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

Fall 2021 

• Sep 04           Prof. Debabrata Goswami, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
  • • • “Towards Light as a Reagent and Product : Spatiotemporal Control with   femtosecond lasers”
• Sep 11            Prof. G Jayamurugan, Institute of Nano Science & Technology, Mohali. India.
  • • • "Biomass, Carbon dot, Sugar, Light, Fuel, Organic Transformations, Nano & Sustainable Technologies: A Cocktail in Catalysis"
• Sep 18            Dr. Prasad Baghavatulla, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
  • • •  "Molecular tools for controlling nanoparticle size, dispersional stability and their assemblies"
• Sep 25            Prof. Apurba L. Koner, IISER Bhopal, India.
  • • • "Understanding Sub-cellular Physical Properties with Molecular Reporter"
• Oct 02            Dr. Murthy Gudipathi,    JPL, Caltech, Pasadena. USA.
  • • • "Water, Organics, Energy, and Life - On Earth and Beyond"'
• Oct 09              Dr V Jayathirtha Rao, CSIR-IICT, India,
  • • • “Organic Materials for Emerging Applications: Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Device Fabrication”
• Oct 16              Prof Massimo Olivucci, BGSU, USA.
  • • • “The Chemistry of Conical Intersection”
• Oct 23              Prof Anna Gudmundsdottir, Univ. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
  • • • “Elucidating Reaction Mechanism and Photodynamic Behavior of Organic Azide Crystals”
• Oct 30              Prof Tushar Kanti Mukherjee, IIT Indore, Inida.
  • • • “Understanding and Exploring the Optoelectronic Properties of Hybrid Coacervate Droplet”
• Nov 06             Prof Arijit K De, IISER Mohali, India.
  • • • “A tutorial on coherent multidimensional spectroscopy”
• Nov 13            Prof Peter H Lu, BGSU, USA.
  • • • “Probing Single-Molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer at Organic-Inorganic Interfaces”
• Nov 20             Prof Saptarshi Mukherjee, IISER Bhopal, India.
  • • • “Spectroscopy of Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters”
• Nov 27              Thanksgiving Break
• Dec 04             Prof Kana M Sureshan, IISER Trivandrum, India.
  • • • “Crystalline Polymers via Topochemical Azide Alkyne Cycloaddition (TAAC) reaction”
• Dec 11             Presentations by Students
  • • • Mr Sujit Ghosh, University of Miami, Coral Gables. (Advisor: Prof. V. Ramamurthy), “A Study on a Less Investigated Phototrigger: Thiocoumarins”
      • Ms Neethu K M, INST Mohali, India. (Advisor: Prof. G Jayamurugan), “Nanoreactors mediated formation and transformation of Donor-substituted Tetracyanobutadiene Chromophores”
      • Lakshmy Kannadi Valloli, BGSU. (Advisor: Prof. J. Sivaguru), “Exploiting Excited State Processes to Uncover New Photochemical Reactivity.
      • Young Ju Yun, University of Illinois, Chicago. (Advisor: Prof. Jean-Luc Ayitou), “Triplet Photodynamics and anti-Stokes Photoluminescence in Organic Donor-Acceptor Dyads”
• Dec 18             Dr Arunkumar Natarajan, GE Aviation, Mason, Ohio, “Organic/Photosensitive Materials in 2D-, 3D- Industrial applications”

Spring 2022

• Jan 15             Prof. Challa V. Kumar, University of Connecticut
  • • • “Soft Materials: Playing with Proteins in the Chemistry Lab”
• Jan 22               Prof. Christian G. Bochet, University of Fribourg, Switzerland,
  • • • “Probing and tuning photochemical reactions with isotopes”
• Jan 29               Prof. Partha Hazra, IISER-Pune, India
  • • •  “Optical Properties and Applications of Novel Stimuli-Responsive Organic Smart Materials”
• Feb 05              Prof. Sayan Bagchi, CSIR-NCL, Pune, India,
  • • • “Visualising Molecular Movies Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses”
• Feb 12              Prof. Jier Huang, Marquette University, Milwaukee. USA.
  • • •  “Porous Crystalline Materials as Intrinsic Light Absorption and Photocatalytic Materials”
• Feb 19              Prof. J. N. Moorthy, IIT Kanpur and IISER Trivandrum, India.
  • • • “Exploitation of Sterics: Control of Photoreactivity and Development of Photoresponsive Materials”
• Feb 26              Prof. Venkata Krishnan, IIT-Mandi, India.
  • • • “Materials Design based on Lessons from Nature”
• Mar 05             Prof. Alexander Greer, CUNY, USA.
  • • • “Mechanistic Organic Photochemistry: Effect of Dark Process on Photosensitized Oxidation”
• Mar 12             Prof. S. Varadharajan, IISER Bhopal, India.
  • • • “Theoretical studies on UV-damage resistance in nucleobases and self-repair in DNA”
• Mar 19             Prof. Sriram Kanvah Gundimeda, IIT Gandhiagar, India.
  • • • “Lighting up sub-cellular organelles with fluorescent probes”
• Mar 26             Prof. Shinsuke Takagi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
  • • • “The effect of flat inorganic surface on the photochemical properties and reactions of molecules”
• Apr 02             Dr. Jayashree Nagesh, IISc, Bangalore. Inida.
  • • • “Aggregate photophysics of DPP-core molecules”
• Apr 09             Prof.  Pavel Anzenbacher Jr, BGSU. USA.
  • • • “Fluorescent Supramolecular Sensors: Toys, Sensors and Assays”
• Apr 16             Prof. Jyotishman Dasgupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
  • • • “Photoredox Organic Transformations in Water”
• Apr 23             Prof. Axel G. Griesbeck, University of Cologne, Germany.
  • • • “A photochemical way to improve Artemisinin´s anticancer performance”
• Apr 30             Prof. Angel Marti, Rice University, USA.
  • • • “Interrogating Biological and Inorganic Supramolecular Structures using Photoactive Metal Complexes”
• May 07            Prof. John Swierk, Binghamton University (SUNY), USA.
  • • • “The Obvious Facts and Deceptions of Photoredox Reactions”
• May 14            Prof. Darrio M. Bassani, Univ. Bordeaux, France.
  • • • “Supramolecular control of electronic properties in organic materials”
• May 21            Prof. Axel G. Griesbeck, University of Cologne, Germany.
  • • • “Photodecarboxylations and application in cyclopeptide synthesis”
• May 28            Prof. Francisco Raymo, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA.
  • • • “Photoswitchable Fluorophores for Bioimaging Applications”
• Jun 04              Prof. Kankan Bhattchrayya, IISER Bhopal, India.
  • • • “History of Physical Chemistry in India”

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”

Summer 2023

• Summer Break for seminars

Fall 2023

• Sep 02              Professor E D Jemmis, IISc, Bangalore, India on “Orbital Engineering: Cyclopropenium cation to A Unified Structural Chemistry of Boron”
• Sep 09              Professor Kenneth Hanson, Florida State University, USA on “Harnessing Molecular Photon Upconversion Using Self-Assembled Multilayers on Metal Oxide Surfaces”
• Sep 16              Professor P V Kamat, Notre Dame University,  USA, on “(i) Metal Halide Perovskite-Molecular Hybrids for Capture and Conversion of Light Energy and (ii) How to make your next paper scientifically effective. Mastering the Art of Scientific Publication”
• Sep 23              Professor V G Anand, IISER Pune, India, on “Aromatic, Antiaromatic and Radicaloid Porphyrinoids”
• Sep 30              Ms Sunandita Paul, TIFR –Mumbai, India on “Vibrational Snapshots of Ultrafast C-H Bond Photoactivation inside a Water-soluble Nanocage”
• Sep 30              Ms Ashmita Biswas, INST Mohali, India on “Fixing the challenges of the electrochemical ammonia synthesis: Favoring the unfavored”
• Sep 30              Mr Amal Sam Sunny, Univ. Miami, USA on “Acceleration of Diels-Alder Reactions by Confinement”
• Oct 07              Professor V Ramamurthy, Univ. Miami, USA on “Normal, Extraordinary and Pathological Science”
• Oct 14              Professor Fazalurahman Kuttassery, University of Calicut, India on “Two-Electron Water Oxidation as a Key-Step for Solar Fuel Production”
• Oct 21              Professor Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández , Case Western Reserve University , USA on “Photochemistry of Sulfur-Substituted Nucleic Acid and Other Organic Compounds for Application in the Photodynamic Therapy of Cancers”
• Oct 28              Professor Silas Blackstock, University of Alabama, USA on “Photo-Electro Switchable Materials”
• Nov 04             Professor Igor Alabugin, Florida State University, USA on “Harnessing Transient Antiaromaticity”
• Nov 11             Professor Víctor García-López, Louisiana State University, USA on “Light-activated molecular machines and switches operating in lipid membranes”
• Nov 18             Professor Bruce Armitage, Cornegie Mellon Univserity, USA on “Illuminating DNA and RNA using Fluorescent PNA Probes”
• Nov 24             Thanksgiving Break
• Dec 02             Professor Kevin Stamplecoskie, Queen's University,  Ontario on “Light Activated Size Focussing of Metal Nanoclusters and their Utility as Photocatalyst/Sensitizers”
• Dec 09              Professor Ramendra S Dey, INST-Mohali, India on “Electrochemical Activation of Inert N₂ Molecules for the Production of Ammonia”
• Dec 16              Ms. Garima Bhutani,  IISER-, Mohali on “pH-Dependent Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics of Large Stokes-Shifted Red Fluorescent Proteins (LSS RFPs)”
• Dec 16             Mr Vaitheesh Jayapalan, University of Miami on “Enhanced photodimerization of small organic molecules in water”

Dec 16             Mr  Himanshu Kumar, IISER, Mohali on “Light-triggered Phase Transition in Azoheteroarenes and their Applications in Solar Thermal Energy Storage Molecular Devices (ESMDs) and Photolithography”

Spring 2024

• Jan 27               Prof Masaoki Kawasumi, University of Washington
  “UV-Induced DNA Damage Response, Epigenetic Abnormalities, and Skin Cancer”

• Feb 03             Professor Rajadurai Chandrasekar, Hyderabad Central University
  “Mechanophotonics & Crystal Photonics Foundry: The Emergence of Organic Crystals as New Materials for Photonic Circuits”

• Feb 10             Professor Soumen De, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram, India
  “Chiral Photoswitches and their application”

• Feb 17             Prof Shanmugarju Sankarasekaran, IIT Palakad, India
  “Tröger's base-Amino-1,8-Naphthalimides (TBNaps): An Emerging Supramolecular Scaffolds for Novel Self-Assembly Structures and Materials Design”

• Feb 24             Prof Eric Masson, Ohio University
  “Supramolecular Lego with Cucurbiturils and Lanthanides”

• Prof. Anunay Samanta, Hyderabad Central University, India.
• Prof Y. Adithya Lakshmanna IISER TVM, India.
• Prof. Clemens Burda, Case Western, USA.
• Prof. Jatish Kumar, IISER Tirupathi, India.
• Prof. Pengfei Wang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
• Prof. Leonard R. MacGillivray, University of Iowa, USA.
• Prof. Andrew B. Greytak, Univ. South Carolina, USA.
• Prof. Mathieu Frenette, University of Quebec at Montreal.

Summer 2024

• Summer Break for seminars