1. Lecture by Prof. P.U. Deshpande on “Science Technology Policies” , July 30, 2003

2. National Seminar on Philosophy of Karl Popper held at Pune University, March 10 – 12, 2003

3. Seminar on Philosophy of Biology held at IIT Bombay October 30, 2003
   [Click here for the Report on the Seminar]

• Year 2004
  
  Teaching
  A course entitled “Logic for Scientific Research” was offered by Prof. S.M. Bhave
  
  Seminars organized
  Two Seminars on Science Literature in Marathi were jointly sponsored and organized by

1. Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha and Department of Philosophy on February 27-28, 2004

2. Sahitya Academy and Department of Philosophy on November 17-18, 2004

• Year 2005
  
  Conference / Workshop / Lecture organized

1. “First Indian Conference on Logic and its relationship with other disciplines” held at IIT Bombay, January 8 – 13, 2005 [Click here for the Report on the Conference]

2. Workshop on “Understanding Hetu and Hetavabhasa in Indian Logic held in the Department of Philosophy, Pune University, March 16 – 17, 2005

3. Lecture Series on Einstein in the “Year of Physics” (2005-2006), as declared by UNESCO, organized in collaboration with Department of Physics, Pune University.

First Lecture in the Series entitled “Einstein’s Kinematics Completed” was given by Prof. S.D. Agashe, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay on May 16, 2005

• Click here for Einstein’s paper entitled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”
• Click here for Prof. S.D. Agashe’s paper entitled “Einstein’s Kinematics Completed”

Second Lecture by Prof. Urjit A. Yajnik, Dept. of Physics, IIT Bombay, entitled “Einstein on Light: Journey from Wave Theory to Particle Theory and back” is scheduled on August 26, 2005 in the Department of Physics, Pune University.

• Click here for Einstein’s paper entitled “On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”

"Einstein on light : from waves to quanta and back"

Abstract

We retrace the experimental and theoretical steps that led Kircghoff, and later Planck towards the universal formula for Black Body radiation. Einstein extended the assumptions of Planck to embrace several other phenomena involving absorption and emission of radiation, in particular photoelectric effect. The photon or light-quantum hypothesis however had few believers, until in 1924 when S N Bose could systematically derive the Planck spectrum from hypothesis of indistinguishable quanta. A few issues that both bothered and motivated Einstein were subsequently resolved, not necessarily along the lines Einstein anticipated.

• Click here for Prof. Yajnik's Slide Presentation