Overview

• Four undergraduates at the Indian Institute of Science formed the ‘Denormalisation Group’ after topping India’s qualifying round, earning a spot among 200 participants from 29 countries
• Between May 1 and 5 in Barcelona, the team faced a four-hour closed-book exam featuring complex problems on dark matter, cosmological constants and field equations
• Their sixth-place finish marks the highest global ranking ever achieved by an Indian team at the annual theoretical physics contest
• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lauded the students on social media, noting that three of the four team members hail from West Bengal
• IISc’s Office of Development and Alumni Affairs funded the students’ participation and they credited their rigorous training for the confidence to tackle the contest’s toughest questions