Institute Talks/Colloquium
Colloquia
Invited Talks
January
30
Speaker: Prof. Deepak Dhar (Honoured with the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award in 2023 ; I.N.S.A. Distinguished Professor, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India.)
March
13
Speaker: Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar (Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar is an Indian zoologist who researches biodiversity and the evolution of insects. His work involving the origin and evolution of social behaviour in wasps is ground-breaking. He is an honorary professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using Ropalidia marginata, a locally common wasp as a model. He was, from 2014 to 2016, the president of the Indian National Science Academy.)
March
27
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)
April
10
Speaker: Prof. T. Pradeep (Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras)
April
17
Speaker: Prof. Sourav Pal (Head of the Department, Chemistry, Ashoka University ; Former Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata ; Former Director of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune)
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).