PRL Ka Amrut Vyakhaan

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	Click Here	Dr. Raman R. Gangakhedkar	Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair, Indian Council of Medical Research
49	06/07/2022	The Circuits of Sensation: How We Perceive the World	Click Here	Prof. Shubha Tole	Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
50	13/07/2022	मेरी भाषा, मेरा देश	Click Here	Shri Vishnu Pandya	Chairman, Gujarat Sahitya Academy, Govt. of Gujarat
51	20/07/2022	Luck and Networking - how they can help you	Click Here	Mr. Luis Miranda	Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder Indian School of Public Policy
52	27/07/2022	Probing the Universe with radio waves : landmark achievements in India over the years	Click Here	Prof. Yashwant Gupta	Centre Director, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune
53	03/08/2022	EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM THEORY & A SIMPLE DERIVATION OF BELLS INEQUALITY	Click Here	Prof. Ajoy Ghatak	The National Academy of Sciences India, Prayagraj & Optics & Photonics Centre, IIT Delhi
54	10/08/2022	Science and the Challenges of Climate Change	Click Here	Mr. Kartikeya Sarabhai	Director, Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad
55	17/08/2022	Leadership in bridging inclusive science and creative society: lessons for learners	Click Here	Prof. Anil Gupta	CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2018-21, Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN & NIF, Visiting Faculty, IIMA & IITB and Academy Professor, AcSIR
56	24/08/2022	Seismological Research and Gujarat’s Initiative	Click Here	Dr. Sumer Chopra	Director, Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar
57	31/08/2022	The Sarasvati River and the Indus civilization	Click Here	Prof. Michel Danino	Visiting Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar
58	07/09/2022	From Ocean Science to Blue Economy	Click Here	Dr. Shailesh Nayak	Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
59	14/09/2022	Other Worlds in the Cosmos? The Search for Planets Similar to our Earth and...perhaps Sheltering Life!	Click Here	Prof. Michel Mayor	Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland
60	21/09/2022	Threat of the Sun and Superflares	Click Here	Prof. Kazunari Shibata	Emeritus Professor-Kyoto University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor-Doshisha University
61	28/09/2022	Space: the less explored dimension of light	Click Here	Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran	Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering, Physics & Materials Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
62	06/10/2022	Space Technology and Future Society	Click Here	Dr. K. Radhakrishnan	[Former Chairman, Space Commission/Secretary, Dept. of Space & Chairman, ISRO], Member, Space Commission, Member, National Security Advisory Board, Chairperson, the Board of Governors-IIT Kanpur & IIT Ropar, Chairman, Standing Committee-IIT Council, and Chairman, Oversight Committee, Science and Engineering Research Board
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 PRL[AT]75 Talks

• 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)

• PRL Platinum Planetary Seminar Series (PPP-SS) 40
  

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
36	30-06-2022	Tin stable isotope variations in natural materials: Implications for planetary and nebular processes	Dr. Dipankar Pathak	Isotopengeologie Gruppe, Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
37	07-07-2022	A Time-Line for the Formation of Terrestrial Planets	Prof. Klaus Mezger	Institute of Geological Sciences and Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern, Switzerland
38	28-07-2022	Infrared Spectroscopy for the BepiColombo Mission to Mercury	Dr. Andreas Morlok	University of Münster, Institut für Planetologie, Münster
39	04-08-2022	The Impact of Impact	Prof. Dr. Philippe Claeys	Head of the Analytical, Environmental and Geochemical Research, Group, VUB, Brussel
40	18-08-2022	Volcanism, crustal cooling and impact history of the differentiated asteroid Vesta through the lens of the 40Ar/39Ar technique	Prof. Fred Jourdan	Head of Discipline: Geology, Director of the Western Australian Argon Isotope Facility, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Perth WA6845

Conference

• S.No	Date	Title
  1.	16-18 August 2021	Conference on Condensed Matter Physics - CMP2021
  2.	23-24 September, 2021	Venus Science Conference (Venus-SC-2021)
  3.	27-28 September, 2021	Frontiers in Geosciences Research Conference (FGRC) - 2021
  4.	29-30 November, 2021	Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites: Messengers from Space Symposium (MetMeSS-2021)
  5.	11-12 January, 2022	First Indian Space Weather Conference (ISWC-2022)

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