Francis H.C. Crick Memorial Lecture

'The Astonishing Francis Crick: Life as Legend' by Prof. V.S. Ramachandran, Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, USA (BBC Reith Lecturer 2003), 6.00 p.m. Saturday, August 21, 2004 at Somany Hall, ASSOCHAM House, Prithviraj Road, New Delhi. A version of this lecture, delivered later at the Salk Institute is on line at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/crick04/crick04_index.html

The John von Neumann Centenary Lecture

'Geometry, Physics and Reality' by Sir Michael Atiyah, FRS, Fields Medallist, 6.00 p.m. Friday, November 14, 2003 at Somany Hall, ASSOCHAM House, Prithviraj Road, New Delhi http://www.mathunion.org/medals/Fields/1966/index.html#0x82496a1f_0x0005ea06

The P. A. M. Dirac Centenary Lecture

'Dirac, Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology' by Sir Roger Penrose, FRS, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK, 6.00 p.m. Friday, January 10, 2003 at th Auditorium, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Penrose.html

French Science Today Series

Prof. Hervé †leury, Head of the Laboratory of Systematic and Molecular Virology, Bordeaux Hospital, France, Conference on Life Sciences, supported by film "Virus Hunters" by Denis Chegaray, 7.00 p.m., October 20, 2000, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, as part of the French Science Today Series in collaboration with Alliance Franç¡©se, Embassy of France and Habitat World.

Prof. André Langaney, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Biologique, Musee de l'Homme, Paris, Conference on Ethnology, 7.00 p.m., October 12, 2000, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in collaboration with Alliance Franç¡©se, Embassy of France and Habitat World.

Dr. Dominique Pignon, Director of Research at Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, CNRS, Université aris-Sud, Orsay, France, Conference on Materials Science with the screening and discussion of film "Quasicrystal or the Forbidden Pentagon" by D. Pignon, 6.30 p.m., September 29, 2000, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, in collaboration with Alliance Franç¡©se, Embassy of France and Habitat World.

Dr. Serge Laroche, Laboratory for the Neurobiology of Learning, Memory and Cognition (NAMC), CNRS, Université aris-Sud, Orsay, France, Conference on Cognitive Science, accompanied by film "Music in the Mind" by Claude Edelmann, 6.30 p.m., September 18, 2000, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, in collaboration with Alliance Franç¡©se, Embassy of France and Habitat World.

Wilhelm Halbfass Memorial Lecture

Prof. Arindam Chakrabarti, (University of Hawaii, Manoa), Memorial Lecture for the late Professor Wilhelm Halbfass, entitled "Whose Mental States? Whose Meaning? Whose Wealth? An Indian Critique of Ownership", 6.30 p.m., August 6, 2000, IIC, New Delhi, in collaboration with IIC and Max Mueller Bhavan.