HRI Colloquia

S.No. Title Speaker's Name & Affiliation Year
(04:00 PM, HRI Auditorium) On Bargmann and Fock meet Hardy: An uncertainty principle for operatorsThangavelu, Sundaram
Indian Institute of Science, India
01-04-2024
(4 pm, Auditorium) How Science, and Scientists individually, can stabilize democracies against misinformation-driven discord and disintegrationCharles, Bennett
IBM Research, USA
05-02-2024
(4 pm, Higgs LH) FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM, HARMONIC OSCILLATOR PROPAGATORS AND STRICHARTZ ESTIMATESJoachim, Toft
Linnaeus University, Sweden
08-12-2023
(4 pm, Auditorium) A Scientist far Ahead of His TimesKunal Ghosh, Retd. Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, India
24-11-2023
(4 pm, Auditorium) Tagore’s “life’s best treasure”: Four decades of Visva-Bharati (1921-1961)Swati, Ganguly
Visva-Bharati, India
17-11-2023
(4 pm, Auditorium) Who’s in Charge of the Howrah Bridge? Engineering Expertise and the Political Economy of Late-Colonial IndiaAparajith, Ramnath
Ahmedabad University, India
08-09-2023
(4 PM, Auditorium) Beyond Abel and JacobiKapil Hari, Paranjape
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
01-08-2023
How the Past of Modern Science in India may Help its FutureJohn Bosco, Lourdusamy
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
16-06-2023
Science and Society: A Historical PerspectiveDeepak Kumar
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
09-05-2023
In Search of Language XPeggy Mohan
Ashoka University, India
10-04-2023
LANGUAGE, LOVE AND LYING: An exploration of embodiment and emotion in the human speciesRukmini Nair Bhaya
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
24-02-2023
Labour and Periodization in Indian History.Manu V. Devadevan
Indian Institute of Technology, India
10-02-2023
The Colonial Constitution- The Origin Story of the Constitution of IndiaArghya Sengupta
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
03-02-2023
Understanding Inequality.Reetika Khera
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
20-01-2023
Climate change mitigation: Recent findings from the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)Minal Pathak
Global Centre for Environment and Energy, Ahmedabad University, India
25-11-2022
Radhanath Sikdar: The Lost Story of a Mathematician’s Fight for Justice in Colonial IndiaRosinka Chaudhuri
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India
18-11-2022
Neo-liberalism at a dead-endPrabhat Patnaik
CESP, JNU, India
04-11-2022
Our Current Knowledge of Indian Mathematics and AstronomyM D Srinivas
Centre for Policy Studies, India
11-03-2022
Yukthibhasha - The text book of the Kerala School.A.J. Parameshawaran
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
04-02-2022
Mādhava and the Kerala school of MathematicsAditya Kolachana
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
21-01-2022
Understanding Mathematics through Verses, Prose and PhrasesVenkateshwara Pai
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
14-01-2022
Jaina contributions to mathematics of ancient timesS.G. Dani
UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CBS), India
12-11-2021
Curatorial Concerns for India and the World: Which Narratives and Why?Naman Ahuja
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
28-02-2020
NEHRU AND BOSE: COMRADES AT CROSSROADSRudrangshu Mukherjee
Ashoka University, India
07-02-2020
Our Missing Trading Zones: Reflections on the Gap between Theory and Practice in the History of Science in IndiaMeera Nanda
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
20-12-2019
Why Ramanujan, the man who knew infinity, mattersKen Ono
University of Virginia, Virginia
09-12-2019
Challenges of Primary Education in IndiaRukmini Banerji
Pratham Education Foundation, India
29-11-2019
The neural basis of mathematical ability and communication: connections and challengesKaveri Rajaraman
Ashoka University, India
22-11-2019
What has our national movement given us?Purushottam Agrawal
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
01-11-2019
Economic growth, inequality and insecurity in China and IndiaJayati Ghosh
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
18-10-2019
Are we preparing our youth for adulthood? Major findingsSuman Bhattacharjea
ASER Centre, India
27-09-2019
Song of StonesSohail Hashmi
Historian, India
30-08-2019
Monodromy and Arithmetic GroupsT.N. Venkataramana
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
23-08-2019
`Governing Academic: Within and Without`Pankaj Chandra
Ahmedabad University, India
09-08-2019
Glimpses of ancient and medieval Indian mathematicsS.G. Dani
University of Mumbai, India
01-03-2019
Mughal Chronicles: Words, Images and the Gaps InBetween.Kavita Singh
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
18-01-2019
At Nature's Edge, Longer views of history, ecology and the human predicamentMahesh Rangarajan
Ashoka University, India
11-01-2019
An Orwell For Our TimeAlok (Retd. Prof.) Rai
University of Delhi
30-11-2018
Virgil on the Hugli, or how to get your term paperAbhijit Gupta
Jadavpur University, India
16-11-2018
Nature Plays Dice with Boron: Inevitability of UncertaintiesEluvathingal D. Jemmis
Indian Institute of Science, India
05-11-2018
"Short film “Euler’s Spoiler: A Living Legend”Arun Muktibodh
Mohota College, India
12-10-2018
HRI colloquiumPalash Baran Pal
Calcutta University, India
05-10-2018
HRI ColloquiumRajaram Nityananda
Azim Premji University, India
28-09-2018
Is the mind trainable?Alok Bajpai
IIT and Regency Hospital, India
24-08-2018
Yielding in amorphous solids and related transitions in driven systemsSrikanth Sastry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
17-08-2018
Theories and Imaginaries of Science, Technology and Society: Utopias and Dystopian VisionsDhruv Raina
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
10-08-2018
Are we preparing our youth for adulthood? Major findings from ASER 2017. क्या हम अपने युवाओं को वयस्कता के लिए तैयार कर रहे हैं? एएसईआर 2017 से प्रमुख निष्कर्षSuman Bhattacharjea
Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), India
27-04-2018
Tossing Coins Inside Living Cells. टॉस्सिंग साइंस इनसाइड लिविंग सेल्सRoop Mallik
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
13-04-2018
The Murals of India. द म्यूरल्स ऑफ़ इंडियाBenoy K Behl
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India
06-04-2018
Civility and principled coexistence in AsokanRajeev Bhargava
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), India
23-03-2018
Small noise limitsVivek Borkar
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
16-03-2018
The Indus Civilization – Uncovering the Discovery. द इंडस सिविलाईजेशन - अनकवरिंग द डिसकवरीNayanjyot Lahiri
Ashoka University, India
09-03-2018
The Omnipresence of Conformal InvarianceSunil Mukhi
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India
16-02-2018
Diophantine EquationsV. Srinivas
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
09-02-2018
The Marginalised Majority and Matters of LivabilityA. R. Vasavi
NA,
02-02-2018
Literary Community, Local Cosmopolitanism, and World LiteratureSupriya Chaudhuri
NA-,
08-12-2017
Eisenstein seriesWinfried Kohnen
University of Heidelberg, Germany
28-11-2014
Patterns of life and death: Using physics to understand complex dynamics in human physiologySitabhra Sinha
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
27-11-2014
What is Physical Mathematics?Marathe Kishore
Brooklyn College, USA
07-11-2014
Quantum chaosSudhir. R Jain
Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
12-09-2014
Flexibility and form: wrinkles, folds, and crumples in thin sheetsNarayanan Menon
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research- Hyderabad, India and University of Massachussets, USA
25-04-2014