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The meet brought together 41 students, researchers, and faculty from leading institutions across the region and featured five technical sessions, invited seminars, and colloquia covering contemporary topics such as cosmology, galaxy and star formation, black holes, numerical relativity, and gravitational-wave astronomy. 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