Basket Ball Inter-departmental Tournament

>Basket Ball (M) Inter-departmental Tournament held between Department of Biological Sciences and Chemical Sciences at IISER Mohali on October 31, 2013 at Basket Ball Court of the institute. Olympain Sandeep Kumar presided as the Chief Guest and Dr. Manjit Singh was the Guest of Honor on this occasion.

Inter IISER Sports Meet

>Inter IISER Sports Meet 2013 held at Pune. IISER Mohali bagged gold, silver, bronze medals in various categories of sports meet.

Program for School Science Teachers

>IISER Mohali, under its outreach activities has organized a program on Wednesday September 25, 2013. The program involved 30-40 teachers and teacher trainers from the Punjab Government school system.

>The program main focus was to:

>a) Expose the participants to the IISER concept and to opportunities in Science.

>b) Bring them in touch with some topics in current scientific research so that they see the excitement in science, and take it back to share with other teachers and   students.

>c) Show them demonstrations which will help them generate interactive and enquiry based science teaching methods in schools.

>d) Bring out the connection between learning science and doing science.

Orientation Programme of BS- MS 2013 Batch

>Orientation Programme for the BS-MS 2013 batch held on August 3, 2013 at IISER Mohali Campus.

Mathematics Weekend

>Mathematics weekend was organized in the Institute on October 25-26 2013 to celebrate the birth anniversary of legendary mathematician Evariste Galois. The celebration started with a popular talk "The Tau of Ramanujan" by Professor Eknath Ghate from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai.

>Mathematical treasure hunt event that saw an overwhelming response from the students was organized soon after the popular lecture. Other events that kept students engaged >for the whole weekend were Mathematics Olympiad, Dumb Charade, Crossword and Quiz. Mathematical stalls demonstrating fun part of the subject were put up in the foyer of  >Lecture Hall Complex. Mathematics major students of the Institute along with Mathematical Sciences Faculty had put joint efforts to make the event successful.

Teachers Day Celebration and Best Teacher Award

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>On September 5, 2013, the students organized a Teachers day celebration, and the best teacher award (for those teachers under 40) was awarded to Dr. Ramesh Ramachandran, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali.

Session on Abel Prize 2013

>Professor Kapil Hari Paranjape spoke on the Abel Prize 2013  which was awarded to Pierre Deligne of the Institute for Advanced Studies. Professor Paranjape spoke on the work of Deligne in particular describing his famous proofs of Weil conjectures and Ramanujan’s tau conjecture as a consequence.

Session on Nobel Prizes 2013

>To discuss the Nobel Prizes of 2013, a session was organized with experts speaking on the different prizes.

• >Professor C. S. Aulakh (Panjab University) spoke on the Physics Nobel Prize which was awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs.
• >Professor N. Sathyamurthy (IISER Mohali) spoke on the Chemistry Nobel Prize which was awarded to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel.
• >Dr. Mahak Sharma (IISER Mohali) spoke on the prize for Physiology and Medicine which was awarded to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof.