Special Lectures / Institute Lectures

• Jayant V. Narlikar, A Critique of Big Bang Cosmology, 4 April 2008
• Gulzar, Saahitya ke Jharokhe se Vigyan ki Rangoli, 28 Aug 2008
• Klaus Mullen, Molecular Electronics, 23 Oct 2008
• Sandip Pakvasa, Neutrions: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 2 April 2009
• M. G. K. Menon, Homi Bhabha’s life and work, 23 June 2009
• M. S. Valiathan, Vagbhata – physician, poet and preceptor extraordinary, 16 Sep 2009
• T. V. Ramakrishnan, Superconductivity: Yesterday, today & tomorrow, 14 Oct 2009
• Peter J. Gregson, The technical challenges facing air transport in the 21st century, 26 Nov 2009
• Charles M. Vest, Engineering education in the 21st century, 19 Jan 2010
• Eric A. Cornell, How symmetric is the electron? Looking for out-of-Roundness of 10-15 femtometers, 5 March 2010
• Uriel Frisch, Turbulence: Scaling and beyond. Can field theory and statistical physics help?, 21 Dec 2010
• Richard G. M. Morris, The making, keeping and loosing memories, 16 Jan 2012
• Harald zur Hausen, Infectious causes of Human Cancers, 24 Jan 2012
• Shinya Yamanaka, Induction of Pluripotency by Defined Factors, 31 Jan 2012
• Peter C. Doherty, Science Protects Humanity: Adventures in Infection & Immunity, 12 Mar 2012
• R. A. Marcus, Electron Transfer Reaction Theory in Chemistry —from the Isotopic Exchange Reactions of the 1940s and 1950s to the Modern Solar Energy Conversion Era, 8 Nov 2012
• Vishwamohan Tiwari, Technical Lecture in Hindi—Aircraft Design in Ancient India, 30 Jan 2013
• Michael Norman, Discovering the First Stars and Galaxies in a Supercomputer, 29 June 2015
• Prof. Arnab Ra i Choudhuri The Mysterious Magnetic Personality of our sun, 20th Jan 2015.
• Prof. R. Govindarajan, Improving Programmability, Portability and Performance in Heterogeneous Accelerator-Based Architectures, 29th Jan 2015.
• Prof. Usha Vijayraghavan, The tiger-lily talks: Codes for the making of a rice flowering stem, 24th Feb 2015.
• Prof. P. S. Sastry, Finding patterns in sequential data: the frequentepisodes approach in temporal data mining, 4th March 2015.
• Prof. Eluvathingal D Jemmis, A Structural Chemistry for Boron: Boranes,Boron, Metal Borides, Boron-Fullerenesand nanotubes,12th Nov 2015.
• Prof. S. Asokan, Fiber Bragg Gratings: Sensors which cansense most anything, 28th Oct 2015.
• Prof. C. Durga Rao, Viruses and Humans: Living in symbiosis andpathogenesis –research from dirt to discoveries, 20th January 2016.
• Prof. K. V. S. Hari, Realizing the Power of MIMO Signal Processing, 16th February 2016.
• Prof. Rudra Pratap, Turning Science into Technology: Narratives of Some Exhilarating Experiences, 6^th March 2016.
• Prof. S. Gopalakrishnan, Wave Propagation in Nanomaterials andStructures, 6th April 2016.
• Dr. V. Ramaswami, The Grass on the Other Side – How is it being a mathematician in the industry?, 16 May 2016
• Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay,  Space Instruments and Technology at Terahertz Frequencies, 30th Nov 2016
• Prof. David J Gross, The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics, 13^th January 2017.
• Dr. D. V. Giri, Electromagnetic Threats (Past and Future): Technological Solution Approaches, 19th January 2018.
• Prof. Sargur N. Srihari, Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning, 17th July 2018.
• Prof. Siva Athreya, Respondent driven Sampling and Dynamics of Dense Networks. 25th Mar 2019