In early September this year, the Sports Club and Sports Committee at IISER Pune initiated the "Step-up Step-in Challenge" where they called out to the institute members to walk, and, as a group, complete within two weeks a collective distance of 3500 kilometers, which corresponds to the approx...

The twenty-20 symposium, jointly organised by IISER Pune and IISc Mathematics departments took place on September 17-18, 2021. We had 40 online short research talks by members of both departments (faculty, post-docs, and advanced PhD students) over 2 days. We are hopeful that this activity would p...

During the COVID -19 pandemic, when most of the schools were either closed or functioning online, a collaboration between the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Maharashtra and IISER Pune’s Science Activity Center (SAC) harnessed the online medium to reach students, teache...

While schools were either closed or functioning online due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Science Activity Center (SAC) at IISER Pune harnessed the online medium to reach students, teachers, and science enthusiasts all over the country. SAC initiated various online workshops and webinars during this...

IISER Pune held a valedictory function today (November 20, 2020) where the 2020 outgoing batch of students were congratulated and awardees were felicitated through an online event. This event was held to celebrate the graduation of students, as the convocation for the year 2020 could not be held i...

The Science Activity Centre at IISER Pune, in association with Maharashtra State Council of Education Research and Training (MSCERT) Pune, has initiated a series of online workshops in Marathi for school science and mathematics teachers. Ten episodes on various science and mathematics concepts wil...

Smt. Indrani Balan Science Activity Centre at IISER Pune conducted its first successful live online demonstration on Sunday, June 7, 2020, through YouTube live-streaming. This was the first of a series of science activity demonstrations, titled Next-Gen Science Camps: Exploring Fun Activities at ...

[gallery ids="1753,1752,1751,1754,1750" type="slideshow"] Cipla Foundation-IISER Pune Centre for Chemistry Education and Research on the IISER Pune campus has been inaugurated today by Dr. Yusuf K. Hamied, Non-Executive Chairman, Cipla Ltd. He was accompanied by Mrs. Farida Hamied and Ms. Rumana Ha...

Through a generous endowment from Bajaj Auto Ltd., a hostel for women research scholars at IISER Pune was announced in 2017. The construction of this multi-storied building has now been completed and has been opened to research scholars. The inauguration ceremony of this Hall of Residence was held ...

Grand Finale of Hardware Edition of the third Smart India Hackathon was inaugurated today. IISER Pune along with NCL, Pune among the nineteen centers all over India where the Finale of this national competition is being simultaneously held. Human Resource Minister Hon. Shri. Ramesh Pokhriyal inaugur...

National Science Day is celebrated in India every year on February 28, to mark the discovery of Raman Effect by Sir. C. V. Raman. It is a day to inspire students to learn scientific ideas and to spread scientific temper in society. On the occasion of National Science Day 2019, Smt. Indrani Balan ...

Abhijit Gupta and Shubham Singh, both from IISER Pune, have won the first prize at the ‘Python Innovation Day Hackathon’. Kicked off in June 2018 and the first of its kind in India, the online Python Hack fury (Hackathon) was organized by Intel, IISER Pune and Amazon Web services with an aim to m...

IISER Pune is hosting a delegation of 24 scientists and students from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. This is the first time in history of IISER Pune that such a large delegation has visited the institute with the intent of developing academic and research collaboration. Researchers from the ...

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IISER PUNE celebrated its annual Math Day -  a perfect amalgamation of mathematics and fun, on the 11th of March, 2017, the Saturday closest to Pi (3.14) day. As a prelude to the event a symposium titled : "An App called Math" was organized on the 4th of March. It consisted of a series of thought...

IISER Pune is pleased to announce a generous endowment from Bajaj Auto Ltd. towards construction of a hostel for women research scholars at the institute. This facility would help IISER Pune take forward its commitment toward encouraging education of women and inducting them to research in a support...

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...

In 2016, IISER Pune will complete ten years of existence. A wide range of activities are planned throughout the year to mark this milestone. On February 19th, the celebrations of a decade of IISER Pune were launched in the presence of the Honourable Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smt....