Institute Lecture Series
The Institute Lecture Series was initiated in 1993 as an avenue to invite scholars who could talk to the campus community on subjects of broad interest. Around five or six such seminars are held every year. Apart from specialist researchers in their respective domains, eminent historians, policy makers, technologists, and leading thinkers have presented their ideasThe distinguished speakers of the past include Dr. V.K. Atre (2001), Mr. Prahlada (2002), Mr. N.R. Narayanamurthy (2002), Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan (2002), Prof. Lalji Singh (2004), and Dr. Harsh Gupta (2004). Recently, luminaries such as Prof. Herbert Hui of Cornell University (2007), Dr. R. Narasimhan (2008) of TIFR and Mr. Paul Craddock of the British Museum (2009) have spoken under the aegis of the Institute Lecture.
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Prof. Saptarshi Basu, Journey of Droplets: Baiju Bawra to Michael Jackson, 9 September 2024 |
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Dr. Harit Chaturvedi, Dr. Aditi Chaturvedi, Myths and Facts about Cancer: What Every Person Must Know, 16 August 2024 |
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Dr. Rajiv Desai, Mars Pathfinder Mission - a Pivotal Moment in Robotic Exploration of Space, 15 July 2024 |
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Prof. Ramesh Karri, High-Level Approaches to Hardware and Embedded Security, 29 May 2024 |
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Dr. Vinod Mengle, Innovations in jet noise reduction technology, 5 March 2024 |
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Prof. Abhay Deshpande. Understanding the gluon - the "super-god particle" - that binds us all Subtitle: The Science of the Future Electron Ion Collider (EIC), 12 February 2024. |
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Prof. Ashoke Sen, The Future of our Universe, 05 January 2024 |
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Prof. Rajesh K. Gupta, The Emerging Discipline of Data Science, 04 January 2024 |
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Prof. Umesh K. Mishra, UC Santa Barbara: Innovating for Social Impact, 18 December 2023 |
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Prof. Walter Schneider, Transformative Imaging 21st Century Science Combined with Diagnosis of Brain Pathology – a focus area for India science excellence and meeting a national need, 04 December 2023 |
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Prof. Sanjit K. Mitra, My Incredible Journey: From Orissa, India to California, USA, 20 November 2023 |
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Professor Jagdish Narayan, A New Frontier in Materials Science for Advanced Technology, 10 November 2023 |
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Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi, Exploring Deep Science in Patanjali Yoga Sutras , 09 November 2023 |
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Dr. Renu Mehra, Semiconductors: Fueling our Future, 31 October 2023 |
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Dr. V. Balaji, Climate models: whence they came, where they’re going, and why you should trust them, 30 October 2023 |
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Mr. Abhay K. Bhushan, The Evolution of Internet, 23 October 2023 |
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Dr. Akhilesh Gupta, Anusandhan National Research Foundation: India's vision to achieve Global R&D leadership, 04 October 2023 |
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Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri, The Mysterious Magnetic Personality of Our Sun, 29 September 2023 |
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Shri Sanjay Dubey, India's Energy Transition: Challenges and Way Forward, 04 September 2023 |
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Dr. Dipankar Choudhury, Improving Health Outcomes with Physics-based Simulation Methods, 08 August 2023 |
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Professor Edgar Knobloch, Geostrophic Turbulence and the Formation of Large Scale Structure, 24 July 2023 |
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Prof. Perumal Nithiarasu, Building digital twins - Fundamental challenges, 10 July 2023 |
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Dr. Vivek Lall, The Future of Engineering, 12 May 2023 |
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Professor Luiz A. DaSilva, Securing 5G and Future Generations of Network, 12 April 2023 |
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Shri Rajat Verma, Lohum's Journey: How we are building India's largest lithium-ion battery, 11 April 2023 |
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Professor Ganapati D. Yadav, The Net Zero Goal & Sustainability: Adoption of Green Hydrogen Technologies, CO2 refineries, Biomass Valorization & Plastic Recycling, 21 March 2023 |
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Professor Venkatasubramanian Ganesan, Understanding the “Phantastic” Brain in Schizophrenia: A Computational Psychiatry Narrative, 20 March 2023 |
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Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan, Harvard vs IITs - Will Social Sciences Control the Hard Sciences in India?, 27 February 2023 |
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Professor Subramaniam S. Iyer, Advanced Packaging: Chiplets, Dielets and Heterogeneous Integration, 15 February 2023 |
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Professor K. Ganapathy, Is Quality of Death as important as Quality of Life, 15 February 2023 |
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Professor Rao S. Govindaraju, Assessing Uncertainty in Hydrologic Applications, 30 January 2023 |
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Prof. H. S. Udaykumar, Image-based modeling of cardiovascular systems using a level-set based Cartesian grid solver, 13 January 2023 |
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Prof. T. Venkatesan, Robust Resistive and Mem-devices for Neuromorphic Circuits, 9 January 2023 |
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Prof. Rao R. Tummala, Role of IITs in the emergence of electronics in India, 15 November 2022 |
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Mr. Rahul Gautam, Helping India Sleepwell – Life Story of an IIT Kanpur Chemical Engineer, 10 November 2022 |
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Dr. Ruchir Puri, Engineering the future of software with AI, 03 November 2022 |
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Dr. Koenraad Elst, Out of India: the necessary alternative to the Aryan invasion theory, 31 October 2022 |
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Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi, Nation Building, Junoon and Happiness, 15 September 2022. |
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Shri Lalit M Kapoor, Five Pillars of Health, 13 September 2022. |
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Prof. Arvind Verma, Criminal Justice in India: Reality & Possibility, 01 August 2022. |
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Prof. Vikram Mathews, Evolving cell therapy program: Challenges and regulatory pathway in India, 29 April 2022. |
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Prof. Miguel A. Alonso, The Poincaré sphere, its generalizations, & their several applications in optics, 27 April 2022. |
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Dr. Pravin Bhagwat, Ideas to ventures: 3 short stories, 20 April 2022. |
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Prof. Rangan Banerjee, India’s Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities, 07 April 2022. |
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Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, The First Image of a Black Hole & The First Detection of a Lone Black Hole, 29 March 2022. |
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Shri Lalit M Kapoor, Preventing & Reversing Chronic Diseases Naturally, 24 March 2022. |
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Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan, Striving for Excellence in Academic Research: A case for nanomaterials innovations, 25 January, 2022. |
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Dr. Parameswaran Iyer, Implementing large scale transformations in India: Lessons for young professionals, Saturday, June 12, 2021. |
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Prof. Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Importance of early questions, 06 Marth 2020. |
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Prof. Frederic Lefevre, The Energy-Climate Challenge: IPCC’s Contributions, 03 Marth 2020. |
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Prof. Harald Schuh, Contribution of Geodesy to Monitoring Global Changes and Natural Hazards, 02 Marth 2020. |
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Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov, Chaos and Determinisms: a two-way road between Newton’s laws and thermodynamics, 27th February 2020. |
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Dr. Pravin Bhagwat, Securing data from Wi-Fi network attacks , 15th February 2020. |
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Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran, Space: the less explored dimension of light, 19th February 2020. |
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Prof. Maresi Nerad, Are They Converging? Doctoral Education Worldwide: Trends and Future Challenges, 14th February 2020. |
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Prof. Kannan M. Krishnan, Magnetic Particle Imaging: Translating Science and Engineering to Medicine, 13th February 2020. |
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Prof. Hans-Bernd Schaefer, Law and the Poverty of Nation, 5th February 2020. |
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Prof. Stephan Winter, Place in Mobility Research, 10 January 2020. |
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Prof. William Detmold, The secret life of quarks, 09 January 2020 |
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Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan, Rice University, Houston (USA), 08 January 2020. |
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Prof. Yuval Gefen, Weizmann Institute Israel, 04 January 2020. |
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Prof. Utpal Banerjee, University of California, 02 January 2020. |
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Prof. Norman J. Wagner, University of Delaware, 09 December 2019 |
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Prof. Pankaj Jalote, India’s Quest for World Ranked Universities, 06 November, 2019 |
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Prof. Shankar Subramaniam, Is Big Data the sine qua non of Human Future?, 30th October 2019 |
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Prof.Will Featherstone, Geodesy? What on Earth's that?, 16th October 2019 |
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Prof. Dr. Ing. Habil Ulrich L. Rohde, New Radio Networks and Emerging Trends: SDR, 5G & IoT, 29th September 2019 |
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Prof. Sumit Chakraborty, Time will tell: Tales of crustal evolution from the global to the atomic scale, 9th September 2019 |
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Dr. Bibek Debroy, Contemporary Issues in Indian Economic Development, 4th September 2019 |
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Prof. Alper Erturk, Dynamics of Next-Generation Smart/Meta Structures: Energy Harvesting, Bio-Inspiration, & Vibration Mitigation, 9th August 2019 |
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Prof. Vishwanath Prasad, Energy: Human Evolution to Present Day Conflicts, 2nd August 2019 |
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Prof. Debraj Ray, Similarity, Difference, and Social Conflict, 12th July 2019 |
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Prof. Tooraj Jamasb, Energy Systems Integration: Economics of a "Network of Networks", 16th May 2019 |
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Shri Ajit Kumar Seth, The Challenge of Climate Change and India’s response, April 4th, 2019 |
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Prof. Olivier J F Martin, Plasmonics: From materials to metasurfaces and pure magnetic light, 18th March 2019 |
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Prof. Mark E. Tuckerman, Molecular simulation and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Atomic and Molecular Crystals, 15th March 2019 |
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Michael Berry, Geometric phases and the separation of the world, 7th March 2019 |
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Tahei Tahara, Wonder world seen with light, 1st March 2019 |
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Oleg A Kabov, Evaporation, Levitation and Self-Organization of Liquid Micro-droplets over Solid and Liquid Surfaces and Contact Line Region, 17th January 2019 |
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Mr. Arvind Gupta, Making Things, Doing Science, 27th August 2018 |
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Professor Edgar Knobloch, Spatially Localized Structures: Experiments, Theory and Numerics, 11th July 2018 |
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Dr. Arunava Sen,Engineering in Economics: An Introduction to Mechanism Design, 15th February 2018 |
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Dr. Bhupendra Ahuja , Evolution of High Performance Analog Front End ICs , 9th February 2018 |
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Professor Arieh Ben-Naim, Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Phenomena in protein folding, 22nd January 2018 |
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Professor Paula Richman , What happens when Ravana moves to the Center?, 15th January 2018 |
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Professor Parrinello Michele , Fluctuations and rare events , 4th December 2017 |
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Professor D D Sarma, Fascinations of semiconductor nanomaterials: Their extraordinary luminescent properties, 17th November 2017 |
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Professor Joachim Frank, The Ribosome – restless molecular machine at the center of all life, 8th November 2017 |
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Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Can India get to 100% Electric Vehicles by 2030? What does it mean for the auto and oil industry?, 31st October 2017 |
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Prof. A.K. Sood , The Physics of Life: Flocking and Bacterial Heat Engine , 22th September 2017 |
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Mr. Biplab Ketan Paul , Bhungroo: Empowering the underprivileged , 24th August 2017 |
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Prof. Henry F. Schaefer, III , Density Cumulant Theory, 22nd March 2017 |
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Prof. Bharat Ratra , Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Einstein's Cosmological Constant, and the Accelerating Universe , 22nd March 2017 |
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Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Science and Scientists, 23rd December 2016 |
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Prof. Martin Gruebele, Dynamics of complex systems: vibrating molecules, nanostructures, glasses, proteins in the cell, and swimming fish , 12th December 2016 |
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Prof. Timothy J Pedley, Micro-organism swimming: individual and collective behaviour, 22th November 2016 |
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Dr. Anil Bhardwaj, MOM and SARA: Mars and Moon, 7th November 2016 |
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Professor C.N.R. Rao, Graphene Analogues, 26th June 2016 |
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Prof. Satish K. Tripathi , Turning Excellence into Impact , 25th June 2016. |
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Dr. Thierry Poinsot, Prediction and control of combustion instabilities in gas turbines for propulsion and power generation, 13th May 2016. |
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Prof. Achintya Haldar, Health Assessment of Civil Infrastructures, 7th April 2016. |
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Prof. Lyndon Evans, Back to the Big Bang. The Large Hadron Collider, 4th March 2016 |
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Prof. Ashoke Sen, String Theory and Cosmology: Tying the Two Ends, 3rd March 2016 |
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Prof. Michael Schmittel, From a lab-on-a-microchip to a lab-on-a-molecule, 2nd March 2016 |
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Prof. Ravi Samtaney, Simulation Enabled Discoveries: Examples from MHD and Turbulence, 10th February 2016 |
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Dr. Samiran Mahapatra, Innovations for a Sustainable World - A Journey from Lab to Market, 9th February 2016 |
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Prof. Satish V. Kulkarni, Paradigm Shift for the R&D Enterprise in India:Innovation Through a Symbiotic Partnership Between Universities and National Laboratories, 15th January 2016 |
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Prof. Mysore A. Dayananda, Selected Phenomena in Multicomponent Diffusion, 29th December 2015 |
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Prof. Jagdish Narayan , Fundamental Discovery of New Phases and Direct Conversion of Carbon into Diamond and hBN into cBN and Properties, 16th December 2015 |
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Mr. Ananth Krishnan, Digital Forces Combine to Create Innovation at the Intersections, 15th October 2015 |
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Prof. Seshadri Seetharaman , Metallurgical Emissions - ticking environmental bomb or a valuable resource?, 19th March 2015 |
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Prof. E. C. Subbarao, Past successes and future challenges for iit kanpur, 16th March 2015. |
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Prof. T.V. Ramakrishnan, Physics, 24th February 2015. |
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Dr. Sumit Gulwani, Automating Repetitive Tasks for the Masses, 18th February 2015. |
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Professor Herbert Gleiter, Can Nanoglasses open the Way to an Age of New Technologies, 27th January 2015.Herbert Gleiter (Nano Glasses) |
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Professor Seyed E. Hasnain, Will we succeed in winning the war against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the deadly human pathogen that causes TB and takes one human life every 15-20 seconds?, 20th January 2015. |
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Professor Vijay Kumar, From UAVs to Flying Robots, 3rd November 2014. |
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Professor Samir K. Brahmachari, Open Innovation, Big Data and Crowd Sourcing: The Next Frontier, 18th October 2014. |
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Professor M. V. S. Valiathan, Ayurveda and Modern Science, 26th September 2014. |
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Dr. J. Georg Bednorz, High TC Superconductivity – after A quarter Century A technology is ready to take off, 17th June 2014 |
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Prof. Masahiro Yamashita, Frontier of Quantum Molecular Spintronics Based on Single-Molecule Magnets: Toward Green IT devices, 5th April 2014 |
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Prof. Emmanuel Dormy, The origin of the Earth's magnetic field, 1st April 2014 |
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Prof. M. Vidyasagar, Machine Learning Methods in Cancer Biology, 19th February 2014 |
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Prof. Peter G. Wolynes, Supercooled Liquids, Glasses and their Ultimate Fates, 17th February 2014 |
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Prof. Graham R. Fleming, Lessons from Nature on Solar Light Harvesting, 12th February 2014 |
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Prof. Raj Mohan Gandhi, The 1947 Partition of Punjab: Why and How it Happened, 4th February 2014 |
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Dr. P. Chellapandi, Challenges in the design of Fast Breeder Reactors from a mechanics perspective, 31st January 2014 |
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Professor Subir Sachdev, Quantum Mechanics Without Particles, 21st January, 2014 |
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Prof. Roderick Guthrie, The Importance of Gas Bubble sizes in Liquid Metal Processing Operations, 20th December 2013. |
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Prof. Ernst Wintner, Lasers: Evolution, Applications and Future, 28th October 2013 |
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Prof. Charles D. Kolstad, The Economics of Climate Change, Green Growth and India, 27th August 2013. |
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Prof. Ananth Dodabalapur, Chemistry, Polymer and Printable Transistors: Recent Advances, 14th March 2013 |
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Dr. Manvendra K. Dubey, Chemistry, Carbon and Climate Science to Meet the 21st Century Energy Challenge, 12nd February 2013. |
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Dr. Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, Nuclear Fission Energy, a Sustainable and Environmental friendly option for electricity - Challenges, 1st February 2013. |
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Prof. J. N. Reddy, Numerical Simulations of Problems in Science and Engineering Using the Finite Element Method, 2nd January 2013. |
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Prof. Marek Behr, Physiological Modeling in Computational Hemodynamics, 5th November 2012. |
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Dr. Ajay Mathur, Energy in India: Strategies for the Future, 3rd October 2012. |
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Prem Kumar, Ultrafast Processing of Photonic Entanglement: Technologies and Potential Applications, 14th September 2012 |
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Rohini Godbole, Significance of the discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN, 10th September 2012. |
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Mrinal K. Sen, Subsurface Imaging: Challenges and Opportunities, 9th April, 2012. |
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Jagadish Shukla, Global Warming: Science, Politics, Ethics and Policy, 14th February 2012. |
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Ian Angell, Science's First Mistake: Delusions in pursuit of Theory, 4th January, 2012. |
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Dr. A. Pouquet, Waves and turbulence in rotating flows, 5th December,2011. |
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Dr. Mahan Maharaj, What is hyperbolic geometry?, 14th November, 2011. |
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Mr. Prabuddha Ganguli, Pole-vaulting innovations across Academic Walls, 31st October 2011 |
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Prof. Richard J. Saykally, Water Music: The Latest Word on the Most Important Substance in the Universe, 18th April, 2011 |
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Dr. Yogendra Joshi, Thermal Management of Microsystems from Chips to Data Centers, 24th March, 2011 |
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Dr. V. Ramaswamy, The Earth's Changing Climate System: Past to Future, 17th March, 2011 |
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Dr. Rajeev Sharangpani, Ergonomics: Sense and Science of Human movement, 11th March, 2011 |
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Dr. Koji Okumura, Geology of Earthquakes: The wisdom to prepare for the rarest and the most devastating hazards, 25th February, 2011 |
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Dr.Sanjay Bihari, Neurosurgery: An inspiring arena for engineering innovation, 23rd February, 2011 |
