The flagship event of our community science outreach is a Science Café called ‘Sawaal-Jawaab: Conversations on Science’. These sessions provides an informal platform for the public to interact with a scientist. ‘Sawaal-Jawaab’ has been steadily gaining popularity, thus, increasing our reach among the community. These sessions have been held in Lamakaan, Phoenix Arena (Hitech City) and Birla Science Centre. Currently, these sessions are being held at Aaromale Cafe, Film Nagar. The talk is typically for half an hour, but questions flow freely from the audience and the duration of the entire event is one hour. This is now a recognized event in Hyderabad with around 80-100 attendees per session. Do visit this page on the TIFRH Science Media Centre website for photographs and videos from the previous Sawaal-Jawaab sessions!
| Date | TOPIC | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 09, 2024 | "Wealth from Nuclear Waste: Recovery and Recycle" | Smitha Manohar, BARC Trombay | Feb 17, 2024 | "A journey from Hoolock to hornbills to hummingbirds: How do cold warm-blooded animals exist?" | Anusha Shankar, TIFR Hyderabad |
| Dec 16, 2023 | "From Chandrayaan 3 to an Indian on the Moon" | Jatan Mehta , Science Writer |
| Aug 19, 2023 | "When music and science meet" | Debojyoti Chakraborty, CSIR-IGIB New Delhi |
| Jun 10, 2023 | "Colouring maps and keeping secrets" | Ramprasad Saptharishi, TIFR Mumbai |
| Oct 29, 2022 | "James Webb Space Telescope - Peering back in space and time" | Debojyoti Bardhan, IISER Pune |
| Aug 26, 2022 | "Traffic rules in neurons" | Sandhya P. Koushika, TIFR Mumbai |
| Jun 24, 2022 | "The Physics of Cancer" | Tamal Das, TIFR Hyderabad |
| Aug 21, 2020 | "Your brain on stress" | Vidita Vaidya, TIFR Mumbai |
| Mar 07, 2020 | "Growing food in the face of salinity and drought" | M. K. Mathew, NCBS-TIFR Bangalore |
| Feb 15, 2020 | "How do raindrops form and grow?" | Rama Govindarajan, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore |
| Feb 08, 2020 | "The Coronavirus Pandemic" | Gautam Menon, Ashoka University, Sonepat and IMSc, Chennai |
| Nov 09, 2019 | "Astrophotography- the art of capturing the ancient light" | Vinita Navalkar, CBS Mumbai |
| Oct 12, 2019 | "New views of the Moon from Chandrayaan-2" | P. Sreekumar, ISRO |
| Sep 14, 2019 | "Why Engineers need Greek Philosophy" | Surajit Sengupta, TIFR Hyderabad |
| Jul 13, 2019 | "Black Holes- Heard three years ago and seen three months ago" | Rajaram Nityananda, Azim Premji University |
| May 4, 2019 | "Superbreakfast for Superheroes and other stories" | Arnab Bhattacharya, TIFR Mumbai |
| Mar 9, 2019 | "The Evolution of Living Matter" | Vidyanand Nanjundiah, Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore |
| Jan 12, 2019 | "Microscopy: The Quest for Infinite Resolution" | Aprotim Mazumder, TIFR Hyderabad |
| Nov 10, 2018 | "Astronomy's New Frontiers" | P. Ajith, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore |
| Oct 13, 2018 | "The Nature of Truth" | Nitin Nitsure, TIFR Mumbai |
| Sep 15, 2018 | "How do Infectious diseases spread" | Gautam Menon, IMSc Chennai |
| Aug 25, 2018 | "Battery battles for future transportation" | Vijayamohanan K. Pillai |
| Apr 21, 2018 | "The Smallest Machines" | Roop Mallik, TIFR Mumbai |
| Mar 17, 2018 | "Tales of a fly and a human: understanding of biology and diseases" | Manish Jaiswal, TIFR Hyderabad |
| Feb 03, 2018 | "The Big and Small of the Universe" | Mayank Vahia, TIFR Mumbai |
| Jul 16, 2016 | "Shapes and geometry of Surfaces" | Mahan Mj., TIFR Mumbai |
| Aug 22, 2015 | "How do Insects fly" | Sanjay Sane, NCBS-TIFR Bangalore |
| Jun 06, 2015 | "Nano: the big push to make it small" | PM Ajayan, Rice University, Texas |
| Mar 14, 2015 | "Going underground to look at the sky: studying the elusive Neutrino" | Amol Dighe, TIFR Mumbai |
| Dec 13, 2014 | "Learning new physics, one grain at a time" | Shankar Ghosh, TIFR Mumbai |
| Oct 26, 2014 | "Protecting civilians against nuclear attacks: feasible or not?" | R. Rajaraman, JNU New Delhi |
| Jun 28, 2014 | "How Running and Throwing made us human" | Madhusudhan Venkadesan, NCBS-TIFR Bangalore |
| Mar 22, 2014 | "After the Higgs" | Rohini Godbole, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Feb 08, 2014 | "First blueprint, now bricks: DNA as nanoscale construction material" | Yamuna Krishnan, NCBS-TIFR Bangalore |
| Jan 11, 2014 | "Clone Wars: the Science behind the Stem Cell Debate" | D. Balasubramanian, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute |
| Nov 17, 2013 | "Lord of the Rings: The Rise of Carbon" | V. Chandrasekhar, TCIS |
| Oct 19, 2013 | "Flocks, Herds, Swarms: The Physics of Moving in Groups" | Sriram Ramaswamy, TCIS |
