Distinguished Lectures are delivered by outstanding scientists and academicians. They bring to the centre their vision and their pathbreaking research.
Past Lectures
François Bouchet, David Gross, Juan Maldacena, Peter Saulson and Edward Witten (.)
26 June 2015, 14:00 to 15:00
Faculty hall, IISc Campus, Bangalore
The GR session has been planned to commemorate and celebrate 100 years of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity on the afternoon of Friday, 26th June, 2015 at the Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru. This special session will be chaired by Prof. Gary Horowitz, University...more
Jennifer Tour Chayes (Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research New York City)
21 January 2015, 16:00 to 17:00
Faculty hall, IISc, Bangalore
Everywhere we turn these days, we find that networks can be used to describe relevant interactions.In the high tech world, we see the Internet, the World Wide Web, mobile phone networks, and a variety of online social networks.In economics, we are increasingly experiencing both the positive and...more
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University)
19 January 2015, 16:00 to 17:00
Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Mumbai
Understanding whether (and how often) a mathematical expression takes a square value is a problem that has fascinated mathematicians since antiquity. In this lecture a survey of this problem, starting from its independent origins in many cultures in ancient times to some of the major advances of...more
Valery Rubakov (Moscow State University, Russia)
24 November 2014, 16:00 to 17:00
Faculty Hall, IISc, Bangalore
It is known for long time that the Universe went through the hot Big Bang stage, with extraordinarily high temperatures of matter and extremely rapid expansion of space. It is less known that existing observational data strongly suggest that the hot Big Bang stage was not the first one, but was...more
Ashoke Sen (HRI Allahabad)
27 September 2012, 16:00 to 17:00
ICTS-TIFR, IISc, Bangalore, India
Holography relates a quantum theory of gravity in certain space – times known as anti de Sitter spaces, to an ordinary quantum field theory in one less dimensions. In this talk we shall discuss how such correspondences are discovered and how they are tested, giving special emphasis to testing those...more

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