Summary of the 3rd BINA Workshop

Abstract

BINA-3 has been the third workshop of this series involving scientists from India and Belgium aimed at fostering future joint research in the view of cutting-edge observatories and advances in theory. BINA-3 was held at the Graphic Era Hill University, 22-24 March 2023 at Bhimtal (near Nainital), Uttarakhand, India. A major event was the inauguration of the International Liquid-Mirror Telescope (ILMT), the first liquid mirror telescope devoted exclusively to astronomy. BINA-3 provided impressive highlights encompassing topics of both general astrophysics and solar physics. Research results and future projects have been featured through invited and contributed talks, and poster presentations.

This paper was submitted as a contribution to the proceedings of the third Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy and Astrophysics (BINA) workshop, which was held in Bhimtal, Uttarakhand (India) on 22-24 March 2023. The final, peer-reviewed version will be published in Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. The manuscript contains ten pages