Centenary Lectures
This distinguished lecture series was started as a [art of the centenary celebration 2007 (See council minutes dated 15-06-2007).聽 The first lecture was delivered by Prof. C. N. R. Rao on 24-01-2008 and since then several distinguished scientists have delivered the IISc Centenary Lecture.聽 Any distinguished Scientist/Engineering faculty from India and abroad may be invited to give this lecture.聽 The lecture is given a token honorarium (Rs.40,000/-), a silver plaque and bouquet.聽 A business class round trip air ticket (or two economy round trip tickets if accompanied by spouse) is paid to the lecturer and the lecturer is treated as the guest of the Institute.聽 There are no fixed number of such lectures in a year.
World Scientific Publishing Company Singapore and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, will co-publish a series of prestigious lectures delivered during IISc’s centenary year (2008-09), and a series of textbooks and monographs, by prominent scientists and engineers from IISc and other institutions.
The “IISc Centenary Lecture Series” will comprise lectures by designated Centenary Professors — eminent teachers and researchers from all over the world. Professor C N R Rao’s book on “Trends in Chemistry of Materials” is the first volume in this Series.
- ,聽Tall Oaks from Little Acorns: Birth and Growth of Solid State and Materials Chemistry,聽24 Jan 2008
- ,聽The Foundations of the Digital Wireless World,聽27 May 2008
- ,聽Scientific Management of the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture,聽9 July 2008
- ,聽Watching Ultrafast Molecular Motions in Liquids, Molecules and Proteins,聽16 July 2008
- ,聽Ozone Layer Depletion and the World鈥檚 Response: A Model for Global Environmental Problems?,聽2 Dec 2008
- ,聽The Origins of Structural Analysis and its Scope in Modern Biological Research,聽19 Jan 2009
- ,聽Work on Organised Molecular Systems Leads to a Proposal for The Origin of Prebiotic Homochirality,聽23 Jan 2009
- ,聽Perspectives in Chemistry: From Molecular to Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptive Chemistry,聽11 Feb 2009
- ,聽The Hoax at the Equator that Elucidates the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Warming,聽12 Mar 2009
- ,聽Landscapes of Matter,聽8 July 2009
- ,聽Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Biomolecules: From NMR to X-rays,聽23 Dec 2009
- ,聽Effective Models and Algebraic Topology,聽24 Dec 2009
- ,聽From Baroda to Cambridge: A Life in Science,聽5 Jan 2010
- ,聽Molecular photonics鈥擣rom Concepts to Applications in IT and Life Sciences,聽15 Feb 2010
- ,聽Human Genome & Beyond,聽3 Dec 2011
- ,聽Climate-Related Extreme Events: Teachable Moments,聽25 Jan 2012
- ,聽Controlling Reactions in Gases & Liquids,聽15 Feb 2012
- ,聽Exploring the Protein Universe with Physics & Physical Chemistry Techniques,聽3 April 2012
- ,聽Diving into the World of Atoms鈥擯icometer Electron Microscopy,聽6 Sep 2012
- ,聽Cloud Flows,聽19 July 2013
- ,聽Random Walk to Graphene,聽6 Dec 2013
- ,聽Reflection on the Discovery of Pulsars,聽9 Jan 2014
- ,聽Radical Mechanostereo chemistry,聽15 Jan 2014
- ,聽New Directions in Cancer Research,聽21 Jan 2014
- ,聽Detecting Reaction Intermediates in Solution and Guiding Cancer Surgery Using Mass Spectrometry,聽5 Feb 2014
- , Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Stanford University, California, USA, 15thDecember 2015.
- ,聽James R.Eiszner Chair in Chemistry,聽University of Illinois, Urbana Campaign, USA, 15th December 2016
- 聽University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA,聽 12 December 2017
- Harvard University, CAmbridge, USA, 21 March 2018.
