Summer at CREST,IIA

A classical style Architecture with Grey handsome building blocks; The Campus harboring exotic and indigenous Floral types; An island of snakes and jackfruit trees; Silent yet vibrant labs - This is where I spent my summer 2011. It’s dear to me for two reasons – partly because the ambience was very much alluring and partly because I could meet a few interesting people without whom my stay and also my research could not have been as rewarding as they were. I would count them to be a purple patch of my undergraduate life as I got to live my dreams of being at IIA.



Mesmering beauty!

The weather yarely turns from mild sunny afternoons to darkened evening. Congenial research Atmosphere with pleasantly mottled trees adds to the pulchritude of CREST. G2, My room in the ground floor - I would call it a heaven! I was even wondering if someone designed the room with the prior knowledge about my ‘Dream-lab’. Huh! Yeah, I had always yearned to work at a place where I would relish the beauty of gardens as soon as I open the curtains of the room!



Gestures not to scale!

Sonam, Peppu, Mrunalinee and Anusha – my chat buddies at CREST. ‘Impacted and elliptically transformed Spherical Balls’ – That was the Bonda which was made in the canteen!!! This is a sample of our lunch time scientific chats… The prey was Mrunalinee – A dimension problem in our description, finally concluded it saying, the gestures were not to scale!!

Census of our activities

Nothing could really substitute the dinner time chats, mid night star gazing, Open Air theatre dance classes, Cooking at pantry, CRESTFEST 2011 which made our final rocking days of dance performances at IIA auditorium. Another member of our group was my sweet ‘Taffie’ …Poor creature, I have scared it a couple of times by my shrieks.




Clean-Room world

I could still remember that our laughter would have torn the roofs apart when we renamed CREST as ‘Culinary Research and Education for Students and Trainees’  we had another Handsel of visiting the clean rooms of Astrosat’s telescope. Special credits to Raj for his vivid demos….We went crazy when we wore the clean room suits and more animated when we were given the masks and gloves as take home gifts 


Normalization of deviance – My research on 2m telescopic IR data

Venus Image captured through IIA 2m telescope on 3rd December 2010:



Waiting and wondering how much CREST enthralled me, my mind alerts me not to lecture my readers to boredom. So, I’m leaving my research thesis to find a place in my website. For all those intrigued by the Planet Venus and yearning to trace its Cloud Physics, please find my technical Report in my website.