S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences was established in 1986 as an autonomous research institution by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences is unique in exposing scholars to the cutting edge of research in the basic sciences through national and international conferences and an active visitors' programme evolved around an energetic core faculty with multidisciplinary interests.

Major Research Areas:

• Electronic Structure and the Physics of Materials
• Soft Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
• Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
• Physics of Mesoscopic and Nanoscopic Systems
• Quantum Optics and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum Field Theory and High Energy Physics
• Cosmology
• Chemical Physics
• Integrable systems, Differential Geometry and Probability Theory

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