Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (IISER Mohali) is an autonomous

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established in 2006 at

Mohali Mohali, officially known as Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, is a planned city in the Mohali district in Punjab, India, which is an administrative and a commercial hub lying south-west of Chandigarh. It is the headquarters of the Mohali district. ...

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. It is one of the seven

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(IISERs), established by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India, to research in frontier areas of science and to provide science education at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It was established after IISER Pune and

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and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. It promote research in various fields of science. IISER Mohali in Spring 2014

History

The institute was approved by The Planning Commission in New Delhi in July 2006 and land was provided by The Punjab State government. The foundation stone of IISER Mohali was laid on 27 September 2006 by the former

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. The Computing Facility of IISER Mohali was inaugurated on 3 September 2007 by

T. Ramasami Thirumalachari Ramasami is a former Indian Science and Technology Secretary. He assumed charge in May 2006. Prior to this assignment, he served as the Director of the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India. He is a distinguished r ...

(Secretary, Department of Science and Technology). The Earth-breaking ceremony for IISER boundary wall was held on 29 December 2008 at the proposed campus site in Knowledge City, Sector 81, S.A.S. Nagar. The ceremony was performed by N. Sathyamurthy, the founding director of the institute. C.N.R. Rao inaugurated the Chemistry Research Laboratory on 8 April 2009. The Central Analytical Facility of IISER Mohali has been inaugurated in March 2010. Initially, the institute started its working from a transit campus in Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration (MGSIPA), Chandigarh. In March 2010, the institute started shifting to its permanent campus in The Knowledge City at Sector 81 with the opening of Central Analytical Facility (CAF) and completed the shifting in May 2013 by shutting operations in MGSIPAP complex, Sector 26,

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Academics

Academic Programs

The institute offers the following programs: *Integrated Master's level (B.S.-M.S.): Admission to this program is after 10+2 years of school training and is done through the IISERs Joint Admissions Committee. *Integrated Doctoral Program (Int. Ph.D.): Integrated Ph.D. involves a master's degree (M.S.) followed by a doctorate (Ph.D.). Students after three years of undergraduate education can join the program. *Doctoral Program ( Ph.D.): IISER Mohali has a separate doctoral program, in hard sciences or in the Humanities & Social Sciences Department, which requires a master's degree as qualification.

Admissions

Admission is done through 3 channels. 1.

KVPY Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (English: ''Young Scientist Incentive Plan'') (KVPY) was a scholarship programme funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, aimed at encouraging students to take up research ...

Channel 2. JEE Advance Channel 3. SCB Channel Students applying through SCB have to be in the top 20 percentile scorers of their respective board examination (+2 level). After qualifying this Eligibility, students have to appear for Common IISER Aptitude Test, through the score of this test, students are allotted their preferred IISER.

Reputation and Rankings

The

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(NIRF) ranked it 40 overall in 2021.

Organization and administration

Departments

IISER Mohali is currently having six departments: * Department of

Physical Sciences Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together called the "physical sciences". Definition Phy ...

* Department of

Chemical Sciences Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, ...

* Department of

Mathematical Sciences The mathematical sciences are a group of areas of study that includes, in addition to mathematics, those academic disciplines that are primarily mathematical in nature but may not be universally considered subfields of mathematics proper. Statist ...

* Department of

Biological Science Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

* Department of

Earth Science Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four sphere ...

* Department of

Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the tim ...

Facilities

* NMR Research Facility (NMR) * X-ray Facility - X-ray Diffraction Crystallograph *Cell Culture Facility *Animal house *

Atomic Force microscope Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the op ...

*Laser Raman and AFM Facility- Raman Infrared spectroscope * Circular Dichroic Spectrometer *Atmospheric Chemistry Facility *Computing Facility *Scanning Electron Microscopy *DC Sputtering *PLD Machine *Cryostat *Dilution refrigerator *Liquid Helium Facility *Liquid Nitrogen Facility *FemtoLaser facility *Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) *Laser micro-Raman spectroscope *Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer *Crystal Growth Laboratory *PPMS *SQUID *Tetra and mono arc furnace *Tube furnace

Conferences held

*7th JNOST Conference: 15–18 December 2011 *History of Chemistry in India, 2013 *Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, 2013 * ICTS program: Knot theory and its Applications, 10–20 December 2013. *43rd National Seminar on Crystallography: 28–30 March 2014 *32nd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI): 20–22 March 2014 *International Workshop "Knots, Braids and Topology", 15–17 October 2014 *International Workshop "ATMW: Lattices--Geometry and Dynamics", 17–22 December 2014 *National Conference on Ethology and Evolution (30 October to 1 November 2015) *International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC) 2015 *Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, 2015 * 30th Annual Conference of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, 15–17 May 2015. *GIAN course on "Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermions: an Experimental Perspective", 22–28 March 2018 *National Conference On Quantum Condensed Matter, 25–27 July 2018 *9th International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, 10–13 December 2019

Student life

Amenities

* Health Centre * Counseling Service * Accommodation & Transport including visitors hostel *World Class Library of 8 levels *Sports Complex complete with two courts each for basketball, tennis, and volleyball *Cricket cum Football ground in the stadium which has a seating capacity of 1000 *Computer Centre with High-Performance Scientific Computing cluster *Various labs *Gym

National Science Day celebrations

National Science Day National Science Day is celebrated in India on February 28 each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928. For his discovery, Sir C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics i ...

celebrations on 28 February are a regular feature at IISER Mohali, every year. Invitations are sent to schools in

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and nearby areas. The focus of the day is on science and mathematics demonstrations prepared by IISER Mohali students and faculty members. A large number of schools send teams for inter-school competitions such as science quizzes, group discussions, treasure hunt, junkyard wars, poster presentation held on this day. Other non-competitive events such as documentary screening, anti-superstition demonstrations, etc. are also held. The day usually ends with a 'panel discussion' in which the school students ask science-related questions to a panel of faculty members of IISER Mohali. Since 2015, the Science Day celebrations have been shifted to 27 September, IISER Mohali's Foundation Day, as this date is more convenient for school students in the region.

Opportunity Cell

The Opportunity Cell was first proposed by the Student Representative Council, in October 2011 as a joint student-faculty body to provide guidance to students about research and job opportunities. In the year 2012−13, the opportunity cell established a summer research and internship programme with

National Centre for Biological Sciences National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research. It is a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Go ...

(NCBS), Bangalore, Connexios Life sciences and Lucid Software Limited (Lucid). It also organised various seminars such as "Alternative Careers in Science", "Research Opportunities at

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" etc. Currently the cell disseminates information about summer research programmes, PhD positions and research oriented jobs. #Websit

Magazine

Manthan, IISER Mohali's student magazine was revived in the summer of 2018 after a long gap. Six editions, along with a lockdown Life in Quarantine edition, have been published since its revival.

Clubs

*1. Robotics Club *2. Biology Discussion Forum (BDF) *3. Infinity - Math club *4. Phi@i - Physics club *5. Curie Club - Chemistry. *6. Astronomy club *7. Lumiére - Photography *8. Itehad - Dance *9. Aria - Music *10. Ambient - Environment club *11. Miles - Running/Marathon *12. DarPan - Drama *13. Literary and Debating Society(LDS) *14. Rang - Art club *15. IISER Mohali Quiz Club (IMQC) *16. Turning Club - Coding *17. Movie club *18. IEC - Entrepreneurship *19. Adventure Sports club (It's not adventure *and* sports) - Trekking and stuff *20. Gaming club *21. IMLC - IISER Mohali LGBTQ collective.

Notable people

Current faculty

* Inder Bir Singh Passi, Bhatnagar Prize winning Mathematician * Anand Kumar Bachhawat, Geneticist and Biochemist * Kausik Chattopadhyay, N-Bios laureate *

Kapil Hari Paranjape Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. Biography He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra near the Kabo ...

, Bhatnagar Prize winning Mathematician *

Sudeshna Sinha Sudeshna Sinha is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. She was at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, for over a decade. She works in the field of nonlinear physics. Her work on 'chaos-base ...

, Physicist * Anu Sabhlok, Architect and a well known geographer and feminist scholar *

Debi Prasad Sarkar Debi Prasad Sarkar (born 15 January 1958) is an Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist. He was the head of biochemistry department and dean FIAS, at the University of Delhi South Campus and served as the director of IISER Mohali from 20 ...

, Bhatnagar Prize winning biochemist

Former Faculty

Meera Nanda Meera Nanda (born 1954) is an Indian writer and historian of science, who has authored several works critiquing the influence of Hindutva, postcolonialism and postmodernism on science, and the flourishing of pseudoscience and vedic science. She ...

, Historian and Philosopher of Science *

Narayanasami Sathyamurthy Narayansami Sathyamurthy (born July 10, 1951 in Sethur, Puducherry, India) is a chemist in India. He is the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, Punjab, India and the President of Chemical ...

, Bhatnagar Prize winning Chemist and President of

Chemical Research Society of India Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) is an India based scientific society dedicated to field of chemistry. It was established in 1999 as a part of celebrating India's 50th anniversary of independence. C. N. R. Rao Chintamani Nagesa R ...

. He was the director of IISER Mohali from 2007 to 2017

References

External links

* {{authority control 2007 establishments in Punjab, India

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