IISER Pune Physics

27/02/2024

𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝐷𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡, a conference focusing on data as a central theme, will be held at IISER, Pune, India during 15-16 March 2024. This will bring together researchers from diverse fields working on data-driven modelling and allied areas. Those interested are welcome to register to attend the meeting.

Registration & further details about the themes and speakers are available at http://sites.iiserpune.ac.in/~dds/

[Supported by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, and I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation]

Data Dynamics Summit (DDS) is a conference dedicated to emerging ideas in data-driven modeling. With data as its central theme, this meeting aims to bring together researchers from emerging areas where data-driven modeling is of paramount importance. It will provide a platform for young researchers....

13/10/2023

IISER Pune Physics Tea returns to its home in the Pit after three long years....

13/04/2023

We are delighted to have Prof. Seema Sharma be featured!

31/01/2023

The physics department welcomes a new faculty member joining the department this week.
Prof. Surabhi Jaiswal is an experimental plasma physicist. She studies plasma physics which has relevance to astrophysical scenarios such as phenomena associated with the interaction of solar wind with Earth's magnetic field. Her interests also include developing sensor technology for mitigating space debris and for noble propulsion systems.

25/01/2023

We are super excited that our colleague Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Prof. Deepak Dhar has been awarded with the Padma Bhushan! Many congratulations Deepak! IISER Pune

11/12/2022

We are delighted that our colleague Dr. Ramana Athreya (Associate Professor, Physics and Biology Department) has been awarded the "Wildlife Service Award 2022" by the Sanctuary Nature Foundation. Many congratulations Ramana! IISER Pune

27/11/2022

Heartiest congratulations to Prof. Apratim Chatterji and team on their recent works!
These papers discuss the unique organizational properties of ring polymers, where the "emergence" of organization is driven by entropic principles. We vary the internal topology of rings, and the emergent organization due to different topology are actually used by bacterial cells for the successful housekeeping of their chromosomes during cell division.

Links to the papers:
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.054502
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/sm/d2sm00734g

The mechanism of chromosome segregation and organization in the bacterial cell cycle of E. coli is one of the least understood aspects in its life cycle. The E. coli chromosome is often modelled as a bead spring ring polymer. We introduce cross-links in the DNA–ring polymer, resulting in the forma...

24/11/2022

Congratulations Dr. Ashish Arora from IISER Pune and Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bratschitsch from University of Münster and team for an excellent work!

It is faster and can reveal properties of miniscule electronic devices

12/11/2022

All are welcome!

06/11/2022

We are super delighted yet again! Prof. Deepak Dhar, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of IISER Pune has been awarded the R.D. Birla Memorial Award of Physics 2022 by the Indian Physics Association for outstanding contributions to the field of Statistical Physics! Heartiest congratulations Deepak!

01/11/2022

Delighted that an excellent work from lab has been covered as a research highlight by Nature India! Congratulations to the research team!

A sophisticated microscope reveals the structure of a giant muscle protein

20/10/2022

A team of physicists led by Dr. Ashish Arora (Assistant Professor, IISER Pune, India) along with Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bratschitsch and group (University of Muenster, Germany) developed a new technique for investigating quantum materials such as 2D semiconductors and magnets. They measured very small rotations (precision better than 0.001 degree) of the polarization of light when light passed through a material 100,000 times thinner than a human hair, kept under a magnetic field! Published in the journal Small Methods (Wiley), this is first such measurement in the area of research. The new technique reduces the measurement times by a factor up to 1000 compared to the old methods and is expected to open a new era in the field of precision magnetooptics on 2D quantum materials.
Link to the paper for more details: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smtd.202200885

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Arora and collaborators on their remarkable results. The authors acknowledge I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, German Research Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for financial support.