About NIT Kurukshetra How to Reach Short Term Course National Institute of Technology, (FormerlyRegional Kurukshetra is well connected with road\rail. It is a Engineering College, established in 1963)Kurukshetra is railway junctionon Delhi-Ambala section and is situated On one among the foremost institutes ofnational importance onNational Highway No. 1 (G. T. Road). It Advanced Optimization Techniques for imparting higher technicaleducation in India. This isapproximately 160 km from Delhi and 100 kmfrom Engineering Applications (AOTEA-18) Institute was conferred upon thestatus of Chandigarh. NIT Kurukshetra is about 10 kmfrom Pipli DeemedUniversity on June 26, 2002.Since then, it has and 6 km from Kurukshetra railwaystation. been named as National Instituteof Technology, Kurukshetra (DeemedUniversity).National Institute of About Department Technology, Kurukshetra is aresidential institute well known for its dedicated faculty, staff and state-of-the-art The Department of Computer engineering offers infrastructure.The institute offers B.Tech. M.Tech. B.Tech(in Computer Engineering and Information M.C.A.M.B.A and Ph.D. programmes. The Institute Technology), M.Tech (in Computer Engineering enjoysan excellent placement service for its graduate and andCyber Security) and Ph.D. programmes.Since its post graduate students. inception Department has witnessed exponential growth in emerging areas of Distributed Computing, Software (13.01.2018 – 17.01.2018) Engineering, Computer Networks, Database and Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Information and Cyber Security, Image Processing.The Department is Coordinators: well equipped with all state-of-the-art hardware, software resources and simulation software packages providing all Dr. Ritu Garg necessary computing facilities to the students, faculty Dr. Poonam Jindal and staff. Important Dates Last date of registration:Jan 03, 2018 Intimation of acceptance: Jan 05, 2018 Correspondence Address About Kurukshetra 1. Dr. Ritu Garg Coordinator –AOTEA-18, COE Department, Kurukshetra- the land of the Mahabharata has Organised by- National Institute of Technology,Kurukshetra-136119 Computer EngineeringDepartment traditionally been the epicenter of learning. Themessage Email: [email protected] of Bhagavata Gita is believed to have beendelivered by National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Ph: 01744-233493, 9896114469(M) Haryana – 136119 Lord Krishna at this place. In additionto its spiritual 2. Dr. Poonam Jindal significance, the city of Kurukshetrahas steadily Coordinator – AOTEA-18, ECE Department, (http://www.nitkkr.ac.in) developed into a center of academicexcellence. National Institute of Technology,Kurukshetra-136119 Email: [email protected] Ph: 9466620527(M) Course Details Target Participants REGISTRATION FORM The main objective of this short-term course is to The proposed course is designed and intended for engineers, faculty members of engineering colleges, provide a forum in which the participants obtain Short Term Course information about recent advances in optimization graduate students and research scholars working in techniques.Italso highlights successful applications the various engineering domains. On of optimization in various areas. It comprises of Advanced Optimization Techniques for sessions for the participants to introduce them to a Registration Fees Engineering Applications (AOTEA-18) number of modern optimization methodologies and Academic Faculty : 3000.00 INR * (13.01.2018 – 17.01.2018) their application/case studies from a wide variety of Students : 2500.00 INR real world interdisciplinary engineering problems. Industry Participants : 5000.00 INR Computer Engineering Department Owing to the interdisciplinary nature of this course, Interested participants should submit the complete NIT Kurukshetra – 136119 participants across the disciplines will be able to application form in a prescribed format along with attend, appreciate and augment their knowledge to the registration fee in the form of demand draft in 1. Name (Mr/Ms) ______________________ keep with the emerging advanced techniques. The ____________________ __________________ favor of “Director, NIT Kurukshetra” payable at course intends to focus on advances in the following Kurukshetra. 2. Designation and Official address domains, but is not limited to: *Student (UG/PG/PhD) participants need to submit ______________________________________ • Optimization Techniques –introduction ______________________________________ • Recent Meta-heuristics - Spider Monkey scanned copy of a valid proof/ID along with theregistration form. Optimization 3. Email _________________________________ • Bat algorithm General Information • Cuckoo search optimization Participants will not be paid any TA/DA. 4. Phone ___________(O) __________ (R) • Genetic Algorithm (GA), Swarm Intelligence, Ant Accommodation and travelling expenses are to be Colony Optimization (ACO) borne by participants or their respective institutes. 5. Educational Qualification and Specialization • Teaching-Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) __________________________________________ However, accommodation can be arranged in __________________________________________ algorithm, Differential Evolution (DE) hostel/guest house on nominal payment basis • Neural network based and fuzzy based subject to the availability. The organizers will 6. Professional Experience ___________________ optimization. provide the meals and refreshment during the • Guidelines on publishing research papers- course. Limited numbers of seats are available; 7. Lodging &Boarding required (Yes/No) ______ reviewers perspective, plagiarism checking therefore, participants will be selectedon first-come- Payment Details: • Hands-on training using MATLAB and other first-serve basis. The registrationform complete in Software Tools Python, Java etc. all respects, accompanied bydemand draft of 8. Demand Draft No. ____________ Amount:______ requisite amount should reach onor before Jan03, Bank: __________________Date:_______________ Resource Persons 2018. Distinguished and Learned persons from institutes Registration form should be sent to: of repute including IITs, NITs and experts from Head, Department of Computer Engineering Signature of the Applicant (with date) related industries will be the resource persons for National Institute of Technology,Kurukshetra-136119 Haryana, India Signature of Head of Dept./Instt. (with seal) the course- AOTEA-18. Soft copy via email:[email protected] .