A group of administrators and faculty members of the Department of Physics visited the NationalObservatory of Iran on June 16, 2022. In this visit, which was carried out at the invitation of Prof. Habib Khosroshahi, the director of the Iranian National Observatory (INO), Prof. Seyed Zafarollah Kalantari, the head of the Department of Physics, Prof. Parviz Kameli, deputy for the research of the Department, Prof.
Soroush Shakeri, coordinator for international affairs of the Department, Prof. Keivan Aghababaei Samani and Prof. Sedigheh. Sajadian, faculty members of the Department, were the members of the IUT visiting team. During this visit, the joint cooperation fields have been reviewed  and evaluated  between the  INO as one of the country's scientific macro projects and Isfahan University of Technology as one of the top Iranian universities with high subject rankings in physics and astrophysics. With only 137 km distance away from the INO site, IUT enjoys many geographical, scientific, and technological privileges to make fruitfulcollaborations with INO.

During this visit, the IUT teams talked about the possibility of Isfahan University of Technology hosting prominent Iranian and foreign astronomers at the university campus for having scientific cooperation. Also, both sides talked about initiating joint scientific projects with the participation of the INO in defining joint proposals and programs for postdoctoral researchers in IUT. There were also some discussions about
organizing joint activities such as the first IUT-INO workshop on "Transient events and multi-messenger astrophysics” which was planned to be held on  28-29 July 2022. The visit continued by observing different parts of the observatory and the mechanical and control equipment of the telescope. Meanwhile, the details of a mutual agreement between IUT and INO was discussed either.