Research Seminar Series

Amrut Mody School of Management

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.

2020

• Puneet Arora, Doctoral candidate, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Grading, Incentives and Student Peiformance, 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

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.

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

2021

• Suchismita Das, University of Chicago, USA. Sikkim Organic: Of Multicultural Recognition and Developmentalist Spectacles on the Himalayan Frontier. January 25, 2021.
• Mousa Mohammadian, Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, 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.

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

Centre for Heritage Management

2017

• Anir Upadhyay, University of Sydney, spoke on “Interpreting Local Climatic Data” on 17th November 2017.
• Rohit Jagyasua, Ritsumeikan University, spoke on “Managing our Heritage: Towards a Holistic Approach for Sustainable Development” on 6th July 2017.
• Sara Ahmed, Adjunct Professor, Ahmedabad University, spoke on “Living Waters Museum: Visualising Narratives on Water Heritage, Cultures and Ecologies” on 8th November 2017.

Global Centre for Environment and Energy

2020

• William Austin, Scotland’s Blue Carbon Resources: Responding to Global Climate Emergency, Ahmedabad University, January 16, 2020

2019

• Anjali Ramakrishnan, Social influences on demand-side measures for climate change mitigation in urban India, Sustainability Seminar Series, August 29, 2019
• Miguel Esteban, Racing the King Tide, Ahmedabad University, October 9, 2019
• Joana Portugal Pereira, Brazil’s Climate Policy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Ahmedabad University, October 9, 2019

2018

• Marcus Moench, Board of Directors, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, spoke on “Emergent Solutions and Fundamental Challenges: Innovative Response to Sea-Level Rise and Heat in Urban Areas”, January 31, 2018.
• Chad Staddon, University of the West of England, “Global Water Security as a Multi-disciplinary Challenge: The International Water Security Network”, February 12, 2018. 
• P R Shukla, “Sharing Atmosphere Sustainably: Aligning Justice and Efficiency in Global Climate Change Regime”, February 27, 2018.