Endowment Lecture

Sl.No Description Date Speaker Affiliation Details
1

M. N. Saha Memorial Lecture

Speaker:  Dr. Andrew Peterson, Chief Scientific Officer, MedGenome, Foster City, USA
Title: The benefits and challenges of diversity in genetics
Date: January 24, 2020
Time: 3 PM (Subject to last minute change, if any)
Venue: C V Raman Hall
 24/01/2020 Dr. Andrew Peterson Chief Scientific Officer, MedGenome, Foster City, USA Details
2
Coochbehar Professorship Lecture
 
Speaker: Professor Christopher(KIT) C. Cummins, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT
Title: Phosphorus-Element Bond-Forming Reactions
Date: January 17, 2020
Time: 17:15 Hrs
Venue: CV Raman Hall
 17/01/2020 Professor Christopher(KIT) C. Cummins Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT Details
3
Father Lafont Memorial Lecture
 
Speaker : Professor Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Topic : Thermodynamics and order beyond equilibrium --from eigentstate thermalisation to time crystals
Date & Time : 17th December, 2019 at 3.00PM
Venue : C.V. Raman Hall
 17/12/2019 Professor Roderich Moessner Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany Details
4

P. C. Dutta Memorial Lecture-2019

Speaker: Professor Vinod Singh, IIT Kanpur
Title of talk: Chiral Brønsted Acids for Asymmetric Organocatalysis
Venue:  C. V. Raman Hall, IACS
Date: August 22, 2019
Time: 11.30 am, CV Raman Hall
 22/08/2019 Professor Vinod Singh IIT Kanpur Details
5

Joy Kissen Memorial Lecture

Speaker : Professor T. Padmanabhan, Distinguished Professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
Title : Understanding Our Universe
Date & Time : 26th April, 2019 at 3.00 PM
Venue : CV Raman Hall
 26/04/2019 Professor T. Padmanabhan Distinguished Professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune Details
6

Kedareswar Memorial Lecture

Speaker : Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Director General, CSIR
Title : Historical Accounts of Development of Crystallography in India
Date & Time : 23rd April, 2019 at 3.00PM
Venue : MLS Hall
 23/04/2019 Dr. Shekhar C. Mande Director General, CSIR Details
7
Raman Memorial Lecture
Speaker : Professor Bernard Lucas Feringa, Nobel Laureate, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Title : The Art of Building Small
Date & Time : 20th March, 2019 at 11.00 AM
Venue : MLS Hall

 

 20/03/2019 Professor Bernard Lucas Feringa, Nobel Laureate University of Groningen, The Netherlands Details
8
MN Saha Memorial Lecture
Speaker : Professor Michael Berry, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol
Title : Chasing the dragon : tidal bores in the UK, India and elsewhere
Date & Venue :: 5th March, 2019 at 4.00 PM.
Venue :  C.V. Raman Hall
Pedagogical Talk :
Title : Geometric phases and the separation of the world
Date & Venue : 4th March, 2019 at 11.30 AM 
Venue :  C.V. Raman Hall
 05/03/2019 Professor Michael Berry H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol Details
9
A.K. Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture
Speaker : Professor Ashoke Sen, FRS
Title : An introduction to String Theory
Date & Time : 25th February, 2019 at 4.00PM
Venue : MLS Hall
 25/02/2019 Professor Ashoke Sen, FRS Harish-Chandra Research Institute Details
10
Hare Professorship Lecture
Speaker : Professor Craig A Townsend, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Title : New Insights into Enediyne Antitumor Antibiotic Biosynthesis : Dynemicin
Date & Time : 29th January, 2019 at 4.00PM
Venue : C.V. Raman Hall
 28/01/2019 Professor Craig A Townsend Johns Hopkins University, USA Details
11
Father Lafont Memorial Lecture
Speaker : Professor Rudolf A. Roemer, Department of Physics, Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC), University of Warwick, UK
Title : Modelling rigidity, flexibility and dynamics of proteins
Date & Time : 19th December, 2018 at 12.00 Noon
Venue : C.V. Raman Hall
 19/12/2018 Professor Rudolf A. Roemer Department of Physics, Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC), University of Warwick, UK Details
12
Hare Professorship Lecture
Speaker : Professor Anderson S. L. Gomes, University Federal of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Topic : Nanomaterials: from Random Lasers to Nanobiophotonics
Date & Time : 17th December, 2018 at 4.00PM
Venue : C.V. Raman Hall
 17/12/2018 Anderson S. L. Gomes Physics Department and Graduate Program in Dentistry Universidade Federal of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil Details
13
Mahendra Lal Sircar Professorship Lecture 
Speaker : Professor Partha P. Majumder, Distinguished Professor and Founder, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Emeritus Professor, Indian Statistical Institute
Title : Our Footprints on the Sands of Time
Date & Time : 14th December, 2018 at 3.00PM
Venue : C.V. Raman Hall
 14/12/2018 Professor Partha P. Majumder Distinguished Professor and Founder, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Emeritus Professor, Indian Statistical Institute Details
14
AP Mitra Memorial Lecture
Speaker : Professor Marie-Therese Paternostre
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Title : Peptide assemblies: some of the rules of this complex puzzle
Time & Venue : 26th November, 2018 at 4.00PM at C.V. Raman Hall
 26/11/2018 Professor Marie-Therese Paternostre Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Details
15
Shri Rajendralal Mitra Professorship Lecture
Speaker :Prof. Peter Young, University of California, Santa Cruz,USA
Title :Critical Phenomena and Griffiths- McCoy Singularities in Quantum Spin Glasses  
Date :Monday, 9th July, 2018 
Time : 4.00 PM
Venue :C.V.Raman Hall, IACS
 09/07/2018 Prof. Peter Young University of California, Santa Cruz,USA Details
16
Tagore Memorial Lecture
Speaker :Mr. Craig L Hall, US Consul General, Kolkata
Date : Thursday, 10th May, 2018
Time : 3.00PM
Venue : MLS Hall, IACS
 10/05/2018 Mr. Craig L Hall US Consul General, Kolkata Details
17
T.K. Raidastidar Memorial Lecture 
Speaker: Professor Hema Ramachandran, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Topic  :“ Noise, the new signal ”
Date   :Thursday, 15th March, 2017
Time   :03:30 PM
Venue  :C.V. Raman hall, IACS
 15/03/2018 Professor Hema Ramachandran Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Details
18
Bimala Churn Law Memorial Lecture
Speaker :Professor Yasuhiro Ohshima, Tokyo University of Technology
Title : Recording the movie of molecular rotations in real time
Date : Monday, 19th February, 2018
Time : 03:30 PM
Venue : Theoretical Physics Seminar Room No : 406 (3rd Floor of centenary building) 
 19/02/2018 Professor Yasuhiro Ohshima Tokyo University of Technology Details
19
Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture
Speaker : Professor K. Takatsuka, Research Leader, Fukui Institute of Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
Topic : “Molecular Science beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Paradigm”
Date : Monday, 05th February, 2018
Time : 03:00 PM
Venue : CV Raman Hall, IACS
 05/02/2018 Professor K. Takatsuka Research Leader, Fukui Institute of Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo) Details
20
C K Majumdar Lecture Series 
Speaker: Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar, Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
Titles of the talks:
Lecture 1 : Extreme Light, Extreme States
Time:  Monday, 29th January, 2018, 16.00 Hrs.
Lecture 2 : Tabletop Plasma Gets Wind of Solar Turbulence!
Time: Tuesday, 30th January, 2018, 15.00 Hrs. 
Venue : C. V. Raman Hall, IACS, Kolkata
 29/01/2018 Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Details
21
U. R. Ghatak Endowment Lecture
Speaker : Prof. Arun K Ghosh, Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University
Topic : “From Natural Product Synthesis to Molecular Design Strategies to Combat HIV/AIDS Drug-resistance”
Date : Wednesday, 10th January, 2018
Time : 03:00 PM
Venue : CV Raman Hall, IACS
 10/01/2018 Prof. Arun K Ghosh Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University Details
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