School of Biotechnology's Distinguished Lecture Series - 1 held on January 14th 2008. , during 2008
The Program begin with the felicitation of the Distinguished visitors followed by scientific talks and an interactive session with students. Distinguished visitors were Dr. Ajay Ghosh, NIST Trivandrum (Recipient of S.S Bhatnagar Award 2007), Dr. N. Srinivasan, IISc Bangalore (Recipient of S.S Bhatnagar Award 2007), and Dr. R. Sowdhamini, NCBS, Bangalore (Receipient of DBT Award for Best Woman Scientist). http://www.amrita.edu/accomplishments/conferences/Invitation.jpg
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National Workshop on Robotics (walking Robot) to be held at Amritapuri campus from 4th - 6th of April 2008, during 2008
NATIONAL ROBOTICS WORKSHOP On WALKING ROBOTS
organized by:
The Amrita Robotics Lab
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Amrita University
Amritapuri Campus
(Bangalore Robotics - Docel Radio Research)
The Walker Robotics Workshop (4th -6th, April 2008), the first of its kind in India, is open to students of ALL semesters & branches.
The Robo Walker Workshop consists of the following:
1. 4 legged Creeper Robot.
Autonomous and sensor driven - using Neural-Networks.
2. 2 motor 3 DOF per limb Walking robot, semi-autonomous, with associated electronics.
Principles, design & construction of a 2 legged walking robot.
( Participation certificates will be issued to all the participants.)
3. The Workshop material consists of a Robotics kit including Electronic components, wires, sleeves, Mechanical appendages, hardware and all miscellaneous materials and tools needed for construction.
4. The seats are limited to 50 teams on a first come, first serve basis. One and two member teams are suggested. Teams may be a maximum of three people. However, a small team size is beneficial for better learning.
5. The participating students must be prepared for and accept fully, extensive Physics, Electronics and Mechanical and physical work during the Workshop. The workshop is purely hands-on practical sessions and involves physical construction and experimentation. The Kit consists of take-home materials used to construct the various Robots of the respective Modules.
6. We are a dedicated Group with the firm commitment of educating the students with a Practical and Design oriented approach, without ensuing dependence. We follow the unconventional method where WE ALL LEARN TOGETHER. We encourage interaction and individual ideas rather than a stereotype group activity. Our Philosophy is to let you discover your talents yourself.
7. The Theory will be at minimum need-to-know fundamentals, without recourse to higher levels. This is in view of the different backgrounds of the participants and the time available. The Stress is on Hands-on Construction and "PRACTICALITY". The concerned theory will be propagated through the interactive desk-to-desk, personal transactions of the Instructor during the entire period of the workshop.
8. The workshop will be for 3 whole days, between 9:30am to 5:30pm. The number of working hours includes Lunch and 2 short breaks. The students are free to work beyond the stated timings, if they feel inclined to do so.
http://amritapuri.amrita.edu/robotics/robotics2008reg/contact.php
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Pragati 08, a three day inter collegiate technical festival organised by Dept. of Mechanical Engg., Amritapuri campus, April 4th - 6th, '08, during 2008
National workshop on "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology", during 2007
A staff development programme sponsored by All India Council for Technical Educattion (AICTE), New Delhi, Coordinators Dr. Ganesh Udupa, Dr. Ganesh Sundram organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering http://amritapuri.amrita.edu/nano2007/
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2-day National Workshop on Networking Technologies ‘Netblitz ‘07’ , during 2007
CISCO National Workshop inaugurated at Amrita
A 2-day CISCO National Conference and Workshop, Netblitz ’07, was inaugurated at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, today by Mr Lokesh Mehra, Regional Manager, Corporate Responsibility (South Asia), Cisco Systems. In his keynote address on ‘21st century trends in Technologies’, Mr Mehra said that the penetration of broadband technology in India is not deep enough and it would take another 4-5 years to implement the e-governance plan of India Government. He also said that in the coming days Wifi and Wi Max would increasingly be used to connect rural areas with the rest of the country.
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Workshop on "Emerging Wireless Networks Technologies and Approaches"., during 2007
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Indo-US Symposium on Data,Information & Knowledge Spectrum, ISDIKS 2007, December 13-15, 2007, during 2007
ISDIKS 2007 is a new symposium that provides a forum for researchers in academia, government, and industry to present state-of-the-art research and explore future directions in the data, information, and knowledge spectrum. These areas share many common concepts and techniques in management, security, retrieval, mining, discovery, and visualization topics that are of central interest to the symposium. The symposium also welcomes papers on multi-media data, multi-lingual interfaces, and the world-wide web.
The two-day symposium will feature full-length original research papers. Also a panel discussion will be included on the latest developments in these fields, as well as invited talks by eminent people from industry and academia. A one-day pre-symposium tutorial will be also be held on cutting edge topics such as multi-media information retrieval, knowledge discovery, web mining, etc.
This three day international conference will invite leading national and international speakers to deliver invited talks on their respective fields. The symposium also includes panel discussion by experts. This would also be a forum for the research scientists in inter/cross-disciplinary areas of the data and information.
http://isdiks07.amrita.ac.in
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The 32nd Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM - ICPC - 2007) - Asia Region, Amritapuri, during 2007
The 32nd Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM - ICPC - 2007) - Asia Region, Amritapuri will be held at our Amritapuri Campus during December 2007. Last two years, it was hosted at Ettimadai Campus. Lot of students from internationally reputed academic institutions and universities are expected to participate in this Programming Contest.
http://icpc.amrita.ac.in
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Amrita Ayurveda Medical College Hospital & Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital and Research Centre inaugurated Shalakya Department on 16th November 2007. , during 2007
Chief Guest Smt. P.K. Sreemathi Teacher (Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Kerala) inaugurated Shalakya Department and Eye care camp, by Dr. N.P.P. Namboothiri,(Managing Director and Chief Medical Supdt. Sreedhareeyam). In the presence of Swami Jnanamritanandapuri (Director, Amrita Ayurveda Medical College). Felicitations : Smt. Jagadamma Govinda Kurup (Panchayath President), Sri. G. Raveendran (Panchayath Member),Dr. P. Rammanohar (Research Director A.V.P, Coimbatore), Br. Sankara Chaitanya (Medical Director, AAMCH), Dr. Nandakumar (Principal in charge).
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Faculty Development Programme on Network Security, during 2006
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri conducted a two-day Faculty Development Programme on Network Security. Dr. Suresh K. Lodha, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz delivered a special address on Data Visualization in the first day of the programme. Various topics covered in the FDP are Network Security, Security protocols, Security in wireless network, cryptography, Implementation of security in Enterprise network
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Two days Lecture Workshop on Basic Concepts in Modern Biology, during 2006
Organised two days lecture workshop on Basic Concepts in Modern Biology at the CORE on Dec. 28th & 29th, 2006 sponsored by Indian Academy of Science. Speakers: Prof. V. Nagaraja,Microbiology & Cell biology Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prof. D. N. Rao, Biochemistry Department, IIISc Bangalore. Prof. R. Manjunath, Biochemisty Department, IIISc Bangalore. Dr. George Thomas, Interfield Laboratories, Kochi
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Indian Environment Congress 2006, during 2006
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Perspectives in Biophysics, during 2005
Biomedical Engineering
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Launch of Amrita - ISRO- Cognizant Satellite-Based Education & Research Network, during 2004
The world-renowned spiritual leader, Her Holiness Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA) launched the “Amrita-ISRO-Cognizant Technology Solutions Satellite-Based Education & Research Network for the New Millennium” at Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala. This e-learning initiative, the first of its kind in the country, seamlessly connects the four Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham campuses at Amritapuri, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Kochi via satellite.
Padma Bhushan Dr. G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) inaugurated this path-breaking initiative from Amritapuri. ISRO has been at the forefront of space technology and its applications in the service of society. Mr. Mohan Narayanan, Vice President & Mr. Vaidya Nathan, Director, Cognizant co-launched the Initiative.
The inauguration of the Initiative took place via satellite simultaneously - Dr. V.S. Ramamurthy, Secretary, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, from Coimbatore; Dr. S. Banerjee, Director, BARC, from Kochi; Sri. Balu Doraisamy, President, Hewlett Packard, from Bangalore. The event was attended by a host of distinguished persons from Academia, Industry and Government.
Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd. will be the first partner to offer classes in the rapidly expanding areas of VLSI and Microelectronics to engineering institutions all over the nation. Mr. B. Rajaram, Managing Director; Konkan Railways was the guest of honor at Kochi.
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Infocrypt, during 2003
Workshop on Information Security inaugration by Director of BARC, Bhattarchjee
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Indo-US MITES Class Room Inaugurated by Swami Amrita Geethanandapuri on June 8th, 2007 and the Orientation Program for the first Batch started on June 9th, 2007
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Indo-US Conference, Washington DC, during 2007
Mr. Shekar Babu participated in the indo-us conference held at Washington DC on August 2007.
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National Conference on Cyber Security at Bangalore campus, during 2006
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All India Energy Efficiency Conference, during 2006
Three-Day Workshop on ?All India Energy Efficiency Capacity Building Programme?. The department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering organized a three-day workshop, ?All India Energy Efficiency Capacity Building Programme?, jointly with Society of Energy Engineers and Managers and funded under IREDA-World Bank project.
COIMBATORE
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National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace and Defence Applications - ADMAT 2008 on 7th January 2008, during 2008
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, organises National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace and Defence Applications - ADMAT 2008 on 7th January 2008. The Chief Guest Dr. Dipankar Banerjee, Distinguished Scientist, Chief Controller, R&D (AMS), DRDO, New Delhi, will inaugurate the conference. Keynote address will be delivered by Dr. K.N. Ninan, Deputy Director,
VSSC, Trivandrum. The Guest of Honour will be Sri. Arvind M.Mehta, President, Plastindia Foundation. Sri. T.M. Naidu, President, ISAMPE will release the souvenir and Dr. M.P. Chandrasekhar, Dean, will preside over the function.
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A 3 day residential "Faculty Development programme" entitled
VIKASA, during 2008
Faculty Development programme entitled ?VIKASA? has been organized at Ettimadai campus on 25th, 26th and 27th of January 2008. This programme has been planned to share our Beloved Amma?s vision of
education and also to empower our faculty on effective pedagogy.
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Foundation course on yoga for women, during 2008
A 15 days foundation course on YOGA will be held from 28th January,
2008 exclusively for all women faculty and staff of Amrita University. Course Instructor: Shri. C.S.Udayakumar, Associate Professor, ASB.
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The concluding Panel Discussion & Cultural Program of 'Science & Spirituality in Healing' Conference held at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Anaikatti in association with Arya Vaidya Pharmacy and International Forum for's Heritage, was held at the ETTIMADAI campus on 17th January 2008, during 2008
Participants include Prof. Makarand Paranjape from JNU, New Delhi, Michel Danino, Vaidya P Ram Manohar, Prof. Matt Fritts, Prof. Tom Mackenzie, Prof. Piyali Palit, Dr. O. P. Yadava and other eminent personalities from the field of medicine and academia
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One day Mini Workshop on PHOENIX (Innovative experiments in Physics)
and PYTHON software
, during 2008
Department of Sciences (Physics) organised a One day Mini Workshop by Dr.C.Selvaraju, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications, Sona College of Technology Salem for the faculty of Amrita.
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A series of lectures on "A Brief Survey of the Theory of Finite Dimensional Representations of Compact Lie Groups".
, during 2008
Organised by the Department of Mathematics on 30th and 31st January 2008. A series of lectures by Dr. R. Parthasarathy, TIFR, Mumbai.
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PRAGATI 2008 , during 2008
Drive-in and play the ‘Corporate World’ Game – In simple words, that is what “Pragati” is all about.
Pragati is the annual Management Games fest conducted by the students of the Amrita School of Business. As it has been defined time and again, technically, Pragati is a Simulation platform for applying decision making in an entertainment environment. The companies who have majorly partnered Amrita in this event in the past are TCS, ICICI, MASCON and many others.
Several reputed B-Schools, from across the length and breadth of the country, participate in this event every year. Each team will be diligently working towards developing and re-thinking their tactics so as to gain the maximum points. The ground-breaking and ingenious games developed by the various Forums (GenM - Marketing, Fortune - Finance, Ozone- Operations, Technocratz -Systems, Relations - HR, Jagruti – Meta growth) will take you through the most stimulating games you would have ever played.
The trophy winners in the Pragati history includes ICFAI - Hyderabad, IIT- Chennai and many more.
“Pragati” is a test to your Intelligence as well as your Emotional Quotient; “Pragati” is where your management skills are brought forth through the more than a dozen events that are created in-house by the best brains of Amrita. Pragati'08 is showcasing enthralling and staggering games such as Gladiator, Contriva, Chain Reaction and more…
http://www.amrita.edu/pragati/
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Faculty Development Programme organised under the auspices of TCS-Amrita Sangam held on 5th February 2008., during 2008
Dr.N.Vijayarangan, Associate Consultant, ACS, TCS, Hyderabad conducted the progamme in which he spoke on ?Implementation of Secure Electronic Transactions (SET)?. The duration of the session was 2 hours.
Fifty three faculty who participated in the programme were from the Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology and Cyber security department.
http://www.amrita.edu/accomplishments/conferences/FDP.pdf
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International Conference on Graph Theory and its Applications - 2008, during 2008
International Conference on Graph Theory and its Applications on
December 11-13,2008 Organised by the Department of Mathematics.
Conference Theme:
This will be a three-day Conference in Graph Theory, Graph Algorithms and its applications. It will be focusing on the subareas in graph theory that has applications in Optimization, Computing Techniques, VLSI Design and Testing, Image Processing, and Network Communications. The goal of this conference is to bring top researchers in this area to Amrita to foster collaboration and to expose students to important problems in the growing field. The meeting will stimulate joint work among researchers both India and abroad and attract students and postdoctoral fellows.
http://www.amrita.edu/icgta08/
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The Indian Society for Technical Education, AMRITA Chapter conducts a lecture on ?TEACHING ENGINEERING?, by Dr.M.P.Chandrasekharan, Dean Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
, during 2008
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National Science Day program and ASTHA activities
, during 2008
In connection with the National Science Day program and ASTHA activities the following lecture is arranged for the benefit of Amrita students and faculty:
SPEAKER : PROF V BALAKRISHNA PANICKER
(Former Joint Director of The Fluid Control Research Institute, Palakkad)
TOPIC: CONTRIBUTION OF ANCIENT INDIA IN MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY
DATE AND TIME: 10-3-2008 (Monday) at 3-30 PM
National Workshop on Applications of Digital Signal Processing, during 2007
Conducted by ECE Department, Amrita School of Engineering , Coimbatore Campus,under the auspicies of TCS – Amrita Sangam
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National Level Mathematical Symposium "MASTISHK 2007", during 2007
Anantam(Mathematics Forum) is organizing one day National Level Mathematical Symposium "MASTISHK 2007" on 16th March 2007
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Cybersecurity - TCS sponsored faculty development program, during 2007
Dr. R.K. Raghavan, former CBI Director and TCS Chief of Security was chief guest for Cybersecurity - TCS sponsored faculty development program (Feb 19-20, 2007)
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TCS Workshop, during 2007
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AICTE Sponsored National Seminar on "Mobile & Network Security and Cryptographic Protocols", during 2007
Organized by Department of Information Technology & TIFAC Centre for Relevance & Excellence (CORE) in Cyber Security, supported by AICTE & IETE on March 23 & 24, 2007
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Two day workshop on "Introduction to VLSI Design and Verilog Programming using Cadence IUS", during 2007
Department of Indo-US University Initiatives & Cadence (India) jointly presented the workshop. Speakers from Amrita Prof. Sriram (formerly from SYNOPSYS, USA), Mr. Ramesh (formerly from Syntest Technologies, USA), Mr. Sudharsan (formerly from ATI Technologies, USA). Invited Guests Mr. Vinay Rawat (Cadence), Ms. Zahida (Cadence) on March 15, 16 2007
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Expert Lecture Series - Invited Talk on "Liquified Petroleum Gas [LPG] - Bottling Plant and Safety Aspects", during 2007
Invited talk has been arranged by the Department of Polymer Engineering. Speaker is Shri. G. Ram Kumar, Deputy Generaly Manager, Indian Oil Corporation - Tamilnadu Region on March 17, 2007
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2006-Nobel Prize Week, during 2007
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham celebrates the award of Nobel Prizes in Physics,Chemistry,Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Economic Science,Peace on 17th March 2007 - 23rd March 2007
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Two day Workshop on "Pattern Recognition", during 2007
Department of Indo-US University Initiatives, Distinguished lecture series by Dr. Jake Aggarwal, Director, Computer and Vision Research Center (CVRC), University of Texas at Austin, US on March 22,23 2007
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Seminar on "Evolution of Lasers - From Macrolasers to Nanolasers", during 2007
Department of Indo-US University Initiatives, conducted Seminar by Dr. N.V. Unnikrishnan, Reader, School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, on March 21, 2007
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Medical applications of virtual reality - the Amrita-UB initiative, during 2007
Centre for Indo-US Higher Learning & Research organised Distinguished Lecture Series, Lecture was delivered by Dr. T. Kesavadas (Kesh), Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo on February 19, 2007.
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AICTE and ISTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme on "Recent Developments in Simulation Modelling and their Applications to Modern Manufacturing Practice", during 2007
The Department of Mechanical Engineering, organises a one-week training programme on "Recent Trends in Modelling, Simulation and their Applications to Modern Manufacturing Practices" from 26th March to 31st March 2007. Dr. K.M. Mohanasundram, Professor, PSG College of Technology, will deliver key note address on "Discrete Event System Simulation"
http://www.amrita.edu/downloads/Amrita.pdf
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AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Programme on Design For Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)
, during 2007
Amrita University, Coimbatore is organising a 12 day staff development
programme on “Design for Manufacture and Assembly” Sponsored by the All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi. The programme is
scheduled from 23-04-2007 to 04-05-2007. The objective is (i) to teach the concepts of Economic Production to members of the faculty of engineering in our country, (ii) to bring out a syllabi and course material for teaching the course on “Design for Manufacture and Assembly” with a focus on the use of software.
Target participants are those who teach PG courses in Design and
Manufacturing and similar courses such as Production and Industrial
Production. http://www.amrita.edu/dfma.html
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Department of Sciences - seminar, during 2007
Department of Sciences organised Semi-popular lecture on 10-4-07. Speaker : Prof. Y.K. Gambhir, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay. Lecture on "ABC of Nuclear Science".
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Staff Development Programme on Design For Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)
, during 2007
Sponsored by AICTE, New Delhi on 23rd April to 04th May 2007
Organised by The Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Lecture series on Fuzzy Logic systems, during 2007
TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security organises Lecture series. Scientific Analysis Group, a lab of DRDO(New Delhi), specilised in
Information Security, is deputing scientists to TIFAC CORE in Cyber
Security to teach some courses in M.Tech in Cyber Security.
Dr.P.K.Saxena, Director, SAG,DRDO will be here during April 21 to 24.
Besides some topics in Information Security, he will be giving lectures in following topics.
Fuzzy Logic systems: Basics of fuzzy logic theory, crisp and fuzzy sets, fuzzy relations fuzzy inference, fuzzy pattern recognition and fuzzy c-Mean clustering, fuzzy ISODATA algorithm, Fuzzy neural network pattern recognition.
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Summer Vacation Programs conducted by the Department of IT, during 2007
This Department has lined up a number of summer programs for the students and a different set of programs for the teachers as given below:-
For students:
1.LINUX: 07 May to 11 May 2007 (5 days) : I & II year students from all branches
2.JAVA : 14 May to 18 May 2007 (5days) : I & II year students from all branches
For Faculty
1.Hands on Training on Computer Networks (Conducted by ICTS) : 21 to 25 May 2007
2. Orientation program for newly inducted Faculty : 28 May to 01 June 2007
3. Case tools /Rational Rose Training (Coordinated by ICTS) : 04 June to 08 June 2007
4.Refresher Program on Computer Programming 18 June to 29 June 2007
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Advanced course on "Wind Energy", during 2007
Conducted by the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, from 14th - 19th May 2007.
http://www.amrita.edu/Amrita_Wind_Brochure.pdf
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Summer Workshop on Advances In Multimedia Coding and Presentation, during 2007
Organised by the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. May 7th to May 19th
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Faculty Development program on Microwave Engineering Theory, Practice & Electromagnetic simulation, during 2007
Conducted by the Department of ECE/EIE dept. for the summer 2007
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National Workshop on Cryptology 2007 on september 6-8 2007, during 2007
Orgnaised by Amrita-TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security and Cryptology Research Society India http://www.amrita.edu/ccs/amritacrypt07/
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Healing Across Cultures, during 2007
Jointly organised by Department of Healing Across Cultures,
Cleveland State University, USA and Centre for Environmental Studies, Amrita University, Ettimadai on July 9, 2007 http://www.amrita.edu/accomplishments/conferences/brochure.pdf
Science and Technology Forum Seminar-1 on "SYNTHESIS,CHARACTERIZATION AND CRYSTAL STUDIES OF ORGANO COBALOXIME"
, during 2007
Speaker - Dr.R.YAMUNA,Department of Applied Sciences (Chemistry) on
17th August 2007 (Friday)
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The department of Information Technology, hosted and organized the first Computer Society of India (CSI) Coimbatore Student Branch Convention at the IT Block, Ettimadai campus on 10 August,
2007, during 2007
More than 150 students from all premier universities and colleges in the region, attended the convention, which included software coding and IT quiz competitions.
In 25 years of the CSI movement in this region, this is the first time that such a conclave of student chapters has happened and Amrita
University was chosen to organize this prestigious event, which was fully sponsored by CSI.
The awards ceremony was presided over by Dr. S. Arumugam, Regional Vice President of CSI (former Director of Technical Education, Govt of Tamil Nadu). Prof. Ernst Liess, Professor of Computer Science at University of Houston presented the prizes to the winners.
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Faculty Development Programme "Modern Design Practices in Aerospace and Allied Areas", during 2007
Jointly organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering and Centre for Corporate Relations in collaboration with National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bangalore on 22nd September 2007. Invited speakers : Dr. K. Balakrishna, General Manager, Rotory Wing Research & Design Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limite, Bangalore, Mr. K.S. Narayana Rao, Chief Designer (Design), Rotory Wing Research & Design Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limite, Bangalore, Topic : An approach to failure investigation, design improvements and re-qualification of dynamic components of DHRUV. Dr. S. Viswanath, Former Head, Structures Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, Topic: Design of Ceramic Structures for Aerospace Applications. Dr. S. Sridhara Murthy, Jt. Head, Structures Deivision & Head, Computer Network Services Unit, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, Topic: Finite Element Modeling in Optimum Structural Design of SARAS Civil Aircraft. Dr. Manoj T. Nair, Scientist, Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics (CTFD) Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, Topic : Design Optimisation. Dr. Kidambi Rangachari, Scientist,Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics (CTFD) Division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore. Topic : Low Reynolds number Flows
http://www.amrita.edu/images/aerospace-front.jpg
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National Conference on Polymers in Medical Applications (Materials,Products and Processes), during 2006
Department of Polymer Engineering successfully organized the above conference with the financial support from agencies like DRDO, DBT, ISRO, CSIR, Plastindia Foundation, IPI and ISAMPE.Over 200 participants attended the conference.There were 16 invited lectures.
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An Introduction to Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling, during 2006
Two-day workshop on "An Introduction to Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling" impart basic knowledge of computational chemistry and molecular modeling to students at various level. The workshop was organised by Mr.G.Aravinthan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Polymer Engineering, jointly by Department of Sciences and CEN, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore.
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Genesis 2006 ? Inter-collegiate Project Contest, during 2006
The department of Information Technology of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore along with the Coimbatore sub-centre of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) conducted "Genesis 2006", an inter-collegiate Onsite Project Contest on 11 October, 2006. The contest had three tracks in Image Processing, Data Structures and Networking. More than 175 students participated in the contest.
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Workshop on Research Frontiers in Machine Translation in Indian Languages, during 2006
Amrita-Berkeley Workshop on Research Frointers in Machine Translation Indian Languages. The workshop examines the current state of research in Computational Linguistics and Machine Translation in Indian Languages. Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing explores the possibilities of understanding and exploiting linguistic theories from various perspectives and apply them in developing systems that can process natural languages. Of late the field has attracted significant attention following the development of Information technologies like Text classification, Document retrieval, Question Answering, Natural Language Interfaces, Machine Translation, etc. Compared to work done in English and few other foreign languages, Tamil NLP research is still in its infancy and has to go a long way to address the IT needs of Tamil community in India and across the world. Lack of sharable linguistic resources, standardization, etc have been impediments to sustainable research in this area.
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Security in Mobile Networks, during 2006
ECE & IT departments, ASE, Coimbatore. A student project contest was also conducted along with this seminar. More than 25 innovative projects in the areas of Biometrics, Fingerprint Identification, WAP, Wireless LAN, Smart Cards, Robotics, Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems were presented during the one-day seminar. More than 250 participants from engineering colleges in and around Coimbatore participated in the seminar.
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Workshop on Earthquakes, during 2006
Mechanics, Geological and Structural Engineering Aspects. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading mechanicians, geophysicists, geologists and structural engineers in the country for a broad overview and discussion on the current state of the art of earthquake science. As part of the recently launched Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Research and Education Program, the State University of New York, Buffalo, and the University of California at San Diego, both of which have strong earthquake engineering programs, have expressed keen interest in starting collaborative research with premier Indian universities. In this connection, the Provost of SUNY Buffalo, Dr. Satish Tripathi, and the Dean of Engineering at UCSD, Dr. Frieder Seible, both visited Amrita in the past one year.
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Workshop on "Mathematical Transform Methods in Engineering", during 2006
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Faculty Training Programme with, during 2006
In collaboration with Uppsala Univ of Sweden from 8 jan - 12 jan"
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Three-Day Workshop on "All India Energy Efficiency Capacity Building Programme"
, during 2006
The department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering organized a three-day workshop on "All India Energy Efficiency Capacity Building Programme", jointly with Society of Energy Engineers and Managers and funded under IREDA-World Bank project. About thirty participants from industries in Palakkad and Coimbatore participated along with a dozen of faculty members and technical staff. Shri B.N.N.Prasad, Vice President of LMW, Coimbatore was the chief guest for the valedictory function held on 1st March 2006. The TamilNadu Chapter of SEEM was also launched at the occasion.
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The 31st Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - (ACM ICPC 2006), Asia Region Coimbatore , during 2006
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The 2006 regional International Collegiate Programming Contest was held at
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. Fifty university student teams and their coaches from all over India, Bangladesh and South Korea participated in the contest.
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One day faculty development program , during 2006
Conducted by Dr. Narayan Rao, Prof. & Associate Head ECE Department, University of Illonois at Urbana – Champaign on 29 July 2006.
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Faculty Development Program on “Microcontrollers and Applications”, during 2006
Department of ECE organised a Faculty Development Program on “Microcontrollers and Applications” for facuty members of all the engineering schools of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham during 27 - 3 NOV /DEC 2006.
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Genesis'06 - Inter-Collegiate Onsite Student Project Contest , during 2006
Genesis'06 is an Inter-Collegiate Onsite Student Project Contest organized jointly by Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Coimbatore Subcentre and Department of Information Technology, Amrita School of Engineering, Ettimadai, Coimbatore.
http://www.amrita.edu/iete/
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Fundamental Physics Today, during 2005
Organise by the department of Mathematics
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Emerging Trends in Solid State Research Scientist Device Technology, during 2005
University of California Irvine
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ADCOM 2005 of ACS, during 2005
Thirteenth International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication - ADCOM 2005 of ACS. Organised by AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham jointly with Computer Society of India, Coimbatore chapter (CSI)
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ACM ICPC 2005, during 2005
The 30th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - (ACM ICPC 2006) Asia Region Coimbatore. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The ACM ICPC is an activity of the ACM that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solvingand computing skills.
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Fourth ISAMPE National Conference on Composites INCCOM - IV), during 2005
Theme: High Perfomance Composites? Materials, Design& Manufacturing.
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International Doctoral Research Symposium , during 2005
This pioneering scholarly gathering saw the participation of 80 research scholars from all the premier engineering institutions in the country like IITs, IISc etc.
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Disaster Management Symposium, during 2005
Advanced Technologies for Disaster Warning: National Symposium. Recognizing the immense importance of understanding global-scale natural forces such as Tsunami, a national symposium on ?Advanced Technologies for Disaster Warning, Rapid Recovery, and Management? was held on Jan 13, 2005 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. Eminent scientists from national organizations such as ISRO and DRDO, multinational companies such as HP, TCS, and INTEL, and Japanese and American Scientists (Fujitsu and California) gathered together at AMRITA to present their ideas for disaster warning management.
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1st Amrita Colloquium of Digital Libraries (ACDL 2005), during 2005
The first Amrita Colloquium on Digital Libraries (ACDL-2005) was organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Deemed University at its E-Learning Studio at Coimbatore Campus on February 5th 2005. With the unlimited potential of Digital Libraries and the rapid application of digital technologies to generate, modify, replicate and search information has resulted in dramatic growth in the quantum of digital information. In a situation where, building-up digital collection and infrastructure required accessing them is a challenge for libraries, the objective of the colloquium was to showcase different international experiences in DL technologies and managing the Digital Collection in Libraries.
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Smart Sensors-Technology and Applications, during 2005
Smart Sensors are gaining importance due to the recent emphasis laid on nanoscience and nanotechnology. Smaller, smarter and cost effective sensors are being developed based on latest developments in technologies such as ICs,microelectronics, micro-optics, and MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems). The workshop proposes to address the various types of Smart Sensors under development and their applications, indicating the technologies involved. Lectures by invited speakers from R&D organizations, educational institutions, and Industries with long standing experience in the relevant areas are being arranged for the workshop.
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International Conference on Physics Education by GOI, during 2005
As part of: 2005 - celebrating the year of Physics by the Government of India being the 100th anniversary year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity by Albert Einstein
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Launch of AMRITA-ISRO VRC Network by Hon. President of India , during 2005
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham collaborates with ISRO, India's foremost agency for space technology and research, to launch the AMRITA-ISRO VRC Satellite Network, a comprehensive Satellite-based Rural Transformation Initiative on 6th July 2005
ISRO’s vision of the VRC (Village Resource Center) initiative is to create and implement a sustainable, scalable, space technology-supported community infrastructure catalysing the transformation of rural India.
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Annual General Body Meeting of Amrita Alumni Association, during 2005
The Seventh Annual General Body Meeting of Amrita Institute of Technology Alumni Association (AITECAA) was held at Amriteshwari Hall, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Ettimadai, Coimbatore campus on Sunday, 20th February, 2005. The meet was inaugurated by Brahmachari Abhayamrita Chaitanya, Chief Operating Officer of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. There was record participation with almost 300 alumni and 75 faculty members of the engineering school attending the event. Swamiji also addressed the gathering on the leading role that Mata Amritanandamayi Math and Amrita University have taken in the Tsunami relief operations.
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The Annual Management Games Fest - Pragati 2005, during 2005
ASB Pragati 2005, the seventh Annual Inter B-School Meet, took off on February 5, Saturday. Dr P Venkat Rangan,Vice Chancellor, Amrita University, inaugurated the meet. About 150 students from 12 top B-Schools are expected to participate in the two day event, which comprises 10 Management Gamesand one Business Quiz. The games have been segmented into five categories such as Operations, Finance, Marketing, Systems and Human Resources. Two games would be played under each segment.
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ASB Continuing Management Development Programme (CMDP), during 2005
ASB has launched a Continuing Management Development Programme (CMDP)for senior management executives of ELGI Equipments, Coimbatore. The CMDP is a customised learning programme, which runs for over a year with classes being held on alternate weekends at ASB. Comprising a Basic & Advanced Course, the CMDP is designed like an Executive MBA Programme, covering all key functional areas of Management like Finance, General Management, HRM, Marketing, Operations & Systems.
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Year of Physics Celebration, during 2005
2005 is being celebrated as the year of Physics, being the 100th anniversary year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity by Albert Einstein. The following lectures were arranged . Prof. P. Achuthan - Fundamental Physics today, Prof. Y.K. Gambhir "Perspectives in Nuclear Physics, Physics Department IIT, Mumbai, Prof. C.S. Shastry "Einstein-The Millennium Scientist, Prof. S. N. Sarbadhikari "Perspectives in Biophysics, Biomedical engineering, Dr. P.S. Nayar "Emerging Trends in Solid State Research Scientist Device Technology, University of California, Irvine
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International Conference on Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, during 2004
Co-sponsored by Ramanujan Mathematical Society. The objective of this conference is to provide a stimulating and interactive forum to highlight the major developments in the field; in particular, to gain a better understanding of problems arising in different environments where discrete mathematics is developed and applied.
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Short term training program on Introduction to digital signal Processing, during 2004
Sponsored by ISTE
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Information Retrieval and Security, during 2004
AICTE-ISTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme This programme was organized by the department of CSE. The Coordinators were Latha Parameswaran and P.Bhagavathy Sivakumar 50 participants from various Engineering colleges from all over the country attended the workshop. This workshop had several brainstorming sessions by eminent resource persons who were pioneers in their field of research
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International Doctoral Research Symposium , during 2004
The distinguished panelists for the symposium included Dr. Satish Tripathi, Provost of University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA, who is one of the highest ranked Indian academicians in USA and Padmashri Dr. N. Balakrishnan, Chairman of the Division of Information Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Workshop on "Molecular Medicine: Principles & Practice" - AIMS, during 2004
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National Symposium on Cultural Education, during 2004
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Cisco Networking Academy, during 2004
Hosted the prestigious National ?Cisco Networking Academy? conference on 28 and 29 June, 2004. The conference was inaugurated by Mr. V. Seshasai, Manager-Education Programmes ? India and SAARC, Cisco Systems India. Around 500 participants from all over the country and abroad participated in the conference, which is a follow-up to the Asia Pacific Cisco conference, last held at Phuket, Thailand. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is one of the first Regional Networking Academies of Cisco Systems in India running the Cisco Network Academy Programme (CNAP). Since 1999, the CNAP certification courses and training programmes have been offered by the Cisco Systems, USA, the leaders in networking and Internet technology in the world. These certification and training programmes have provided an extra edge to Amrita students in placement. This is because of the fact that the course provides a hands-on training and demonstrations on various networking equipments like hubs, switches and routers. In addition to this, the conference also briefed upon the latest trends in computer networks like Wi-Fi, GPRS, IEEE 802.16, Internet Protocol version 6, mobile ip etc.
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STTP on Faculty of Polymer Engineering, during 2004
AICTE-ISTE sponsored STTP for the faculty of Polymer Engineering on Application of melt rheology in polymer processing
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Linux workshop - supported by BRNS grant, during 2004
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National Level Workshop on High Performance Computing (HPC) 2004
, during 2004
The Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN) & the Amrita School of Business (ASB) organized the National Level Workshop on High Performance Computing, HPC 2004. The workshop was co-sponsored by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre & Department of Science and Technology. An Automatic supercomputing Clustering Toolkit developed by the Amrita students was released officially during the valedictory ceremony of the Workshop HPC 2004.
The workshop included talks by various experts in the different domains that seek the power of High Performance computing. The invitees included Dr. Sekhar Majumdar (Deputy Director, CTFD Division, National Aerospace Laboratories), Dr. P. Nagabhushan (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Dr. Balasubramaniam Sudaram (JNCASR, Dr. Sarbadhikari (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Bangalore), Mr. Kirthiwas Neelakantan (Sun Microsystems) and Dr. Jharna Majumdar (Sc ‘G’, Aeronautical Development Establishment)on 22nd - 27th December 2004
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Two-day National Conference on "Design of Injection Mould", during 2004
The Department of Polymer Engineering organised a two-day National Conference on "Design of Injection Mould". The conference focused on trends in polymer technology and advancements in the field
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MDP for District Industries Centre (DIC), Government of Kerala
, during 2004
A 15-day In-campus residential programme on “General Management” was conducted for 30 officers of the Kerala Government, working in Proficiency Interface Cell of DIC from every district of Kerala. The MDP consisted of 10 modules with focus on Entrepreneurial Management and the SSI Sector. The basic thrust of the programme was to create a better understanding of managerial and entrepreneurial aspects of guiding, monitoring and facilitating the development of small scale industry in Kerala. The Facilitators from Kerala Government were KITCO and KIED. The MDP which was attended by Kerala Government Officers up to the level of Joint Director/General Manager was reviewed by Mr. P.H. Kurian, IAS, Secretary, Government of Kerala. The Valedictory Programme had Senior Officers from the Ministry and KITCO, who participated in the Group Presentations done by the delegates on July 2004
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High-profile Meet of Department of Science & Technology (DST), during 2004
A high-profile meeting of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India Programme Advisory Committee held at Amrita. This meet deliberated and evaluated research projects in the cutting-edge areas of research in Nuclear Physics, Plasma Physics, High Energy Physics and Astrophysics. About 35 eminent researchers from National Research Centers like Nuclear Sciences Center, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Center for Advanced Technology and IITs participated in the meet. Prominent participants include leading nuclear physics researchers like Prof. A.Khare of Institute of Physics, Bhubhaneswar, Dr. S. Kailas, BARC, Prof. A. Roy Chowdhry of Calcutta University, Dr. S.K. Datta of Nuclear Sciences Center, New Delhi and Prof. C.S Shastry of Amrita University. This meet also set the stage for Amrita University to start postgraduate and research programmes in the areas of nuclear physics, astro-physics and mathematics in addition to its upcoming centers of excellence in Bio-technology, environmental sciences, journalism, computational engineering etc. on 3rd - 4th May 2004.
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Short Term Training Programme on "Sustainable Development through Green Manufacturing", during 2004
Sponsored by ISTE on 28th March - 10th April, 2004
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Wavelets for Computer Graphics, during 2003
Contributed as Resource person for the AICTE-ISTE sponsored STTP on Wavelets for Computer Graphics organized during Jan 21 2003 by the Department of CSE, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
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Word Class Manufacturing, during 2003
AITCE & DST, New Delhi
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Infoblaze 2003, during 2003
The India 2020 Center for Leadership and Societal Transformation at Amrita organized a national level event, “INFOBLAZE” for plus 2 students. The event was conducted to educate the future citizens of our country on our President’s vision. The event had inspiring addresses by eminent personalities like Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Controller (R & D) of DRDO, Dr. P.V Indiresan, Former Director of IIT Madras, Mr. Jayaramakrishnan, Vice President of Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) and Dr. Shivram Malavalli, President of Televital. Competitions on quiz, debate, paper presentations, student project models and demonstrations and exhibitions on cutting-edge technologies were also conducted. Infoblaze had a tremendous response
with more than 400 students and 100 teachers from various states participating in the mega-event on 27th - 28th December 2003
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National Level Symposium on “Engineering Polymers:Applications and Technology”, during 2003
The department of Polymer Engineering conducted a national level symposium on “Engineering Polymers: Applications and Technology”. Over hundred delegates from industry, research organizations and academic institutions attended the symposium, which was sponsored by top organizations like Reliance, Plastindia Foundation, Ferromatic Milacron, Indian Plastics Institute Coimbatore sub-chapter etc. Dr. Prakash Trivedi, Head of Gharda Chemicals Ltd inaugurated the symposium. Eminent speakers for the symposium included Mr. Rajesh Wadwa, NanTech Plastics, Mr. Govind Khetan, DSM Engineering Plastics, Dr. N. Ramani, NTTF and Mr. S.Ilangovan, CIPET on 18th - 19th December, 2003
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Short Term Training Programme on "Introduction to Bio-Informatic Algorithms & their Parallel Implementation", during 2003
Sponsored by ISTE on 10th November 2003
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National Conference on World Class Manufacturing, during 2003
The Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering jointly conducted the National Conference on "World Class Manufacturing", 7-9 May, 2003. All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi sponsored the conference. The conference had an overwelming response and 102 papers were accepted for presentation. M/s. Allied Publishers Ltd., Chennai published the conference proceedings. Mr. R. K. Suresh and Mr. K. Ganesan were the organizing secretaries of the conference.
KOCHI
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A workshop on ?Fusion modeling ? a hands on practice? on 26th and 27th January 2008, during 2008
Conducted by the Department of Anatomy, Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Cochin.
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The Grand Rounds held on 12th January 2008 for the ENT, Neuro Surgery, Radiology departments., during 2008
Grand Rounds - 12th January 2008
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Topic: Surgical treatment in Laryngomalacia
Brief about the case: Laryngomalacia is the most common cause of congenital laryngeal stridor. Previously, tracheostomy was the only available option in a severe case. Now, aryepiglottoplasty has been found to be an excellent treatment option for such babies. A series of such cases will be discussed.
Presenter: Dr Aju Ravindran MS, DNB
Neuro Surgery
Topic: A common entity with a twist
Brief about the case: The department of Neurosurgery will present the case of a 61yr old lady who presented with a classical right trigeminal neuralgia, which was treated surgically. Intraoperatively, a skull fixation pin was noted to have penetrated the calvarial bone, which necessitated a CT scan of the head, MRI was reviewed, both of which revealed changes suggestive of Paget?s disease involving the calvarium but an unusual variation in her MRI scan was detected. Further investigations uncovered a rare clinical syndrome - HGPPS- Robo3 gene mutation
Presenter: Dr.Nimesh Patel
Radiology
Topic: "Three strange faces of hypertension"
Presenter: Dr.S.Chandramohan
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Comprehensive course in Neonatal Cardiac Care at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, on 1st and 2nd of March 2008.
, during 2008
Organised by the Department of Pediatric Cardiology Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, National Neonatology Forum, Indian Academy of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiac Society of India.
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10th Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training programme in association with Critical Care Education Foundation (CCEF) -India, during 2008
AIMS is organising its 10th Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training prog in association with Critical Care Education Foundation (CCEF) -India on Saturday, 2nd FEB' 2008 (Full day).
Senior & experienced critical care experts from Mumbai, along with internal expert faculty will be conducting the programme.
Highlights of the ACLS training programme includes:
Introduction to BCLS
Interaction with Critical Care Experts
Case studies on ACLS software (Simulation mech)
Instant Rating of skills learnt, on ACLS software
Hands on training on AED, Rhythum recognition, Approach & Management, CPR etc (Half a day)
Discussion on CPR Policy and Command Station
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DANTHOTSAVAM - Dental Health Fair 2008, during 2008
Dental Health Fair 2008 - DANTHOTSAVAM "healthy teeth for happy smiles" conducted by Amrita School of Dentistry was inaugurated on 30th January 2008 by the chief guest Sri. Mr. Devan, Principal Saraswathi Vidyaniketan. The Dental Health Fair was conducted for two days 30/1/08 and 31/1/08. http://www.amrita.edu/highlights/downloads/DANTHOTSAVAM.pdf
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Pharma Fest 2008 - ?Sangeethika?, the cultural fest, during 2008
AMRITA SCHOOL OF PHARMACY is celebrating Pharma Fest 2008 -?Sangeethika? , the cultural fest. The final day programme on 6th February 2008.
Sampoojya Swami Poornamritananda Puri will light the lamp and perform benedictory address.
Sri Madhu Balakrishnan, famous Cine play back singer will inaugurate the function.
Dr.Prem Nair, Medical Director, will give key note address.
FELICITATIONS
1.Dr.D.M.Vasudevan (Former Principal, Amrita School of Medicine, AIMS)
2.Dr.P.Prathapan Nair (Principal, Amrita School of Medicine, AIMS)
3.Dr.K.N.Unni (Principal, Amrita School of Dentistry, AIMS)
4.Prof.K.T.Moly (Principal, College of Nursing, AIMS)
5.Br.Balasubramanian (Administrator, Pharmacy, AIMS)
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Cochin Clinical Society Meeting - FEB 2008, during 2008
Organised by Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences on February 14, 2008. Chairperson : Dr. T.L.P. Prabhu (Consultant Physician). Cases for the meeting : 1. Born with Diabetes 2. Preventable paraplegia 3. Recurrent HUS 4. Phallic reconstrution 5. An unusual cause of bleeding gums. http://www.amrita.edu/accomplishments/conferences/Cochin_ Clinical_ Society_ Meet_2008.pdf
Amritasmitham - Dental community outreach programme
, during 2008
"Amritasmitham" is a community outreach programme of Amrita School of
Dentistry, AIMS, Kochi. This programme was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. K.Narayanan Unni, Principal, Amrita School of Dentistry, AIMS, Kochi. This is the first time that the Departments of Prosthodontics and Community Dentistry coordinated to conduct a denture camp at Attapady on 7th, 8th and 9th of February 2008. We are able to give 42 pairs of dentures to the lesser fortunate people in Attapady. This is unique in that these dentures were fabricated and inserted in 36 hours. Normally it takes about 6 appointments (on different days) and at least 2 weeks for denture fabrication. It involves about 6 hours in the lab and 6 hours in the clinic for each
patient.
This camp was coordinated by AHADS (Attapady Hill Area Development Society) who selected the patients and provided all us with the
necessary infrastructure. The camp was organized at the headquarters of AHADS. Our morale was boosted by the unstinted support of the Director of AHADS, Shri. V.K. Uniyal, the Japanese coordinator Mr. Seji Koyanagi, the Deputy project director Mrs. Prajitha and other staff of AHADS.
Our team included;
Prof. Anil Mathew, H.O.D, Dept. of Prosthodontics
Dr. Chandrasekar, H.O.D, Dept. of Community Dentistry
Dr. Vinod Krishnan, Dept. of Prosthodontics
Dr. Manju. V, Dept. of Prosthodontics
Dr. Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, Dept. of Prosthodontics
Dr. Rohini Radhakrishnan, Dept. of Prosthodontics
Mr. Vinod P. Nair, Chief Dental Technician
Mr. Sharath, Dental Lab Assistant
& 12 House Surgeons
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National Symposium on Telemedicine and Informatics in UG & PG Medical Education - TIME 2008, March 9th 2008.
, during 2008
TIME 2008
Telemedicine & Informatics in Medical Education
National Consensus Symposium, March 9th 2008,
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Cochin, Kerala.
On the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee Celebration of the Medical Council of India, the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre is organizing a National seminar on "Scope of Telemedicine" highlighting its importance and connection to the broad field of medical informatics and medical education.
As per the direction of the Medical Council of India, this core group
consisting of MCI adhoc committee, MCI Executive Committee, Health
Secretaries, Vice Chancellors of all Medical Universities (Southern Region), Directors of Medical Education (Southern States) Principals and Sr.faculties of Medical Colleges of southern region, IT professionals and educationalists will deliberate on developing a consensus policy on the Scope of Telemedicine in Medical Education and Research.
March 8th, 2008
Inaugural Function 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Backwater Boat Ride 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Banquet 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
March 9th, 2008
Registration 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
President’s Address 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Telemedicine Overview 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Role of ISRO in Telemedicine 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Scope of Telemedicine – Meeting overview 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Tea 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Breakout Expert Group Session 11:00 AM - 13:00 PM
(90 minutes discussion, 30 mts for final recommendations/presentation prep)
Group A – Telemedicine/Medical Informatics at UG and PG medical curriculum
Group B – Training Programmes in Telemedicine/Medical Informatics
Group C – Telemedicine/Medical Informatics and Continuing Education for medical practitioners
Group D – Telemedicine/Medical Informatics in Public Health
Lunch 13:00 PM - 14:00 PM
Presentations by the groups (1/2 hour each x 4) 14:00 PM - 16:00 PM
Tea 16:00 PM - 16:30 PM
Summing up and final recommendations 16:30 PM - 17:15 PM
Valedictory, Vote of Thanks, National Anthem 17:15 PM - 17:30 PM
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Two day workshop on Contemporary issues in Visual Media, during 2007
Organised by Media Association of Amrita (MAA)and Department of Visual Media and Communication of Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi on 2nd and 3rd June 2007.
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Two day workshop on Cinema Tommorrow advent of the digital era, during 2007
Organised by Media Association of Amrita (MAA) and Department of Visual Media and Communication on 17th and 18th June 2007 at Amrita School of Arts & Sciences, Kochi
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4th Annual Physiotherapy Conference. Seminar & Workshop on Diabetic Foot Management for Physiotherapists on 8th July, 2007 Sunday.
, during 2007
This Workshop is the first of its kind in South India. Organised by Department of Physiotherpy & Rehabilitation Centre, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. http://www.aimshospital.org/downloads/Daibetic%20foot-Brouchure.pdf
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2nd National Health Care Conference organised by Federation of Hospital Administrators (FHA) in association with Indian Health Care Quality Forum (IHCQF) on 6th and 7th Oct' 2007 at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, during 2007
4th Annual Conference of the Society for Biotechnologists of India, during 2007
Annual Conference of the Society of Biotechnologists, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and the Amrita School of Biotechnology jointly hosted the 4th Annual Conference of the Society for Biotechnologists of India on January 13,14, 2007. Recent developments in areas like nanotechnology are transforming the fields of biosensors, medical devices, diagnostics and drug delivery. This conference, which focused on many of these areas, had an impressive line-up of leading scientists from both academics and industry. The keynote speaker for the conference was Dr. Shrikumar Suryanarayan, President of Research and Development, Biocon Inc, Bangalore.
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CME programme on "Drug Safety Issues in Health care " at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, On Monday,12th November-07
, during 2007
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CME Programme on Drug Safety Issues in Health Care,on 12th November 2007, during 2007
