Einstein Lectures

The Einstein Lectures series was initiated in 2015 as part of the centenary celebration of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Schools, colleges and other organizations can request to organize a lecture anywhere in India. Selected partner organizations will work with the ICTS in selecting an appropriate speaker depending on the date and venue of the lecture, and the nature of the audience. Einstein lectures cover a wide spectrum of topics in physics and related areas. Speakers range from early-career scientists to international luminaries. ICTS will support the travel and honorarium for the speaker. Partner organizations are expected to take care of the local organization.

Contact: einstein . lectures @ icts . res . in

Past Lectures

The End of Space-time and Beyond

Spenta R. Wadia (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru)

02 December 2016, 16:00 to 18:00

Christ University, Hosur Road, Bangalore 29

The two major revolutions of 20th Century physics are Einstein’s General Relativity which is a theory of the gravitational force and Quantum Mechanics which deals with sub-atomic phenomenon. Both are successful theories in their domains of application. With the direct observation of gravitational...more

Black Holes, Waves of Gravity, and other Warped Ideas of Dr. Einstein

Clifford M Will (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and Institute of Astrophysics, Paris, France)

29 July 2016, 16:00 to 17:00

St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Bangalore

Einstein's theories of relativity have had a major impact on everything from popular culture to everyday life to basic science. Songs, plays and movies proclaim Einstein as the symbol of genius, while users of GPS navigation devices unknowingly take account of Einstein's relativistic warpage of...more

When LIGO heard the two black holes talking

Chandrakant Mishra (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)

01 April 2016, 19:00 to 20:00

BITS - Hyderabad

In the year 1916, Albert Einstein theoretically showed that his equations (which describe the very nature of gravity) admit wave-like solutions. Gravitational waves, as Einstein first described, are the ripples of the space-time that are generated if the gravitational field of an object changes:...more

Undreamt by Einstein: Discovery of gravitational waves

Parameswaran Ajith (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)

19 February 2016, 10:00 to 11:00

Providence Women's College, Calicut, Kerala

On 2016 February 11, two major international scientific collaborations jointly announced the discovery of gravitational waves, the elusive ripples in the space-time predicted by Albert Einstein exactly a hundred years ago. At times, even Einstein doubted the existence of gravitational waves in...more

Gravitational-wave astronomy: A new window to the Universe

Parameswaran Ajith (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)

18 February 2016, 14:30 to 15:30

Regional Science Center and Planetarium, Calicut

The recent observation of gravitational waves has opened up a unique astronomical window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave observations will complement, corroborate and perhaps challenge our understanding of the Universe gained from other windows of astronomy. This lecture will discuss the recent...more