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SIAS students conduct research guided by Dr Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi

SIAS alum Tanishka Nandakumar and student Hriday Shankar are conducting a research under the guidance of Dr Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi, Assistant Professor, Operations, IFMR GSB and have presented the working paper on Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries: The Key to Sustainable EV Growth at ” SOM 2024: XXVII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management “, Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad held from, 19-21 December 2024. The same research was also presented at the “FLAME Undergraduate Research Day 2025” held at FLAME University, Pune, on 19 March 2025.

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SIAS Post-doctoral Fellow presents at the Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting

Dr I Iyyappan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, SIAS, presented his research on “Nonlinear Refrigerator with Finite-Sized Cold Bath” at the 10th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, organised by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, from 23 to 25 April, 2025.

​​Dr Rakesh Sengupta publishes a paper at the interface of quantum computing and neuroscience

Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS, has published a paper titled Mapping additive recurrent neural networks to quantum neural networks. It is a work at the interface of quantum computing and neuroscience. In this work, the author maps classical OCOS RNN dynamics into a quantum Hamiltonian (with decay, activation, and tunable interactions) and study its open‑system behavior under amplitude‑damping and dephasing. Key findings include sustained oscillations in Pauli expectations, slow purity decay, and exploration of the dynamics that go beyond classical RNN fixed‑point behavior.

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Professor Akhila Ramnarayan​ pens a review essay in Scroll.in

Professor Akhila Ramnarayan​, Visiting Professor of Practice, Literature and the Arts, SIAS has penned a review essay on Robert Macfarlane’s new book, titled ‘Is a River Alive?’: Radical resistance and solidarity between humans and the natural world​ in Scroll.in.

Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people, and place. He is the Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities, and Fellow of Emmanuel College, at the University of Cambridge.

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Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty publishes in Physical Review Materials (“Scopus Q1” journal)

A research article by Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Assistant Professor and Discipline Coordinator, Physics, SIAS titled Normal state and superconducting state properties of high entropy Ta0.2Nb0.2V0.2Ti0.2X0.2 (X = Zr and Hf) has been published in Physical Review Materials (“Scopus Q1” journal). In this publication, Dr Chakrabarty is one of the three corresponding authors. In this work, the team has reported a detailed theoretical and experimental investigation of high-entropy alloy superconductors Ta0.2Nb0.2V0.2Ti0.2X0.2 (X = Zr and Hf). The study unveils that both the materials crystallise in a body-centered-cubic structure (space group: Im-3m) and exhibit bulk superconductivity with a superconducting onset temperature of 5 K for X = Hf and 6.19 K for X = Zr sample. The detailed analysis, including magnetisation, resistivity, heat capacity measurements, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicates moderately coupled isotropic s-wave superconductivity in these materials. With the dynamical stability of these alloys, excellent normal state metallic nature, high microhardness, and high upper critical field; these samples emerge as potential candidates for future applications in superconducting devices.

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Workshop and paper presentation news from Visiting Faculty Abhayraj Naik

Abhayraj Naik, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Environmental Studies SIAS offered an international exploratory workshop on ‘Introduction to Climate Law in India’ at the University of Tuebingen on 30 May 2025. He also presented a talk titled ‘What Comes Next? Exploring Systemic Change Possibilities in India following the Declaration of a Constitutional Climate Right’ at the Workshop on “Climate Litigation in India, Germany and Europe, and the Potential for Mutual Learning” organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Regensburg on 2 and 3 June 2025.

Dr Randhir publishes in the Sustainable Chemistry Oneworld journal

Dr Randhir Rai, Visiting Faculty, Chemistry, SIAS recently published a research article titled Wastewater treatment using waste cuprous oxide: A circular economy approach towards green and sustainable laboratory waste management in the journal Sustainable Chemistry Oneworld.

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Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury reviews Rain Incarnations in The Scroll

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS has penned a review of Professor Bishnu Mohapatra’s latest volume of poetry, Rain Incarnations. Published in The Scroll, the article is titled The umbrellas are on a protest march’: Bishnu Mohapatra’s poems on rain for a desolate May. The poems have been translated from Odia by Aparna Uppaluri.

Professor Bishnu is Professor, Politics, SIAS and Director – Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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