Institute Talks/Colloquium
Colloquia
Invited Talks
August
07
Speaker: Prof. Vinod K. Singh (Institute Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur ; Chairperson - Governing Council IASST Guwahati ; President - National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) ; Chairman - Research Council CSIR-AMPRI Bhopal ; Chairperson - Recruitment & Assessment Board (RAB), CSIR)
August
14
Speaker: Dr. Prahlada Ramarao (Former Director, Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad ; Former Vice-Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune ; Former Chief Controller (R&D), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) ; Architect of the Akash Missile System ; Recipient of the Padma Shri (2015), Government of India)
September
11
Speaker: Prof. Dhananjay Singh (Member Secretary,
Indian Council of Social Science Research ; Former Visiting Professor at University of Bergamo, Italy ; Author of the monographs Fables in the Indian Narrative Tradition: An Analytical Study (D.K. Printworld, 2011), The Poetics of Theatre in Early India (D.K. Printworld, 2021) and the forthcoming Philosophy of Performance in India (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2023-2024)
October
16
Speaker: Lt General Karanbir Singh Brar (PVSM, AVSM (Retd) ; Distinguished Strategic Advisor, IITM PRAVARTAK - The Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Madras)
October
23
Speaker: Prof. B. Ravi ( Institute Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ; Currently Director, NIT Surathkal )
October
30
November
06
Speaker: Prof. Shankar Kumar Selvaraja (Associate Chair, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ; Project Director, National Quantum Mission-Quantum Computing Hub, Principal Investigator, Photonics Research Laboratory)
To be announced..
Speaker: Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, (Former Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Former Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru) was conferred the Padma Shri & Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
To be announced..
Speaker: Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty (Renowned Indian classical vocalist and a distinguished exponent of the Patiala-Kasur Gharana. He was honored with the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award in 2020, and the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award in 2011, for his outstanding contributions to Indian classical music).