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"

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”