Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research - An Autonomous Institution

JNCASR Colloquium

Sr. No. Title Speaker Name Date
1 Special Lecture
Chandrayaan-1: Technology and Science Perspectives
Prof. J.N. Goswami
Director, PRL,
Principal Scientist- Chandrayaan-1
Dr. M. Annadurai
Project Direction, Chandrayaan-1&2
ISRO, Bangalore
21/04/2009
2 Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription Prof. Jerry L. Workman
Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City, Missouri, USA
09/03/2009
3 The Queen of the Tropical Sky: The Cumulus Cloud as a Problem in Fluid Dynamics Prof. Roddam Narasimha
JNCASR, Bangalore /University of Hyderabad
24/02/2009
4 Fluid Dynamics from Gravity Prof. Shiraz Minwalla
The Department of Theoretical Physics
TIFR, Mumbai
02/12/2008
5 Between Three Hard Places: India's Energy and Climate Change Policies M. V. Ramana
CISED, ISEC, Bangalore 560 072
14/10/2008
6 Computer Simulation of Protein Dynamics Jeremy C. Smith
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
30/10/2008
7 How good is the scientific evidence for global climate change? Prof. J. Srinivasan
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
26/08/2008
8 Toxicity inherent with RNA polymerases and transcription Dr. J. Gowrishankar
Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Hyderabad
05/08/2008
9 An atomistic view of the initial stages of interface formation Prof. S.M. Shivaprasad
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, JNCASR
29/04/2008
10 Democracy as Common Sense: Can the "Right to Information" bring Rationality and Ethics into Democratic Decision Making? Aruna Roy
Mazdoor Kissan Shakti Sanghatan and National Campaign for People’s Right to Information, Rajasthan
22/04/2008
11 Genomic approaches to understand the biology and clinical management of Glioma Prof. M.R.S. Rao
Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, JNCASR
11/03/2008
12 The Mysterious Glass Transition Prof. James Langer
University of California, Santa Barbara
26/02/2008
13 Some recent results in the Chemistry of Nanomaterials Prof. C.N.R. Rao
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, JNCASR
19/02/2008