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 int...

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 ...

IISER Pune and IUCAA signed a Memorandum of Understanding for setting up a new Centre for Gravitational Physics and Astronomy. The news was covered by the Times of India and Indian Express. August 2, 2017 ...

PhD student Shishir Sankhyan's contribution in the discovery of a supercluster of galaxies, named Saraswati, was covered widely by the press. Indian Express; The Hindu; Hindustan Times, LiveMint; Huffington Post India; The Hindu Businessline; Sakal Times,; The Indian Wire; Phys.org. July 14, 2017. ...

Dr. Pinaki Talukdar, Associate Professor of Chemistry, won the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). The Indian Express and Hindustan Times reported. July 24, 2017. ...

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...

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 competit...

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. Times of India reported. July 8, 2017 ...

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...

Dr Neelesh Dahanukar was involved in the discovery and classification of a new species of burrowing frog from Maharashtra. Hindustan Times covered the news. June 28, 2017. ...

Dr. Sudipta Basu and Dr. Nirmalya Ballav have developed a novel cancer drug-delivery system using graphene oxide nanoparticles. Science Chronicle and The Hindu reported. June 24, 2017. ...

Dr Thomas Pucadyil was recently named HHMI International Scholar, the only Indian scientist among 41 biomedical researchers from sixteen countries. Indian Express reported the news. June 14, 2017. ...

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 Ch...

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 ...

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 stre...

Dr Harinath Chakrapani's group developed a small molecule that is being tested for reversing bacterial drug resistance. The Hindu and Journosdiary (a blog) covered the news. May 6, 2017. ...

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...

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 abou...

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 fal...

Dr Chaitanya Athale's article about his group's work on development of an image analysis tool for live cell microscopy was published in 'From the Lab' feature of Indian Express, April 17, 2017. ...