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International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Organic Polymers for Energy and Sustainability (MOFES’26)
Conference webpage: https://www.mofes26.com/ For Contact: mofes@jncasr.ac.in
About the conference:
First edition of MOFES’26 - the Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Organic Polymers for Energy and Sustainability, to be held from 12.01.2026 to 15.01.2026 in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India. MOFES’26 marks the launch of a new platform highlighting the growing momentum and global interest in functional porous materials. This event aims to catalyze the exchange of ideas and the advancement of novel applications of MOFs and POPs, especially in the domains of energy conversion, storage, and sustainability-driven innovations. In this rapidly expanding field, MOFES’26 targets to promote interdisciplinary collaboration across academia and industry, fostering innovative ideas and impactful research. This conference will feature an exciting scientific session, including Plenary, Keynote, and Invited lectures from internationally recognized scientists, industrial partners, aiming to cover latest developments in the broad field of porous materials, including synthesis and structural design, advanced characterisations, catalysis, energy conversion, storage and environmental remediation and scale-up and real-world applications. Additionally, we are proud to host several industrial delegates, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in translating academic research into industrial solutions. The MOFES’26 organising team is committed to reflecting an inclusive, diverse, and welcoming environment throughout the conference by upholding the values of gender balance, inclusivity, and respect for all identities and perspectives.
Conference Topics:
- Synthesis and Functionalization of MOFs and POPs
- Characterisation and Modelling
- Energy Conversion and Storage
- Membranes and Molecular Separations
- Environmental Sustainability
- Catalysis and Chemical Transformations
- Emerging Technologies and Industrial Applications
Indo-French Workshop on Navigating Rugged Landscapes (NRL): Machine learning approach to dynamics and enhanced sampling in disordered systems, and statistical physics approaches to machine learning
Workshop Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/nrl2025
About the Workshop:
The workshop aims to bring together experts working in seemingly different domains of glassy dynamics, biophysics, and machine learning to address the common underlying threads; investigating the rugged landscape to learn the behavior of dynamical systems. This will lead to an exchange of ideas across domains, focussing on cross-cutting themes such as similarities between the loss landscapes of machine learning and glassy landscapes, relationships between the stability of neural networks to adversarial attacks and the perturbation in glassy landscapes, use of generative models for out-of-distribution samples for enhanced sampling of rare events, and characterization of glass structure and dynamics by learnable and interpretable low-dimensional features. The workshop will systematically address these questions and initiate discussions to identify the key problems to be addressed.
The talks will be broadly organized around the following themes:
Theme I: Machine learning investigation of glasses and other disordered systems
Theme II: Enhanced Sampling with Machine Learning
Theme III: Statistical Physics of Machine Learning
The three-day Training Programme for Karmayogi Coaches (Master Trainers), organized under Phase II of the Rashtriya Karmayogi – Large Scale Jan Seva Programme in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Capacity Building Commission (CBC), was successfully completed at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, from 17 to 19 November 2025. The training sessions, led by a team of DST experts lead trainers, focused on leadership development, organizational transformation, communication strategies, and citizen-centric governance, while inspiring values of empathy, integrity, and Seva Bhav in public service. Participants from various institutions across Southern and Western India actively engaged in collaborative learning and shared meaningful insights towards advancing a responsive governance culture. The programme concluded with a renewed commitment to strengthening the nation’s capacity-building ecosystem by empowering Karmayogi Coaches as catalysts for change within their respective organizations. JNCASR thanks all trainers, participants, and support staff volunteers of the Centre for contributing to the success of this national initiative.
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“Legacy of Scientific and Educational Visionaries: A Tribute to Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee”
The Education Technology Unit, JNCASR, conducted a Science Outreach Programme on 21st August 2025 to commemorate the 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Around 40 students and 4 coordinators from Assam, participated in the event under the Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC) initiative “Mukhya Mantrir Bigyan Pratibha Sandhan – Bigyan Darshan.” The programme was facilitated in collaboration with the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST), Bengaluru.
A special lecture was presented by Mr. A. N. Jayachandra, Coordinator (Special Projects), JNCASR about the life and legacy of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, highlighting his contributions to education, science, and national unity. The students were actively engaged in Q&A session with the speaker.
The programme concluded with guided visits to research laboratories at JNCASR, providing students with an opportunity to interact with scientists and learn about ongoing research activities. This outreach initiative successfully fulfilled the objectives of the commemorative campaign by fostering awareness about Dr. Mookerjee’s contributions and inspiring scientific curiosity among young minds.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) organized series of events for International Yoga Day on 21 June 2025 on this year's theme “Yoga for One Earth, One Health”.
A mass Yoga Sangam was organized within the campus in line with live streaming of Hon’ble Prime Minister’s mass yoga programme from 6.45 am to 7.45 am., large number of students and staff of the centre participated in the event.
A lecture cum demonstration of yoga was conducted in the Kanada Auditorium at the campus. The certified yoga teacher and exponent shri. Anand guruji, Patanjali Yoga Centre, demonstrated the asanas and educated on the health benefits of yoga. The students of the centre Ms. Sucheta Biswas, NCU; Mr. Prahlad, TSU; Mr. Sounak Mondal, NCU; and Ms. Neha, CPMU have demonstrated basic and advanced postures of yoga asanas under the guidance of shri Ananda guruji and received appreciation and applause.
Over 100 members of the JNCASR community including Prof. Umesh V Waghmare, President, JNCASR and Shri. Joydeep Deb, Administrative Officer, faculty members, Students, and Staff members participated in the event.
We are honoured to receive the YOGA SANGAM PATRA from the Ministry of Ayush, recognizing as a proud organizer of yoga demonstration on the IDY 2025.
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Delighted to welcome Prof. Umesh V. Waghmare, Professor & Dean, Faculty Affairs, JNCASR, who took over the charge as the new President of JNCASR. He assumed office on 11 June 2025. Prof. G.U. Kulkarni handed over charge to Prof. Waghmare at the President’s Office.
On the occasion of World Environment Day celebration on 5th June 2025, Saplings were planted to encourage the initiative of ‘Keep the Earth clean and green.’ and inculcate an environmental consciousness in our community. Officers, Students, Staff, and kids participated in the event.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY (IWD) - 2025 CELEBRATION AT
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (JNCASR),
BENGALURU
THEME: "FOR ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS: RIGHTS, EQUALITY, EMPOWERMENT"
- Marathon: A run was organized on March 08, 2025, to celebrate International Women's Day 2025. A total of approximately 50 women members (including faculty members, staff, their children, and students) of the Centre participated in the event.
- Talk: A talk titled "Science, Gender, and the Power of Change" was organized on March 10, 2025. It aimed to address gender-based equality issues in the sphere of teaching and research by Professor Prita Pant of IIT Bombay. The professor addressed whether gender equality is still a goal or has been achieved. If not, what is the path ahead to bring gender parity? The talk was attended by the faculty members, officers, staff, and students of the Centre.
- Pot Painting Competition: This was organized at the Centre on March 10, 2025, to mark International Women's Day, with huge participation from the members of the Centre.
- Women in Nanoscience: One of our JNCASR students, Ms. Surabhi Menon (first author of a research paper published in RSC Nanoscale), along with Prof. Umesh V. Waghmare from the Theoretical Sciences Unit, was highlighted in this year's celebratory collection of Nanoscience publications by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Released on International Women's Day 2025, the collection showcases excellent women conducting research in nanoscience.
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On March 5, 2025, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous Institute functioning under the aegis of Department of Science & Technology and a deemed-to-be University, participated in the Post-Budget Webinar on "Investing in People" with participation from the President, JNCASR, Deans, Faculty Members, Officers Research Scholars, and Students.
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