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INFOSYS PRIZE LECTUREAffine Algebraic Geometry

Neena Gupta

November 05, 2025

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INFOSYS PRIZE LECTURELysophosphatidylserine: An emerging signaling lipid with implications in human disease

Siddhesh Kamat

July 22, 2025

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Arun Shukla

September 9, 2024

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INFOSYS PRIZE LECTUREScience and State Formation in 20th Century India

Jahnavi Phalkey

September 3, 2024

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Lectures

AffineAlgebraicGeometry

Affine Algebraic Geometry

Neena Gupta
LysophosphatidylserineAnemergingsignalinglipidwithimplicationsinhumandisease

Lysophosphatidylserine: An emerging signaling lipid with implications in human disease

Siddhesh Kamat
Towardsdevelopingnoveldrugswithminimizedside-effects

Towards developing novel drugs with minimized side-effects

Arun Shukla
ScienceandStateFormationin20thCenturyIndia

Science and State Formation in 20th Century India

Jahnavi Phalkey
TheAstonishingStoryofComplexCells

The Astonishing Story of Complex Cells

Mukund Thattai
DemocraticImplicationsofGandhianSatyagraha

Democratic Implications of Gandhian Satyagraha

Karuna Mantena
CleanAirforAll

Clean Air for All

Sachchida Nand Tripathi
SerotonergicPsychedelicsMushroomforDiscussion

Serotonergic Psychedelics: 'Mushroom' for Discussion

Vidita Vaidya
EngineeringHumanBloodVesselsFactorFiction

Engineering Human Blood Vessels: Fact or Fiction?

Suman Chakraborty
ReligiousConversionandtheMakingofIndentityTheCaseofEarlyModernGoa

Religious Conversion and the Making of Indentity: The Case of Early Modern Goa

Ângela Barreto Xavier
PortraitofaYoungGalaxy

Portrait of a Young Galaxy

Nissim Kanekar
ConstructingandDeconstructingTrustANewRoleforCryptographyToday

Constructing and Deconstructing Trust: A New Role for Cryptography Today

Shafi Goldwasser
AMaterialQuestBuildingTechnologywithAtomicLayers

A Material Quest: Building Technology with Atomic Layers

Arindam Ghosh
ChallengesoftheFutureAffordableHealthcareandDiagnostics

Challenges of the Future: Affordable Healthcare and Diagnostics

Navakanta Bhat, Chandrasekhar Nair, Dhananjaya Dendukuri
InvisibilityandFreedomTheModernandModernistImaginationintheIndianLanguages

Invisibility and Freedom: The Modern and Modernist Imagination in the Indian Languages

Amit Chaudhuri
MusicandLyricsAnExplorationofKhayal

Music and Lyrics: An Exploration of Khayal

Amit Chaudhuri
MicrohistoriesofMultilinguality

Microhistories of Multilinguality

Prachi Deshpande
ComputerSimulationsintheGeosciencesCurrentTrendsandFutureDirections

Computer Simulations in the Geosciences - Current Trends and Future Directions

Siddhartha Mishra
MakingRoadsSaferbyMakingDriversBetter

Making Roads Safer by Making Drivers Better

Hari Balakrishnan
EqualityofOpportunityInsightsfromBigData

Equality of Opportunity: Insights from Big Data

Raj Chetty
MachineLearningModelsFromBirthtoServingtheRealWorld

Machine Learning Models: From Birth to Serving the Real-World

Sunita Sarawagi
ModernityMalevolenceandthePsychiatricClinic

Modernity, Malevolence, and the Psychiatric Clinic

Andrew Willford
HowdoyoufathomfluidsAstatisticalperspective

How do you fathom fluids? - A statistical perspective

Siddhartha Mishra
DNANanotechnologyenterstheworldofprecisionmedicine

DNA Nanotechnology enters the world of precision medicine

Yamuna Krishnan
MagicoftheNanoworld

Magic of the Nano world

Ashutosh Sharma
OpticalTweezersandNanoscaleBiologicalMachines

Optical Tweezers and Nanoscale Biological Machines

Roop Mallik
AnoseonachipThefutureofbiosensors

A nose on a chip - The future of biosensors

Navankanta Bhat
OutsideInHowweperceivetheworld

Outside-In: How we perceive the world

Shubha Tole
TheEnigmaofLightAbsorbingAerosols

The Enigma of Light-Absorbing Aerosols

S.K Satheesh
dnananotechnologyenterstheworldofprecisionmedicine

DNA Nanotechnology enters the world of precision medicine

Yamuna Krishnan
AlgorithmsforBiologicalDataAnalysis

Algorithms for Biological Data Analysis

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
CustomizedOptimizationforPracticalProblemSolving

Customized Optimization for Practical Problem Solving

Kalyanmoy Deb
BlackHolesWhataretheyWhatusearetheyHowdoweseethem

Black Holes: What are they? What use are they? How do we see them?

Rajaram Nityananda
InsearchofCreoleIndiasWordsandWorlds

In search of Creole Indias: Words and Worlds

Ananya Jahanara Kabir
TheEnigmaofLightAbsorbingAerosols

The Enigma of Light-Absorbing Aerosols

S.K Satheesh
quantumchaos

Quantum Chaos

Nalini Anantharaman
TheRestlessUniverse

The Restless Universe

Shrinivas Kulkarni
IndianMigrationinGlobalHistory

Indian Migration in Global History

Sunil Amrith
computationalInsightsintotheRoleofMicroRNAsinCancer

Computational Insights into the Role of MicroRNAs in Cancer

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
AnalyticalTheoryofLfunctions

Analytical Theory of L-functions

Ritabrata Munshi
MissingGirlsandSexSelection

Missing Girls and Sex Selection

Kaivan Munshi
TheMagicofNumbers

The Magic of Numbers

Chandrashekar Khare
OralVaccinationinDevelopingCountries

Oral Vaccination in Developing Countries

Gagandeep Kang
MadrasInstituteofDevelopmentStudies

India's Long Rise as an Asian Power - The Second World War and After

Srinath Raghavan
TheRotavirusVaccineStory

The Rotavirus Vaccine Story

Gagandeep Kang
EvolutionsinceDarwin

Evolution since Darwin

Amit Sharma
HyperbolicGeometryandChaosinComplexPlane

Hyperbolic Geometry and Chaos in Complex Plane

Mahan MJ
ModernromanceofMathematicsandsociety

Modern romance of Mathematics and society

Cedric Villani
AmatterofGravity

A matter of Gravity

Rajaram Nityananda
ShapesandGeometryofSurfaces

Shapes and Geometry of Surfaces

Mahan MJ
WhatisaconstitutiongoodforModernityreligionandconstitution

What is a constitution good for? Modernity, religion and constitution

Noah Feldman
ProofSecretsandComputation

Proof, Secrets, and Computation

Silvio Micali
AshokainAncientIndiaArchaeologyandBiography

Ashoka in Ancient India: Archaeology and Biography

Nayanjot Lahiri
CosmicHistoryandMysteries

Cosmic History and Mysteries

Thanu Padmanabhan
CancerStemCellsPlasticityandHierarchy

Cancer Stem Cells: Plasticity and Hierarchy

Inder Verma
GovernmentBrahminCastetheEducatedUnemployedandtheReproductionofInequalities

Government Brahmin: Caste, the Educated Unemployed, and the Reproduction of Inequalities

A. R. Vasavi
TheFrontiersofPhysics

The Frontiers of Physics

T.V. Ramakrishnan
StrategicVotingTheory

Strategic Voting Theory

Arunava Sen
MatterOutofEquilibrium

Matter Out of Equilibrium

Sriram Ramaswamy
JusticeWhattherightthingtodo

Justice: What's the right thing to do

Michael J Sandel
WhatisfairEqualityaffirmativeactionandmeritocracy

What is fair? Equality, affirmative action and meritocracy

Michael J Sandel
JusticeEqualityInequalityandtheGoodSociety

Justice: Equality, Inequality, and the Good Society

Michael J Sandel
Whatmoneycantbuythemorallimitsofmarkets

What money can't buy: the moral limits of markets

Michael J Sandel
TheArtofCounting

The Art of Counting

Chandrashekar Khare
GoodtoeatGoodtothinkWhyweshouldstudyIndiaschangingfoodcultures

Good to eat, Good to think: Why we should study India's changing food cultures

Amita Baviskar
NanotechnologyandNatureInspiredTechnologies

Nanotechnology and Nature - Inspired Technologies

Ashutosh Sharma
AstronomyontheCusp

Astronomy on the Cusp

Shrinivas Kulkarni