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Fundamental Research Institute and Deemed University for Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science & Science Education, under the umbrella of @DAEIndia .

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Mumbai has a Maths Circle! Led by faculty from TIFR, maths enthusiasts can meet up on Saturday afternoons at St. Xavier's College. The first session was by the ever-enthusiastic Mahan Mj who took the audience through a delightful 2000 year journey of geometry.
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Prof. R. Vijayaraghavan's lab @TIFRScience featured in an @IndianExpress article about the National Quantum Mission which was approved last week. TIFR scientists are gearing up to play an important role. @DAEIndia @IndiaDST
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TIFR Graduate School GS-2024 Nationwide Entrance Examination on Dec 10 2023. Application Deadline: 12 noon on Nov 2, 2023. @TIFRScience @TIFRH_buzz @NCRA_Outreach @ictstifr
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Have an old t-shirt/banian/sadra at home? Here is an design for a simple, washable, face mask. No stitching required! Infographics, usage guidelines and precautions in English & Marathi below. Also at More languages soon! Let's stop the spread of #COVID19
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Visualising music with a Reubens' tube is never not fun! And the children love it. #NationalScienceDay #TIFROutreach
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TIFR is delighted to announce that Prof. Shankar Ghosh, @TIFRScience has been awarded @CSIR_IND 's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for 2019 in Physical Sciences, announced at CSIR Foundation Day celebrations. Congratulations to Shankar! (Pic. courtesy @chaiandwhy )
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New year, new look! Celebrating 75 years of TIFR with a new website for the Colaba campus - Check back regularly for new science stories, details on upcoming events, our popular @chaiandwhy sessions and more.
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Prof. Sandip Trivedi, Director, TIFR ( @TIFRScience ) and Prof. Satyajit Mayor, Centre Director, NCBS ( @NCBS_Bangalore ), have been awarded the "Vijnan Ratna Award" and 'Vijnan Bhushan Award" respectively, by the H.K. Firodia Memorial Foundation. @DAEIndia @TIFRH_buzz #TIFRPeople
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Congratulations to Prof. Polshettiwar for being among the 10 winners selected for the Falling Walls Breakthrough of the year 2023 in the Physical Sciences Category. And best wishes for the announcement of the Laureate on Sep 13th. @DAEIndia @IndiaDST
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Proud winner of Falling Walls Global Call in Physical Sciences! Honored to stand with brilliant minds from Harvard, Yale, IBM, ETH, MIT, MaxPlank. Truly humbling & inspiring. One step closer to #ScienceBreakthrough title! @Falling_Walls #CO2
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Dr Homi Bhabha, Nobel Prize laureate C V Raman and politician, freedom-fighter and administrator, Sri Prakasa talking at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore #TIFRArchives @iiscbangalore
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Best wishes to Chandrayaan-3 for a soft and safe landing! All of us @TIFRScience are rooting for you. #Chandrayaan3 Watch the live stream at : @isro @DAEIndia
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TIFR turns 75 today! Check out these events planned for today: @DAEIndia
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A room full of students at TIFR interacting with the Chemistry Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan. Everyone is looking forward to his lecture this evening on his insights into ribosomes. #TIFRVisits
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Celebrating the talented women scientific officers @TIFRScience Colaba Campus on International #WomensDay2018 #TIFRPeople
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We thank all the women @TIFRScience for their awesome contributions throughout the year, over the years! #IWD2019
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Using a supercomputer, physicists @TIFRScience have predicted the existence of a new subatomic particle: The most strongly bound beautiful dibaryon. The work is published in @PhysRevLett and opens up avenues for searching heavier exotic nuclei. @DAEIndia
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We're delighted to announce the launch of a pan-institutional (TIFR centres, IISc, IndiaBioScience and other publicly funded institutions) multilingual portal CoVID-Gyan () for communicating scientifically accurate information about #COVID19 .
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Danish physicist Dr. Niels Bohr, Dr. Homi Bhabha, German mathematical specialist in number theory Dr. C L Siegel and industrialist J R D Tata, at a reception held at the International Colloquium on Function Theory at TIFR in 1960 #TIFRArchives @tatatrusts
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Congratulations to Prof. Basudeb Dasgupta @TIFRScience for winning the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) award for 2022 in the Physical Sciences Category. His work is at the interface of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. @DAEIndia
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One of the busiest hands-on demos on #NationalScienceDay - learning about angular momentum using a rotating platform and a bicycle wheel!
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Feb 11 is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience - @TIFRScience celebrates it's #WomenInSTEM - Faculty, Scientific Officers, Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate students @ictstifr @TIFRH_buzz @NCBS_Bangalore
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India's first three-qubit superconducting quantum processor from the Quantum Measurement and Control Lab @TIFRScience . The work published in @PhysRevApplied is featured as Editors' Suggestion. @DAEIndia @PrinSciAdvGoI @IndiaDST
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TIFR faculty members will present the science behind the 2021 Nobel prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Physiology/Medicine for a general audience. Join us for a special Wednesday NSF Colloquium @TIFRScience on 3rd November at 4PM IST. Live on YouTube:
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Nuclear physicist and Padma Bhushan recipient, Bernard Peters in conversation with Dr.Homi Bhabha’s mother Meherbai Bhabha on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of TIFR in 1970. Also seen J J Bhabha and others #TIFRArchives
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Congratulations to Prof. Prahladh Harsha ( @prahladh ), Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar ( @VPolshettiwar ) and Prof. R. Vijayaraghavan for being elected as fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru ( @IAScBng ) @DAEIndia @IndiaDST @TIFRH_buzz @ictstifr
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Group photograph of the participants: Summer School in Theoretical Physics organised by TIFR at Bangalore. In the photograph Prof. Menon, Prof. R H Dalitz, Dr. Bhabha, Prof. M Gell-Mann and others (Left to Right) #TIFRArchives
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"Most of the great practical advances in science, and, therefore, in industry, have had their origins in fundamental research, without which they would have been impossible or would have been long delayed.” - JRD Tata, @tatatrusts - Celebrating #TIFRFoundationDay June1, 1945
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Congratulations Prof. Vidita Vaidya @TIFRScience on this great achievement. @DAEIndia
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Infosys Prize
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#InfosysPrize2022 in Life Sciences is awarded to Vidita Vaidya, @TIFRScience , for her fundamental contributions to understanding brain mechanisms that underlie mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, including signals engaged by the neurotransmitter serotonin... (1/2)
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Congratulations for the INSA Young Scientist Award @TIFRScience Alumni Dr Prerna Sharma, now a faculty member @iiscbangalore and Dr Dhananjay Huilgol, presently @CSHL
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Tomorrow, 30th Oct, TIFR celebrates the 50th Founder's Day, remembering the legacy of our founder & visionary Homi J. Bhabha. On this day we present academic degrees & annual recognitions. The Founder's Day lecture will be given by @NCRA_Outreach 's Prof. Jayaram Chengalur.
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Dr. Palas Roy, a TIFR graduate from The Dasgupta Research Group, is one of the five worldwide winners of the 2018 IUPAC-Solvay Award for Young Chemists for his PhD work. He was selected from 45 applicants from across 15 countries. @DAEIndia #TIFRScience
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Congratulations Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya @tifrarnab ! Wishing you the very best for the new role as the Director of @HBCSE_TIFR .
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Arnab Bhattacharya
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An update! Starting today, I'm delighted to join the wonderfully diverse and passionate community @HBCSE_TIFR , the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. As we step up to the challenges facing the world today STEM education and public engagement are going to be vital. Game on!
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Prof. Ken Ono, eminent mathematician and associate director for the film "The Man Who Knew Infinity" speaking at TIFR about Ramanujan's letter containing his mathematical insights that convinced G. H. Hardy to call him to Cambridge. The rest is history. #TIFRvisits
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The National Flag hoisted at the institute at sunrise this morning #AzaadiKaAmritMahotsav
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On Independence Day, the @TIFRScience security staff hoist the tricolour on the terrace in a solemn ceremony every year at 0619 AM, sunrise in Mumbai (of course, cloudy and no sun visible!) in the midst of strong monsoon winds.
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The energetic @ViditaVaidya taking the audience through the historical roles of serotonin long before it adapted to act as a neurotransmitter in brains.
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Dr.Homi Bhabha, Nobel Prize laureate C.V. Raman and Indian politician, freedom-fighter and administrator, Sri Prakasa talking at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore #TIFRArchives @iiscbangalore
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Outreach teams from our Colaba campus, @NCRA_Outreach and @HBCSE were in Ooty to conduct public viewing events for the #AnnularSolarEclipse today at the Govt Arts College & the Ooty Radio Telescope. With clear skies large crowds at both venues enjoyed a spectacular event #scicomm
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Measuring the width of a human hair from its diffraction pattern at the FOTON lab at TIFR on #NationalScienceDay !
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Preparations are on for TIFR's largest ever Frontiers of Science, getting ready to host 2400 students plus teachers from 120 schools. Here are some of our student volunteers laying the groundwork. #behindthescenes
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It's that time of the year again! TIFR to conduct its annual "Frontiers of Science" event on Nov 24. School students from all backgrounds, including under-served communities, will get a tour of TIFR labs and facilities, see cool science demos and attend talks by TIFR students.
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Team TIFR is all set to head out to the National Science Day event organized by @NCRA_Outreach at GMRT. We have 3 van loads of demo equipment and 12 enthusiastic volunteers eager to showcase some cool experiments. (Mutant fruit flies, crazy pendulums, waves of fire...) #scicomm
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Prof. Roop Mallik of the Department of Biological Sciences at @TIFRScience wins the prestigious @InfosysPrize 2018 in Life Sciences for his work on molecular motor proteins. His research page: @DAEIndia @IndiaDST @TIFRH_buzz #TIFRScience #TIFRPeople
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Infosys Prize
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"It's a big milestone in my life." - Roop Malik, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, on winning Infosys Prize 2018 in the category of Life Sciences. #InfosysPrizeAt10
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Hurry! If you're a woman MSc Physics 1st year student you can still apply for our Vigyan Vidushi (Physics) programme: the deadline is extended to 12 May! The 2022 edition of VV physics is going to have an on-site experimental component @HBCSE_TIFR along with the online sessions!
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Nanoelectronics lab @TIFRScience reports observation of Josephson diode in twisted junctions of high temperature superconductor in @NatureMaterials with potential for devices operating at liquid nitrogen temperatures. @DAEIndia @IndiaDST @serbonline
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Iconic image of Einstein, Yukawa, Wheeler and Bhabha at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton - 1947 #TIFRarchives @tatatrusts @DAEIndia
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@TIFRScience is delighted to note that Prof. Deepak Dhar has been awarded the Padma Bhushan 2023. He made seminal contributions to Statistical Physics during his 38 year tenure at TIFR. Hearty congratulations to Professor Dhar! @DAEIndia @IISERPune 1/2
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Homi Bhabha sitting in his study room at his residence ‘Meherangir’ #TIFRArchives
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Prof HC Verma @IITKanpur prepares his demonstrations for the ASET colloquium on "Big learning from simple experiments" at TIFR
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A jam-packed audience at TIFR listening to distinguished physicist Prof. Ashoke Sen speaking on gravitational radiation emitted by violent explosions or collisions in the Universe.
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TIFR Centre's @NCBS_Bangalore Molecular ecologist Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan @uramakri has spearheaded a concerted effort to study the genetic diversity of India's tigers - Critical to concerted conservation efforts #WorldTigerDay @IndiaDST @drharshvardhan
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Graphene based ultra-low noise amplifier paves the way for a new class of cryogenic detectors and sensors. Joint work by the Nanoelectronics Group and Quantum Measurement and Control Lab @TIFRScience published in @NatureNano . @DAEIndia @IndiaDST @serbonline @PrinSciAdvGoI
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New content online: Quantum-noise-limited microwave amplification using a graphene Josephson junction
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Remembering Bibha Chowdhuri, the first woman scientist at TIFR and a prominent figure in High Energy Physics. The @IAU_org even named a star after her. #WomenInSTEM
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Founder's Day: Join us online at 2 pm TODAY as we pay homage to our founding director Dr. Homi J Bhabha on his birth anniversary. Events: Director's address, convocation ceremony, academic awards, public lecture and 25 years service medals to TIFR staff.
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Dr. Homi J Bhabha explaining high altitude cosmic ray apparatus during the inauguration of TIFR #TIFRArchives @DAEIndia @tatatrusts
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Congratulations Prof. Nissim Kanekar @TIFRScience on this great achievement. @DAEIndia
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#InfosysPrize2022 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Nissim Kanekar, @TIFRScience , for his study of galaxies in an era, the so-called “high noon” period, in which stars were being formed at a maximum rate.
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A unique exhibition of science-based sculptures, “Sculpting Science: An Experiment in Art”, by Sukant Saran is being organized to celebrate the Foundation Day of @TIFRScience June 1-10, 10 am to 5 pm Inauguration by Mr Adi H. Jehangir, Chairman @JehangirArt on June 1 at 10.30 am
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Danish physicist Dr. Niels Bohr, Dr. Homi Bhabha, German mathematical specialist in number theory Dr. C L Siegel and industrialist J R D Tata, at a reception held at the International Colloquium on Function Theory at TIFR in 1960 #TIFRArchives @tatatrusts
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Good morning Mumbai! All through the night volunteers have made the preparations for the science day celebrations at the TIFR Colaba campus. Looks empty now, should be buzzing with activity very soon! #scicomm
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Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru laying the foundation stone of the Institute building in 1954 #TIFRArchives @DAEIndia
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Prof. R. Vijayaraghavan of @TIFRScience will be presenting two talks on Quantum Computing in a webinar series organized by HBNI. Today's talk titled "What is a quantum computer and what can it do?" will be live streamed at 4.30 pm: @DAEIndia @IndiaDST
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Dr.Bhabha talking to Danish physicist Niels Bohr during the International Colloquium on Function Theory at TIFR in 1960. His contributions to atomic structure and quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize. He was also a philosopher and promoter of scientific research #TIFRArchives
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Dear responsible citizens, All of our public talks and @chaiandwhy sessions are available online, So get yourself charged with science while you practice #SocialDistancing in this quarantine.
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Remembering Bibha Chowdhuri, TIFR's first woman scientist, on the occasion of International #WomenScienceDay . #WomenInSTEM
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Many labs in TIFR are actively working on various aspects of research related to COVID-19 like testing efficiency of masks , simulating the spread of the disease and more
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Arnab Bhattacharya
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The serenity of the flowers on the ground outside provides a sharp contrast to the hectic COVID19 related activity in our labs inside @TIFRScience
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Homi J Bhabha sitting in his study room at his residence ‘Meherangir’ #TIFRArchives
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@TIFRScience sunsets are a thing of beauty.
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The next generation of talented Indian Scientists - Kudos to TIFR Centre dedicated to Science Education @HBCSE_TIFR for training these young minds and also for their stellar results at the International Physics Olympiad @IndiaDST @DAEIndia
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India has topped the medals tally at the International Physics Olympiad held @ Lisbon, #Portugal from 21-28 July with FIVE GOLDS for five students! Congrats to the students: Pawan Goyal, Lay Jain, Siddharth Tiwari, Bhaskar Gupta & Nishant Abhangi! #IPhO2018 #TeamIndia #Gold
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Group photograph of the participants: Summer School in Theoretical Physics organised by TIFR at Bangalore. In the photograph Prof. Menon, Prof. R.H. Dalitz, Dr. Bhabha, Prof. M. Gell-Mann and others (Left to Right) #TIFRArchives
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Jyotishman Dasgupta's group at @TIFRScience shows that reactivity of styrene, an important reagent in polymer industry can be transformed to oxidised products controllably using Nanocages in water. Green and sustainable chemistry at work! @DAEIndia
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Happy #NationalScienceDay ! Here is a glimpse of science bringing smiles to public at the TIFR Colaba campus celebrations that were held last Sunday. #scicomm
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This is also the largest "Frontiers of Science" we've ever organized. A total of 2400 students and teachers will attend the event and about 400 TIFR volunteers will engage with them to show 44 science labs and facilities across the campus. #scicomm
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Profs Ullas Kolthur-Seetharam @UllasKolthur and Sandip Juneja led the NITI Aayog-BMC-TIFR sero-prevalence study in Mumbai. Here are the intial reports from the @mybmc
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माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC
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SARS-CoV2 Sero-Prevalence Study in Mumbai; NITI Aayog–BMC-TIFR Study - First Round Report.
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TIFR research led by Prof. Roop Mallik gets covered by @the_hindu @DAEIndia @IndiaDST #TIFRScience
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TIFR scientists, in collaboration with IISER Pune and @iiscbangalore , discover how the liver controls fat flow into the blood using Kinesin. The work also has significance for transport of hepatitis-C virus inside liver cells @DAEIndia @IndiaDST #TIFRSci
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Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan delivered a riveting talk at TIFR on the long journey of cracking the structure and functioning of the ribosome, a fundamental machinery of life. #TIFRTalks
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The glass blowing section is one of the oldest sections of @TIFRScience Here, an expert busy at work on the glass blowing machine #TIFRArchives
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Carrying out organic reactions in water will be a major step towards green synthesis of chemicals. At TIFR Mumbai, Jyotishman Dasgupta's group has demonstrated a photochemical analogue of the classical Glaser coupling in water triggered by visible light
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Dr. Bhabha showing the model of Atomic Research Centre at Trombay to Dr. Rajendra Prasad during his visit to Trombay. Dr. Rajendra Prasad is accompanied by his two grandchildren #TIFRArchives
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A special colloquium by Prof. Ullas Kolthur and Prof. Sandeep Juneja to discuss the latest results on the sero-survey carried out by @NITIAayog , @mybmc , @TIFRScience and partner organizations in the Mumbai area. Aug 7 at 3 pm live on @DAEIndia @PMOIndia
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Ankona Datta's group at TIFR reports new molecules which can remove excess Copper from living systems with high selectivity. These molecules can be developed into therapeutics for treating Alzheimer's and Wilson's disease. @DAEIndia @IndiaDST #TIFRScience
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The Institute first began functioning in 1945 at the Cosmic Ray Research Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and moved to Bombay the same year. Here is an experimental set up in the Tritium Laboratory used for cosmic ray experiments in TIFR #TIFRArchives
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From the depths of the subatomic to the breadth of cosmological - explore our Universe at the beautiful online exhibition by Cosmic Zoom at . Register at for guided online tours. @ictstifr @ZoomCosmic
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Veronica Rodrigues, carried out pioneering work on the neuronal lineage of olfactory sensory neurons in the fruit fly brain #TIFRpeople
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Veronica Rodrigues, neuro/developmental/microbiologist, born in Nairobi & educated in Dublin and Mumbai. Offered permanent faculty position by @TIFRScience while still a grad student there. Pioneer of chemosensory bio in Drosophila olfaction and olfactory development #WomeninSTEM
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The Institute first began functioning in 1945 at the Cosmic Ray Research Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and moved to Bombay the same year. Here is an experimental set up in the Tritium Laboratory used for cosmic ray experiments in TIFR #TIFRArchives
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Reminder: An online session on experiments with magnets by the TIFR outreach team @chaiandwhy today, watch it live or later!
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Chai and Why?
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Don't forget, fun with magnets at today's session, here are some preps for a "magnetic accelerator" (sometimes called a Gauss gun). Need slo-mo to really see what happens, even with just 3 magnets! 11 AM IST: Zoom link at #scicomm
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TIFR India
4 years
The Superconductivity Lab @TIFRScience invalidates the conventional view of Cooper pairing in very thin superconducting films with strong disorder; Cooper pairs can continue to survive even after superconductivity is destroyed by phase fluctuations.
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TIFR India
5 years
New research from @TIFRScience provides exciting evidence that the neurotransmitter serotonin can directly influence neuronal powerplants, thus impacting the manner in which neurons grapple with stress. @DAEIndia @IndiaDST
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TIFR India
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@TIFRScience was privileged to host Prof. Stephen Hawking as a Distinguished Sarojini Damodaran International Fellow during Strings 2001 where he gave science talks and a public lecture on "The Universe in a Nutshell" - Picture in TIFR Lawns with Profs Ed Witten and David Gross
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TIFR India
5 years
Prof. Jayant Narlikar of @IUCAApune shares his thoughts on how the graduate school can be made more enjoyable. Prof. Rohini Godbole of @iiscbangalore highlights the pressing issue of gender balance. #TIFRGS50
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TIFR India
5 years
Iconic image of Einstein, Yukawa, Wheeler and Bhabha at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton - 1947 #TIFRarchives @tatatrusts @DAEIndia
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TIFR India
5 years
Work in Computer Science and Technology started in 1954. Here is an operator drawing a picture on CDC-3600 computer system in TIFR with graph pen and touch screen facilities #TIFRArchives
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TIFR India
4 years
"Life is your Lab!", says Vinita Navalkar addressing 800 school students on how to become a scientist and sharing her journey of becoming one. #scicomm #FrontiersofScience
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TIFR India
2 years
Nanoelectronics group @TIFRScience explores vibrations of a graphene bimorph drum with a bubble to provide insight about adhesion in 2D van der Waals heterostructures. Work featured as #MyACSCover in @NanoLetters . Article: @DAEIndia @IndiaDST
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TIFR India
4 years
Prof. Ngô Bảo Châu, Mathematics Fields medalist speaking at TIFR on "Hitchin morphism for higher dimensional varieties". He is visiting TIFR for the flagship International Mathematics Colloquium which has gathered experts from across the world. #TIFRVisits
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TIFR India
5 years
The #TIFROutreach team had an amazing experience at the immensely popular National Science Day programme at the GMRT. "Science in the shadow of the antenna" Thanks Team NCRA! (Pic @MayankNtifr ) @chaiandwhy @NCRA_Outreach @asipoec @yash_gupta_1962 #scicomm
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TIFR India
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Public Lecture by Prof. Ali Yazdani Director, Princeton Centre for Complex Materials, Princeton University, U.S.A "Peering into the secret life of Electrons" 10th January 2023 (Tuesday) at 6 pm Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR Colaba, Mumbai ENTRY IS FREE. BRING PHOTO ID.
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Our 75th year celebrations begin with #VigyanVidushi a physics summer school for MSc level women students, with six public lectures that will be livestreamed. Starts with a bang today with Poonam Chandra @NCRA_Outreach - "Explosive demise of massive stars”
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