Prof. Alan J. Heeger, (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000), University of California Santa Barbara, USA on 'Risk and Innovation in Science', 6.00 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at Somany Hall, ASSOCHAM House, Prithviraj Road, New Delhi http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2000/heeger-autobio.html

Prof. V.S. Ramachandran, Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, USA (BBC Reith Lecturer 2003) on 'Art and the Brain', at 6.00 p.m. Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at the Auditorium, SCOPE Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi. The Lt. Governor of Delhi, Mr. Vijai Kapoor was the guest of honour. http://www.cbc.ucsd.edu/ramabio.html

Prof. George Cardona, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA on "Panini in the History of Indian Thought" , 6.30 p.m., December 13, 2000 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Chaired by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, President, IIC. (Collaboration: IIC). http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~cardona/home.html

Prof. Wilhelm Halbfass of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, on "Space or Matter: The Concept of akasa in Indian Thought", IIC, New Delhi, 6.30 p.m., March 8, 1999, chaired by Dr. Raja Ramanna (M.P. Rajya Sabha). Collaboration with IIC and MMB.

(The premature demise of Prof. Halbfass in the summer of 2000 was a great loss for Indian philosophy; he was sorely missed at the 'After Max Mueller' conference in December 2000. Prof. Halbfass was very supportive of the activities of the Centre and had consented to be on the Editorial Advisory Board of a planned anthology).