Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (known as IISERK or IISER KOLKATA) is an autonomous

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in science and education field located in Mohanpur near the town of Kalyani in Nadia, West Bengal, India. It was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act. It is one of seven

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, and was one of the first IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune. It is considered to be one of the leading institutes of India in terms of research output, and was ranked fourth among the academic institutions in India by the

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Organisation

Administrative Block, IISER, Kolkata in Kalyani campus 08

The institute hosts the multi-institutional Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) with participating scientists from ISRO and other astronomy institutes and is involved in research associated with national space science missions. Other centres include the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials, National Centre for High Pressure Studies and a Centre for Climate and Environment Studies. It also has a field station for ecological, environmental and field studies, a greenhouse, a broadband seismological observatory. The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The institute also hosts the Dirac Supercomputer, which was inaugurated in April 2019. The performance of this supercomputing facility is 78.8 Teraflops.

Events

The college organizes a major annual festival, Inquivesta, which is promoted as one of the first and the biggest science festivals of the country. Inquivesta sees a footfall of 1000+, and has been visited by artists such as

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, Nalayak (band) and Anubhav Singh Bassi. It has also received brands such as

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as its previous partners IISER Kolkata has also been hosting VIJYOSHI (the national science camp), along with IISc Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, since 2014. The institute also has an E-Cell for promoting an entrepreneurial culture in the student body.

Rankings

Internationally, the institute was ranked 251–300 among institutes in emerging economies, by the ''

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'' "Emerging Economies University Rankings 2022". In India, the

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(NIRF) ranked the institute 40 overall in 2022, and 32 among research institutes.

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