Where chaos, curiosity, and clarity reign equally Amrit Mahendra Joseph still gets a faraway look in his eyes when you bring up his first-year undergraduate physics lab at IISc. The former UG student, who just completed his Master’s in mathematics, laughs about it now, but back then, an incident involving the impulse-momentum theorem felt […]
Creating under constraint When Umesh Varshney joined IISc as an Assistant Professor, he was excited to dive straight into microbiology research. It was 1991, and he had just returned from his postdoctoral stint at MIT in Cambridge. He planned to study protein synthesis in Escherichia coli and DNA repair in mycobacteria, among other exciting […]
