IIST Colloquium on "Evolution of Ice and Organics in the Universe: From Interstellar Ice Grains to Cometary Nuclei" by Dr. Murthy S Gudipati, Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Prof. Satish Dhawan IoE Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengalur.

IIST Colloquium on "Observing the Wonders of Nature - From Camera Obscura to the International Liquid Mirror Telescope 4m (ILMT)" by Prof. Jean Surdej, Prof. Liege University, Belgium and VAJRA Adjunct Faculty at ARIES, Nainital.

Dr. Saisree, S., secured a spot at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, which is scheduled from June 29 to July 04, 2025. She is one of the 29 Indian participants to be recommended both by the DST and the Lindau Committee for the meeting. Dr. Saisree completed her Ph.D. in 2023 from the IIST under the guidance of Prof. K. Y. Sandhya, IIST, and currently CM Navakerala Postdoctoral researcher at CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram.

Third IIST Colloquium on " Electronic Voting Machine: How Reliable are They" by Prof. Debasis Kundu