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...

Neurons or nerve cells are one of the longest cells in the body. They grow in rather precise directions and network with other neurons in order to transfer, integrate and process information. The molecular mechanisms and mechanics behind this defined directionality of neurons is an intriguing area o...

A new porous metal organic framework developed by Sujit Ghosh’s group transforms its structure and displays luminescence based on easily exchangeable anion molecules. This work has been published in a recent issue ofAngewandte Chemie. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials and a...

Visualising the genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan; March 09, 2013; Prof. A. Raghuram was involved in the making of a film about the great mathematician. The Indian Express reported on the film. ...

[caption id="attachment_51" align="alignright" width="300"] Image shows a very large coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting off into space on December 2, 2002 (Image Source: SOHO (ESA & NASA))[/caption] Sun, the big bright star that supports life on Earth, can also influence the weather in interpla...

   A new bird species, Bugun Liocichla, was discovered in 2006 by Ramana Athreya, an astronomer by profession and an ecologist on the side. The bird is classified as a vulnerable species, with barely 14 or so individuals spotted so far. Government of India’s Department of Posts has released a com...