Research Seminar Series

Amrut Mody School of Management

2023

• Arti Omar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Asymmetric Effects of Noise in Merton Default Risk model: Evidence from Emerging Asia. January 3, 2023.
• Sudeep Rohit, Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli. Thinking, feeling and Coping by BoP Healthcare Consumers: policy-based Intervention in an Emerging Market. January 4, 2023.
• Bhaswati Ganguli, University of Calcutta. Experiences in Environmental Modelling. January 18, 2023.
• Mihkel M Tombak, University of Toronto, Canada. Hotelling Bound -Pricing and Location under Income Constraint. January 25, 2023. 
• Garima Agarwal, Delhi School of Economics. Sanitary Napkin Distribution and Girls' School Participation - Evidence from a Public Program in India. January 30, 2023
• Kumar Aniket, University College London, England. Markets, Space and Infrastructure. February 8, 2023.
• Aranya Chakraborty, McGill University, Canada. Network-Based Targeting with Heterogeneous Agents for Improving Technology Adoption. February 16, 2023.
• Aditi Singh, Brown University, USA. What Determines Household Expectations? February 20, 2023.
• Tanya Jain, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Debt Contract Enforcement and Product Innovation: Evidence from a Legal Reform in India. February 21, 2023.
• Omkar D. Palsule-Desai, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Self-Selecting No-Pay Service Delivery Strategies: A Rising Tide that Lifts All Boats? February 24, 2023.
• Rahul Rao, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Land Misallocation and Industrial Development. February 27, 2023.
• Sandeep Dayal, Cerenti Marketing Group, LLC. Industry & Academia: Conversations & Collaborations. March 1, 2023.
• Kunal Basu, Ahmedabad University. Perspectives of Building an Enriching Career Through Research. March 8, 2023.
• Shobha Das, Krea University. Artisan Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Marketplaces: Examining a Multi-Pronged Initiative. March 22, 2023.
• Sumit Saurav, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Impact of Embedded Leverage on Trading Activity in Spot, Options, and Futures Markets. March 28, 2023.
• Subhalaxmi Mohapatra, Anant National University. I Mean Business: Exploring Women Entrepreneurs’ Journey in India from an Emancipation Perspective. April 5, 2023.
• Sunil Prashar, Kyoto University, Japan. Assessing the Resilience of Delhi to Climate-related Disasters: A Comprehensive Approach. April 19, 2023.
• Mayank Aggarwal, Ahmedabad University. Firm Complementarity and Randomness: Firms Strategies for Managing Risk in Interconnected Industry Ecosystems. April 26, 2023.
• Supratim Das Gupta, Ahmedabad University. Greener Energy Choices and Work from Home: Survey Results from India. May 8, 2023.
• Sugat Chaturvedi, University of Sussex, England. Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior. June 8, 2023.

2022

• Abhishek Kar, University of British Columbia. Application of the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Examine LPG Use in Rural India. January 7, 2022.
• Sanket Vatavwala, IIM Indore. A Framework of Customer Engagement in the Context of Business-to-Business Marketing. January 18, 2022.
• Sanket Patil, Northwestern University. Strategic Justifications. January 25, 2022.
• Yogeshwar Bharat, Michigan State University. Credit Constraints, Bank Incentives and Firm Exports: Evidence from India. January 27, 2022.
• Sankarshan Basu, IIM Bangalore. Business School for the Future. February 22, 2022.
• Scott Roulier, Fulbright-Nehru Scholar. Spatial Analyses of Social Phenomena. March 2, 2022.
• Minal Pathak, Ahmedabad University. Assessing India’s Low Carbon Transition in the Context of Sustainable Development. March 10, 2022.
• Molla Ramizur Rahman, IIT Kharagpur. Interbank Systemic Risk Network in an Emerging Economy. April 7, 2022.
• Anusha Reddy Gondi, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Mitigating Competitive Threats Initiated by Rejection of Employer Friendly Law Changes: Role of Marketing Assets and Investments. May 17, 2022.
• Arvind Sharma, Northeastern University Department of Economics. Does Occupational Licensing Restrict Interstate Migration? May 19, 2022.
• Poonam Dugar, Ahmedabad University. Antecedents of Stage Wise Investment Preferences of Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms in India – An Empirical Exploration. May 31, 2022.
• Prithwiraj Mukherjee, IIM Bangalore. Did Clickbait Crack the Code on Virality? June 24, 2022.
• Narendra Nath Kushwaha, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Related Party Transactions and Audit Fees: Indian Evidence. July 29, 2022.
• Joseph Gomes, University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. Trade Liberalization, Ethnic Remoteness, and Civil Conflict. August 3, 2022.
• Loyimee Gogoi, Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship. Group Contributions in TU-Games: A Class of k-lateral Shapley Values. August 17, 2022.
• Suyog Nigudkar, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Design for Failure of Food Banking Networks. August 23, 2022.
• Kanika Mahajan, Ashoka University. Domestic Trade Collapse: Reshoring along the Borders. August 24, 2022.
• Dewang Pagare, KLH Global Business School. India’s Journey from Feed-in-Tariff to Reverse Auction: Importance of Producer Type and Government Incentive in Renewable Energy Procurement. August 25, 2022.
• Molla Rahman, Ahmedabad University. Network Structure and Risk-Adjusted Return Approach to Stock Indices Integration: A Study on Asia-Pacific Countries. September 7, 2022.
• Niyati Dave, Ahmedabad University. Relationship between Role of Business Angels and Stages of Startups: A Resource Dependency Theory Perspective. September 7, 2022.
• Angshuman Roy, University of Haifa, Israel. Measuring and Testing Dependence among Multiple Random Variables. September 21, 2022.
• Ishita Tripathi, Ahmedabad University. Saliency of Maximum Marks and Effort on the Test. September 28, 2022
• Jeemol Unni, Ahmedabad University. Demonetisation and Labour Force Participation in India: The Impact of Political Alignment. October 12, 2022.
• Abhinav Sharma, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Managerial Discretion in the Context of Employee Stock Options Repricing Activity. October 14, 2022.
• Tanmoy Majilla, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. Household Income Shocks, Demand for Deposits, and Real Activities. October 17, 2022.
• Bijal Mehta, Ahmedabad University. Fostering the Inclusion of Women as Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy Through Collaboration: A Common Approach using the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. November 2, 2022.
• Soumyatanu Mukherjee, University of Nottingham, England. To Acquire or to Ally? Managing Partner’s Environmental Risk in International Expansion. November 11, 2022.
• Kumar Dasgupta, Judge Business School, England. Accounting Standards: Challenges and New Horizons for Accounting Research. November 17, 2022.
• Ramadhar Singh, Ahmedabad University. Responding to Negative Events: Thoughts Provoked by Covid-19 Disruptions. November 22, 2022.
• Aasheesh Dixit, Ahmedabad University. Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Egalitarian and Congestion-Aware Airport Slot Allocation. November 23, 2022.

2021

• Navin Kumar, Boston College, USA. Gun Control and Crime: Evidence from Concealed Carry Laws in the United States. January 19, 2021.
• Vibha Tripathi, Finance Accounting and Control, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University. Is Losses a Dead End for a Company or an Internal Reconstruction Scheme Can Save? Agency Theory, Ownership Structure and Capital Structure: An Empirical Investigation in the Indian Automobile Industry. January 27, 2021.
• Sayahnika Basu, Arizona State University. The Impact of Drought on Structural Transformation in India. January 28, 2021.
• Rishabh Shah, High Meadows Postdoc Fellow, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Defense Fund. Urban air pollution – assessing patterns, sources, and exposure to airborne particulate matter. February 18, 2021.
• Anant Sudarshan, Energy Policy Institute, University of Chicago, USA. Winning the War on Air Pollution. February 19, 2021.
• Rohan Ray, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Conditional Cash Transfer, Loss Framing, and SMS Nudges: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh. March 6, 2021.
• Ayushi Tandon, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Practical Electronic Medical Records: EMR Use Within Outpatient Consulting on Women’s Health. March 9, 2021.
• Monika Halan and Niyati Agrawal, Dvara Research Foundation. Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behaviour: Case of AT1 Bonds. March 24 2021.
• Moumita Roy, The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences, George Mason University, USA. Identity, Leadership and Cooperation: An experimental analysis. April 2, 2021.
• Aasheesh Dixit, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. Egalitarian and Congestion Aware Truthful Airport Slot Allocation Mechanism. April 7, 2021.
• Ramadhar Singh, Ahmedabad University. Birds of a Feather Flock Together: What Scientists Know Makes Them “Surdas” to What They Don't Know. August 25, 2021.
• Samarth Gupta, NCAER, New Delhi. Financial Access and Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and Employment: Causal Evidence from Rural India. September 9, 2021.
• Abhinandan Sinha, CNRS. Financial Access and Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and Employment: Causal Evidence from Rural India. September 15, 2021.
• Amrita Bihani and Nimit Thaker, Ahmedabad University. Conflictorium - Museum of Conflict. September 29, 2021.
• Rahul Singh, Ahmedabad University. Essays in International Trade in Post Liberalization India. October 6, 2021.
• Israël Fortin, IIM Bangalore. The Affordance of Ambiguity: Visually Communicating the Integration of Conflicting Coordination Logics. October 20, 2021.
• K V Ramani, IIM Ahmedabad. Public Health: Management Challenges. October 26, 2021.
• Rahul Singh, Ahmedabad University. Debt Contract Enforcement and Product Innovation: Evidence from a Legal Reform in India. October 27, 2021.
• Mayank Patel, Ahmedabad University. Performance Evaluation of Indian Fixed Income Mutual Funds. October 28, 2021.
• Pallavi Vyas, Ahmedabad University. Impact of Education of the X&Y Chromosomes on Women’s Agency and Experience of Domestic Violence and Impact of Covid-19 on the Sex Ratios in Gujarat. November 17, 2021.
• Puneet Arora, Ahmedabad University. Is This Course Easy? Incomplete Information and College Students’ Performance. December 8, 2021.

2020

• Puneet Arora, Doctoral candidate, Department of Economics, Georgia State University. Grading, Incentives and Student Performance. January 1, 2020. 
• Ravishankar Venkata Kommu, Doctoral candidate of Human Resource Management at IIM - Calcutta, Playing the new 'game.: A Bourdieusian Reading of Neoliberalization of Academic Careers in an Indian Context, January 13, 2020. 
• Naren Agrawal, Benjamin and Mae Swig, Professor, Department of Information Systems & Analytics, Leavey School of Business Santa Clara University, Optimizing Markdowns by Leveraging Internal Flexibility in Retail Chains, February 19, 2020.
• Vedant Dev, Doctoral candidate of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, Incentive Effects of Pay-For-Performance on Employee Motivation, Performance and Well•Being: a Self-Determination Perspective, February 26, 2020. 
• Supratim Das Gupta, Assistant Professor, Economics, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Using Real Options to Value Capacity Additions and Investment Expenditures in Renewable Energies in India, March 18, 2020. 
• Rahul Singh, Doctoral candidate in Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Technical Regulations, Intermediate Inputs and Performance of Domestic Firms: Evidence from India, March 26, 2020. 
• Vivek Bhatt, Assistant Professor, Technology, Operations and Decision Sciences, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Experimental Design for Assessment of Tourism TV Commercials - A case of BRICS, May 5, 2020.
• Sanjana Goswami, Professor, University of California, Irvine, Employment Consequences of U.S. Trade Wars, August 1, 2020. 
• Bhargav Adhvaryu, Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, Developing Urban Sustainability Policy, September 1, 2020. 
• Siddharth Saxena, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. Microsign Products, Modi Laxmichand Diyalji: A Business Run by Generations. September 23, 2020.
• Ioannis Poulios, Consultant in Living Heritage and Business, Living Heritage as a Visitor 'Experience'. October 20, 2020.
• Jayant Rao, Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles USA. Active Portfolio Management with Cryptocurrencies. December 23, 2020.

2019

• Aaditya Dar, George Washington University, Parachuters vs. Climbers: Economic Consequences of Barriers to Political Entry in a Democracy, January 15, 2019
• Dr C Rangarajan, Distinguished Professor, Ahmedabad University, Economic Issues: Hope and Concerns for 2019, January 16, 2019
• Rohit Chandra, Kennedy School, Harvard University, “Adaptive State Capitalism in the Indian Coal Industry,” January 18, 2019
• Bijal Mehta, Ahmedabad University, "Irritate Me and I’ll Block You! – Consumer’s Cognitive Process Leading to Ad Blockers," January 30, 2019
• Pinaki Roy, IIM Ahmedabad, "A lovable personality: The Effect of Brand Personality on Brand Love," February 13, 2019
• Ishita Tripathi, Louisiana State University, USA, "Does Terrorism Influence Anti-Immigrant Sentiments?", February 14, 2019
• Tana Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, "Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature,” February 20, 2019
• Jeemol Unni, Ahmedabad University, “Low Return Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Do Behavioural Traits Matter?", March 4, 2019
• Sujo Thomas, Ahmedabad University, “Testing the Influence of Message Framing, Donation Magnitude and Product Category in a Cause-related Marketing Context," March 4, 2019
• Ashay Kadam, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, “Selected Problems in Credit Risk Measurement," March 28, 2019
• Paragi Shah, Ahmedabad University, "Role of Network Capabilities in Internationalization of New Venture in Emerging Economies: A Contingent Effect of Industry Concentration and Liberalization,” June 2, 2019
• Payel Mukherjee, Fellow, Centre for Learning Futures, “Unhomely Home: The Precariousness of Being, Belonging and Becoming,” June 2, 2019
• Pallavi Vyas, Associate Professor in the Economics & Public Policy Area, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Can the Rise in Women’s Wage Premia Explain the Fall in Teenage Birth Rates?, September 18, 2019.
• Jeemol Unni, Professor of Economics, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Dualistic Structure of Industry and Growth of Firms in India, September 25, 2019.
• Swati Ghulyani, Assistant Professor, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Role of Personality Traits and Psychological Capital in Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study, November 27, 2019.
• Kamal Ghosh Ray, Professor of Finance in IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University, Sri City, Who Benefits From Hostile Takeover?, November 29, 2019.
• Chirag Trivedi, Assistant Professor, Communications, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Of Who We Are - Ethnic Pride, Diasporic Regional Nationalism and Literary Elitism in K. M. Munshi’s Patan Trilogy, December 18, 2019.

2018

• John Firth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “I’ve Been Waiting on the Railroad: The Effects of Congestion on Firm Production”, January 3, 2018.
• Deeksha Kale, Boston College, spoke on “Could Directed Lending Programs Hurt Small Businesses? Evidence from India”, January 10, 2018.
• Suraj Yendege, Harvard University, “India for Diversity: For an Inclusive and Progressive India”, January 10, 2018
• Paragi Shah, Ahmedabad University, “The Olin Experience” about her visit, stay and experience at Olin College of Engineering USA , January 24, 2018.
• Francisco Figueira de Lemos, Uppsala University, “Internationalisation: Does Politics Matter?”, February 8, 2018.
• Pallavi Vyas, University of Chicago, “Can the Rise in Women’s Wage Premia Explain the Fall in Teen Birth Rates?”, February 14, 2018.
• Sakshi Jain, University of Houston, “Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Targeting Young Girls: Evidence from India”, February 19, 2018.
• Supratim Das Gupta, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, “The Push for Renewables in India: A Real Options Approach”, February 28, 2018.
• Chetan Chitre, IIM Bangalore, scale experiment in India”, March 6, 2018.
• Aditya Moses, IIM Bangalore, “Institutional Logic Combinations and Organisational Performance: A study of Christian Mission Hospitals in India”, March 8, 2018.
• Shreyasee Das, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “Intergenerational Effects of Improving Women’s Property Rights : Evidence from India”, March 16, 2018.
• Prashant Chintapalli, UCLA Anderson School of Management, “The Impact of Crop Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) on Crop Selection and Farmer Welfare in the presence of Strategic Farmers”, March 26, 2018.
• Abrar Ali Saiyed, Ahmedabad University, “The Internationalisation of New Ventures in an Emerging Economy: The Shifting Role of Industry Concentration,” April 4, 2018
• Vivek Bhatt and Shriram Kadiya, Ahmedabad University, "Experimental Design for Assessment of Tourism TV Commercials – A case of BRICS India," April 25, 2018
• Prabhat Ranjan, IIM Calcutta, “A New Algorithm for Student-Optimal Match: A Framework for Management Institution’s Admission in India Development,” May 25, 2018
• Chetan Chitre, IIM Banglore, “Impact of Use of Technology on Student Learning Outcomes –Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment in India,” June 3, 2018
• Amol Agrawal, Ahmedabad University, "What's Happening Between the Government and the RBI?", June 12, 2018
• Francisco Figueira de Lemos, Uppsala University, Sweden, “Internationalisation: Does Politics Matter?”, August 2, 2018
• Aditya Moses, IIM Bangalore, “Institutional Logic Combinations and Organisational Performance: A study of Christian Mission Hospitals in India,” August 3, 2018
• Ghanshyam Sharma, Seton Hall University, USA, "Impact of Market Concentration on Effective Sales Tax Rate: Evidence from the Insurance Industry India," August 22, 2018
• Kanika Singh, Ashoka University, " Heritage in Contemporary India: A Study of Sikh Museums," September 7, 2018
• Deeksha Kale, Boston College, USA, “Could Directed Lending Programs Hurt Small Businesses? Evidence from India,” October 1, 2018
• Dr C Rangarajan, Distinguished Professor, Ahmedabad University, “Monetary Policy and the Transmission Mechanism,” October 4, 2018
• Vinodh Madhavan, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Sri City, "Evolving Efficiency of Dually-Listed Indian Stocks: A Nonlinear Perspective," October 22, 2018
• Aditya Prakash Kanth, Art Conservator, New Delhi, “Documentation of Painted Surfaces - with Unaided Eyes to Scientific Investigations,” October 25, 2018
• Chirag Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, “The Class called Literary Precariat: The Question of Canon-Formation and Literary Elitism in Gujarati Literature,” November 4, 2018
• Santanu Ganguli, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, "Negotiated Bank Finance Earning Quality: Indian Evidence," November 14, 2018
• Pradeep Kumar Hota, LM Thapar School of Management, Chandigarh, "Adopting Bricolage to Overcome Resource Constraints: the Case of Social Enterprises in Emerging Economy," November 20, 2018
• Suraj Shekhar, University of Cape Town, South Africa, " The Impact of a Spinoff on the Parent Firm: A Model of Double Adverse Selection with Correlated Types," November 21, 2018
• Murali P, IIM Bangalore, "Divergence and Convergence of Firm-level Best Practices: the Case of Bajaj and Hero-Honda in India’s Two-wheeler Industry," November 23, 2018
• Deepak Behera, IIT Madras, "Prioritization of Government Expenditure on Health in India: A Fiscal Space Perspective,” November 27, 2018
• Aparajith Ramnath, Ahmedabad University, "Ambiguous decolonisation: A Postcolonial Reading of the IHRM Strategy of the Burmah Oil Company," November 28, 2018
• Sumit Mishra, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Sri City, "Public Goods, and Nested Sub national Units: Diversity, Segregation, or Hierarchy?" November 29, 2018
• Jinal Parikh, Ahmedabad University, " A Comparative Analysis for Mapping Relative Position of Bank Brands: An Application of Attribute-based Perceptual Mapping Using Factor Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis," December 9, 2018

2017

• Garga Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, “Is the Web as good as the Lab? - Comparison of behavioural data and crowd-sourcing strategies”, April 5, 2017.
• Niyate Dave, Ahmedabad University, “Understanding the role of angel investors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Gujarat”, April 12, 2017.
• Rashmi Gupta, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of Allahabad, “Role of Emotion, Motivation and Value on Attention”, April 21, 2017.
• Mayank Raj Gupta, Jindal University, “The Evolution of Shadow Banking System in Emerging Economies: The Role of Entrusted Loans in China’s Capital Market”, June 2, 2017.
• Amrita Bihani, Ahmedabad University “An Empirical Study on Perception of Talent Management Practices & Employee Engagement Levels among Employees in the Pharmaceutical Sector in India”, September 30, 2017.
• Sudhanshu Rai, Copenhagen Business School, “Making innovation pay, an emerging economy perspective”, October 3, 2017.
• Sumitava Mukherjee, Ahmedabad University “Why sleep when you can think? Debunking the powerful unconscious view in decision making”, October 25, 2017.
• Shriram Kadia and Vivek Bhatt, Ahmedabad University “Teaching with Simulations”, November 1, 2017.
• Punarjit Roychowdhury, Shiv Nadar University, “The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting” November 8, 2017.
• John Maddaus, University of Maine, “Multicultural Education in the US: Do the Assumptions Apply to Education in India?”, November 20, 2017.
• Sanjay Goyal, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, “Determinants of Board Performance in the context of corporate governance of Firms: Towards designing a Balanced Scorecard”, November 21, 2017
• Rosa Maria Perez, IIT Gandhinagar, “Women’s Voices. From Goa to India through nationalist journeys”, November 22, 2017.
• Jeemol Unni, Ahmedabad University, “Informal Economy in India and Developed Countries: Debate on Formalisation”, December 6, 2017.
• Amol Agarwal, IIM Bangalore, the “History of Banking in India’s South Canara District (1906-69)”, December 13, 2017.
• Manini Ojha, Southern Methodist University at Dallas, “Gender gap in schooling: Is there a role for health insurance”, December 26, 2017.
• Gautam Udupa, University of Houston, “Multinational Firms, Trade and the Trade-Co movement Puzzle”, December 28, 2017.
• Kiriti Kanjilal, Washington State University, “Common Pool Resources with Endogenous Equity Shares”, December 29, 2017.

School of Engineering and Applied Science

2023

• Ashish Agrawal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. Influence of Curricular Features on Engineering Students’ Learning Experiences. January 16, 2023.
• Ganesh Swain, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. Biodegradation of Phenol and its Derivatives in Packed and Moving Bed Bioreactors using Bacillus Species Isolated from Petroleum Site. January 20, 2023.
• Hukum Dewangan, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Damage Modeling of Laminated Composite Flat and Curved Panels and its Effects on Structural Behavior. January 24, 2023.
• Harmeet Kaur, Editage, Cactus Communications. Optoelectronic Applications of Luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)-based Composite Materials. March 7, 2023. 
• Ramya Srinivasan, Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Holistic Treatment of Emerging and Persistent Contaminants in Water and Wastewater. March 9, 2023.
• Rupsa Bhowmick, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Climate Data Analytics Utilizing Earth Observations and Geospatial Technologies. March 10, 2023. 
• Souvik Roy, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. Does Robust Computation Exist? May 4, 2023.

2022

• Punnag Chatterjee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Multifunctional Structures for Energy Capture. January 24, 2022.
• Ramesh Gardas, IIT Madras. Tips on Scientific Literature Search and Writing Skills: Do’s & Don’ts. February 9, 2022.
• Gayathri Subramanyam, ITC Life Science. Applications of Surfactants in Personal Care Products. February 22, 2022.
• Arnav Jhala, North Carolina State University, USA. Narrative Report Generation for Large Structured Email Datasets. March 23, 2022.
• Neeta Trivedi, Inferigence Quotient. Making Drones Intelligent. April 6, 2022.
• Bhanu Prakash P, Head of Product Lines: Camera Ultrasonic & ADCU, BLN, Component Business, Continental Automotive Components (India) Pvt. Ltd. Human Centric AI in Autonomous Driving. April 7, 2022.
• Siddharth Suman, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. Materials Degradation in Light Water Reactors: Life After 60. May 25, 2022.
• Garima Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Effects of Flow Fluctuations and Buoyancy on Heat Transfer from a Sphere in Non-Newtonian Nanofluids: Potential for Intensification. July 22, 2022.
• Anamika Maurya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Flow and Thermal Characteristics of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Inclined and T-channels. August 9, 2022.
• Mayuribala Mangrulkar, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Rationalizing the Effect of Over Stoichiometric PbI2 on the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells. September 7, 2022.
• Bimal Das, Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Cornering Fatigue Life Evaluation of DP600 Steel Wheel Disc: Experimental and Numerical Modelling. December 14, 2022.

2021

• Ramesh Gardas, IIT Madras. Environment Benign Solvents for Sustainable Developments in Chemical and Technological Applications. February 3, 2021.
• Gopalkrishna Joshi, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Bengaluru (India). Engineering Exploration: A Collaborative Experience of Designing and Evolving a first- year BE Course. February 10, 2021.
• Pathik Pathak, University of Southampton, UK. Challenge Based Learning, 21st Century Employability and the Experiences of the Social Impact Lab. March 31, 2021.
• Pankaj Kumar, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Computer Vision and Deep Learning Applications. July 16, 2021.
• Abinaya Sampath, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Effects of Promoters and Supports on Selective C-C/C-H/O-O Bond Ruptures over Transition Metal Catalysts. July 22, 2021.
• Nanji J Hadia, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore. Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Applications. July 28, 2021.
• Prerna Gera, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Patchy Vesicles. August 25, 2021.
• Absar M Lakdawala, Institute of Technology, Nirma University. Level Set Method and its Application to the Study Drop and Bubble Dynamics. September 7, 2021.
• Tanuj Saxena, NXP Semiconductors, USA. Advancements in RESURF power MOSFET technology. September 30, 2021.

2020

• Amit Sheth, University of South Carolina, South Carolina. Knowledge Graphs and their central role in big data processing: Past, Present, and Future. January 2, 2020 
• Raksh Vir Jasra, Reliance industries Limited Sustainable Development through Innovative Technologies. March 11, 2020

2019

• Ravindra Ranade, Kagawa University, Japan, “On Some Simple Theoretical Research Concepts in Economic Science,” January 2, 2019
• Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Texas A&M University, “Security of Cyber-Physical Systems”, January 16, 2018.
• Dinesh Mohan, IIT Delhi, “Thought Experiments in Moving around Cities,” January 30, 2019
• Ripudaman Singh, IIT Guwahati, “A Disjoint Sets Based Framework to Enhance the Performance of Contention Based Synchronous MAC Protocols,” February 8, 2019
• Srinivas V Veeravalli, IIT Delhi, “Models of ‘Traditional’ Science and Engineering in India Related To Water,” February 22, 2019
• Rudrodip Majumdar, IIT Bombay, “Dynamic Moving Boundary Characteristics of Two-phase ORC Heat-exchangers in Solar Thermal Applications,” February 25, 2019
• Pankesh Patel, University of Maryland, USA, “Closing the Gap: Accelerating Application Development in the Internet of Things,” February 27, 2019
• Beena Singh, Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Protein-Based Biopolymer for Drug Delivery. October 4, 2019

2018

• Kamal Lodaya, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, “What happened in the last century? The origin of computer science”, March 12, 2018.
• S. Swaminathan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, “Mahabalipuram - Unfinished Poem in Stone”, March 14, 2018.
• V. K. Aswal, Homi Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, “Neutron Scattering for Characterisation of Nanostructured Materials”, March 21, 2018.
• Arnab Kumar Ray, DAIICT, Gandhinagar, “A White Hole under the Tap,” 6th March 2019 Dr Kaustubha Mohanty, IIT Guwahati, “Microalgae based Biofuels and Biorefinery,” April 11, 2019
• Aditi Singhal, Ahmedabad University, “Nanocrystalline Co3-xNixO4 with Low Ni Concentration: Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Activity Compared to Co3O4,” September 10, 2018
• Dharmesh Varade, Ahmedabad University, “Outstanding Stability of Aqueous Foams Made from Catanionic Surfactant Mixtures,” September 10, 2018
• Mehul S. Raval, Ahmedabad University, “An Image Based Undetectable Steganographic Technique (ImUST),” September 10, 2018
• Ratnik Gandhi, Ahmedabad University, “Real-time Face Recognition in HD videos: Algorithms and Framework,” September 10, 2018
• S. Swaminathan, IIT Delhi, “Cultural Imprints in the Scripts of the World,” September 26, 2018
• Saakshi Dhanekar, IIT Delhi, “Nanomaterials Based Sensors for the Society,” October 4, 2018
• Sumit Tripathi, College of Engineering, Pune, India, “Experimental Studies on Interfacial, Rheological and Transport Properties of High Internal Phase,” October 30, 2018
• Saakshi Dhanekar, IIT Delhi, “Nano-sensors for the common man,” November 13, 2018
• Indrajit Shown, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, “Artificial Photosynthesis: Metal Chalcogenide Nanomaterials as a Promising Photocatalyst for CO2 Reduction,” November 14, 2018
• Harshal Oza, Ahmedabad University, “Quaternions in industrial robotics,” November 15, 2018
• Maryam Kaveshgar, National Technical University of Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, “Navigation and Automatic Control System for Automobile Movement in Complex Conditions,” November 16, 2018
• Con Doolan, University of New South Wales, Australia, “The production of Sound by Low and High Mach Number Flows,” November 16, 2018
• Chang Yoong Choon, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia, “Recent Advances and Research Opportunities in Video Signal Processing: Visual Based Ambient Assisted Living,” November 21, 2018
• Nitin Banker, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, “Energy Efficiency Improvement of a Household Refrigerator by Incorporating a Phase Change Material-based Heat Exchanger,” November 22, 2018
• Shashi Prabh, ABB Research, Bangalore, “Quality of Service in Wireless Networks,” November 28, 2018
• Keyur D Joshi, Queens University, Canada, “Flexible Machine Vision System for Small Parts Inspection based on a Hybrid SVM/ANN Approach,” November 28, 2018

2017

• Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, “Machine Learning for Computer Vision”, 20th September 2017.
• P. A. Hassan, Homi Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, “Modulating Self Assembly: from microstructure control to surface modifications”, 16th August 2017.
• Sumantra Dutta Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, “Unsupervised Learning: k-Means, Gaussian Mixtures and EM”, 30th August 2017.

School of Arts and Sciences

2023

• Nisarg Mehta, University of Chicago, USA. The Garb of Modernity: The NRI Gaze and the Indian Developmental State. January 25, 2023.
• Aditya Chaturvedi, Emory University, Atlanta. To Serve or Not to Serve the Deity: A Hermeneutic Approach to Ethnography of Everyday Devotion. March 1, 2023.
• Pravakar Paul, University of Iowa, USA. A Quantum Invariant of Knot: Khovanov Homology. March 2, 2023.
• Jonathan Spiegler, Michigan State University, USA. Democratic Fatalism: Tocqueville, Racism, and Democracy. March 31, 2023.
• Shekhar Chandra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Why are anti-corruption reforms difficult to implement? Evidence from India’s state police bureaucracy. April 20, 2023.
• Rucha Sarwate, Savitribai Phule University, Pune. From Melancholy to Metamorphosis: Observations from the Field of Psychotherapy. May 2, 2023.
• Manjil P. Saikia, University of Vienna, Austria. Alternating Sign Matrices and Plane Partitions. May 25, 2023.
• Anand Dixit, Iowa State University, USA. Analysing Relevance Vector Machines Using a Single Penalty Approach. May 30, 2023.
• Samrat Roy, University of Florida, USA. Regularised High Dimension Low Tubal-Rank Tensor Regression. June 6, 2023.
• Pallavi Narayan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Imagining Pamuk's Istanbul: The Fictional Museum. June 9, 2023.

2022

• Guillaume Wadia, Ohio State University. Intelligence and Eco-Governance in the French Protectorate of Morocco, 1927-1934. February 7, 2022.
• Sujata Parsai, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum. Stories of Collections, Stories Collections Tell. February 23, 2022. 
• Arul Lakshminarayan, IIT Madras. 36 Entangled Officers of Euler: A Quantum Solution to a Classically Impossible Problem. April 6, 2022.
• David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Politics and Suffering. April 8, 2022.
• G V Reddy, Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. Dynamics and Dilemmas of Wildlife Conservation in Human Dominated Landscape. July 13, 2022.
• Samyaday Choudhury, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA. A journey to our nearby Universe. August 8, 2022.
• Lakshmi Sreeram, Classical Musician, Writer and Independent Researcher, Chennai. Legacies of Colonialism in Classical Music. September 12, 2022.
• Sushmita Pati, National Law School of India University. How Rent Shapes our Cities: Cartels, Control and the Making of a Housing Market. November 9, 2022.
• Eshita Mazumdar, Ahmedabad University. Different Aspects of Zero-Sum Problems. November 16, 2022.

2021

• Suchismita Das, University of Chicago, USA. Sikkim Organic: Of Multicultural Recognition and Developmentalist Spectacles on the Himalayan Frontier. January 25, 2021.
• Mousa Mohammadian, University of Notre Dame, USA. Theoretical Virtues and the Epistemic Aims of Science. February 9, 2021.
• Daniel Ferguson, Yale University, USA. The Best is the End: An Argument in Eudemian Ethics. February 11, 2021.
• Chandler Hatch, Harvard University, USA. The Rationality of the Hegelian State. February 16 , 2021.
• Nithin George, IIT Gandhinagar. Mind as an Intuitive Statistician and Perception as Hypothesis-Testing. February 22, 2021.
• Saumya Malviya, Ahmedabad University. Revisiting the ‘Modern’ in Mathematics: An Exploratory Exercise. February 24 , 2021.
• Pradeep Rai, Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Symmetric Groups Via Card Shuffling. March 8, 2021.
• Sungchoon Kim, University of Utah, USA. From Individual to Holistic Approaches to Understanding the Human System and Gender Differences. March 9 , 2021.
• Susanta Tewari, University of Georgia, USA. Modeling Evolutionary Forces. March 16, 2021.
• Siddharth Pandey, Cambridge University, UK. A Sense of Magic: Bodies, Materiality, and the Making of Wonder in Fantasy Worlds. March 18, 2021.
• Eshita Mazumdar, ISI Bangalore. A Stroll Through Davenport Constant. April 16 , 2021.
• Suman Bhattacharya, University of Florida, USA. Geometric Ergodicity of Gibbs Samplers for the Horseshoe and its Regularised Variants. April 23, 2021.
• Sudarshan R Kottai, IIT Hyderabad. When Community Cares Becomes Community Mental Health: The Disappearance of Local Voices in Community Mental Health Programmes in Kerala. May 6, 2021.
• Bhuvan Pathak, University of Arkansas, USA. Genome Editing and Crop Improvement: Agriculture Precision. May 24, 2021.
• Raghwinder Singh Grewal, IIT Madras. Optical Magnetometry with Alkali Atoms. May 27, 2021.
• Curt Civin, University of Maryland, USA. Another Adventure with CD34+ Hematopoietic Stem-Progenitor Cells: Antileukemic Efficacy of a Potent Artemisinin Combined with Sorafenib and Venetoclax. June 16, 2021.
• Vishwesha Guttal, IIS Bangalore. Physics and Ecology of Collective Animal Motion. June 30, 2021.
• Soumen Ghosh, University of California, San Diego. Slow Positron Beam to Probe Physics of New Annihilation Resonances. July 2, 2021.
• Shomen Mukherjee, School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University. Ecological Applications: From Foraging Games to Public Health. July 9, 2021
• Samrat Chatterjee, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad. Exploring Significance of Bistability in Cell Signalling Through Mathematical Models. July 14, 2021
• Palash Ghosh, IIT Guwahati. How to Use Different Statistical Models to Analyse and Predict Covid-19 in India. August 4, 2021 
• Malay Banerjee, IIT Kanpur. Covid-19: The Advantages and Limitations of Mathematical Modelling. September 1, 2021. 
• Urmi Nanda Biswas, MS University Baroda. Values and Work Conditions for Organising Sustainable Eldercare. September 21, 2001. 
• Ranu Roychoudhuri, IIT Guwahati. Of People and Smoke: Industrialscape in Post-Independence India. September 27, 2021.
• Nithin George, Ahmedabad University. Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? September 29, 2021 
• Sangeet Kumar, Denison University. Differential Sovereignty and Geopolitical Tussles: Big Tech, The Nation State and a User Centric Regime for the Digital Era. October 6, 2021.
• Charu Singh, University of Delhi. The Idea of “Stree Shiksha’ in the Nineteenth Century Hindi Public Sphere, and the Counter Public. October 25, 2021. 
• Jitesh Jhawar, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Konstanz, Germany. Noise as a Signal in Animal Collectives. November 22, 2021.

2020

• Tabish Umar Ansari, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. Modelling and Simulation of Regional Air Quality, January 9, 2020
• Kaushik Jana, Imperial College London, UK. Statistical Models and Methods for Some Environmental Problems. August 19, 2020.
• Rajesh Naidu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA. Mundanity. September 2, 2020.
• Neeraj Kumar, IIT Gandhinagar, Motor Learning and Memory: Plasticity in the Somatosensory System. September 22 , 2020.
• Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University. Can You Spit Into this Tube Please: Diagnosing Oral Cancer Using Patient Saliva. November 13, 2020.
• Rahul Sarwate, Columbia University, USA. The Hindu and the Brahmin: Caste and the Discourse of Modern Hinduness in Maharashtra. December 2, 2020.
• Sagnik Dutta, University of Cambridge, UK. Becoming Righteous in Familial Spaces: The Gendered Politics of Muslim Citizenship in Contemporary India. December 3, 2020.
• Aditi Deo, Ahmedabad University, Music Platforms and the Indian Listener: Between Data and Musical Affect. December 4, 2020.

2019

• Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University, USA, “What Have the British Done to Us? Revisiting Empire in a Global Age,” January 7, 2019
• Sheeba Vasu, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, “Circadian Clocks: Internal Timekeepers and their Underlying Cellular and Molecular Basis,” January 11, 2019
• Shamika Ravi, Brookings Institute India, New Delhi, “Missing Women in India’s Democracy,” January 16, 2019
• Tony Thomas, Centre for Cognitive Science, IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar “Altered Perceptual and Attentional Mechanisms in the Peri-hand Space,” January 22, 2019
• Sourav Sarkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA “Votes and Policies: Evidence from Close Elections in India,” January 23, 2019
• Arun Kumar Pandey, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad. Primordial Magnetic Fields and Gravitational Waves, April 12, 2019 
• Siddharth Dwivedi, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata. CP-violating gauge-Higgs couplings at the Large Hadron Collider. Role of CP-odd Observables, April 30, 2019 
• Anjan Ananda Sen, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, May 6, 2019 
• Arvind Kumar Saxena, Institute for Plasma Research Gandhinagar, Mass spectrometric and Optical Emission Spectroscopic Study of Cluster lons, July 12, 2019 
• Rajnish Singh, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, Distortion in R+R2 Gravity, August 21, 2019 
• Balaji Prakash,CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru. The Fascinating World of Enzymes: Variations on a Common Theme allows Evolution and Engineering of Proteins, October 16, 2019 
• Alok Shukla, University of Manitoba, Canada. The Joy of Number Theory, October 18, 2019
• Sutapa Mukherji, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore. Physics of Cellular Processes: Models and Methods, December 5, 2019 
• Sushant Raut, KAIST-Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, South Korea. New Physics with NU's, December 19, 2019 

2018

• Subhash C Lakhotia, Banaras Hindu University, “Ayurvedic Amalaki Rasayana and Rasa-Sindoor as strong suppressors of neurodegeneration in polyQ and Alzheimer’s disorders”, January 17, 2018.
• Satyajit Rath, Agharkar Research Institute Pune, “Immune Lessons from Biological Noise”, February 21, 2018.
• Rahul Sagar, New York University, Abu Dhabi, “The Future of Hindu nationalism”, March 18, 2018.
• Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, “Protein Misfolding in Health and Diseases”, March 21, 2018.
• Sarthak Bagchi, Leiden University, Netherlands "Can Clientelism be Democratic? A View from the Shops of  Power in India," April 20, 2018
• Mary Ann Chacko, Ahmedabad University, “The Role of Newspapers within Ethnographic Research,” May 2, 2018
• Rama Ratnam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, “Sensation and Sensory Perception: From Single Neurons to Behaviour,” June 5, 2018
• Krishna Swamy, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, “Genes and Speciation: What Can We Learn About Evolution Using Yeast?”, June 7, 2018
• Gangeya Mukherji, Ahmedabad University, “Vivekananda: The Responsibility of Renunciation,” July 13, 2018
• Vipul Bansal, RMIT University, Australia, “NanoZyme Technologies: From Environmental & Clinical Diagnostics to Promising Antimicrobial Agents and Pro-drug,” August 2, 2018
• Aditya Vaishya, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, “Aerosols, Climate and Climate Change,” August 13, 2018.
• Tushar Vaidya, CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, “Of Infection and Immunity,” August 20, 2018
• Madhavi Gupta, Independent Scholar, Goa, “Popular mobilization and State Responsiveness: The Case of Education in India,” August 23, 2018.
• Apaar Kumar, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal, “Kant and Spontaneity: The Absolute-Relative Debate,” September 12, 2018
• Maya Ratnam, University of Delhi, New Delhi, “Fluid Land: Encroachment, Possession and Property in the Forest Fringes,” September 26, 2018
• Samuel Wright, Ahmedabad University, “The Manuscript Economy and Reading Communities in Early Modern India,” October 9, 2019
• Srinath Raghavan, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, “The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia,” October 17, 2018
• Joseph Van Weelden, McGill University, Canada, "Desire and Heart of Subjectivism," November 26, 2018
• Patrick French, Ahmedabad University, “Mooring Lessing: Archival and Oral Research Methods in Biography,” December 4, 2018
• Jacob Stump, University of Toronto, Canada, “On Socrates' Project of Philosophical Conversion,” December 4, 2018
• Sushant Kachhap, John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, USA, “Molecular Targets for Prostate Cancer,” December 5, 2018
• Neha Jain, Ahmedabad University, “Inhibition of Curli assembly and biofilm formation in E.coli by Human Chaperone-like proteins,” December 6, 2018
• Gary Yeritsian, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “Participation From Above and Below: Audience Participation and the New Spirit of Capitalism,” December 11, 2018
• Ornit Shani, Department of Asian Studies, Haifa University, Israel, “How India Became Democratic,” December 12, 2018
• Christophe Jaffrelot, King’s College, UK and CERI, Sciences-Po and CNRS, France, “The New Urban Rural Divide and its Implications in Gujarat Politics: Inequalities and Reservations,” December 17, 2018
• Mukul Sharma, Indian Institute for Mass Communication, New Delhi, "Governing the Sacred Groves: Religion, Politics, Institutions," December 18, 2018
• Nishith Gupta, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Humboldt University, Germany, “Intracellular Parasitism 101- Survival Strategies of a Eukaryote inhabiting another Eukaryote box,” December 21, 2018

2017

• Leya Mathew, University of Pennsylvania, “Unsettling middle class India: Aspiration, Gender and English in a new consumer society”, March 13 2018.
• Keita Omi, University of Utah, the “Theory of Secrecy: A Cross-presidential Study of US Presidential Decision Directives”, March 12, 2017.
• Gangeya Mukherjee and Manish Dutt, Ahmedabad University, “Co-operation and its presence across dimensions of life and in politics” (as part of “Intersections” series), on March 16, 2018.
• Aditi Deo, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, “Vernacular Music and its Publics: Exploring the Political Dimensions of Sounds and Technologies in Bikaner”, April 7, 2017.
• Aparajita Basu, University of Berkeley, “The True, the Good and the Beautiful: Idealising Japanese Femininity in the Debate about Women’s Education in India, 1900-1915”, April 25, 2017.
• Mary Ann Chacko, Columbia University, “Learning to Govern: Student Police Cadets and the Making of Democratic Citizens in Kerala, India”, May 31, 2017.
• Ashwin Pande, NISER (School of Mathematical Sciences), “Topological T-Duality for Three-Manifolds”, June 5, 2017.
• Manomohini Dutta, The University of Texas at Austin, “Upakāra: The Theory of Spiritual Service and Women’s Inheritance in the Dāyabhāga”, June 6, 2017.
• Karthik Rao Cavale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Art of Buying Time: Street Vendor Politics and Legal Mobilisation in Metropolitan India”, July 26, 2017.
• Baskaran Thyagarajan, University of Wyoming, “Light at the end of a long dark tunnel”, September 2, 2017