The Endowment Lectures - A.V. Rama Rao Lecture Series – offered by JNCASR (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research), Bangalore are as follows:

Foundation Lectures

Intramolecular Electronic Coupling at the Mixed Valent States, Fact or Fiction Prof.G.K. Lahiri
Chemistry Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

What Temperature can be Learnt From the Flouresrnce Behaviour of Molecular System in Room
Prof. Anuany Samanta
School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

The Baylis-Hillman reaction: our vision and thirty years of experience
Prof. D. Basavaiah
School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Computational Chemistry: From Molecules to Functional Materials
Prof. Sourav Pal
Director, CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Computational Chemistry: From Molecules to Functional Materials
Dr. Ajay Ghosh
CSIR- Outstanding Scientist, Chemical Science & Technology Deivision, NIIST, CSIR, Trivandrum

Phosphoros-Supported Ligands: Versatile Coordination Platforms for the Assembly of Molecular Materials
Prof. V. Chandrashekhar
Department of Chemistry, IIT, Kharagpur

Advances in the Strategies of Gene Transfection
Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya
Department of Organic Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore

Enantioselective Organocatalytic Aldol Reaction
Prof. Vinod K Singh
Director, IISER, Bhopal

Atomic and molecular clusters: Designer materials for the nanoworld
Prof. Satyamurthy
Director, IISER, Mohali

Editing PNA structures for DNA/ RNA Binding selectivity
Prof. K. N. Ganesh
Director, IISER, NCL Innovation Park, Pune

Studies on the synthesis of Thiasugars
Prof. S. Chandrasekaran
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Novel C-C bond-forming reactions and their applications in organic synthesis
Dr. G. Vijay Nair
Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum

Laser photons as specific reagents in organic chemistry
Prof. J.P. Mittal,
BARC, Mumbai

Being and becoming: Quantum systems in intense external fields
Prof. B.M. Deb
Punjab University, Chandigarh

Some reflections and a few results
Prof. A. Chakravorthy
Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

Natural product synthesis: Is it relevant any more?
Prof. G. Mehta
Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

On putting life into Gels
Dr. R.A. Mashelkar
Director-General, CSIR

Innovative momentum of chemical industry
Prof. M.M. Sharma
Formerly UDCT, Mumbai


Endowment Lectures - A.V. Rama Rao Lecture Series –JNCASR, Bangalore