INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA
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Research Highlights
A new mechanism of self-repairing in piezoelectric materials is discovered.
S. Bhunia, S. Chandel, S. K. Karan, S. Dey, A. Tiwari, S. Das, N. Kumar, R. Chowdhury, S. Mondal, I. Ghosh, A. Mondal, B. B. Khatua, N. Ghosh, C. M. Reddy, Science, 2021, 373, 321–327.
Hydropool mapping of the highest river in the world (Dudh Kosi, Mt. Everest).
Dasgupta, B., Ajay, A., Kumar, A., Thamban, M., & Sanyal, P. (2021). Isoscape of surface runoff in high mountain catchments: An alternate model for meteoric water characterization and its implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033950.
The cost of bacterial predation via Type VI Secretion System leads to predator extinction under environmental stress.
The teams of Amirul I Mallick & Dipjyoti Das combined experiments and mathematical modeling to show how bacterial predation under environmental stress can lead to predator extinction and host defence.
The First-order Mott Transition in V2O3 has Traits of Second Order Transitions.
This work shows that the strongly hysteretic first-order phase transition in V2O3, and possibly other similar materials with long-ranged interactions, can have features usually associated with second-order transitions
Director's Message
IISER-K today has a vibrant campus with strong faculty members of repute and supportive non-teaching staff members. The students pursuing various degrees are among the best in the country and have established a commendable culture.
The Institute has a flexible academic programme and hosts state-of-the-art research facilities. Currently, it has five academic departments (Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Physical Sciences) and several centres of excellence.
News & Achievements
- Dr. Biplab Maji of Dept. of Chemical Sciences has been selected as the winner of the "2021 Young Investigator Award " Sponsored by Molecules. Congratulations Dr. Biplab Maji.
- Call for nominations for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education under the theme "The use of technology to enable inclusive crisis-resilient learning systems".
- The United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution proclaiming 2022 as the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, on 2 December 2021. IISER Kolkata is a proud partner of the IYBSSD2022. We will hold events of public outreach on the basic sciences during July 2022-June 2023 to emphasize the importance of the basic sciences.