Outreach

Popular level articles

  • I wrote a fortnightly column on astronomy for the SciencePlus section of the Indian newspaper, Asian Age (2006 - 2008).
  • Co-authored commissioned article titled `The Dark Universe' with Martin Rees, for DISCOVER magazine (December 2003)
  • Authored popular level review article on gravitational lensing in The Icon Critical Dictionary of the New Cosmology, ed. Peter Coles, Icon Books Ltd., U. K. (December 1998)

Talks

  • Invited Panelist "Feminism Then and Now" at the Radcliffe Day Celebrations on May 28, 2010.
  • Featured in a documentary series titled `Matter and Beyond' produced by Everest Productions LLC that was aired on eBRU TV in the Fall of 2008
  • Featured in a segment on mentoring in a documentary produced by the Harvard University Provost's Office
  • Yale iTunes lecture on Mapping dark matter in the Universe (September 2007), now ranked 20th amongst the Top 20 iTunesU lectures
  • Speaker at the Science Saturdays series at Yale University, the streaming video link is here (April 2005)
  • Organizer of a panel discussion titled `Beginnings and Endings' at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven (June 2004)
  • Interviewed on NPR and WUNH

Media

  • Member of the Advisory Board of SCIENCENOW at NOVA, WGBH Boston
  • Featured in Science News, the New Haven Register, Mercury, New Scientist, Sky and Telescope and DISCOVER magazine
  • Profiled in the BBC Series titled `Stephen Hawking's Universe' in the episode on dark matter.
  • Work featured in many media websites, blogs including ArsTechnica.com, ScienceDaily, The Future of Things, SpaceDaily.com, Dynamics of Cats, Analogsf.com, spaceref.com, Innovations report.com, Thaindian News, Physorg.com, Intute.com, Starstryder.com, Sci-tech-archive.net, esciencenews.com, shvoong.com, Universetoday.com, Redorbit.com, International reporter.com, upi.com, scientificblogging.com, dailygalaxy.com, newsvine.com, science.slashdot.org