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...

Two scientists from IISER Pune, Dr Akanksha Chaturvedi (Assistant Professor in Biology) and Dr Krishanpal Karmodiya (DST INSPIRE Fellow), have won the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) for the year 2014. The award is given by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India to ...

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] ...

IISER Pune recently hosted an event on Texts, Tunes, Technologies: Perspectives on Indian Musics. The two-day event that included a talk, a half-day symposium, and a workshop, received a good response from the IISER Pune community as well as music aficionados from the city. The proceedings opened w...

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 ...

India, Nature Index; March, 2015. The scientific journal Nature Index published a ranking of scientific institutes in India. The group of five IISERs ranked fourth in the country. ...

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...

Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune, was recently featured in an article in the English-language daily The Hindu. Dr Mathew has two doctorates to his credit, one in Ecology and another in the History of Science. His research interests include the Histo...

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. ...