Apr 2024: Our group activities were presented through posters and table talks by Dhananjay, Hemlata, and Parth on Research Scholar Day, Department of Physics, IITK. (Conferences)

Apr 2024: Siva gave a talk on "Harnessing Activity Controls the Microscopic Dynamics Underlying Bacterial Turbulence" at the 9th Indian Statistical Physics Meeting held at ICTS Bengaluru. (Conferences)

Mar 2024: Siva gave a lecture on "Traffic Rules of Microbial Communities" in the Short Term Course on Traffic Flow Simulation and Theory at IITK.  (Conferences)

Feb 2024: Siva gave a talk on "Microscopic Dynamics Underlying the Emergence of Bacterial Turbulence" at the Symposium on Active and Living Matter, held at IIT Bombay. (Conferences)

Dec 2023: Hemlata gets the best poster award in the COMPFLU 2023. Congratulations. (Awards)

Dec 2023: Our group activities were presented through posters and table talks by Pankaj, Dhananjay, and Siva in COMPFLU 2023. (Conferences)

Dec 2023: Siva chaired a session on "Thin Films and Membranes" in COMPFLU 2023. (Conferences)

Nov 2023: Dhananjay gets the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). Congratulations.  (Awards)

Jul 2023: We revealed novel transitions in microscopic dynamics underlying the emergence of bacterial turbulence.  Do read our arXiv for more details.  (Research)

Aug 2023: We got funded (STARS-IISc MoE)  (Funding)

Jun 2023: Hemlata gets the Class of  1968 Creative Research Proposal Prize. Congratulations. (Awards)

Jun 2023: Soft Matter Young Investigator (Advisory Committee) Meeting at Uttarakhand. (Conferences)

Feb 2023: In collaboration with Krishnacharya's group at the Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, we revealed electric field-induced reversible wetting dewetting transition. Refer to our Advanced Materials and Interfaces for more details. (Research)

Oct 2022: We got funded (DST-AMT) (Funding)

Jun 2022: Soft Matter Young Investigator (Organizing Committee) Meeting at Mysore. (Conferences)

May 2022: Our collaborative work, with Saravanan Matheswaran's group, on the importance of chemical stresses in switching the motility of bacteria in biofilms, is out in BioRxiv. (Research)

Apr 2022: In collaboration with Jun Xu's group and Guenter Reiter, we revealed a frugal approach to probe the primary nucleation in metastable solutions of polymers. Do read our work on Macromolecules for more details. (Research)

Mar 2022: We, with Guenter Reiter,  summarized our perspective on the non-equilibrium properties of polymer films in a Book Chapter in Macromolecular Engineering: From Precise Synthesis to Macroscopic Materials and Applications. (Research)

Dec 2021: In collaboration with Jaydeep Basu's group, we revealed how an interplay of enthalpic and entropic barriers allows us to tune the kinetics of particle penetration in high-density polymer nanocomposite layers. Check our Soft Matter paper for more. (Research)

Dec 2021: We got funded (SRG, SERB) (Funding)

Jun 2021: Virtual Soft Matter Young Investigator (Presented) Meeting. (Conferences)

Mar 2021: Ever wondered about the microscopic moves underlying the gelation of egg white? Take a look at our Physical Review Letters, in collaboration with Frank Schreiber's group, revealing the structure formation and the microscopic dynamics underlying gelation. (Research)

Dec 2020: Virtual COMPFLU'20. (Conferences)