Contents

• Course Structure
  BS-MS Programme: Course Structure (MS23 Batch Onwards)
  BS-MS Programme: Syllabus (MS23 Batch Onwards)
  
  BS-MS Programme: Course Structure (Applicable up to MS22 Batch)

• 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
  • Specializations
• 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