

S.No | Date | Title | Recorded Video Talk | Speaker | Affiliation |
1 | 04-08-2021 | OSIRIS-REx: Sample science and the geologic context for the return regolith from active asteroid Bennu | Click Here | Prof. Harold C. Connolly Jr | Rowan University, NJ, USA |
2 | 11-08-2021 | Reaching the sky: Indian Launch Vehicles | Click Here | Shri S. Somanath | Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram |
3 | 18-08-2021 | Confined water: Many surprises | Click Here | Prof. Prabal K Maiti | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
4 | 25-08-2021 | Our immunity and emerging diseases | Click Here | Prof. Chandrima Shaha | Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi |
5 | 01-09-2021 | Floods in a Changing Climate | Click Here | Prof. P P Mujumdar | Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
6 | 08-09-2021 | Safety of nanomaterials: A journey from research to policy | Click Here | Prof. Alok Dhawan | Centre of Biomedical Research, Lucknow, India |
7 | 15-09-2021 | Green energy and clean water from the Oceans | Click Here | Dr. Purnima Jalihal | National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India |
8 | 22-09-2021 | Prospects in Solar Physics for the Next Decade: a Multi-messenger Era | Click Here | Dr. Valentin Martinez Pillet | National Solar Observatory (NSO) Boulder, USA |
9 | 29-09-2021 | Dynamics of aurora and airglow in the upper atmosphere and space around the Earth | Click Here | Prof. Kazuo Shiokawa | Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan |
10 | 06-10-2021 | A Song for the SOL | Click Here | Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta | Senior Advisor for New Initiatives, Heliophysics, NASA GSFC/HQ Program Scientist |
11 | 13-10-2021 | The mystery of Venus lightning | Click Here | Dr. Ralph Lorenz | Planetary scientist and Engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Maryland, USA |
12 | 20-10-2021 | Earth System Science for Socio-Economic Benefits | Click Here | Dr. M. Rajeevan | Former Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India |
13 | 27-10-2021 | What are exoplanets made of? Molecular line lists to aid the characterisation of exoplanets. | Click Here | Prof. Jonathan Tennyson | FRS, Massey Professor of Physics and Head of Department, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (UCL), Chief Scientist, Quantemol Ltd, UCL |
14 | 03-11-2021 | Opportunities and Challenges beyond Mangalyaan in Interplanetary Missions and Planetary Protection Measures | Click Here | Prof. V. Adimurthy | ISRO Honorary Distinguished Professor, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram |
15 | 10-11-2021 | Business Journey and Learnings on the Way | Click Here | Shri Sanjay Lalbhai | Chairman and Managing Director, Arvind Ltd., Ahmedabad |
16 | 17-11-2021 | The Sun's Magnetic Field and Global Climate Change | Click Here | Prof. Sami K. Solanki | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, MPS, Göttingen, Germany |
17 | 24-11-2021 | GEOTRACES and Southern Ocean iron biogeochemistry - where have we come? | Click Here | Prof. Andrew Bowie | Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania |
18 | 01/12/2021 | The Development of the East Asian Observatory | Click Here | Prof. Paul Ho | Director, JCMT & East Asian Observatory |
19 | 08/12/2021 | Shedding light on the Dark Matter in the Universe | Click Here | Porf. Rohini Godbole | Hon. Professor, IISc, Bangalore |
20 | 15/12/2021 | Future Colliders | Click Here | Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhuri | Dean, Administration and Professor, TIFR, Mumbai |
21 | 22/12/2021 | Sustainable groundwater resource use in India- Achievable or a mirage? | Click Here | Prof. Dipankar Saha | Chair Professor, Manav Rachna International Institute for Research and Studies, Faridabad. Former Member, CGWB |
22 | 29/12/2021 | From P. C. Ray to the present: Chemistry in Action | Click Here | Prof. V. Chandrasekhar | Director, TIFR, Hyderabad |
23 | 05/01/2022 10:00 AM (IST) |
Organic Matter in the Universe | Click Here | Prof. Sun Kwok | Professor Emeritus, Laboratory for Space Research, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and University of British Columbia |
24 | 12/01/2022 10:00 AM (IST) |
Societal and Economic Impacts of Space Weather | Click Here | Prof. Dan Baker | Director, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder |
25 | 19/01/2022 10:00 AM (IST) |
Squeezed light from abstraction to real life applications: sensing and imaging well beyond standard quantum limit | Click Here | Prof. Girish S. Agarwal, FRS | University Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, Texas |
26 | 26/01/2022 | Grassroots Innovations: Mining the Minds of Masses | Click Here | Brigadier (Retd.) P. Ganesham | President, Innovation Diffusion Center, Palle Srujana, Sainikpuri, Secunderabad |
27 | 02/02/2022 | The oceanic geochemistry of the transition metals: tools to quantify the history of the oxygenation of the surface Earth | Click Here | Prof. Derek Vance | Professor, ETH Zurich |
28 | 09/02/2022 | Prevention is Health, and Wealth | Click Here | Dr. Gagandeep Kang | FRS, Professor, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India |
29 | 16/02/2022 | Human Space Program - challenges and strategies | Click Here | Dr. V. R. Lalithambika | Distinguished Scientist & Former Director, Directorate of Human Space Programme, Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore |
30 | 23/02/2022 | Realising A Dream:Vikram Sarabhai and Television for Change | Click Here | Dr. Mallika Sarabhai | Director, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad. |
31 | 02/03/2022 | Ultra-violet Imaging Telescope and beyond | Click Here | Dr. Annapurni Subramaniam | Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. |
32 | 09/03/2022 | Sport - An Integral component of Nation building | Click Here | Ms. Ashwini Nachappa | Olympian, Arjuna Awardee, Founder Ashwini's Sports Foundation Managing Trustee, KALS |
33 | 16/03/2022 | Open Access in Astronomy | Click Here | Ms. Uta Grotkopf | Head, Library and Information Centre ESO - European Southern Observatory, Germany |
34 | 23/03/2022 | Quark-Gluon Plasma: the perfect and most vortical fluid | Click Here | Prof. Bedangadas Mohanty | Professor, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar |
35 | 30/03/2022 | Quantum entanglement at all distances | Click Here | Prof. Subir Sachdev | Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge |
36 | 06/04/2022 | Uttar Pradesh Metro: Building Modern Urban Transport Systems for the Changing Needs of the Cities: Challenges and Lessons Learnt | Click Here | Shri Kumar Keshav | Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation |
37 | 13/04/2022 | ASTRO 3D | Click Here | Prof. Lisa Jennifer Kewley | Australian National University, Australia |
38 | 20/04/2022 17:00 – 18:00 hrs. (IST) |
The ozone layer, its science, and its policies | Click Here | Prof. A R Ravishankara | University of Colorado Boulder |
39 | 27/04/2022 | Predictive understanding of the Indian monsoon in a changing climate | Click Here | Dr. R. Krishnan | IITM |
40 | 04/05/2022 | The Cold Universe: A Journey to our Cosmic Origins | Click Here | Prof. Pierre Cox | Director of research, CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris IAP, France |
41 | 11/05/2022 | Next Generation Species Specific and Eco Friendly Antibiotics and thoughts about the origin of life | Prof. Ada Yonath | Director, Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel | |
42 | 18/05/2022 | Infrared eyes: Exploring the solar system using infrared instruments | Click Here | Prof. Philip R. Christensen | Regents' Professor, Geological Sciences, Ed and Helen Korrick Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University, USA |
43 | 25/05/2022 | Living Beyond 100 Years - Myth or Truth? | Click Here | Dr. Parthiv Mehta | MD FCCP, Senior Pulmonologist – Intensivist, U N Mehta Institute of Cardiology, Mehta Hospital & Cardiopulmonary Care Centre, Central United Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, INDIA |
44 | 01/06/2022 | Hunting elephants in a room: new ways to search for dark matter and other adventures | Click Here | Prof. Dmitry Budker | Section Leader, Helmholtz Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany and Professor of Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley, USA |
45 | 08/06/2022 | Role of Plate Tectonics and Climate in the Evolution of Tropical Angiosperms: Evidence from Indian Fossil Records | Click Here | Dr. (Mrs.) Vandana Prasad | Director, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow |
46 | 15/06/2022 | A Historical Journey to Discover the Mysteries of Air | Click Here | Prof. Guy Brasseur | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
47 | 22/06/2022 | Explore and Learn | Click Here | Shri Atul Karwal, IPS | Director General, National Disaster Response Force and, Director, SVP National Police Academy Hyderabad |
48 | 29/06/2022 | COVID 19 in India - Opportunities & Challenges | Dr. R Gangakhedkar | Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair, Indian Council of Medical Research | |
49 | 06/07/2022 | Prof. Shubha Tole | Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | ||
50 | 13/07/2022 | ||||
51 | 20/07/2022 | Mr. Luis Miranda | Founding member of HDFC and IDFC | ||
52 | 27/07/2022 | Prof. Yashwant Gupta | Centre Director, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, ata Institute of Fundamental Research | ||
53 | 03/08/2022 | ||||
54 | 10/08/2022 | ||||
55 | 17/08/2022 | ||||
56 | 24/08/2022 | ||||
57 | 31/08/2022 | ||||
58 | 07/09/2022 | ||||
59 | 14/09/2022 | ||||
60 | 21/09/2022 | ||||
61 | 28/09/2022 | ||||
62 | 05/10/2022 | ||||
63 | 12/10/2022 | ||||
64 | 19/10/2022 | ||||
65 | 26/10/2022 | ||||
66 | 02/11/2022 | ||||
67 | 09/11/2022 | ||||
68 | 16/11/2022 | ||||
69 | 23/11/2023 | ||||
70 | 30/11/2022 | ||||
71 | 07/12/2022 | ||||
72 | 14/12/2022 | ||||
73 | 21/12/2022 | ||||
74 | 28/12/2022 | ||||
75 | 04/01/2023 |
- Special Talks 3
S.No | Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
1 | 23-08-2021 | Special [email protected] Lecture on Fire Safety | Sh. Deepak Asthana | Assistant Commandant Fire/CISF |
2 | 24-08-2021 | SEXUAL HARRASSMENT OF A WOMEN AT WORK PLACE | Ms. Sowmya Lakshmi Bhat | Advocate & Law Advisor, Co-Founder, Sasha (Support Against Sexual harassment at workplace) |
3 | 26-08-2021 | Finding extraterrestrial organics and water in Itokawa samples returned by the Hayabusa mission | Dr Queenie Chan | Assistant professor, The Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
4 | 01-11-2021 | Independent India @75: Self-Reliance with Integrity | Shri Pawan Srivastava | IPS and Director, Central Academy of Police Training, Bhopal |
5 | 14-02-2022 | Hygiene, Health and Sanitation: Impact on Human Lives and Society | Dr. Deepak C. Jagani | Principal (Retd.) All India Institute of Local Self-Government (IILSG), Ahmedabad |
- PRL Platinum Planetary Seminar Series (PPP-SS) 35
S.No | Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
1 | 02-09-2021 | Micrometeorites on the Earth surface: Understanding their origin and properties | Dr N G Rudraswami | Principal Scientist, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa. |
2 | 09-09-2021 | Water, Asteroids, and Planet Formation | Dr. Maitrayee Bose | Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, U.S.A. |
3 | 16-09-2021 | Shock-induced incongruent melting of olivine and formation of natural Fe-bearing aluminous bridgmanite in ordinary chondrites | Dr. Sujoy K Ghosh | Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
4 | 23-09-2021 | AGB stars and their dust grains in the solar system | Dr. Nan Liu | Research Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Space Sciences, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis |
5 | 30-09-2021 | Sulfur isotope anomalies in Acfer 094 inherited from the Irradiation of the Protosolar Molecular Cloud by Massive Nearby Stars | Dr. Lionel Vacher | Washington St. Louis U. S. A. |
6 | 06-10-2021 | Isotopic and elemental studies of presolar graphite grains and what they tell us about their parent stars | Dr. Manavi Jadhav | Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana, U. S. A. |
7 | 14-10-2021 | Minor and trace element concentrations in adjacent kamacite and taenite in the Krymka chondrite | Dr. Smail Mostefaoui | Institut de Mineralogie, Physique des Materiaux et de Cosmochimie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
8 | 21-10-2021 | Nascent Sun & repetitive Superflares | Dr. Ritesh K. Mishra | Application Engineer, Cameca |
9 | 28-10-2021 | Entering an Unseen World: Biology vs. Science – Who sees further? | Dr. Frank Gyngard | Lecturer on Medicine and Research Scientist, Center for NanoImaging, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital U. S. A. |
10 | 12-11-2021 | Heterogeneous accretion of volatiles to Earth's mantle reservoirs | Dr. Rita Parai | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, U. S. A. |
11 | 18-11-2021 | Constraining thermal processing of dust grains in space and on the surface of airless bodies through in-situ laboratory experiments | Dr. Pierre Haenecour | Assistant Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona, Tucson |
12 | 25-11-2021 | Serpentinization of iron-rich olivine and its potential for abiotic methane synthesis in planetary bodies | Dr. Alik Sundar Majumdar | Assistant Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizona, Tucson |
13 | 09-12-2021 | The Origins of Organic Matter and Amorphous Silicates in Meteorites – Clues from Nanoscale Investigations | Prof. Christian Vollmer | Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Geology, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad |
14 | 16-12-2021 | Isotopic constraints on the conditions of chondrule formation in carbonaceous chondrites | Prof. Yves Marrocchi | Research Director at CNRS, Deputy Director of the CRPG, France |
15 | 23-12-2021 | First Formed Solids: Records of the Earliest Times of the Solar System | Dr. Prajkta Mane | Visiting Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute (USRA), Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston |
16 | 30-12-2021 | Chondrites and the early solar system | Dr. Yogita Kadlag | NCCR PlanetS advanced Post-Doctoral fellow Universität Bern, Switzerland |
17 | 06-01-2022 | Nucleosynthetic heterogeneity in the early solar system: insights from Nd isotopes | Dr. Nikitha Susan Saji | Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
18 | 13-01-2022 | How well can we link meteorites to asteroids | Prof. Thomas Burbine | Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, USA |
19 | 20-01-2022 | Origin and evolution of nitrogen on planetary bodies in the inner solar system | Dr. Evelyn Füri | Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG, CNRS-UL), France |
20 | 27-01-2022 | Chondrule formation: A controversial issue among different models | Dr. Maria Eugenia Varela | ICATE-CONICET, San Juan, Argentina |
21 | 03-02-2022 | Condensation and Radial Transport of Filamentary Enstatite Crystals from Interplanetary Dust | Prof. Ryan Ogliore | Washington St. Louis, U. S. A. |
22 | 10-02-2022 | Volatiles on Mars - from meteorites to sample return | Dr Susanne P. Schwenzer | Associate Director Astrobiology OU, School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, U. K. |
23 | 17-02-2022 | Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrules: regional heterogeneity of oxygen isotope reservoirs in the solar nebula | Dr. Daisuke Nakashima | Tohoku University, Japan |
24 | 24-02-2022 | Atomic-Scale Structure and Non-Stoichiometry of Meteoritic Hiboni | Dr. Jangmi Han | University of Houston, U. S. A. |
25 | 03-03-2022 | Condensation and Radial Transport of Filamentary EnstatiteCrystals from Interplanetary Dust | Prof. Ryan Ogliore | Washington St. Louis, U. S. A. |
26 | 10-03-2022 | Hands-on Astrophysics: Analysis of Presolar Stardust Grains to Decipher Stellar Nucleosynthesis | Dr. Reto Trappitsch | Brandeis Waltham, MA, USA. |
27 | 01-04-2022 | Meteorites from Morocco: An overview | Prof. Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane | Faculty of Sciences Ain Chock FSAC, Department of Geology, Casablanca MOROCCO |
28 | 07-04-2022 | The Ancient Climate of Mars: Was the Ambient Climate 'Warm and Wet' or 'Cold and Icy'? | Dr. Jim Head | Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Research), Brown University |
29 | 21-04-2022 | Understanding Planetary Differentiation from Hf-W systematics | Dr. G. Srinivasan | Bhopal |
30 | 05-05-2022 | Thermal alteration of CM chondrites: Mineralogical changes and metamorphic temperature | Dr. Ashley King | Future Leader Fellow, UK Research and Innovation, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, UK |
31 | 12-05-2022 | Aqueous alteration of primitive meteorites | Dr. Wataru Fujiya | Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Japan |
32 | 19-05-2022 | Mars - A short history through time | Dr. Stephanie C. Werner | Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo |
33 | 26-05-2022 | The Terrestrial Impact Record | Prof. Christian Koeberl | University of Vienna, Austria, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
34 | 02-06-2022 | How hot and wet is the Moon: Insight from experiments | Dr. Ananya Mallik | Assistant Professor, (The RealReal Inc. Endowed Chair in Gem Science), Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
35 | 16-6-2022 | Primordial noble gases in primitive meteorites | Dr. Tomoya Obase | Hokkaido University, Japan |
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