Amrita Vishwa vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore

INTERNATIONAL

Professor Lindsay Brown, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
2009-07-05
Visit AIMS, Kochi

Delegates from leading universities and research intitutions from Europe visit Amrita Campus on June 10th, 11th and 12th., As part of the EU sposnsored WINSOC project( www.winsoc.org) review meeting.
2009-06-01
Visit to the deployment site at Munnar and visit to the lab at Amritapuri campus.

http://www.amrita.edu/new/news-events/g-june/munnar-winsoc.html

Dr. Radhika Chigurupati, DMD , Associate Clinical Professor , Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
2009-05-06
Organizing live interactive videoconference between AIMS Head and Neck Surgery and UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial surgery.

Prof. K. Gopalan, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana
2009-04-17
Lecture on "Information Hiding in Audio Signals for Watermarking, Steganography and Covert Communication Applications" at Coimbatore Campus

Mr. Michel Danino, Eminent archaeologist and scholar of Indian history and culture
2009-03-05
Visit Amritapuri Campus on March 5-6 2009

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/d-march/michel-danino.php

Professor Hema Sharda, Director, South Asia Relations, University of Western Australia
2009-02-26
Distinguished talk on " Higher education and research in Australia".

Dr. James Scott, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration at the Western University of Health Sciences in California, USA
2009-02-19
Visit Amrita School of Pharmacy,Kochi, Feb 19-20

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/c-feb/pharm-d.php

Dr. Jerome Galy,Vice-chancellor International Relations,Dr. Angelique Rodhain,Dean of the Marketing Undergraduate Program,Dr. Bernard Fallery, Director of the MIS Research Center & Dr. Florence Rodhain,Visiting Professor (Amrita), Associate Professor, University Montpellier 2, France
2009-02-16
Visit Amrita on 16-18 February 2009

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/c-feb/montpelier.php

Dr. Saminathan Ramasamy, Neuropharmacologist , University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
2009-02-03
Distinguished talk on Novel Conopeptides in Drug Discovery at Amrita School of Medicine

Dr. Prabhakara V. Choudary, Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, Davis, USA
2009-01-31
Distinguished talk on "Analyzing complex diseases using functional genomic approaches" at Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi

Dr. Diana Wais, Environmental Activist
2009-01-11
Distinguished talk on Global Warming at Amritapuri campus

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events/jan/global-warming.php

Dr. Stephen Shalet, University of Manchester, UK
2008-12-18
Delivered the inaugural address at ESICON 2008

Kajal Biswas, National Cancer Institute, USA
2008-12-18
Delivered talk on "Embryonic stem cell and bacterial chromosomes: Tools for functional analysis of mutations in human disease related genes" at School of Medicine

Prof. Arun Lakhotia , from University of Louisiana
2008-12-14

Delegation , from top Swedish universities
2008-12-11

Dr. Easwar Subramanian, Postdoctoral researcher at Theoretical Neuroscience, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
2008-08-26
Talk on "On spatiotemporal 3D Gabor filters for motion processing ".

Dr. Dittmar and Dr. Burkhard Fechner Coherent GmbH, Goettingen, Germany
2008-08-25
Talk on "Optical Systems for Laser based Micromachining".

Prof. S. C. Lenny Koh, Chair in Operations Management,Director Logistics & Supply Chain Management Research Group,The University of Sheffield, UK
2008-08-13
Ditinguished lecture on "Green Manufacturing".

Mr. Chad Kymal, Chief Technical Officer & Founder, Omnex, USA
2008-07-31
Taught a course on ISO 9001 Implementation Workshop at Amrita School of Ayurveda.

Sir Tom Blundell FRS, FMedSci, William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry and Chair, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge
2008-07-25
Seminar on "Genomes, Structural Biology And Drug Discovery"
at School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri.

Dr. Sasikumar Punnekkat, Dept of Computer Science and Electronics, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden
2008-07-21

Dr. Gautam K. Sahu, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas
2008-06-05
Lecture on Obstacles to HIV's Cure: Confronting its Reservoirs in the HAART-Era." at AIMS

Dr. Raja Biswas, University Tubingen, Germany
2008-05-31
Lecture on "Role of bacterial cell surface molecules in cellular physiology and infection." at AIMS.

Prof.Rui Hai Liu, Prof. K.V. Raman and Prof. Syed Rizvi, Delegates from the Dept. of Agriculture, Cornell University
2008-05-22
Visit to Organic Farms of Amrita

Dr. Srinivasan Thoppe, Karolinska Medical University Hospital, Stockholm
2008-05-15
Gave Lecture on “cytogenetic and molecular characterisation of thyroid and cervical cancer" at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin

Dr: Arun Ravindran, Director and Professor of Psychiatry Department and Clinical Director of Research Programme Torronto University, Canada
2008-01-31
Distinguished lecture on 'Anxiety disorders' at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.

Mathieu Labonne, Researcher for the French Government in Ecological
2008-01-30

Dr. Bommi Bommannan, CEO, Maxval Group Inc
2008-01-28
Spoke about intellectual property and entrepreneurship at ASB.

Ms.Vallabha , Diplomate in Orintal Medicine ,National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
2008-01-18
Introductory Lecture in "Basics of Accupuncture"(Auriculotherapy)conducted by Department of Palliative Medicine, AIMS, Kochi

Dr. Bharat Jayaraman, Professor & Chair, CSE Department, University at Buffalo
2008-01-17
Seminar on "JIVE" What is JIVE? conducted by Amrita-ACM Student Chapter.

Dr. Dhanesh G. Kurup, Chief Technology Officer & Cofounder, Wavelogics AB (formerly CPUM & Research), Uppsala University, Sweden
2008-01-04

Prof. Aftab Seth, Chairman, International Advisory Committee, Keio University, Japan
2008-01-01

Dr. Robert Treder, Chief Scientific Officer, Insightful Corp. Seattle, USA
2007-12-27
Visited the TIFAC – CORE in Biomedical Technology for 2 months has visiting faculty.

Prof. Murali Mohan Narasipuram, City University of Hong Kong
2007-12-13
Gave advanced tutorial on "Knowledge Management in Outcome Based Teaching and Learning" at ISDIKS International Symposium

http://isdiks07.amrita.ac.in/

Prof.Christer Norstrom, Vice President,Mälardalen University
2007-10-09

Prof.Sasikumar Punnekkat, Professor, Dept of Computer Science & Electronics ,Mälardalen University
2007-10-09

Dr. Renga Palaniswamy, University of Illinois, USA
2007-10-09

Francois Gautier, Editor in Chief La Revue de l'Inde, French journalist and writer
2007-09-17
Lecture on "Journalism and Spirituality"

Dr. Helen Parke, Executive Director, Cisco Learning Institute
2007-09-17

Prof. Rajeev Thottappillil, Ph.D, Professor, Division for Electricity and Lightning Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
2007-08-18
Lecture on ""Electromagnetic compatibility aspects of Lightning"

Dr. Hans Blomkvist, Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University
2007-08-18
Lecture on "Sustainable Global Energy Systems, Institutions and the Rationality of Decision Making"

Mr. Jayaprasad R, Chartered Accountant in Papua New Guinea
2007-08-11
Conducted a workshop on Financial Statement Analysis at ASB.

Dr. Shaym Nath, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mauritius
2007-07-20
Taught MBA course on Environmental Economics & Management at ASB from 20 July ? 6 August 2007.

Francizka Korrman, Katharina Wanders and Wojciech Poplawski , University of Groningen, Netherlands, will be spending a semester at Amrita School of Business
2007-06-25

Dr Sasikumar Punnekkat, Dept of Computer Science and Electronics,MÃ¤lardalen University,Vasteras, Sweden
2007-04-17
Talk on "Dependability challenges in building software intensive systems"

http://www.amrita.edu/downloads/Sasikumar.pdf

Prof. Anja Feldmann, Senior Professor,Technical University of Berlin
2007-04-02
As a part of joint Indo-German research collaboration, visited TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security and gave a lecture on "Recent Trends in Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention". She also had discussions with Ph. D. Students

http://www.amrita.edu/visitors/image/anja-big-image.jpg

Mr. Vinay Aggarwal , Technical University of Berlin/ Deutsche Telecom Labs, Berlin, Germany
2007-01-18

Dr. Rajeev Thottippillil , Uppsala Universitet, Sweden - EEE programme at E-learing studio
2007-01-14
Also visited in October 2005

Dr. Shyam Nath, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Mauritius
2007-01-08
Spoke on "Environmental Polity and Management"

Mr. Richard Hartmann, Technical University of Munich
2006-12-22

Dr. Lakshmi S Nair, Assistant Professor Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2006-12-18
Gave a talk on “usculoskletal Tissue Engineering: A Scaffold Based Approach”on Monday the 18th of December.

Professor Somasundaran.P, Professor of Mineral Engineering, Center for Colloids & Interfaces, Columbia, University, New York, USA
2006-12-15
Gave a talk on Biomedical Applications of Nanomaterials on Friday the 15th of December. Dr. Shanti V Nair Dean, Research introduced the Chief Guest and also actively participated in the interactive session.

Dr. Sathya Krishna, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2006-12-15
Gave a talk on "Obstructive Sleep Apnea, a QA Approach to a growing problem" on Saturday the 16th of December.

Dr. Aryan Namboodiri, Associate Professor Dept. of Physiology and Genetics, USUHS, Bethesda, MD
2006-12-07
Made a presentation on ?CANAVAN DISEASE: PATHOGENESIS & TREATMENT? on 7th December 2006

Dr. Satish Khera, Professor, Iowa University, U.S.A
2006-12-07
Gave talk on 'Critical Thinking and Evidence Based Dentistry' and 'Stress Factors in Tooth Fracture and the Role of Cement Bases'

Dr. Venugopal S. Reddyiar, MD(General Medicine), MRCP (UK) ABIM (USA)
2006-11-30
Addressed the faculty (Medical, Dental & Nursing) on 30th November 2006, and the topic was Turbo change you communication skill for better patient care

Dr. Bart Van Ark, Associate Dean for International Affairs, Dr. Rudd Konig, Chief, Department of Econometrics and Dr. Padma Rao Sahib, Professor, Department of Economics , Team from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, visits ASB
2006-11-14
Visited ASB on 14-15 November to hold continuing discussions in the matter of setting up a student exchange program between the two schools.

Dr. B. Srinivasan, Professor, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
2006-09-09
Delivered a series of lectures on Query Processing in Mobile Databases, Security of Outsource Databases and Current Research Trends. He also shared his insights on teaching and research methodologies in the Faculty Development Program on 9-12 September 2006

Mr. Yoshiro Ito , Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, Japan
2006-08-10

Ms. Rowena White, Senior Speech Pathologist, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
2006-07-14

Dr. Satish Raina, Ph. D, MER, Department of Biochimie Medicale University of Geneva
2006-07-14

Dr. Sreenivasan Ramanujam, Research Scientist, National Singapore University, Singapore
2006-05-27
Seminar on "Molecular Mechanism of Cell Division in Bacteria"

Dr. Sreemanta Pramanik, Research Teaching Specialist Department of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
2006-05-01
Gave a talk on "Understanding the Extent of Genetic Variability in the Human Immunoglobulin Vh Region from Single Spermatozoa by High Throughput Multiplex Pcr and Microarray"

Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Harvard School of Busines , USA
2006-03-31
Visting Professor, Former Member of Parliament

Dr. Babu Susheelan, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A
2006-03-30
Media - problems, processes and solutions

Dr. Robert Acland, University of Louisville, USA
2006-02-13
One of the pioneers of microsurgery, guided trainees at the Amrita Microvascular training programme.

Dr. Mahesh Kumar, Specialist Registrar, OMFS University College, London
2006-02-13

Dr. Andrew Lindsay, Perth Australia
2006-01-13

Dr. Philip Ameerali, UK
2006-01-13

Dr. Satish Riana, Department of Biochimie Medicale University of Geneva
2006-01-13
Talk on "Protein folding in the bacterial envelope and signal transduction pathways"

Dr. Fujita, Head, FUJITA LAB, Professor, Dept. of EE, University of Tokyo for Amrita E-learning network
2006-01-06

Dr. Andrew Fishman, M.D. with specialised training in Neurotology/Skull Base Surgery
2005-10-01

Dr Erdmute Lapp , Bochum University, Germany
2005-02-06

Dr Tamara Pianos , University of Hanover, Germany
2005-02-06

Ms.Sherry Tousley, International Consultant and Professor, UK
2004-08-17

Dr. James Kvale & Dr. Janice Vale, Dr. Kvales joined Dept. of Geriatrics for a period of one year through an US Fellowship at AIMS
2004-03-01

Dr. Robert Twycross, visiting professor in the department of palliative medicine, AIMS
2004-03-01

Prof. Krishna Kavi, University of North Texas
2003-12-18
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham hosted an executive banquet for the delegates of 'ADCOM 2003', international conference on Advanced Computing and Communication held at PSG College of Technology on 18 December, 2003

Prof. Subra Ganesan, Oakland University
2003-12-18
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham hosted an executive banquet for the delegates of 'ADCOM 2003', international conference on Advanced Computing and Communication held at PSG College of Technology on 18 December, 2003

Indramohan Sahadevan, IT Professional, California
2003-10-17

Dr Yoon-Chonnam , University Hospital, Gwangju ,South Korea , Surgical demonstration of Minimal Invasive Surgery of THR
2003-09-22

Antti Juhani Wihuri , Finland visiting ASB for management consultant
2003-08-18

Prof. Seewant Bhoojedhur , Chairman, Mauritius Research Council
2001-09-22
Pleasantly surprised and looking forward to replicate in Mauritius

Mr. Marcus Wah-Onn Lim, Manager Education Programs – Asia Pacific, Cisco Systems, USA
2001-02-17
The facilities have improved tremendously since my last visit 2 years ago and this is definitely one of the most forward looking institutions in India.

NATIONAL

Mr. H. Jayaram, Executive Director and CEO, GMMCO
2009-06-26
Chief Guest for the inauguration of the MBA Programme at the Kochi campus

Mr. M. R. Anand, Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. Vijay Mohan, CEO of Pricol Ltd
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. N. S. Parthasarathy, CEO of MindTree Consulting
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. Rajrishi Singhal, Chief Economist at the Dhanalakshmi Bank
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. Vishnu Potty, VP Operations of Cognizant Technologies
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. Ravi Sam, CEO of Adwaith Lakshmi Industries
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. Omkar Vikram Shankar, MD Sankar Foundation
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. Ashwin Chandran, Managing Director, Precot Meridian Limited
2009-04-11

http://www.amrita.edu/news2009/events-news/e-april/asb-symposium.php

Mr. K. K. Venkataraman, Vice President of Pricol Ltd.
2009-04-07
Invited speaker at the national-level conference on Recent Trends in Communication and Signal Processing organised by The Dept of Electronics and Communication Engg (ECE) at Coimbatore

Dr. K.R. Sridhara Murthy, Managing Director, Antrix Corporation, Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore
2009-03-07
Guest of Honour for the 14th Institution Day of School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Dr. T.T. Narendran, Dean, Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
2009-03-07
Guest of Honour for the 14th Institution Day of School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Dr. G. Venkatesh, Executive Director and CTO, Sasken Communication Technologies, Bangalore
2009-03-07
Guest of Honour for the 14th Institution Day of School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Dr.T.P.Sasikumar, Scientist, Space Department
2009-03-07
Distinguished talk on Career Management at School of Business

Padma Shri M.D. Valsamma, Arjuna Awardee & Asian Games Gold Medalist (Athletics), Divisional Commercial Manager, Southern Railway, Palghat Division
2009-02-20
Chief Guest for the Closing Ceremony of 14th Annual Sports Meet '09

Dr. G. Sundararajan, Director, ARCI, Hyderabad
2009-02-12

Dr.R.Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to Govt. of India & DAE Homi Bhabha Professor
2009-02-05
National Symposium on Water for All, February 5-6 , 2009

http://www.amrita.edu/wfa/

Dr. Anil Bhardwaj, Senior scientist and Head of the Planetary Science Branch of the Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Spce Centre, ISRO, Trivandrum
2009-01-21

Sri. Vijayan Menon, VP, Nagarjuna Ayurvedic Group
2009-01-17

Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage
2009-01-13
Spoke on "Technological and Cultural Heritage of India", School of Pharmacy

Shri M. Annadurai, Project Director, Chandrayaan-1, ISRO
2008-12-29

Dr. S.B. Iyer, Director - CM & LS, ISRO
2008-10-15

Mr. Sudhakar Jayaram, CEO, Amrita TV
2008-10-15

Dr. Kezevino Aram, Director, Shanti Ashram
2008-10-06

http://www.amrita.edu/asb/industry/kezevino.htm

Sri. K. Raamamoorthy, IAS, Dept. of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Dept. of Housing, Government of Kerala
2008-10-02
Chief Guest for the Graduation Day Ceremony at School of Dentistry

Dr. Balram, Director of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2008-09-20
Chief Guest for the fourth anniversary celebration of School of Biotechnology, BIOPULSE’ 08

Dr. Bhaskara Narayana, Scientific Secretary, ISRO
2008-09-20
visits Amrita E-Learning Network at Amritapuri Campus

Mr. D. Bhatnagar, Advisor, TIFAC, DST, Govt. of India
2008-09-20
Special invitee of Biopulse'08, School of Biotechnology

Prof. C. E. Veni Madhavan, Department of Computer Science & Automation,Indian Institute of Science
2008-09-04
Distinguished talk on " Large Sparse Matrices and applications".

Dr. S.V. Raghavan, former Dean of Planning, IIT Madras
2008-08-19
visited to chair Cybersecurity Review Meeting at Coimbatore

Dr. Arvind Duggal and Dr. R.R. Sinha, DBT, Directors
2008-07-01
Visited Amrita Centre for Nanosciences (ACNS) and Amrita Insitute of Medical Sciences (AIMS)

Shri. S. Narayana, President, IETE
2008-06-06
Chief Guest for the inauguration of upgradation as IETE Local Centre at Coimbatore Campus.

Dr. R. Vittal Rao, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2008-05-27
Dr. R. Vittal Rao conducts first round of lecture on "Advanced Linear Algebra" from 27th May to 30th May'08 and second round of lecture on "Advanced Linear Algebra" from 9th June to 14th June'08 at Amrita.

Dr. Ponani Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, India Software Lab, IBM Software Group
2008-04-22
As the Chief Guest for the Campus Day Celebrations at Amritapuri campus

Dr. Kannan M. Moudgalya, Head, Centre for Distance Engg. Education Programme, IIT - Bombay
2008-04-15

Shri S. Narayana, President, Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), New Delhi
2008-03-30
Chief Guest for the inaguration of IETE Professional Activity Centre at Amritapuri campus

Dr.P.K.Saxena, Director, Scientific Analysis Group Lab, DRDO,New Delhi
2008-03-29
Gave a series of lectures on Fuzzy Pattern Recognition for M.Tech students.

Mr. Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, Senior Vice President R&D & Co-founder of MindTree Counsulting Ltd., Bangalore
2008-03-27

Mr. Rajan T. Joseph, Executive Director, C-DAC
2008-03-19
To view the Wireless Telemedicine Demo

Dr. H.S. Jamadagni, Professor and Chairman,Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, IISc
2008-03-19
To view the Wireless Telemedicine Demo

Mr. N. Sundararajan, Retd. Executive Director & Co. Secretary, Ashok Leyland
2008-03-16
Gave a talk on transitioning from a student life to a working professional at ASB.

Prof. V Balakrishna Panicker, Former Joint Director of The Fluid Control Research Institute, Palakkad
2008-03-10
Popular lecture on "Contribution of Ancient India in Mathematics and Astronomy" in connection with the National Science Day program and ASTHA activities.

Mr. Madhavan Nambiar, Special Secretary of India's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
2008-03-08

Mr. R. Shyamsunder, Advisor-HR, KG Group of Companies, Coimbatore
2008-03-08
Gave a talk on workforce rationalization and employee engagement at ASB.

Mr. Shanker Annaswamy, Managing Director, IBM India
2008-03-04
Chief Guest for the 13th Institution Day Celebrations of School of Engineering, Coimbatore.

Prof. K. Subramanian, Senior Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, New Delhi
2008-03-01
Spoke about retailing and retail management: people, process and technology at ASB.

Dr.K.S.Balaraman, Executive Director,Centre for High Technology (CHT),Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
2008-02-27
Distinguished Lecture on "Maximising Hydrocarbon Value Chain by Refinery Performance Improvement".

Shri. Jayachandran Harinarayanan, (Gold Medallist - SAF Games, Silver Medalist - Asian Grand Prix and Former Captain of the Tamil Nadu Athletics team)
2008-02-21
Declared the 13th Sports Meet open.

Shri. G. Karthikeyan, Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore Rural
2008-02-21
Chief Guest for the Closing Ceremony of 13th Sports Meet.

Mr. Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Sales and Operations, Google India
2008-02-09
Chief Guest of PRAGATI 2008 and also gave a distinguished talk on "The Internet, Google and India"

http://www.amrita.edu/pragati/

Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Institute of Indian Culture & Heritage
2008-02-09
Visited Amrita School of Medicine, and gave lecture.

S.N. Subramaniam, Director and Secretary of SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore and Joint Secretary, Association of Self Financing Colleges, Coimbatore
2008-02-08

Dr. S. Venkadesan, Librarian, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2008-01-31
Distinguished Lecture on 1. Measuring Science - A talk on various metrics for measuring scientific research output. 2. E-Books now - A status report on the world of E-book on 31st January & 1st February 2008.

Dr. R. Parthasarathy, TIFR, Mumbai
2008-01-30

Mr. Mir Ranjan Negi, Former Indian Hockey Player & Coach
2008-01-29
Chief Guest of Tarang 2008 - Amrita's Youth Festival commemorating National Youth Day conducted by Arya

Mr. Kishor Kumar Tappita, Computational Biologist
2008-01-24
Lecture on "Bioinformatic Methods For Analysing Micro Array Data" at AIMS, Kochi.

Dr. Valsraj .K, Consultant Psychiatrist, East London Foundation, NHS Trust
2008-01-22
Distinguished talk on "Aches & Pains" conducted by Psychiatry Dept, AIMS, Cochin.

Dr. Ajay Ghosh, NIST Trivandrum ( Recipient of S.S Bhatnagar Award 2007)
2008-01-14
Distinguished lecture series-1 on Chemistry : Art and Architecture with molecules conducted by School of Biotechnology.

Dr. N. Srinivasan, IISc Bangalore ( Recipient of S.S Bhatnagar Award 2007)
2008-01-14
Distinguished lecture series-1 on Recognition of distantly related proteins using sequence space walk and artificial protein-like sequences conducted by School of Biotechnology.

Dr. R. Sowdhamini, NCBS Bangalore ( Recipient of DBT Award for Best Woman Scientist )
2008-01-14
Distinguished lecture series-1 on Structural motifs in protein domain superfamilies conducted by School of Biotechnology.

Dr. Dipankar Banerjee, Chief Controller, R&D, DRDO
2008-01-07
Inaugurated National Conference on "Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications - ADMAT 2008" on 7th Jan'08.

Dr. J Subramanyam, Scientist ‘G’, Division Head,Ceramics and composites group, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory,Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications.

Dr. Vikram Jayaram, Department of Metallurgy & Materials Engg., Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications.

Dr. YR Mahajan, Technical Advisor – ARCI,International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials, Hyderabad
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.M Subba Rao, Head, Advanced Composites Group, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.Ramesh Sundaram , Scientist, Advanced Composites Division, National Aerospace Laboratories,Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. M. Enamuthu, Group Director, Composites Structures Group, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.B.C. Pai, National Institute for Interdisciplinary, Science & Technology (NIST),RRL, Indl.Estate, Thiruvananthapuram
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. Raghunatarajan, Scientist ‘D’, Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET), Thrissur
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.G Sundararajan, Director, International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials(ARCI),Hyderabad
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.Anil .K. Gupta, Director - Grade Scientist, Head, Division of Engg. Materials, National Physical Laboratories
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. Harish Barshilia , Surface Engineering Division (SED), National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.Srikant Joshi, Associate Director, Intl. Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI)
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. T. Jayakumar , Head, Non Destructive Evaluation Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. K.Muralidharan, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL),Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. N Ramakrishnan, Advanced Materials & Processes Research Institute (AMPRI),Regional Research Laboratory,Bhopal
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr.Abhinandanan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc),Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. N Ravishankar, Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Prof. Dr. B.S. Murthy, Dept. of Metall. & Materials Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. S. Sundarrajan, Scientist ‘G’, Head Programme Team & Dy. Programme, Director, Programme PJ – 10,Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL.), Hyderabad
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. Vijaya Raju, Scientist - E , Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. P. Ramachandra Rao, Vice Chancellor, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Hyderabad
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. George Thomas, Senior Scientist, Photo Sciences & Photonics Group,Chemical Sciences & Tech.Divn., NIIST (Formerly RRL), Thiruvananthapuram
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. (Ms) Bharathi Bai J Basu, Scientist ?F?, Surface Engineering Division, National Aerospace Laboratories,Bangalore
2008-01-07
Invited speaker for National Conference on Advanced Materials for Aerospace & Defence Applications

Dr. A. K Shah, Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology, M S University, Baroda
2007-12-27
Visited the TIFAC – CORE in Biomedical Technology for one week and delivered a lecture series on Fermentation Technology/Bio Process Engineering.

Mr. Sudar Oli, Program Manager, University Relations, IBM
2007-12-21

Prof. Bhargab Bhattacharya, IEEE Fellow, ISI-Kolkata
2007-12-13
Invited talk on "Digital Geometry and its Applications to Image Processing".

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Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, ACM & IEEE Fellow, IIT (B)
2007-12-13
Invited talk on "LAB <--> FIELD : A Challenging Journey"

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Dr. Harrick Vin, Vice President, TCS, India
2007-12-13
Talk on "Navigating Complexity through Managed Evolution".

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Prof. P. Nagabhushan, University of Mysore, Karnataka
2007-12-13
Gave advanced tutorial on "Symbolic Data Mining" at ISDIKS International Symposium

http://isdiks07.amrita.ac.in/

Prof. K. Subramanian, Ministry of IT, India
2007-12-13
Invited talk on "Technology as an Enabler: Societal Advancement and Integration India -2010"

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Dr. R.Srinivasan, General Motors R&D, India Science Lab, Bangalore
2007-12-13
Advanced Tutorials on "Public Key Infrastructure Ad Hoc Networks - Research Potential".

http://isdiks07.amrita.ac.in/

Dr. A. R. Upadhya, Director, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore
2007-12-08

Sri. Rajan Moodithaya, Head, KTMD, NAL
2007-12-08

Mr. P. Krishnakumar, Director, TIME, Trivandrum
2007-11-17
Visited School of Business and spoke about Placement preparations.

Mr. Madhu Namboodiri, Director, TIME, Coimbatore
2007-11-17
Visited School of Business and spoke about Placement preparations.

Mr. Maltesh, Manager, Water & Process Technologies, GE Infrastructe
2007-11-14

Mr. Arjun Bhattacharya, Manager, Systems Integration and Engineering Tools, GE Water & Process Technologies
2007-11-14

Ms. Prabha Chatterji, Manager, EEDP, John F. Welch Technology Centre, GE Global Research, Bangalore
2007-11-14

Mr. Omkar V. Sankar, Chief Executive, Shankar Foundation
2007-10-31
Visited School of Business and held an interactive session with students on Branding.

Mrs. Kalpana Vishwanathan, Ex. General Manager, Andhra Bank
2007-10-29
Visited School of Business and spoke about trends in the Banking sector.

Mr. L.N. Krishnan, V.P. Outsourcing, Thomas Cook
2007-10-27
Visited School of Business and spoke about outsourcing.

Dr. Aravind Bhatnagar, Palliative Care Centre, Raksha
2007-10-17
Visited School of Business and held an interactive session with students.

Mr. S. Rajamani, Head, Tata Titanium
2007-10-10
Visited School of Business and spoke about the operations of Tata Titanium.

Dr. Vishwas Mehta, IAS, Health Secretary, Government of Kerala
2007-09-21
Interacted with ASB students on values in management.

Dr. Jayant Murthy, Professor, The Indian Institute of Astrophysics
2007-09-18
Lecture On SPACE ASTRONOMY

Mr. K.S. Shetty , MD, TESPA
2007-09-17
Inauguration of Amrita-TESA-TESPA Advanced metrology lab

Mr. Sridhar, VP TESPA
2007-09-17
Inauguration of Amrita-TESA-TESPA Advanced metrology lab

Mr. Radhakrishnan, M.D of Aravind Engineering Industries
2007-09-12

Mr. N. Shashidhar, Chief - Optics Division, Aravind Engineering Industries
2007-09-12

Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor of Computer Science at IIT Bombay and Head of the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay
2007-09-10

Dr. Anand Patwardhan, Executive Director of TIFAC, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
2007-09-08

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Dr. Shrikumar Suryanarayan, President R&D, Biocon Inc, Bangalore
2007-09-08

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Mr. K. Kesavan (ASB Alumnus), Manager Storage Solutions Group, Godrej & Boyce Ltd., Bangalore
2007-09-07
Held an interaction session with students of ASB on Marketing.

Prof.R.Balasubramanian, Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
2007-09-06

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Mr. Pravin Shekhar, Chief Executive Officer, Dexterity KPO Services, Chennai
2007-08-31
Conducted a workshop on ?Research & Analysis, a Mark-Start Exercise?.

Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan, Scientist, CSIR, and Honorary Director Indian Institute for Scientific Heritage
2007-08-17
Delivered a talk on ?the Role of Indian Heritage Management?.

Dr. Thilak R. Kem, Secretary, UGC
2007-08-01
Seminar talk on "Higher Education in India - Role of UGC"

Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi
2007-05-19
Chief Guest for the 4th Convocation of Coimbatore campus

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Dr.P.K.Saxena , Director, SAG,DRDO
2007-04-21
Lecture on 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.

Dr. Prasad Ram, CTO, Google India
2007-04-13
Chief Guest for the Campus Day at Amritapuri

http://amritapuri.amrita.edu/kalotsavam%20o7/campusday.html

Dr. Upadhyay, Director, NAL
2007-04-06
Dr. Upadhyay was the Chief Guest for the Campus Day at ASE, Bangalore

Dr. B.R. Gupta, Rtd. Professor (IIT) & Emeritus Professor AICTE
2007-03-30
Invited speaker spoke on Rubber Extrusion and Waste Rubber Recycling

Dr. R. K. Shyamasundar, IEEE Fellow and Senior Scientist, TIFR Mumbai
2007-03-23
AICTE sponsored National Seminar on " Mobile & Network Security & Cryptographic Protocols" on March 23 & 24 2007, organised by Department of Information Technology and TIFAC

Dr. N.V. Unnikrishnan, Reader, School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
2007-03-21
Seminar on "Evolution of Lasers - From Macrolasers to Nanolasers"

Dr. Lalji Singh, Distinguished Scientist and Director of the National Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
2006-11-04
Interacted with Researchers and Post Doctoral Fellows

Dr. K. Kasturirangan , Ex-Chairman, ISRO and Member of Parliament (Rajyasabha)
2006-11-01
The environment in the campus was most inspiring to me in terms of talking to the students and also with the members of the faculty. The institution certainly displays an extraordinary level of dynamism in its academic and other roles

The Hon’ble Chairman of the National Board of Examinations , along with the Senior Officials of the National Board visited AIMS on 28th of October
2006-10-28
. A meeting was arranged for the Hospital Directors and HODs of all the accredited hospitals in Kochi to have discussions with the visiting team on 28th October. Dr. Prem Nair, Medical Director and Dr. D M Vasudevan represented AIMS in the meeting.

Dr. Padmanabhan, Distinguished Scientist, Indian Institute of Science
2006-10-13
Interacted with researchers and Post Doctoral Fellows. He was head of the biochemistry department and the Director of the Institute prior to retirement

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director, Biocon India Limited
2006-08-24

Mr. Shanmugam Nagarajan, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, 24/7 Customer
2006-04-15
for the Campus Day at Amritapuri

Dr. Y.S. Rajan , Principal Advisor, Confederation of Indian Industry(CII)
2006-01-27

Dr. M. Natarajan, Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri, Directorate of Life Sciences, Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence, Defence Research & Development Organisation, New Delhi
2005-09-16

Dr. C.N.R. Rao , FRS for 3rd Convocation
2005-09-11
Most convocations are ceremonial and here I do find a little bit of an extra element of spirituality superimposed on a formal occasion. There is this atmosphere of people who are dedicated to a cause, people who want to do something for the community, people who want to serve humanity. That is very rare in convocation

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Shri Chandar Sundaram, Academic Lead, Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd
2005-07-06

Shri Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
2005-07-06

Shri T. R. Madhavan , CEO & MD, The Dhanalakshmi Bank Ltd.
2005-07-06

Dr.A P J Abdul Kalam, His Excellency the President of India
2005-07-06
AMRITA University has a major role to play in transforming our society into a knowledge society through it’s unique value-added education system

Mr. Rangu Salgame , President, India & SAARC Region, Cisco Systems
2005-07-06

Mr. Lakshmi Narayanan , CEO, Cognizant
2005-07-06

Mr. K.Dinesh , Co-Founder, Infosys, Bangalore
2005-05-06

Mr. Ravi Venkatesan , Chairman, Microsoft INDIA
2005-04-28

Prof. P. Rama Rao , Distinguished Scientist and Former Secretary of DST, Chairman, CAR
2005-03-17

Dr. Gokhale , Konkan MD
2005-03-17

Dr. E. Balagurusamy, Vice Chancellor, Anna University
2005-03-10
The duty of an educational institution is to develop a strong value system. Character building is an integral part of the educational system. I am very happy that Amrita University imparts value-based education.

Prof. N. Balki Balakrishnan , IISc Bangalore
2004-12-18

Mr. Ketan Sampath , President, Intel India
2004-09-14

Mr. S. Ramadorai , CEO, TCS
2004-09-13
The total dedication, focus, commitment all are materialized. An eye-opener to what is possible in a short time is remarkable.

Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan , CEO and Co Founder of Infosys for inauguration of e-learning studio
2004-07-07
I feel that such institutes of higher learning are a must and especially, this institute where you look after the spiritual needs of the individual as well as the technical and technological education in this institute. Peace of mind is very much required to increase the rate of absorption of knowledge and I think this whole campus, whole atmosphere is very different and I think that’s what is interesting

Dr.Shivathanupillai,Prof.V.K.Varadan , Dr.G.N.Mathur , Chief Controller (R&D), DRDO; Penn State Univedrsity, DRDO
2004-06-23

Dr.Balaveera Reddy, Vice Chancellor, Viswesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum
2004-05-29

Distinguished guests for the launch of Amrita-ISRO-Cognizant Satellite Based Education & Research Network,
2004-05-17

Dr. W. Selvamurthy, visited AIMS
2004-04-23

Dr.A.Sivathanu Pillai, W.Selvamurthy, with Maj. Gen. T. Ravindranath , Dr. A.K. Singh , Distinguished Scientist and Chief Comptroller R&D, DRDO and Chief Executive and MD of BrahMos Aerospace,Chief Controller (R&D),Director, INMAS,Staff Office to CC R&D,
2004-04-22

Dr. N. Natarajan , AICTE Chairman
2004-04-14
Heartiest congratulations on securing the number one ranking among all the 227 engineering colleges of Anna University, Madras

Dr. G. Madhavan Nair , ISRO Chairman
2004-03-22
Mata Amrithanandamayi with her simplicity and universal love has made significant contribution in uniting people, building teams as well as institutions for serving the society. Vishwa Vidyapeetham is the finest of her dream projects. It is a unique organization incorporating multi-disciplinary education targeting overall development of personality

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Mr. Sachin Khandelwal, Country Head - Car and Two Wheeler Finance, ICICI Bank
2004-03-10

Mr.Baludoraisamy , HP (India), President
2004-03-07
The Amrita fraternity is extensive and impressive – a rare team comprising academicians, management and software professionals and entrepreneur-managers who bring with them rich and varied experience in research, industry and education from India and abroad

Dr.S.Karmalkar , Professor of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
2004-02-16
Gave a talk on "The Personality of Semiconductor Technology"

Dr. KRS Murthy , IIM Bangalore, Former Director
2004-01-19

Shri. T.S. Krishnamurthy, Chief Election Commissioner of India
2004-01-17
He said that his visit has been a remarkable experience, and we should be proud of such Institution in India. He added that, with the blessings of AMMA, this Institution is bound to be an Institution of Excellence, respected by the Academic World.

Dr. Anil Kakodkar , Chariman, Atomic Energy Commission, Govt. of India
2003-12-29

Mr. S P Hinduja , Chairman, Hinduja Group
2003-11-07

Dr. P.L. Sanjeeva Reddy , Secretary, Ministry of Rural Employment and Poverty Alleviation, GoI
2003-08-18
An institution, which is value driven and spiritually sustained. The dedication and commitment for achieving excellence should make this institution an inspiring role model for similar institutions. I have pleasure in wishing this institution splendid and spectacular success in all its activities

Dr.P.V.Indireshan , Former Director, IIT Chennai
2003-08-18

Dr.Anand Patwardhan , Executive Director, TIFAC
2003-08-18

Dr.R Chidambaram , Principal Scientific advisor to the Government of India
2003-08-18
A tremendous education network has been set up under AMMA's leadership, starting from schools and now it has gone to engineering education, medical education and also research. And I am also very much impressed by the quality of the research scientists who are working in this organization

Mr. T. K. A. Nair , Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
2002-05-27
Within a short span of six years, this institution has established itself as a center of excellence in learning. Thanks to the dedicated service of all those, who are associated with it. For me, it is like a pilgrimage and I pay my humble homage to Amma and Her devoted followers from different walks of life, who are contributing to the building of this great institution

Dr. D.N Tiwari , Member, Planning Commission, Government of India
2002-02-23
I am impressed with the dedicated students and faculty members of the institute. Environment of the campus is praiseworthy. Notification of this institute as Deemed University will go a long way in influencing Human Resource Development in the country

Fr. S. Ignachimuthu, Vice Chancellor, Bharathiar University
2001-04-17
I am very impressed by the good facilities. Keep up the good work. All the best

Padmabhushan. Dr. V. C Kulandaiswamy , Chairman, Tamil Virtual University and Former Vice Chancellor, Anna and Madurai Kamaraj University
2001-02-22
It is certainly a rewarding experience visiting this institution. It is well on its way to become a Deemed University. Perhaps more than that a national center of excellence. The management and the faculty are doing an extraordinary job. My best wishes

Mr. S.D. Shibulal, Founder Director, Infosys Technologies, Bangalore
2001-02-17
Pleasure and privilege to be here. Excellent work. Great facilities. More than that dedicated people.

Shri. Pramod Mahajan, Union Minister for IT & Parliamentary Affairs, GoI
2001-02-17
Amrit Everywhere. Mamata everywhere. I am taking back few drops

Shri. Sudheendra Kulkarni , Director (Communications and Research), Prime Ministers Office
1998-11-26
I am truly happy at being at this extraordinary institute. It has shown what the power of devotion can do. India needs many, many more such devotion-driven centers of science and technology

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