09 Jun 2023: Submitted MSc. Thesis.
27 to 31 Mar 2023: Presented at the meeting of the SKA Pathfinder HI Survey Coordination Committee (PHISCC 2023)) in Cape Town.
2022
19 to 23 Sep 2022: Attended the Ninth European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS 2022) at ASTRON & JIVE in the Netherlands.
12 to 16 Sep 2022: Presented at the What Matter(s) Around Galaxies (WMAG 2022) conference in the Alps, Italy
4 to 8 Jul 2022: Won the best MSc oral presentation prize in the Astrophysics track at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP).
29 Mar to 1 Apr 2022: Participated in 4-day virtual workshop by STScI that introduced the functionalities of various open-source spectroscopic analysis tools.
14 to 18 Mar 2022: Short presentation as part of the African Astronomical Society (AfAS) annual conference.
05 Jan 2022: Probing the physicochemical properties of the Leo Ring and the Leo I group. Sameer et al. 2022 accepted for publication in MNRAS. (5th Author)
2021
30 Nov 2021: Contributed to an Astronomers for Earth (A4E) article in Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal as an nth author.
17 Sep 2021: Allocated ~ 21.4 hours P1 time on SALT
28 Jun to 2 Jul 2021: Participated in the week-long virtual African Radio Interferometry Winter School (ARIWS) by SARAO.
7 to 18 Jun 2021: Participated in the week-long virtual summer school on project development and data science for astrophysical research by ESCAPE
24 Mar 2021: Moved to Cape Town and joined SAAO & UCT
11 Jan to 5 Mar 2021: Participated in the KITP virtual workshop on the Fundamentals of Gaseous Halos
2020
16 Sep 2020: Awarded the SALT-SAAO MSc Prize Scholarship 2021
21 Aug 2020: Physical conditions of five OVI absorption systems towards PG 1522+101. Sankar et al. 2020 accepted for publication in MNRAS.
14 Jan 2020: Solar Metalicity gas in the extended halo of a galaxy at z ~ 0.12. Pradeep, Sankar, et al. (2020) accepted for publication in MNRAS.
2019 - 2018
26 Apr to 2 Jun 2019: Visited IUCAA, Pune to work with Prof. Srianand Raghunathan.
06 Feb 2019: Started working on QSO absorption line research projects with Prof. Anand Narayanan.
01 Nov 2018: Started unofficially auditing astronomy lectures at IIST, Trivandrum. (the journey begins)