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07 Faculty Affairs Report 13 Academic Departments yy Department of Biological Sciences yy Department of Chemical Sciences yy Department of Earth Sciences yy Department of Mathematics and Statistics yy Department of Physical Sciences

37 Centres for Interdisciplinary Science yy Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) yy Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies (CCES) Research and yy Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) 47 yy National Centre for High Pressure Studies (NCHPS) Development Report yy Overview yy Department of Biological Sciences yy Department of Chemical Sciences yy Department of Earth Sciences yy Department of Mathematics and Statistics yy Department of Physical Sciences yy Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) yy Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) Publications yy Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies (CCES) 61yy Department of Biological Sciences yy Department of Chemical Sciences yy Department of Earth Sciences yy Department of Mathematics and Statistics yy Department of Physical Sciences yy Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) yy Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies (CCES) yy Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) Academic Report yy National Center for High Pressure Studies (NCHPS) 79 yy Overview of Academic Activities: yy PhD Programme yy Integrated PhD Programme yy BS-MS Programme yy List of Degree Recipients: 6th Convocation 2018 yy Best MS Thesis Award Recipients in 6th Convocation yy Medal Recipients in 6th Convocation 91 Students’ Achievements yy Students who were given Institute travel grants 95 Students’ Affairs Report yy Overview yy Inter IISER Sports Meet yy Inquivesta 2018 yy Spic Macay yy Inter-IISER Cultural Meet yy Smarane Rabindranath yy Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat International Relations yy International Yoga Day yy Voluntary Blood Donation 111 Celebration Camp and Outreach Report yy Independence Day yy Students Activity Centre yy International / National tie-up and MOUs Celebration yy Alumi Card yy Mou with the University of Kalyani yy Teachers’ Day Celebration yy Career Development Cell yy Initiatives taken for establishing collaboration with the yy Agomoni 2018 yy E-Cell following institutes/ Body in the near future yy Distinguished Visitor to IISER Kolkata yy International Outreach yy MHRD mandated competitions in 2018 at IISER Kolkata yy Events organized by the DoIRO Office yy Office members of International Relations and Outreach office 123 Library Research and Development Report 128 Computer Centre 131 Administrative Report 135 Administrative Staff List 139 Important Administrative Committees Director’s Message

t is a matter of great pleasure and privilege to present the report on various activities and accomplishments of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata during the financial year 2018-19. In the second year as the Director of IISER Kolkata, I note with gratitude the continued support of the Board of Governors, the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Ifaculty, staff members and students enabling us to take the right initiatives towards the growth and development of the Institute.

Since the inception in 2006, IISER Kolkata, through an eventful journey, has been established as a premier academic institution of International standard. IISER Kolkata has now become a coveted institution for bright minds striving to fulfill their academic dreams both as students and as faculty members. I am happy to share with you that our family has grown to 114 faculty members, distributed in five academic departments, and supported by a dedicated team of 95 administrative staff members. In addition, we have a few visiting, adjunct and honorary faculty of great distinction, who add to the vibrant teaching and research atmosphere at IISER Kolkata. Our combined student strength is at a record high comprising of 917 BS-MS, 158 Integrated-PhD (IPhD), 3 MS in space physics and 351 Doctoral students. To maintain the momentum of growth, we are now in the final stages of introducing two new departments, namely, the department of humanities and the department of computer science. These departments will expand the horizon to explore newer research paradigms in one hand and to develop a holistic human resource for the future on the other.

IISER Kolkata is committed towards excellence in science and research and has shown exemplary performance in the year 2018- 19. Our faculty members in all disciplines have embarked on a mission to address the most relevant scientific problems and have been able to contribute significantly, resulting in around 255 publications in the reporting year. It is also important to note that graduate students have independently published their research in peer-reviewed journals. There are also instances where Initiative inAcademic Networks (GIAN)initiated by the underthe lectures Global and delivered scientific Internationally renowned visited scientists ourinstitute invited many to eminentscientists deliver lectures. several conferences ofinternational and prominence Moreover, scenario. research inIISERKolkata, we hosted but alsofor to students get anexposure to abroader such endeavors ofnot onlyforsupports members faculty year. this during reporting India andabroad IISERKolkata invited ontheir lectures accomplishments in research of IISERKolkata and communityhave delivered plenary Several in the relevant members sectionofthis report. presented accomplishment are ofourresearch figures Thedetailed innature. and facts interdisciplinary are other national aswell asinternational and institutions materials etc. [GAIL], Many ofthese involve projects ofCOF plain [SERB],bulksynthesis anddiscovery ofIndianmonsooninthe track Gangetic Quaternary [SERB],decodingthediverse lab-on-chip late platform storageenergy [SERB],development andproduction of Medicine Cluster [DBT],renewable andsustainable Innovation andTechnology-2 [MHRD/DST], System IISER Kolkata: Impacting extramural projects Research, of Rs.47 Afew crores. notable by obtained projects total to tally 87 with numberofongoingprojects atotal year the 2018-19.during financial Ithasenhancedour Rs.17 have crores by beenobtained members ourfaculty projects/schemes amounting to research sponsored new International funding agencies. Thirty-seven nationaland from support attracting are members It isamatter that satisfaction ofgreat ourfaculty goals. achieving ourscientific that we inthe path are right giving usconfidence in These achievements commendableandreassuring, are andAtmospheric Sciences. in the discipline ofEarth awarded the Swarnajayanti prestigious Fellowship Award year,reporting Punyasloke Prof. hasalso been Bhadury Dr. Rahul Banerjee Swadhin andProf. Mandal. Inthis ofChemicalSciences, the from Department members Shanti Swarup Bhatnagarto prizes two ofourfaculty aptly ofthe inthe recognized prestigious conferment Kolkata’s for excellence pursuit hasbeen inresearch awards,prestigious fellowships IISER anddistinctions. both nationallyandinternationally of inthe form getting are members andfaculty students recognized happy to state that of our the excellent performance essentialfor Iam academic freedom goodresearch. simultaneously, that ensuring all can exercise the to andto members faculty students research support Ihaveresearchers. encouraged strongly andprovided implementation ofascheme to post-doctoral attract andweof young alsoworking are onthe researchers the independence to nurture Itisnecessary problems. collaborated andhave important successfullyaddressed have areas research graduate of students different degree. In addition todegree. that, 9 IPhD with MS only, 10 IPhD, June 2018 133 where were students awarded the BS-MS ceremony. The 6th convocation ceremony was heldon13 to inthe convocation witnessourpupilgraduating anditisthe rewarding most experience equal importance toour responsibility andteaching considerresearch with for the humanresource Itis future. developing a perfect IISER Kolkata committed are members to faculty andteachingnumber ofclassrooms laboratories. laboratories andgenerated andfacilities anadequate tohave area housenew beenableto create sufficient spacemanagement we to mentionthat with efficient Complex. Atcum-Academic this pointIwould alsolike Bose Research Complex andCVRaman Administration- All these have facilities beenaccommodated inthe AJC capableofachieving 80Teraflops.with aconfiguration addition is the – facility supercomputing significant biomolecular interaction facility, core etc. Another system, spectrometers,solvent fluorescence purification namely, facilities, instrumentation of state-of-the-art their existing by facility research anumber acquiring year,In the financial last IISERKolkata, hasstrengthened year.financial has beenregistered asasection8company inthis country. Iamhappy to note that RISEfoundation IISER andother students ofthescientists, entrepreneurs involvingon buildinganecosystem our ofstart-ups ofScienceandTechnologythe Department isatwork of (RISE) Foundation IISER,with the generous support Research, Innovation Entrepreneurship andScientific Government named, ofIndia.Theincubationcentre, by which the beingsupported are initiated asstart-ups with the potential applicationsneedto ofindustrial be Center to nameafew. Ialsobelieve that areas research Limited, Tata Steel Limited, CiplaLimited, Tata Medical with organizations like industrial GasAuthority ofIndia this year, IISER Kolkata have signed agreements/MOUs R&D units.In with industrial prominent their expertise such that our team can interact andshare ofresearchers I have taken the initiative to create acommonplatform application.Sincemyindustrial joiningatIISERKolkata, thatresearch haspotential into oftranslating an indevelopingresearch isto countries foster academic knowledge-based insustaining An essentialingredient Graduate School ofEducation. campus ofHarvard one week component inthe foreign training Cambridge had two weeks atKolkata ofIndiantraining followed by (LEAP).TheLEAPprogram Academicians Programme for higher educationorganizations called“Leadership topdesigned to level create of Indian and nurture leaders developmentfor anationalleadership hosting program IISER Kolkata for hasalsobeenhonored beingselected ofHumanResource Development recently.Ministry Dirac 5 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees

hosted the West West the hosted for social activities that include free education to freeinclude to education that activities social for January, 2019. The sports complex and the newly The sports newly and the complex January, 2019.

built swimming pool are always busy with activities busy with arebuilt swimming pool always once ready the will open oncoming auditorium and the possibility of arranging cultural programs. bigger Various student-run support clubs are the running with of the etc. administration Arts, for institute Music, Photography minds. A team young all-round and healthy develop to of trained in conjunction counselors and a psychiatrist faculty memberswith no student is left ensure that campus. in the behind in our celebration harmony of the as practitionersit is our that of science, are We, aware and we our society improve responsibility to collective utmost importancegive activities to our outreach to Ek The student’s initiative all stratareach society. of the Pehal an set runningis children local have and successfully the emulate. all to for example opportunity members this all the of thank to I take our statutory bodies, Board Finance of Governors, and Academic Committee Works Building Committee, continuous support their for Senate and invaluable academic and administrative various for suggestions members the and of our internal decisions. I thank credibilityof the statutory checking for audit team all students, faculty and to accounts. My sincere thanks staff members tirelessefforts their for and significant and development growth the contributions towards Finally hearty the congratulation to of IISER Kolkata. members bringing Annual Report for of the committee report. comprehensive this -27th ISER Cultural Meet (IICM) during 21st-23rd December, December, (IICM) duringIISER Cultural 21st-23rd Meet attracting 500 participants IISERs. from seven all 2018 Kolkata at IISER The students affairs(SAC) committee is very SPIC-MACAY association with and in active classical music concerts several organized in campus. Chapter Kolkata IISER SPICMACAY from 25th IISER Kolkata at Convention State Bengal 1 MS by research and 24 PhD students were conferred PhD students were research and 24 1 MS by in are provided degrees. details The respective their Report. convocation Academic section on 7th The the The June 2019. be held on 11 will Kolkata of IISER and number of graduating students is noteworthy furthermore find academic are able to appropriate they year, In this research career. their positions advancing only attended students not graduate number of a large also have but conferences international/national group presentations.obtained prizes A young their for have and of BS-MS students participated in iGEM-2018 studentshave BS-MS broughtMany medal. gold a us also obtained prestigious scholarships from MITACS, of our students The success etc. PMRF, SPIE, DAAD, about our effort immensely happy us makes in training at IISER Kolkata. future generation the campus veryam I reportto pleased Kolkata IISER the that seen. IISER Kolkata most vibrant I have is one of the that being a predominantly residential all students campus There faculty members clock. round access to the have bond students and of social activities that are a plethora interactions. teacher-student their faculty in addition to Celebration participation of festivities, in sports and programme enormous aresocial awareness done with for competitions held essay we This year, enthusiasm. Birth Anniversary of 150th Vigilancethe Awareness, Rights for Legal Mahatma Gandhi and Education Day, Bharat Summer Swachh a few also awarded and Women the organizes EveryInternships. IISER Kolkata year has various that INQUIVESTA science festival unique and lectures. This year stimulating science competitions many grand a attracted and success was INQUIVESTA IISER country. participants in the institutes from other Search Talent Bose National Jagadish conducted Kolkata of Light and celebrated Day International Workshop, spread scientific a mission to with Science day National first the Inter- hosted ever IISER Kolkata awareness.

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report 6 Interdisciplinary Science Development Report Faculty Affairs Report Earth Sciences Physical Sciences Physical Chemical Sciences Academic Centres: Academic Departments: Mathematics and Mathematics Statistics Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences, India (CESSI) Centre of Excellence (CAFM) Materials Functional Advanced Centre for (NCHPS) High Pressure Centre for National Studies (CCES) Studies and Environmental Climate Centre for Artificial for (CFAI) Center Intelligence • • • • • Biological Sciences Overview officeThe routine service facilitate Affairs to is faculty members, the of Faculty of Dean matters the of (DoFA) members individual look after of the recruitment faculty to and members career advancement of new the and to service promotion, reappointments, as a whole. This includes appointments, tenure, growth their like matters promote certificates, various members the fixation, leave, service pay between acts as a bridge Furthermore, etc. book, DoFA oversight priorities administrative and provides administration. faculty and the Office The of the represents DoFA’s the processes,procedurespolicies and the which under review Institutional faculty requirement, various evaluations, for operates. Institute members, who form Faculty group of outstanding a vibrant – the and cohesive is proud of its mainstay The Institute and promising faculty attract talented has been able to IISER Kolkata existence, of its years academicians. In twelve in India and abroad. from prestigious institutes and research specialization experience diversity, members large with establish state-of-the-art research to institute budding a of odds various against worked members have Faculty Our and research, teaching in service, excellence dedicated facilities.Through their achieved our faculty members have research. with modern education in high quality realize sciences, integrated its aim of providing to Institute enabling the research their published funding and have of extramural quantum attract large been able to members have Faculty appeared prestigious in journals, eg. have papersfrom Kolkata IISER Research in journalsrepute. international of Review Edition, Physical Chemie International Angewandte Journal of American Chemical Society, Chemistry, Nature Journal of Geophysical Technology, Science and Environmental in Microbiology, Frontiers JournalVirology, of Letters, to , and Probability Letters Statistics in Mathematics, Advances Society, Journal of European Mathematical Research, recognitionsand Shanti eg. recipientbeen prestigiousof awards have members Kolkata IISER of Faculty few. a name Academy and Third World Academies National of the Fellowship Fellowship, Swarna Jayanti Award, Bhatnagar Swarup Scientist Award. and Young Geoscience Award National Fellowship, IEEE Fellowship, of Sciences, J.C. Bose National has 5 departmentsThe Institute academic centres and 5 as mentioned below:

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report 8 Interdisciplinary Science Development Report Professors Gr.IProfessors Gr.II). Professors and2Assistant given wiseare below: department Thedetails members, offaculty As on31.03.2019, the Institute has114 49Associate 35Assistant (28Professors, Professors, members faculty 04 Biological Sciences 13 Professor Faculty Wise (Ason31.03.2019) On-Roll Department 01 Professor 06 Mathematics andStatistics 28 04 Faculty On-Roll (Ason31.03.2019) 12 Associate Professor Associate Professor 49 10 01 Chemical Sciences 14 Professor Gr. I Assistant Professor Gr. I Assistant 07 35 11 Physical Sciences 12 Professor Gr. II Assistant 02 04 Professor Gr. II 02 Assistant Earth Sciences Earth 06 06 01 9 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Department of Earth Sciences (DES) Department of Chemical Sciences (DCS) Department Sciences (DBS) of Biological Selected as Regular Associate of The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Physics of The Abdus Theoretical Centre Salam International for Associate as Regular Selected a period (2019-2024). (ICTP) for of 5 years of Tokyo University the Institute, Research as a Visiting Earthquake at the Professor Selected months. a periodfor of two Geochemistry” enabled Organic project “Istotope an amount of Rs. 2.3 Crores the for Received Hole Oceanographic Institution as Woods Mary visit the the to Received Sears Award Visitor a guest investigator. Advisory of Research Institute Sahni Birbal the of member a as the of Council Nominated years. three for Lucknow Paleosciences, The research findings of Dr. BhattacharyyaHindu news- published in The and his students was The research findings of Dr. paper. in Chemistry Journal. the for Frontiers Editor as Associate Invited water’ has been cleaning of waste for matter based active on ‘soft-oxometalate work Research in The Hindu newspaper. highlighted as “ThiemeNominated ansd Board Chemistry of Synlett Editorial the by of Journal Awardees” Synfacts. 2018. of CSIR for Award prestigious Bhatnagar Shanti Swarup the Awarded an industry Received projectdiscovery and (from GAIL)Synthesis “Bulk titled porous of COF of Rs. a sponsor value with storage” Methane stability for chemical remarkable with materials Cr. 1.2 has been published in newspaper. Banerjee of Dr. work Research Awarded prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award of CSIR for 2018. of CSIR for Award prestigious Bhatnagar Shanti Swarup Awarded award. SERB distinguished Investigator Received of Chemistry. Society of Royal be a fellow to Invited report India published a Comprehensive Nature research findings on the of Prof. Mandal. advisory editorial join the journal Chemistry Inorganic . to board of prestigious ACS Invited named as, ADONORC kind of poly-plasticizer, of a new The research on development work as time of cement as well setting increase the soluble polymer to highly water made-up with is commercialized. flow rate on “Multifunctional Nanocarrier a Platinum Prodrug work with as an efficientResearch dual- the for as Joint Runner-Up been selected has imaging, site-specific cancer theranostic agent” Innovation. Technology for Awards National 78th Science (India). Polymer for Society of the 2018” Kishore Award, “Kaushal the Received Awarded prestigious SwarnaJayanti Fellowship Award (2017-18) in the discipline of Earth discipline in the and (2017-18) Award Fellowship prestigious SwarnaJayanti Awarded Sciences. Atmospheric Assessment Report Ocean aegis under the World Nations United the to contribute to Invited Nations. Sea, United of the of Oceans and Law be published during the Connections, to annual magazine, GYA of the Editor as the Appointed year. next anniversary of GYA 10th • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Prof. Supriyo MitraProf. Supriyo Prof. Swadhin Mandal Prof. Swadhin Prof. Punyasloke Bhadury Prof. Punyasloke Prof. Prasanta Sanyal K Dalai Tarun Dr. Dr. Soumyajit Roy Soumyajit Dr. Biplab Maji Dr. Banerjee Rahul Dr. Prof. Raja Shunmugam Prof. Raja Prof. Priyadarsi De Bhattacharyya Sayan Dr. Dr. Anindita Bhadra Dr. Awards, Honors and Distinctions Awards, honours numerous distinctions, and awards, received have institute members faculty of this the of every year, Like work. research and development in their excellence forum, in recognition and international in national of their both facultymembers Departmentof two selection fromthe the history was The gloriousthe moment in Institute of this same same discipline in the in the (SSB) Awards Bhatnagar Shanti Swarup coveted the for of Chemical Sciences mostprestigious country scientific regardedthe as in this is generally which award of SwarnaJayanti award and year, Department a faculty member from are the highlighted to Sciences. Those achievements of Biological Fellowship below:

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 10 Science andHumanitiesSocialSciences. hasinitiated ofComputer for process two the recruitment new departments ofDean,Faculty Affairs The Office New Initiatives: 2019. 4–5 February during A Peer Review ofourInstitute Committee the from reviewed inception constituted by the performance the Ministry Professor Gr.Assistant I Professor : Dept. ofPhysical Sciences Professor Gr.Assistant I Professor andAssociate Professor Dept. ofChemicalSciences Professor : Associate Professor Dept. ofBiologicalSciences Professor Gr.Assistant IandAssociate Professor Sciences Dept. ofEarth Professor Gr.Assistant IandAssociate Professor Dept. andStatistics ofMathematics mentioned dates: Selection Committee Meetings underRolling were for members conducted faculty Advertisement onthe following Activities: Dr. Chakraborty Anirvan Prof. DibyenduProf. Nandi AmitGhosal Prof. Prof. Prasanta KPanigrahi Prasanta Prof. Dr. Koel Das • • • • • • • • • • Department of Mathematics andStatistics ofMathematics (DMS) Department Associate ofthe IndianAcademy ofSciences,Bangalore for the of2018-2020. period on women inIndia scientists ofDr. thatAn article Life focuses ofScience”,asciencemediaplatform in“The Dasappeared Society ofIndia. with theConferred Laxminarayana &Nagalaxmi ModaliAward 2018 ofthe Astronomical inseveralNature news Communicationandisreported papers. work NandiThe research ofProf. on‘Sunspot andhisstudent Cycle’ hasbeenpublished in ofAdityaAssociated L1MissionofISRO. asapart Theoretical Physics (NORDITA, Stockholm) Awarded aSwedish Wenner-Gren atthe Institute Foundation Nordic Professorship Guest of foreign experts Received underthe SPARC asanctionofgrant with for collaboration research programme Awarded APS-IUSSTF inPhysics. Professorship Featured the amongst “top 2017” personality ten scientific India” in“Scientific Fund, to Austria beheldinVienna, Invited reviewer asanexpert of‘Special Research (SRP)’ of the Austrian Program Science Department ofPhysicalDepartment Sciences(DPS) : : : : : : Dated 08-12-2018. Dated 14-09-2018. Dated 16-03-2019 Dated 10-08-2018 &11-08-2018 Dated Dated 27-06-2018 &28-03-2019 04-09-2018 Dated 08-06-2018 Dated 22-05-2018 11 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Prime Minister Shri NarendraPrime Minister Modi Presents Bhatnagar Swarup Swanti Prize to Prof. Mandal. Swadhin Prof. Supriyo Mitra Supriyo Prof. Earth Sciences Professor, (till 23.09.2018) Mr. Puskar Das Puskar Mr. Office Assistant (MS) Gupta Supriya Mr. Junior Assistant in the discipline of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Prof. Punyasloke Bhadury has been awarded the prestigious SwarnaJayanti Fellowship Award (2017-18) Award Prof. Bhadury Fellowship the prestigious Punyasloke has been awarded SwarnaJayanti Members of of the office Faculty Affairs Banerjee Narayan Prof. Sciences Physical Professor, (from 24.09.2018) Mr. Suraj Narayan Bordoloi Narayan Suraj Mr. Assistant Registrar Sengupta Joydeep Mr. Junior Assistant Prime Minister Shri NarendraPrime Minister Modi Presents Bhatnagar Swarup Swanti RahulPrize Banerjee to Dr.

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 12 Academic Departments C) for various low temperature biochemical applications, biochemical temperature low various C) for ◦ C) for culture growth and enzyme reactions, a French Press cell disruptor for lysing of lysing for Press cell disruptor reactions, and enzyme a French culture growth C) for ◦ C and 30 ◦ prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, a freeze dryer (lyophilizer) and a table-top ultracentrifuge (Beckman Coulter). The Coulter). (Beckman ultracentrifuge cells, a freeze dryer and eukaryotic and a table-top prokaryotic (lyophilizer) first ultra possibilities for has also been installed Nanopore) long read (Oxford in DBS, opening up new sequencer microscope both attached installed has been for display studies. A large and transcriptomic applications in genomic research and applications. teaching as microscopes, real such time PCR systems equipments upgradation the of existing for attachments others Various also been installed. have etc. two warm rooms (37 two Departmental Research and Teaching Facilities Departmental and Teaching Research financial DBS departmentalA number of significant the 2018-19 place during additions to the research facilitiestook DST- jointly funded by Core Facility Biomolecular Interactions establishment of the the addition was A major year. art state-of-the with facility has been equipped equipment The Biomolecular Interactions and IISER Kolkata. FIST molecules, nucleic acid, protein-small protein-nucleic as protein-protein, such studying biomolecular interactions for been procured have which and real time conditions. The equipment state steady at both acid-small molecules etc. include a Surface (Biacore Core Facility Biomolecular Interactions and installed system in the Plasmon Resonance from a High-Performance Malvern Pananalyical), Liquid (Microcal Titration PEAQ-ITC T200), an Isothermal Calorimeter been have These equipments spectrophotometer. Flow Breeze 2) and a Stopped (Waters System Chromatography humidity-controlled and temperature housed in a separate proper supply for facility under UPS and filtered power and operation. maintenance DBS the to added been facilitiesand have equipments new of number a equipments, specialized these Besides cold room common research (4 facilities. These include a new The Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) aims to combine teaching and research to motivate and engage actively actively and engage motivate and research to The Department combine teaching of Biological Sciences (DBS) aims to in a broad The faculty at DBS conduct research and teaching levels. national and international academics at the with teaching Our levels. organismal the fieldsspectrumincludes of areas that Biology in to molecular from spanning the students of basics teach to of classroom hands-on laboratory lectures with an integration exercises towards is geared state-of-the-art instruments by in biological research. This is facilitated most recent advances the biology along with tissue culture and housing and facilities for histopathology, flow cytometry, microscopy, as confocal and facilities such organisms. conducting research on various specific our departments’ are the below additions to Detailed over repertoire of facilities, activities and achievements (2018-2019). last one year the Department of Sciences Biological

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 14 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. several nearby universities from andfar. ofsomethese alist are outreach Here programs. We through various outreach educationprogram. hosted from the andfaculty students across institutions country the Itaims to region. doso by organizing academic excellenceactivities for sharing with fellow academic neighboring and local people as and of a institutions bridge between aims toThe DBS Outreach Program our serve department theDepartment ActivitiesOutreach of Mallick. Govt.among the organizations. many The team participating was led by Dr. Ray Sarathi Partho and Dr. Islam Amirul faculty, outwithin to ourdepartment. the various activitiesbeingcarried research understand to theand Masters from students University visited meet andspend timewith ourdepartment and ourstudents Lab visit A bysimilar visit from Kumaun University (Nainital) on 4th 2019 April, took PhD postdocs, place where visited members, faculty the labsandtalked to scholars ourresearch the from students University visited ourinstitute andspentthe day meeting andinteracting with many ofour andTechnologyLab visitby OdishaUniversity ofAgriculture (OUAT) was organized on18th March,2019, when Imaging, Microscopy etc. facilities, to spenttimevisiting the They gain Central knowledge specifically inthe aboutongoingresearch department. College visited laboratories DBSresearch between March27 to 29,2019. They visited several laboratories faculty &ReproductivePost (Endocrinology graduate scholars andresearch students Physiology special)ofSerampore Islam Mallick ofDBS. andstudents we experienced fullhousethroughout the 4-days ofexhibition. Theteam was ledby Dr. Gupta, Dr. Arnab Amirul by Organization ScienceandCulture for Calcutta the Youth, Central Kolkata; CCSCOY). Itwas ahuge successas organized by Bengal HumanResource Development Foundation; (August BGRDF)andNimta 3-6,2018, organized DBS alsorepresented IISERKolkata attwo National level ScienceExhibitionscumFair inPatuli (July26-29,2018, UTSAB 2018” 20-29December2018 during to connectwith the this peoplefrom Ourteam region. 3rd secured ofBiologicalSciencesOutreach teamin“SUNDARBAN 0LOKO participated Department KRISTI MELA SANSKRITI

Position 15 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees – International travel grant presenting PhD work her for fromBritish Society travel Ecological – International Mukhopadhyay Snigdha GBP Amount 1000 at Birmingham,in an Annual meeting UK. December 2018, European 9th present in the his PhD work to grant from IISER Kolkata travel – International Paul Bishwarup Amount – Rs 100,000.00. 2018, UK. August Biology at Liverpool, on Behavioural Conference at IISc, Bangalore, Chemical Biology held for 2nd SERB school attend to – Selected Snigdha Mukhopadhyay India. Cornell Lab of Ornithology attend Bioacuostics programme held at IISER to – Selected Bhattacharyya Kushankur Tirupati, India during March 2019. on Ecological Conference - International 2018 SFECOLOGIE for presentation selected Mondal - Poster Rubina 2018. held in October France Sciences at Rennes, Birmingham, at Annual Meeting UK British Society for Ecological presentation selected Poster - Ghoshal Aditya held in December 2018. Bar’sSudipta interview journal has been published in the Disease Models and Mechanisms Bioenergy-Awards (B-ACER) Internship Research Cutting Edge for 2018 the awarded Shubhasish Sinha was Biology, Synthetic for Center opportunityan for Prof. Program,Tullman-Ercek, Danielle with work DBT-IUSSTF research paid six-month all expenses IL, USA. He successfully completed Evanston, Northwestern University, of India) (Government Department funded by internship of Biotechnology by organized Biology Workshop B4 Synthetic the for selected Int-PhD) was (CSIR-JRF and 3rd year Nath Praveen Harvard of Bioinformatics and Asia Institute, Institute Mittal South Cambridge, (LMSAI), University Lakshmi the (IISER), Pune of Science Education and Research Bengaluru and Indian Institute (IBAB), Applied Biotechnology programThis India). of started (Government Department programB4 the the on under by funded Biotechnology of group of applicants. from a large LMSAI by selected of February, and 25 students were 20th As part of the national level conference organised by some of the faculty of DBS, “Understanding Behaviour 2019” faculty of DBS, “Understanding 2019” of the some Behaviour by As part organised conference national level the of Understanding during the event an outreach as animal behaviour on a workshop at IISER Kolkata, in January 2019 250 students of approximately by attended was This event January 2019. on 12th 2019, conference Behaviour Oriental - VIII of Gardenclasses VI Springdale and Kanchrapara High School, Public School, English High School observe The students learntMedium School. to also and carried animals They hands-on experiments. out some Academy Global Young the participated funded by a scientist in a “Draw contest” Anindita part Bhadra was activities in neighbouring outreach Santipur Marami, regions in W Bengal. of several Dr. IISER Kolkata where I represented July 2018, on 25th event annual outreach their us to invited an NGO in Santipur, This in Bangla. delivered This talk was questions”. a talk“The on and other of life originand gave and evolution a lecture Bhadra on delivered also Dr. students.August In high school local 300 about by attended was event Breakthrough Science the Midnapore, by at Mecheda, Darwinism event outreach at a public human evolution and members college public, including of the and several members society of the by attended was This event Society. students. and co-sponsored on behalf on INYAS INSA area lecture” sponsored by a “Remote Anindita Bhadra conducted Dr. Debagram Debagram, at the titled “perspectives High School, Nadia, committee DBS outreach IISER Kolkata by and I AcharyaMoulinath a member of INYAS of NIBMG, who is also Dr. 2018. in modern October biology” on 9th and modern on Darwinism. medicine and mine was on genomics His talk was event. lectures at this two delivered level. high school students at the about 150 by attended was This event in Bangla. delivered lectures were Both Our BS-MS students participated in the prestigious iGEM 2018 competition. The team included several Biology Major Biology Major included several The team competition. Our BS-MS students participated prestigious iGEM 2018 in the departments students from other These students made us along with students from years various from our Institute. 2018. bring Jamboree a Gold Medal at iGEM Giant in October back all proud by of them Many conferences. in national and international work their number of our PhD students presented A large conferences. international attend grants to also obtained travel have • • • • • • • • • Student Achievements 6. 7. 8.

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 16 • • • • • • Awards andHonors: • • • • • • • • • • • Dr. Malancha Ta selected for Travel fellowship for anEMBO workshop inSingapore inNov., 2018. Society 2019. Dr. Neelanjana Sengupta hasbeenselected as amemberofthe Executive Councilofthe IndianBiophysical Science andTechnology (WAST) 2018 Western North ConnecticutCommunityCollegeGusky from ,CT, USA ;elected Fellow ofWest Bengal Academy of Prof. Jayasri DasSarma for hasbeenhost ASM-IUSSTF Award Indo-USProfessorship (2018) ofProfessor Sharon October 17, 2018. Dr. JohnChandran Appointed Robert asResearch Advisor, Nan Yang Academy ofSciences,Singapore. Starting Hainan University, P. R.China(July2018 -July2019). Dr. JohnChandran hasbeenanAwardee HainanUniversity Robert Program, ofEminentForeign Professors Dr. Bhadra Anindita selected asanExecutive Committee GlobalYoung Memberfrom Academy (2019) March 2019 atIISERKolkata Mr. Soumya Kundu received poster best award Indian Biophysical at43rd Society Meeting 2019, 15-17th from Debanjana Chakravarty 2019, received poster best 3rd award 6th February day. DBSDepartmental & XXXVIAnnualConference ofIndian AcademyNeuroscience 2018, ofNeurosciences 29th to 31st October, B.H.U. Mr. Abhishek BoseGot selected (Dr. for presentation the oral D.M.Kar atInternational Conference on Prize) Dr. MahuaMaulikreceived Wellcome Trust-DBT fellowship Career IndiaAllianceEarly (2018). to 7, 2018 inKyoto, Japan. Mr. Snehasish Ghosh presented poster in10th International Peptide Symposium (10th December 3 IPS)during Society Meet, IndianInstitute ofScienceEducationandResearch Mohali,Chandigarh,22nd-25th March,2017 atAnnualSymposium ofthe IndianBiophysical for siRNA delivery’ moleculartransporters designed nanostructured Dr. Sanchita Mukherjee Delivered “Young Researcher Talks” on‘Computational approach to engineerrationally Dr. Sanchita Mukherjee, DST-NPDF postdoctoral fellow joinedasACS inourlabhasrecently Outreach editor. 2018 ofBiologicalSciences,IISERKolkata. atDepartment Lucknow, poster India;best award Biology(FIMB)2018” at“Frontiers inModern symposium on19th -21st January, “Trends inChemicalandBiologicalSciences:Impact onHealth andEnvironment” on12th -14th 2019 January, at Ms. Kasturee received poster best Chakraborty award at “25th ISCB International Conference (ISCBC-2019)” on presentation). (Oral colonization ofCampylobacter jejuniinchickens 12th Vaccine Hungary, Budapest, 16-19th Congress, August, 2018 cecal reduce immunization with hcpoftypeVIsecretion system immunityandefficiently host strong confers Awarded Travel to grant Singhfor Ms.Ankita onMucosal attending ofherresearch presentation andoral organized by IITDelhito herwork. present Ms. Sritama Aich (SRF)was selected India-2018, atBioprocessing presentation for Oral 16 –18 December2018, by IITDelhi. the Young Award inBioprocessing Scientist atthe India-2018, Bioprocessing 16 –18 December2018, organized and5th-yearSushant K.Sinha(CSIR-SRF andreceived presentation the Int-PhD)Secured positioninOral 1st

17 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees (from 01-01-2019) (from 17-09-2018) (from 26-07-2018) Assistant ProfessorAssistant Grade – I Das, Dipjyoti Das, Rahul SreeramaiahGangappa, ArnabGupta, Neelanjana Sengupta, Sudhamalla, Babu (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 29-03-2019) (from 25-09-2018) (from 24-09-2018) (from 25-09-2018) (from 25-09-2018) (from 29-03-2019) (from 25-09-2018) (from 25-09-2018) (from 24-09-2018) (from 25-09-2018) Bhadury, Punyasloke Das Sarma, Jayasri Kumar Tapas Sengupta, Bhadra, Anindita Bhat, Anuradha Chandran, Robert John Datta, Partha Pratim Datta, Rupak Datta, Supratim Maiti, Sankar AmirulMallick, Islam Prasad, Mohit Partho Sarothi Ray, Sinha, Bidisha Rituparna Sinha Roy, Malancha Ta, Annagiri, Sumana Associate Professor List of Members: Faculty Professor

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 18 eateto ChemicalSciences of Department minimized. As a smartphone tool that TCD can easily beaccessedandinstalled, minimized. As a smartphone hasthe potential to beaneffective that TCD goalsanddetecting the attain isuseful inhelpingstudents learning potential to experimental be errors pilotquestion indicated prompts students conducted andhints.Anexploratory study with undergraduate chemistry through reasoning students’ onpotential for sources scaffolding andproviding afeedback error report dartboard to ona score quantify the itasagamified of the solution, presenting captured smartphone pinkcolorofatitration (TCD) hasbeendeveloped ColorDarts application calledTitration and implemented. TCD function usesthe camera proverbial questions for the teachers throughout the world. To tutor this problem, smartphone this address persisting a phenolphthalein is thegood enough. Therefore, based titration question “Is it pink enough” has become a almost experiments whether interms ofunderstanding the pinkshadeofthe have solutionin often whileperforming trouble implemented the experiments across Students country. of titrations. Theappactsasatutor for handsonchemistry the of students our wecountry, have based app for Chemical Education developedthat already can be a smartphone Development ofthe reaching out to ofaneducationaltool for Asapart highschools andcollege chemistry: Professor Subhajit Bandopadhyay Research Highlights Polymer Chemistry, TheoreticalSupramolecular Chemistry, ComputationalCatalysis. andComputational Chemistry, Inorganic and Organometallic Catalysis, Bioinorganic Spectroscopy Chemistry, and Microscopy, Synthetic Organic and Functional ofMacromolecules, Chemical Biology, Nanomaterials, Inorganic andorganic Materials Chemistry Chemistry, ofChemicalScienceswhich areas includes activitiesinfrontier research isengaged inundertaking The Department isaccredited by curriculum ofChemicalSciencescourse TheRoyal (RSC). The Department Society ofChemistry out the groups. activity of DCS research research to groups research availablecarry are facilities central in different scienceandmaterials aswell science.Anextremely asvarious instrumentation wide rangeearth ofstate-of-the-art at the areas with research boundaries physics, as well as in interdisciplinary biology,inorganic, theoretical chemistry of excellence inboth andteaching. research strength inthe ofphysical, TheDCShasappreciable areas core organic, of Chemical Sciences (DCS). From has incarnated the Institute’s the beginning, the mission Department Department toResource was beestablished Development the departments (MHRD),Government ofIndiaandonethe first The IndianInstitute ofScienceEducationandResearch -Kolkata ofHuman was founded in2006by the Ministry Research andTeaching 19 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees O 2 OH H

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HO + R Montelukast N Het Cl Ph 2 2E10 N Mn NH MeO OH R , 8330-8339. 5 + Me , 140 N N O H N Heparin-blue N Cl Cl 2 Het H Professor Swadhin Mandal Swadhin Professor Cation in Dual Role. The Phenalenyl Catalysis: and Redox Acid Lewis Organic Integrating 1. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018 Dr. Biplab Maji Dr. coupling of alcohol and with Primary Alcohols: The dehydrogenative OlefinationDirect of Methylheteroarenes an Earth’s The reaction sustainable; is highly catalyzed by alkenes. produced (E)-disubstituted methylherehoarenes as sole byproducts. evolved were (gas) and hydrogen and water manganese abundant metal . Chemie in Angewandte work has published this Biplab Maji laboratory researcher from the the of Dr. Recently, 2. Organized International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis. (13th-16th December, 2018), Goa, India. 2018), December, (13th-16th and Catalysis. on Organometallics Conference International 2. Organized This initiative has been funded by the MHRD through a SAP grant ICSR/SAP/2018/SN-1. a SAP MHRD through the by has been funded This initiative

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Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 20 • Professor Debashish Haldar • Professor Rahul Banerjee • • • • Professor Swadhin Mandal • • • • Professor Priyadarsi De Recognition spectrometerFluorescence Professor DebasishHaldar Dr. Pradip Kumar Tarfadar Solvent Systems. Purification Professor Swadhin Mandal Facilities Created Patent applicationNo. R20183030651 forCOMPOSITIONS ANDMETHODSFOR “ PURIFICATION OFWATER” “POSS appendeddiphenylalanine” ISRO, SpaceCentre, to Sarabhai Thiruvananthapuram Vikram developed supplyofproduct Commercially inIISERKolkata Professor DebasishHaldar Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar PrizeinChemicalSciencesfor 2018. medal CRSI bronze InvestigatorSERB Distinguished Award. category. and hasinvited to becomea Royal Dr. Society UKhasidentified of Chemistry, Swadhin individualinchemical Mandalasanoutstanding science Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar PrizeinChemicalSciencesfor 2018. ReviewersOutstanding for RSCAdvances in2017, Publishedby Royal Society Impact ofChemistry, Factor: 2.93. AwardKaushal Memorial Kishore ofthe Society ofPolymer Science, India(SPSI)for the year 2018. 11th March, 2019Group, to Present Taylor andAppliedChemistry, A:Pure Associate editor Science,Part ofMacromolecular of Journal &Francis Editorial Member, Board Organic Current Synthesis, Bentham Publication, March201

Foundation Polymer Award ofthe Sukumer Prof. MaitiPolymer Award Foundation, Indiafor the year 2018. Fellow of Royal (FRSC) underthe Society “Leaders Field” inthe of Chemistry Fluorescence spectrometer from SERB-ECRAproject Fluorescence from spectrometer 9 21 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Title of the Talk Title Development of an RNA electrostatic model to electrostatic of an RNA model to Development understand riboswitch function Supramolecular Self-Assembly: Molecular From Biomedical Application to Machine Exploring the Challenges of Computational Challenges Exploring the Enzyme Design Cysteine modification arenediazonium salts with Cysteine Fluorescent of Red Photophysics the Tuning Proteins Carboranes: History of Discovery, Main Results, Carboranes: Main Results, History of Discovery, and Application Advances Recent Boron-NeutronBoron-Containing Liposomes For (BNCT) Therapy Capture Xa Factor Discovery a Novel of Eliquis®.Apixaban, Coupling Reaction Anticoagulant and Chan-Lam Structure and Chemical the Investigating Solids of Metastable Reactivity Fantastic Voyage: Designing Self-Powered Designing Self-Powered Voyage: Fantastic Nanobots Local Correlation Methods for Excited States Excited for Local Correlation Methods Reactions Cyclization Asymmetric Organocatalytic Group 13-15 of Highly Reactive Stabilization Alkyl(amino) Carbenes Cyclic Species by Sustainable chemistry: and Challenges research to implications Evolution of science, technology and public policy: of science, technology Evolution present and futurePast, Direct of O2-graphene dynamics simulations at high temperatures interactions Quest Chemistries of New Exploring in the New Therapeutic Agents in Applications of Scanning Probe Methods Nanoscale Biology at the scaffolds chemical for Maleimides-Versatile biology and Ceramics: Modern Silicates Beyond ChemistryOrganosilicon Oxidation States in Low Shedding light on bioinspired inorganic approach A multi-technique complexes: of chemistryThe language and chemical “know relationships between the technology: “central and the science” how” “know why”, through of Science and technology The language of a chemist. eyes the and Catalysis” “Organometallic Interrogating Reaction Mechanisms for the the for Mechanisms Reaction Interrogating Pursuit Chemical Technology of New Affiliation Rice University, Houston, TX, Houston, Rice University, USA of Maryland,University College USA Park, University of SouthernUniversity California, Los Angeles) Former Professor at Jadavapur Former at Jadavapur Professor University of ColoradoUniversity at Boulder Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy Russian Barach S. Blumberg Institute of Karlsruhe Institute Germany Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences Academy Russian The Pennsylvania State State The Pennsylvania University Indian Institute of Technology of Technology Indian Institute Bombay of Technology Indian Institute Guwahati of Goettingen, University Germany INSA Senior Scientist, IISER INSA Pune and Honorary Professor, IISER Kolkata INSA Senior Scientist, IISER INSA Pune and Honorary Professor, IISER Kolkata USA University, Tech Texas NIPER Mohali IIT Nanotechnology, Centre for Guwahati IISER Bhopal of Inorganic Institute of Bonn, Chemistry, University Germany IISER Professor, Adjunct Kolkata IISER Professor, Adjunct Kolkata IISER Professor, Adjunct Kolkata University of Minnesota, USA of Minnesota, University Advanced Catalytic Materials, Catalytic Materials, Advanced Centre Catalysis KAUST Dutta Sivaram Sivaram Bregadze Chowdhury Dr. Ujjal Das Dr. Dr. Dimpy Kalia Dimpy Dr. Dr. Susmita Roy Dr. Prof. Igor Sivaev Dr. Tatini Rakshit Tatini Dr. Dr. Garima Jindal Dr. Dr. Subrata Kundu Dr. Prof. Ayusman Sen Prof. Ayusman Dr. Abhishek Dutta Dr. Prof. Sumit Bhaduri Prof. Sumit Bhaduri Prof. Sumit Bhaduri Prof Soumabha Bag Prof Prof. Vladimir I. Prof Patrick Y S Lam Prof Patrick Prof. Achintya Kumar Kumar Prof. Achintya Dr. Premashis Manna Dr. Name of the Speaker Name Dr. Soumen K Samanta Dr. Professor Swaminathan Swaminathan Professor Professor Swaminathan Swaminathan Professor Prof Saumitra Sengupta Dr. Subhas Chandra Pan Dr. Prof. Asit K. Chakraborti Dr. Apparao Draksharapu Dr. Dr. Seenivasan Hariharan Seenivasan Dr. 12.11.18 11.10.18 18.07.18 10.10.18 04.07.18 03.10.18 23.10.18 25.10.18 26.10.18 01.09.18 12.09.19 16.08.18 13.08.18 seminar 29.08.19 29.08.19 06.06.18 23.05.18 25.05.18 02.04.18 02.04.18 03.04.18 09.04.18 04.05.18 08.08.18 28.08.18 Date of the Date List of Seminars

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 22 Date ofthe 06.02.19 05.03.19 06.03.19 05.03.19 08.03.19 08.03.19 08.03.19 08.03.19 06.03.19 seminar 14.03.19 15.03.19 14.02.19 22.01.19 28.01.19 27.02.19 10.12.18 18.12.18 30.11.18 26.11.18 15.11.18 15.11.18 14.11.18 4.12.18 Prof KavirayaniProf R.Prasad Professor Anindya Datta Prof. Herbert W. Herbert Prof. Roesky W. Herbert Prof. Roesky Prof. Herbert W. Herbert Prof. Roesky Dr. Kelath Manoj Murali Dr. Chaudhury Srabanti Prof K.GeorgeProf Thomas Name Speaker ofthe Dr. SudipChakraborty Dr. SnehangshuPatra Dr. Mondal Arobendo Prof. Oren Scherman Oren Prof. Dr. Latour Jean-Marc Prof. KamaljitProf. Singh Prof. SheshanathProf. V. Dr. MantuSantra Dr. BasudebMaji Dr. Sayan Bagchi Dr. K.Geetharani Dr. Tapas Sahoo Dr. Anukul Jana Prof. AiwenProf. Lei Dr AmlanPal Bhosale University Goa ofChemistry, Department University of.Waterloo, Canada Ethics Foundation Satyamjayatu: TheScience& Germany Technical University ofMunich, Germany University ofGoettingen, Germany University ofGoettingen, Alpes University ofGrenoble Harvard Medical School Harvard Amritsar Nanak DevGuru University, ofAdvanceCentre Study-II, UGC ofChemistry, Department Institute ofScience,Bangalore Indian Physical Chemistry ofInorganic and Department Germany University ofGoettingen, Science, Bangalore IndianInstitute of Chemistry ofOrganic Department Thiruvananthapuram Education andResearch Indian Institute ofScience Research Hyderabad Tata Institute ofFundamental Kingdom Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, United University ofSt Andrews, St Wuhan University University ofCambridge Sweden Astronomy, Uppsala University, ofPhysics & Department Shibpur Science andTechnology (IIEST)- Indian Institute ofEngineering IIT Bombay Stony University, Brook USA IISER Pune Pune National ChemicalLaboratory, Affiliation on the Nanoscale Functional Structures Chemistry: Supramolecular Path Integral Replica Trick Approach for ContinuousRotational ofFreedom: Degrees a State ofGround Estimation Entanglement Entropy cyanide killso quickly?” isoxygen“Why the elixiroflife? How does beyond the shifts contact extended effects paramagnetic solids:significant for computations ofNMRshifts First-principles Silicon Fluorides andTheirCongeners Silicon Fluorides Organometallic Hydroxides combining experiments andDFTcalculations approach arational Fe-catalyzed transfer: nitrene Cas9 basedgenome engineering Synthetic activators andinhibitors ofCRISPR- andnonlinearoptical behaviour transport Materials andswitchable with charge tailorable and Alkenes K.Geetharani Halides ofAryl Base Metal Borylation Catalyzed Metals Materials ofLow Valent Silicon andLow Valent Simple Alkaloids Polyols from andMacrolactones An Unexpected detour into the Synthesis of excitations andtheir interaction Excitons oftwo andplasmons:Atale elementary Synthon for Carbon BasedRadicals Convenient Access to Cations:A Pyrrolinium Interconversion ofEnergy Metal Polypyridyl Complexes Catalysis from to TransitionApplications ofLightHarvesting Updating Oxidative Cross-Coupling Oxidation-Induced C-HFunctionalization and assembly atinterfaces Functional materials: Exploitingdynamicself- Materials Modellingfor Scavenging Energy Development andApplicationof Cutting-Edge photosynthetic deviceArtificial scratch from forQuest emissive organic solidsandaggregates and protein damage Mathematical modelingofbacterial proteostasis enzyme kinetics insingle-molecule Quantifying fluctuations toward molecularfunctions covalent dynamics interactions andultrafast evidencesSpectroscopic onthe ofnon- role Title Talk ofthe 23 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees

Title of the Talk Title Nonheme iron hydroxylases and halogenases: and halogenases: ironNonheme hydroxylases influence product the protein does the How distributions? Dynamics Stark Control of HOD Vibrational Dynamics and Photodissociation Design Principles Oxysulfide for class of Lithium Superionic conductor “Structure, Dynamics and Free Energy Landscape “Structure, and Free Dynamics of Insulin Oligomers and Dissociation Pathway” New Hydrophobically Associating Polymers and New Rheology and Applications Gels: Synthesis, Banerjee, Supratim Banerjee, Das, Dibyendu Biplab Maji, De Suman Sarkar, Devrajulu Sureshkumar, Pradip Kumar Tarafdar, K. Ratheesh Vijayaraghavan, Assistant Professor Grade – I Affiliation University of Manchester of University of University Technical Denmark, Lyngby National Berkeley Lawrence Laboratory IISc Bangalore Senior Scientist at Polymer Senior Scientist at Polymer Science and Engineering Division, NCL Pune (from 24-08-2018) (from 24-08-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018)

Dr. Diptesh Dey Diptesh Dr. Prof. Biman Bagchi Dr. Manohar Badiger Dr. Dr. Swastika Banerjee Swastika Dr. Name of the Speaker Name Prof. De Visser Samuel

18.07.18 10.01.19 26.12.18 04.12.18 16.05.18 seminar Date of the Date Banerjee, Rahul Rahul Banerjee, Bhattacharyya, Sayan Chaudhuri, Debansu Das, Mousumi Ghorai, Pradip Kumar Khanra, Sumit Debasis Koley, Venkataraman Mahalingam, Mandal, Prasun Kumar Amlan Kusum Roy, Soumyajit Roy, Sayam Sen Gupta, Kumar Tiwari, Ashwani Zade, Sanjio Shankarrao Associate Professor Professor and Director Sourav Pal, Professor Bandyopadhyay, Subhajit Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, De, Priyadarsi Debasish Haldar, Kumar Mandal, Swadhin Arindam Mukherjee, Balaram Mukhopadhyay, Pradipta Purkayastha, Chilla Malla Reddy, Raja Shunmugam, List of Members: Faculty

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 24 • • Research Units: ofDEScoordinatemembers their via three research multidisciplinary has94department 14 BS-MSstudents, 37 IPh.Dstudents, 3Post-Doctoral Ph.D.students, Fellows. Thefaculty Additionally, professors. assistant hasonevisitingprofessor andone DST-INSPIRE the faculty. Department The sixassociate two andseven professors, members: faculty professors, regular hasfifteen At the present, department itsjourney in2007, started Sciences.Thedepartment ofEarth Department ayear IISERKolkata after was established. Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata IISERs, to among five have is the first a established Activities Departmental Sciences Earth of Department its application for heavy metal also investigates The group remediation. climate regional change in terms of in the environment, and human exposure of nanoparticles to use, fate and sustainable pesticides and transport toapproaches. Researchand estuaries rivers from oceans, in this focuses area of on studies heavy metal transport to onbiota, and potential the ofenvironmental contamination the spheres, consequent effects remediation environmental systems modern influencing processes andclimate. Itaimsto arange address ofissuesrelated strivesThis group to provide abetter andintegrated ofbiogeochemical understanding andanthropogenic Environment andClimate alsostudied. simulationsare principles temperature conditionsusingquantum mechanical first Materials underextreme and pressure ofEarth evolution properties andelastic of orogenic belts. Thermodynamic (with afocus onthe Himalaya) andexamine how architecture lateral kinematic variation controls instructural mantle attenuation characteristics, convergence-related infold-and-thrust belts partitioning multi-scalestrain earthquakeunderstand seismic velocity faulting, (isotropic and anisotropicstructure and upper cases), crust interaction alsoinvestigated. andcrust-mantle are formation crust Complementing datasets analyzedto are the Archaean cratons, their linkage with cycle, supercontinent andsecular change inthe mechanism ofcontinental geochemical, andgeochronological reworking Thetimingofjuvenile events data. additionandcrustal crustal in petrological, through geological structural, crust continental by timeisstudied field, integrating andcorrelating scales.Tectonic andkinematicevolution andstructural beltsatdifferent ofmountain deformation, evolution ofthe to itsrelation tectonic ofthe Earth, andupper mantle structure the study of this group crust research Members Solid Earth 25 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees This work is published in This work has developed ISOSCAPE model for water isotopes. The isotopes. water for model ISOSCAPE developed has Sanyal Prasanta Prof. of spacing of these high-angle fractures high-angle of spacing of these reflect scale-dependent clustering. (Cv) ISOSCAPE model predicts the isotopic composition of water in a river basin considering the processes that processes basin considering that the in a river of water composition isotopic model predicts the ISOSCAPE first the fractionation For affect in a Geographic ISOSCAPE, Information time, using the System. isotopic the river processes operating understand in a large hydrological are the used to isotopes in water spatial variations melt glacier Ganga river, of the upper stretch in the although that The study basin. suggests Ganga the basin like an important especially rainfall, plays contribution climate, is important, role. stretch middle and lower the in a significantly lower the higher contribution compared to makes groundwater middle stretch, in the Additionally, future flow of the will regulate understand which factors a platform the to This studyprovides and upper stretch. Journal of Hydrology issue of the (https:// April 2019 in the has been published This work Ganga. our national river ). doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.044 in variations has established lateral Bhattacharyya Kathakali Dr. The Structural Geology research group led by basin, Thrust Lesser Himalayan of the (MHT) ramp, initial width Main Himalayan location and height of footwall belt fold-and-thrust structural in the in Sikkim Himalayan variation resulted have rampand presence to of a lateral also characterized issue of Journal have of Structural They Geology 2018 May is published in the (FTB). This work Main Boundary of the of fractures far-eastern dolomite Buxa in the from the thrust (MBT) sheet evolution the FTB. The early be prefolding formed low- to Arunachal Himalayan fractures areand moderate-angle interpreted formed fractures high-angle have shortening are inferred to structures, dominant late-stage while the layer-parallel fractureof plots Cumulative wedge. orogenic deformation progressive the of tracking the folding, to synchronous is best described parameter this that from microscope outcrops reveal and under the collected spacing values coefficients the of scale-independence of fracture spacing. However, indicate distributions that power-law by variation The research group led by researchThe group by led perturbations to the atmospheric system and resultant feedbacks, with a special focus on the effects on the focus a special with of aerosols, resultant and feedbacks, perturbations atmospheric system the to groupuse of this monsoon. Researchers Indian summer and the forcing on climate factors trace other and gases processes ranging from nano to an array of observational, investigate to approaches and modelling experimental group reflects this interdisciplinary within the research of scales. The diversity interests macro/synoptic character fieldof the Sciences. of Environmental Earth Surface Processes processes operating near-surface in the Such The primary environment. investigate group is to of this focus and atmosphere during biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, the between interaction processes the encompass and deep time. The members group try of this Recent understand and reconstruct to as processes such the perturbation combining and erosion, ocean circulation, sediment deposition, by climatic and tectonic weathering effect the of field group The evaluates also tools. and lab-based observations, and geochronological geochemical of marine terrestrial and a fauna using composition and ocean and evolution ecology processes on the above the approach. and paleontological neontological combination of experimental, Journal of Structural Geology. issue of Journal of Structural March 2019 first has established the Sarkar Sayantan Dr. ChemistryThe Atmospheric Group led by Change and Climate of aerosol Using a dataset Kolkata. megacity record sourceslong-term over of fine aerosol load and its potential aerosol that shown was it satellite, TERRA from onboardMODIS the 2001-2017 spanning (AOD) depth optical results Coupling these years. past 17 the and significantly increasedconsistently over have Kolkata loads over trajectories, air mass backward MERRA-2 from the and clustered AOD system reanalysis speciated chemically with plant sourcedfrom thermal aerosol sulfate power by predominantly is driven rise in AOD this that shown it was as Jharkhand, such Chhattisgarh, and Odisha, and from central residential biofuel use in the in states clusters transported Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin. Long-range Plain (IGP) and the carbonaceous Indo-Gangetic and eastern especially during post-harvest agricultural residue burning during aerosol central from the and northwestern IGP, study this Overall, Kolkata. over aerosol levels substantially to contribute to also found post-monsoon, was the and is is non-local identified first the for a considerable time that fraction Kolkata of fine mode aerosol over for policy management quality air integrated an have atmosphericallytransported,need to reinforcing the thereby (https://doi. Environment issue of Atmospheric July 2019 has been published in the IGP as a whole. This work the ). org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.04.031 first also published the Sarkar Sayantan Dr. Chemistry GroupThe Atmospheric led by Change and Climate studies spanning 2002-2018, 140 more than carbon (BC) aerosol in India. Covering black of review comprehensive in India, identified under baseline conditions across land-use categories various summarized BC levels review this existing high BC, and critically evaluated leading to conditions and emission anomalous environmental several efforts region. The study put forward in this forcing recommendations in BC climate at characterizing several • • Research Highlights Research • • •

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 26 and BS-MS students alsopresentedand BS-MSstudents their work inaposter session. various from Geoscientists, Institutes of India, presented their work research and interacted with The students. Ph.D. Day, hasorganized its7th AnnualDepartment The Department Convergence, on16th distinguished where February, DayDepartment • • • • • Invited Lectures University, USA), to nameafew. Dey (IITGandhinagar); Dr. OceanandAtmospheric State Science,Florida ofEarth, Karmakar Nirupam (Department Mainz, Germany); Dr. of Geosciences, National Taiwan Jih-Pai Lin(Department University, Taiwan); Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh(IndianInstituteProsenjit ofScience,Bangalore); Dr. Chinmay Mallik(MaxPlanck Institute for Chemistry, talks. ofspeakers Thelist includesDr. SumitMukhopadhyay (Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkley, USA); Dr. speakers where organized 7seminars, reputed from The Department institutes/centres delivered inIndia/abroad Seminars andSymposiums Seminars • nanometers) to inhigherIEPscompared result samples reference (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2017.12.004). onthe of (roughness and found order that exhibit atomically lower smooth surfaces IEPs,whilerougher surfaces ofSapphire-C chemistry the the applied research, work fundamental hasbeendoneto the surface understand doseofultravioletdefinite (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2019.01.049 (UV)radiation ). Inadditionto at the IndianNational ScienceAcademy, New Delhi,10-11th September, 2018. “Rejuvenating IndianPalaeontology andEstablishment ofNational Museum”-by Dr. Earth Devapriya Chattopadhyay of collection-based museums in promoting role MeetThe vital Brainstorming education and research. on Kolkata, 29th October, 2018. Science”- by Dr. Devapriya Chattopadhyay ofGeologicalSciences,Jadavpur University, atthe Department 2: Developing paleoecologic insight”, analogues in Paleontological utility of modern “The 1: Understanding research: Part taphonomic and Part processes IndianNationalConsultation, ScienceAcademy, New 2019. Delhi,1-2nd April, (TIME)”-by Dr.“My visionofTheIndianMuseumEarth Devapriya Chattopadhyay atthe TIMEInternational (LOAInteraction, Processes GasesandCoastal Greenhouse 2018) Workshop atIISERKolkata on28th July2018. halocarbons”- by of troposphere Dr. apportionment “Source Sayantan Sarkar atthe Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Sciences,University on26March2019. ofCalcutta ofMarine Department delivered by Dr. Tarun Research andEstuarine K.Dalaiatthe ofMarine Areas organized seminaronEmerging at An invited estuarine on“The lecture cycling ofmetals andisotopes: the andglobal regional perspective” was was alsochecked andfound to be97.54% to beingcomparable TiO in3hours commercial was phaserutile abilityfor synthesizedpure malachite anditsdegradation oxalate green dye, (MG),ahazardous (49.5 mg/g) ofthe synthesized material (https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ra00742chigh removal efficiency ). Also,a solutions. Thenanocomposite removal fast shows ofthe (>90%within contaminant avery 5minutes) with very aluminumnanocomposite amorphous that canbeappliedforsupported the removal aqueous ofCr(VI)from The Environmental ledby nanosciencegroup Dr. Gopala Krishna Darbhawere successfulto develop aclay one ofthe downloaded most Atmospheric Research articles. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.12.002 hasconsistently featured as ). Sinceitspublication,this article light-absorbing organicThiswork aerosol. hasbeenpublishedinthe 2019 April issueofAtmospheric Research for andprospects coupledchemical-optical characterizationmixing andquantitative of apportionment, source terms network ofenhancingBCmeasurement coverage, to BCaerosol the understand needfor targeted efforts Inter-disciplinary Refresher Course on “Modern Methods in Earth System Methods Refresher on “Modern Inter-disciplinary in Earth Course 2 when irradiated with whenirradiated a 27 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees 40.5 laks 230 lakhs Sanctioned Sanctioned Amount (Rs.) Duration 2019-2020 2019-2020 (extendable till 2022) 2019-2021 2018-2021 Sponsoring Agency Sponsoring National Centre for Polar Polar Centre for National and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth of India Sciences, Govt. Science and Engineering Board (SERB), Research of India Government Science and Engineering Board (SERB), Research of India Government Petrology teaching lab of the Department of Earth Sciences Principal Principal Investigator Dr. Sayantan Sayantan Dr. Sarkar Devapriya Dr. Chattopadhyay Prof. Prasanta Sanyal Title Brown carbon and HULIS in the Arctic carbon and HULIS in the Brown and interaction The nature of biotic community structure of marine molluscs regional environmental as a response to triggers in a tropicalisland ecosystem Decoding the late Quaternary late Decoding the track of plain and Gangetic Indian monsoon in the and fluvial vegetation its control on the approach. a multi-proxy patterns: of The Abdus Salam International Centre for (2019-2024) Associate Regular has become the Mitra Supriyo Prof. Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. programme International under the Exchange Bilateral INSA the for has been selected Mitra Supriyo Prof. research. collaborative for (GFZ Potsdam) visit Germany to programme 2018 Collaboration/Exchange (ERI), Institute Research Earthquake at the (2019) visiting professor as the has been selected Mitra Supriyo Prof. Japan. of Tokyo, The University participate Indian Arctic Expedition in the to (PI) has been selected Sarkar Sayantan Dr. The research group led by National the has been funded by Arctic”. This work carbon and HULIS in the a project “Brown for 2019-2020 (NCPOR), Ministry and Ocean Research Polar Centre for of Earth of India. Sciences, Government Petrology teaching lab: The Department teaching of EarthPetrology lab teaching petrology the Sciences has augmented microscopes in petrological new procuring eleven by primarily be used microscopes, to One of the 2018. live The capability. imaging has instructor, the by TV on a 55 inch can be projected image screen for the demonstration microscope to of objects under the conduct instructors to entirethe enable will This class. practical more students at a time. classes with High-Performance Chromatography Liquid Rotary Evaporator Masterflex Pump Peristaltic centrifuge High-speed refrigerated system digestion Microwave Ball Mill 1. 2. 3. Sl. No. Award and Honours Award • • • • • • • • • • • Facilities Created Facilities Projects National Agencies funded by

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 28 • • • • • • • Students’ Achievements • • • • Kharagpur (26th February -2ndMarch 2019). (26th February Kharagpur on climate change Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation: (CCIVA), Emphasis onIndiaandNeighbourhood IIT Mr. Mohanty(5th-year Sarthak category. 4-7 December 2018.Pradesh, She has been selected for the posterbest award presentation in the student workher research atthe 55th AnnualConvention ofIGUheldatRabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal,Madhya Ms. Pousali Mukherjee (5th-year the BS-MS)hasreceived from IndianGeophysical agrant Union (IGU)to present Conference ofthe IndianAerosol ScienceandTechnology Association (IASTA 2018) heldatIITDelhi. Mr. Rawat Prashant (5th-year Rana BS-MS)andMs.Archita (iPh.D)have presented their work research atthe Institute ofTropical Meteorology (IITM),Pune,India. international workshop on“clouddynamics,microphysics, andsmall-scalesimulation(IWCDMS 2018)” atIndian Mr. Rawat Prashant (5th-year BS-MS) Ranaand Ms. Archita (iPh. D) has received to the in the grant participate atthe Assembly General strain GeosciencesUnion(2018) ofEuropean constructional Austria. atVienna, conventional analysis andanisotropy strain ofmagnetic susceptibility (AMS)to orogen-parallel address Mr. Jyoti Das (Ph. D) has received Prasad the CSIR Foreign Travel to Grant his work present on integrating Lanzarote, Spain. of Microplastics: Knowledge, Actions andSolution”that took place19th-23rd November 2018 inArrecife, ofScienceandTechnology,Department in“MICRO Government 2018 ofIndiafor participating Fate andImpact Ms. NishaSingh(Ph.D)hasbeenawarded atravel by grant the Research ScienceandEngineering (SERB), Board Environmental Conference (NEC-2019) heldon31st 2019 –2ndFebruary January atIITBombay. Mr. NitinKumar Khandelwal (iPh.D)hasreceivedtravel andstudent presentation the oral best award atNational Prof. Dasgupta Somnath hasbeenawarded the Wadia Medalby the IndianNational ScienceAcademy (INSA). Institute ofPaleosciences for three years. Dr. Tarun K.Dalaihasbeennominated Council(RAC) asamemberofthe Research ofBirbalSahni andAdvisory isotope ofthe ofheavy tracers release metals inthe Ganga (Hoogly) River Estuary”. (GCRF) England entitled“Sustainable for project aresearch water management inurbanizedLower Bengal: novel and Dr. (IIScBangalore) hasreceived SambuddhaMishra the fundingfrom GlobalChallenge Research Fund An Internationalledby Group (Cambridge HelenWilliams University, Prof. UK),Dr. Tarun K.Dalai(IISERKolkata), Kolkata. (SERB), Government ofIndiato set upaNational atIISER onIsotope facility EnabledOrganic Geochemistry Prof. Prasanta Sanyal has received thefunding (INR 2.30 lakhs) from Research Science and Engineering Board

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(from 30-07-2018) (from 01-01-2019) (from 14-06-2018) (from 19-12-2018) Grade–II : Borah, Kajaljyoti Borah, Kajaljyoti Swastika Chatterjee, Darbha, Gopala Krishna Kumar Mandal, Sanjay Sayantan Sarkar, Tapabrato Sarkar, Assistant ProfessorAssistant Grade–I Assistant Professor Shukla, Gaurav

(from 26-10-2018) (from 18-06-2018) (from 21-06-2018)

Associate Professor List of Members: Faculty Professor Bhattacharyya, Kathakali Bhattacharyya, Kathakali Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Kumar Dalai, Tarun Sukanta Dey, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Sujata Ray, Mitra, Supriyo Mitra, Supriyo Prasanta Sanyal,

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 30 faculty positions in premier institutes positionsinpremier faculty such asIITKharagpur, IITBhilaiand NITRourkela. their placesnow. inpremier career Sciences, allpursuing andtwo OnePhDstudent found ofourpostdocs regular As for three students, graduated PhDstudents year, last andtwelve completed students Masters inMathematical andSensitivityAnalysis ofComplex Quantification December3-14, Models”during Methods for Uncertainty 2018. with Indo-Frenchcollaboration for Centre AppliedMathematics (IFCAM), also organized aWinter School on“Stochastic givenfour series lecture by senior mathematicians ofinternational in repute. butnot Last the least, department, were year. heldlast seminars thirty continueditsweekly Around seminarseries. The Department We alsoorganized Sciences, Bangalore for the 2018-2021, period to mentionbutafew. becameanAssociatewith Dr. other ofthe IndianAcademy mathematics Chakraborty departments. of Anirvan note twelve hosts atthe moment.Thisisonthe extra-mural grants that highersidewhencompared the department have to members Our faculty Itisgratifying continuedtheir qualitywork journals. research andpublishedinpremier has given teaching ourcore missionamajor andresearch boost. and PDE. Their presence an algebraist, Sayon theory of probability workanalyst in the and Imran is interface harmonic working Zinna is is a statistician on high-dimensional data, Soumya professors. assistant is a number theorist, Anirvan Dr. HabibBiswas Imran have year. joineduslast joinedasanassociate Imran professor whilethe other four joinedas Five Dr. new members, faculty Dr. Chakraborty, Anirvan Sayan Bagchi, Dr. Md.AliZinna, Dr. and Soumya Bhattacharya andtwostudents secretary. Post-doctoral fellows, andadepartmental student, oneproject Integrated MS, eightIntegrated ten PhDstudents, forty-one PhD members, faculty andonecontractual regular hascontinueditsgrowth andevolution The department inseveral ofthirteen comprising andpresently directions Teaching andResearch MathematicsandStatistics of Department 31 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Assistant ProfessorAssistant Grade–II Behera, Ratikanta

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Saugata Bandyopadhyay, Anirban Banerjee, Imran Habib Biswas, Subrata Shyam Roy, Bagchi, Sayan Sayan Bagchi, Basu, Somnath Bhattacharya, Soumya Shibananda Biswas, Chakraborty, Anirvan Choudhury, Utsav ShirshenduChowdhury, Das, Koel Datta, Swarnendu Dutta, Rajib Gorai, Sushil Satyaki Mazumder, Zinna, Md. Ali Assistant Professor Grade–I Associate Professor List of Members: Faculty Professor Nanda, Asok Kumar Asok Kumar Nanda,

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 32 eateto Physical Sciences of Department for itsmembers. Mathematical andComputationalBiology. computational facility alsoinducted DPShasrecently ahigh-performance of excellence. Theseincludethe ofExcellence Centre in SpaceSciences,India(CESSI)andthe National Network for Over studies. the years, have DPSfaculties transport alsocontributedelectrical to the oftwo creation other centres anvil cell (LHDAC) and to the study changes of materials in situ using in Ramanphysical Spectroscopy and properties that hasfacilities hightemperaturescentre allow usinglaser-heated achieving andvery megabar pressures diamond StudiesPressure (NCHPS) thatis a specialised facility operates under the created of DPS. This recently umbrella Femtosecond amplifier, Atomic Force Microscopy andmany others. Additionally, the National for Centre High- design velocity mapImagingSpectrometer, multimodalspectroscopy andimagingsystem, Femtosecond oscillator, toDPS isahost several such and facilities Micro-Raman as high-endinstruments Spectrometer, SQUID, custom 39 integrated Ph.Dstudents. and56regular Ph.D(I.Ph.D)students, quantum processing, computation and mathematical physics.information At DPShas27 present, members, faculty gravitation andcosmology, physics, highenergy atomic andmolecularphysics, non-lineardynamics,quantum matterscience, biophysics, physics, soft complex systems, light-matter interaction, astrophysics, spacescience, both experimental and theoretical Thetopics fronts. covered currently includecondensedmatter physics andmaterial The rangeadvanced conducted ofresearch courses. by matches DPSfaculty spansanimpressive variety oftopics on in achieving the balancebetween right the coverage variety andaformidable of baseofbasiccourses ofabroad ismade andlaboratories spanningvariousofthe branches effort Physical courses oflecture program sciences. Every teaching amongthe communitywithin DPSprovides Indiaandabroad. quality educationthrough anextensive and Research (IISER)Kolkata hastaken ofexcellence highstandards inestablishing strides rapid and inresearch ofPhysicalSince itsinception Sciences(DPS)atthe in2006,the IndianInstitute Department ofScienceEducation Teaching andResearch

33 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees year, we celebrated the 10th year of the existence of DPS with a three day celebration. The event included lecturesincluded celebration. event The day three a with DPS of existence the of year 10th the celebrated we year, Experimental setup for absolute dissociative electron attachment cross section measurements in electron phase molecules of collisions with gas interest This short presentations and posters by as several as well talks branches eminent colleagues from various of physics, by Choudhury included Pratap Roy (TIFR), Debashish Chaudhuri (IOP), Arnab speakers Ph.D students of DPS. The invited and A. (JNCASR) N. S. Vidhyadhiraja Ghosh (IIT Kanpur), Labs, Delhi), Ambarish Ghosh (IISc), Saikat (TCS Chatterjee DPS faculty members Sourin Das, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, C. Mitra, N. Ghosh, A. Banerjee De (SINP). In December 2018, Quantum Information on Science at IISER Asia Pacific the and Workshop organized Conference and N. Kamaraju Traveling of America (OSA) Society Optical several In addition, DPS faculty member Nirmalya Ghosh hosted Kolkata. Vitkin (Department Ireland), Prof. I. Alex of Galway, NUI Prof. MartinLectures by (Chair of Applied Physics, J. Leahy Canada) and Prof. Olivier Martin of Technology, (Swiss Federal Institute of Toronto, University Medical Biophysics, Lausanne (EPFL)). The department also runs a vibrant seminar program, hosting leading experts fields in various of Diptiman were past during year visitors the noteworthy as abroad on a regular from basis. A few well India as physics Dilip Angom (PRL), Sumilan Banerjee Puri (JNU), Subir Das (JNCASR), (Warwick), Sanjay Roemer Sen (IISc), Rudolf Das (IISc). and Anindya Dhara (IIT KGP) (IISc), Sajal have as some of them of our PhD and IPh D students. Even research achievements highlight the are proud to We presentations at delivered have others journals, international papers several published single-author in respected India offers institutions within as received in respected well as conferences international fellowships of post-doctoral been recipients of DPS faculty members research. have Several doctoral of their completion and abroad upon the Professorship Award), including Amit Ghosal (APS-IUSSTF course last year, the of the visiting professorships over (Wenner- Nandi of Warwick, University UK) and Dibyendu Fellow, Residential Study of Advanced Sourin Das (Institute Laxminarayana the also received Nandi Dibyendu Sweden). Physics, Gren of Theoretical Professorship, Nordic Institute this funding received extramural A noteworthy year. of India this Astronomical Society Modali Award, & Nagalaxmi superconductivity. grant research on novel for SPARC Amit Ghosal’s was year

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 34 • • • • Student Achievements • • • &WorkshopsConferences &Lectures Santanu PalSantanu hasreceived apost-doctoral ofPhysics fellowship atIIT-Mumbai. atthe Department ChinaandIndia. from Sumit Mukherjee hasbeenawarded PBCfellowship the Israeli prestigious for post-doctoral outstanding researchers Germany. Prateek Verma apost-doctoral fellowship was atthe Biology, offered MaxPlanck Institute for Evolutionary Plon, on Dissociative Attachment Electron 10-13th Prague, 2018. April was measurements”, attachment cross-section selected asahot topic International Workshop in3rd presentation on“A Presentation Dipayan massspectrometer new Chakraborty: timeofflight for absolute dissociative electron Institute ofTechnology, Lausanne(EPFL). ofMedicalBiophysics, University ofToronto, (Department Vitkin (Swiss Federal OlivierMartin Canada)andProf. J.Leahy (ChairofAppliedPhysics,(Organised by Martin Ghosh):Prof. Nirmalya NUIGalway, I.Alex Prof. Ireland), Optical Society (OSA) ofAmerica Traveling mentor asfaculty Lectures ofthe OSA chapter student ofIISERKolkata DPS@10: TheConference to celebrate 10 23-25,2019 February years ofDPSduring atIISERKolkata. Banerjee Kamaraju). andN. Ghosh,A. N. (Organised C.Mitra, K.Panigrahi, by Das,Prasanta Sourin Conference andWorkshopAsia Pacific ScienceDecember19-23, onQuantumInformation 2018, atIISERKolkata

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Assistant ProfessorAssistant Grade–I De, Rumi Lal, Siddhartha Mitra, Partha Kamaraju Natarajan, (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018) (from 09-10-2018)

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Bansal, Bhavtosh Bansal, Bhavtosh Bhattacharyya, Rangeet Ananda Dasgupta, Das, Sourin Ghosh, Anandamohan Hossain, Golam Mortuza Arindam Kundargrami, Dhananjay Nandi, Satyabrata Raj, Kumar Singh, Ritesh Sinha, Subhasis Supratim Sengupta, Associate Professor Professor List of Members: Faculty Professor Banerjee, Narayan Narayan Banerjee, Soumitro Banerjee, Panigrahi, Prasanta Kumar Banerjee, Ayan Ayan Banerjee, Ghosal, Amit Ghosh, Nirmalya Goutam Dev Mukherjee, Mitra, Chiranjib Dibyendu Nandi, Kumble Rajesh Nayak, Bipul Pal,

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 36 Centre for Interdisciplinary Science 2 books, 16 16 2 books, applications. He has co-authored versatile journal 600 more 14 than papers, edited chapters, book Currently he 50 patents. and obtained more than books, Prof. Gogotsi 2018, In Nano. ACS of Editor is Associate researchers research with 17 among one of the is listed category Prize class of Nobel by under Physics of the Analytics. Clarivate Institute Organized CAFM 25 February 2019: K. Pillai Vijayamohanan Professor by Colloquium entitled Colloquium Institute the organized CAFM Materials Engineered Two-dimensional “Heteroatom Vijayamohanan Professor by Quantum Dots” and their CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi, K. Pillai, Former Director, flag chief bearers Pillai is one of the India. Professor of areas of in many electrochemistry worked country. in the 07 December 2018: CAFM Organized Institute Institute Organized CAFM December 2018: 07 Gogotsi Yury Professor by Colloquium entitled “Two- Colloquium Institute the organized CAFM Enable Nitridesand Carbides Dimensional (MXenes) who is one of Gogotsi Prof. Yury by Technologies” New leaders global the of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Chair M. Bach and Ruth is Charles T. Gogotsi Prof. Yury of Professor and DistinguishedProfessor University University Science and Engineering at Drexel Materials in Philadelphia, USA. serves He also Director as a is He Institute. Nanomaterials A.J.the of Drexel scientist on carbon nanomaterials, renowned world energy, for nanomaterials supercapacitors, batteries, leading a was He applications. biomedical and water family of a new discovered that team member of the with carbides and nitrides — MXenes two-dimensional Events The Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) at IISER Kolkata was established on 01 August 2016 and has 2016 August established on 01 was Kolkata at IISER (CAFM) Materials Functional Advanced The Centre for interdisciplinarycollaborative, technological and science foster research in the education and to mission special a the and soft solid state on nanoscience and nanotechnology, an emphasis With applications of advanced materials. polymer and supramolecular materials; solar cells; fuel cells; strongly correlated include hybrid research areas of CAFM research towards advanced foster to coordinates remediation. CAFM environmental delivery for materials vehicles; of smartsynthesis structure-property materials, applications. Apart fabrication and cutting-edge elucidation, device technology promotes CAFM researchersfrom establishing and outside IISER Kolkata, collaboration within between BS-MS, research training The faculty provide members to and devices. of CAFM materials transfer of developed and conduct interdisciplinary fellows, IPhD students, PhD scholars and postdoctoral courses functional on advanced materials. About the Centre Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) Materials Functional Centre for Advanced

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 38 Infectious diseases Implications in neurodegenerative disorder, Cancerand TargetingTitle: of molecules therapeutic in brain: Institute, Lucknow, India Bangalore and Director, research Drug CSIR-Central CAFM Seminarby Tapas Prof. K.Kundu, JNCASR 14 September 2018 Innovation andtheir Applications AdvanceTitle: Technologies for Materials Discovery, State University, USA CAFM Seminarby Visitor’s Dr. Florida Pakhira, Simanta 17 June2018 Bond Synthesis -S) Catalysis inC-X(X=-O,-N, Supramolecular Title: India CAFM Seminarby Dr. Mal, NISERBhubaneswar, Prasenjit 21 May 2018 Resistance ofDrug Era Biomaterials Engineering andAntibacterialsTitle: inthe India CAFM Seminarby Dr. Jayanta Haldar, JNCASR, Bangalore, 19 April 2018 Nanoprobes for CancerManagement SERS- andTheranostic ofDiagnostic Exploration Title: CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India CAFM Seminarby Visitor’s Dr. Kaustabh Kumar Maiti, 17 April 2018 Protein Membrane Probing Structures asaNew Tool LipidEncasedNanoparticles Title: for CAFM Seminarby Sudipta Prof. Maiti, TIFRMumbai,India 09 April 2018 Seminars Institute, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. Electrochemical Research atCSIR-Central Scientist 2015 2016. to February anOutstanding Heisatpresent additional charge asDirector, June Punefrom CSIR-NCL, 2012 (April of CSIR-CECRI –October 2018), heheldthe Materials Electrochemistry. Inadditionto beingDirector in whileadvisingabout20Ph.D.students Chemistry, innovations andMaterials inboth Electrochemistry over 250publicationsand20patents related to many National ChemicalLaboratory, Pune.Hehasauthored for abouttwo decades at the and bio-electrochemistry electrochemical power electrochemical sensors sources, Title: Pyroelectric Magnets: Pyroelectric ANewTitle: ClassofMultiferroics Bangalore, India JNCASRCAFM Sundaresan, Seminarby A. Prof. 25 March 2019 Future Challenges Diseases: OngoingResearch and inmy Laboratory Nanomedicine forTitle: the Future Treatment ofVarious India CAFM Seminarby Dr. IICT Hyderabad, Patra, Chittaranjan 07 March 2019 Developmentfor Drug SeeingisBelieving:Title: MolecularImagingStrategies CadenzaMed LLC, USA CAFM Seminarby Dr. K.Sarkar, Susanta 13 2019 February Dichalcogenides ChargeTransition from Title: Extraction Metal CAFM Seminarby, IIT Delhi,India Sameer Sapra Prof. 201906 February their Heterostructures DesignandFunctionalizationTitle: of2DMaterials and IACSformerly Kolkata, India CAFM Seminarby G.P. Prof. and Das, IITKharagpur 24 2019 January and students from IISERKolkata. from and students were lectures stimulating attended by members faculty The research”. of impedance spectroscopy for battery and“Applicationand abusesofcyclic voltammetry” 2019.25-26 February Thetopics consisted of“Uses Director,Former Karaikudi, CSIR-CECRI, Indiaduring Vijayamohanan and Scientist K.Pillai,Outstanding delivered of2lectures consisting by Professor CAFM onElectrochemistry organized Series aLecture Electrochemistry 2019:25-26 February Lecture Series on President, President, 39 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees of Dr. Quazi Arif Islam N-PDF of Dr. Bhattacharyya Sayan PI: Dr. Agency: DST-SERB Funding Amount:Funding Rs. 4,00,000.00 PDF/2016/001801 Number: Reference – February 2019 March 2017 Status: Spring 2018 Spring Autumn 2018 Autumn of Dr. Anima Ghosh N-PDF of Dr. Bhattacharyya Sayan PI: Dr. Agency: DST-SERB Funding Amount:Funding Rs. 6,00,000.00 PDF/2016/001650 Number: Reference July 2017 – June 2019 Status: 17RS064 Rohan Chowdhury Rohan Priyadarsi De) (Supervisor: Dr. 17RS064 18RS060 Swagata Mandal (Supervisor: Swagata Prof. Priyadarsi De) 18RS060 18RS052 Subhasish Sahoo (Supervisor: Subhasish Sahoo Prof. Priyadarsi18RS052 De) 18RS046 Surajit Mondal (Supervisor: Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya) Sayan Mondal (Supervisor: Surajit Dr. 18RS046 18RS041 Vishwadeepa Hazra (Supervisor: Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya) Sayan Hazra Vishwadeepa (Supervisor: Dr. 18RS041 PI: Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya Sayan PI: Dr. Agency: DST-SERB Funding Amount:Funding Rs. 65,83,280.00 EMR/2016/001703 Number: Reference – Present December 2016 Status: Felicitation ofFelicitation Director, by Professor 2018 IISER Kolkata on 07 December Institute Colloquium Speaker Sourav Gogotsi, Professor Pal, Yury Ph.D. Students Associated with CAFM Ph.D. chemistry attract Ph.D. interviews students from broader and physics conducts its own disciplines of biology, to CAFM performto scientific research students in interdisciplinary are traditional boundaries. The selected areas beyond parent department under the supervisor. of their Ph.D. programmeenrolled in the of IISER Kolkata Externally Funded Projects

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 40 affiliated withCCEShasbeen commercializedandsuppliedtoVikramSarabhaiSpaceCentre, ISRO. in severalleadingpeer-reviewed journalsoverthelastyear.Aproductdevelopedby one ofthefacultycolleagues Workshop organizedbyHarvard Universitytonameafew.Facultycolleaguesaffiliated withCCEShavepublished Chemical andBiologicalSciences (ISCBC-2019),BestPaperandStudentTravelAward(NEC19), B4SyntheticBiology ResearchBiosphere Travel poster (IMBeR),Best Grant award at25th ISCB InternationalConferenceonTrendsin Japan GeosciencesUnion Travel GeosciencesUnion Travel (JpGU),European Grants (EGU),Integrated Grants Marine Microphysics andSmall-ScaleSimulation,2018 (IWCDMS2018), Geophysical American Union Travel (AGU), Grants have alsowon such recognition as the competitive to grants attend inInternational Workshop on CloudDynamics, and someofthe work ofsocietal relevance hasbeenextensively covered media.Many andelectronic inprint students andAtmosphericAward Sciencesto inthe ofEarth nameafew. area have for members patents Besides,faculty filed Organic Synthesis, Editorial MemberofEnvironmental Board Research Communications andSwarnaJayanti Fellowship Researchin Chemistry, Team Member of the Expedition (2019-2020), Indian Arctic Editorial Member of Current Board at the and Earthquakeinternationally Professorship such as Visiting Research Institute (Tokyo), Investigator Emerging Technical with CCEShave Research won Organization (NTRO). nationally affiliated recognitions members Thefaculty Research andIndustrial Research (CSIR)andNationalas ScienceandEngineering (SERB),CouncilofScientific Board Climate Change to Many Geohazards). ofthese workshops by andconferences were fundingagencies supported such for SymposiumSeismology andthe ofCentre Climate Inaugural andEnvironmental Earth: Studies (Understanding Interaction, Training Processes, Gases and Coastal Greenhouse on Advanced Program Methods of Computational for capacitybuildingnationallyandinternationally such asthe International Workshop onLand-Ocean-Atmosphere has beenactively involved aswell series asorganizing inorganizinglecture workshops regular andconferences ofsocietal projects relevance.Royal Moreover, (WJDécor)for undertaking Society UKaswell Industry asfrom CCES Research (IAEA),ScienceandEngineering Agency (SERB),World The Board Fund Wide for Nature-India (WWF-India), Sciences(MoES),International Atomic ofEarth Energy agencies nationallyandinternationally including Ministry environment, hydrology aswell asgeohazards. To date, CCEShasattracted several fundingfrom extramural funding wastewater on human health, climate on the in environment pollutants treatment, change and effect and its effects removal groundwater, andfluoride from issues such asarsenic cleanenergy, for effective cost intervention microbial Sciences with focus astrong onsocietal relevance. themes encompass environmental ofresearch Thecurrent inthe research ofGeologicalandEnvironmental to areas (DES) inorder strengthen collaborative andinterdisciplinary Sciences ofBiological Sciences (DBS),Chemical(DCS)andEarth together Departments from members faculty forCentre Climate andEnvironmental Studies (CCES)isoneofthe youngest ofIISERKolkata Centres andbrings About theCentre ClimateandEnvironmental Studies(CCES) for Centre 41 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 42 activities follow. mega-projects of nationalrelevance, ofthis year’s such asLIGOIndiaandthe Aditya-L1 SpaceMission.Asummary and globally, interactions inscope from with ranging school andcollege children, to management of andleadership receivedfaculty nationalandinternational awards andledcapacitybuildingactivities both andhonours within India the Sun’s activityandthe exploration ofourastrophysical Universe with gravitational waves. and CESSIstudents andpredicting focussingThis yearandconference proceedings onunderstanding papers CESSIpublished36research inthe spacesciences. public-privateinternational andnationalcapacitybuildingactivitiespursue partnerships forecasting capabilities,huntfor astrophysical gravitational waves, nationalspacescience initiatives, catalyze support systems facilitate the such asthe development onplanetary Earth, itsinfluence ofnationalspaceweatherunderstand ofHumanResource Development,the Government Ministry ofIndia.CESSI’s to aimsare explore the Sun’s activityand The Center ofExcellence Center inSpaceSciencesIndia(CESSI)isamulti-institutional atIISERKolkata by established About theCentre Excellence inSpaceSciencesIndia(CESSI) Center of 43 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees satellite mission lifetimes, the probabilitysatellite mission lifetimes, ofglobal climate over the next decade. influence on solar storm damage and the Sun’s The Sun’s activity controls our space environment. Dark magnetic spots on the Sun known as sunspots sometimes release magnetic storms vast The Sun’s that can above image) to predict the sunspot activity levels expected over the next decade. The prediction estimating would be useful for planning satellite launches, cripple satellite and wreak havoc have CESSI personnel with our space-reliant used computer simulations of technologies. magnetic fields (left of the Sun’s activities. academic their with connection in awards and grants travel international received students PhD CESSI SPIE for conducting outreach activities Amar Deo Chandra as Co-PI received an International Day of Light grant from for Union Geophysical American the of award travel student Hammond Max the received Bhowmik Prantika India. in received a student travel award for presenting her work at the 2018 Union meeting in the USA. Sanchita Pal also B. received a travel grant from the the 2018 American Geophysical Union meeting for presenting her work. Lekshmi Helicities in Theory and Observations: Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics in connection with the school on Solar BS-MS Integrated Sweden. in Stockholm, held was which Theory, Dynamo and Weather Space for Implications who did their MS thesis projects at students of the Department of Physical Sciences, Srijan Das and Rajashik Tarafder and Princeton University, respectively. CESSI were awarded prestigious PhD positions with full fellowship at Caltech Award. The award, constituted by the Dibyendu Nandi received the 2018 Laxminarayana and Nagalaxmi Modali normally not beyond 45 years of Astronomical Society of India recently, honours contributions made by scientists, Astrophysics, Planetary Sciences and age, with exceptional achievements and promise in the fields of Astronomy, at the Gren Visiting Professorship allied fields. Dibyendu Nandi was also nominated for, and received the Wenner Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stockholm for 2018-2019. Awards & Achievements & Achievements Awards Research Highlights Research prediction of out of CESSI recently come is the have scientific to far research implications reaching resultA major with Dibyendu and Bhowmik decade. Prantika next the over conditions space environment activity and expected Sun’s the field interior coupling magnetic Sun’s for modelling approach computational dynamics in the a novel developed Nandi and surfaceperform to first dynamo simulation of century-scale the data-driven Their simulations ever solar activity. (which of ensemble forecasting very technique the showed past observations. good agreement with also adapted They assess to model their in forecasts) CirculationGlobal and climate based Model meteorology in utilized widely been has sunspot that indicates forecast decade. The CESSI ensemble next the Sun over the of activity for possible range the of an imminent slide to no indication with solar cycle, previous the than be similar or slightly stronger 25 would cycle This rules out cycles. recent trend based on the in sunspot a grand activity as had been speculated in Sun’s minimum would space environment decade. This prediction of the next the over cooling possibility of Sun-induced global any of long- impacts of adverse mitigation and assist in the estimates life-time planning, satellite mission help in satellite Communications. Nature published in The research was paper space weather. term

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 44 ito Faculty Members: List of was inRajya aired andisavailablethe interview through itsonline channel. SabhaTV spoke with Rajya ofSolar andSpaceSciencesinthe nationalcontext; Eureka onthe importance Program SabhaTV’s 100around andtheir students teachers andwas delivered inthe localvernacular(Bengali andHindi).Dibyendu Nandi visited School three where talks Adhata Higher-Secondary were for arranged Thisevent students. was attended by was attended by 150 around school children, their teachers parents, andsomelocals.Promote Sciencealso primary Kolkata. Theevent show ofanaudio-visualtalk comprised followed by gazing astar sessionwith telescopes. Theevent outreach student wingPromote school, alocalschool nearIISER CESSI supported Sciencevisited Kantabele primary research. TheManagementBoardisplanningeffectivescientificutilizationofthefacilityandmonitoringprogress. being supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) as a national facility to carry out atmospheric inducted totheProjectManagementBoardofCalcuttaUniversity’sStratosphericTroposphericRadarFacilitywhichis instruments withthespacecraftareexpectedtohappenovercourseofnextyear.DibyenduNandihasbeen instruments selectedtoflyonboardIndian’sfirstsolarspacemissionAditya-L1.Finaltestingandintegrationofthese of development of the Variable Emission Line Coronagraph and the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope which are project forwhichsite-developmentworkhasbeeninitiated.SeveralCESSIfacultyareinvolvedinthefinalstages Rajesh KumbleNayakandTarunSouradeepareintimatelyinvolvedwiththeimplementation of theLIGOIndia India andthe Institute andManagement. ofEngineering and Astrophysics, the conference onMulti-messenger Astronomy ofLIGO-India,andworkshops inthe Era atTechno of Theoretical Physics, Workshop the India-UK Entrepreneurial on LIGO at the Inter-University for Centre Astronomy Institute of Advanced Studies (Indian Institute of Science), the InternationalUnion, the Astronomical Institute Nordic at diverse conferences andorganizations including the Workshop onSpaceSituationalAwareness atthe National UK Frontiers ofScienceSymposium heldatthe UKRoyal Society. were CESSIfaculty invited to deliver lectures (Tata Institute ofFundamental Research) Physics andorganization ofanAstronomy sessionatthe andParticle Indo- tutorial atthe lectures AnnualAstronomy for camp heldinHomiBhabhaCentre ScienceEducation Olympiad training and werestudents CESSI faculty involved in diverse outreach and capacity building activities this year. This included &CapacityBuildingActivitiesOutreach Instrumentation SpaceScience, Research Area: SolarObservations, ISRO Bengaluru K. Sankarasubramanian Instrumentation Research Observations, Area: Astronomical IUCAA Pune RamprakashA.N. , System Analysis Science,Computational Modelling andData Research Area: SolarAstrophysics, SpaceScience,Sun-Earth IISER Kolkata, PI Dibyendu Nandi Research Area: Optics, Polarimetry, Instrumentation IISER Kolkata Nirmalya Ghosh AnalysisData Space Science,SatelliteResearch Area: SolarObservations, IIA Bangalore Dipankar Banerjee Instrumentation Research Area: Optics, Spectroscopy, Precision IISER Kolkata Ayan Banerjee, Waves, Analysis ComputationalModellingandData ofRelativity,Research Theory Area: General Gravitational IISER Kolkata, Head Rajesh Kumble Nayak, Plasma Flows Research Area: Computational Astrophysics, Astrophysical IIT Indore Bhargav Vaidya AnalysisComputational Data SpaceScience, Research Area: SolarObservations, IUCAA Pune Durgesh Tripathi AnalysisScience, Computational ModellingandData Research System Area: SolarAstrophysics, Sun-Earth IISER Pune Prasad Subramanian Science, Satellite Analysis Data System Sun-Earth Research Area: SolarObservations, PRL Udaipur SolarObservatory, Nandita Srivastava Analysis Gravitational Waves, Computational ModellingandData Research ofRelativity, Area: Cosmology, Theory General IUCAA Pune Tarun Souradeep 45 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Experiments of Earth’s of composition are carried determination out for core. An orthorhombic phase of Fe-C-Si of Earth’s density satisfy the core. to seem alloy studiesare carried Interesting temperature High pressure and low out rare-earth and halide perovskites. oxide studies. structural, been observed electronic transitions and photoluminescence have from Raman • • Activities ofActivities Centre National CentreNational for High Pressure (NCHPS) Studies

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 46 Research and Development Report Consultancy 92% 3% International 5% Chart Title Chart National 229.18 lakhs. The Institute clearly performed better than the year 2017-18 in respectin 2017-18 clearly performed year Institute The lakhs. the than better 229.18 2327.28 lakhs and the number of ongoing consultancy projects has reached to 3 with 3 with consultancyof ongoing number projects to reached has the lakhs and 2327.28 ₹ ₹ Sanctioned amount of ongoing Projects/Schemes funded by National, International entities and Consultancies International National, funded by Sanctioned amount of ongoing Projects/Schemes The R&D projects have been sponsored by different been sponsored by The R&D projects Ministries have and Departments of India with Government of the support Ministrymajor from the received (DST), of Earth Sciences (MoES), Departments of Science and Technology Board Energy (DBT), Department (SERB), DepartmentScience and Engineering Research of Atomic of Biotechnology (ICMR), Indian Council of Scientific Medical Research Indian Council for (CSIR). and Industrial Research (DAE), from departments been received Agricultural ExtramuralCouncil for (ICAR). projects have of Government Research has garnered significant Institute the numbers of internationally Moreover, Bengal. Pradesh and West of Madhya funding has been received international supported Major globe. across research the projects from funding agencies has Institute the and addition In UK. Society Energy Agency Royal (IAEA), Atomic International like agencies fromthe Indo-German (IUSSTF), Forum Science and Extramuralalso received Projectsfrom Indo-US Science and Technology of Basic Foundation (GoI) – Russian (Department and DST-RFBR of Science and Technology Forum (IGSTF) Technology Research). Industries Oncology Pvt. Ltd., Unilever Pvt. Ltd., Invictus Mfg. ADO Additives been funded by Consultancy projects have of India, WJ Décor etc. Wildlife Trust Pvt. Ltd., Hi Media Consultancy, Funding from sponsoring agencies major During the year 2018-19, the Institute received sanction for 37 new sponsored projects/schemes with a total a total sponsored with projects/schemes new 37 for sanction received Institute the 2018-19, year During the of a sanctioned amount₹ 508.59 projects with faculty fellowship/award lakhs, 5 new of ₹1693.01 sanctioned amount a with 87 to reached has projects/schemes ongoing funded externally of number the 2019, March 31st on As lakhs. projects is 20 count of ongoing faculty fellowship/award cumulative lakhs, the sanctioned amount of ₹ 4764.77 total amount of sanctioned a with Overview of amount sanctioned total a IISER Kolkata aims to be among the leading Institutes for education and research in the country and research education in the for leading Institutes the be among its contribution with aims to IISER Kolkata science quality provide is to of IISER Kolkata The vision scientific of industrial and highest level endeavour. at the carry and undergraduate and to education both out researchin basic and frontier areas of science involving fundamental and emerging areas pursuit on the emphasis of both major has laid a student. The Institute postgraduate research application of its findings the as on of research, well as industrial for and social benefit. projects/ R&D at a rapid grown of new pace. Sanction have Institute activities at the and Development Research of R&D projects/schemes sanctioned amount lakhs and total ₹ 2182.17 is financial during 2018-19 schemes the year lakhs. is ₹ 8710.36 2018-19 year during the executed of receiving new projects/ schemes and overall execution of projects/ schemes in monetary of projects/ schemes terms. execution and overall projects/ schemes of receiving new

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 48 follows. ofmajorThe list projects/schemes sanctionedwith research sanctionedamountof₹ sanctionedduringtheyear projects/schemes majorresearch 2018-19 List of & Hospital. of Life SciencesandR.G.Kar Sciences,IITGuwahati, MedicalCollege West Bengal University ofAnimalandFishery have Projects In addition,Extramural beenreceived the where Institute willwork with BoseInstitute Kolkata, Institute College andNCLPune&Sir Parashurambhau inthisMadras, respect. ofScienceandTechnologysteered by MHRDandDepartment (DST). TheInstitute willcollaborate with IITBombay, IIT ofHumanResource(IMPRINT-2), Development anationalinitiative ofthe (MHRD)which isjointlyfundedand Ministry IISER Kolkata hasreceived two underthe extramural projects IMPacting Research, INnovation andTechnology set up. laboratory an amount of ₹ project, campus towards ‘development for research’. generation ofbasicandtranslational infra-structure ofshared For this components ofSystems Medicine.IISERKolkata’s isset role to develop ‘Animal astate-of-the art Facility’ inour of Biotechnology DBT, Govt. ofIndia.Themajor goalofthis isto project develop inter-institutional on cross-talk Systems ofScience&Technology, Medicine:Acceleration UsingaCluster fundedby Approach’ Ministry Department IISER Kolkata ofthe entitled‘Multi-dimensionalResearch project multiinstitutional to hasbecomeapart Enable Schemes: Multi InstitutionalProjects/ Inspire FacultyInspire Award systeminduced demyelination nervous ofthe central Role ofConnexin-47in axon-myelin interaction virus- during andmethane forarea molecularseparation storage colavent surface with organic ultrahigh frmaework membranes ofcolvent organic frameworks crystallization and Interfacial TransitionPrecious Metal Catalysed Hydrogenation Conversion ofCO2 into Acid Formic andMethanol UsingNon- Renewable Storage Energy andSustainable andProduction: Increasing ResilienceIncreasing to EarthquakeIndia inNorth patterns: amulti-proxyand fluvial approach monsoon inthe Gangetic onthe plainanditscontrol vegetation ofIndian track Decoding the late Quaternary induced microbubbles microlithography by directed self-assemblydriven by laser microcatalysis andbiosensingapplicationsusing electronics, Development for ofdiverse lab-on-a-chip plastic platform chemical for stability Methane Storage ofCOF materialBulk Synthesis with &discovery remarkable detectionstampering Roll-to-roll printed labelsfor electronic temperature, humidityand andcytotoxicitystability studies antimetastatic agents Synthesis, against characterization, cancer: Metal complexes ofligands designedto actasantiangiogenic and Project/ Scheme Title 10.46 has been sanctionedto Crores IISER Kolkata and of instruments for procurement Centre forCentre Advanced Functional Materials and Environmental Centre forCentre Climate Dept. ofBiological Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofPhysical Studies (CCES) Department/ Dept. of Earth Dept. ofEarth Dept. ofEarth Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences sciences sciences (CAFM) Centre Society UK The Royal Funding Agency WT-DBT IGSTF SERB SERB SERB SERB GAIL DST DST 50.00 lakhsandabove isas Sanctioned Amount (₹ inlakhs) 232.39 109.63 100.62 192.00 160.60 230.17 118.00 170.18 56.74 61.00 49 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees

85.00 lakhs) Maintenance of Equipment (total sanctioned (total Equipment of Maintenance lakhs) 85.00 ₹ 80 Tera Flops for the use of its members. It was inaugurated on 1st use of its members. inaugurated the It was Flops for 80 Tera ~ Super Computer at IISER Kolkata 22.00 lakhs) etc. Some of the the Some of sanctioned amount ₹ 22.00 lakhs) etc. (total expenses ₹ 78.50 lakhs), Relocation/Reinstallation January 2019 and it will help to solve various current research problems in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth current various research solve problems in Physics, and it will help to January 2019 science. amount are as follows. initiatives major joined faculty members newly This grant to has been provided FACILITY: OF RESEARCH CREATION GRANT FOR start kick enable them earliest. research facility establish Major at the in the in order research to activities by the facility’. grant purchased from this equipment becomes an ‘Institute supplement funding from External faculty members to to been provided grants Matching have GRANT: MATCHING shortfall procurement Grant.Non-Recurring under of equipments Agencies, of any in case Funding of fund towards INSA, IASc, faculty members who are grant Swarnajayanti, to 2 years for provides Institute GRANT: PERFORMANCE lakhs of ₹ 40.00 amount an year, this In BirlaB M and awards. Bhatnagar S S received have or TWASor Fellows NASI has been sanctioned as Performance Grant. Since EXTRAMURAL PROJECTS: OUT OF CLOSED PROCURED OF EQUIPMENT AMC/REPAIR FOR GRANTS supportsignificant decided to numbers are of equipments procured Institute out of Extramural the Project Funds, procured were out of closed Extramural and repair which of suitable equipments of annual maintenance in terms respect. sanctioned in this Projects. An amount of ₹ 30.83 lakhs was five departments the enable faculty members fund to has also provided in conducting to Institute In addition, the research and teaching. cutting-edge state-of-art has setup research departments facilities across all the IISER Kolkata FACILTIES: MAJORE RESEARCH IISER years. the research facilities over the and strength expand to generously has invested and centres. Institute with has established a supercomputer Kolkata Institute support for research activities: apart from funding procurement This year, years. the research has supported over activities the Institute generously fund towards has provided and establishment of state-of-the-art Institute and research facilities, equipments the amount sanctioned CentralCryogenand Gas (total CentresKolkata: at IISER (CESSI), National Space Sciences India in inter-disciplinary research centres, Centre namely Five of Excellence and Climate Centre for (CAFM), Materials Functional Advanced Centre (NCHPS), High Pressure for Centre for Studies 5 these of Out are Institute. in functioning Artificialfor (CFAI) Center and (CCES) Studies Environmental Intelligence the 3 centres are funded by MoES and other by is funded NCHPS MHRD-FAST, centres,mainly funded by CESSI is are also bringing which project extramural fund. Institute

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 50 Till 31stTill March2018, total 13 ofPatents numbers have andthe details given are beenfiled below Activities: (IP)Protection Intellectual Property Some ofthe major equipments Institute addedoraboutto issued)from fundsare: andproject beadded(PurchaseOrders No 13 12 11 Sl. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 y y y y y y y y y Dr. SanjioSZade y y y y y y y y y Prof. SwadhinK Prof. SwadhinK Prof. SwadhinK Prof. SwadhinK Prof. SwadhinK Patent filedby Prof. Debasish Dr. Soumyajit Dr. Rituparna Dr. Rituparna Shunmugam Shunmugam Shunmugam High Throughput andHighPrecision N Malvern MicroCal Advanced Spectral Confocal LaserScanningMicroscope Avance Neo 500MHzSpectrometer. Dell PowerEdge R540 Server PlasmonResonance (SPR) Surface VPlusIsotopeDelta Ratio MassSpectrometer SFM-3000/S Stopped Flow Mixer-200, MOS-200/MFast UV/VISSpectrometer Individually Ventilated AnimalCagingSystem Sinha Roy Sinha Roy Prof. Raja Prof. Raja Prof. Raja Mandal Mandal Mandal Mandal Mandal Haldar Roy Dept. ofBiological Dept. ofBiological Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Dept. ofChemical Department/ TM Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences -Isothermal Titration Calorimeter (ITC) Centre AND CANCERNANOTHERAPEUTICS SELF-ASSEMBLED LD-8PEPTIDESFORDRUGDELIVERY MATERIALS FORsiRNADELIVERY CATIONIC LIPOPEPTIDEBASEDNANOSCALE CATALYSTSPRODYOVIDHI REF.ISRK.0016.IN WITH OXIDATIONOFWATERUSING REDUCTION OFCARBONDIOXIDECOUPLED COMPLEXES, SYNTHESISANDAPPLICATIONSTHEREOF ABNORMAL N-HETEROCYCLICCARBENECOPPER (I) METHANOL CATALYTIC CONVERSIONOFCARBONDIOXIDETO DIOXIDE PROCESS FORPREPARINGMETHANOLFROMCARBON MOLECULAR MATERIAL PROTECTIVE, ANDFIRE-RETARDANTHYBRID POSS -APPENDEDDIPHENYLALANINE:POLLUTION- Revised Name:SENSORANDMETHODTHEREOF SENSOR ANDMETHODTHEREOF-ARSENIC THEREOF MOLECULE, ANDCADMIUMSENSORMETHOD Revised Name:SENSORANDMETHODTHEREOF SENSOR ANDMETHODTHEREOF COMPLEX, DEVICEANDMETHODTHEROF EFFECT TRANSISTORSRevisedName:METAL-ORGANIC METAL-ORGANIC COMPLEXESFOREFFICIENTFIELD METHOD OFSYNTHESISANDCOMPOSITETHEREOF CATALYST ANDCOMPOSITESTHEREOF METHOD OFSYNTHESISMOLECULESUSING 2 , CO 2 , H 2 andMethan absorption system Title ofPatent (TEMP/E-1/12251/ Patent Application 1042/KOL/2013 1310/KOL/2013 1066/KOL/2013 IB2017/056698 IB2014/066077 530/KOL/2015 219/KOL/2014 464/KOL/2013 463/KOL/2013 201731046166 201731040460 201631037090 201831011645 2018- KOL) PCT/ PCT/ No 51 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Amount (₹) Sanctioned 26,41,540.00 31,88,000.00 44,88,010.00 29,78,250.00 33,72,400.00 40,68,600.00 58,00,000.00 38,60,000.00 49,10,361.00 1,31,28,180.00 4,38,10,674.00 8,10,30,679.00 2,14,36,000.00 87,10,38,612.00 27,66,74,506.00 10,47,06,549.00 32,53,41,663.00 to Duration Total Sanctioned Amount (₹) Total 12.07.2020 19.10.2020 18.03.2019 26.11.2018 12.02.2021 29.06.2019 29.03.2020 13.07.2017 to 13.07.2017 27.11.2015 27.11.2015 20.10.2017 to 20.10.2017 01.04.2015 to 01.04.2015 19.03.2016 to 19.03.2016 13.02.2018 to 13.02.2018 30.03.2017 to 30.03.2017 30.06.2016 to 30.06.2016 by 30.06 .2018) by 31.03.2018 (Ext. 31.03.2018 DBT DBT SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB MoEF Agency Sponsoring Sponsoring Das Islam Islam Mahua Anindita Bhat Jayasri Jayasri Sarma Maulik Bhadra Mallick Mallick Debnath Amirul Amirul Principal Principal Dr. Dr. Dr. Manojit Dr. Dr. Dr. Investigator Dr. Anuradha Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Prof. Dr. Malancha Ta Malancha Dr. physiological stress physiological domestication Department/ Centre Ranging dogs in differentRanging Central India Title ischemia.like ischemia.like commensalism in chicken pathogenesis enteric enteric habitats – Testing the habitats – Testing Studying the mechanism of host mechanism the Studying adaptation by to strategies jejuni and developing Campylobacter control human Neuroprotective function of CD40 in Mouse Hepatitis Neuroprotective Virus induced central nervous infection system Fish community structure of diversity and patterns Vindhya of streams and un.impacted along impacted Satpura  hill ranges, and cytoxic for bacteria Bioprospecting of cyan from compounds special inhibitor and protease India Bengal, habitats of West in modulating gap junction and junction gap modulating in β of Amyloid. Role Alzheimer’s for function: Implication hemichannel disease mesenchymal Efficacy of umbilical cord. derived cells stem under Social tendencies of Free. of Free. Social tendencies Strategy for developing a safe and effective a safe control developing for Strategy live Influenza in chicken: Avian measure against approach based mucosal vaccine vector. conditions Hypothesis Department Sciences of Physical (CESSI) in Space Sciences India Centre of Excellence (CAFM) Materials Functional Advanced Centre for (CCES) Studies and Environmental Climate Centre for (₹) Total Department of Biological Sciences Department of Chemical Sciences Department of Earth Sciences Department and Statistics of Mathematics 7. 8. 6. 2. 3. 5. 4. 1. Sl. No. Sponsored Research Industry interaction Academia brought Extramural very Projects/Consultancies/ from have From Schemes beginning, members Institute of the Limited, WWF-India,Gunnebo India Private Bangalore, GE Global Research, like Non-Government/Industries various Mfg. Pvt. Ltd. etc. ADO Additives WJ Décor, India Limited, Hi-Media, Stone CDA-ICZMP, Oncology, Invictus Unilever, Industry with as interaction on emphasis funding as well boost the major in order to has given Institute the Still Agreements/ Industry. with collaboration/interaction needed much Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) have well as prominent beneficialbe Industrialwill with signed which been entities Institute research fraternity for the of various with signed agreements/MoUs have year, this In research infrastructurestrengthen will as Institute. the of Center Medical Tata Limited, Cipla Limited, Steel Tata Limited, India of Authority Gas prominentIndustrial like entities name a few. to Department ofSciences Biological Agencies Project Funded by National

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Sl. 9. ribosome. associatedribosome. bacterial GTPase protein CgtA Studies onthe mechanisms ofactionanessential Engineering improvedEngineering siRNA based Andhra Pradesh Andhra web dynamics:Acasefor Kakinada Bay and Coastal Shallow water benthic communitiesandfood. carbonic anhydrase Leishmaniamajor from Biochemical andfunctionalcharacterization ofalpha programme breeding re.stocking ofthe populationunderthe captive Park, West Bengal: potential following trajectory fulgens) panda(Ailurus red inSinghalilaNational assessmentof Population and speciessurvival Madhya Pradesh connectivity networks inPanna Landscape, scaleassessmentoftigerFine (Panthera tigris) Protein Libraries Hexakisphosphate (IP6) resistance to overcomefor siRNA delivery cancer physicallyHarnessing diverse nanoscalematerials biodiversity andbioresources of andmanagementframework for recovery forest in the Teesta valley ofthe SikkimHimalaya: A andlossofprimary the degradation Understanding oxygenicAssessment onniche specific for grain safe rice astepbioavailability ahead field: inrice ofarsenic Potential applicationofcyanobacteria to reduce adaptive resistance in breast cancer treatment. adaptive inbreast resistance nanotherapeutics for managing metastasis and photoautotrophic Forest Division Division andBasirhat [24. Reserve Biosphere Parganas (South) Forest that determine prey baseabundanceinSundarbans Study onFunctioning ofWestcoasts Bengal AlgalMonitoring Bloom(HAB)alongthe Harmful Conformational oogenesis cellsinDrosophila usingborder studies ATPase 3(Rpn3)incollective invivo cellmigration: the RoleUnderstanding Understanding theRole Understanding myo. of community Structure?” with for competition,growth anddefense important associated the eastern terai trade.offs inindia:Are palntspeciesof ingrassland constraints Life .history Genotoxic Stress byGene Expression Annexin A2inResponse to RNA Binding andPost.transcriptional Regulation of Investigating the andFunctional Structural Basis of biotic index basedmanagement proposal RiverBhagirathi.Hooghly basin water quality: a cell Migration In Drosophila oogensis InDrosophila cell Migration collective Investigating the ofInsulinsignalingin role Tyrosine Kinase in B. cell Signaling Tyrosine KinaseinB. Thermal Stability,Thermal Temperature Induces cell movement usingthe modelofBorder Switching andSelf.Assemblyin organisms for evaluation of ofbiologicalcommunities in the Regulation ofBruton’s Title of Regulatory particle non. particle of Regulatory Inositol combinatorial Prof. Prof. Prof.Punyasloke Prof PunyaslokeProf Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Neelanjana Dr. Rahul Das Dr. Rituparna Dr. Rituparna Pratim Datta Pratim Investigator Sarothi Ray Punyasloke Punyasloke Sinha Roy Sinha Roy Dr. Dr. Chandran Chandran Chandran Chandran Sengupta Principal Dr. Dr. Rupak Bhadury Bhadury Bhadury Bhadury Bhadury Robert Robert Robert Robert Robert Prasad Prasad Punyasloke Prof. Prof. Prof. Partho Partha Mohit Mohit Datta Jhon Jhon Jhon Jhon Biodiversity WWF India Sponsoring WB, DBT Agency Madhya Pradesh Pradesh NMHS WBZA Board MoES MoES SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB State DBT DBT DBT DST 23.02.2018 to 30.03.2019 to 22.03.2017 to 22.03.2017 to 08.06.2017 to 24.05.2016 to 12.08.2015 to 03.01.2018 to 31.03.2018 to 22.01.2019 to 27.09.2017 to 26.07.2016 to 23.12.2014 to 23.12.2016 to 12.07.2016 to 31.01.2018 to 27.01.2016 to 07.10.2017 to 31.05.2018) 29.03.2022 26.09.2020 30.03.2020 11.08.2019 22.02.2021 30.01.2020 21.03.2020 21.03.2020 06.06.2018 23.05.2019 07.06.2020 02.01.2021 21.01.2020 11.07.2019 26.07.2016 25.07.2019 22.12.2019 22.12.2019 Duration (Ext. by 50,22,000.00 46,00,000.00 55,00,000.00 48,55,800.00 28,36,000.00 43,03,800.00 36,55,800.00 44,24,000.00 91,59,800.00 23,37,000.00 40,13,000.00 35,60,577.00 24,47,680.00 15,18,500.00 79,21,100.00 23,11,200.00 11,13,000.00 Sanctioned 4,10,700.00 Amount (₹) 53 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees (₹) (₹) Amount (₹) Amount (₹) Amount 2,90,710.00 Sanctioned Sanctioned Sanctioned Amount (₹) Amount 43,87,800.00 39,82,100.00 Sanctioned 26,90,000.00 52,96,800.00 33,73,300.00 44,45,520.00 32,50,000.00 Sanctioned 1,70,18,602.00 3,51,12,814.00 38,72,000.00 3,50,20,260.00 10,45,65,000.00 Duration Duration Duration 14.04.2019 31.12.2023 30.09.2018 24.05.2021 Duration Duration 30.04.2022 18.12.2021 10.10.2021 27.03.2021 19.04.2021 04.06.2021 23.03.2020 15.04.2016 to 15.04.2016 01.10.2013 to 01.10.2013 01.05.2017 to 01.05.2017 11.08.2019 03.04.2021 25.05.2016 to 25.05.2016 01.01.2019 to to 01.01.2019 11.10.2018 to 11.10.2018 19.12.2018 to 19.12.2018 24.03.2017 to 24.03.2017 20.04.2018 to 20.04.2018 05.06.2018 to 05.06.2018 28.03.2018 to 28.03.2018 12.08.2016 to 12.08.2016 04.04.2017 to 04.04.2017 DBT DST DBT DBT IAEA SERB SERB SERB SERB WT DBT WT DBT WT DBT Agency Agency Agency) Agency Agency Sponsoring Sponsoring Sponsoring Sponsoring Sponsoring Sponsoring Sponsoring Sponsoring (International Atomic Energy Atomic Department Sinha Datta Sponsoring Agency/ Sponsoring DBT Department of Biological Sciences Arnab Datta Punyasloke Punyasloke Gupta Sanyal Annagiri Principal Principal Rupak Rupak Bidisha Principal Principal Principal Principal Dr. Dr. Principal Principal Sengupta Investigator Das Sarma Investigator Investigator Prof. Jayasri Prof. Jayasri Investigator Dr. Supratim Dr. Dr. Rahul Das Rahul Dr. Prof. Sumana Prof. Tapas K. Prof. Tapas Prof. Prasanta Dr. Arnab Gupta Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Bhadury (Co.PI: Dr. Sankar Maiti Sankar Dr. Dr.Mahua Maulik Dr.Mahua Prof. during to homeostasis of human cooper to Enable System Medicine: Enable System to Title Title Title Title Title membrane cell (Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Trust/DBT (Wellcome Fellowship) Ramalingaswami Fellowship Ramalingaswami Novel regulatory mechanisms Novel and CTR1 transporters ATP7B Role of Connexin.47in axon.myelin interaction interaction axon.myelin of Connexin.47in Role of the during virus.induced demyelination centralnervous system Understanding cell stretch Intermediate Nitrogen Pollution in Large in Large Pollution Nitrogen A System: River Case Study India Ganga, River in the Mechanistic Studies on Trafficking of human copper of on Trafficking Studies Mechanistic ATP7B ATPase Characterization and engineeringCharacterization of enzymes Accelerating using a Cluster Approach’ at Kalyani, West Approach’ at Kalyani, using a Cluster Accelerating (SyMeC) Bengal” Molecular characterization of leishmania major major of leishmania characterization Molecular transporter bicarbonate studyingand role its in physiology parasite “Multi.dimensional Research “Multi.dimensional Research reduce biomass recalcitrance Biochemical and functional characterization of characterization and functional Biochemical role in their and formins of Leishmania major two parasite of the infectivity of sensors and implementation The Development systems fresh water for and treatment technologies in India Developing an in vitro neural cell.culture model to an in vitro neural cell.culture model to Developing in understand of neuronal cell death mechanism the Erythematosus Lups SLE Systemic Decision making in the context of relocation in an context Decision making in the Indian ant: Small brains and big feats? 2. 3. 4. 1. 1. 1. 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Transition Metal cytotoxicity studies Synthesis, characterization, and cancer: stability antiangiogenic andantimetastatic agents against Metal complexes ofligands designedto act as from fatty acidbasedrenewable fatty from resources Actin Polymerization Polymeric Architectures For Enhanced Polymerization and DNA Duplex andCyclodextrinPrisitine CarbonDots Modefied Study onPhotoinduced Transfer Electron Between photo moleculardevices inducedtransfer particle Synthesis andcharacterization ofcarbonnano designing scope for Futher Glycol.cunjugates andvaccine o.antigens E.coliO74,O145 from andO156 with Synthesis ofthe related oligosaccharides to the multi chromo phoric π.stackedmulti chromo phoric aggregates photoluminescenceSingle investigation particle of Cartesian grid Cartesian of Fluorescent Proteinof Fluorescent Choromophore differentiated differentiated Catalytic AsymmetricCatalytic Reductive induced Minimal of Title Title Indo.Germany regioselective neural cellsin neural culture Nanostructure materialsNanostructure Catalysts: Functional Ultrafast fluorescence fluorescence Ultrafast IISER.K Based Cationic Joint project and WJ Dr. Prof. Prof. Prof. Prof. Dr. Dibyendu Das Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Prof. PunyaslokeProf. Dr. Amlan Prof. Prof. Mukhopadhyay Dr. BiplabMaji Prof. Arindam Arindam Prof. Prof. Arindam Arindam Prof. Prof. Balaram Balaram Prof. Prof. C.Malla Prof. Prof. Prof. Prof. Purkayastha Purkayastha Dr. Investigator Ashwani Investigator Mukherjee Mukherjee Chaudhuri Prasun Prasun Debasis Dibyendu Pradip Pradip Principal Principal Tarafdar Bhadury Priyadarsi Priyadarsi Priyadarsi Mandal Reddy Sarma Tiwari Debansu Jayasri Pradipta Pradipta Kumar Kumar K Kumar Koley Das Roy Das De De Hi. Media Consultancy Sponsoring Nanomissio Cooperation Cooperation WJ Décor (Internation al Bilateral Sponsoring Agency Division) Agency SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB CSIR CSIR CSIR CSIR DST. DST DST n 08.11.2013 17.07.2017 10.12.2018 to 12.12.2017 24.09.2018 to 13.03.2018 to 10.03.2017 to 10.03.2017 to 24.02.2017 to 12.02.2016 to 01.05.2018 to 21.05.2018 to 21.05.2018 to 01.04.2016 to 05.10.2015 to 30.10.2017 to 06.07.2016 to 17.08.2015 to 19.12.2018 to 30.06.2018 31.05.2018 09.03.2020 09.03.2020 23.02.2020 09.12.2021 11.02.2019 23.09.2021 20.05.2021 20.05.2021 30.04.2021 11.12.2020 12.03.2021 29.10.2020 16.08.2018 31.03.2019 04.10.2018 05.07.2019 18.12.2021 Duration Duration to to to 49,06,704.00 16,96,000.00 45,76,000.00 71,90,000.00 25,21,000.00 21,46,000.00 52,97,560.00 61,00,000.00 10,00,000.00 46,14,000.00 28,69,000.00 20,40,000.00 30,49,000.00 42,90,000.00 57,19,560.00 37,34,500.00 8,75,000.00 6,50,000.00 Sanctioned 5,83,333.00 Sanctioned Amount Amount (₹) (₹) 55 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees (₹) Amount (₹) 7,08,978.00 Amount (₹) Amount Sanctioned Sanctioned Sanctioned 40,46,599.00 29,18,695.00 4,07,000.00 35,40,000.00 36,13,712.00 34,84,800.00 51,37,000.00 63,98,000.00 23,00,000.00 32,40,000.00 1,60,60,320.00 35,47,000.00 61,46,800.00 37,92,000.00 49,26,000.00 19,03,500.00 44,66,704.00 2,32,39,600.00 to Duration Duration Duration 06.08.2018 14.03.2022 14.04.2020 14.07.2018 13.07.2019 02.11.2021 04.10.2018 04.10.2018 15.01.2021 07.02.2021 25.11.2018 04.10.2020 27.09.2020 21.01.2021 15.01.2019 20.03.2021 23.03.2020 29.03.2022 25.03.2022 15.03.2019 to 15.03.2019 05.08.2015 to 05.08.2015 15.04.2018 to 15.04.2018 15.07.2015 to 15.07.2015 03.11.2018 to 03.11.2018 14.07.2016 to 14.07.2016 16.01.2019 to 16.01.2019 16.01.2016 to 16.01.2016 05.10.2017 to 05.10.2017 05.10.2015 to 05.10.2015 05.10.2015 to 05.10.2015 21.03.2018 to 21.03.2018 22.01.2018 to 22.01.2018 24.03.2017 to 24.03.2017 26.11.2015 26.11.2015 28.09.2017 to 28.09.2017 30.03.2019 to to 30.03.2019 26.03.2019 to to 26.03.2019 08.02.2018 to 08.02.2018 al DST DST SERB IUSTTF SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB SERB Agency MHRD Technical Technical Agency University University Agency Sponsoring Sponsoring Division) Sponsoring Sponsoring DST.BRICS Sponsoring Sponsoring Indo.German Kaiserslautern (Internation y De Gupta Gupta Gupta Sarkar Mandal Priyadarsi Principal Principal Principal Principal Chaudhuri Banerjee Principal Principal Prof. Raja Dr. Sanjio Dr. Investigator Devarajulu Dr. Debansu Dr. Mahalingam Mahalingam Purkayastha Investigator Investigator Dr. Subhajit Dr. Dr. Subhajit Subhajit Dr. Prof. Pradipta Shunmugam Dr. Supratim Dr. Dr. Sayam Sen Sayam Dr. Dr. Sayam Sen Sayam Dr. Dr. Suman De Dr. Vijayaraghavan Prof. Sourav Pal Prof. Sourav Dr. Ratheesh K K Ratheesh Dr. Dr. Sayam Sen Bandyopadhyay Bandyopadhya Dr. Debasis Koley Dr. Dr. Sureshkumar Dr. Shankarrao Zade Shankarrao Prof. Swadhin K. K. Prof. Swadhin Prof. Dr. Venkataramanan Venkataramanan Dr. Venkataramanan Dr. as 2 small Copolymers for Copolymers into Formic Acid 2 Title Title Title Supramolecular Polymers in Host.Guest Roll.to.roll printed electronic labels for temperature, temperature, electronic labels for printed Roll.to.roll humidity and tampering detections Engineering Particle Applications of Designer Nano Assembles Computational Investigation of metallic bi. tri.and catalysis homogeneous mediated complex metallic Catalytic Asymmetric Fluorination/ Trifluoromethylation by C.H Activation Boron and Gadolinium Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy Development of a smartphone app for low cost Development of a smartphone and in.field monitoring of water quality via colour turbidity analysis Development of Fe.Complex for catalytic C.H Bond Development of Fe.Complex for catalytic C.H O Hydroxylation in Natural products using only Development of Layered transition metal dichalcogenides for efficient energy storage: Synthesis and supercapacitor applications the oxidant Development of Fe(III) complexes of biuret based biuret of complexes of Fe(III) Development macroyclic ligands: From catalysts for C.H activation analyte in amplification signal for probes chemical to detection Pharmaceutical Applications under Indo. 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196-197 of the International Astronomical Union. I3(S340): White-Light Archive: Data 1921-2011”. Proceedings Science Results From Obtained Kodaikanal Digitized Mandal, S.andD.Banerjee. 2018, “An of Overview 121. Sunspot Cycle”. The Astrophysical 861 Journal. (2): “Asymmetry inSolarTorsional Oscillationandthe Lekshmi, B.,Dibyendu Nandy, andH.M. Antia.2018. I3(S340): 11-12 of theProceedings International Astronomical Union. “Asymmetry inSolarTorsional Oscillation”. Lekshmi, B,D.Nandy andH.M.Antia.2018, 623: A54. processes”. transport bysustained dynamicmagnetic buoyancy and flux kinematic Babcock Leighton solardynamomodel Kumar, R.;Jouve, L.andD.Nandy. 2019, “A 3D 866(1): 17 aDynamoModel”.TheAstrophysicalfrom . Journal “Double Peaks ofthe SolarCycle: AnExplanation Karak, B.B.,S.Mandal,andD.Banerjee. 2018, Union. I3(S340):185-186 Data”. usingKodaikanal Astudy ratio: white-light Digitized term variation ofsunspot to penumbra area umbra Jha, B.K.,S.Mandal,andD.Banerjee. 2018, “Long- 479(2): 1603–1611 Monthly Notices ofthe Royal Astronomical Society. noisestorm observations”. radio from solar corona episodes inthe acceleration of smallelectron James, T. andP. 2018, Subramanian. “Energetics International Astronomical Union.I3(S340):87-88 model for the ofthe Proceedings solarcorona”. Dash, S.,andD.Nandy. 2018, “A Magnetofrictional Astronomical Union.I3(S340):240-241 impact”.ofthe Proceedings International planetary activity evolution ofSolar-like with age stars andits Basak, andD.Nandy.Das, S.,A. 2018, “The . 874(1):Journal L4 The Astrophysical Observatory”. and MountWilson Detected CaIIKSynoptic from MapsofKodaikanal 2019, ofExtended “Signature SolarCycles as K.Srivastava, Leamon, M.Dikpati,A. L.Bertello. Chatterjee, S,D.Banerjee, S.W. McIntosh, R.J. Run”. TheAstrophysical. 871(1): Journal 90. Candidates inAdvanced Observing LIGO’s First Signals Coincidentwith Gravitational-wave Gamma-Ray Monitor Burst Searchfor Electromagnetic Burns et al.includingR.K.Nayak, 2019, “A Fermi Proceedings oftheProceedings International Astronomical Astronomy andAstrophysics. 34. 33. 32. 31. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25. 24.

Sciences. 5: 38. Constraints?” Modeling orProviding Observational Crucial Muddying the Waters ofSolar/Stellar Dynamo Mazumder et al.2018. Extended SolarCycle: “The Dwivedi,N. Madhulika D.Nandy, Guhathakurta, R. Arge, Dipankar Banerjee, MausumiDikpati,Bhola Srivastava, K.,Scott Abhishek W. McIntosh, N. Physics. 293(7):103 Solar onADITYA-L1”. Emission LineCoronagraph Automated CMEDetection Algorithm for the Visible Kumar.Sankarasubramanian, andA. 2018, “Onboard Patel, R., K. Amareswari, V. Pant, D. Banerjee, K. I3(S340): 171-172 of theProceedings International Astronomical Union. (VELC)Line Coronagraph ADITYA-L1”. on-board Emission MassEjectionsinVisible of Coronal K. Sankarasubramanian. 2018, “Automated detection Patel, R. andK. Amareswari, V. Pant, D. Banerjee, and Astrophysical. 860(1):80 Journal EruptionSDO/AIA”.a Prominence asSeenfrom The and S.Ray. 2018, “Twisting/Swirling Motions during Pant, V., D.Banerjee, Datta, K.Chandrashekhar, A. Flux”. TheAstrophysical. 865(1):4 Journal Characteristics andAssociated Reconnection Flare Active onTheirSolarSource Region Properties Panda. 2018, MassEjection “DependenceofCoronal Pal, S.,D.Nandy, Srivastava, N. Gopalswamy N. andS. Physics ofModern Journal D.27(7): 1850066 andSuperintegrability”. InternationalConstant Mukhopadhyay, Payel andR.K.Nayak. 2018, “Carter’s PhysicalParticles”. Review D:98(8)084023 equatorial Stable Orbitsfor Circular Spinning Mukherjee, Sajal and R. K. Nayak. 2018, “Off- Astrophysics andSpaceScience.363:163 Penrose andJets Process inKerr Naked Singularity”. Mukherjee, Sajal andR.K.Nayak. 2018, “Collisional CATENA. 172: 408-420. the inthe assessment ofsoilerosion laboratory”. comprehensive simulator designofrainfall for Mhaske, Basak. Pathak, 2019, S. N, K. and A. “A International Astronomical Union.I3(S340):187-188 23 usingMcIntosh archive”. of the Proceedings HolesinSolar Cycle of Coronal 21-“Properties Mazumder, R., P. Bhowmik, andD.Nandy. 2018, Astrophysical. 868(1):52 Journal Cycle: AnAnalysis ofthe McIntosh The Database”. with the Sunspot HoleProperties Lines, andCoronal Polarity AssociationofFilaments, Inversion “The Mazumder, R., P. Bhowmik andD.Nandy. 2018, Frontiers inAstronomy and Space 77 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees : 2 ”. In 3 High pressure investigations on monolayer and on monolayer High pressure investigations nanocrystalline disulfide”. tungsten Journal of (20): 204306 123 Applied Physics. Jana, R., G. D. Mukherjee, and A. Chandra A. 2018. and A.Jana, R., G. D. Mukherjee, Chandra A. 2018. “High pressure studies on nanocrystalline YCrO 1953 (1), edited by by (1), edited Proceedings. 1953 AIP Conference and Sudhir Bhardwaj Manoj Singh Shekhawat, 030081. Suthar, Bhuvneshwer Saha, P., Ghosh B., Jana R., and Dev Mukherjee Mukherjee B., Jana R., and Dev Ghosh Saha, P., WS “Structural anomalies in exfoliated G. 2018.

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Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 80 b) Department-wise b) Department-wise c) Fellowship-wise andgender-wisea) Category 31March as on Programme the PhD in registered 351students are total of 2. A andgender-wisea) Category Academic during 113students Programme were admittedtothe PhD A total of 1. PhD Programme Total Total Male Female Total UGC-RGNF UGC PROJECT NBHM INSPIRE IISER-K ICMR DBT CSIR CESSI Total ofExcellenceCentre inSpaceSciences ofPhysical Sciences Department ofMathematics andStatistics Department Sciences ofEarth Department ofChemicalSciences Department ofBiologicalSciences Department Total ofPhysical Sciences Department ofMathematics andStatistics Department Sciences ofEarth Department ofChemicalSciences Department ofBiologicalSciences Department Female Male 2019 Session 2018-19.[August2018(Autumn)andJanuary 2019(Spring)] Gender Gender General General 238 159 66 44 22 79 OBC OBC 28 24 4 63 53 10 SC 18 14 4 SC 45 34 11 ST 1 0 1 ST 1 4 3 PD 0 0 PD 0 0 1 1 Total Total 113 101 250 30 83 351 101 156 351 55 24 19 109 11 351 34 75 14 61 11 4 62 82 77 2 8 1 4 2 4 81 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees 9 01 02 03 14 7 8 0 2 5 38 55 42 3 6 52 158 14 22 16 22 Total 158 106 141 158 Total Total 0 0 0 0 0 PD 0 PD 0 0 0 PD 0 0 0 2 1 3 ST ST 0 0 0 ST 4 1 5 0 0 0 SC SC 0 3 3 SC 7 4 11 0 0 0 OBC 2 1 3 OBC OBC 93 46 4 139 12 16 01 02 03 General General General Gender Gender Gender on 31 March 2019 2019 Session 2018-19 Session Male IISER-K INSPIRE Total CSIR Department of Biological Sciences Department of Chemical Sciences Department of Earth Sciences Department and Statistics of Mathematics Department Sciences of Physical Total Department of Biological Sciences Department of Chemical Sciences Department of Earth Sciences Department and Statistics of Mathematics Department Sciences of Physical Total Female Total Male Male Total Female Female Total 1. A total of1. A total are students 3 Programme registered as Physics in Space under MS Category and gender-wise MS in Space Physics Programme MS in Space Physics c) Fellowship-wise a) Category gender-wise and IPhD ProgrammeIPhD of 1. A total ProgrammeIPhD the to admitted were students 22 during Academic a) Category and gender-wise 2. A total of2. A total are students 158 registeredIPhD Programme in the on 31 March as b) Department-wise b) Department-wise

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 82 Students whowere given Institute travel grants during 2018-19 Category andgender-wiseCategory as on 31 March inthe BS-MS Programme registered 917 students are 2. Atotal of andgender-wiseCategory during 215studentsProgramme were admittedtotheBS-MS A total of 1. BS-MS Programme Shuvojit Paul K Srinivasa Venu Gopal Archana Josy Santanu PalSantanu Banhisikha Saha Guha Abhishek Sayak Ray Bishwarup Paul Bhattacharjee Debottam Ghosh Smita RahamanRafiqul Pal Mandira Dipayan Chakraborty Chaudhury Jashodhara Vijayananda Sarangi Total Total Female Female Male Male 2019 Academic Session2018-19 Gender Gender Name General General 108 435 330 105 29 79 the University ofGothenburg, Sweden Attended the Optical Trapping Summer School (OTSM-2018) at @work” inLyonChemistry (France) For poster at“Supr@Lyon Presentation -Supramolecular Austria Geosciences Union (EGU)inVienna, Attended Assembly2018 the General ofthe European Turkey andMagnetismSuperconductivity –“ICSM2018” atAntalya, Attended the 6th edition ofInternational Conference on the Downtown PhiladelphiaMarriott inPhiladelphia,PA Attended the 59th Research AnnualDrosophila Conference at HarborLaboratory, ”atColdSpring NewControl York, USA For poster at“16th Presentation conference onTranslational Complex Systems(MPIPKS), Dresden Interactions” atthe MaxPlanck Institute for the Physical of For poster at“Anderson Presentation Localizationand (ECBB) atLiverpool, UK Attended the 9th Conference onBehavioural European Biology (ECBB) atLiverpool, UK Attended the 9th Conference onBehavioural European Biology Street, United Easton, States MA, Interactions andDynamicsatStonehill College,320 Washington Attended the Research Gordon Seminar (GRS)onMolecular Attended the meeting APSApril 2018 atColumbus,Ohia,USA, France Attended the SPIE Photonics conference in Strasbourg, Europe Attachment CzechElectron Republic Lanna,inPrague, inVilla Attended the International Conference 3rd onDissociative Attended Assembly2018 the EGUGeneral Austria inVienna, Attended Assembly2018 the EGUGeneral Austria inVienna, OBC OBC 256 187 60 47 13 69 Conference SC 151 123 29 20 SC 28 9 16 ST 10 67 48 ST 6 19 PD PD 2 29th May to 1st 2018 12th to 14th December 8th to 13th 2018 April, 29th 2018 11th-April 15th, April 2018 4th to 8th September, September, 2018 24th to 28th 12th, 2018 August 9th to August 2018 2018 12th, 2018 August 9th to August 13th,2018 July 7th to July 14th to 17th 2018 April 22nd-26th 2018 April, 10th to 13th 2018 April 8th-13th 2018 April 8th-13th 2018 April 2 0 8 3 5

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No. Sl. 1 44 36 35 34 33 32 38 39 45 43 42 40 49 48 46 37 47 31 41 3 2 4 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 Roll No. 10IP04 13MS144 14MR001 13MS140 13MS149 13MS148 13MS145 13MS133 13MS130 13MS123 13MS126 13MS128 13MS137 13MS147 13MS124 13MS121 13MS141 13MS118 13MS113 13MS117 13MS111 14IP042 14IP025 14IP008 14IP006 14IP004 Roll No. Roll No. Roll No. Roll No. Roll No. 14IP007 14IP018 15IP019 13IP019 Dhiman Sankar Name Pal Kaushlendra KumarKaushlendra Sourav Islam Sourav Sadhukhan Kakali Santra Mannu Brahmi Praveen Kumar Budakoti Pariari Debasmita Sreyam Sengupta Das Arpit Randhir Kumar Mithilesh Kumar Parit Suman Panda Suraj Satpathy Debanjan Chandra Hemant Rawat Abhishek Som Abhishek Ipsika Mohanty Sreejesh. P.Sreejesh. S. Koushik Bar T. P. Mahesh Saikat Mondal Ananda Prakash Jena Spandan Pathak Agrawal Sristy Vijay Kumar K Adarsh. Kotikalapudi VSKarthikeshu Aaditya Panigrahi GoyalSrashti Rupak Datta Supervisor Target against Leishmaniasis -Carbonic Anhydrase asaPotential Drug Characterization ofLeishmaniamajor Name Name Name Name Name Title ofThesis Year ofCompletion Year ofCompletion Year ofCompletion Year ofCompletion Year ofCompletion Date ofCompletion (MM/DD/YY) 29-12-2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2016 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 87 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees 13-07-2017 12-10-2017 22-08-2017 29-08-2017 01-08-2017 05-12-2017 05-03-2018 05-01-2018 19-12-2017 07-08-2017 11-05-2018 13-10-2017 18-09-2017 23-10-2017 15-02-2018 05-06-2017 (MM/DD/YY) (MM/DD/YY) (MM/DD/YY) Date of Completion of Completion Date Date of Completion of Completion Date Date of Completion of Completion Date Title of Thesis Title Title of Thesis Title Title of Thesis Title Behavioural Variations and their ecological and their Variations Behavioural among wild Zebrafish,correlates Danio rerio Mouse Hepatitis Virus induced remodeling Intercellular of Gap Junction role in a major Communication plays Demyelination Understanding Care Parental in Free- ranging Dogs of India Role of gap junction protein, innexin2, innexin2, junction protein, of gap Role communication intercellular mediated specification in cell fate and epithelial duringmorphogenesis Drosophila oogenesis Investigating the Role and Regulation of and Regulation Role the Investigating RNA-binding HuR and microRNA protein in regulating p53 mRNA miR-125b stress translation post genotoxic Diversity patterns of stream patterns fishDiversity communities from Narmada basin, river India Arsenic binding to gap junction gap Arsenic binding to cell cell to 43 alters connexin protein communication and tissue homeostasis On the Reconstruction of Dark Energy Models Reconstruction On the Development and application of velocity slice and application of velocity Development study low-energy to imaging spectrometer electron-molecule collisions Collapse and the Aspects of Gravitational Singularitiesformation of Spacetime Some tests of general relativityusing of general Some tests observations wave gravitational Total Synthesis of the Oligosaccharide of the Synthesis Total O-Antigens Bacterial to Related Units Repeating active of biologically Chemical synthesis origin oligosaccharides from bacterial Studies on Light Induced Dynamics of Small Studies under DifferentMolecules and Protein Nanoparticles Conditions in Lipid Physiological and Vesicles their of Soft-Oxometalates, Patterning Formation and Applications Peptide based Smart based StructurePeptide and Materials: Application Ray Nandi Nayak Sarma Narayan Narayan Narayan Narayan Banerjee Banerjee Haldar Dhananjay Dhananjay Jayasri Das Jayasri Balaram Balaram Supervisor Pradipta Debasish Supervisor Mohit Prasad Partho Sarothi Rajesh Kumble Kumble Rajesh Anindita Bhadra Anuradha Bhat Anuradha Bhat Purkayastha Supervisor Jayasri Das Sarma Jayasri Soumyajit Roy Soumyajit Mukhopadhyay Mukhopadhyay Name Shukla Name Tamal Roy Tamal Soumya Soumya Rohitashva Rohitashva Rahul Basu Rahul Aresh Sahu Manabi Paul Name Pamir Nag Pamir Afaq Hussain Chakrabarti Deepika Ahuja Deepika Ankita Mitra Ankan Mukherjee Ankan Shrabanti Das Preethi Thomas Preethi Anuradha Samajdar Vikramjit Sarkar Krishnendu Maji Roll No. Roll 11RS019 11RS014 11RS010 12RS017 12RS051 11RS006 10RS020 11IP15 11IP18 10IP11 10IP10 Roll No. Roll 11IP01 11IP17 11IP12 11IP16 11IP22 Roll No. Roll 1 2 3 2 3 1 4 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 Sl. 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Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 90 Students’ Achievements Mr. Sourodip Sengupta of 14IP Sengupta Sourodip Mr. Category recentlyheld at the Poster in the Presented Best Paper Prize” the Nag for “Suttee awarded Has been of Neurosciences Theme: Academy of Indian on Neuroscience Conference & XXXVI Annual Meeting International Varanasi. at BHU, 2018 29 - 31, from October Mental Health in Improving Research Translational Mr. Shubham Sharma of 13MS Shubham Sharma Mr. Mitra Supriyo from Computational Seismology and his guide Prof. Dr. Sharma Shubham of 13MS Mr. Eastern of the It is titled “Seismic Attenuation publication JGR solid earth their lab, for on 5 dec. 2018. Boundary and Indoâ€Burman Plate NortheastHimalayan same is https://doi. the Systems, India”. Link for . org/10.1029/2018JB016496 Ms. Prantika Bhowmik of 13RS Bhowmik Ms. Prantika publication in Nature their from CESSI, for Nandy Dibyendu and her guide Prof. Dr. of 13RS Bhowmik Ms. Prantika papers. same is https://www.nature.com/ the also reported Link for news Communication, This was in several 25 cycle and timing of sunspot strength “Prediction of the dealt with . Their work articles/s41467-018-07690-0 conditions”. environmental decadal-scale space reveal Mr. Abhishek Bose of 13IP Abhishek Mr. Sarma’sDas travel CSIR group received had from Prof.Jayasri researchsenior a fellow Abhishek 13IP, of Bose Mr. VirusHepatitis “Mouse titled pathways chaperonin presentand restricts poster mediated ERp29 attend to award meeting 43 trafficking Connexin junction protein of gap prestigious 2018 ASCB-EMBO and assembly” at the Cell Biology and European at San Diego, USA, Molecular Biology Organization) for (American Society December 8-12. Himanshu Agrawal (15MS), Riddhi Mandal (14MS), Rahul Samrat (14MS), and Chirantan Parui (13IP) of Dept. of of Dept. and Chirantan (13IP) Parui Samrat (14MS), Rahul Riddhi Mandal (14MS), Himanshu Agrawal (15MS), abstracts in The submitted their for Award Early Career Schlich Scientist’s Travel Roland Earth got Sciences have at the place will take The General 2019 Assembly European (EGU) General Geoscience Union Assembly 2019. April 3019. in Vienna, during Austria, 7-12 Vienna (ACV) Center Austria Ms. Avyarthana Ghosh Ms. Avyarthana development in the Student, CESSI PhD Ghosh, contributionTimesof Avyarthana the edition features of India Pune Space Mission. Aditya the for payload Imaging Telescope Solar Ultraviolet of the (14MS), Samrat Rahul Mr. (14MS), Riddhi Mandal Mr. (15MS), Himanshu Agrawal Mr. (13IP) Parui Chirantan Mr. Ms. Pousali Mukherjee, 14MS batch 14MS Mukherjee, Ms. Pousali Lithospheric of the Presentation titled “Investigation Poster of Earth for from Dept. Student selected Sciences was 55th the at Australia” India and Western Insights from South of Gondwanaland- Archean cratons Structure of the Bhopal, Madhya University, Tagore (IGU) held at Rabindranath Union of Indian Geophysical Annual Convention 2018. Pradesh during December 4-7, Research Scholars from Dept. of Chemical Sciences have received the best poster prizes in the 16th Theoretical Theoretical 16th prizes in the best poster the received Sciences have Scholars of Chemical from Dept. Research Pilani. held at BITS Chemistry 2019, (TCS) Symposium Title: “Effect A Poster Majumdar’s of Spatial ConfinementMs. Sangeeta Electronic Structure of Atoms: on the Study” Theoretical Density Functional Groupand Halides 14 Metal Earlyin Transition Interactions Title: “Donor-Acceptor Poster Dutta’s Sayan Mr. Insight” A Theoretical Compounds: Ms. Sangeeta Majumdar and Mr. Sayan Dutta Sayan and Mr. Majumdar Ms. Sangeeta Stuudents’ Achievements Stuudents’

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 92 conjunction with XLIIAnnualmeeting ofOptical Society ofIndiaat IITKanpur 19-22 during September, 2018. Won Poster“Best Award” held OSI International in recently Symposium of Optics (OSI-ISO 2018) held Mr. Avijit kundu (15RS) ofDPS damage’ neuroinflammatory from The titleofherwork infectivity was andprotects extract mousehepatitisvirus ‘Neembark impairs 57BL/6mice and University ofTennessee Health ScienceCenter (USA),14th-16th India,from inDehradun, September, 2018. Swami Rama Himalayan India),International Society Diseases University (Dehradun, &Chronic ofNutraceuticals Diseases”(INCD-2018). andChronic “International Conference onNutraceuticals Itwas jointlyorganized by of˜Young award” andbagged Presentation inthe Oral best ˜Third category Participatd atthe Scientist” Third Ms. Lucky Sarkar, year 5th IPhD for Treatment andResearch Germany, )Berlin, inMultipleSclerosis 10 -12 October 2018. aspects ofaxonal with demyelination” lossconcurrent Committee at34ThCONGRESS OFECTRIMS(European Received travel attend grant aposter andpresent determines ofvirus titled“Fusiogenic the mechanistic property Mr. Manmeet Singh(13RS) ofDBS Selected atNanyang for NTU-Indiaconnectprogram Technology University 11) Singapore (world ranking Rahul Kumar, Meiraba Chirom Meitei, Year 4th BS-MS,DCS Awarded the SPIEOptics prestigious andPhotonics 2018 EducationScholarship inthe amountof$4,000 Debapriya Pal, Year 4th DPS,SPIEIISERKolkata Chapter f MS thesis ChemicalSociety work inareputed ofAmerican alongwith other journal asco-author. papers this from this achievementApart Ashwani shown capabilitiesand publishedhis hasalready research tremendous Research inthe Minister’s Prime FellowshipQualified (PMRF)Scheme. institute Ashwani Kumar (2017 Major), currently MSpassout,Chemistry working in a project inour between 2018 22-26April Selected for Paper Best Award inthe International Conference on“Photonics France heldinStrasbourg, Europe” Shubham Chandel(14RS) andSudipta Saha(12 IP) Monash University, onMs.Geeta Goyal Malaysia PublishedArticle ofDCS Ms. Geeta Goyal (16MS) Germany SummerSchool 2018,Bagged aplaceatHilbert-Bernays UniversitatGottingen, organised by Georg-August Mr. Debmalya Basak(15MS) DMS 10-14scheduled during December, 2018 atWashington, D.C.,USA Selected to receive a travelstudent to grant attend the 2018 Geophysical Americal Union (AGU) meeting fall Mr. Avigyan Chatterjee (14MS) DES in conjunctionwith XLIIAnnualmeeting of Optical Society ofIndiaat IITKanpur 19-22 during September, 2018. Bagged Talk Oral “2ndBest Award” heldOSIInternational inrecently Symposium ofOptics (OSI-ISO2018) held Mr. Debapriya Pal (14MS) ofDPS in

93 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees 15MS129 Saha Rajalakshmi 15MS135 Andhari Madhavi 15MS033 Ankit Amrutkar Datta 15MS089 Pallab 16MS113 Rai Hrishika 16MS055 Rana P. Paresh Souvik Ghosh 16MS050 Das 17MS004 Diptatanu 17MS028 Anmol Kumar 15MS034 Animish Nilesh Vaze Selected for SN Bose Scholar’s for ProgramSelected 2018 Avinash Sethi, DBS, PhD Student, Subhrasmita Kar, DPS, BS-MS Student, DPS, BS-MS Student, Kar, Subhrasmita DBS, PhD Student, Sethi, Avinash DPS, BS-MS Student Jena, Ananda Prakash Placement Campus Infotech in ITC Students Selected Congratulations to (DES 16IP013) Panda Kumar Ritesh Selected under DAAD WISE (The German Academic Exchange Service in Science and Internships WISE (The German Exchange Working for Academic under DAAD Selected Engineering) carry program to in Germany. out summer internships Chaturvedi(14MS118,DCS) Ashwin Sahoo (14MS114,DCS), Rakesh 2018 Award Internship Mitacs Globalink Research Abhinava Chatterjee, 4th year BS-MS student of DPS student BS-MS 4th year Chatterjee, Abhinava Program summer of 2018. Internship the Student (ISIP)” for International University’s “Princeton to Accepted batch of 15MS students Mukherjee, Sounak Ujan Chakraborty, Pal, Adipta Madhura Bhattacherjee, IPhD student of DES IPhD student Bhattacherjee, Madhura Gainesville, Florida be held at Museum of Natural course summer History, Paleobiology Analytical to for Selected USA IISER Kolkata iGEM 2018 Team receives grant from Department receives of IISER KolkataTeam iGEM2018 Biotechnology to participatethe iGEM 2018 (International in Competition)

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Sabyasachi MukherjeeSabyasachi Innovators”, “Top 50 Indian Innovators” 50 - “Top Innovators”, Lead, Face book Developers Circle”, “Top 100 book Developers Circle”, “Top Lead, Face A workshop Learning on Machine by “Kolkata Zakir Khan Standup Comedy show by famous comedian Committed for holistic students development for Committed in co-curricular activities Immense studentsengagement personal for and social growth professional environment Create service accessible and consistently timely accurate provide Infuse student affairs and philosophy values Live concert by the renowned band ‘Nalayak’ y y y y y Inquivesta: Inquivesta: held from 9 was This edition, Inquivesta of IISER Kolkata. social and cultural annual science, is the festival “Inquivesta concert band, renowned a live featured the which by milestones, new This has reached March, 2019. 10th to 8th of about 1500 had a total famous comedian Zakir Khan.This edition of Inquivesta by Comedy show & Standup Nalayak participants, a substantial increment of participation saw which participation outside IISER. and mainly included from other Visva Bharati and many ISERC Presidency College, University, Jadavpur ISI Kolkata, Shibpur, IIEST IIIT Kalyani, Chennai, Delhi, and Mumbai.The included cities like which Bengal, from in and outside West and schools, colleges introduction of the with and workshops, new) old ones and the (the events be the happen to fest of the facets other others. as Cynosure - An open mic concert, such and a few Futsal events, Soul beat (Dance competition), some new Our major activities and initiatives include the followings: include the activities and initiatives Our major Overview general of students, providing The Students’ Affairs holistic development the to Office is committed Kolkata at IISER programs and also providing realize and services students to empower that students of IISER Kolkata the to wellbeing all learning for environment healthy a provide to seeks also mission Our personaland goals educational their potential. all aspects looking into do by This we them. relationship a special with and having building of students, by categories campus. and outside the within activities both of their enhancement ensure the to strategize we above, enunciated of our vision and mission accomplishment the Towards of the broad objectives implementation of the the through in and out of campus of student life quality overall of the Students’ Affairs the to as it relates Institute Section. AffairsThe Student Section also supervises Students’ as Students leadership activities of the the known on campus intellectual social and responsibility of organizing Affairs the The students with body is saddled (SAC). Council Celebrations, Day International Day National Hall Day, Annual Day, programs science and cultural various events, for IISER Sports Inter Bharat IISER Cultural Ek Bharat Abhiyan, Meet, Bharat Shrestha Swachh Inter (EBSB) 2018, of Yoga issues. raise student related and most importantly and resolve administration etc. to Institute Meet, the liaison with The Office Affairs operations Students the the of overseeing Dean is responsible for of the Council. Kolkata: at IISER Goals of Students’ Activities y y y y y

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 96 and the next edition,unquestionably, willbebetter way.” inevery and feedbacks that were the given during fest. Inquivesta by expanding isclearly the steadily participants each year this fest than more aScienceFest. just The positive the vibeduring fest was evident clearly the from excellent remarks and workshops. Theseevents, workshops, andfood make stalls talks andmusicvarious craft alongwith the art of Kolkata, by atalk IITDelhiandDr, AshokKGangulifrom Prof. andsimilarother IITKharagpur AmitBasakfrom talks workshop andaMachineIt alsofeatured atalk learning by Sabyasachi Mukhopadhy Face from bookDeveloper circle LECTURES on 8th March bythese3eminent LECTURES on8thMarch Inquivesta is proud to present GUEST topresent isproud Inquivesta professors!” 97 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees PHOTON 2019 – Organized by PIXEL, the Photography Club, IISER Kolkata PHOTON2019 – Organized Club, by PIXEL, the Photography ‘Scrampage’- Live Music Event of Event for Inquivesta A Promotional Jam ‘Come Together’- the Music Club-2019 and Spic Macay -27th from25th Kolkata IISER at Convention State Bengal West the hosted Chapter Kolkata IISER SPICMACAY including concerts screenings and craft of cultural maestros, movie events a plethora There by was January, 2019. Bhattacharya in association with Artist Santoor renowned Classical Music Programme Tarun Pandit by workshops. Cultural SAC under student members and the of IISER Kolkata April 2018 held on 10th was IISER Kolkata SPIC MACAY a musical programmealso organized a prominent Sarodist of Shri and a disciple of Sarod Maestro Sahin Patwardhan, a organized Chapter Kolkata IISER SPICMACAY April,2018. Vibhushan on 13th Saheb Khan Padma Ali Amjad Ud. and 2018 October Artist Mohan Bhatt on 31st Vishwa Pandit Mohan Veena renowned classical musical programme by in IISER Kolkata. 2018 on 3rd November Majumdar Narayan Sarod Tejendra Maestro Pandit

Director’s Message Faculty Affairs Report Academic Departments Centre for Research and Publications Academic Report Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 98 turning upasaudience. turning ofIISERKolkata outto intheturned bethe history successfulprogramme most with andfaculty maximumstudents Rabindranath’ was‘Smarane organised by Section, the Students Communitywith the associationofStudents Affairs including Director ofIISERKolkata to show to gratitude the poet. great performed day through this work ofonethe greatest Indianpoets, Rabindranath Tagore. Afew ofourcommunity members that samecrises LGBTQ the very portrayed communityfeels every thatrealization beautylieswithin. ‘Nrityaneer’ in lovewhen she falls princess about the of a warrior identity crisis and the a story on theChitrangada, dance drama ofthe LGBTQthemselves asapart community, to stage ofDivine”.Theshow TheCreation “Chitrangada: isbased On 8th August, 2018, IISERKolkata whoidentify Students Comminutyalsohosted “Nrityaneer”ofartists agroup alsoreceivedthrough mediaattention asoundscape.Theprogramme ËbelaNewspaper from andSITIChannels. Mazumdar. led bychamber orchestra Abraham maestro Mr. Chattopadhyay Pradip the introduced theme of the play, with Tagore”, by Mr. performed Ranjon Ghoshalandhistheatrical team They “ForumThree”. were accompanied by a who came together of Mohiner Ghorauli, members former hosting for of Civilization – A Journay a musical titled, “Crisis year. every death anniversary on7th August celebration year’s Last 2018 was indeed.We grand hadthe of pleasure Activity toThe Students’ a tradition Council has inspired celebrate the life and works of Rabindranath Tagore on his Smarane Rabindranath: 99 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees The programmeThe was 4th International Yoga Day Celebration 2018 held on 21st June 21st on 2018 held Celebration Day Yoga International 4th Teachers’ Day Celebration: Teachers’ on teachers the respect to pay to a cultural organised evening students 2nd year of BS-MS the every year, Like 5, 2018. September . Independence Day Celebration: 2018. August 15th on Institute the in celebrated was Nation the of Day Independence 72nd The started with flag hoisting ceremony and ‘Independence Quiz’ was organised by Literaryby started organised of Independence Quiz’ was and ‘Independence Club on the flag with hoistingceremony Movie the screening de Basanti) a cultural by (Rang program The students also conducted and a movie our country. Club of IISER Kolkata. International Yoga Day Celebration (21st June 2019) (21st June Day Celebration International Yoga programme celebration the of International for yoga has observed weeks three IISER Kolkata mandate As per MHRD importance in mind the participation programme active of the Keeping enhance the and the for 2018. of Yoga Day staff and non-teaching teaching Students, Society. Yoga World from the team a yoga has invited institute same, the lecture on management- Stress Therapeutic Yoga, members family also participated and their session like in the EX-Professor of Das, guidance of Shri Asim Kumar under the presentation, etc. and quiz, poster benefits of yoga, his team. and Society Yoga World

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 100 in itslater versions. Thisyear altogether ten IISM Bombay (CEBS)alsobecomes the part and Center for Excellence inBasicSciences, ofit.NISER,IISc Initially onlyIISERswere part Kolkata inthe various events. participated 149 (Boys:116 students IISER from &Girls:33) the third positioninthe IISM2018. were There 15-20 December, 2018 andIISERKolkata hold Meet was heldinNISERBhubaneswar during by IISERKolkata. Theseventh Inter IISER Sports editionofIISMwas alsosuccessfullyhosted fifth Kolkata editionofIISMandthe organized first in2012in India.Itwas started whenIISER meet for the institutessports ofbasicsciences Meet (IISM),istheInter annual IISERSports Meet2018 Inter IISERSports skills andenthusiasm atexquisite games like Bhanga, Hari SankhBajano andDhakBajano Competitions. event andthe cancometo showcased students acompletion their event. without isnodifferent acultural Agomoni Lunch wasAgomoni organized inthe Monitored Students’ Canteen. 1000 Around upfor the event. peopleturned No butalsoencouraged skillsofourstudents them to take hiddenartistic insimilarworkshops nurturing part infuture. IISER Kolkata. ofitskindworkshop Sincethis was the first andsuch initiative was not ourideasof onlyproject PaintingUmbrella Workshopand Agomoni Club were with organized in collaboration Pidilite Ltd. and Arts Industries The secondeditionof‘Agomoni 2018’ was 4th organized during October-9th October 2018. Exhibition Art Agomoni Agomoni 2018 101 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees IISER Kolkata hosted the first ever Inter-IISER Cultural Meet, IICM during 21st-23rd December, 2018. This was a This was 2018. December, IICM during Cultural 21st-23rd Meet, first the Inter-IISER hosted ever IISER Kolkata main at its held country, was across the research leading institutes amongst the culturalfest-cum-competition students500 from seven approximately grand this In event, during 2018. December Kalyani, Mohanpur, in campus Bhopal, Tirupati Pune, Mohali, Thiruvananthapuram, and Berhampur) and IISc Bangalore different IISERs (Kolkata, on arts, competitions in several filmmaking, music, dance, theatre, institutes literature, respective their represented host to initiative the took IISER Kolkata 2018). December (21-23 days a span of three spread over and photography list of diversified talents event of this The country. young first the and unifying the promoting of vision the with IICM theme on the music competition a solo/duet a wide spectrum of culturalIICM covers activities. It enlists ‘Dvaita’, Tale’, dance face-off in the the and ‘Twist ‘Footloose’, band competition; peace a chance’; ‘Battle of Balindi’ the ‘Give Inter-IISER Cultural Meet Inter-IISER teams participated including IISER Kolkata. IISER Bhopal won the overall championship trophy. Although stood at the at the stood Although trophy. championship overall the Bhopal won IISER participated including IISER Kolkata. teams Kabaddi (Boys), (Girls), Basketball Tennis medals in Table gold four bagged contingent position, IISER Kolkata third (Men) and bronze in Javelin and two (Boys) Tennis (Girls) medals in Kho-kho and Table silver (Girls), two Football (Boys), medals silver medals, two gold two students bagged IISER Kolkata of Athletics, events (Men). In individual Put Shot and (Men) Javelin (Women), Run 200mts and (Men) Run 100mt Women), and (Men bronze Javelin in medals two and position. declared bronze second runner medal in overall was up and won contingent Put (Men). IISER Kolkata Shot

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 102 opportunity to mingle extravaganza. the ofthis with across from nationaswell cultural students opportunity asto beapart atthe IISERKolkata festthis alongwith grand the two specialperformances maincampus. Thiswould give them the 22nd December, the quizzing event ofIICM.Students localcolleges from inKolkata andKalyani were invited to attend December.nationwide fest on23rd cultural Famous quiz master ThejaswiUdupahosted on the ‘Spanish-In-Quiz-Ition’ 21st Decemberandnationalaward-winning singer andmusicdirector AnupamRoy ofthis the valedictory graced IISER Kolkata invited Baulwhowas the Purnadas sessionofIICM-2018 inthe Chief Guest BaulSamrat inaugural on through anexhibition. and ‘Capture‘Stories the Moment’ in Clicks’ were also online, the photographsbest was IICM auctioned during have submitted was theirshown beforehand andthe entries films andjudged IICM.Thephotography during events, institutes competition was anonlinecompetition ‘Chalachitra’ filmmaking the where participating Theshort part. ‘Come Together’, of IICM were allowed to all participants slam, where take amusical jamming session and apoetry these, from there was ‘Rangmanch’, IICM.Apart during competition the drama andafew non-competitive events like (Thegeneral inter-IISERIn-Quiz-Ition’ quiz) and‘Rationale: Thedebate’ the events are competitive to literary beheld Spanish- ‘The ‘J-A-M’, competitions designedto challenge andcraft; creative expression mindsto through art find and ‘Fashionista: the designing costume event’ the are twoa theme-based dance competition. group ‘Sand Art’ 103 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Some other events in which theme was incorporated –like Quiz session incorporated –like was theme in which events Some other on the cultural aspects of the India, regular public speaking sessions organized by Literary cultural by India, regular public speaking sessions organized on the aspects of the Club, screenings of movies under Students documentaries.and Kolkata IISER Telugu Marathi,Bengali, Hindi, like India the of language various in cultural Affairs integration guidance of Students promotes which programs year such Section organizes the throughout parts various studentsand sense of unity in from the country. of the Ek Bharat ShresthaEk Bharat (EBSB) Bharat student affairs of Ek Bharat Bharat year. theme Shreshtha this under the events multiple organized IISER Kolkata Affairs Student theme such for such multiple organize event one special to Council had decided of organizing Instead under guidance affairs Student of IISER Kolkata council (SAC) looking at particularevents occasion during 2018-19. Affairsof Students representing clubs Section in collaboration various particular with art forms various organized incorporated was theme the making also mentioned period included General poster which quiz, activities in above Makar like events Some major Literary by regular organized public speaking sessions the club of IISER Kolkata. into had which students’ institute body of the by had been organized and etc. Divas Utkal Sankranti, Basant Panchami, cultural on the integration. implications major

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 104 Institute timeto time. | BadmintonFitness |Tennis whilethey willbeinthe campus andany other willasitbedecidedby facilities the Alumni andtheir spouse andchildren (below 18 years) will be eligibleto use various like facilities SwimmingPool | exceptKolkata by the the library facility. circulation may offered alumnimembers avail IISERKolkata allthe services by the Institute such asSpecialrate for the houseboth guest inSalt-lake andInstitute, whileinthe campus, IISER an alumnus of IISER Kolkata andamember of the Alumni Association can use this to card enjoy the privileges offered issuingthe to card in7th allthe degree convocation receiving students outgoingstudents/ shall start this year. As IISER Kolkata hastaken initiatives to to willbeissuingAlumniCard issuealumnicard We passoutstudents. ourentire Alumni Card: Major Initiatives are give to rise not onlybetter academiciansbutalsoto better, well-rounded personalities. thefaithfully interests represent best ofthe communityandstrive student to create which atmosphere will avibrant the ofSAC, Constitution asthe onestop for which activitiesinthe allstudent willserve institute. Itisourendeavour to voice to their opinion.Ourvisionisto set system, administration upastudent guidedby the laid down principles in CouncilofIISER-KolkataStudent lookto Affairs channelize the communityandgive andvigourofourstudent energy the baseforheights.We forms coupledwith scalinggreat fraternity student administration anablestudent atthe ofanyThe essenceoftheeducationalinstitute successstory liesinthe Anenthusiastic successofitsstudents. Students Activity (SAC) Centre ofthose for inneedofblood. theof contributing socialbenefit Section. This noble yearinitiative will be continued every with the of theintension Dean of Students Affairs supervision Campus on29th March2019 with the (AVBD), helpof AssociationofVoluntary BloodDonors West Bengal andunder communityofIISERKolkataStudents’ took blooddonationcamp atthe Institute initiative for conductingavoluntary Voluntary BloodDonationCamp: 105 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees 4% position Academic Academic 6% Sector Job in Pvt. Alumni (PHD) Alumni (BS-MS) MBA Alumni (PHD) Job in Pvt. Sector 90% Post-Doc 9% Other studies 10% MBA Alumni (BS-MS) Govt. and Pvt. job Alumni (BS-MS) Govt. Alumni (PHD) Post-Doc 13% Pvt. job Govt. and Govt. Alumni (BS-MS) 18% PhD in India Alumni (BS-MS) PhD in Abroad studies Alumni (BS-MS) Other position Alumni (BS-MS) Academic 50% PhD in Abroad Contribute towards the growth of IISER-Kolkata and the community at large by volunteering time, talent finance and volunteering by at large community and the IISER-Kolkata of growth the towards Contribute progress and Kolkata. of IISER, growth aid towards Promote goals. the achieve to world across the Alumni network Build a strong IISER, Kolkata alumni and current among the students of IISER, Kolkata. interactions Promote y y y y 1) Alumni meet was held on 4th and 5th January and 5th held on 4th was 1) Alumni meet 2019 Alumni Association president Ms.Sonali Mohapatra MS09) (Batch by delivered 2) Alumni lecture was programs the organize help alumni association to has been formed to committee 3) Students IISER Alumini Information Registration ofRegistration IISER Kolkata the Cell : Alumni “Theas Research, and Education Science referredof be shall organization The to Institute Indian of Association Alumni (AA of IISER-K). of IISER, Kolkata. policies established The body is being under the Kolkata” Objectives y y y y

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 106 Excellence of Alumni members inAcademics Alumnimembers Excellence of Dr. Sudipta Raha Roy Dr. Arup Mukherjee Asst. Prof., IITBhilai Prof., Asst. Asst. Prof., IITDelhi Prof., Asst. Inspire Faculty,Inspire SN Dr. AnupGhosh Bose Post-doc Alumnimembers

Asst. Prof., IITGandhinagar Prof., Asst. Asst. Prof., SRMUniversity Prof., Asst. Dr. Barum Majumder Dr. Soumyajit Ghosh Dr. AnandPariyar Asst. Prof. Central Central Prof. Asst. University, Sikkim PhD Alumnimembers Asst. Prof., Akal Prof., Asst. University Dr. Arunabha Thakur Inspire faculty,Inspire Visva Asst. Prof., Jadavpur Prof., Asst. Dr. Poulami Jana Dr. Arnab Maity, University Bharati BS-MS Alumnimembers CIT, Prof., Asst. Coimbatore Om Prakash Kaptan Dr. Devanita Ghosh Inspire faculty,Inspire IISc Dr. S. Syed Jaffer, Asst. Prof., Sikkim Prof., Asst. University 107 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Ltd. Senior Scientist, Dr. Tamal K Sen Tamal Dr. Halliburton Technology Pvt. Halliburton Technology Wacker Wacker Senior Scientist Dr. Sunanda Biswas Sunanda Biswas Dr. Manager R&D Executive, R&D Executive, Suraj Ranjan Prasanjit Ranjan Suraj Odisha Mining Corporation Dr. Subhankar Santra Subhankar Dr. TechnoWaxChem Pvt. Ltd. TechnoWaxChem Scientist, Director CUMI, Chennai Dr. Mintu Debnath Dr. PhD Alumni members PhD Alumni BS-MS Alumni members Avinash Kumar Gupta Kumar Avinash Immunocore Arghya Modak Arghya Kynoid Robotic Services Limited Robotic Private Kynoid Research Scientist Research Cipla Pvt. Ltd. Asst. Manager, Asst. Manager, Dr. Ramesh Devarapalli Ramesh Dr. Limited. Asst. Manager, Sarkar, Amrita Dr. Mylan Laboratories Mylan Laboratories Asst. Manager, Asst. Manager, TCG Life Sciences Life TCG Dr. Santanu Mandal Dr. Entrepreneur Excellence ofExcellence Alumni members in Industry

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109 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Hall Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar De Priyadarshi Dr. Warden Debasis Koley Dr. Maintenance Asst. Warden Mahalingam Venkataraman Dr. Mess Asst. Warden Mukherjee Prosenjit Mr. Assistant Jr. Rao K. Dharma Mr. Attendant Hall Nivedita Sengupta Neelanjana Dr. Warden Chattopadhyay Devapriya Dr. Maintenance Asst. Warden Islam Mallick Amirul Dr. Mess Asst. Warden Hostels (Officiating) Kundagrami Arindam Sanjio S. Zade/Dr. Dr. Chief Warden Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Hall Partha Mitra Dr. Warden Borah Kajaljyoti Dr. Maintenance Asst. Warden Mahalingam Venkataraman Dr. Mess Asst. Warden Ms. Annie Sunita Kerketta Assistant Jr. Dr. Arindam Kundagrami Arindam Dr. Dean, Students’ Affairs (DoSA) Debnath Dibyendu Mr. Assistant Registrar Vasudev Mettu Dr. Education Instructor Physical Bora Bipul Kumar Mr. Office Superintendent Ghosh Ms. Sharmistha Office Assistant (MS) Members of the Office of Students’ Affairs : E-Cell: of encouraging prime entrepreneurial directive the and helping up with thought set was The E-Cell of IISER Kolkata alternatives to startups exposure the a science Institute, successful businesses. As potential turn ideas into their standardconcerningis the track PhD industryin positions which and omission an than since limited, other quite is has the IISER Kolkata startups for and public sectors is plenty of supportthere private today. the in India from both labs here, fantastic startups but premier research done in the place for only the work not into grow due to to potential ideas of its students. the also due to startup of the world, veterans by talks several organizing carried E-Cell vision by the this out year, previous this Over partnership in field, in this a workshop and also organized and mentors, with extensively worked scientists who have further people E-Cell, to the inform for and educate also started a newsletter We country. around the institutes other both participation active with about entrepreneurial student community, met from the spirit. of our activities was Each in Kalyani. and from colleges from IISER Kolkata The final placements, at the Institute, are a result of very systematic interaction with the industry/multinational the are with a resultThe final of very interaction Institute, at the placements, systematic beginning of students.Right from Institutions the and continuous career the of counseling and Research companies in which his/her career aspirations programme,and options, the regard to students are with counseled continuously participating for industries companies, research and institutes potential the up with turn followed is enthusiastically programme placement Institute. in the of the start to initiative an an Entrepreneurship has taken start Institute in mind the the Government, of the Keeping up scheme start Operating also proposed It is to Foundation. a couple of course Wadhwani Cell, in association with Development and support will educate students. This foundation on Entrepreneurship student entrepreneurs, year 3rd and 4th for startups corporates, jobs in abroad, operatinggovernments, creating high-value for and SMEs with in association a city-based creates It also consistingof and educational institutes. entrepreneurial ecosystems investors mentors, entrepreneurship. courses related many teach that institutes

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 110 International Relations and Outreach Report Country India India France Germany Germany Germany Japan China India India India India Germany Sweden Name of the Institute Name Inter – University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (IUCAA), and Astrophysics Astronomy Centre – University for Inter faculty of Chemistry, Dortmund of the Research of Environmental Institute The ECOLES NORMALES SUPERIEURES, ENS The ECOLES TATA Medical Center, Kolkata Medical Center, TATA Max Planck GesellschoffMax Planck University Lund Max Planck Institute for Kernphysik, Heidelberg Kernphysik, for Institute Max Planck Projects in Molecular Research (IMS)- Indo Japan Collaborative of Molecular Science Institute of Technology Changsu Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani Institute National WB Nadia, of Kalyani, University State Agartala, Tripura of Technology, Institute National Sciences, TIFR Biological Centre for National (GAUG) Georg-August-Universitat , Germany Gottingen 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 10 Sl.No. The following MoUs have been signed for academic and research collaboration been signed for and is currently in operation. MoUs have The following InternationalMoUs / National tie-up and Dean of International Relations and Outreach (DoIRO) looks after and coordinate Institute’s global engagement to to engagement global after Institute’s and coordinate looks (DoIRO) and Outreach Relations Dean of International strong organizations partnerships and sustainable international Institutes, Universities/ foreign develop other with memoranda appropriate research of understandings.activities through and academic for DoIRO agencies and funding IISER Kolkata. and officer liaison the will act as agencies external the between The office nodal office is the DoIRO of the of Memoranda and signing of Understandings promoting for (MoUs), visit the attract students and faculty foreign to to taking initiatives coordinating delegations, visits of international effort accelerating Institute’s from countries globe, campus various across the the outreach area of international in the academic and researchand institutions universities collaborations foreign growing road map for with and create country. across the will help students’ of IISER community These academic partnershipsuniversities/institutes foreign top-notch with aspirations. international their and achieve meet and faculty members to Kolkata affect in deciding policy matters and inbound outbound and Dean, Students Academic Dean, with both coordinate To and Dean, R&D in connection with Dean, Faculty with coordinate programmes. To students participating in exchange MoUs. and research related faculty exchange immigration the faculty assistance, process and students, frames for for It provides rules/guidelines inbound/ for holding of national/ facilitates DoAA and DoSA.students, coordinationoutbound foreign/Indian in with DoIRO effective for initiative takes DoRD and HoDs. DoIRO in coordination with workshops, conferences/ international (RAA), Abhiyan Aviskar Bharat Unnat Rashtriya Abhiyan, GIAN, Ishan Vikash, implementation of GoI programmes like, Institute. of the Committee Outreach the with through etc., effort will put constant and consistent DoIRO The alumni community act as brand ambassadors Institute. of the to stronger bond this make alumni to requestalso valued our programmes. various alumni through We the with engage institution of transforming of the society. vision and motto the effective up to and live alma mater, their with effort accelerating countries Institute’s from globe, campus various across the faculty the visiting the It coordinates in and research academic collaborations foreign growing road for map with and create area outreach of international the outreach all Institute and coordinates promotes DoIRO Additionally, country. and institutions acrossuniversities the underprivileged children, local the for meant – Pehal’ ‘Ek students’also and activities like activity outreach organized etc.

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 112 Distinguished Visitor to IISER Kolkata (2018) Distinguished Visitor toIISERKolkata institutes/ Bodyinthenearfuture following Initiatives taken establishing for collaboration withthe Kalyani: MoU withtheUniversity of Renowned wildlife photographer Mr. Mukherjee Dhritiman (School ofPhysics, University ofHyderabad) AnandPathakProf. Philadelphia, USA Science andEngineering atDrexel University in Distinguished University ofMaterials Professor YuryProf. Gogotsi Chair, NUIGalway LeahyProf. Martin France deChimieetLaboratoire Physique Quantiques, TrondProf. Saue BoG Chairperson, IISER,Mohali Dr. Maduchanda Kar, Optical Sciences Raman Center for Atomic, Molecularand Emeritus Professor DebashisMukherjeeProf. IndianAcademy(President, ofSciences) RamakrishnaProf. Ramaswamy Sl.No. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Sikkim University oftrustees board Florida University ofcentral Tripartite MoU(University ofCambridge, Vaishno Mata Shri Devi University) University ofBayreuth University Curtin The University ofwestern Australia Name Name Institute ofthe Country Ireland France India India India India India USA colloquium 20.09.2018 29.08.2018 05.09.2018 08.01.2019 22.10.2018 22.11.2018 07.12.2018 12.01.19 Date of “Portraying behavior through“Portraying Photography” Nanomaterials andCharacterization of Modification for Synthesis,Ion BeamsandLasers stem celltherapy STARSTEM: Reaching to for the stars drive perspective” chemical bondinarelativistic “The Personalised Medicine of -Era Cancer therapy shift paradigm complex sciences?” the simplest disciplineof “Chemistry: Chance kiBaatHai (MXenes) EnablesNew Technologies Two- DimensionalCarbidesand Nitrides Title talk ofthe India USA UK, India Germany Australia Australia Country 113 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Title of the talkTitle Lecture Series Title Series Lecture Active Continental Tectonics Active Super-oscillations and Weak Weak and Super-oscillations Measurement optical at high pressures by Studies method in materials Polyoxometalates and medicine. science, technology Ocean acidification and implications marine global ecosystems for travelogue percussion Our Footprints on the Sands of Time on the Our Footprints QKD for Photon Pseudo Single The prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the resistance in the antibiotic of The prevalence environment life extraterrestrial Searches for Monitored quantum jumps: A quantum A quantum jumps: quantum Monitored trajectory view Towards measurement induced quantum measurement induced quantum Towards engineering state diffusive with Quantum compiling of sets gates Periodic Table @ 150: Some Stories 150: @ Table Periodic Science, Technology, Engineering and Science, Technology, Medicine in India: past, present and future prospects enterprise Converting idea into 1.Towards solution design: A chemists design: A chemists solution 1.Towards 2. Greening based industries of chromium neuro science of and Cognitive 3. Acoustics of Mridangam 4. Musical excellence and Some Systems Symmetric PT- Nonlinear in Optics Implications of their Entanglement and ConservationEntanglement in Laws Many-Body Systems control of electronic and nuclear Optimal robust quantum for spins as building blocks computers Serpent of the of : Glimpses The Jewel India in Ancient and Medieval Mathematics Date of Date 19.12.18 10.01.19 09.05.19 3.01.19 to to 3.01.19 19.12.2018 19.12.2018 19.12.2018 20.12.2018 20.12.2018 27.03.2019 16.04.2019 15.04.2019 14.06.2018 18.04.2018 06.03.2019 22.04.2019 07.05.19 to to 07.05.19 colloquium Host USA New New India India India India India India India India Israel China Korea Zealand Country Germany Kazakhstan Prof. Supriyo MitraProf. Supriyo Prof. Prasanta K Panigrah Prof. Goutam Dev Mukherjee Prof. Goutam Dev Roy Soumyajit Dr. Bhadury Prof. Punyasloke UK UK USA USA China Country Name Name Speaker Prof. Isaac F. Silvera, Silvera, Prof. Isaac F. . USA Harvard University, Prof. Craig L. Hill, USA. Emory University, Prof. Bellerby, Richard R. China Shanghai, P. ECNU, FRS, Prof. James A. Jackson, UK. Cambridge, University Prof. Sir Michael Berry,Prof. Sir Michael UK of Bristol, University Prof. Jaewan Kim Prof. Jaewan Korea Study, Advanced for Institute Korea Carmichael Prof. Howard Zealand New of Auckland, Univ Prof. Sharon Gusky Professor Indo-US Teaching ASM-IUSSTF 2018 Narlikar Prof.J anyant of IISER Kolkata Causa Honoris of the Recipient Majumder Prof. Partha P. National Professor and Founder Distinguished of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, Institute Prof. Sen Yang Hong of Hong Kong, The Chinese University China Kong, Prof. Mandilara Aikaterini Kazakhstan University, Nazarbayev Prof. Moshe Goldstein Israel University, Aviv Tel Prof. Ashok Banerjee Control, and Professor IIM Kolkata of Finance Chandrasekhar Prof. V. TIFR Centre for Centre Director, Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad Prof. M.Lakhsmanan of Centre nonlinear dynamics ,School for University Bharathidasan Physics, Prof. Shashidhara L.S. Pune IISER Department of Biology, Prof. Dieter Suter Prof. Dieter TU Dortmund, Germany Prof. B.M. Deb Delhi New Science Academy, Indian National Ramasami T. Prof. Dr. GOI DST, International of Outreach: Global initiative Academic Kolkata (GIAN) @ IISER Networks

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 114 2. 1. Events organized bytheDoIRO Office: MHRD mandatedcompetitionsin2018atIISERKolkata 2018 AWARENESSVIGILANCE WEEK 2018) (2ndOct. OF M.K.GANDHI 150Th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY November 2018) KalamAbul Azad-11 ofMaulana Anniversary (Birth NATIONAL EDUCATION DAY 2018 AWARENESSVIGILANCE WEEK was anIndianphilosopher, ofIndia. vicepresident statesman andthe first Teachers Day year iscelebrated on5th every ofDr. September inthe Radhakrishnan who memory Sarvepallai Day on29th 11th Julyisthe Foundation day ofIISERKolkata. Thisyear IISERKolkata Celebrated the Institute Foundation The Program endedwith theThe Program vote ofthanks by P.K. Prof. (Dean,International Panigrahi Relations &Outreach) the Simplest DisciplineofComplex Sciences?). (Chemistry: Mukherjee Debashis Prof. by colloquium Special IACS. their to contribution the Institute by Sourav Prof. Pal, Director, IISERKolkata Debashis Mukherjee, andProf. ofthe DebashisMukherjee.Prof. Institute members onthis Asisthe day practice, were for honored few staff the Foundation day at3:00PMfor talk this year was delivered by the andAcademician Scientist distinguished Teachers’ DayCelebration Foundation DayCelebration EVENT

of August. The Program started at2:30PMthe Auditorium, started of August. J.C.BoseResearch TheProgram Complex and B. Why Gandhiji isso BasicEducationof A. B. Nation’s Commitmentto all ofEducation Importance A. a New India Eradicate andBuild corruption a New India Eradicate andBuild corruption (Unnat Bharat Abhiyan)? (Unnat Bharat Development underUBA relevant today inVillage same somewhere. Education ofIISERsare Gandhiji andBasicScience Aspects ofEducation THEME Gandhiji andUnnatBharat No Paradigm Shift: same somewhere Education ofIISERsare Gandhiji andBasicScience Basic Educationof People A Nation’s Commitmentto Indian EducationSystem: ofEducation Importance Planning New India Corruption isaPredator in Build aNew India Eradicate corruption and Build aNew India Eradicate corruption and Build aNew India Eradicate corruption and ARTICLE with Title with ARTICLE Corruption NIL Amarjeet Bagri Amarjeet Bagri Mrittika Mohar Zeshan Akhter Zeshan Akhter Santanu Das Santanu Santanu Das Santanu Santanu Das Santanu Nabojit Kar Nabojit Kar (Employee) (Employee) (Employee) (Employee) (Employee) Mahapatra Mahapatra Mahapatra (Student) (Student) (Student) (Student) (Student) Author Ranking 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 - - 115 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees CESSI, IISER Kolkata and Science City organized the staging of the play “Square Root of a Sonnet” on Friday, Friday, on Sonnet” a of Root “Square play staging the of the organized City Science and Kolkata IISER CESSI, 700046 and on Kolkata 06:00 PM at Science City Mini-Auditorium, J.B.S. Haldane Avenue, 23 March, 2018, free and were The shows Campus. Mohanpur IISER Kolkata 4:00 PM LHC 107, March, 2018, 24 Saturday, all. open to Run for Education Run The Square of Root a Sonnet Unnat Bharat Abhiyan Unnat Bharat “Run for Education”: A mini marathon, organized by Team Ek Pehal on 11th March, 2018. on 11th Ek Pehal Team by A mini marathon, Education”: organized for “Run Centre for rural development and technology development rural for Centre (MHRD) of: Ministry Development of Human Resource Programme MinistryprogramBharat is a national Unnat (UBA) Abhiyan funded by Development of Human Resource by bring in rural transformational to development program change of India. UBA a view with (MHRD), Govt. participationactive local communities and IIT Delhi is acting as National of higher academic institutions with as participating country. Higher Educational Institutes in the for Coordinating Institute Institute district the in consultation villages with of five a cluster has adopted program IISER Kolkata UBA Under development. village holistic for collectors Science of from Institute Indian cluster this for Santanu MahapatraDas coordinator is Mr. villages these In KOLKATA). (IISER Kolkata Education and Research, and one regional workshop 2018 April on 25th Delhi seminar in New one national level conducted has UBA Santanu Das Mahapatra from IISER the Mr. in which 2018, July on 28th Counter in IIT Kharagpur Extension participated. On this day the Institute honored some of its former faculty members who had contributed to the all round all round the honoredsome of its former faculty members to Institute the had contributed who day On this phase. The programme in its initial started entitled institute colloquium of this the with at 3:00 PM, growth The of Science. Indian Academy President of the Ramaswamy, Prof. Ramakrishna ki baat hai” by “Chance erstwhile pleasure the of felicitating faculty the members Angavastram, with took day also on this institute recognition of on institute’s formerjoy their faculty members Few expressed speaker. the for and Memento Panigrahi, Prof. P.K. by of thanks vote The programme the stage. with ended inception in its Endeavour their & Outreach. Relations Dean, and International 5. 4. 3.

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 116 6. all startup India. all startup India,Educationfor India,SkillClean-Green India, Digital Minister Modiji’sPrime Narendra initiative Shri for Make in To befocused andhighlightinthe exhibition- ourHonorable somanywhere govt. organizations comeunderasingle roof. Public Sectors in It theiris an ideal platform respective fields. andachievements Governments and ofthe different country publicaboutlatest andGeneral developmentDignitaries inthe Traders, GovernmentScientists, Buyers,Scholars, officials, FAIR-2018 isto Academicians, inform Youths, Students, Aim: Theaimofthe 6th INDIANNATIONAL EXHIBITIONCUM Theme: ScienceandTechnology for National Development Organizer: Bengal Human Resource Development Venue: Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) Patuli, Ground, Kolkata-700094 Date andTime: 26th to 29th July, 2018, 2PMto 8PM yearadvantages Day onChildren’s with ofEducation.Every kidstake celebration placeinthe campus. to encouragethemselves the ofthe families children by underprivileged andtry to actuallystating them the of the the children livinginandaround villages ofNadia, West Bengal. Thevolunteers visitthe neighborhood dynamic crowd, they sheltering are to discover thestrengths andunleashthe true fullpotential andcapability and rock-bottomunderprivileged of the society. strata With a vision in mind, as a young movement of enthused EkPehal:About Ayouth –ledinitiative by the ofIISERKolkata, students empowers children ofthe 6th IndianNationalExhibitioncumFair 2018(Participated) 117 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Celebration of Day) Celebration Tongue (Mother Matribhasa Divas Sundarban Kristi Mela o Lokosanskriti Utsab – 2018 (Participated) Utsab Sundarban Kristi Mela o Lokosanskriti Kalyani Book Fair 2018 (Participated) Kalyani Book Fair 22nd National Science Exhibition (Participated)22nd National Science Exhibition 11th March 2018; Venue: IISER Kolkata Campus IISER Kolkata Venue: March 2018; 11th Date: March, on 11th Day Tongue Mother International of India along with Diversity” in Celebration “ University of the effortAn cultures differentnine of the first program. the single a explore in was This states to the among 2018: of flagship flagshipthe under of “Ek Bharat intuitive year this celebrated was that series of cultural evenings Bharat”Shresth (EBSB). 20th to 29th December 2018. 29th to 20th and Time: Date Place: Basanti support the with staff team outreach of students and the The Institute members participated Sundarban in the IISER addressed the The activity in large of December 2018. 29th to utsab from 20th Kristi mela o lokosanskriti students in the and its capabilities the for its scope achievements, regarding mass its various the to Kolkata aspirants. eager the to also distributed admission procedure was the detailing future. The pamphlets immediate 7th to 17th December, 2018, 2 PM to 9 PM 2 PM to 2018, December, 17th to 7th and Time: Date Nadia. Central Kalyani, Park, Venue: Theme: Uttarbanga Committee Book Fair Kalyani Organizer: as a sponsorship sq. tariff on behalf of IISER Kolkata, had put an educational stall of 100 team Outreach Institute collaboration mutual departments the of various by alive kept The educational stall was ft book fair. Kalyani in the fare. This in the mass the to academic achievements casing their show in turn participatedthat by day each distribution of pamphlets, the success by a massive aspirants. was activity The outreach young many attracted demonstration and presentation. 3rd to 6th August, 2018, 12PM to 8PM to 12PM 2018, August, 6th 3rd and Time: to Date Milan Samity Maidan, Nimta, Kolkata-700049 Venue: GLOBE” Theme: “NEW INDIA: FUTURE LEADER OF THE YOUTH FOR ORGANIZATION SCIENCE & CULTURE CENTRAL CALCUTTA Organizer: latest scholars, about the public scientistsand general Academicians, inform students & youths, the Aim: To different country the of the of department Government achievement developments the and sectors Public and fields.in their 10. 9. 8. 7.

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 118 13. 12. 11. Tripura, Sikkim,Bihar, andChattisgarh. Jharkhand Orissa, to itsumbrella spread cover 12 other States: Meghalaya, Pradesh, Assam,Arunachal Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, this JBNSTS State. ofthe Asthe gained institution impetus programs interms service, ofstudent andpopularity by the Initiallyfinanced scientist. student Government ofWest Bengal, itsactivities were limited to of students grownhas thus to to gradually providingthe becomeaninstitution promising a range ofeducationalopportunities whowould ofscience,medicineandengineering students JBNSTS grow upto intheir fields. becomeleaders decades now, young this hasevolved institution talented for centre identifyingandnurturing asapioneering JBNSTS Gradually students. hasshedaway itsimage givingscheme four andfor ascholarship ofjust nearly theDuring initialyears, JBNSTS was apopularscheme considered for providing to scholarships meritorious ofHigherEducation,Government ofWest byas declared Department Bengal. was J inauguratedC Bose. The program byAcharya Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Ghandy, scientist, modern JBNSTS was of India’s first initiated Celebration to Centenary commemorate the Birth Government, Academics andIndustry. Conceptualized in1958 by such asDr. visionaries BCRoy andSirJehangir the Government ofWest Bengal andadministered by aGoverning Bodywith representatives the from State West Bengal Society Registration Act XXIof1860 (No.S/4353 of1960-61). Thisorganization ispromoted by Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS), Kolkata is anAutonomous Registered Society under JBNSTS took part. IIser Kolkata hadconducted aworkshop 5th from may 2018 to 9th May 2018 inwhich of 200students around Date: 5th May 2018 to 9th May 2018; Venue: IISERKolkata of such technologies inshaping ourfuture. oflightand technologies toorder inourlives highlightthe importance and alsoto helpappreciate the role selected allover from the isgiven world). Thisgrant for organizing events/activities inthe month ofMay 2018 in The SPIEchapter isoneofthe ofthe recipients 2018 SPIEInternational Day (only13 ofLightmicrogrant chapters inoptics trends (CoOpt-2107),Contemporary Telescope Makingworkshop andothers. international conferences and workshops including the Asian Students Photonics Conference (ASPC-20140, various outreach activities ininstitute level, TheSPIEchapter ofIISERKolkata isthe organizer proud ofvarious Kolkarta hasthe SPIEIISERKolkata Student Chapter, which was inthe established year 2012. from Apart professionalSPIE isaninternational society not-for for optics profit andphotonics technology. TheIISER Organizer: SPIEIISERKolkata Student Chapter Date: 19th May 2018, Venue: IISERKolkata Campus Day ofYoga was asuccessfulone. of Yoga,benefits of the and children families the poster International quizzes and with presentation, participation for the same,the instituteparticipation hadinvited ayoga team the from world yoga society. Withthe on lectures International Day ofYoga 2018.Keeping andto ofthe programme enhancethe active inmind the importance As per MHRD mandate IISER Kolkata three weeks had observed Yoga for theof Programme celebration Date: 21 June2018, Venue: IISERKolkata nentoa a fLight Dayof International Workshop JBNSTS(JagadishIISER Kolkata- BoseNationalScienceTalent Search) Yoga Dayof International It enjoys of a special institution status 119 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Encourage more foreign students to choose India as destination for higher education India as destination for choose more students foreign to Encourage 2% share education exports of global 1% to from less than market Double India’s ranking global educational institutes. of Indian Improve Visit ofVisit delegation: DAAD Study India ProgramStudy The DoIRO office on behalf of IISER Kolkta hosted the DAAD delegation on 14.03.2019.The intention of the the of intention on 14.03.2019.The delegation office DAAD the The DoIRO hosted Kolkta on behalf of IISER and opportunities and scholars developments regarding the Academicians in higher with interact to said visit was education and research in Germany.

This year’s lecture in the lecture series “Icons of Modern Science” was delivered by Prof. B.M. Deb (Indian Prof. B.M. Deb (Indian This year’s lecture by lecture series in the “Icons of Modern delivered was Science” of March. Delhi) on 27th New Science Academy, National Icons of Icons Modern Science: • • • As part of this, the SPIE chapter of IISER Kolkata conducted One-day Optics Festival on 19th May 2018, in which in which 2018, May on 19th Festival Optics One-day conducted of IISER Kolkata As part SPIE chapter the this, of part part. took senior students of EK Pehal took the schools Even and nearby around students 200 from Kalyani one. made it a successful and event in this Prof. Soumitra banerjee, visited Nepal, Kathmandu regarding Study India Program which was organized by by organized India Program regardingStudy was which Nepal, Kathmandu visited Prof. Soumitra banerjee, May th control of MHRD) from under administrative 18th-19 ConsultantsEDCIL (Educational India Limited, 2018. The Ministry (MHRD) in collaboration with India Program: Study About Development of Human Resources Ministry Affairs of External pursue in India’ attract ‘Study programme students to foreign to approved has Singapore Malaysia, Australia, by launched initiative India. The programmehigher education in similar to is global improves at boostingand Canada. It aims country’s students shareand subsequently, of international reputation and rankings of Indian educational institutions. Objectives: 16. 15. 14.

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 120 18. 17. finances, guesthouse, exchange, faculty finances, doubledegrees. exchange for summer school, foreign (Stibet, students Scholarships programme, DAAD, Free State of Bavaria), International Funding for for Indianstudents internship, student Programs International strategic partnerships, andcooperation; relations The agenda ofthe meeting was: International Internationalization affairs, strategy; WIEBKE DÖRFLER,ManagingDirector ofthe BayIND Bavarian-Indian Centre. social Sciences)– the (alsorepresenting Faculty ofHumanityand DirectorDR. ARNIMHEINEMANN, ofthe International Office Law, Business andEconomics)– PROF. DR.TORSTEN Chair ofBusinessAdministration(HumanResource KÜHLMANN, Management, Faculty of Academic and Research collaborations. delegationsThree the from University of Bayreuth (Germany) visited IISER Kolkata on 11.12.2018 for exploring Science. Institute alsoonthis day many honored of teaching for their in the contribution field andnon-teaching staff for lecture the National ScienceDay. DebashisMukherjee GhoseandProf. delivered Partha plenary Prof. The National ScienceDay inIISER Kolkata was celebrated for two consecutive days, i.e.on28.2.2019 and1.03.2019. ii f eeainfo h nvriyo Bayreuth theUniversity Delegationfrom of Visit of NationalSciencedayCelebration: 121 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees ttingen and IISER Pune. and IISER ttingen

Namaste + ProgramNamaste IISER Kolkata being one of the partners Institute of the NAMASTE+ mobility project attended a meeting organized organized a meeting partners of the being one project mobility attended NAMASTE+ the of Institute IISER Kolkata ö of G University the by EU and India and the mutual understanding between improve program of the is to The main aim and objective EU. the of India with enhance political, cultural, and economic links educational, was and Outreach Relations International Asst. Registrar, Debnath, Dibyendu , DoRD and Mr. Prof. Prasanta Sanyal meeting. the attend to from IISER Kolkata nominated Members of office of the International Outreach and Relations K. Panigrahi Prasanta Prof. & Outreach) Relations (Dean of International Roy Soumyajit Dr. (Outreach) Convener Dr. Amirul Islam Mallick Amirul Dr. Member (Outreach) Denath Dibyendu Mr. Assistant Registrar (International Relations & Outreach) 19.

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 122 Library : American Chemical Society - journals with their archive - journalsAmerican their Chemical Society with archive journal their collection with – complete Union American Geophysical Sciences of Mathematical American Institute Society American Mathematical database GeoRef with GeoScienceWorld journalsIEEE society proceedings and conference database journal collection – Complete Statistics of Mathematical Institute journals package of Physics Institute of America Society database of Optical Infobase Optics Science collection Society Royal of Chemistry Society archive – journals their with Royal journal collection and archive Industrial (SIAM) - Complete for and Applied Mathematics Society

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 124 The library isopen onallseven days oftheThe library week. toorooms ofthe for users. the benefit with allpossibleamenities.Itwillprovide spacefor SkypeRoom, andfew room practice discussion smallpresentation as for soothing one’smindwith Ithas beenplanningto somelight reading. make place reading comfortable itusers both engagements serious placeinthe with campussoon becomethe offering aswell one’s study soughtafter most institute engaged hasalready to oneinterior may complete decorator firm this Itishopedthat process. the library building.The the considering aesthetics ofthecommensurate andfixture library with the kindoffurniture right points andservice with ofitsresources arrangement asuitable isin the ofdesigningallthe process floors The library Plan Future ortheses. theyresources dissertations their term usedwhilepreparing papers, onlinetool subscribed TurnitinLibrary to ourusers assists prevent any mistake inadvertent inacknowledging the CheckingService Originality Plagiarism Grammarly tool year. this from financial to to subscribe started the to intheir the writing, library ourusers service ofproviding support writing As part Writing Service Support search. usercommunityintheir bibliographic the to alsosubscribes database SciFinder helpitschemistry Besides, the library dcto lcrnc eore fMHRD: ResourcesEducation Electronics of Higher for the e-ShodhSindhu:Consortium a memberof Institute receivesThe as access to the following resources these, from Apart 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

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Assistant Librarian Roy Sushanta Kumar Mr. Library Information Assistant Pitambar Naskar Mr. Library Information Assistant Dhara Pradeep Mr. Office Assistant (MS) Library Staff Members Tiwari V.R. Dr. Librarian Jana Siladitya Library Hours (2018-2019) Hours : 24 Sunday – Monday

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 126 Computer Centre In order to meet the growing internet requirements in the existing hostels, during the current financial year, the old the current during the financial hostels, year, existing requirementsthe in internet growing the meet orderIn to state-of-the-art upgradedwireless the access points. access points were dual-band high-throughput with During the current financial year, the biometric class attendance system for first for BS-MS students system and second year class attendance biometric the currentDuring the financial year, course management existing the record with syncing mechanism attendance An automated implemented. were monitor instructors, students and academic cell members to It allows also been put in place. have WeLearn, system, portal. records WeLearn through on a daily basis attendance the Dual-band Wireless Access Points: Biometric attendance system: Computing Facilities at IISER Kolkata Facilities Computing the cater of state-of-the-art facilities maintains to computing a wide variety IISER Kolkata at Center The Computer performing maintainneeds for a very as to research as well high-standard cutting-edge activities. of academic the gigabit provided which Fiber Cable Network speed Optical high through are campus connected All buildings in the is wifi a combination institute enabled through entire of the campus the end-users. the Further, to connections ethernet a combination of 1 Gbps through internet the to at presentis connected The institute of 2.4 and 5 GHz channel. broadband fromconnection Broadband.Alliance gigabit a and (NKN) Network Knowledge fromleased-line National installingstate-of-the-art multiple by cyber-attacks ever-increasing is made secured against network The campus maintain uninterrupted an to uplinks internet of switchover automatic open-sourceprovide also firewalls Endian which connectivity. internet Virtual equipped a well has The institute conduct and participate Classroom in e-classes offered to institutions the by sitting capacity of 75 users. the with Center Computer equipped across India. It also has well IP Camera through based Surveillance locations aremonitored strategic other and entryAll the Institute of the gates offices, All institute IP based VoIP are with equipped and securitySystem. checkpoints entrance laboratories, gates phones. The high-performance Ramanujan existing the through are catered scientific institute computational needs of the GB 48 cores along with has 216 cluster Ramanujan The existing Dirac installed the Supercomputer. and newly Cluster institute needs of the computing the Additionally, storage. of connected terabytes of RAM per node. It also has several are installed in every that departments. multiple high-end workstations through are also augmented services maintains following Center network. campus in the The Computer in-house developed ERP, Solution, Institute & Backup VPN, NFS, Data Storage Firewall, DNS, Gateway, LDAP, Mail, Web, WiFi etc. Internet, Intranet, System, Moodle based Course Management ERP, Academic campus. in the a paperless environment administrative have to and is closely working is committed Institute installed or upgraded:newly were systems computational following the financialDuring 2018-19, the year

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 128 vii) vi) v) iv) iii) ii) i) DiracCluster: Configuration of which includes60Teraflops ofCPU)and4×4.7Teraflops ofGPU. with several terabytes of networked is 78.8 Teraflopsfacility of theSupercomputing Dirac storage. The performance year. computing cluster,top-end high-performance namedasthe Dirac Supercomputing Facility financial inthe current the institute ofthe computing requirements researchers, hasset-up scientific a toIn order cater highperformance DiracSupercomputer: The Supercomputing Facility website isnow powered by the latest basedtechnology, open-source namelyDjangoweb framework. year, theDuring financial for both the existing hardware andsoftware institute website Thenew were upgraded. New InstituteWebsite: Each Socket : Storage : Each Socket : FLOPS : Storage: Connectivity: Each Socket : 30 Compute Node : 6FAT Node : Each Socket : 2 GPUNode : Master Node : Operating System : The Dirac clusterThe Dirac hasboth GNUandIntel Itcomeswith multiplejobqueue compilers. management system along 60 Teraflops (CPU)+4×4.7Teraflops (GPU)=78.8 Teraflops 130 TBonRAID-5NAS Storage with 20GBPSnetwork for Backup. 100 GBPSInfiniband 2.4GHzIntel20 core, Xeon Skylake 128 scalableprocessor GBDDR4ECCRAM 2 CPUSocket, 2.4GHzIntel20 core, Xeon Skylake 512 scalableprocessor GBDDR4ECCRAM 2 CPUSocket, P100 (16 NvidiaGPU GBmemory) 2.4GHzIntel20 core, Xeon Skylake 128 scalableprocessor GBDDR4ECCRAM,2×TESLA 2 CPUSocket, 32 TBwith RAID-5on100 GBPSnetwork backbone 2.4GHzIntel20 core, Xeon Skylake 128 scalableprocessor GBDDR4ECCRAM 2 CPUSocket Rocks 7(BasedonCentOS7) 129 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 130 Administrative Report was celebrated on celebrated was of IISER Kolkata chapter SPICMACAY , distinguished Mukherjee Debashis Prof. was celebrated celebrated was of Yoga Day 4th International Institute SPIE Outreach Outreach SPIE , Institute Festival Optics one-day The instrumental a classical organized programme on artist, Santoor renowned Pandit by 10.04.2018 Bhattacharya Tarun Tagore Rabindranth on Kobiguru A special event Birth Anniversary – Tagore’s commemorate to which works remember the to and Jayanti Rabindra celebrated was a renaissance in literature created on 09.05.2018 Day Technology National newly on the session an interactive with 11.05.2018 formed IISER Kolkata. RISE Foundation, A of Programme, Day occasion of International on the students for on 19.05.2018 organized Light, was research with along colleges and schools nearby of scholars of IISER Kolkata. held on was Colloquium Special Institute IUCAA, Pune Narlikar, V. Prof. Jayant by 14.06.2018 life” extra-terrestrial for “Searches topic, on the The session from Yoga a 3-week with on 21.06.2018 1-21.06.2018 on held Celebrations Day Independence 72nd The National hoisting of the by marked was 15.08.2018 topper overall of Gold Medal for awarding Tricolour, Prize, Freedom Foundation Education Rao CNR and Director, Pal, Prof. Sourav Plantation by and Tree Run IISER Kolkata. delivered was Lecture Kolkata IISER of Day Foundation by scientist and academician, on 29.08.2018. observed was during Pakhwada Bharat Swachh and inculcate promote to 15.09.2017 to 01.09.2017 community and its IISER Kolkata cleanliness withion surroundings.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. were were Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, eminent Murthy, N. R. Narayana Mr. was the Chief Guest and Prof. J. V. Narlikar, Narlikar, Chief Guest and Prof. J. V. the was Kolkata IISER of Camp donation Blood 3rd was held was of the Institute Sixth Convocation held on 13.06.2018, 10.10.2018, 10.01.2019 10.01.2019 10.10.2018, held on 13.06.2018, respectively. and 30.03.2019, Committee Finance of the Three meetings and 10.01.2019, on 13.06.2018, held were respectively. 30.03.2019, on held were Senate of the meetings Four and 21.12.2018 26.07.2018, 21.05.2018, respectively. 18.03.2019, Building and Works of the One meeting held on 08.01.2019. was Committee Board of Governors of the meetings Four online counseling service on launched was eminent astro-physicist was conferredHonoris the was eminent astro-physicist students –133 of 177 A total IISER Kolkata. Causa by MS), 10 9 - IPhD (with Research; BS-MS; 1 - MS by degrees their PhD students – received - IPhD and 24 of IISER Kolkata. Convocation 6th in the on 02.04.2018 Celebration of 83rd UTKAL DIVAS an array of through students of IISER Kolkata the by colourfulprogrammes richcultural the highlighting of Odisha. heritage An (India’s in collaboration YourDost with 03.04.2018 first and emotional online mental health and largest professional a get to institution/organization) counseling service all members Institute for of the The Voluntary the with 04.04.2018 on organized was Blood Blood Donation members and Government Bengal. of West Banks (ii) (iii) (iv) The permanent at the of IISER campus on 13.06.2018 Kolkata. of and co-founder philanthropist industrialist, Infosys Meetings: (i) 3. 4. 5. 2. 1. Major administrative activities of activities administrative Major the 2018-19: year the during Institute

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people and mental healthpeople andmental inachanging world’. Day IISER Kolkata celebrated the World Health Mental Patel by pledge Run andEkta taking (Run for Unity). Vallabhai ofSardar anniversary the birth celebrating was celebrated on31.10.2018 and by observing Rashtriya Diwas Ekta IISER Kolkata inChemicalSciences. ofIndia,toprize two from scientists outstanding Bhatnagar the Prize, ScienceandTechnology highest IISER Kolkata to announcethe ShantiSwaroop A felicitation fighters. offreedom likeprogrammes Pheri,Cleanlinessdrive Prabhat and of MahatmaGandhiandwas marked by various 02.10.2018 to commemorate 150th Anniversary Birth Gandhi Jayanti Celebration was organized on 24.09.2019 RSC Roadshows by Rajbhasha Karyanvayan Samiti. Conference inHindiwas organized on20-21.09.2018 in Hindi,Hasya Kavi SammelanandScientific Rajbhasha Workshop which includedworkshops community. implementing cleanlinessdrive by IISERKolkata commenced on 15.09.2018 and by supporting Swacchata HiSeva – Work. Hindi inofficial Language implementation andpromoting useof Rajbhasha Karyanvayan Samitito the mark Official A two-week was hosted longprogramme by the Rajbhasha Pakhwada was 14-28.09.2018. heldfrom की बातह RamakrishnaProf. Ramaswamy onthe title:Chance Special Institute Colloquium was delivered by andfelicitation ofteachers. programme toof respect allthe teachers through acultural 05.09.2018 by the community asamark student Teacher’s Day was celebrated atIISERKolkata on Press Conference was convened by Director, on10.10.2018 highlightingthe theme :‘Young on 05.09.2018 was organized by IISERKolkata on an initiative by MHRD, (National Unity Day) 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25.

by Speaker: “Bengal Ghoseonthe Title: Partha Prof. 28.02.2019from –01.03.2019 talks with Plenary National Science Day Celebrations was organized education organizations. top levelcreate ofIndianhigher andnurture leaders designedto andpanelsunderthelectures program was 11-22.02.2019 heldfrom through various Leadership for Academicians Program (LEAP) of IISER-K. by various events with the children of nearby areas Ek Pehal’s Anniversary 4th was heldon11.02.2019 Celebration ofInstitute Outreach Programme -- 26.01.2019.programmes.on celebrated RepublicThe 70th Day workshops 25-27.01.2019 from by movie maestros, andcraft screenings concerts with aplethora events ofcultural including off SPICMACAY West Bengal State Convention took was heldon 16.01.2018. ofPrinciples’ Uncertainty byTheatre performance Ayan Prof. Banerjee, ‘The tissues” and functional assessment of biological structural on the topic, “Photon mayhem: usinglightfor 16.01.2019 by Alex Prof. University ofToronto Vitkin, OSA Travelling Lecture 2019 was heldon participated. the across from country participants was held on 11-13.01.2019 in which 250 around A IISERs andIISc. baggedIISER-K the winningpositionamongall IICM 2018: 19from -21.12.2018 and Technology” was organized at IISER Kolkata SGBT 2018 –“Sweet 18: Glycochemistry, Biology by HimanshuMahantonthe Shri Tabla. Vishwa MohanBhattonVeena accompanied on31.10.2018a classicalperformance by Pandit The conference on“Understanding Behaviour 2019” SPICMACAY Chapter ofIISERKolkata held by various the amidst family IISER-K was heldon 21-23.12.2018 inwhich of our country was of ourcountry 133 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees b) A short presentation by the Rescue and Relief Relief and short A b) Rescue the presentation by their for RRF of felicitation and Kolkata Foundation, girl who are for children of human victims work trafficking short c) Screening of the film “Flight the session with an interactive and Kite” of a Red and Mr. - students Ms ArunitaBanerjee film makers Siddharth Khan held on was Colloquium Special Institute Title: title: on the “Controlling nonlinear 15.03.2019 of shape and materials the plasmonics through nanostructures” – Science, technology The 9th edition of Inquivesta IISER annually by organized was and cultural festival of a plethora with from 8-10.03.2019 Kolkata, and exhibitions. workshops competitions, 38. 39. Received the degree in Cost and Management Accountant (CMA) from the Institute of Cost Accountants of of of Cost Accountants Institute (CMA) from the Accountant degree in Cost and Management the Received India. The book is written on Sikkim Himalaya and has been highly acclaimed by the critics and readers. the and has been highly acclaimed by on Sikkim Himalaya The book is written Publisher: Long Journey ISBN: 9788193648001 : http://longjourney.in/bookstores/ Details For Category: Trekking Adventure Up 2nd Runner Award: “ Pass “ Cloudy Hampta titled: slide show April 2018 Year: magazines. reputed published in some works and nature photo travelogues several Additionally, pursue a course to on Cooperation Programme (MTCP) Technical Malaysia under a fellowship with Awarded Partnership Public Private Experience” at the Ministry Unit, “PPP & Infrastructure Malaysian The Development: 2018. during 29 July - 4 August of Finance, Malaysia 2019 OF ENGINEERS (INDIA) on 28 Feb OF INSTITUTION Has been enrolled as FELLOW Renaissance and the Birth the and Modernof Renaissance in Science Prof. Mukherjee, Debashis by India”, further talks Director Pal, Prof. and Sourav Kolkata, SNBNCBS of Faculty Honouring Ceremony by IISER-K followed research and their for and staff IISER Kolkata of Education C N R Rao Awarding and innovation Prize. Foundation 06- held on were Colloquia Special Institute Chandrasekhar Centre Director, Prof. V. 07.03.2019 InterdisciplinaryTIFR Centre for Hyderabad Sciences, Honorary Roesky Prof Herbert and Speaker: Walter Kolkata IISER Professor, on celebrated was Day Women’s International Prof. Somdatta a a) Special lecture by by 08.03.2019 as a scientist Sinha, IISER Mohali, on her journey ...... Learning September Processes, held on 5th on Use of ICT in Teaching Workshop in National as Speaker Invited Kalyani. University, at Kalyani 2018 and IIMs, IISERs, NITs Centres in IITs, participate of Computer Directors of Conference National in the to Invited Varanasi at Banaras Hindu University, 2018 November Central held during Universities 15-17 . . .

Achievements ofAchievements staff members 2018-19 Sanjib Das Assistant Technical 2018. year has been published in the Nature) DESH “ (Category - Travel, SIKKIM EK ACHIN Debut book ” PASCHIM 1. Mountaineering & Cultural Association Naihati) (Youth YMCA by organized competition Slide show 2. Event: Shahid Ali Farooqui IISER Kolkata Administrator, Systems 1. 2. Bhowmik Bhaswati IISER Kolkata PRO, Reddy Viswanath Kasi Mr. IISER Kolkata Engineer, Superintendent Chakrabarty Choudhury Narayan Soumyendra IISER Kolkata Accountant, 36. 37.

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 134 Administrative Staff List Saberi Sen Saberi Office Cell Academic Superintendent, Paul Shibnarayan Office Purchase Section Superintendent, Sanjib Das Centre Assistant, Computer Tech/Scientific Marick Rajni Sciences Assistant, Physical Tech/Scientific Chatterjee Indrajit Sciences Scientific Physical Officer, Partha Banerjee Officer(Electrical), IWD Technical Sarkar Chinmay lien vacancy, (F&A) against Assistant Registrar Bordoloi Narayan Suraj Affairs Faculty Assistant Registrar, Sharma kumar Kaushal Chief Security Officer, Administration Tiwari Raghav Vijay Librarian, Library Debnath Dibyendu Affairs Student Assistant Registrar, Reddy Viswanatha D.Kasi IWD Engineer, Superintending Das Biswajit (F&A), Finance & Accounts Assistant Registrar Khatua Pradip Scientific DPS Officer, G. Lekha Scientific DBS Officer, Pal Mayukh Medical Unit Medical Officer, Dey Priya Medical Unit Medical Officer, Immanuel Alexander Director’s Office SecretaryDirector, Private to Mazumder Debabrata Asst. Engineer (Electrical), IWD Das Shibajee Asst. Engineer (Civil), IWD Chattopadhayay Arnab Assistant, Chemical Sciences Tech/Scientific Group B Group A Sil Joydeep Administration Registrar, Kumar Uday Sciences Scientific Officer, Physical Sr. Srikant Kambalapalli Scientific Officer, Chemical Sciences Sr. Rao D.Govinda & Accounts Deputy Registrar(F&A),Finance Shahid Ali Farooqui Centre Computer Administrator, System Jana Siladitya Assistant Librarian, Library Shukla Sanad Kumar Establishment Assistant Registrar, Bhadra Rana Centre Computer Officer, Technical Sushmita Bhattacharjee Cell Academic (Academics), Assistant Registrar Sadhukhan Kumar Arnab Centre Computer Officer, Technical Sunita Bhattacharjee Officer(Civil), IWD Technical Santanu Das Mahapatra Administration Assistant Registrar, Gupta Parna Scientific Chemical Sciences Officer, Non-teaching StaffNon-teaching

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 136 Lab Technician, Physical Sciences Gour GopalPaul Lab Technician, ChemicalSciences Piyali Bose Lab Technician, Sciences Earth Rupan Chandra Rakshit Lab Technician, BiologicalSciences Debabrata Sutradhar &Accounts (MS),Finance Assistant Office Sukhendu Chatterjee &Accounts (MS),Finance Assistant Office Prasanta KBhui Lab Technician, BiologicalSciences Sudip Mitra (MS), DOFOffice Assistant Office Puskar Das C Group Junior Superintendent, PurchaseSection Himanshu Ghosh Accountant, &Accounts Finance Ganga Ram Roy Junior Translator, OL Surashree Dutta BiologicalSciences Assistant, Scientific Ritabrata Ghosh Technical IWD (Electrical), Assistant Gopal Shankar Mukherjee ResearchPersonal Assistant, &Development PalMitali Technical (Civil),IWD Assistant Subhankar Das Library Assistant, Information Library NaskarPitambar Sciences Earth Assistant, Scientific Santosh Ch. Das Physical EducationInstructor, Student Affairs Mettu Vasudev Library Assistant, Information Library KumarSushanta Roy AttendantPhysical Sciences Subhas Malo Sciences Earth Lab Assistant, Aveek Chattopadhyay ChemicalSciences Lab Assistant, Saroj Nayak BiologicalSciences Lab Assistant, Sudhangsu Maity PhysicalLab Assistant, Sciences Pintu Das (MS),Student Assistant Affairs Office Sharmistha Ghosh (MS),MedicalUnit Assistant Nursing Deepak Kumar Panigrahi (MS),MedicalUnit Assistant Nursing Purabi Mondal Office Director’s Personal Assistant, Joy Chakraborty Accountant, Research &Development Soumyendra N.C.Choudhury Computer Assistant, Centre Software Saikat Bhattacharyya DBS Assistant, Scientific Dipesh Dutta Technical IWD Assistant, Anirban Howlader IWD Junior Engineer(Electrical), Manoj Dutta Superintendent, DoSA Office Bipul Kumar Bora Junior Superintendent, Office Director’s Mustaque Khan Accountant, &Accounts Finance Raju Sethi Accountant, &Accounts Finance Ashok Das 137 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Soumya Kanti samanta Kanti Soumya & Development Junior Assistant, Research Debnath Avijit Junior Assistant, Director’s Office Zeeshan Akhtar Cell Junior Assistant, Academic Ghosh Prasenjit Junior Assistant, Establishment De Suvadip Junior Assistant, IWD Annie Sunita Kerketta Junior Assistant, DPS Bhowmick Sanjoy Office & Purchase Assistant(MS), Stores Banerjee Abir Office Assistant(MS), Administration Gupta Supriya AffairsJunior Assistant, Faculty Dhara Chandra Pradip Office Assistant(MS), Library Sanjit Singh Director’sOffice Attendant, Das Kumar Ajay Skill), Administration Attendant(Multi Rao K. Dharma IWD Skill), Attendant(Multi Sujit Sarkar Centre Computer Skill), Attendant(Multi Sana Shyamal Affairs Student Skill), Attendant(Multi Mall Nitin kumar Office Development & Assistant (MS), Research Soumen Mondal Lab Assistant, DCS Dutta Arun Cell Junior Assistant, Academic Sengupta Joydeep AffairsJunior Assistant, Faculty Lal Pasi Hira Junior Assistant, Establishment Mukherjee Prosenjit AffairsJunior Assistant, Student

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 138 Important Administrative Committees Director of Science Indian Institute – 560 012 Bangalore Chief Secretary Bengal of West Government Advisor Financial of India MHRD, Govt. 001 Delhi - 110 New Shastri Bhavan, Prof. Prasanta Sanyal Prasanta Prof. Department of EarthProfessor, Sciences IISER Kolkata Jayasundar Rama Prof. Department Resonance Magnetic of Nuclear (NMR) Delhi New AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, Sinha Kumar Arun Prof. (Statistics) University Patna Former VC, – 800005, Bihar Patna Director Kharagpur of Technology Indian Institute 302 Kharagpur – 721 Secretary Energy, Department & Renewable of New of India Govt. Delhi New Lodhi Road, CGO Complex, Secretary Ministry of Earth Sciences, of India Govt. PrithviBhawan, Opp. India Habitat Centre, Delhi New Lodhi Road, Mitra Supriyo Prof. Department of EarthProfessor, Sciences IISER Kolkata Secretary Department of Higher Education of India MHRD, Govt. 001 Delhi-110 New ShastriBhavan, Pal Sourav Prof. Director IISER Kolkata 246 - 741 Mohanpur Chairperson, of Board Governors, IISER Kolkata Arvind (Retd.) Prof. A. Natu IISER Pune Former Senior Scientist, (NCL) Chemical Laboratories National Member Ex-officio Membersof The of Board Governors of IISER Kolkata 30.03.2019) (As on

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 140 (As on30.03.2019) FinanceCommittee The of Members (As on30.03.2019) BWC of Members Secretary Member National ChemicalLaboratories (NCL) SeniorScientist, Former IISER Pune Natu A. Prof. (Retd.) Arvind andMember Chairperson Secretary Member Mohanpur -741246 Director, IISERKolkata Prof. Sourav Pal Chairman Mohanpur -741 246 Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand Registrar Sil Joydeep Shri. NITTTR Kolkata -700106 Director Prof. PhalguniGupta Mohanpur- 741 246 Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand Director Prof. Sourav Pal Mohanpur-741246 Superintending Engineer, IWD,IISERKolkata Secretary S Bhubaneswar, Orissa CPWD Ex-ADG, Shri SPattanayak Nizam Palace, Kolkata – 700020 MSOBuilding,5th1st Floor Chief Engineer(EZ–I),CPWD Mohanpur -741246 DoFA, IISERKolkata Prof. Supriyo Mitra hri. DKasi Viswanatha Reddy

Mohanpur -741 246 Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand Registrar (Offg.) Mukhopadhyay Balaram. Prof. Bhawan,Shastri New Delhi-110 001 ofHuman Resource Development Ministry ofHigherEducation Department Financial Adviser Kalyani University –741 235 Dept. ofChemistry Prof. Surojit Chattopadhyay Mohanpur-741246 IISERKolkataRegistrar (Officiating), Prof. Balaram Mukhopadhyay Mohanpur-741246 Registrar, IISERKolkata Shri Joydeep Sil Basant Nagar, Chennai –600090 Street 5,22ndCross Flat –4,Sairam, Shri T. V. Prabhakaran

: 141 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Prof. Sujata Sen Prof. Department of Sociology Ex-faculty, Kalyani of Kalyani, University Prof. Prasanta Sanyal Prasanta Prof. and Development, Dean of Research of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Banerjee Soumitro Prof. AffairsDean of Academic of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Dr. Tarun Kumar Dalai Kumar Tarun Dr. Head, Department of Earth Sciences and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Mukherjee Goutam Dev Prof. High Pressure Centre for Head, National Studies and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Bhadury Punyasloke Prof. and Environmental Climate for Head, Center Studies, and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Nayak Kumble Rajesh Prof. in Space Sciences of Excellence Head, Center and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Prof. Animesh Biswas Prof. Director Rourkela of Technology Institute National Aswini Ghosh Prof. Department Physics of Solid State of Science Cultivation the Indian Association for Dr. Arindam Kundagrami Arindam Dr. Dean of Students’ Affairs, of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Banerjee Narayan Prof. Affairs,Dean of Faculty of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research K. Panigrahi Prasanta Prof. and Outreach, Relations Dean of International of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Dr. Satyabrata Raj Satyabrata Dr. Head, Department Sciences, of Physical and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Anirban Banerjee Dr. Head, Department & Statistics, of Mathematics and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Bhattacharyya Sayan Dr. Materials Functional Advanced Head, Centre for (CAFM) and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Mandal Kumar Swadhin Prof. Head, Department of Chemical Sciences and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Mohit Prasad Dr. Head, Department of Biological Sciences and of Science Education Indian Institute Kolkata Research Head of Departments and Centres Deans External Members Chairman Pal Sourav Prof. IISER Kolkata Director, -741246 Mohanpur Senate MembersSenate 30.03.2019) (As on

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Interdisciplinary Science Development Report 142 he Warden Chief Professors Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences, Department Prof. DebasishHaldar Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofPhysical Sciences, Department Prof. Chiranjib Mitra Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences, Department Prof. ChillaMallaReddy Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofPhysical Sciences Department Prof. BipulPal Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofPhysical Sciences, Department Prof. Ayan Banerjee Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofMathematics &Statistics, Department Prof. AsokKumar Nanda Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences, Department Prof. Arindam Mukherjee Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofBiologicalSciences, Department Prof. Annagiri Sumana Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofPhysical Sciences Department Prof. AmitGhosal Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand Chief Warden Dr. SanjioS.Zade Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand Sciences ofEarth Department Prof. Supriyo Mitra Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences Department Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences Department Prof. Raja Shunmugam Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences Department Prof. Priyadarsi De Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofChemicalSciences Department Prof. Pradipta Purkayastha Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofPhysical Sciences, Department Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofBiologicalSciences, Department Prof. Jayasri DasSarma Research Kolkata Indian Institute ofScienceEducationand ofPhysical Sciences, Department Prof. Dibyendu Nandi 143 Students’ Achievements Students’ Affairs International Relations Library Computer Centre Administrative Administrative Important Administrative Report and Outreach Report Report Staff List Committees Dr. Supratim Datta Supratim Dr. Professor, Associate Department Sciences, of Biological Education and of Science Indian Institute Kolkata Research (13IP016) Pandey Sachin Mr. IPhD Programme of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Mukhopadhyay Balaram Prof. Officiating Registrar of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Dr. Debasis Koley Dr. Department of Chemical Professor, Associate Sciences, Education and of Science Indian Institute Kolkata Research Mandal Kumar Prasun Dr. Professor, Associate Department of Chemical Sciences, of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Dr. Vijay Raghav Tiwari Tiwari Raghav Vijay Dr. Librarian of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research (15MS132) Ghosh Dastidar Ranadeep Mr. BS-MS Programme of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Shri. Joydeep Sil Joydeep Shri. Registrar of Science Education and Indian Institute Kolkata Research Other Faculty Other Faculty Members Secretary Student Student Representatives Librarian

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