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{margin-bottom:0cm;}</style><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is a reminder about
the upcoming Abstracts Submission and Registration deadline
for the IUCAA International Conference “Stellar Variability:
Taking the Pulse of the Universe”, to be held at IUCAA,
Pune, Maharashtra, India, between November 24-28, 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Register and submit the abstract</span></b><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> now</span></b><b><span style="color:black">:
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ji5JC71R2NTZpLAJRcWhkhonOXM?domain=web.iucaa.in" moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span style="color:#0B5394">https://web.iucaa.in/ws/~SVTPU2025/registration.html</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:#222222">Deadline: June 30, 2025 </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black">Maximum number of participants: 100. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Conference website:
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cXDqC91WPRT238kpOiOsvhqAfhe?domain=web.iucaa.in" moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span style="color:#005A95">https://web.iucaa.in/ws/~SVTPU2025/index.html</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Conference email:
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:stars@iucaa.in" moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">stars@iucaa.in</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Please
forward this announcement to your colleagues who may be
interested in this conference.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="color:black">We
look forward to seeing you in Pune. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
Marina Rejkuba, Anupam Bhardwaj and Devendra Ojha<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">********************************************************************************************</span></b><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">*************<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Announcement</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">IUCAA
International Conference</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">"Stellar
Variability: Taking the Pulse of the Universe"</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">November
24-28, 2025</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Venue:
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics
(IUCAA) Pune, Maharashtra, India</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">********************************************************************************************</span></b><b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-US">*************</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Stellar
variability, both intrinsic as in pulsating stars and
extrinsic as caused by binary motions, plays a crucial role
in a wide range of topics in modern astrophysics and</span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">near-field cosmology. This
conference will explore the astrophysics of stellar
variability and the use of variable stars as stellar
population tracers and distance indicators.</span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">It will provide a broad
overview of the field as well as bring networking
opportunities for Indian astronomers with the</span><span style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">i</span></span><span style="color:black">nternational
community to fully exploit the large</span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:black">astronomical datasets from
the recent and upcoming wide-field variability surveys. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Important Dates:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Abstract submission </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">and Registration Form
</span><span style="color:black">deadline: June </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">30</span><span style="color:black">, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="color:black">Program announcement: July 31, 2025</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Registration fee
</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">and
accommodation booking deadline</span><span style="color:black">: August 15, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Conference starts: November 24, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Conference email</span><span style="color:black">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:stars@iucaa.in" title="mailto:stars@iucaa.in" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#467886">stars@iucaa.in</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Conference<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>website:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cXDqC91WPRT238kpOiOsvhqAfhe?domain=web.iucaa.in" title="https://web.iucaa.in/ws/~SVTPU2025/index.html" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#467886">https://web.iucaa.in/ws/~SVTPU2025/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Confirmed Invited Speakers:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Earl P. Bellinger (Yale, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Aru Beri (IISER, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Giuseppe Bono (Rome University,
Italy)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Santi Cassisi (INAF Teramo, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Gisella Clementini (Bologna, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Laurent Eyer (Geneva, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Caroline Huang (CfA Harvard, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Željko Ivezić (University of
Washington, USA)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Barry Madore (Carnegie, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Amanda Karakas (Monash Uni.,
Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Marcella Marconi (INAF-OACN, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Clara E. Martínez-Vázquez (NOIRLab,
USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">László Molnár (Konkoly Obs.,
Hungary)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Joe P. Ninan (TIFR, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Grzegorz Pietrzyński (CAMK, Poland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Zdeněk Prudil (ESO, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Saurabh Sharma (ARIES, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Dorota Skowron (Warsow Uni, Poland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">SOC:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Marina Rejkuba (ESO, Germany;
Co-Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Devendra K. Ojha (TIFR, India;
Co-Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Anupam Bhardwaj (IUCAA, India;
Co-Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Richard de Grijs (Macquarie Uni.,
Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Jessy Jose (IISER, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Shashi Kanbur (SUNY Oswego, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Noriyuki Matsunaga (Tokyo Uni.,
Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Matteo Moneli (INAF-OAR, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Jeewan C. Pandey (ARIES, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Vincenzo Ripepi (INAF-OACN, Italy)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">T. Sivarani (IIA, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA, India)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Robert Szabo (Konkoly Observatory,
Hungary)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">LOC:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Anupam Bhardwaj, Susmita Das,
Prashant Nishad, IUCAA Standing LOC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Scientific Rationale:</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Massive time-domain astronomical
surveys in the last decade have revolutionised our knowledge
of the properties, physical nature, and the very existence
of several different<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">classes of variable stars known to
date. Stellar variability, both intrinsic as in pulsating
stars and extrinsic as caused by binary motions, plays a
crucial role in a wide range of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">topics in modern astrophysics and
near-field cosmology. Variable stars have been extensively
used to explore various aspects of star-planet formation and
evolution, applied to Galactic and extragalactic archaeology
studies and have played the key role in establishing the
cosmic distance scale. Thanks to wide-field variability
surveys (e.g. Gaia, TESS, OGLE, ASAS-SN, CRTS, ZTF, VVV ,
VMC), the numbers of variable stars have increased
exponentially, providing both opportunities for new
discoveries as well as challenges associated with dealing
with a plethora of data. The latest Gaia Data Release 3
(DR3) has published light curves of more than 10 million
variable sources and DR4, expected in late 2026, will
increase the number statistics by at least a factor of two.
At the same time, Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey
of Space and Time (LSST) will have started operations
further expanding the parameter space for multi-wavelength
variable stars studies to fainter magnitudes and larger
distances. Stellar variability studies will undoubtedly be
at their zenith in the next few years making this conference
very timely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The conference will explore the
astrophysics of stellar variability and the use of variable
stars as stellar population tracers and distance indicators.
It will provide the opportunity for young researchers to get
a broad overview of this exciting field, and connect Indian
astronomers with the international community providing new
networking opportunities to fully exploit these
unprecedentedly large astronomical datasets on the horizon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Topics to be covered:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Stellar variability across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram<o:p></o:p></li>
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Stellar evolution and Pulsation physics - structure and
atmospheric dynamics<o:p></o:p></li>
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Stellar models and numerical simulations<o:p></o:p></li>
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Stellar multiplicity –<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN-US">b</span>inary stars and physical parameter
determinations<o:p></o:p></li>
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Galactic archaeology and near-field cosmology with variable
stars<o:p></o:p></li>
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Extragalactic distance scale with variable distance
indicators<o:p></o:p></li>
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Upcoming large surveys and observational facilities for
variable star research<o:p></o:p></li>
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