What campus event/activity do you look forward to most? (Compiled by Amrapali Datta, Shreya Vashista, Kritika Gaur, Souptika Das, Manauv Vyas Hemakumar)
Category: Campus Chronicles
Is Seeing Really Believing?
The perils of image manipulation in science Volume 119, No 38, Figure 1. To most people, this is just a set of incomprehensible scientific data. But this figure, along with those from 13 other papers, is special. They lie at the heart of a high-profile scientific scandal: the downfall of a Nobel Laureate. Unlike […]
On Accounts and Arts
Indumati Srinivasan has spent over three decades navigating some of India’s most complex public institutions – from the vast system of the Indian Railways to the research-driven environment of the Indian Institute of Science. Trained as an economist and shaped by years in the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), she brought rigour and quiet resolve […]
Bridging Worlds
Suhas Mahesh is a man of many talents. He is a material physicist working on building self-driving labs using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate materials discovery. A Rhodes Scholar currently working with Schmidt Sciences in New York, he also nurses a love for languages, particularly ancient ones like Sanskrit and Prakrit. He has published a […]
Behind the Screens
A day at DIGITS If IISc were a living organism, with the Main Building as its brain, then the DIGITS office (Digital Campus and Information Technology Services) would be its spine: positioned just behind the “brain”, tasked with carrying signals and coordinating responses across campus and beyond. The office building stands at the intersection […]
Connect Asks
What’s your secret to making friends on campus? (Compiled by Ashmita Gupta, Kavi Bharathi R, Sandeep Menon)
Fantastic Fables
Spooky stories of campus past IISc is equal parts a university and an epic, covering several epochs in its century of existence. Stacks of dusty files overflow with correspondence and documents, digital folders burst with names and passwords, and fossilised records lie silently in the farthest corners of the library. Yet, there is more. […]
Connecting…
Socialising in the digital age Imagine sitting at Sarvam, basking in the bliss of a good hair day. The weather is pleasant, the sun is timid and a cool breeze is playing its part – the quintessential hyper-marketed Bengaluru weather. Around you, everyone chats happily. There is a reassuring calm within the chaos. A […]
Behind the Biosafety Doors
Staff who support high-stakes research A long walk downhill on Silver Oak Marg leads you to the quiet edge of campus, where the bustle of the main roads fades into the murmur of trees. The air feels cooler here. Just past the Combustion Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL), there is a gate on the left. […]
‘You need special crazy people … to do science’
Yuri Kivshar is among the foremost authorities in metamaterials as well as nonlinear physics and nonlinear photonics, having made several pioneering contributions to these fields. The award-winning scientist is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Optica, the American Physical Society, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and the Institute of Physics. […]
