National Institute of Advanced Studies

Today!
All are welcome.

"Science and the Search for Meaning"
Panelists: Brandon Vaidyanathan (CUA), Mahesh Rangarajan (TCS), CN Vishnuprasad (TDU), and Naren Rao (Manoshanthi Hospitals)

Chairperson: Sangeetha Menon (NIAS)

Date and Time :
3.00 PM, on Thursday 27 November 2025

Venue :
JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS

Organised by
Sangeetha Menon, NIAS CSP, Bangalore
Brandon Vaidyanathan, CUA, Washington DC

Supported by
John Templeton Foundation

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Hearty Congratulations Panneerselvam
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Congratulations to the 2025 International grant recipients! | Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia is proud to support collaborative research across Australia, France and the Indo-Pacific. We are pleased to congratulate and announce the awarded…

He etched an indelible mark at NIAS.
Sir, we will miss you always, and your kindness...

A Humanist who marked a distinct and uncommon space in Indian industry and education passed away ...
A Sad day for all at NIAS ...

We are enthusiastic to offer this Unique residential programme focusing on "Humanistic Leadership for India in an AI Driven world" (26-30 August, 2024) at NIAS, Bengaluru, for leaders and decision-makers of the country (India). Incase you wish to nominate yourself or share it with your business, here is the brochure ... We are at this point on a "First-come-first-served-basis", since we have limited seats... :-)
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What a scholarly, eloquent and captivating lecture by Prof S.N. Sridhar this evening at NIAS Auditorium on "Reimagining the Indian Literary Canon: Kumaravyasa’s Kannada Bharata as a World Classic"
- with Kamal Sridhar, Balasubramanian Ananthanarayan, Shivanand Kanavi, HS Shiva Prakash, A Deva Raju, Dinesh Srivastava, et al.

To Register - please click this link - https://lnkd.in/gBDRCSVr
For more details - https://niasconsciousnesscentre.org/consciousness-conversations

A Cordial Invitation
We cordially invite you to be at the inaugural podcast show (online) called "Consciousness Conversations''. The programme is organised by the NIAS Consciousness Studies Programme of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, in the Indian Institute of Science campus, Bangalore, India. The Conversationalists for the inaugural show on 27 July 2023, 8:00 PM Indian time, on the theme "The Self on the Edge" are: Jonardon Ganeri (Bimal Matilal Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto), Aliya Grig (founder of Evolwe AI - a deep tech company, creating the first empathetic and conscious AI for human like interactions and personalized experiences, Los Angeles), and Kathirasan KJ (Musician, and Founder and Managing Director of the Centre for Mindfulness, Founding Partner of Positive Performance Consulting, Singapore) . The Host of "Consciousness Conversations" is Sangeetha Menon (Professor, NIAS Consciousness Studies Programme, Bangalore).