Seventy two BS MS students and 33 PhD students walked away with their degrees on the fifth convocation of IISER Pune held on May 28, 2016. The ceremony began with the academic procession led by the Registrar Col Raja Sekhar taking their spots on the podium and the Chairperson of the Board of Govern...

[caption id="attachment_736" align="alignleft" width="750"] The organizers of this unique endeavour where over 400 students came together to create what has now been declared as the largest warli painting ever. (Left to Right): Suhita Nadkarni, Siddhesh Zadey, Lavanya Lokhande, Divya Singh, Prachi S...

THE DAY OF MATHEMATICS: WHEN IT FINALLY CAME! This year, Math Day wasn’t just a day but a whole week wherein mathematics touched hearts and put a smile on every face. With the tag line of “Math day is coming…” a week-long series of events managed to excite minds and build up the anticipation for th...

As a part of the tenth year celebrations of IISER Pune, four talks were organized and hosted by the institute from 30th October 2015 to 2nd November 2015. The speakers were (in the order of presentation) Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Professor Nayanjot Lahiri, Dr Jonathan Turney, and Professor Mahes...

Bringing together cellular biophysics, non-linear dynamics, reaction-kinetics and details of experimental molecular biology and genetics, is a field often touted as the next biotechnology revolution, namely synthetic biology. The field is exploding as seen in the number of publications with the term...

Over forty Class X-XII students, majority of them from village and tribal schools, presented their research findings at the third “Discovering Little Scientists” conference held here at IISER Pune from June 29-30, 2015. The meeting was the culmination of a summer vacation research programme for thes...

Genesis: [caption id="attachment_447" align="alignright" width="300"] The enthusiastic group of students at the Summer School[/caption] In response to the demand from enthusiastic students and eager parents, IISER Pune hosted its first in-house Summer School for students of grades IX to XII fr...

Eighty seven BS-MS students from the 2010 batch graduated from IISER Pune today at the fourth Convocation ceremony. The function, held at the CV Raman Hall in the Lecture Hall Complex, also saw sixteen Ph.D. students pass out of the institute. Prof M. M. Sharma (Emeritus Professor, ICT Mumbai) was t...

IISER Pune hosted the second "Foundations of Biology" meeting between 11-13 April-2015. The general idea for this series of meetings is to get together about twenty scientists from different disciplines and spend three days discussing and arguing about fundamental issues in biology, as opposed to ju...

IISER Pune celebrated its fifth foundation day on April 6, 2015 with the Foundation Day Lecture being delivered by Prof Devang Khakhar (Director, IIT Mumbai). [caption id="attachment_402" align="alignleft" width="307"] Prof KN Ganesh welcomes Prof Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay[/caption] ...

On 3-14-15 at precisely 9.26 a.m., a point in time that approximates pi all the way to 7 decimal places, Pi Day celebrations began at IISER Pune. [caption id="attachment_305" align="alignleft" width="169"] Pi day 2015 logo[/caption] Pi Day is the annual event organized by math department to ...

Department of Mathematics, IISER Pune had organized a half-day in-house symposium on Math-Finance. The main purpose of the meeting was to give participants an overall knowledge of the research in the area of Math-Finance that is being carried out in the department. The seminar was open to all and r...

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 ...

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...

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...

As part of its outreach activities, Disha was closely involved in coordinating the Jigyasa Science Camp at IISER Pune during December 18-22, 2012. It was a five-day camp for about 53 students of ninth standard from government schools in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. The event was proposed by Bac...