Partners
The Lightcurve group's work is supported by the Department of Atomic Energy through TIFR, by named-grant funders, and by partners in computing and international research.
Primary funder
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
DAE funds the basic research infrastructure of TIFR, including the Lightcurve group. As the primary funder, DAE underwrites salaries, facilities, and core operations.
dae.gov.in ↗Named-grant funders
Funders
Donors providing blanket support — funds applied to salaries, operations, and research at the group's discretion.
Premji Invest
Blanket-grant support - funds applied to salaries, research programmes, and the group's overall operating budget.
Murty Trust
Grant funding directed toward scientific research and team operations.
Partners in computing
Computing
Organisations contributing infrastructure and compute resources rather than monetary support.
Google DeepMind
Research collaboration on machine learning applied to time-series astrophysical data, contributing infrastructure and modelling expertise rather than direct funding.
Intel
High-performance computing infrastructure that supports the group's large-scale numerical simulations and ML training workloads.
International collaborators
Collaborators
Active research partners around the world. Collaborations are project-driven — co-authored papers, shared data and tooling, and joint student supervision.
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
Göttingen, Germany
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA
Google DeepMind
London, UK
If you would like to start a collaboration, please get in touch.
Host institution
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
TIFR — under the Department of Atomic Energy — hosts the Lightcurve group within the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Mumbai. The institute provides the institutional infrastructure, compute resources, and broader scientific community within which the group operates.
Image
Colaba campus — to be sourced