Academic Garden

Today’s Sunday edition of Mint newspaper carries a profile of six young mathematicians by Dilip D’Souza (who writes a regular column, “...

Overheard the following conversation between two academics, a man and woman from two European countries: M: So, how long are you her...

I am now a resident member of IISER Pune.   I’ve been longing for this day ever since I first stepped into IISER Pune and saw th...

The next two weeks are going to be a handful. By Saturday, I have to finalize a paper and lecture notes for a series of lect...

A commenter to the previous blog post, Aravind asks the following question: “From my experience of a KVPY interview, I understand that...

Mathematics @ IISER Pune is all set to start an Integrated PhD programme in the coming autumn semester. We finished interviewin...

My former advisor Professor Ram Murty is visiting IISER Pune.   While he was waiting in front of the coffee machine, a cleaning...