Departments and Centres
- Department of Biology:
Research in Biology at IISER-Pune currently encompasses both theoretical and experimental approaches to the broad areas of System Biology, Ecology and Population Dynamics, Cancer Biology, Neurobiology, Epigenetics and Gene-environment interactions.
- Department of Chemistry:
IISER-Pune's Chemistry department offers research opportunities in a wide range of interest from traditional Physical, Inorganic, Organic, Organometallic Chemistry to new frontiers of Chemical Biology, Material Research and Nano Science.
- Department of Physics:
Physics research at IISER-Pune currently covers the areas of Astrophysics, Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos, Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information Theory, Semiconductor Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Physics.
- Department of Mathematics:
The department has research groups in Number Theory, Finite Group Theory, Lie Algebras, Representation Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Knot Theory, Cryptography, Algorithms, Relativity and String Theory.
- Centre for Integrative Studies (CIS):
The Centre for Integrative Studies (CIS) pursues integration of knowledge, with special emphasis on scientific and mathematical inquiries. By integration, they mean connecting and unifying the apparently disconnected and fragmented knowledge, at the intradisciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary levels
- Computing Facilities:
The computing facility at IISER,Pune caters to all the students, faculty and staff. A back-bone server-class computer running the Linux operating system can be accessed from any terminal on the local area network. The central server is thus connected with all the computers in the student computer lab through LAN.
High Performance Cluster: IISER, Pune also houses a High Performance Cluster (HPC) boasting a 10 TB ultra-fast HDD, and sixty four nodes with 18 GB RAM per node. The faculty and research students use the HPC to solve real-life problems in the fields of biology, chemistry, materials science, nano-science, and computational physics.
Network: The institute LAN consists of both wired and wireless components, and connects all computers in the institute. Individual laptops can be connected through the secure Wi-fi network. All computers in the institute are connected to a 4 Mbit/s internet connection.
- Centres of Excellence:
IISER-Pune also houses following advanced research centres/ centres of excellence:
- DBT Centre of Excellence in Epigenetics
- DST Unit on Nanoscience
- Max-Planck Partner Group in Quantum Field Theory
- Max-Planck Partner Group in Glyco-nanotechnology
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