At ICTS, science outreach for school and college students and civic society in general is taken very seriously. ICTS regularly organizes public lectures given by eminent visitors. Public lectures bring exciting new developments in science to the general public and play an important role in engaging students and civic society at large on issues of modern science.
Past Lectures
Lyman Page (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)
09 August 2008, 16:00 to 17:00
Nehru Science Centre Auditorium, Worli, Mumbai
Measurements of the cosmos based on a wide variety of methods are in good agreement on the contents and history of the universe. We focus on observations that are aimed at quantifying and understanding the universe when it was less than a billionth of a billionth of a second old to test specific...more
Joseph Silk (University of Oxford)
05 August 2008, 18:30 to 19:30
Chandrashekhar Auditorium, IUCAA, Pune
Most of the Matter in the universe is Dark: Enigmatic & Exoticmore
Francois Bouchet (Institut D Astrophysique De Paris)
24 July 2008, 18:30 to 19:30
Chandrashekhar Auditorium, IUCAA, Pune
Oldest Image of The Universe .........Crispier Promises of ESA Plank missionmore
Juan M Maldacena ( Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, USA)
09 July 2008, 17:00 to 18:00
Homi Bhabha Auditorium, TIFR, Mumbai
Black holes a re a fascinating prediction of Einstein Theory of Gravity. They have an interesting history. According to the classical theory nothing can escape a black hole. On the other hand, quantum mechanics implies that the black hole emits some radiation. This leads to a puzzling theoretical...more

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