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, 6th 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, 13th 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
  • Dr. Chetan Singh Solanki, Climate Change, Energy Swaraj and I, 25th March 20222.
  • Dr. Dirk Smit, Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero Emissions, 4th May 2022.
  • Dr. Darren J Player, MoveMint Medicine-Becoming the CEO of Your Body and Mind, 10th June 2022.
  • Prof. Murali Annavaram, Energy Efficient Computing in the Climate Crisis Era, 10th February 2023.
  • Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Enteric Infections in Impoverished Communities, 18th December 2023.
  • Dr.Robert Metcalfe, Connectivity is a thing, is THE thing, 1st February 2024.
  • Prof.Madhukar Pai, Diagnostics in global health: from innovation to access, 5th February 2024.
  • Dr.Yael Kalai, Efficient Verification of Computation on Untrusted Platforms, 8th February 2024.
  • Prof. Andras Kis,  2D Semiconductors and Heterostructures for Energy-efficient Electronics and Photonics, 5th March 2024.
  • Prof.К.R. Sreenivasan,What is the turbulence problem, and when may we regard it as solved?, 3rd May 2024.
  • Prof. Sajal Das, Secure and Resilient CPS for Smart Living:  A Unified Data Science Approach, 13th August 2024.
  • Prof. Emina Soljanin, On Some Quantum Internet Information Rates, 28th August 2024.
  • Prof. Venkataraman Laxmi, A study of hydrological extremes from space, 13th January 2025.
  • Prof. Tracy Slatyer, Searching for Dark Matter with the Universe’s Highest-Energy Light, 16th January 2025.
  • Dr. Chandra Bhat,On Teasing Out Causal Relationships in Travel Behavior Analysis, 5th February 2025.
  • Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, ANRF Overview and Principles, 4th April 2025.
  • Prof. Philip Maini, Understanding collective cell migration, 8th April 2025.
  • Prof. Yuri Kivshar, From metamaterials to Mie-tronics and metasurfaces, 7th Oct 2025.