Symposium on Women in Physics​: Networking, Innovation, Opportunity and Equity (SWPNIOE)

Session

Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics

12 Sept 2026, 14:15

G210 A (Chair - Kenji Nishiwaki)

43. Approximate methods to model non-linear large scale structure

Sharvari Nadkarni Ghosh (IIT K)

12/09/2026, 14:15

On very large scales in the Universe is the observed matter is distributed into galaxies, clusters of galaxies and superclusters with large void spaces in between. This spider-web like pattern of matter is very loosely referred to as large scale structure. This
structure is believed to have grown from tiny seed density perturbations laid down during the inflationary era in the history of the...

44. Unveiling Dark Matter in Neutron Stars: A Bayesian Study of Fermionic and Bosonic Models

Sarmistha Banik (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)

12/09/2026, 14:35

Neutron stars(NS) offer a unique cosmic laboratory to probe the nature of dark
matter (DM), one of the biggest open questions in physics. We study NS carrying a
small admixture of dark matter, modelling both ordinary (hadronic) matter and dark
matter using nuclear physics-based equations of state(EoS), and comparing two
possibilities: Fermionic versus Bosonic DM. Using Bayesian inference,...

45. The Gravitational Wave Universe: a new window on strong field gravity

Shilpa Kastha (SINP)

12/09/2026, 14:55