Every year 28th of February is celebrated as National Science Day to commemorate the discovery of ‘Raman Effect’ on February 28, 1928 by Sir C V Raman. IISER Pune celebrated this year’s Science Day with a host of programmes and activities. The day-long event began with the screening of a short film ...

The King and the playwright; February 25, 2015. The Hindu featured an article about Dr. John Matthew’s work. ...

Classical Conglomerate; February 17, 2015. The Indian Express reported on the Indo-Polish music concert that took place at IISER Pune. ...

On Saturday evening, the audience at IISER Pune’s C. V. Raman Auditorium were in for a musical treat as master artistes from two distinct genres came together to create a melodious fusion. The “India and Poland: When Masters Meet” concert was jointly organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relation...

The IISER Pune students’ Science Club began 2015 with a series of talks by eminent scientists from varied fields. In this series organized for the students and by the students, distinguished speakers are invited to give popular lectures on their areas of research. The first talk of the season was g...

A section of the Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival (KVIFF) took place on campus. Every year, films centered on the environment and related issues are screened at the KVIFF. Alongside, activities like lectures by eminent environmentalists, panel discussions, and awareness programmes ar...

IISER Pune today celebrated India’s 66th Republic Day by hoisting the tricolour atop the magnificent new 100 feet tall flagpole. The flagpole, a recent addition to the campus, is one of the three tallest in Pune. Director of the institute, Prof. K. N. Ganesh, initiated the proceedings. The flag h...

The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina recently joined hands to convene a two-day symposium at IISER Pune on Human Evolution Towards Language: from Genes to Behavior.  Prof. L. S. Shashidhara (Chair, Biology, IISER Pune) was one of the organize...

IISER Pune hosted the tenth International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry (ISBOC-10) from 11th to 15th January 2015. The ISBOC series of symposia, organized once every three years, brings together leading researchers in the field of chemical biology to exchange ideas and share their latest scienti...

A particle physicist by training, Sunil Mukhi works on quantum field theory and string theory, areas in physics that have tried to identify and explain the physical forces of nature. Mukhi began his research career as a PhD student at Stony Brook University where he studied supergravity and supersym...

In an incredibly fun and creative event, students at IISER Pune have managed to paint what could possibly be one of the largest compositions painted in the Warli style. The goal was to gain entry into the Limca Book of Records, but what was even more exciting to witness is the collective effort p...

Warli painting the size of a football field; November 02, 2014. IISER Pune students created a gigantic Warli painting in an attempt to enter the Limca Book of Records. Local media such as Pune Mirror and The Indian Express reported the news. ...

Pune scientists find new frog species near Amboli; October 01, 2014. The Times of India covered the discovery of a new leaping frog species in Western Ghats region by Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar and team. ...

President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to IISER Pune on the occasion of its 3rd Convocation Ceremony garnered wide media coverage in The Times of India, IBN Live, Business Standard, ANI News; June 15, 2014. ...

Unique projects dominate ‘Innovative Ideas 2014’; March 16, 2014. Sakal Times reported on ‘Innovative Ideas 2014’ competition organized by the Exciting Science group of NCL and IISER Pune. ...

Vulture conservation: Resolutions passed to restrict mining, quarrying near habitats; February 13, 2014. The Times of India covered the Asian Raptor Conference held at IISER Pune. ...

A fundamental problem studied in Quantum Physics is the behavior of a quantum entity (e.g., electron) in various potentials. Quantum Physics assigns spatial probabilities to the electron at each instant of time. The question that T.S. Mahesh’s group at IISER Pune asked is can one retrieve these s...

IISER Pune students have put up a wonderful show at the CSIR-UGC joint National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2012. Congratulations to all of them!! Students who are selected through CSIR-UGC NET will receive a fellowship to pursue research after completing Master’s degree and the top few rank holder...

Three scientists from IISER Pune—G.V. Pavan Kumar, Sujit Ghosh, and M. Jeganmohan—have been awarded the Indian National Science Academy’s Medals for Young Scientists for 2013. These medals, which will be presented in December this year, recognize promising young investigators in India who have made ...

[caption id="attachment_54" align="alignright" width="300"] Karan Kapoor and Shivprasad Patil with the instrument they have developed to measure rheological properties of fluids.[/caption] Imagine a small glass of water. Imagine the glass to be so small you cannot see it with your naked eyes—a gl...