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Courses of Study
IISER Mohali
Date:
January 2023
©2023, IISER Mohali
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Course Structure
BS-MS Programme: Core Semesters
BS-MS Programme: Majors
Biology
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
BS-MS Programme: Research Year
BS-MS Programme: Minors
The Minors Program
List of Minors and Specializations
Astronomy
Atmospheric Sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Data Sciences
Development and Public Policy Studies
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earth Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Indian History
Mathematics
Physics
Science Education
Science and Society Studies
Specializations
Physical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Integrated PhD Programme
Biology
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
BS-MS Programme: Core Courses
Biology Core Courses
BIO101: Cellular basis of life
BIO111: Biology Lab I
BIO102: Gene expression and development
BIO112: Biology Lab II
BIO201: Genetics and evolution
BIO211: Biology Lab III
BIO202: Behaviour and ecology
BIO212: Biology Lab IV
Chemistry Core Courses
CHM101: Chemistry of elements and chemical transformations
CHM111: Chemistry Lab I
CHM102: Atoms molecules and symmetry
CHM112: Chemistry Lab II
CHM201: Spectroscopic and other physical methods
CHM211: Chemistry Lab III
CHM202: Energetics and dynamics of chemical reactions
CHM212: Chemistry Lab IV
Humanities Core Courses
HSS101A: Language skills-A
HSS101B: Language skills-B
HSS102: History of science
HSS202: Philosophy of science
Mathematics Core Courses
MTH101: Symmetry
MTH102: Analysis in one variable
MTH201: Curves and surfaces
MTH202: Probability and statistics
Physics Core Courses
PHY101: Mechanics
PHY111: Physics Laboratory I
PHY102: Electromagnetism
PHY112: Physics Laboratory II
PHY201: Waves and optics
PHY211: Physics Laboratory III
PHY202: Thermodynamics and statistical physics
PHY212: Physics Laboratory IV
Inter-disciplinary Core Courses and Core Electives
IDC101: Introduction to computers
IDC102: Hands-on electronics
IDC201: Astronomy and astrophysics
IDC202: Chemical biology
IDC203: Introduction to earth sciences
IDC204: Theory of computation
IDC205: Differential equations for scientists
IDC206: Quantum physics for scientists
IDC207: Number theory and cryptography
IDC208: Introduction to environmental sciences
IDC211: Workshop Training
Major Mandatory Courses
Biology Major Courses
BIO301: Animals: Form and function
BIO302: Advanced cell biology
BIO303: Experimental design and hypothesis testing
BIO304: Essential biochemistry
BIO305: Advanced developmental biology
BIO306: Plants: Form and function
BIO311: Molecular methods in biology lab
BIO312: Development and physiology lab
BIO401: Structure and function of genomes
BIO402: Microbial physiology and microbial genetics
BIO403: Advanced evolutionary biology
BIO404: Cellular and molecular basis of the immune response
BIO411: Bioinformatics lab
BIO412: Lab on biophysical and spectroscopic tools
Chemistry Major Courses
CHM301: Quantum chemistry
CHM302: Organic chemistry
CHM303: Main group chemistry
CHM304: Symmetry in chemistry
CHM305: Physical organic chemistry
CHM306: Transition metal chemistry
CHM311: Organic chemistry lab
CHM312: Inorganic chemistry lab
CHM401: Molecular spectroscopy
CHM402: Chemistry of materials
CHM403: Analytical chemistry
CHM404: Statistical thermodynamics
CHM411: Physical chemistry lab
CHM412: Analytical chemistry laboratory
Mathematics Major Courses
MTH301: (Real Analysis)
MTH302: (Linear Algebra)
MTH303: (Set Theory and Logic)
MTH304: (Group Theory)
MTH305: Complex analysis
MTH306: (Lebesgue Measure and Integration Theory)
MTH307: (Topology)
MTH308: (Rings and Modules)
MTH401: (Functional Analysis)
MTH402: (Ordinary Differential Equations)
MTH403: (Fields and Galois Theory)
Physics Major Courses
PHY301: Classical mechanics
PHY302: Quantum mechanics
PHY303: Electrodynamics
PHY304: Statistical mechanics
PHY306: Advanced quantum mechanics
PHY310: Mathematical methods for physicists I
PHY311: Advanced optics and spectroscopy lab
PHY312: Advanced electronics and instrumentation lab
PHY401: Nuclear and particle physics
PHY402: Solid state physics
PHY403: Atomic and molecular physics
PHY411: Nuclear physics lab
PHY412: Condensed matter physics lab
Electives and PhD Courses
Biological Sciences
BIO307: Microbial technology
BIO308: Fundamentals of microbiology
BIO405: Advanced biochemistry
BIO451: Microbial genetics
BIO452: Infectious diseases and epidemiology
BIO453: Principles underlying instrumental biomacromolecular analyses
BIO454: Neuroscience
BIO455: Computational structural biology
BIO456: Cancer cell biology
BIO457: Ecosystem ecology
BIO458: Advances in plant cell and molecular biology
BIO459: Epigenetics
BIO501: Topics in biology-I
BIO512: Topics in biology-II
BIO601: Techniques in biology
BIO602: Regulation of gene expression
BIO606: Biostatistics
BIO609: Immunology
BIO610: Advanced topics in molecular genetics
BIO611: Fluorescence in biology
BIO612: RNA biology
BIO613: Developmental neurobiology
BIO614: Topics in evolutionary biology
BIO615: Developmental biology
BIO616: Animal behaviour: Proximate mechanism, ultimate causes
BIO623: Protein folding, misfolding and amyloid biology
BIO624: Case studies in hypotheses-driven molecular and cellular biology
BIO625: Molecular evolution and phylogenetics
BIO626: Immunological tools, techniques and technologies
BIO627: Origin, ecology and bioresources of Western Himalaya
BIO628: Synthetic biology
BIO629: Bioinformatics
BIO630: Epigenetics
BIO631: Molecular Pathogenesis
Chemical Sciences
CHM307: Electrochemistry and ionic equillibria
CHM413: Introduction to Stochastic numerical methods
CHM601: Advanced inorganic chemistry
CHM602: Magnetic resonance
CHM603: Elements of NMR theory
CHM604: Advanced organic chemistry
CHM605: Advances in solid state NMR
CHM606: Bio-organic chemistry
CHM607: Chemical crystallography
CHM608: Advanced industrial chemistry
CHM609: Polymer chemistry
CHM610: Chemistry of natural products
CHM611: Frontiers of organometallic chemistry
CHM612: Asymmetric synthesis and catalysis
CHM613: Supramolecular chemistry
CHM615: Kinetics and dynamics of chemical reactions
CHM616: Computational chemistry
CHM617: Chemical dynamics and non-adiabatic interactions
CHM618: Bioinorganic chemistry
CHM619: Numerical methods in chemistry
CHM620: Energetics and dynamics of chemical reactions-2
CHM621: Advances in X-ray crystallography and its applications
CHM622: Chemistry, energy and environment
CHM623: Concepts in nanomaterials and chemical applications
CHM624: Soft matter, colloids and interfacial phenomena
CHM625: Molecular dynamics simulations
CHM626: Photochemistry - concepts, techniques and applications
CHM627: Molecular spectroscopy
CHM628: Statistical thermodynamics
CHM629: Magnetochemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
EES301: Sedimentology and concepts in Stratigraphy
EES302: Sustainable interactions with the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere and Pedosphere
EES303: Mineralogy
EES401: Quantitative data analysis in earth and environmental sciences
EES402: Geomorphology and earth surface processes
EES403: Remote sensing and GIS
EES404: Basic meteorology
EES405: Climate data analysis and visualization
EES406: Introduction to atmospheric and climate sciences
EES407: Environmental impact and risk assessment
EES408: Igneous and metamorphic petrology
EES409: Tropical Weather and Climate
EES410: Economic Geology
EES636: The quarternary period-environments, animals adaptations during the last 2.5 million years
EES637: Introduction to aeronomy
EES638: Paleoclimatology
EES639: Space weather
EES640: Global tectonics
EES641: Radiogenic isotope geology
EES642: Environmental microbiology
EES643: Environmental biotechnology
EES644:Principles of Microwave Remote Sensing
EES645: Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Humanities and Social Sciences
HSS301: Construction of identity and knowledge
HSS302: Concepts of space and time in the humanities and social sciences
HSS402: Introduction to linguistics
HSS304: Visual art: Studio practice and theory
HSS601: Identity, power and place
HSS602: Social theory: concepts and debates
HSS603: Advanced qualitative research design and methods
HSS611: Literary appreciation
HSS612: The idea of evolution: Before and after Darwin
HSS613: The social history of science in modern India, 1780-1950
HSS614: Women's history of science
HSS615: Archaeology of the world: A cultural quest into our global past
HSS616: Bones, stones & chromosomes: The story of our evolution
HSS617: From Plassey to partition: A history of modern India
HSS618: India from prehistory to early history
HSS619: Ancient greek theatre: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
HSS620: Imagining India: An intellectual history of orientalism
HSS621: Intellectual and cultural sources of modernity
HSS622: Cities: Urban theory and laboratory
HSS623: Bodily encounters: Mobility, migrancy and movement
HSS624: Understanding cultures: Past and present using fieldwork, laboratory and archives
HSS625: The archaeology of ancient technologies
HSS626: Economic history of modern India
HSS627: The idea of India: Intellectual imaginary of nation
HSS628: Epistemology of science
HSS629: Metaphysics of science
HSS630: Social theory and religion
HSS631: Epistemology and logic
HSS632: Philosophy of rationality
HSS633: Ethics
HSS634: Themes in infrastructure studies
HSS635: Political philosophy
HSS636: Climate change and sustainable development
HSS637: Reading records
HSS638: Ethnographic research and writing
HSS639: Advanced theory and method in Paleoanthropology
HSS640: Charlie Chaplin's aesthetic universe
HSS641: Research methods in the humanities and social sciences
HSS642: Science and society
HSS643: Field course in palaeoanthropology and allied disciplines
HSS644: Philosophy in public affairs
HSS645: World cinema
HSS646: Principles of Economics
HSS647: Geographies of gender and sexuality
HSS648: Development Economics: Theory, Policy and Practice
HSS649: Themes in Environmental Histories of India
HSS650: Public Policy
Mathematical Sciences
MTH405: (Probability Theory)
MTH406: Fourier analysis
MTH407: (Partial Differential Equations)
MTH408: Riemannian geometry
MTH409: (Discrete Mathematics)
MTH410: Algebraic topology
MTH411: Commutative and homological algebra
MTH412: Structure of algebras
MTH413: Advanced probability
MTH414: Advanced complex analysis
MTH415: Enumerative problems in geometry
MTH416: Arithmetic of elliptic curves
MTH418: Fuchsian groups
MTH419: Number theory
MTH420: Linear operators in Hilbert spaces
MTH421: Combinatorial group theory
MTH422: Representations of finite groups
MTH423: Structure of finite groups
MTH424: Introduction to Lie algebras
MTH425: Geometric group theory
MTH426: Algebraic curves
MTH427: Introduction to global analysis
MTH428: Commutative algebra and combinatorics
MTH429: Introduction to Lie groups
MTH430: Random graphs
MTH431: Applications of Fourier analysis
MTH432: Category theory
MTH433: Geometric algebra
MTH434: Quadratic forms over fields
MTH435: Random processes
MTH436: An introduction to Knots and Braids
MTH437: An introduction to schemes
MTH438: An introduction to Linear Algebraic Groups
MTH439: Homological methods in Algebraic Topology
MTH601: Topics in algebra
MTH602: Topics in topology
MTH603: Mathematics seminar course
MTH604: Homological and commutative algebra
MTH605: Topics in analysis
MTH606: Mathematics seminar course
MTH607: Euclidean harmonic analysis
MTH608: Algebraic number theory-I
MTH609: Algebraic number theory-II
Physical Sciences
PHY421: Laser physics and advanced optics
PHY422: Computational methods in physics I
PHY423: Mathematical methods for physicists II
PHY424: Relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory
PHY425: Computational methods in physics II
PHY601: Review of classical mechanics
PHY602: Review of electrodynamics
PHY603: Review of statistical mechanics
PHY604: Review of quantum mechanics
PHY622: Mathematical methods for physicsts III
PHY631: Quantum computation and quantum information
PHY632: Advanced experiments in physics
PHY633: Mesoscopic physics
PHY634: NMR in physics and biology
PHY635: Gravitation and cosmology
PHY636: Advanced condensed matter physics
PHY637: Astrophysics I: Astrophysical processes and stars
PHY638: Physics of fluids
PHY639: Topics in biophysics
PHY640: Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
PHY641: Advanced classical mechanics
PHY642: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
PHY643: Electrodynamics of continuous media
PHY644: Foundations of quantum mechanics
PHY645: Topics in quantum physics
PHY646: Quantum field theory and the Standard Model
PHY647: Basic atomic collisions and spectroscopy
PHY648: Laser fundamentals and applications
PHY649: Advanced experiments in physics: Lasers and optics
PHY650: Ultra low temperature physics
PHY652: Phase transition and critical phenomena
PHY653: Physics of polymers
PHY654: Astrophysics II: Galaxies and Cosmology
PHY655: Special topics in particle physics
PHY656: Quantum principles and quantum optics
PHY657: Radio-frequency and microwave circuits
PHY658: Advanced QFT methods and special topics in high energy physics
PHY660: Nonlinear optics
PHY661: Selected topics in classical and quantum mechanics
PHY662: Statistical physics of fields
PHY663: Relativistic cosmology and the early universe
PHY664: Quantum thermodynamics
PHY665: Quantum phases of matter and phase transitions
PHY666: Open quantum systems
PHY667: Quantum magnetism
PHY668: Soft condensed matter
PHY669: High Energy Astrophysics: techniques and processes
PHY670: Introduction to Radio Astronomy
PHY671: The physics of superconductors
Inter-disciplinary Elective Courses
IDC305: Selected analytical techniques
IDC306: Biocomputing
IDC307: Introduction to computational biology
IDC401: Theoretical biology
IDC402: Nonlinear dynamics, chaos and complex systems
IDC403: Protein engineering
IDC404: Computational genomics
IDC405: Atmospheric dynamics
IDC407: Network science
IDC408: Environmental hygiene, sanitation and waste management
IDC409: Introduction to data science
IDC410: Machine learning
IDC411: School science curriculum and textbooks
IDC412: Field Experience in Science Education
IDC620: Computational biology
IDC621: Modelling complex systems
IDC622: Physical basis of medical diagnostics
IDC623: Field and lab-based methods in geology, ecology, and archaeology
IDC631: Geochemistry
IDC632: Introduction to atmospheric chemistry and physics
IDC633: Introduction to environmental sciences
IDC635: Aerosol measurements: Principles and applications
IDC636: Pedagogy of science
IDC637: Science communication
Nano-Science Elective Courses
INS651: Biomolecular interactions: Spectroscopic and calorimetric methods
INS652: Characterization of nanomaterials
INS653: Chemistry of nanomaterials: Synthesis, properties and applications
INS654: Electron microscopy
INS655: Photoluminescence spectroscopy with emphasis on applications in materials science including nanomaterials
INS656: Principle and applications of synthetic and biological self-assembling materials
INS657: Carbon nanomaterials and its applications
INS658: Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine: Basics and applications
INS659: Thermal properties at nanoscale
INS660: Plasmonics and its applications
INS661: Nano/Micro Opto-electronic-mechanical systems
INS662: Energy conversion and storage
INS663: Nanotechnology in drug delivery
INS664: Physics of low dimensional materials
Seminar and Project Courses
Seminar Courses
Project Courses
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