On the 19th of May, 109 BS MS students and one Integrated PhD & 41 PhD students were awarded their degrees during the sixth convocation ceremony of IISER Pune. Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, National Research Professor & Padma Vibhushan awardee and current President of the Global Research Alliance was the Chief Guest for the occasion. …
In a recent article, Dr. Sutirth Dey from IISER Pune, along with researchers from JNCASR, Bangalore and IISER Mohali, have critically analysed the literature on the idea of niche construction (NC) in evolutionary biology and have questioned several claims of the proponents of NC. Niche construction refers to the phenomenon where changes to the environment caused by …
IISER Pune is pleased to announce a generous endowment from Bajaj Auto Ltd. towards construction of a hostel for women research scholars at the institute. This facility would help IISER Pune take forward its commitment toward encouraging education of women and inducting them to research in a supportive environment. An MoU to this effect was …
Air pollution with carbon dioxide from industrial processes can be tackled in one of these ways: capture the greenhouse gas prior to combustion (separate carbon dioxide mixed with H2 to facilitate clean coal technology); or capture it from the smoking chimneys of power plants (post-combustion) before the gas escapes. In an effort to clean the …
Prof KN Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune, has been awarded an honorary doctorate in science by Vidyasagar University. The University, located in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, conferred the honoris causa degree on Prof Ganesh at its nineteenth convocation. The degree was given at the hands of Shri KN Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal at the ceremony …
Dr Nixon Abraham, faculty member at IISER Pune, has received the 2017 Pfizer Research Prize in a ceremony held on January 26, 2017 in Switzerland. He shares this Prize with Dr Olivier Gschwend (University of Geneva) and Prof Alan Carleton (University of Geneva) for their work in the area of neurosciences and disorders of the …
The IISER Pune contigent has won the maximum number of medals at the 5th Inter IISER Sports Meet (IISM)-2016 held at IISER Kolkata during December 8-13, 2016 and were declared the overall champions. Breaking the trend of the host IISER winning the championship, the IISER Pune team won prizes and medals in several categories with a …
In their quest for better ways to harness solar energy, researchers from India and USA have now developed a phase-stable, all-inorganic quantum dot based solar cell and demonstrated its potential utility in opto-electronic devices. This is of great significance to the field of solar cell research where the current best model uses an organic-inorganic hybrid …
On November 1, 2014 as part of the IISER Pune student festival Karavaan 2014, the Art Club of IISER Pune had organized a unique event: creating a warli painting of about 2600 sq ft, nearly the size of a football field. About 470 students toiled away during the day to achieve this goal sponsored by …
Dr Thomas Pucadyil, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been chosen as an International Research Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He is one of the 41 scientists from sixteen countries chosen this year from over 1400 applications. The selection for this award that funds exceptional early-career scientists carrying out biomedical … Continue reading
Bhaskara Lab – a new computer lab is being set up at IISER Pune. It is being established under the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure (FIST) scheme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. The fund is meant for universities and higher education institutions to strengthen their facilities and infrastructure, … Continue reading
Dr Anup Biswas, Assistant Professor in Mathematics at IISER Pune, has won the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA), New Delhi. The INSA is a body of Indian scientists created in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country. The Young Scientist Medal is a prestigious and competitive award … Continue reading
In the introductory solid state physics courses, lattice vibrations in a crystal are typically introduced by considering first a hypothetical one-dimensional chain of atoms, which can be solved fully making it easier to grasp the idea of phonons (quanta of lattice waves) without really worrying about the complexities of a real three-dimensional crystal. The ditto … Continue reading
In contrast to the mundane classical world we experience in our daily life, the quantum world is known to be both elusive and strange – like the Shroedinger’s cat that can be both alive and dead at the same time. Clearly, it requires considerable effort to maintain such delicate quantumness from falling into the classical … Continue reading
