An advanced Instrumentation facility for researchers and students of life sciences set up by PerkinElmer, a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, was inaugurated today at IISER Pune. The PerkinElmer-IISER Pune Centre of Excellence is a cutting-edge instrumentation facility that will help educate the region’s current and future scientists on high-throughput analyses …
Earlier this year, the Cipla Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IISER Pune, where it committed to contribute to the Endowment Fund of the institute to build a modern chemistry research laboratory for undergraduate students. As a formal commencement of this initiative, the ground-breaking ceremony was held on August 14, 2017 at IISER Pune. …
Following the announcement of endowment to IISER Pune from Balan group in May last year, the two organizations have now signed a formal agreement towards for construction of a building for for a science activity centre at IISER Pune. In a total of 60,000 sq ft of area, this building, “Smt. Indrani Balan Science Activity Centre”, will house state-of-the-art, hands-on …
Shishir Sankhyayan, a PhD student in the Physics Programme at IISER Pune has been involved in two major astronomical discoveries that have received world-wide attention– the supercluster Saraswati, and 25 rare Giant Radio Galaxies. In this feature article, Harshini Tekur gives us a detailed breakdown of what these discoveries mean and how they add to …
The CMS experiment is a general purpose detector which is used to study the results of high energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Analyzing the collision data gives particle physicists insight into the fundamental particles that make up our universe, and the interactions between them. The CMS detector consists of …
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 …
The glucose-insulin connection in type 2 diabetes mellitus is well established and the treatment regime is centered on lowering glucose levels through insulin. With the best available treatment being a combination of medication and changes in lifestyle, a cure for diabetes has been eluding us. Prof. Milind Watve’s group at IISER Pune has studied the … Continue reading
IISER Pune has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) to jointly establish a Centre for Gravitational Physics and Astronomy (CGPA). This field has become a major active frontier of physical science and an attractive portal for young researchers to enter scientific research. The MoU between the two … Continue reading
Dr Pinaki Talukdar, Associate Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). The CRSI is a professional body established in 1999 with an aim to facilitate and promote research and education in all branches of chemistry. It is a premier professional chemical society of India. … Continue reading
Harshini Tekur, PhD student in Physics at IISER Pune, has been selected for a Merit Prize at the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017 competition. Open to all across Asia, this science writing competition invites non-fiction articles of ~1500 words covering any scientific discipline. The 2017 competition received 227 entries of which a total of 26 … Continue reading
Karishma Bansal, an IISER Pune alumnus, is part of a team of researchers that detected for the first time, two supermassive black holes orbiting each other, in a galaxy about 750 million light years away from Earth. She is also the lead author of the paper ‘Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary … Continue reading
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
