P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Award Lecture was instituted in 1987 in the memory of late
Professor P. L. Bhatnagar.
The details of the Lectures organized so far are as follows:
| SNo. | Year | The Speaker | Topic |
| 1 | 1987 | N. Mukunda (Center for Theoretical Studies, IISc Bangalore, Bangalore-560012) | Mathematics and Physics of Quantum Mechanics |
| 2 | 1988 | J. V. Narlikar (Pune University, Pune-411 007) | Applied Mathematics : A No Man's Land ? |
| 3 | 1989 | V. Laxmikanthan | - |
| 4 | 1990 | J. N. Kapur (IIT Kanpur, Kanpur-208 016) | Maximum Entropy Principle. |
| 5 | 1991 | H. C. Khare (Allahabad University, Allahabad-211 002) | Thermosolutal Instability of Magnetohydrodynamic Flow through Porous Medium |
| 6 | 1992 | D. K. Sinha (Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700 032) | Some Aspects of Theoretical Scenario in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. |
| 7 | 1993 | P. C. Vaidya (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad-380 009) | Concept of Time |
| 8 | 1994 | Karmeshu (JNU, New Delhi-110 067) | Stochastic Models of Innovation Diffusion and Technology Substitution |
| 9 | 1995 | A. S. Gupta (IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721 301) | Thermoconvective Waves |
| 10 | 1996 | R. K. Jain (IIT Kanpur, Kanpur-208 016) | Integrated Mathematics |
| 11 | 1997 | Mihir Banerjee (Himachal Pradesh University, Summer Hill, Shimla-171 005) | A Mathematical Investigation of Experimental Observations |
| 12 | 1998 | S. K. Malik (Panjab University, Chandigarh-160 014) | Patterns and Chaos in Mathematics |
| 13 | 1999 | A. C. Srivastava (Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786 004) | Historical Development of Fluid Dynamics and Mass Diffusions |
| 14 | 2000 | Sarva Jit Singh (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak-124 021) | Deformation of a Stratified Half-Space by Surface Loads and Buried Sources |
| 15 | 2001 | Peeyush Chandra (IIT Kanpur, Kanpur-208 016) | Peristaltic Transport : A Review of Analytical Studies |
| 16 | 2002 | R. C. Srivastava (D D U Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur-273 009) | Converging Shock in the Welfare of Mankind |
| 17 | 2003 | B. D. Bandopadhyaya | - |
| 18 | 2004 | Renuka Ravindran (IISc Bangalore, Bangaluru-560 012) | Computation of Solutions of Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations |
| 19 | 2005 | P. L. Sachdeva (IISc Bangalore, Bangaluru-560 012) | Nonlinear Science - An Overview |
| 20 | 2006 | Phoolan Prasad. (IISc Bangalore, Bangaluru-560 012) | P L Bhatnagar and BGK Model |
| 21 | 2007 | T. M. Karade (Nagpur University, Nagpur-440 03) | Relativistic Consideration for Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) |
| 22 | 2008 | G. S. Srivastava (IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667) | Entire Function Extensions of Continuous Functions - a Brief Survey |
| 23 | 2009 | Girija Jayraman (IIT Delhi, New Delhi-110 016) | Mathematical Challanges in Modelling the Cardiovascular Flows and associated Clinical Proceedures |
| 24 | 2010 | Shiva Sankar (Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai-603 103) | Fourier Series, Arithmetic and Control Theory |
| 25 | 2011 | Rama Bhargava (IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667) | (Could not be deivered) |
| 26 | 2012 | Basudeb Datta (IISc Bangalore, Bangaluru-560 012) | Triangulations of Projective spaces |
| 27 | 2013 | Indira Narayanaswamy (Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangaluru-560 093) | Mathematics in Tejas Design: Configuration to flight testing |
| 28 | 2014 | S. K. Tomar (Punjab University, Chandigarh-160 014) | Wave propagation in local and non-local microstretch elastic media |
| 29 | 2015 | V. D. Sharma (IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076) | Evolution and Asymptotic behaviour of Non-linear hyperbolic waves |
| 30 | 2016 | G. P. Raja Sekhar (IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721 302) | Tumor growth-chemo-mechanical modelling and existence theory |
| 31 | 2017 | Pradeep G. Siddheshwar (Bangalore University, Bangaluru-560 056) | Understanding 'understood' instabilities in fluids. |
| 32 | 2018 | Manoranjan Mishra (IIT Ropar, Ropar-140 001) | Hydrodynamics Instabilities in Porous Media Flows. |
| 33 | 2019 | Mythily Ramaswamy (Chennai Mathematical Institute Chennai-603 103) | An Invitation to Control of Differential Equations. |
| 34 | 2020 | Neela Nataraj (IIT Bomabay, Powai, Mumbai - 400 076) | Lower-order nonstandard finite element methods for plates. |
| 35 | 2021 | Malay Banerjee (IIT Kanpur, Kanpur - 208016) | Effect of slow-fast time scale on spatio-temporal pattern formation |
| 36 | 2022 | Adi Adimurthi, ISI Bengaluru/ IIT Kanpur | Critical Point Theory in PDE |
| 37 | 2023 | A. K. Nandakumaran, I. I. Sc. Bengalore, Bengaluru | Multiscale convergence in PDEs and Homogenization |