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Opening Ceremony of Executive Education Complex

Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri attended opening of Executive Education Complex on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 on fourth floor of Shailesh J. Mehta School Of ...more

IIT Bombay Students Win DST AWSAR Award 2020

IIT Bombay students Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Debanjan Chandra, Ms. Ritutama Ghosh and Dr. Veenita Shah were selected for AWSAR Award by Department of Science and Technology ( ...more

Interim Session of 59th Convocation

The Interim Session of 59th Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on Saturday, February 27, 2021 from 3.00 pm onwards at the Institute’s Convocation Hall in Hybrid mode (3-D ...more

A Special Mention To IIT Bombay Students Under...

IIT Bombay students Kritti Sharma, Kunal Deshmukh, and Harsh Kumar received a special mention under the "New Discovery award 2020" from the Astronomical Society of India. ...more

Research Highlights

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IITB researchers unravel the anomalies in uranium
Researchers have explained how the electronic prope...

IITB researchers unravel the anomalies in uranium

Researchers have explained how the electronic properties and atomic vibrations of uranium are linked.
An electronic instability destabilizes the lattice, trigg...
Studying human-wildlife interactions: Why we need to look beyond conflict
Researchers discuss the challenges in studying human-wildlife coexi...

Studying human-wildlife interactions: Why we need to look beyond conflict

Researchers discuss the challenges in studying human-wildlife coexistence and the way forward.
Every year, several...
How fluids react to surfaces coated with repelling paint
Researchers study how water flows past a surface that repels it hea...

How fluids react to surfaces coated with repelling paint

Researchers study how water flows past a surface that repels it heavily
Fluids are objects that flow, including liquids and gases. Physicists have long studied their motion using the tools of...
Wearable sweat sensors on a bandage
Researchers develop thread-based sensors to detect changes in metab...

Wearable sweat sensors on a bandage

Researchers develop thread-based sensors to detect changes in metabolite levels in sweat.
Metabolism — or the processing and utilisation of energy resources to sustain life — results in...
Slipping away from the surface: Impact of Kerala 2018 floods on soil erosion
Study finds an increase in the rate of soil erosion post the extrem...

Slipping away from the surface: Impact of Kerala 2018 floods on soil erosion

Study finds an increase in the rate of soil erosion post the extreme floods in August 2018.
In August 2018, the people of Kerala saw one of the worst floods since the great floods of 19...
The laws of electromagnetism at the scale of a few atoms
Researchers have demonstrated the reciprocal relationship of electr...

The laws of electromagnetism at the scale of a few atoms

Researchers have demonstrated the reciprocal relationship of electricity and magnetism over a thin magnetic film.
Physicists discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetis...
Recovery from Cyclone Phailin in marine fishing communities
Researchers investigate social, economic, human, and physical facto...

Recovery from Cyclone Phailin in marine fishing communities

Researchers investigate social, economic, human, and physical factors driving and resulting in recovery in the aftermath of Cyclone Phailin.
Cyclone Phailin over the Bay of Bengal...
Merging memory and computing in nanoscale devices for efficient computation
Scientists have devised a novel approach to combine memory and comp...

Merging memory and computing in nanoscale devices for efficient computation

Scientists have devised a novel approach to combine memory and computation units
Modern computers carry out computations — also called ‘logical operations’ — on massive amounts of data...