Connections IIT 2017-2018, Volume X, Issue IV ConnectionsConnections is the quarterly newsletter for friends of IIT Gandhinagar April - June 2018 Institute Activities INVENT@IITGN IIT Gandhinagar hosted the maiden intensive Seven-week program in inventing, Invent@ IITGN, from June 18 to July 27. Originated in the US as ‘Invention Factory’, the program was organized in for the first time at IITGN. The selected 20 students, from IITs across the country including IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, IIT Jammu and IIT Gandhinagar, received direct guidance from Yash Sharma and Farazul Haque from IIT the founders of the original program in the Kharagpur won the prize of Best Invention VISIT OF UNION MINISTER U.S, Cooper Union Professors Alan Wolf and for their apparatus and method for localized DR SATYAPAL SINGH Eric Lima, and IIT Gandhinagar Professors irrigation, weed control and localized pesticide Dr Satya Pal Singh, Union Minister Vineet Vashista and Nithin George on delivery. Kratika Bhagtani and Karthik of State, Ministry of Human Resource how to invent and develop their ideas into Subramanya Karvaje of IIT Gandhinagar Development; and Ministry of Water practice. The students developed solutions bagged the prize of Second Best Invention Resources, River Development, and Ganga for real-life problems with inventions such as- for their portable CPR device. Anshuman Rejuvenation, visited the Institute on June a car underrun protection system, navigation Dhar and Agrata Patel from IIT Guwahati 6, 2018 and interacted with the faculty. Dr. system for visually impaired, fire prevention won Third Best Invention prize for sleep Singh appreciated the outreach efforts of IIT device due to electric overload, load carrier injury prevention device. Each of the ten Gandhinagar and encouraged research that for labourers and so on. teams have now filed for provisional US addresses societal challenges. patents. MOU WITH INDIAN NAVY NASSCOM IN RESEARCH PARK Sanjeev Malhotra of NASSCOM, were The Indian Navy entered into a An agreement to this effect was signed on also present on the occasion. Under this Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) May 19 in the presence of the Chief Minister agreement, National Association of Software with IIT Gandhinagar on May 7 to promote of , Shri Vijaybhai Rupani and and Services Companies (NASSCOM) will academic cooperation and enhance scientific the Chief Secretary of Gujarat, Mr J N set up a Centre of Excellence for Internet of understanding of technologies related to Singh, IAS, Mr Dhananjay Dwivedi and Things (IoT) at the IITGN Research Park. defense. As per the agreement, IITGN will Ms Sandhya Bhullar, Mr Harish Mehta, also accept naval officers in its masters and founder Chairman of NASSCOM, Mr doctoral programmes for various disciplines. Nirmal Jha of IIT Gandhinagar, and Mr Support for the Institute KANCHAN AND HARILAL DOSHI CHAIR Mr Navin Doshi and Mrs Mr Navin Doshi, who grew up in Mumbai, is Pratima Doshi of Los a graduate of Puna Engineering College and the Angeles, California have set LD Engineering College of Gujarat University, up the Kanchan and Harilal and holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Doshi Chair in honour of Engineering from the University of Michigan, Mr Navin Doshi’s parents. Ann Arbor. He worked as an Aerospace The Chair is expected to Engineer at TRW (now Northrop), where he Mr Navin Doshi with his parents was the recipient of NASA awards and US identify and initiate research Smt Kanchan and Shri Hiralal Doshi Mrs Pratima and and develop cost-effective and sustainable technologies/solutions for patents. He also ran highly successful businesses Mr Navin Doshi water purification and sanitation. with his wife Pratima. OUTREACH through such spaces. The visits were aimed Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Tampa and • Prof Pratik Mutha, Prof Nithin George, at understanding the philosophy of such Washington DC area. He was accompanied Prof Vineet Vashista and Mr Manish Jain programs, how they are integrated into by Prof Chelva Kumar, Prof Achal visited six universities of the US (Stanford the curriculum and also some managerial Mehra and Prof Gaurav Srivastava at University, University of California aspects. These experiences will inform the some of these places. Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, development of prospective maker spaces Columbia University, New York University at IIT Gandhinagar in due course. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) • Prof Sudhir K Jain visited Maker Spaces from May 19 to June 2, to learn about at the University of California at Berkeley, their experiences with designing “Maker Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Spaces”. IITGN aims to put an increasing Carnegie Mellon University in June 2018. emphasis on hands-on training and He also reached out to numerous well- “learning-by-doing”, which are facilitated wishers of the Institute in San Francisco,

Faculty News Principal Investigator: Prof Krishna Kanti Dey, Physics • Intelligent Power Management System for Monitoring, SPONSORED PROJECTS • Development of new water supply strategies in two major Diagnosis & amp; Prognostics of Electric Loads in • To strengthen the post-graduate teaching & research cities of India and Sri Lanka in the context of climate Armoured Fighting Vehicles, sponsored by Defence facilities in the Department, sponsored by Science & change, rapid urbanization and population growth: a Research & Development Organisation - Principal Engineering Research Board Resources - Principal vulnerability assessment approach, sponsored by Asia- Investigator: Prof Babji Srinivasan, Electrical Engineering Investigator: Prof Emila Panda, Materials Science and Pacific Network for Global Change Research - Principal • Tectonic and climatic control on variability of sediment Engineering Investigator: Prof Manish Kumar, Earth Sciences routing in the NW Himalaya since late Quaternary, • ECO-WET - Efficient Coupling of - Water and Energy • Development of new water supply strategies for sponsored by Science & Engineering Research Board - Technologies for Smart Sustainable Cities, sponsored Brahmaputra watersheds of India under climate change Principal Investigator: Prof Vikrant Jain, Earth Sciences by Indo-German Science and Technology Centre - regime, sponsored by Department of Science and Principal Investigator: Prof Naran Pindoriya, Electrical Technology - Principal Investigator: Prof Manish Engineering Kumar, Earth Sciences CONSULTANCY PROJECTS • The Dual Origins of Gravity - Vajra, sponsored by • Seismic studies on Anjar – Mundra Pipeline Project • Development of safe and green technology for removal Science & Engineering Research Board - Principal for M/s GIGL, for L&T Gulf Private Ltd., Principal of paint from the surface of the ships for environment- Investigator: Prof Sudipta Sarkar, Physics Investigator: Prof Sudhir K Jain, Civil Engineering friendly ship recycling, sponsored by Global Marketing • Development of nanoporous geopolymeric catalysts • Bridging the Innovation Gap School Program for IMC Systems - Principal Investigator: Prof Chinmay Ghoroi, for industrially relevant liquid-phase reactions, Design India Pvt. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Intel Corporation), Chemical Engineering of Antinephrolithiac Peptide-nanoparticles, sponsored Principal Investigator: Prof Joycee Mekie, Electrical • High yield exfoliation of layered metal diborides to by Science & Engineering Research Board - Principal Engineering synthesize boron analogs of graphene for developing a Investigator: Prof Abhijit Misra, Materials Science and • Metallurgical Investigation of Cylinder Liner for Indian new class of energy storage nanocomposites, sponsored Engineering Railways Diesel Loco Shed, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, by Science & Engineering Research Board - Principal • Enhancing Sensitivity of Disease Diagnosis using Principal Investigator: Prof Superb Kumar Misra, Investigator: Prof Kabeer Jasuja, Chemical Engineering Enzyme Chemotaxis, sponsored by Shastri Grant - Material Science Engineering

NEW FACULTY The following faculty members joined the institute during this quarter: Name Designation Discipline Date of joining Prof Michel Danino Visiting Professor Humanities & Social Sciences 09.05.18

Activities at IITGN the IITGN participated in the eight weeks to the students and their parents to help them programme. More than 46 faculty members choose among different engineering branches of the institute guided the participating in IITs. Students got a deeper insight about students in about 65 research projects. various opportunities and possibilities at IITGN. There were sessions by the Deans of IITGN and interaction with faculty and students. A campus tour was also organized during the event for the participants.

SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP TECHNICAL EDUCATION QUALITY PROGRAM (SRIP) IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM The SRIP program offers opportunity to The third phase of Technical Education engineering students from across the country Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) as well as from foreign universities to carry was held at IIT Gandhinagar in two batches out research under the mentorship of IITGN JEE OPEN HOUSE between May 28 to June 01 and June 18 to faculty. This year, the flagship Summer Like every year, IITGN organized JEE (Joint June 22. Each batch had 160 participants Research Internship Program began on Entrance Examination) Open House for JEE including senior faculty members from May 1. A total of 129 students from across Advanced qualified students on June 17. The several engineering colleges. The programme the country, including 41 students from program was conducted to provide guidance covered vital topics to enhance teaching and IN-SERVICE WORKSHOPS FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY KVS TEACHERS IITGN community celebrated the World The Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at Environment Day on June 5 with much IITGN organized the first spell of bi-annual fervour. The Green Office of IITGN in in-service workshops with Kendriya Vidyalaya association with Hara Pitara - Social 1.0, Sangathan (KVS) teachers from across the organized some hands-on workshops and country for the subjects of Math, Science, a green market of handpicked eco-friendly and Computer Science. Two workshops of products. The drawing competition brought learning environment in colleges such as 12 days each were held between May 29 to out unique creativity of kids who gave some Active Learning, Autonomy, Governance & June 19 with emphasis on the importance of beautiful messages to lead a sustainable Management, and Research & Development. hands-on and experiential learning. About lifestyle. 100 Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs) of classes 8th to 10th and about 55 Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs) of classes 11th and 12th attended the workshops.

NYASA SUMMER CAMP Nyasa, a social initiative by the IITGN community for welfare of the construction workers and their families around the campus, GUJARAT MARITIME BOARD organized its fourth edition of Annual INDUCTION TRAINING Summer Camp for the underprivileged kids. INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA The institute conducted a training program The camp aimed to impart fundamental yet IITGN marked the International Day of during May 7-25 for the newly recruited essential knowledge of various fields ranging Yoga on June 21 with demonstration and engineers of Gujarat Maritime Board. The from basic awareness to the English language. practice of various yoga asanas, followed by a program covered variety of subjects from IITGN students successfully conducted six lecture cum demonstration session on ‘Yoga: engineering, communication, leadership sessions on Math puzzles, Dance, English, personal experiences and perspectives’. The development to creativity and so on. A total Craft, Cricket, and Football. event created awareness about importance of 68 participants attended this 3 week and benefits of Yoga in day to day life for residential training program. complete well-being of mind and body. VIGYAN JYOTI PILOT PROGRAMS IITGN hosted two Vigyan Jyoti pilot programs for children and girls to encourage and motivate them to develop their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects and increase participation of women in STEM fields by making focused interventions during early years of education. In one workshop, the Center for Creative Learning (CCL) conducted a week-long workshop during June 18-22 where for 27 children of class 6 to 8 from Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh learned to make motor generators, levitating pens, JCB machine and so on. In the process, they also discovered the science and mathematics principles behind from various government and government-aided schools of Gujarat these toys. and Madhya Pradesh explored the Science behind many things with Another Vigyan Jyoti STEM camp for selected class 11 science girls the hands-on sessions. The two weeks residential camp received very was hosted from June 18 to July 02, 2018. 32 young meritorious girls encouraging response from the participating girls.

GLOBAL INITIATIVE OF ACADEMIC NETWORKS (GIAN) COURSE The Advanced Materials Processing Research Group at IITGN hosted a thought-provoking workshop on the subject “Aerospace Materials: Microstructure, Fracture, and Fatigue” as a Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) course from June 11 to NEEV SUMMER SKILL COURSES 22. The course was taught by Dr Kumar V Jata, CEO, Jata Materials NEEV, IITGN organised 8 weeks Summer Skill Courses from April Solutions, USA. It focused on various microstructures that can 23 to June 14 to provide entrepreneurship and skills training to be produced in structural metals and how one can manipulate the youth and women from neighbourhood communities. More than microstructure to produce desirable properties. Researchers from the 100 trainees participated and were awarded certificates in various Air Force, Industry, Defense Research Labs, and academic Institutes courses like vocational skills, computer skills, spoken English skills, from across the country participated in the course. and stitching skills. • Tools, Time and Transitions: New Perspectives on Bombay, on April 25. SHORT COURSES Early Prehistoric Populations in South Asia by Dr • Role of Crystallographic Texture in Development • Logic by Prof Sadanand Dinkar Agashe, Emeritus Shanti Pappu, Professor, Sharma Centre for Heritage of Aluminum Alloys for Automobile and Defence Professor till 2015 at IIT Bombay, during April 02-06. Education, Chennai, Tamil Nadu on May 23. Applications by Dr Chandan Mondal, Defence • Accounting, Finance and Business Valuation for • Low-Reynolds Number Multi-Rotor Aerodynamics Metallurgical Research Laboratory, as on April 26. Engineers by Rajiv Bhatt, Associate Partner at Ernst & & Building Startups: A Customer Discovery Based • An introduction to CEH’s Water Resources Research Young LLP and CA, during March 31 - April 01. Approach by Mr Dhwanil Shukla, Research Fellow, and the India-UK Water Centre by Dr Harry Dixon, • Hamiltonian Formulation of General Relativity by Dr Georgia Tech on May 29. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC, UK, dated Avirup Ghosh, Postdoctoral­ fellow, IITGN, during • Strategies on Sustainable Urban Water Use Adapted to on April 27. April 02 - 07. Climate Change by Prof Hiroaki Furumai, University • From drought research to decision-making: experiences of Tokyo, Japan on June 6. from the UK (and beyond) by Mr Jamie Hannaford, LECTURES • Post-Modernist Challenge and the Indian Context by Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC, UK, on • Songs of script: performance, affect, and the spread of Prof Braj Sinha, University of Saskatchewan on June 19. April 27. Santali language literacy in eastern India by Mr Nishant • Project Based Learning by Prof Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT • Pathophysiology, Treatment and Rehabilitation by Prof Choksi, PhD, Michigan-Ann Arbor, on April 4 -5. Kanpur, on June 22, 2018. Soumya Sundaram on May 1, 2018. • Understanding the African Story: Past, Present and • Extremal Rays of Betti Cones by Dr Rajiv Garg, IIT • Strategies of sustainable urban water use adapted to Future by Mr Shigoli Shitero on March 19. Dharwad, on April 3, 2018. climate change by Prof Hiroaki Furumai, University • Taxation and Fiscal Federalism in India by Shri Sanjay • Phenomenology of relativistic heavy ion collisions by of Tokyo on June 6, 2018. Prasad (IRS) on April 16. Dr Sandeep Chatterjee, Postdoctoral fellow, AGH- • Nano-Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells for True • SDC lecture on Programming Self by Mr R K Chopra, UST, Krakow, Poland on April 5. Active Tumor Targeting by Prof Swayam Prabha, a certified management trainer AIMA and a certified • Neural control of sequential movements by Prof University of Minnesota, on June 13. NLP practitioner, on May 3. Aditya Murthy, IISc Bangalore, April 6. • Therapeutic Modification of Tumor Microenvironment • Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project: • Himalayas – India’s Northern Frontier, Chinese Claims to Boost Nano Drug Delivery by Prof Jayanth Technology Leap Forward - Innovations & Growth by on Indian Territory, Significance of Siachen byGeneral Panyam, University of Minnesota, June 13. Shri Achal Khare, Managing Director, National High Prakash Katoch, Indian Army on April 6. Speed Rail Corporation Limited on May 12. • Through the looking glass: A roadmap to a parity symmetric Universe by Prof Urjit A Yajnik, IIT

Student and Staff Activities

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Ms Ayatri Singha, a student of MSc Physics at IITGN, has been awarded the prestigious Ronald Drever Scholarship. She will pursue doctoral studies in gravitational waves at the University of Glasgow. graduating students. This was followed by a UDAAN FAREWELL st formal dinner. was conducted exclusively for 1 year BTech Udaan was organized on April 15 for the students. The institute provided support to th th th farewell of 7 BTech, 6 MTech, 4 MSc, three teams to work on their prototypes. The rd th STUDENT’S SUMMER TECHNICAL 3 MA and 5 batch of PhD students of SSTP Programme is an initiative to encourage IIT Gandhinagar. The nostalgic evening PROJECTS The first edition of Students’ Summer first year BTech students to get hands-on had several cultural performances by the experience by working on their projects. The students and faculty. A few faculty members Technical Projects (SSTP) was held on May 14 by the Technical Council IITGN, which selected teams worked on their projects from also shared their vision and experiences with May 14 to July 3. Sports News

LEAGUE OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS IITGN community, eight teams were formed in the motivation of doing exercises daily The 9th edition of intra-college football through the auction process. The event was among the IIT Gandhinagar community and league kick-started on January 9 to April 16. organized from February 9 to April 26. convert that into their habit. It attracted scores of enthusiastic, skillful and football crazy players in a full-fledged bidding DISHA CUP SUMMER SPORTS CAMP process that builds the teams for each season. IIT Gandhinagar organized the 4th edition of The summer sports camp was organized for There was participation from the faculty and Disha Cup sports tournament during June 22 the second time from June 1-15 to continue staff as well. - 24 with great enthusiasm and team spirit. the sports activity at IITGN in summers. The institute organizes this event every year This was a good opportunity for the players SRIJA MEMORIAL LEAGUE in order to motivate the ground staff and to who are staying on the campus to continue This was the 1st edition of the Intra college make them feel as a part of the institution. their practice. The camp included Basketball, volleyball league called Shrija Memorial Cricket, Football, Gym, Volleyball and Yoga League as a commemoration to our senior SUMMER FITNESS CAMP and was open to all IITGN community and volleyball player Late Ms Srija Vaddineni. This year the Summer Fitness Camp was SRIP students. After an enthusiastic response from the organized during May 21 to June 14. The scope of this summer camp was to bring

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