Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor, Physics, SIAS, co-authored a research article titled CaFe2O(PO4)2: A compound with S=5/2 corner sharing triangular saw-tooth chains published in Physical Review B.

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Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, authored a paper titled Evaluating Continuous-Time Recurrent Neural Networks for State-Dependent EEG Forecasting, published in the proceedings of the 2025 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Technologies (ACOIT).

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Professor Jayaram Ramakrishnan, Professor of Practice, IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB), co-authored an article titled Costing Approach Adopted for MSP Fixation: A Practitioner’s Perspective with Dr Lakshmi Padmakumari, Assistant Professor, Finance and Accounting, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), published in Agri Bulletin, the quarterly flagship journal of the Agriculture Cost Management Board of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI). Read More

Dr Lakshman Varanasi, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, SIAS; Varun Viswanathan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS; Dr Debasish Mishra, Assistant Professor, Data Science and Information Systems, IFMR GSB; and Steven Chris, Teaching Fellow, Data Science and Information Systems, IFMR GSB, co-authored a research article titled Modeling Markers for Detection of Psychiatric Disorders Using EEG Signals, published in the Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems. Read More

Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Centre for Writing & Pedagogy (Krea-CWP) and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, delivered the keynote address titled 'Effective Writing Support in an Unequal Playing Field' at the symposium 'Beyond Access: A Symposium on Reimagining Student Support in Indian Higher Education,’ organised by Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, on 27–28 March 2026.

Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP, delivered a plenary talk titled ‘"It Helped me Speak English Without Thinking Twice": Insights from a Peer-Driven Immersion-Based Approach to English-Language Support’ at the symposium ‘Beyond Access: A Symposium on Reimagining Student Support in Indian Higher Education,’ organised by Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, on 27 March 2026.

Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor, Economics, SIAS, and Dr Sabah Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, have authored an opinion piece titled India must use the AYUSH opportunity in The Hindu. 

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Dr S Raja, Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati, conducted a talk titled ‘Quantum Computing: From Qubits to Quantum Algorithms’ on 24 March 2026.

On 24 March 2026, an engaging live podcast session, Creator Couch on Campus, featured Sparsh Shrivastava, celebrated actor and Sadhika Sehgal, content creator and podcast host. They discussed their artistic journeys, creative processes, and perspectives on storytelling and the evolving digital landscape. The event concluded with Anirudh Sondhi, Cohort of 2024–28, SIAS, winning a Vivo V70 in collaboration with Vivo India.

The Psychology discipline launched its inaugural ‘Psychology as a Human Science’ lecture series this term, linked to the elective course PSYC 236: Psychology as a Human Science, taught by Dr Akanksha Adya, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS. The first talk was delivered by Dr Lisa Osbeck, Professor of Psychology, University of West Georgia, on ‘Epistemic Identities: Implications for Psychology’ on 28 February 2026. The second talk was by Professor U Vindhya, Former Professor of Psychology and Women Studies, and Deputy Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, on ‘From Critique to Reconstruction: Contributions of Feminist Psychology to Research and Practice’, on 17 March 2026.

In last week’s issue, the field trip for the Sociology and Social Anthropology courses, ‘The Social Construction of Nature’, and ‘Economy and Society’ was facilitated by Dr Preeti Sampat, Associate Professor, Sociology & Social Anthropology, SIAS, along with Dr Karthik Rao Cavale, Assistant Professor, Political Economy, SIAS, who was not mentioned previously.