PRL Ka Amrut Vyakhyaan
| S.No. | Date | Vyakhyaan Number | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
| 1 | 2024-06-12 16:00:00 | 93 | Radiation, nuclear energy and environment |
Dr. Dinesh Kumar Aswal |
Director, Health, safety and environment group, BARC |
| 2 | 2024-05-22 16:00:00 | 92 | Deciphering the origin and evolution of our solar system from the chemical composition of 67P |
Prof. Kathrin Altwegg |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Space Research and Planetology, University of Bern |
| 3 | 2024-04-26 16:00:00 | 91 | Data Security for end-to-end applications in distributed applications |
Prof. Rajat Moona |
Director, IIT Gandhinagar |
| 4 | 2024-03-14 16:00:00 | 90 | The Net Zero Goal & Sustainability: Green Hydrogen Technologies, CO2 refineries, Biomass Valorization & Waste Plastic Recycling |
Prof. Ganapati D. Yadav, NAE(US), FNAI (US), FTWAS, FNA, FNAE, FNASI, FASc, FRSC |
National Science Chair (SERB/GOI), Emeritus Professor of Eminence, Former Vice Chancellor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai |
| 5 | 2024-02-21 16:00:00 | 89 | Seven decades of using luminescence in geochronology |
Dr. Frank Preusser |
Professor, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, Germany. |
| 6 | 2024-01-24 16:00:00 | 88 | Exploring Poles in a Warming World – Indian Endeavours and New Frontiers |
Dr. Thamban Meloth |
DIRECTOR, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Goa |
| S.No. | Date | Vyakhyaan Number | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
| 1 | 2023-12-29 16:00:00 | 87 | Addressing Chemical Complexity through Molecular Simulations |
Prof. Balasubramanian Sundaram |
Chemistry & Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru |
| 2 | 2023-11-17 16:00:00 | 86 | Planet Earth in Energy Imbalance: The Symptoms of Climate Change |
Prof. V. Ramaswamy |
Director, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University |
| 3 | 2023-10-31 16:00:00 | 85 | Five decades of marine and atmospheric aerosol chemistry research in PRL |
Prof. M M Sarin |
SERB-Distinguished Fellow, PRL, Ahmedabad |
| 4 | 2023-09-27 16:00:00 | 84 | "Metamaterials for light-matter interaction" |
Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta |
Director, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), New Delhi |
| 5 | 2023-08-09 16:00:00 | 83 | “Seeing the high energy universe with IceCube” |
Prof. Subir Sarkar |
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 6 | 2023-07-19 16:00:00 | 82 | Human Impact on Global Climate Change Over the Past Two Centuries: Use of Isotope-Tracing Techniques |
Prof. Mark Baskaran |
Professor & Chair, Department of Environmental Science and Geology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. |
| 7 | 2023-06-14 16:00:00 | 81 | PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION IN NORTH-EAST INDIA |
COL. CHRISTOPHER REGO (RETD.) |
Founder And CEO, Sunbird Trust, Bengaluru, Karnataka. |
| 8 | 2023-05-24 16:00:00 | 80 | FUTURE SPACE EXPLORATION – A PERSPECTIVE |
Wg. Cdr. Rakesh Sharma, Ashoka Chakra |
Fighter Pilot, Indian Air Force (Retd.), Test pilot at HAL & First Indian cosmonaut |
| 9 | 2023-04-19 16:00:00 | 79 | Shocking waves – Healing touch! |
Prof. Gopalan Jagadeesh |
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore |
| 10 | 2023-03-29 16:00:00 | 78 | DEMYSTIFYING LEADERSHIP |
Prof. Asha Kaul |
Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
| 11 | 2023-02-22 16:00:00 | 77 | Apollo to Artemis: The Science and Exploration of the Moon |
Prof. Mahesh Anand |
School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
| 12 | 2023-01-30 16:00:00 | 76 | My Professional Forays - People, Challenges & Anecdotes" |
Dr. K Kasturirangan |
Honorary Distinguished Advisor, ISRO, Former Chairman, ISRO & Secretary, Dept. Of Space, GoI |
| 13 | 2023-01-05 16:00:00 | 75 | Vikram Sarabhai and Indian space programme |
Shri A S Kiran Kumar |
Chairman, PRL Council of Management, Vikram Sarabhai Professor, ISRO, Bengaluru, Member, Space Commission, Govt. of India |
| S.No. | Date | Vyakhyaan Number | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
| 1 | 2022-12-28 16:00:00 | 74 | Raman spectroscopy: from Physics to Medicine |
Prof. Siva Umapathy |
Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Bhopal |
| 2 | 2022-12-21 16:00:00 | 73 | Galaxy evolution: The atomic hydrogen perspective |
Prof. Jayaram Chengalur |
Distinguished Professor & Director, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
| 3 | 2022-12-14 16:00:00 | 72 | Propelled by quests: Gravitational wave science |
Prof. Tarun Souradeep |
Director, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore |
| 4 | 2022-12-08 16:00:00 | 71 | Hydrogen bonded interactions: Pawns in the Game of Molecular Chess |
Prof. K. S. Viswanathan |
Visiting Professor, Krea University, SriCity |
| 5 | 2022-11-30 16:00:00 | 70 | Building Dakshin Gangotri at Antarctica: A Miracle |
Dr. Harsh K. Gupta |
NASI Platinum Jubilee Fellow, President, Geological Society of India, Member, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, India, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad |
| 6 | 2022-11-22 16:00:00 | 69 | Addressing Indian Societal problems through Science, Technology and Innovation in post-Independent India |
Dr. Shekhar C. Mande |
Distinguished Professor, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune and Honorary Distinguished Scientist, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune |
| 7 | 2022-11-16 16:00:00 | 68 | An enigmatic fluid flow inside the Sun: the Meridional Circulation |
Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri |
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| 8 | 2022-11-09 16:00:00 | 67 | Fusion and Plasma Research in India: Where are we, where are we going? |
Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi |
Director, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar |
| 9 | 2022-11-02 16:00:00 | 66 | Technology & Science in Legal Realm |
Justice Vikram Nath |
Judge, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi |
| 10 | 2022-10-26 16:00:00 | 65 | What Can We Do With a Quantum Liquid? |
Prof. Anthony J. Leggett |
(Nobel Laureate), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11 | 2022-10-19 16:00:00 | 64 | Train 18/Vande Bharat Project, How to exploit the spirit of Atmanirbhar Bharat! |
Shri Sudhanshu Mani |
Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (Retd.), Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London |
| 12 | 2022-10-12 16:00:00 | 63 | Nuclear Fusion: Indian Program, ITER Project & Beyond |
Prof. Shishir Deshpande |
Sr. Professor and Head, Fusion Interdisciplinary Science Division, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar |
| 13 | 2022-10-06 16:00:00 | 62 | SUN EARTH SYSTEM AND SPACE WEATHER: a historical approach-Physics |
Dr. Christine Amory-Mazaudier |
Sorbonne Université, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Université Paris Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Paris, France |
| 14 | 2022-09-28 16:00:00 | 61 | Space: the less explored dimension of light |
Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran |
Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering, Physics & Materials Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA |
| 15 | 2022-09-21 16:00:00 | 60 | Threat of the Sun and Superflares |
Prof. Kazunari Shibata |
Emeritus Professor-Kyoto University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor-Doshisha University |
| 16 | 2022-09-14 16:00:00 | 59 | Other Worlds in the Cosmos? The Search for Planets Similar to our Earth and...perhaps Sheltering Life! |
Prof. Michel Mayor |
Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 17 | 2022-09-07 16:00:00 | 58 | From Ocean Science to Blue Economy |
Dr. Shailesh Nayak |
Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru |
| 18 | 2022-08-31 16:00:00 | 57 | The Sarasvati River and the Indus civilization |
Prof. Michel Danino |
Visiting Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar |
| 19 | 2022-08-24 16:00:00 | 56 | Seismological Research and Gujarat’s Initiative |
Dr. Sumer Chopra |
Director, Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar |
| 20 | 2022-08-17 16:00:00 | 55 | Leadership in bridging inclusive science and creative society: lessons for learners |
Prof. Anil Gupta |
CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2018-21, Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN & NIF, Visiting Faculty, IIMA & IITB and Academy Professor, AcSIR |
| 21 | 2022-08-10 16:00:00 | 54 | Science and the Challenges of Climate Change |
Mr. Kartikeya Sarabhai |
Director, Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad |
| 22 | 2022-08-03 16:00:00 | 53 | EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM THEORY & A SIMPLE DERIVATION OF BELLS INEQUALITY |
Prof. Ajoy Ghatak |
The National Academy of Sciences India, Prayagraj & Optics & Photonics Centre, IIT Delhi |
| 23 | 2022-07-22 16:00:00 | 52 | Probing the Universe with radio waves : landmark achievements in India over the years |
Prof. Yashwant Gupta |
Centre Director, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune |
| 24 | 2022-07-20 16:00:00 | 51 | Luck and Networking - how they can help you |
Mr. Luis Miranda |
Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder Indian School of Public Policy |
| 25 | 2022-07-13 16:00:00 | 50 | my language my country |
Shri Vishnu Pandya |
Chairman, Gujarat Sahitya Academy, Govt. of Gujarat |
| 26 | 2022-07-06 16:00:00 | 49 | The Circuits of Sensation: How We Perceive the World |
Prof. Shubha Tole |
Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| 27 | 2022-06-29 16:00:00 | 48 | COVID 19 in India - Opportunities & Challenges |
Dr. Raman R. Gangakhedkar |
Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair, Indian Council of Medical Research |
| 28 | 2022-06-22 16:00:00 | 47 | Explore and Learn |
Shri Atul Karwal, IPS |
Director General, National Disaster Response Force and, Director, SVP National Police Academy Hyderabad |
| 29 | 2022-06-15 16:00:00 | 46 | A Historical Journey to Discover the Mysteries of Air |
Prof. Guy Brasseur |
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO |
| 30 | 2022-06-08 16:00:00 | 45 | Role of Plate Tectonics and Climate in the Evolution of Tropical Angiosperms: Evidence from Indian Fossil Records |
Dr. (Mrs.) Vandana Prasad |
Director, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow |
| 31 | 2022-06-01 16:00:00 | 44 | Hunting elephants in a room: new ways to search for dark matter and other adventures |
Prof. Dmitry Budker |
Section Leader, Helmholtz Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany and Professor of Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley, USA |
| 32 | 2022-05-25 16:00:00 | 43 | Living Beyond 100 Years - Myth or Truth? |
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 |
| 33 | 2022-05-18 16:00:00 | 42 | Infrared eyes: Exploring the solar system using infrared instruments |
Prof. Philip R. Christensen |
Regents' Professor, Geological Sciences, Ed and Helen Korrick Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University, USA |
| 34 | 2022-05-11 16:00:00 | 41 | 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 |
| 35 | 2022-05-04 16:00:00 | 40 | The Cold Universe: A Journey to our Cosmic Origins |
Prof. Pierre Cox |
Director of research, CNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris IAP, France |
| 36 | 2022-04-27 16:00:00 | 39 | Predictive understanding of the Indian monsoon in a changing climate |
Dr. R. Krishnan |
IITM |
| 37 | 2022-04-20 16:00:00 | 38 | The ozone layer, its science, and its policies |
Prof. A R Ravishankara |
University of Colorado Boulder |
| 38 | 2022-04-13 16:00:00 | 37 | ASTRO 3D |
Prof. Lisa Jennifer Kewley |
Australian National University, Australia |
| 39 | 2022-04-06 16:00:00 | 36 | Uttar Pradesh Metro: Building Modern Urban Transport Systems for the Changing Needs of the Cities: Challenges and Lessons Learnt |
Shri Kumar Keshav |
Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation |
| 40 | 2022-03-30 16:00:00 | 35 | Quantum entanglement at all distances |
Prof. Subir Sachdev |
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 41 | 2022-03-23 16:00:00 | 34 | Quark-Gluon Plasma: the perfect and most vortical fluid |
Prof. Bedangadas Mohanty |
Professor, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar |
| 42 | 2022-03-16 16:00:00 | 33 | Open Access in Astronomy |
Ms. Uta Grotkopf |
Head, Library and Information Centre ESO - European Southern Observatory, Germany |
| 43 | 2022-03-09 16:00:00 | 32 | Sport - An Integral component of Nation building |
Ms. Ashwini Nachappa |
Olympian, Arjuna Awardee, Founder Ashwini's Sports Foundation Managing Trustee, KALS |
| 44 | 2022-03-02 16:00:00 | 31 | Ultra-violet Imaging Telescope and beyond |
Dr. Annapurni Subramaniam |
Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. |
| 45 | 2022-02-23 16:00:00 | 30 | Realising A Dream:Vikram Sarabhai and Television for Change |
Dr. Mallika Sarabhai |
Director, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad. |
| 46 | 2022-02-16 16:00:00 | 29 | Human Space Program - challenges and strategies |
Dr. V. R. Lalithambika |
Distinguished Scientist & Former Director, Directorate of Human Space Programme, Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore |
| 47 | 2022-02-09 16:00:00 | 28 | Prevention is Health, and Wealth |
Dr. Gagandeep Kang |
FRS, Professor, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India |
| 48 | 2022-02-02 16:00:00 | 27 | The oceanic geochemistry of the transition metals: tools to quantify the history of the oxygenation of the surface Earth |
Prof. Derek Vance |
Professor, ETH Zurich |
| 49 | 2022-01-26 16:00:00 | 26 | Grassroots Innovations: Mining the Minds of Masses |
Brigadier (Retd.) P. Ganesham |
President, Innovation Diffusion Center, Palle Srujana, Sainikpuri, Secunderabad |
| 50 | 2022-01-19 10:00:00 | 25 | Squeezed light from abstraction to real life applications: sensing and imaging well beyond standard quantum limit |
Prof. Girish S. Agarwal, FRS |
University Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, Texas |
| 51 | 2022-01-12 10:00:00 | 24 | Societal and Economic Impacts of Space Weather |
Prof. Dan Baker |
Director, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 52 | 2022-01-05 10:00:00 | 23 | Organic Matter in the Universe |
Prof. Sun Kwok |
Professor Emeritus, Laboratory for Space Research, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and University of British Columbia |
| S.No. | Date | Vyakhyaan Number | Title | Speaker | Affiliation |
| 1 | 2021-12-29 16:00:00 | 22 | From P. C. Ray to the present: Chemistry in Action |
Prof. V. Chandrasekhar |
Director, TIFR, Hyderabad |
| 2 | 2021-12-22 16:00:00 | 21 | Sustainable groundwater resource use in India- Achievable or a mirage? |
Prof. Dipankar Saha |
Chair Professor, Manav Rachna International Institute for Research and Studies, Faridabad. Former Member, CGWB |
| 3 | 2021-12-15 16:00:00 | 20 | Future Colliders |
Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhuri |
Dean, Administration and Professor, TIFR, Mumbai |
| 4 | 2021-12-08 16:00:00 | 19 | Shedding light on the Dark Matter in the Universe |
Prof. Rohini Godbole |
Hon. Professor, IISc, Bangalore |
| 5 | 2021-12-01 16:00:00 | 18 | The Development of the East Asian Observatory |
Prof. Paul Ho |
Director, JCMT & East Asian Observatory |
| 6 | 2021-11-24 16:00:00 | 17 | GEOTRACES and Southern Ocean iron biogeochemistry - where have we come? |
Prof. Andrew Bowie |
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania |
| 7 | 2021-11-17 16:00:00 | 16 | The Sun's Magnetic Field and Global Climate Change |
Prof. Sami K. Solanki |
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, MPS, Göttingen, Germany |
| 8 | 2021-11-10 16:00:00 | 15 | Business Journey and Learnings on the Way |
Shri Sanjay Lalbhai |
Chairman and Managing Director, Arvind Ltd., Ahmedabad |
| 9 | 2021-11-03 16:00:00 | 14 | Opportunities and Challenges beyond Mangalyaan in Interplanetary Missions and Planetary Protection Measures |
Prof. V. Adimurthy |
ISRO Honorary Distinguished Professor, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 10 | 2021-10-27 16:00:00 | 13 | What are exoplanets made of? Molecular line lists to aid the characterisation of exoplanets. |
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 |
| 11 | 2021-10-20 16:00:00 | 12 | Earth System Science for Socio-Economic Benefits |
Dr. M. Rajeevan |
Former Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India |
| 12 | 2021-10-13 16:00:00 | 11 | The mystery of Venus lightning |
Dr. Ralph Lorenz |
Planetary scientist and Engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Maryland, USA |
| 13 | 2021-10-06 16:00:00 | 10 | A Song for the SOL |
Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta |
Senior Advisor for New Initiatives, Heliophysics, NASA GSFC/HQ Program Scientist |
| 14 | 2021-09-29 16:00:00 | 9 | Dynamics of aurora and airglow in the upper atmosphere and space around the Earth |
Prof. Kazuo Shiokawa |
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan |
| 15 | 2021-09-22 16:00:00 | 8 | Prospects in Solar Physics for the Next Decade: a Multi-messenger Era |
Dr. Valentin Martinez Pillet |
National Solar Observatory (NSO) Boulder, USA |
| 16 | 2021-09-15 16:00:00 | 7 | Green energy and clean water from the Oceans |
Dr. Purnima Jalihal |
National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India |
| 17 | 2021-09-08 16:00:00 | 6 | Safety of nanomaterials: A journey from research to policy |
Prof. Alok Dhawan |
Centre of Biomedical Research, Lucknow, India |
| 18 | 2021-09-01 16:00:00 | 5 | Floods in a Changing Climate |
Prof. P P Mujumdar |
Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| 19 | 2021-08-28 16:00:00 | 4 | Our immunity and emerging diseases |
Prof. Chandrima Shaha |
Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi |
| 20 | 2021-08-18 16:00:00 | 3 | Confined water: Many surprises |
Prof. Prabal K Maiti |
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| 21 | 2021-08-11 16:00:00 | 2 | Reaching the sky: Indian Launch Vehicles |
Shri S. Somanath |
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 22 | 2021-08-04 16:00:00 | 1 | OSIRIS-REx: Sample science and the geologic context for the return regolith from active asteroid Bennu |
Prof. Harold C. Connolly Jr |
Rowan University, NJ, USA |