Griffon Vol 1 Issue 1 a Bird's Eye View of IIT Mandi August June 2016 2016 153Rd Director's Meet 3Rd Convocation
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Griffon Vol 1 Issue 1 A bird's eye view of IIT Mandi August June 2016 2016 153rd Director's Meet 3rd Convocation For the first time since its inception, IIT Mandi hosted a Director’s Meet on 26th March, 2016. Chaired by Prof. Timothy rd A. Gonsalves (Director, IIT Mandi), the 3 CII - IIT Mandi Conclave IIT Mandi marked its 3rd 153rd meeting got together the Directors Industry-Academia Conclave on May 15 Convocation on 31st October, of 5 IITs (Kanpur, BHU, Hyderabad, was organized amid a purposeful and 2015. The Chief Guest of the Patna and Ropar) in person and 7 enthusiastic participation by the attendees. occasion was Prof. N. Directors (Madras, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Over 100 attendees consisting of Sathyamurthy, Director, Indian Delhi, Bombay, Jodhpur, Gandhinagar) representatives from the industry and Institute of Science Education and through Video Conferencing. academia came together and held Research Mohali. In the discussions around the Conclave’s theme, Convocation Ceremony, a total of 1st North Campus Building “Technology & Business Innovation at IIT 115 students received their Mandi”. The Chief Guest at the Conclave, Inaugurated degrees: 105 B. Tech. students, 7 Prof. Ashok Jhunjunwala, Padma Shri, in M.S. (by research) students, and 3 his keynote address shared his experience Ph.D. scholars. in initiating many successful collaborations with industry and Sachin S.Bhat President's Gold & incubating a large number of start-ups. Institute Silver Medal Prof. Jhunjhunwala also launched the IIT Mandi Catalyst, a new Technology Business Incubator being set up to help Prashant Dr. Priscilla Gonsalves inaugurated the Prazapati 1st building (IIT Mandi Takshila Primary meet IIT Mandi’s Vision. Director's Gold School) in our North Campus on 18th Medal Prof. Timothy A. Balasundaram April, 2016. The Director, Deans, Gonsalves, Director Endowment Prize Registrar, faculty, staff and parents were IIT Mandi, provided Ingale Swapnil present during the inauguration. The an overview of the school was established on the South Sushil capabilities at IIT Institute Silver Campus in 2014. The functioning of the Mandi, and Sh. Sanjay Khurana, CII HP Medal school is taken care of by IIT's Campus State Council Chairman, shared his views School Management Committee on the opportunities ahead. (CSMC). 7th Foundation Day IIT Mandi celebrated its 7th Foundation Day on 24th February, 2016. Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Director, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, was the Chief Guest for the function. With academic, research, cultural activities happening on its permanent campus, the Institute has developed a strong foundation and is already proving to be a single destination for excellence, innovation, and learning in the Himalayas. The day was commemorated with various sports events, cultural activities, and an award ceremony. Scaling the heights 2 Science Outreach Latest MoU “Big Data Analytics” The workshop was held at IIT Mandi on 7th May, 2016. Er. Johannes Kirschnick from DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Berlin), Dr. Manohar Kaul from IIT Hyderabad, Dr. Srikanta Bedathur from IBM Research rd and Dr. Vikram Goyal from IIIT Delhi were the invited distinguished speakers. Posters on On 3 February, 2016 an Adwords problem, Weather Prediction, Recommendation systems, Spam filters etc. were MoU between IIT Mandi and presented towards the end of the workshop. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario was “Controllability of Heat and Wave Equations” signed by Prof. Timothy A. Gonsalves (Director, IIT Mandi) and Prof. Peter Mascher (Associate Vice-President International Affairs) McMaster. McMaster is one of Canada's The School of Basic Sciences, IIT Mandi in collaboration with the National Program on top universities and one of Differential Equations: Theory, Computation and Applications (NPDE-TCA 2015), IIT th th the leading research Bombay, organized this 5 day Advanced Level Workshop from 16 - 20 November, universities worldwide. 2015. During the workshop lectures were delivered by eminent mathematicians, Prof. D Bahuguna (IIT Kanpur), Prof. N. Sukavanam (IIT Roorkee), Prof Amiya K. Pani (IIT Bombay), Prof. Raju K George (IIST Trivandrum), Prof. K. Sakthivel (IIST Trivandrum), Prof. A. K. Nandakumaran (IISc Bangalore) and Dr. Muslim Malik (IIT Mandi). “Product Design and Innovation” Conference A Conference on "Advances Design Innovation Center, IIT Mandi organised this workshop on 18th & 19th in Electron Conference Spectroscopy - Experiment and Theory" December, 2015. The workshop drew was held at IIT Mandi from participants from all over the country. 18th - 21st January, 2016. The Prof. B.D Chaudhary (Dean Academics), aim of the meeting was to discuss recent advances in Prof. Ramesh Oruganti (Advisor to Dean SRIC), Prof. M. electron spectroscopy and Balakrishnan (IIT Delhi), Prof. P.V.M Rao (IIT Delhi), Dr. Rajnesh microscopy, and future Sharma (IIT Mandi), Dr. Rajeev Kumar (IIT Mandi) and Dr. Om directions. This meeting was Prakash Singh (IIT Mandi) delivered lectures and interacted with the second of the series. The the participants. first one was organized in Göttingen, Germany. There “Part Modeling, Assembly Modeling & Production Drawing for were about 50 participants, Engineers & Designers” included pioneers from India The training programme was organised at IIT Mandi from 25th - 27th January, 2016. and abroad and also research Creation of a virtual 3-D model is the very first step of product development process. A 3- scholars and post docs. The D virtual model provides all the basic information essential in the pre-processing step in meeting started by giving finite element analysis (FEA) or computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The finalized condolence to Late Prof. design of the product too need be represented by the production drawings for use by Thomas Pruschke, who had manufacturing division. Hence the programme was aimed at training participants about contributed significantly in assembly modeling, piping/circuit diagrams and production drawings. the field of dynamical mean field theory. The meeting Few images of concluded with panel models practised by discussion with Prof. Silke the candidates: Biermann, Prof. J. Fink, Prof. F. Assad and Prof. Fujimori. The Honor Roll 3 Scaling the heights Welcome to the new Faculty Awards Prof. Pramod Talgeri (Visiting faculty, SHSS, 3 IIT Mandi) The President of the Federal Dr. Shyamasree Dr. Astrid Kiehn Republic of Germany, Dr. Dasgupta (Assistant (Visiting Associate Dr. Dhiraj V. Patil Gokul Joachim Gauck, has conferred Professor in the Professor in the (Assistant Professor Somasekharan upon Prof. Pramod Talgeri the School of Humanities School of in the School of (Teaching Fellow in Order of Merit of the Federal and Social Sciences). Computing and Engineering). the School of Republic of Germany in Ph.D.: Jadavpur Electrical Ph.D.: Indian Humanities and recognition of his outstanding University, Kolkata in Engineering). Institute of Science Social Sciences) achievements in promoting 2015. Ph.D.: TUMunich, in 2010. from the Free Indo-German cultural Research interests: Germany in 1989. University Berlin, interaction and deepening the Applied Research interests: Research interests: Germany. relations between Germany and Microeconomics, Verification of Lattice-Boltzmann India. Energy Resource and Distributed method, Multi- Research interests: Environmental Algorithms, Formal physics, Multiphase German Literature. Economics and Models of flows and Complex Dr. A. D.Dileep Economics of Distributed Systems, Fluids Rheology. (Asst. Prof., SCEE, IIT Climate Change. Verification and Mandi) Model Checking. Dr. Dileep and his MS student Abhijeet Sachdev, together with IIT Mandi Developed Indigenous Technology for Next Generation IC Dr. Veena Thenkanidiyoor Industry (Asst. Prof., Dept. of CSE, NIT The goal of this project under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth Goa), received the best paper Gonsalves, Visiting Distinguished Professor, was to design award for their work entitled "A and develop a suitable and sustainable resist technology for Family of Example-Specific next generation EUV technology at IIT Mandi, with the Density based Matching support of Intel Corp USA. Intel provided about Rs. 2.5 Kernels for Classification of Crore to IIT Mandi with an additional Rs. 2 Crore for use of Varying Length Patterns of the EUV exposure facility at LBNL, USA. After 4 years of Speech using Support Vector successful development of indigenous high end DUV, EBL Machines" in the 2nd and EUVL photoresists and meeting the expectation of front International Conference on line semiconductor industry, Intel, USA, IIT Mandi has recently received about Rs. 7 Soft Computing & Machine crores from various Indian funding agencies including SCL (ISRO), DST and MHRD to Intelligence. develop indigenous resist technology. Encouraged and excited with the success of the highly prized nanotechnology research, IIT Mandi is gearing up to boost its nanofabrication technology research by putting up an advanced and sophisticated Centre for Design & Fabrication of Electronic Devices (C4DFED) at IIT Mandi. Dr. Atul Dhar (Asst. Prof., SE, IIT Read More: http://www.iitmandi.ac.in/research/intel_project.html Mandi) New Programs at IIT Mandi Dr. Atul Dhar has been awarded the Young Scientist Integrated PhD program in Physics: IIT Mandi commenced the iPh.D. program in Award by the ISEES Physics, during the Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 Semester. This program is designed to attract (International Society for bright and young minds