Lectures

Memorial Lectures

   J N TATA

• H. J. Bhabha, Atomic Energy in the Indian Economy, 1962
• S. Bhagavantam, The Widening Spiral of Science and Technology, 1964
• Vikram A Sarabhai, Science and World Affairs with special reference to developing countries, 1966
• P. B. Gajendragadkar, The Imperatives of an Indian Federation, 1968
• M. G. K. Menon, The Social Conscience of Science, 1970
• Malcom Adiseshaiah, Growth: Its Imperatives and Limits, 1972
• H. N. Sethna, Energy: Systems, Development & Policy, 1974
• Raja Ramanna, The Safety of Nuclear Installations, 1976
• D. S. Kothari, Science & Self-Knowledge, 1979
• M. S. Swaminathan, Indian Agriculture at the Crossroads, 1981
• L. K. Jha, Technology and Development, 1985
• Nani A. Palkhiwala, The Ideal of Human Unity and the North-South Dialogue, 1987
• Abid Hussain, The Eighth Plan: Some Strategic Perspectives, 1989
• E. S. Venkataramaiah, Higher Learning in India: Legal and Social Aspects, 1991
• Vasant Sathe, Economic Reforms and Structural Change in Indian Polity, 1994
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Towards a World Knowledge Platform, 2006
• Gopalkrishna Gandhi, The Peoplehood of India, 2010

   M C T M CHIDAMBARAM CHETTYAR

• K. L. Rao, The Modern Design of Dams 1961
• V. M. Ghatge, The Growth of the Aeronautical Industry In India, 1965
• G . S. Kasbekar, The development of Chemical Plants and Chemical Plant Fabrication in India, 1968
• A. P. Kanvinde, The Role of the Architectural Profession in a Socialistic Pattern of Society, 1971
• M. M. Suri, Scientific Education and Unemployment in India, 1973
• A. Ramachandran, Solar Energy – Challenges and Perspectives in India, 1977
• B. D. Tilak, Challenging Opportunities for Rural Development through Science and Innovative Technology, 1985
• A. S. Ganguly, A Retrospective on Industrial Research, 1987
• M. M. Sharma, Microphases for Process Intensification, 1989
• A. P. Mitra, Environmental Hazards- A Scientific Appraisal, 1991
• S. K. Joshi, My Incursions into Condensed Matter Physics, 1994
• Y. K. Alagh, The future of Science and Technology in India, 1997
• V. K. Aatre, Electronic Warfare – A Perspective, 2000
• D. Subbarao, Economic Crisis and Crisis in Economics: Some Reflections, 2010
• M. K. Bhan, Performance and Promise in Vaccine Development, 2013

   VITHAL N CHANDAVARKAR

• A. D. Shroff, Finance for our Industries, 1963
• H. V. R. lyengar, The Impact of Government on Business Management, 1964
• P. L. Tandon, The New Managerial Society, 1967
• B. R. Shenoy, National Savings and Industrial Finance—The Indian Experience, 1969
• Bharatram, The Role of Science and Technology in Economic Development, 1973
• S. Varadarajan,Scientists in the Management of Business, 1978
• D. S. Kothari,  Science and Self – Knowledge, 1979
• P. R. Brahmananda, Productivity in the Indian Economy, 1982
• Manmohan Singh, Planning and Markets—Some Lessons of Recent Experience, 1986
• Hiten Bhaya, Energy Prospects—A Challenge to Indian Science and Technology, 1988
• P. K. lyengar, Nuclear Power-Science and Technology in it—In Retrospect, 1990
• Viren J. Shah, The Management of Transition, 1993
• Bimal Jalan, Science, Technology & Development, 1998
• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Critical Challenges for Economic Development, 2006
• C. Rangarajan, The Indian Economy: Challenges Ahead, 2008
• Kapil Sibal, Empowerment Through Education, 2010

   Sir C V RAMAN

• S. Ramaseshan, Sir C. V. Raman, 1978
• Sukhdev,  Research and Development in the Chemical Industry, 1980
• C. N. R. Rao, Man, Minerals and Microscopes, 1983
• R. Narasimha, Order and Chaos in Fluid Flows, 1986
• S. Chandrasekhar, Optical Phenomena in Liquid Crystals, 1988
• Govind Swarup, Radio Astronomy & the Structure of the Universe, 1990
• M. S. Valiathan, Cardiac Surgery – An Offspring of Experiment, 1992
• V. J. Modi, Satellites, Space Shuttles and Space Stations: Evolution and Challenges, 1995
• Ramanath Cowsik, My Meanderings in Search of Neutrino Mass, 1996
• Narendra Kumar, Quantum Zono Effect: Slowing Down of Reactions By Fast Perturbations, 1999
• D. Balasubramanian, Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Understand and Treat Some Diseases of the Eye, 2002
• Michael E Fisher, Molecular Motors- Observation & Theory, 2007
• Michael Pepper, Electrons in Semiconductor Nanostructures, 2010
• Rolf Heuer, The Search of a Deeper Understanding of our Universe at the Large Hadron Collider: The World’s Largest Particle Accelerator, 2013

   MORRIS TRAVERS

• G. Mehta, Art and Logic in Organic Synthesis, 1990
• R. A. Mashelkar, Fascination of Non – Newtonian Fluids, 1992
• P. T. Manoharan, Molecular Ferromagnets: A New Challenge for Inorganic Chemists, 1995
• Mihir Chowdhury, Magnetic Field and Chemical Dynamics, 1998
• J. F. Nixon, Phosphorus: The Carbon Copy, 2002
• Alan G. Mac Diarmid, Electronic Polymers and Nano-Science, 2004
• Ryoji Noyori, Asymmetric Hydrogenation As Ideal Green Chemistry, 2006
• Akihisa Inoue, The Development and Application of Bulk Metallic Glasses, 2008
• Richard J Saykally, Water Music: The Latest Word on the Most Important Substance in the Universe, 2011
• Ei-ichi Negishi, Transition Metal Catalysis for a Sustainable and Prosperous World, 2013

   S RAMASESHAN

• C. N. R. Rao, The Chemical Design of Materials – A Journey Through Half a Century, 2005
• Srikumar Banerjee, How the Design of an Advanced Nuclear Reactor Evolves, 2011

GOLDEN JUBILEE LECTURE

• Vikram A. Sarabhai, The Sun and Interplanetary Space, 1966
• K. Venkataraman, New Dyes for Old and New Fibres, 1968
• S. Swayambu, Modern Trends in Electric Drive Systems for Industry, 1971
• G. P. Kane, 1974—A Year of Crisis or Opportunity?, 1975
• S. Krishnaswamy, Energy Prospects for India in the International Environment, 1977
• A. Sreenivasan, Some Growing Points in Food Research, 1979
• S. Ramamritham, The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Need for Technology Improvement, 1981
• L. S. Srinath, Intellectual Honesty and the Spirit of Inquiry, 1987
• T. R. Satish Chandran, The Indian Economy-Some Disturbing Trends, 1989
• R. Chidambaram, Fascination at High Pressures, 1991
• P. Rama Rao, The Development and Application of Low Alloy Ultra High Strength Steels, 1993
• N. Seshagiri, Virtual Reality -an Emerging High-tech Discipline for Enhanced Perception in Scientific and Engineering Research, 1995
• E. S. Raja Gopal, Metrology: New Vistas, 1998
• Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Some Perspectives for Biotechnology, 2001
• K. Kasturirangan, A Broadband Space Observatory- A Unique Tool to Explore the Cosmos, 2005
• Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Lecture on the release of the Centenary Postage Stamp, 2008
• Shivshankar Menon, Science and Security, 2010
• Subra Suresh, Study of Human Diseases at the Intersection of Engg., Science & Medicine, 2014

M J THIRUMALACHAR & M J NARASIMHAN ENDOWMENT LECTURES

• Richard J Roberts, Why I Love Bacteria, 2011
• Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, How Antibiotics illuminate Ribosome Function & vice versa, 2011
• Shankar Balasubramanian, Decoding Human Genomes on a Population Scale, 2015

C N R Rao Endowment Lecture

• George M Whitesides, Reinventing Chemistry, 2013
• Yoshinori Tokura, Emergent Electron Science towards New Energy Revolution, 2013

CENTENARY LECTURES

• C. N. R. Rao, Tall Oaks from Little Acorns: Birth and Growth of Solid State and Materials Chemistry, 24 Jan 2008
• Andrew Viterbi, The Foundations of the Digital Wireless World, 27 May 2008
• M. S. Swaminathan, Scientific Management of the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture, 9 July 2008
• Michael D. Fayer, Watching Ultrafast Molecular Motions in Liquids, Molecules and Proteins, 16 July 2008
• A. R. Ravishankara, Ozone Layer Depletion and the World’s Response: A Model for Global Environmental Problems?, 2 Dec 2008
• George Guy Dodson, The Origins of Structural Analysis and its Scope in Modern Biological Research, 19 Jan 2009
• Ronald Breslow, Work on Organised Molecular Systems Leads to a Proposal for The Origin of Prebiotic Homochirality, 23 Jan 2009
• Jean-Marie Lehn, Perspectives in Chemistry: From Molecular to Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptive Chemistry, 11 Feb 2009
• George Philander, The Hoax at the Equator that Elucidates the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Warming, 12 Mar 2009
• Peter Wolynes, Landscapes of Matter, 8 July 2009
• Shaul Mukemal, Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Biomolecules: From NMR to X-rays, 23 Dec 2009
• Dennis P Sullivan, Effective Models and Algebraic Topology, 24 Dec 2009
• Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, From Baroda to Cambridge: A Life in Science, 5 Jan 2010
• Joseph Zyss, Molecular photonics—From Concepts to Applications in IT and Life Sciences, 15 Feb 2010
• Francis Collins, Human Genome & Beyond, 3 Dec 2011
• John Michael Wallace, Climate-Related Extreme Events: Teachable Moments, 25 Jan 2012
• F. Fleming Crim, Controlling Reactions in Gases & Liquids, 15 Feb 2012
• Kurt Wuthrich, Exploring the Protein Universe with Physics & Physical Chemistry Techniques, 3 April 2012
• Knut Wolf Urban, Diving into the World of Atoms—Picometer Electron Microscopy, 6 Sep 2012
• Roddam Narasimha, Cloud Flows, 19 July 2013
• Andre Geim, Random Walk to Graphene, 6 Dec 2013
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Reflection on the Discovery of Pulsars, 9 Jan 2014
• James Fraser Stoddart, Radical Mechanostereo chemistry, 15 Jan 2014
• Harold Varmus, New Directions in Cancer Research, 21 Jan 2014
• Richard N, Zare, Detecting Reaction Intermediates in Solution and Guiding Cancer Surgery Using Mass Spectrometry, 5 Feb 2014

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

THE CELL PRESS—TNQ India-IISc Distinguished LECTURESHIP SERIES

• David Baltimore, Micro RNAs in Inflammation and Cancer, 16 Jan 2008
• Elizabeth Blackburn, Control of Telomerase, 10 Feb 2009
• Shinya Yamanaka, New era of Medicine with iPS Cells, 30 Jan 2012
• Huda Zoghbi, A Journey from the Clinic to the Laboratory to Understand Brain Disorders, 27 Jan 2014
• Eric Lander, The Human Genome and Beyond: A 35-year Journey of Genomic Medicine, 27 Feb 2015