Discussion Meetings

Academy supports discussion meetings of small groups of scientists from within India and outside organized by a Fellow at a venue of the Fellow's choice. Travel support is not available for attendees from outside the country. A special venue is Orange County resort in the picturesque hill district of Kodagu near Bengaluru, where Academy has two time slots in every calendar year.

Discussion Meeting on School Education
Auditorium, Raman Research Institute, 18 to 20 August 2017

Critical issues in phase transformations in metals and alloys
Orange County resort, 18 March 2012 to 20 March 2012

Conference on Physics and Chemistry of Spintronic Materials
Orange County resort, 22 February 2012 to 26 February 2012

Conference on Magnetism: Practice and Theory
Orange County resort, 30 November 2011 to 4 December 2011

Operator theory and applications
Orange County resort, 23 February 2011 to 26 February 2011

Present understanding and future directions on non-equilibrium materials processing
Orange County resort, 20 February 2011 to 23 February 2011

Molecular Interactions
Orange County resort, 28 November 2010 to 1 December 2010

Indo-Swedish 3rd meeting
Orange County resort, 25 February 2010 to 27 February 2010

Microstructural evolution and phase transformation at different length scales
Orange County resort, 21 February 2010 to 24 February 2010

Crystal engineering and non-covalent interactions
Orange County resort, 22 February 2009 to 25 February 2009

Non Commutative geometry and operator Algebras
Orange County resort, 25 February 2008 to 1 March 2008

Harmonic analysis and operator theory
Bengaluru, 28 December 2007 to 1 January 2008

Phenotypic and developmental plasticity
Thiruvananthapuram, 16 December 2007 to 20 December 2007

Mechanisms of pattern formation
Orange County resort, 6 December 2007 to 9 December 2007

Mechanism of pattern formation
Orange County resort, 6 December 2007 to 9 December 2007

Outstanding issues in sintering
Orange County resort, 2 December 2007 to 6 December 2007

Molecular ecology
Orange County resort, 1 March 2007 to 4 March 2007

Structure and evolution of the lithosphere
Orange County resort, 19 February 2007 to 22 February 2007

Mathematical finance
Orange County resort, 29 November 2006 to 3 December 2006

Inverse problems with special reference to atmospheric transport
Orange County resort, 23 November 2006 to 26 November 2006

Flow control and diagnostics
Orange County resort, 19 February 2006 to 22 February 2006

Recent advances in operator theory and operator algebras
Bengaluru, 19 December 2005 to 22 December 2005

Intracellular calcium signalling
Orange County resort, 30 November 2005 to 4 December 2005

Machine learning
Bengaluru, 2 September 2005 to 3 September 2005

The fluid earth
Bengaluru, 10 January 2005 to 14 January 2005

Monte Carlo and related techniques
Orange County resort, 28 November 2004 to 5 December 2004

Cosmic microwave background radiation
Orange County resort, 22 February 2004 to 26 February 2004

Intermolecular interactions
Orange County resort, 30 November 2003 to 3 December 2003

Genomics approach to biology
Orange County resort, 24 February 2002 to 27 February 2002
Participants: Arun Kumar, S. Dayananda, P. Dwarakanath, George Thomas, K. P. Gopinathan, P. Gunasekaran, P. Jayadeva Bhat, S. Mahadevan, Maneesha S. Inamdar, K. Muniyappa, V. Nagaraja, Parag Sadhale, H. A. Ranganath, K. Sathyavelu Reddy, Shikha Laloraya, N. Srinivasan, Tapas K. Kundu, T. G. Umesh, Utpal S. Tatu, Umesh Varshney

Selected topics in genetics and molecular biology
Orange County resort, 5 December 2001 to 9 December 2001
Participants: Hasan Korkaya, Sandeep Krishna, Benan Dincturk, Shelley Bhattacharya, Durgadas P. Kasbekar, Surendra Ghaskadbi, S. Mahadevan, Hakan Bermek, Manjari Mazumder, Gopal Pande, Onder Peckan

The architecture of materials
Orange County resort, 2 December 2001 to 5 December 2001
Participants: S. Ranganathan, S. Lele, U. D. Kulkarni, P. Ramachandra Rao, A. Upadhyay, V. Jayaram, T. A. Abinandanan, G. K. Dey, B. S. Murty, Samajdar, P. Veyssiere, V. Shenoy, A. Nangia, A. Sinha, K. P. N. Murthy

Function and plasticity of adult brain
Orange County resort, 25 February 2001 to 28 February 2001
Participants: John Nicholls, Wesley Thompson, C. Michael Bate, Jonathan Bacon, Chun-Fang Wu, Eve Marder, Ken Muller, Upinder S. Bhalla, Hollis Cline, Mani Ramaswami, Tim Tully, Mirganka Sur, Ajay Chitnis, James Knierim, Aniruddha Das, Michael M Merzenich, Vidita Vaidya, Shona Chatterji, Shubha Tole, M. K. Mathew

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with hyperbolic conservation laws (CFDHYP-2000)
Orange County resort, 1 December 2000 to 3 December 2000
Participants: S. M. Deshpande, N. Balakrishnan, P. H. Prasad, G. R. Nagbhushana, Vivek Jawali, R. Krishnamurthy, K. Anandhanarayanan, Rahul Pandit, Arnab Rai Choudhuri, C. V. Vishveshwara

Origin and evolution of life
Orange County resort, 28 November 2000 to 1 December 2000
Participants: M. Vijayan, V. Sitaraman, S. Chandrasekhar, N. T. Saraswathi, Apoorva Patel, Sanjay Jain, Chitra Dutta, Somdatta Sinha, Amitabh Joshi, R. Gadagkar, M. K. Chandrashekaran, Renee Borges, Shama Barnabas, Mukund Katti, Yogesh Shouche, H. A. Ranganath, Vijay Chandru, Johannes Manjrekar, S. Mahadevan, V. Nanjundiah

Statistical methodology in decision sciences
Orange County resort, 21 February 2000 to 26 February 2000
Participants: Rahul Roy, Ramesh Hariharan, T. Krishnan, Abhinanda Sarkar, Vinod Sharma, P. S. Sastry, V. S. Borkar, Mohan Delampady, Samudravijaya, Ayesha Kidwai

High-energy astrophysics
Orange County resort, 1 February 2000 to 4 February 2000
Participants: Pijush Bhattacharjee, Dipankar Bhattacharya, K. S. Dwarakanath, Pranab Ghosh, Alak Ray, B. C. Joshi, T. Padmanabhan, K. P. Singh, P. Sreekumar, K. Subramanian, A. R. Rao, A. V. Thampan

Computational electromagnetics
Orange County resort, 4 December 1999 to 7 December 1999
Participants: N. Balakrishnan, R. P. Shenoy, R. M. Jha, Reena Sharma, R. S. Suma, K. N. Shamanna, Srinath S. Heragu, Niraj Sachdeva, N. Kumar , V. V. Surya Prakash, V. K. Aatre, A. Bhattacharya, Bhujanga Rao, K. Rajalakshmi Menon

Recent advances in scattering studies in condensed matter physics
Orange County resort, 28 November 1999 to 3 December 1999
Participants: G. Kaindl, R. Mukhopadhyay, N. Dev, A. Chainani, S. Dattagupta, N. Martensson, Y. Sidis, D. D. Sarma, A. Bharathi, A. K. Sood, A. Fujimori, N. Chandrabhas, R. Pick, S. R. Krishnakumar, S. K. Kulkarni, Rajesh Gupta

Public access to Indian geographical data
Bengaluru, 14 July 1999 to 15 July 1999
Participants: N. Kumar, R. Narasimha, S. V. Srikantia, D. P. Rao, Ravi Gupta, A. K. Ahuja, V. Siddhartha, Raja Ramanna, Satish Dhawan, Rajiv Dhawan, N. Vittal

Stochastic differential equations and their applications
Orange County resort, 2 December 1998 to 7 December 1998
Participants: Shrikanth Iyer, B. Rajeev, R. L. Karandikar, Rahul Roy, S. Ramasubramanian, M. K. Ghosh, V. Mandrekar

Contemporary issues in olfaction
Orange County resort, 28 November 1998 to 2 December 1998
Participants: Nirao Shah, Leslie Vosshall, Emily Troemel, Barbara Talamo, Klemens Stoertkuhl, Gaiti Hasan, Luca Turin, John Kauer, Upinder Bhalla, Giovanni Galizia, Martin Heisenberg, O. Siddiqi, Kei Ito, Thomas Keil, Reinhard Stocker, Veronica Rodrigues, Uma Ladiwala

Lifescape
Bengaluru, 17 July 1998

Concepts and models in developmental biology
Nainital, 5 April 1998 to 12 April 1998
Participants: J. T. Bonner, Tokindo Okada, I. A. Niazi, Paul van der Saag, S. C. Lakhotia, Anuranjan Anand, Nicole Le Dourarin, Veronica Rodrigues, Renee Borges, Rajeev Saxena, Apurva Sarin, Kunio Yasuda, John Gurdon, Anthony Durston, Stuart Newman, S. Mahadevan, V. Nanjundiah, M. G. Narasimhan, K. S. Valdiya, R. S. Tolia

Monsoons: past, present and future
Orange County resort, 20 November 1997 to 22 November 1997
Participants: D. R. Sikka, Sulochana Gadgil, M. Lal, G. B. Pant, Chhaya Sharma, R. Sukumar, R. Ramesh, S. W. A. Naqvi

Adaptive mutagenesis
Bengaluru, 2 March 1996
Participants: S. Mahadevan, R. Jayaraman, J. Gowrishankar, V. Velkov, V. Nanjundiah

Documenting biodiversity - an experiment
Bengaluru, 28 October 1995 to 29 October 1995
Participants: G. K. Bhat, K. Murugan, K. P. Achar, S. Bhagwat, A. E. Dulip Daniels, K. J. Kunte, A. Madhyastha, B. K. Sharath, K. S. Madhava Rao, K. G. Sivaramakrishnan, J. I. Nirmal Kumar, Prakash Pandit, Winfred Thomas, Parvati Menon, M. D. Subash Chandran, P. Pramod

Recent trends in biological sciences
Bengaluru, 19 August 1995
Participants: Hans Raj Negi, R. Gadagkar, K. A. Ganesh, Nagamohan, D. Naug, Vijaya Rao, Deepa Lakshmi, Praveen Kumar

Theoretical approaches to molecular electronic structure and properties
Pune, 16 December 1994 to 18 December 1994
Participants: K. L. Sebastian, R. Ramaswamy, M. S. Gopinathan, R. E. Amritkar, S. Yashonath, D. Mukherjee, P. Chandra, A. Saran, M. Mishra, S. P. Gejji, R. Vetrivel, B. M. Deb, S. K. Ghosh, K. D. Sen, S. Kulkarni, A. B. Sannigrahi, E. D. Jemmis, P. C. Mishra, S. Ramasesha, P. K. Mukherjee, V. Kothekar, S. P. Bhattacharyya, A. S. Kolaskar, B. Jayaram

Computational fluid dynamics and astrophysical applications
Kodaikanal, 12 December 1994 to 15 December 1994
Participants: S. M. Deshpande, S. S. Desai, J. S. Mathur, P. S. Kulkarni, S. V. Raghurama Rao, M. D. Deshpande, M. R. Ravi, A. G. Marathe, S. S. Hasan, P. Ghosh, V. Krishan, Amita Das, M. Nagarathinam, R. Krishnamurthy, K. Anand Narayanan, K. P. Singh, V. Mudkavi, H. K. Narahari, S. Koruthu, K. R. Govind, B. S. Sarma

Theories and models in biology
Shillong, 6 May 1994 to 10 May 1994
Participants: J. Das, Pratima Sinha, Somdatta Sinha, M. K. Chadrashekaran, D. Roy, P. Nongkynrih, A. Elepfandt, N. Behera, V. Nanjundiah

Organic synthesis and catalysis via metalloorganics
Pune, 23 September 1993 to 24 September 1993
Participants: S. Chandrasekaran, T. K. Sarkar, A. Sarkar, Z. Shirin, R. N. Mukherjee, M. Periasamy, S. K. Nayak, A. G. Samuelson, D. Jayaprakash, S. Bhar, B. C. Ranu, B. G. Hazra, E. Nandanam, B. B. Lohary, D. Chatterjee, A. K. Sarkar, S. Sengupta, S. Vancheesan, S. Bhaduri, P. Mathur, S. K. Bhar, R. L. Dey, S. K. Chandra, A. Chakravorti, S. K. Chowdhury, V. D. Gupta, S. Bhattacharya, M. V. Gururaj, B. S.

Spectral and inverse spectral theory
Kodaikanal, 24 August 1993 to 30 August 1993
Participants: P. Hislop, K. B. Sinha, A. Jensen, I. Sozaki, S. Nakamura, M. Krishna, P. L. Muthuramalingam

Harmonic analysis
Bengaluru, 11 March 1992 to 13 March 1992
Participants: Adimurthi, B. R. Nagaraj, M. Vanninathan, A. Athavale, R. Bhatia, G. Misra, R. Vittal Rao, J. Mathew, M. Krishna, TSSRK Rao, S. C. Bagchi, Sanjiv Gupta, Shobha Madan, U. B. Tewari, S. Kumaresan, M. Schurmann

Non-accelerator particle physics: perspectives
Bengaluru, 18 November 1991 to 20 November 1991
Participants: R. Cowsik, G. Rajasekaran, N. Mukunda, B. V. Sreekantan, K. Kasturirangan

The people of India
Bengaluru, 12 July 1991 to 16 July 1991
Participants: K. S. Singh, Madhav Gadgil and 21 others

Stochastic differential equations
Bengaluru, 10 June 1991 to 12 June 1991
Participants: N. Mukunda, K. R. Parthasarathy, V. S. Borkar, S. Ramasubramanian, R. L. Karandikar, B. L. S. Prakasa Rao, Arup Basu, B. Rajeev, S. Ramaswamy, K. Rama Murthy

Learning and memory in animals
Heggedihalli(near Nandi Hills)Bengaluru, 1 June 1991 to 2 June 1991
Participants: T. Veena, R. Gadagkar, R. Uma Shaanker, A. Sinha, S. Subramanya, T. R. Radhamani, K. V. Devi Prasad, K. N. Ganeshaiah, S. G. Hegde, B. Mallik

Combinatorics, coding theory and computer science
Bengaluru, 11 October 1990 to 12 October 1990
Participants: N. Mukunda, G. A. Padtardhan, M. U. Siddiqi, S. S. Rangachari, S. S. Sane, P. Pal, C. E. Veni Madhavan, N. S. Gopala Krishnan, Chaudhuri, M. Balasubramanian, K. S. Vijayan, N. K. M. Singhi

Trends in theoretical chemistry
Madras, 30 September 1990 to 1 October 1990
Participants: R. V. Gopala Rao, S. Yashonath, K. L. Sebastian, S. K. Ghosh, A. B. Sannigrahi, E. D. Jemmis, S. Ramasesha, M. S. Gopinathan, Anil Saran, P. T. Manoharan, B. Viswanathan, S. Subramanian, P. C. Mishra, P. C. Deshmukh, S. R. Gadre, B. L. Tembe, N. Sathyamurthy, B. Cherayil, M. K. Mishra, S. Kumar, A. K. Mishra, P. K. Mukherjee, S. Pal, N. Sukumar, S. P. Bhattacharyya, K. Bhattacharyya, D. D. Sarma, S. N. Rai, V. Balakrishnan, P. K. Chattaraj

Optical interferometry
Kodaikanal, 10 August 1990 to 17 August 1990
Participants: P. Venkatakrishnan, N. Udaya Shankar, S. Chatterji, K. R. Anantharamaiah, S. N. Karbelkar, S. N. Tandon, A. P. Rao, R. K. Shevgaonkar, J. N. Desai, J. C. Bhattacharyya, V. Radhakrishnan

Von Neumann algebras
Bengaluru, 20 April 1990
Participants: K. B. Sinha, V. S. Sunder, S. G. Dani, K. R. Parthasarathy, R. Bhatia, M. G. Nadkarni

Essential role of fundamental scientific research
Bengaluru, 15 December 1989
Participants: S. K. Joshi, M. M. Sharma, R. Kumar, N. Sathyamurthy, R. Cowsik, A. K. Gupta, Daman Saluja, M. S. Valiathan, G. Padmanaban, C. N. R. Rao

Supernovae, their progenitors and remnants
Bengaluru, 29 October 1984 to 2 November 1984
Participants: L. Woltjer, V. L. Trimble, K. L. Weiler, R. A. Chevalier, F. Pacini, D. H. Clark, K. S. Dwarakanath, G. Srinivasan, D. Bhattacharya, E. P. J. van den Heuvel, V. Radhakrishnan, C. Shukre, S. A. Stephens, R. Cowsik, R. K. Kochhar, A. Ray, J. H. Van Gorkom, T. Velusamy

Energy for a sustainable development
Bengaluru, 29 October 1984 to 2 November 1984
Participants: S. Dhawan, A. K. N. Reddy, T. B. Johansson, R. H. Williams

Non-Debye relaxation in condensed matter
Bengaluru, 14 September 1982 to 17 September 1982
Participants: K. L. Ngai, N. Kumar, B. Purniah, A. K. Raychaudhuri, A. Mansingh, K. L. Narasimhan, B. A. Dasannacharya, D. Kumar, C. Dasgupta, S. V. Bhat, K. Krishan, G. Ananthakrishna, M. K. Phani, N. V. Madhusudana, C. K. Majumdar D Dhar, S. Dattagupta, V. Balakrishnan