A.V. Rama Rao Lecture Series

 

Foundation Lectures

 

Prize Lectures

 

 

Date

Transforming Research into Technologies: Self-reliance in Nuclear Sector

Prof. A K Tyagi

Homi Bhabha National Institute
BARC, Mumbai

Nanozymes for Biomedical Applications

Prof. G Mugesh

Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore

 

27/04/2022

Probing Mechanisms of Targeting and Allostery to attain specificity in Enzymatic reactions

Prof Ruchi Anand

IIT Bombay

Swarm Intelligence Guided Global Minima Search on Complex Potential Energy Surfaces

Dr R S Swathi

School of Chemistry, IISER, Trivandrum

12/01/2021
Role of Modified Surface & Multifunctional Catalysts in Electrochemistry

Prof S Sampath

Dept of IPC, IISc, Bangalore

Design of nanostructures for energy and environmental applications

Prof A K Ganguli,

Dept of Chemistry, IIT, New Delhi

10/05/2019

 

Ideal Synthesis and Realistic Approaches

Prof. Krishna P.Kaliappan

FASc, FRSC Institute of Chair                                            Department of Chemistry

IIT Bombay.

 

A Leap to Boost-up Energy Storage with Metal-Sulfur Batteries

Prof.Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya                                       Chair, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit                                                   Indian Institute of Science.

 

 

15/05/2018

Bifunctionality in Organometallic Catalysis

Prof Jitendra K Bera

Dept. of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology,  Kanpur

Non-Covalent Interactions in Asymmetric Catalysis: From Rationalizations to Predictions

Prof. Raghavan B  Sunoj

Dept. of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
 Mumbai

16/05/2017

Intramolecular Electronic Coupling at the Mixed Valent States. Fact or Fiction

Prof. G.K. Lahiri
Chemistry Department
 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
 Mumbai

Natural Products      Synthesis                                          Efficient Methods & Innovative Strategies

Prof.   C.V.Ramana,      

Division of Organic Chemistry,   

 CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

04/05/2016

What can be Learnt From the

Fluoresence  Behaviour of Molecular Systems in Room Temperature

Prof. Anunay Samanta

School of Chemistry

University of Hyderabad

Hyderabad  

Functional Organic Molecules for Biological Application

Dr. D Ramaiah

Director

CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam

21/05/2015

The Baylis-Hillman reaction: our vision and thirty years of experience

Prof. D. Basavaiah

School of Chemistry

University of Hyderabad

Hyderabad

Activation of unreactive chemical bonds in small molecules

Prof. Balaji Jagirdar

Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore

07/05/2014

Computational Chemistry: From

Molecules to Functional Materials

Prof. Sourav Pal

Director, CSIR

National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Supersonic Experimental Techniques :Defining Hydrogen Bond and Reducing Ignition Delay

Prof E Arunan

Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore

29/04/2013

Fluorescent Molecular Architectures with                                               Exceptional Properties

Dr. Ajayaghosh

CSIR-Outstanding Scientist Chemical Science & Technology Division,

NIIST,CSIR, Trivandrum.

Luminescent Nano Materials for Photonic Applications                       

Dr. Amitava Patra

Department of Material Science, IACS, Kolkata

16/05/2012

Phosphoros-Supported Ligands: Versatile Coordination Platforms for the Assembly of Molecular Materials

Prof. V. Chandrashekhar

Department of Chemistry

IIT, Kanpur

Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sensing and Light Energy Conversion

Prof. George Thomas

School of Chemistry,

IISER, Trivandrum

13/05/2011

Advances in the Strategies of Gene  Transfection

 

Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore

A Building Block Approach to Porous Solids

Prof. R. Murugavel

Department of Chemistry, IIT- Bombay, Mumbai

 

5/05/2010

 

Enantioselective Organocatalytic

 Aldol Reaction

Prof. Vinod K Singh                        Director, IISER, Bhopal

 

 

 

Structure, Entropy and Mobility

in Liquids

 

Dr. Charusita Chakravarty

Dept. of Chemistry, IIT, Delhi

 

5/05/2009

 

Atomic and molecular clusters: Designer materials for the nanoworld

 

Prof. Satyamurthy

Director, IISER

Mohali

 

 

Photoresponsive soft materials

 

Prof. Suresh Das, 

National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology,Trivandrum

 

15/05/2008

 

Editing PNA structures for DNA/ RNA Binding selectivity

 

 

Prof. K. N. Ganesh

Director, IISER

NCL Innovation Park

Pune

 

A decade of tinkering with bile acids

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Uday Maitra,

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

 

 

22/05/2007

 

Studies on the synthesis of Thiasugars

 

 

Prof. S. Chandrasekaran

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

Understanding the growth process of semiconducting nanoparticles

 

 

Prof. D.D. Sarma

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

16/02/2006

 

Novel C-C bond-forming reactions and their applications in organic synthesis

 

Dr. G. Vijay Nair

Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum

 

Iron and copper complexes of varying nuclearity, inorganic and  bioinorganic perspectives

 

Prof. R.N. Mukherjee

IIT, Kanpur

 

23/03/2005

 

Laser photons as specific reagents in organic chemistry

 

Prof. J.P. Mittal,

BARC, Mumbai

 

Electronic structure calculations of confined atoms and molecules  

 

Prof. Kalidas Sen

University of Hyderabad

 

26/02/2004

 

Being and becoming: Quantum systems in intense external fields

 

Prof. B.M. Deb

Punjab University,

Chandigarh

 

 

Turning solids into materials: Chemistry plays a key role

 

 

Prof. J. Gopalakrishnan

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

 

 

18/08/2003

 

Some reflections and a few results

 

Prof. A. Chakravorthy

Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

 

Density functional theory in chemistry

 

Dr. Swapan K Ghosh

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai

 

 

21/08/2002

 

Natural product synthesis: Is it relevant any more?

 

Prof. G. Mehta

Director,

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

From synthons to bioactive molecules: Efficient strategies for heterocycle synthesis

 

 

Prof. H. Ila

Indian Institute of Technology

Kanpur

 

15/11/2001

 

On putting life into Gels

 

 

Dr. R.A. Mashelkar

 Director-General, CSIR

 

Journey into the organometallics continent with the torch of  phosphorus

 

Prof. S.S. Krishnamurthy

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 

11/08/2000

 

Innovative momentum of chemical industry

 

Prof. M.M. Sharma

Formerly UDCT, Mumbai

 

 

Designer peptides for supramolecular tubular structures 

 

Dr. Darshan Ranganathan

 IICT, Hyderabad

 

21/10/1999