List of programs conducted in 2009
| 30 June 2009 | Students and teachers’ workshop and the C. N. R. Rao Education foundation Prize program for teachers |
| Nanoworld | Prof. C. N. R. Rao (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| The Fascinating Cosmos | Prof. Prajval Shastri (Indian Institute of Astrophysics) |
| The Fascinating World of Insect Societies | Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar (IISc, Bangalore) |
| July 18, 2009 | Physics for students and teachers |
| Astronomy with neutrinos: The invisible particles from the sky | Prof. Amol Dighe (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai) |
| Water – Many forms and mysteries of a familiar substance | Prof. Srikanth Sastry (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Calling the Sun God Ra Ra Ra! – Solar appliances for a sustainable world | Prof. Vasant Natarajan (IISc , Bangalore) |
| Demonstration of Experiments | Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana, Prof. K. S. Narayan, Prof. A. Sundaresan (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Question & Answer Session | |
| 13 August 2009 | A Celebration of Chemistry |
| New dimensions of chemical science | Prof. C. N. R. Rao (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Are plastics really all that bad? | Prof. S. Ramakrishnan (IISc, Bangalore) |
| From atoms to molecules | Prof. S. Balasubramanian (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Question & Answer Session |
| 29 August 2009 | Biology for students and teachers |
| Our genes and cancer: implications for new generation therapeutics | Prof. Tapas K. Kundu (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Tools of chemistry to understand biology | Prof. Hemalatha Balaram (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| HIV/AIDS: the most burning problems for the scientist | Prof. Udaykumar Ranga (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Question & Answer Session |
| 30 September 2009 | Aspects of Environmental Science for students and teachers |
| Can we make green aircraft? | Prof. Roddam Narasimha (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Biodiversity and global warming | Dr. N. S. Leela (Consultant, Agastya International Foundation, Bangalore) |
| The science of climate change | Prof. J. Srinivasan (IISc, Bangalore) |
| Question & Answer Session |
| 27 October 2009 | Physics for students and teachers |
| Introductory remarks | Prof. C. N. R. Rao (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| What is so special about nano? | Prof. D. D. Sarma (IISc, Bangalore) |
| Where are the atoms? And why do we care? | Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Landmarks in Astronomy | Prof. Sabyasachi Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore) |
| Question & Answer Session |
| 25 November 2009 | Biology for students and teachers |
| Mass spectrometry: From molecular mass to tissue imaging | Prof. Hemalatha Balaram (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Time in the living world | Prof. Vijay Kumar Sharma (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Stem cells and Regenerative medicine | Prof. Maneesha Inamdar (JNCASR, Bangalore) |
| Question & Answer Session |