Summer 2020

• June, 6, Prof. Jean-Luc Ayitou, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,  Navigating Triplet Photochemistry and Photophysics in Novel Organic Chromophore
• June, 13, Prof. Linda Shimiza, Uni. South Carolina, Supramolecular Photochemistry
• June, 20, Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Uni. Miami, Spin, Energy and Electron Transfer across a Capsular Wall
• June, 27, Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Uni. Miami, Spin, Energy and Electron Transfer across a Capsular Wall
• July 4, Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Uni. Miami, Dynamics of excited molecules in a confined space
• July 11, Prof. Sivaguru Jayaraman, Bowling Green State University, Catalysis in Photocehmistry
• July 18 Prof. N. Jayaraman, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,  Dendritic Macromolecules as Containers for Photochemical Reactions
• July 25 Prof. N. Jayaraman, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,  Dendritic Macromolecules
• August 1 Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Uni. Miami, Lavoisier, Davy and Faraday
• August 8, Prof. Malcolm Forbes, Bowling Green State University, Spin
• August 15, Prof. Malcolm Forbes, Bowling Green State University, Spin
• August 22, Dr.Jayaraj Nithyanandhan, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, Squaraine Based Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
• August 29, Prof. Debapratim Das, IIT, Guwahathi, India Unexpected Supramolecular Aggregates: The Case of KC Peptides

Fall 2020

• Sep 5,  Prof. Dr. Jayamurugan Govindasamy, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India, Development of fluorescent push-pull chromophores for sensing and biological applications
• Sep 12, Prof. Malcolm Forbes, Bowling Green State University, Fun Facts About Triplet States
• Sep 19, Prof. Rajeev Prabhakar, Uni. Miami,  Development of Catalysts, Drugs and Biomaterials: Insights from Theoretical Studies.
• Sep 26, Dr. Nandini Vallavoju, Harvard Uni, Sep 26, Understanding the Pharmacology of Opioid Drugs
• Oct 3, Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, Oct 3, Design and Synthesis of Molecules and Materials for Energy Storage Devices
• Oct 10, Professor Ehesan Ali, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali,  Oct 10, Ab Initio Perspectives of Molecular Magnetism: Designing of Diradicals to Device Propositions
• Oct 17, Professor Jared Delcamp, Uni. Mississippi, Oct 17, Proaromatic and Multiple Donor Dyes for Photoinduced Interfacial Charge Separation Using Near Infrared Photons
• Oct 24, Prof. V. Ramamurthy, Uni. Miami, Einstein’s Role Model
• Oct 31, Professor J Sankar, IISER-Bhopal, Porphyrin-Rylene Diimide Molecular Platform Having Panchromatic Absorption for Photovoltaic Applications
• Nov 7, Dr. Santhosh Babu Sukumaran, Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, New Orgnic Solvent-Free Liquids and Room Temperature Phosphors
• Nov 14, Prof. A. Winter, Iowa State University, Strategies for Photocaging using Visible Light
• Nov 21, Prof. N. Sathyamurthy, Honorary Professor IISER, Mohali, In the beginning it was helium and hydrogen
• Nov 28 THANKSGIVING BREAK
• Dec 5,  Mr. Shaifali Sartaliya (Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali)Mr. Md Faizul Islam  (Uni. South Carolina)
• Dec 12,            Mr. Saurav Das (IIT, Guahathi) pH clock instructed out-of-equilibrium assembly of supramolecular vesicles
  • Ramamurthy, Uni. Miami, Light and Life
• Dec 19, Prof. Dibyendu Das, IISER, Kolkatha, India, Systems Chemistry: How complexity can emerge from chemistry

Spring 2021

• January 16        Inaugural lecture by Prof. S,Chandrasekaran, IISc. Bangalore. “Organic Chemistry Research in India: Quo Vadis”
  • • • Prof. S. Thayumanavan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• January 23        Prof. Ksenija Glusac, U. of Ilinois at Chicago & Argonne National Lab, “Nanocarbon in Photochemistry and Electrochemistry”
• January 30        Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER, Trivandrum, India, Tutorial Lecture: Strategies to Populate the Triplet Excited States of Organic Chromophores
• February 6        Prof. Joe Furgal, Bowling Green State Uni. Bowling Green, “Hybrid Photodynamic Sponges and the Catalytic Depolymerization of Silicone Resins”
• February 13      Prof. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, “Rediscovering the (Organic) Chemistry of Origins of Biomolecules and Life”
• February 20      Prof. Pratik Sen, IIT, Kanpur, India
• February 27      Prof. Pramod P. Pillai, IISER, Pune, India, “Surface Ligand Directed Photo-chemistry and Photophysics by Nanomaterials”
• March 6            Prof. José Paulo da Silva, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
• March 13          Prof. R. H. Schmehl, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
• March 20          Prof. N. D. Pradeep Singh, IIT, Kharagpur, India, “Photoresponsive fluorescent organic nanoparticles: a smart platform for biomedical and agrochemical applications”
• March 27          Prof. Venkataraman Mahalingam, IISER, Kolkatha, India.
• April 3              Prof. Nilmoni Sarkar, IIT, Kharagpur, India, “Understanding The Self-Assembly of Biological Building Block Molecules and Their Impact on Membranes"
• April 10           Prof. Petr Klan, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• April 17            Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER, Trivandrum, India, Reserach Lecture: Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics in Twisted Aromatics
• April 24            First Year Anniversary Lecture: Prof. P. Balaram, Former Director, IISc, Bangalore and Professor, NCBS, Bangalore, India, “Indian Contributions to the Structure of Proteins”
• May 1               Prof. Sugumar Venkataramani, IISER, Mohali, India, “Azoheteroarene photoswitches - Fundamentals and Applications”
• May 8               Prof. Javier Read de Alaniz, University of California, Santa Barbara, “exploring and developing negative photochromic molecules”
• May 15             Tutorial Lecture: Prof. N. Satyamurthy, Honorary Professor IISER, Mohali, “Wave Packets, Conical Intersections and Surface Crossings”
• May 22             Dr. René M. Williams, Asst. Prof., Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, “The photochemistry of photodynamic anti-cancer therapy”
• May 29             Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, IISER, Kolkatha, “Photoregulated enzyme mimics”
• Jun 5                Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER, Trivandrum, India, “Greek Cross Aggregate: A Paradigm for Exciton Isolation"

Summer 2021

• Summer Break for seminars

Summer 2022

• Summer Break for seminars

Fall 2022

• Sep 10              Dr Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Biomedical Engineering Department, Penn State University, USA.
  • • • “Integrated optical and acoustic devices for multimodal imaging and stimulation”
• Sep 24              Professor Ujjal K. Gautam, IISER, Mohali, India.
  • • • “Chemistry with waste plastic: pollution remediation, oxygen harvesting, and solar energy utilization”
• Oct 15              Professor A. K. Mishra, IIT-Madras, India.
  • • • “Understanding & Harnessing Fluorescence Inner Filter Effect”
• Oct 29              Professor Evgueni E. Nesterov, Northern Illinois University, USA.
  • • • “Amplifying Fluorescent Chemo- and Biosensors Based on Conjugated Polymers”
• Nov 12             Professor Andrei Kutateladze, University of Denver, USA.
  • • • “ESIPT in Photoassisted Synthesis: Maximizing Step-Normalized Increases in Molecular Complexity en Route to Polyheterocyclic Molecular Architectures”
• Nov 19             Professor P. S. Vijayakumar, INST, Mohali, India.
  • • • “Nano-Assisted Future Farms”
• Dec 03              Professor A Ajayaghosh. CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India.
  • • • “Revisiting Diels-Alder Type Photocycloaddition Reactions: Attempts to Translate Ideas and Knowledge”
• Dec 17             Proessor Ken D Shimizu, University of South Carolina, USA.
  • • •  “Studying non-covalent interactions using molecular balances and rotors”

Spring 2023

• Jan 14               Dr. C. S. Gopinath, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
  • • “Key Issues in Solar Water Splitting and Possible Approaches to Tackle Them”
• Jan 28               Dr Suraj Soman, CSIR-NIIST, Thiuvananthapuram, India.
  • • • “Ambient/Indoor Light Recycling: Realizing a Battery-free World”
• Feb 11              Dr Srivalleesha Mallidi, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University USA.
  • • • “Photoacoustic imaging for treatment guidance, dosimetry and tumor recurrence prediction”
• Feb 18              Professor Suman De Sarkar, IISER Kolkata, India.
  • • • “Electro-organic Synthesis”
• Feb 25              Mr. Rahul Prakash, University of South Carolina, USA. (Student Seminar)
  • • • “Cooperative Supramolecular Polymerization of Triphenylamine bis-Urea Macrocycles”
• Feb 25              Mr. Dipendra Khadka, University of Miami, USA. (Student Seminar)
  • • • “Value of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in understanding the excited state behavior of molecules in restricted spaces”
• Feb 25              Mr.  Kiran Ingole, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India. (Student Seminar)
  • • • “Triazatruxene Amine Donor-Based Visible-Light Responsive Unsymmetrical Squaraine Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”
• Mar 04             Ms. Debapriya Gupta, IISER Mohali, India. (Student Seminar)
  • • • “Light-switchable’ metal complexes -Introducing phototunability through azoheteroarenes”
• Mar 04             Ms.  Deepmala Singh, IIT Gandhinagar, India. (Student Seminar)
  • • • “Imaging of mitochondria/lysosomes in live cells and C. elegans”
• Mar 04             Ms. Shaifali Sartaliya, INST Mohali, India. (Student Seminar)
  • • • “A new water-soluble drug delivery system via preferential molecular marriage over narcissistic self-sorting”
• Mar 11             Professor Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria, Canada.
  • • • “Building Complexity into the Host-Guest Chemistry of Cucurbit[n]urils”
• Mar 18             Professor Abraham Joy, School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, Univ. of Akron, USA.
  • • • “Macromolecular Strategies to Address Biofilms and Bacterial Colonization and Their Application to Wound Healing”
• Mar 25             Professor Vandana Bhalla, Guru Nanak Dev University, India.
  • • •  “Development of Supramolecular assemblies for molecular recognition of biologically important analytes”
• Apr 15              Professor Shobhan Gaddameedhi, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, USA.
  • • • “Dynamic Interaction between the Biological Clock and Ultraviolet Light and its Impact on Circadian Rhythmicity, UV-DNA Repair and Photocarcinogenesis”
• Apr 22              Professor Raghu Chitta, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India.
  • • • “The Chemistry of Bispyrrolic Dyes: A Cornucopia for Light Harvesting Systems”
• Apr 29              Professsor D Sureshkumar, IISER Kolkatta, Inida.
  • • • “SO₂” Should It Stay or Go: Switchable C- vs S-Centered Radicals Generation from Alkyl Sulfinates by Organophotocatalysis”
• May 06             Professor Mintu Porel, IIT Palakad, India.
  • • • “Macromolecules with tunable functional groups for environmental remediation and biological applications”
• May 20             Professor D Ramaiah, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Hyderabad Campus, India.
  • • • “Title to be announced”