Research Seminar Series

Amrut Mody School of Management

• Bhargav Adhvaryu, Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, Developing Urban Sustainability Policy, September 1st, 2020.
• 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 18th, 2019.
• Kamal Ghosh Ray, Professor of Finance in IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University, Sri City, Who Benefits From Hostile Takeover?, November 29th, 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 18th, 2019.
• Jeemol Unni, Professor of Economics, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Dualistic Structure of Industry and Growth of Firms in India, September 25th, 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 27th, 2019.
• 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 19th 2020.
• Puneet Arora, Doctoral candidate, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Grading, Incentives and Student Performance, January 1st, 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 26th, 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 13th, 2020.
• Sanjana Goswami, Professor, University of California, Irvine, Employment Consequences of U.S. Trade Wars, August 1st 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 18th, 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 26th, 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 5th, 2020.
• Professor Abrar Ali Saiyed, Ahmedabad University, “The Internationalisation of New Ventures in an Emerging Economy: The Shifting Role of Industry Concentration,” 4th April 2018
• Professors Vivek Bhatt and Shriram Kadiya, Ahmedabad University, "Experimental Design for Assessment of Tourism TV Commercials – A case of BRICS India," 25th April 2018
• Prabhat Ranjan, IIM Calcutta, “A New Algorithm for Student-Optimal Match: A Framework for Management Institution’s Admission in India Development,” 25th May 2018
• Chetan Chitre, IIM Banglore, “Impact of Use of Technology on Student Learning Outcomes –Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment in India,” 3rd June 2018
• Professor Amol Agrawal, Ahmedabad University, "What's Happening Between the Government and the RBI?" 12th June 2018
• Professor Francisco Figueira de Lemos, Uppsala University, Sweden, “Internationalisation: Does Politics Matter?” 2nd August 2018
• Aditya Moses, IIM Bangalore, “Institutional Logic Combinations and Organisational Performance: A study of Christian Mission Hospitals in India,” 3rd August 2018
• Dr Ghanshyam Sharma, Seton Hall University, USA, "Impact of Market Concentration on Effective Sales Tax Rate: Evidence from the Insurance Industry India," 22nd August 2018
• Dr Kanika Singh, Ashoka University, " Heritage in Contemporary India: A Study of Sikh Museums," 7th September 2018
• Deeksha Kale, Boston College, USA, “Could Directed Lending Programs Hurt Small Businesses? Evidence from India,” 1st October 2018
• Dr C Rangarajan, Distinguished Professor, Ahmedabad University, “Monetary Policy and the Transmission Mechanism,” 4th October 2018
• Professor Vinodh Madhavan, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Sri City, "Evolving Efficiency of Dually-Listed Indian Stocks: A Nonlinear Perspective," 22nd October 2018
• Dr Aditya Prakash Kanth, Art Conservator, New Delhi, “Documentation of Painted Surfaces - with Unaided Eyes to Scientific Investigations,” 25th October 2018
• Professor Chirag Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, “The Class called Literary Precariat: The Question of Canon-Formation and Literary Elitism in Gujarati Literature,” 4th November 2018
• Dr Santanu Ganguli, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, "Negotiated Bank Finance Earning Quality: Indian Evidence," 14th November 2018
• Professor Pradeep Kumar Hota, LM Thapar School of Management, Chandigarh, "Adopting Bricolage to Overcome Resource Constraints: the Case of Social Enterprises in Emerging Economy," 20th November 2018
• Dr 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," 21st November 2018
• Professor 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," 23rd November 2018
• Deepak Behera, IIT Madras, "Prioritization of Government Expenditure on Health in India: A Fiscal Space Perspective,” 27th November 2018
• Professor Aparajith Ramnath, Ahmedabad University, "Ambiguous decolonisation: A Postcolonial Reading of the IHRM Strategy of the Burmah Oil Company," 28th November 2018
• Professor Sumit Mishra, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Sri City, "Public Goods, and Nested Sub national Units: Diversity, Segregation, or Hierarchy?" 29th November 2018
• Professor 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," 9th December 2018
• Dr Aaditya Dar, George Washington University, “Parachuters vs. Climbers: Economic Consequences of Barriers to Political Entry in a Democracy," 15th January 2019
• Dr C Rangarajan, Distinguished Professor, Ahmedabad University, "Economic Issues: Hope and Concerns for 2019," 16th January 2019
• Dr Rohit Chandra, Kennedy School, Harvard University, “Adaptive State Capitalism in the Indian Coal Industry,” 18th January 2019
• Professor Bijal Mehta, Ahmedabad University, "Irritate Me and I’ll Block You! – Consumer’s Cognitive Process Leading to Ad Blockers," 30th January 2019
• Dr Pinaki Roy, IIM Ahmedabad, "A lovable personality: The Effect of Brand Personality on Brand Love," 13th February 2019
• Ishita Tripathi, Louisiana State University, USA, "Does Terrorism Influence Anti-Immigrant Sentiments?" 14th February 2019
• Professor Tana Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, "Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature,” 20th February 2019
• Professor Jeemol Unni, Ahmedabad University, “Low Return Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Do Behavioural Traits Matter?" 4th March 2019
• Professor Sujo Thomas, Ahmedabad University, “Testing the Influence of Message Framing, Donation Magnitude and Product Category in a Cause-related Marketing Context," 4th March 2019
• Professor Ashay Kadam, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, “Selected Problems in Credit Risk Measurement," 28th March 2019
• Professor Paragi Shah, Ahmedabad University, "Role of Network Capabilities in Internationalization of New Venture in Emerging Economies: A Contingent Effect of Industry Concentration and Liberalization,” 2nd June 2019
• Professor Payel Mukherjee, Fellow, Centre for Learning Futures, “Unhomely Home: The Precariousness of Being, Belonging and Becoming,” 2nd June 2019
• Aditya Moses, IIM Bangalore, “Institutional Logic Combinations and Organisational Performance: A study of Christian Mission Hospitals in India”, 8th March 2018.
• Amol Agarwal, IIM Bangalore, the “History of Banking in India’s South Canara District (1906-69)”, 13th December 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”, 30th September 2017.
• Chetan Chitre, IIM Bangalore, scale experiment in India”, 6th March 2018.
• Deeksha Kale, Boston College, spoke on “Could Directed Lending Programs Hurt Small Businesses? Evidence from India”, 10thJanuary 2018.
• Francisco Figueira de Lemos, Uppsala University, “Internationalisation: Does Politics Matter?” 8th February 2018.
• Garga Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, “Is the Web as good as the Lab? - Comparison of behavioural data and crowd-sourcing strategies”, 5th April 2017.
• Gautam Udupa, University of Houston, “Multinational Firms, Trade and the Trade-Co movement Puzzle”, 28th December 2017.
• Jeemol Unni, Ahmedabad University, “Informal Economy in India and Developed Countries: Debate on Formalisation”, 6th December 2017.
• John Firth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “I’ve Been Waiting on the Railroad: The Effects of Congestion on Firm Production”, 3rd January 2018.
• John Maddaus, University of Maine, “Multicultural Education in the US: Do the Assumptions Apply to Education in India?”, 20th November 2017.
• Kiriti Kanjilal, Washington State University, “Common Pool Resources with Endogenous Equity Shares”, 29th December 2017.
• Manini Ojha, Southern Methodist University at Dallas, “Gender gap in schooling: Is there a role for health insurance”, 26th December 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”, 2ndJune 2017.
• Niyate Dave, Ahmedabad University, “Understanding the role of angel investors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Gujarat”, 12th April 2017.
• Pallavi Vyas, University of Chicago, “Can the Rise in Women’s Wage Premia Explain the Fall in Teen Birth Rates?”, 14th February 2018.
• Paragi Shah, Ahmedabad University, “The Olin Experience” about her visit, stay and experience at Olin College of Engineering USA , 24thJanuary 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” 26th March 2018.
• Punarjit Roychowdhury, Shiv Nadar University, “The Impact of Terrorism on Social Capital: Evidence from the 2015 Charlie Hebdo Paris Shooting” 8th November, 2017.
• Rashmi Gupta, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of Allahabad, “Role of Emotion, Motivation and Value on Attention”, 21st April 2017.
• Rosa Maria Perez, IIT Gandhinagar, “Women’s Voices. From Goa to India through nationalist journeys”, 22nd November 2017.
• Sakshi Jain, University of Houston, “Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Targeting Young Girls: Evidence from India”, 19th February 2018.
• Shreyasee Das, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “Intergenerational Effects of Improving Women’s Property Rights : Evidence from India”, 16th March 2018.
• Sanjay Goyal, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, “Determinants of Board Performance in the context of corporate governance of Firms: Towards designing a Balanced Scorecard”, 21st November 2017
• Shriram Kadia and Vivek Bhatt, Ahmedabad University “Teaching with Simulations”, 1st November, 2017.
• Sudhanshu Rai, Copenhagen Business School, “Making innovation pay, an emerging economy perspective”, 3rd October 2017.
• Sumitava Mukherjee, Ahmedabad University “Why sleep when you can think? Debunking the powerful unconscious view in decision making”, 25th October 2017.
• Supratim Das Gupta, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, “The Push for Renewables in India: A Real Options Approach”, 28th February 2018.
• Suraj Yendege, Harvard University, “India for Diversity: For an Inclusive and Progressive India”, 10th January 2018

School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Beena Singh, Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Protein-Based Biopolymer for Drug Delivery. October 4th, 2019
• Amit Sheth, University of South Carolina, South Carolina. Knowledge Graphs and their central role in big data processing: Past, Present, and Future. January 2nd, 2020
• Raksh Vir Jasra, Reliance Industries Limited Sustainable Development through Innovative Technologies. March 11th, 2020
• Professor Aditi Singhal, Ahmedabad University, “Nanocrystalline Co3-xNixO4 with Low Ni Concentration: Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Activity Compared to Co3O4,” 10th September 2018
• Professor Dharmesh Varade, Ahmedabad University, “Outstanding Stability of Aqueous Foams Made from Catanionic Surfactant Mixtures,” 10th September 2018
• Professor Mehul S. Raval, Ahmedabad University, “An Image Based Undetectable Steganographic Technique (ImUST),” 10th September 2018
• Professor Ratnik Gandhi, Ahmedabad University, “Real-time Face Recognition in HD videos: Algorithms and Framework,” 10th September 2018
• Professor S. Swaminathan, IIT Delhi, “Cultural Imprints in the Scripts of the World,” 26th September 2018
• Dr Saakshi Dhanekar, IIT Delhi, “Nanomaterials Based Sensors for the Society,” 4th October 2018
• Professor Sumit Tripathi, College of Engineering, Pune, India, “Experimental Studies on Interfacial, Rheological and Transport Properties of High Internal Phase,” 30th October 2018
• Dr Saakshi Dhanekar, IIT Delhi, “Nano-sensors for the common man,” 13th November 2018
• Dr Indrajit Shown, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, “Artificial Photosynthesis: Metal Chalcogenide Nanomaterials as a Promising Photocatalyst for CO2 Reduction,” 14th November 2018
• Professor Harshal Oza, Ahmedabad University, “Quaternions in industrial robotics,” 15th November 2018
• Dr Maryam Kaveshgar, National Technical University of Ukraine, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine, “Navigation and Automatic Control System for Automobile Movement in Complex Conditions,” 16th November 2018
• Professor Con Doolan, University of New South Wales, Australia, “The production of Sound by Low and High Mach Number Flows,” 16th November 2018
• Professor Chang Yoong Choon, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia, “Recent Advances and Research Opportunities in Video Signal Processing: Visual Based Ambient Assisted Living,” 21st November 2018
• Professor Nitin Banker, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, “Energy Efficiency Improvement of a Household Refrigerator by Incorporating a Phase Change Material-based Heat Exchanger,” 22nd November 2018
• Dr Shashi Prabh, ABB Research, Bangalore, “Quality of Service in Wireless Networks,” 28th November 2018
• Professor Keyur D Joshi, Queens University, Canada, “Flexible Machine Vision System for Small Parts Inspection based on a Hybrid SVM/ANN Approach,” 28th November 2018
• Dr Ravindra Ranade, Kagawa University, Japan, “On Some Simple Theoretical Research Concepts in Economic Science,” 2nd January 2019
• Professor Dinesh Mohan, IIT Delhi, “Thought Experiments in Moving around Cities,” 30th January 2019
• Dr Ripudaman Singh, IIT Guwahati, “A Disjoint Sets Based Framework to Enhance the Performance of Contention Based Synchronous MAC Protocols,” 8th February 2019
• Dr Srinivas V Veeravalli, IIT Delhi, “Models of ‘Traditional’ Science and Engineering in India Related To Water,” 22nd February 2019
• Dr Rudrodip Majumdar, IIT Bombay, “Dynamic Moving Boundary Characteristics of Two-phase ORC Heat-exchangers in Solar Thermal Applications,” 25th February 2019
• Professor Pankesh Patel, University of Maryland, USA, “Closing the Gap: Accelerating Application Development in the Internet of Things,” 27th February 2019
• Professor Arnab Kumar Ray, DAIICT, Gandhinagar, “A White Hole under the Tap,” 6th March 2019 Dr Kaustubha Mohanty, IIT Guwahati, “Microalgae based Biofuels and Biorefinery,” 11th April 2019
• Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, Texas A&M University, “Security of Cyber-Physical Systems”, 16th January 2018.
• Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, “Machine Learning for Computer Vision”, 20th September 2017.
• Kamal Lodaya, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, “What happened in the last century? The origin of computer science”, 12th March 2018.
• P.A. Hassan, Homi Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, “Modulating Self Assembly: from microstructure control to surface modifications”, 16th August 2017.
• S. Swaminathan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, “Mahabalipuram - Unfinished Poem in Stone”, 14th March 2018.
• Sumantra Dutta Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, “Unsupervised Learning: k-Means, Gaussian Mixtures and EM”, 30th August 2017.
• V. K. Aswal, Homi Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, “Neutron Scattering for Characterisation of Nanostructured Materials”, 21st March 2018.

School of Arts and Sciences

• Arun Kumar Pandey, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad. Primordial Magnetic Fields and Gravitational Waves, April 12th 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 30th 2019
• Anjan Ananda Sen, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, May 6th 2019
• Arvind Kumar Saxena, Institute for Plasma Research Gandhinagar, Mass spectrometric and Optical Emission Spectroscopic Study of Cluster Ions, July 12th 2019
• Rajnish Singh, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, Distortion in R+R2 Gravity, August 21st 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 16th 2019
• Alok Shukla, University of Manitoba, Canada. The Joy of Number Theory, October 18th 2019
• Sutapa Mukherji, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore. Physics of Cellular Processes: Models and Methods, December 5th 2019
• Sushant Raut, KAIST-Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, South Korea. New Physics with NU’s, December 19th 2019
• Tabish Umar Ansari, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. Modelling and Simulation of Regional Air Quality, January 9th 2020
• Sarthak Bagchi, Leiden University, Netherlands "Can Clientelism be Democratic? A View from the Shops of Power in India," 20th April 2018
• Professor Mary Ann Chacko, Ahmedabad University, “The Role of Newspapers within Ethnographic Research,” 2nd May 2018
• Dr Rama Ratnam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, “Sensation and Sensory Perception: From Single Neurons to Behaviour,” 5th June 2018
• Dr Krishna Swamy, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, “Genes and Speciation: What Can We Learn About Evolution Using Yeast?” 7th June 2018
• Dr Gangeya Mukherji, Ahmedabad University, “Vivekananda: The Responsibility of Renunciation,” 13th July 2018
• Professor Vipul Bansal, RMIT University, Australia, “NanoZyme Technologies: From Environmental & Clinical Diagnostics to Promising Antimicrobial Agents and Pro-drug,” 2nd August 2018
• Dr Aditya Vaishya, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, “Aerosols, Climate and Climate Change,” 13th August 2018.
• Dr Tushar Vaidya, CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, “Of Infection and Immunity,” 20th August 2018
• Dr Madhavi Gupta, Independent Scholar, Goa, “Popular mobilization and State Responsiveness: The Case of Education in India,” 23rd August 2018.
• Professor Apaar Kumar, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal, “Kant and Spontaneity: The Absolute-Relative Debate,” 12th September 2018
• Dr Maya Ratnam, University of Delhi, New Delhi, “Fluid Land: Encroachment, Possession and Property in the Forest Fringes,” 26th September 2018
• Professor Samuel Wright, Ahmedabad University, “The Manuscript Economy and Reading Communities in Early Modern India,” 9th October 2019
• Dr Srinath Raghavan, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, “The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia,” 17th October 2018
• Dr Joseph Van Weelden, McGill University, Canada, "Desire and Heart of Subjectivism," 26th November, 2018
• Professor Patrick French, Ahmedabad University, “Mooring Lessing: Archival and Oral Research Methods in Biography,” 4th December 2018
• Dr Jacob Stump, University of Toronto, Canada, “On Socrates' Project of Philosophical Conversion,” 4th December 2018
• Professor Sushant Kachhap, John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, USA, “Molecular Targets for Prostate Cancer,” 5th December 2018
• Professor Neha Jain, Ahmedabad University, “Inhibition of Curli assembly and biofilm formation in E.coli by Human Chaperone-like proteins,” 6th December 2018
• Professor Gary Yeritsian, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “Participation From Above and Below: Audience Participation and the New Spirit of Capitalism,” 11th December 2018
• Professor Ornit Shani, Department of Asian Studies, Haifa University, Israel, “How India Became Democratic,” 12th December 2018
• Professor 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,” 17th December 2018
• Professor Mukul Sharma, Indian Institute for Mass Communication, New Delhi, "Governing the Sacred Groves: Religion, Politics, Institutions," 18th December, 2018
• Dr Nishith Gupta, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Humboldt University, Germany, “Intracellular Parasitism 101- Survival Strategies of a Eukaryote inhabiting another Eukaryote box,” 21st December 2018
• Professor Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University, USA, “What Have the British Done to Us? Revisiting Empire in a Global Age,” 7th January 2019
• Professor Sheeba Vasu, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, “Circadian Clocks: Internal Timekeepers and their Underlying Cellular and Molecular Basis,” 11th January 2019
• Dr Shamika Ravi, Brookings Institute India, New Delhi, “Missing Women in India’s Democracy,” 16th January 2019
• Dr Tony Thomas, Centre for Cognitive Science, IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar “Altered Perceptual and Attentional Mechanisms in the Peri-hand Space,” 22nd January 2019
• Sourav Sarkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA “Votes and Policies: Evidence from Close Elections in India,” 23rd January 2019
• Professor Shruti Kapila, Cambridge University, UK, “Radical Conservatism in Twentieth Century India,” 23rd January 2019
• Professor Raj Gandhi, Harish Chandra Institute, Allahabad, “Our Universe and Particle Physics,” 6th February 2019
• Dr Jacques Neefjes, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands, “Bacterial Infections as Initiators of Tumor Formation,” 14th February 2019
• Professor Pattanathu Rahman, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK, “Research and Developments in Biosurfactants and the Introduction of Synthetic Biology to Improve Microbial Processes,” 22nd February 2019
• Dr Chandra Verma, Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR, Singapore, “Molecular Modelling: An Aid to Guide Bimolecular Mechanism-based Therapy,” 27th February 2019
• Dr Dileep Vasudevan, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, “Protein Structure Determination by X-ray Crystallography-an Overview,” 4th March 2019
• Dr Divita Singh, Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur on “Automatic and Controlled Processes in Temporal Selection,” 5th March 2019
• Professor Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, US, Rajni Kothari Fellow- CSDS, New Delhi, “Sacred Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in contemporary Asia,” 6th March 2019
• Dr Debajyoti Sarkar, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Albert Einstein Center, University of Bern, Switzerland, on “Decoding Space-Time from Field Theory,” 7th March 2019
• Professor Manomohini Dutta, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, “The Theory, Structure, and Degrees of Svatva in the Dāyabhāga,” 15th April 2019
• Dr Ipshita Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, “Road Safety: The Cognitive Ergonomics Approach,” 18th March 2019
• Dr Anjan Ananda Sen, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, “Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe,” 6th May 2019
• Dr Pavan Agarwal, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA, “Lost & Lonely: Studying Emotions, Transcriptome and Epigenome due to Aggressive Encounters and Social-Isolation in Fruit Fly Drosophila,” 7th May 2019
• Aditi Deo, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, “Vernacular Music and its Publics: Exploring the Political Dimensions of Sounds and Technologies in Bikaner”, 7th April 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”, 25th April 2017.
• Ashwin Pande, NISER (School of Mathematical Sciences), “Topological T-Duality for Three-Manifolds”, 5th June 2017. Baskaran Thyagarajan, University of Wyoming, “Light at the end of a long dark tunnel”, 2nd September 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 16th March 2018.
• Karthik Rao Cavale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Art of Buying Time: Street Vendor Politics and Legal Mobilisation in Metropolitan India”, 26th July 2017.
• Keita Omi, University of Utah, the “Theory of Secrecy: A Cross-presidential Study of US Presidential Decision Directives”, 12th March 2017.
• Leya Mathew, University of Pennsylvania, “Unsettling middle class India: Aspiration, Gender and English in a new consumer society”, March 13th 2018.
• Manomohini Dutta, The University of Texas at Austin, “Upakāra: The Theory of Spiritual Service and Women’s Inheritance in the Dāyabhāga”, 6th June 2017.
• Mary Ann Chacko, Columbia University, “Learning to Govern: Student Police Cadets and the Making of Democratic Citizens in Kerala, India”, 31st May 2017.
• Rahul Sagar, New York University, Abu Dhabi, “The Future of Hindu nationalism”, 19th March 2018.
• Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, “Protein Misfolding in Health and Diseases”, 21st March 2018.
• Samuel Wright, University of Toronto, “Scholar Networks in Early Colonial India”, 19th December 2017.
• Satyajit Rath, Agharkar Research Institute Pune, “Immune Lessons from Biological Noise”, 21st February 2018.
• Subhash C Lakhotia, Banaras Hindu University, “Ayurvedic Amalaki Rasayana and Rasa-Sindoor as strong suppressors of neurodegeneration in polyQ and Alzheimer’s disorders”, 17th January 2018.

Global Centre for Environment and Energy

• Anjali Ramakrishnan, Social influences on demand-side measures for climate change mitigation in urban India, Sustainability Seminar Series, 29th August, 2019
• Miguel Esteban, Racing the King Tide, Ahmedabad University, 9th October 2019
• Joana Portugal Pereira, Brazil’s Climate Policy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Ahmedabad University, 9th October 2019
• William Austin, Scotland’s Blue Carbon Resources: Responding to Global Climate Emergency, Ahmedabad University, 16th January 2020