Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Indo

Ms. Maneesha V Ramesh, faculty of CSE and Dr. Krishna Shree Achuthan, Program Co-Director of Indo-US International Initiatives visit various US universities. Ms. Maneesha is the lead for the project funded by the European Commission, called WINSOC (www.winsoc.org). This very interesting project explores the development and experimental deployment of clusters of wireless sensor networks interconnected by satellite networks for wide area monitoring of landslides. Maneesha has presented the research updates at the European Commission in Belgium. The team met prominent professors and researchers at the following US Universities.

University of Washington

3rd June 2008

Host: Dr. Ed Lazowska (Chair,Computer Science)

US Geological Survey

6th June 2008
Attendees: Dr. Ray Wilson (USGS), Kevin Schmidt (USGS), John Stock, Daniel Mazmon (USGS), Joe Johnson (USGS), Mark Reid (USGS), Maneesha V. Ramesh (Amrita), Dr. Krishnashree Achutan (Amrita), Josh Freeman (Amrita) , Dr. H.M. Iyer (UGS/Amrita)

University of California, Santa Cruz

9th June 2008

Host: Dr. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (Jack Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering )

	11th June 2008 Host: Dr. Tapan Parikh (Asst. Professor, Computer Science)
	University of California, Berkeley

	17th June 2008 Host: Dr. R. Edward Beighley (Assistant Professor & Director Soil Erosion Research Laboratory )
	Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (SDSU/SERL)

University of Southern California

18th June 2008
Host: Ramesh Govindan (Professor & Dean, Computer Science)

University of Michigan

7th July 2008

University of California, Los Angeles

8th July 2008