No. 3,4 | Vol. 7 | April 2013 KIRANAM Aa snapshotmrita and journal of happenings @ Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi Academic Year 2012 Inside Inauguration Extramural Expert Lectures 2 -Vidyamritam 3 National Conferences Industry - Institute Collaboration in Academics becomes a 4 component of Vidyamritam series Activities of Corporate and Industry Relations 4 The 2012 Academic Year activities of the School was inaugurated by Dr. P.T. Mathew, Principal General Manager, BSNL, on 23rd July 2012. Swami Amritakripananda Puri, blessed the function at Brahmasthanam National Seminar on FOREIGN Auditorium. Prof. Sunanda Muralidharan, Chairperson, Amrita School of Business delivered the DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) Presidential address. Dr. U. Krishnakumar, Director of the School welcomed the audience. Prof. N. N. 5 Menon, Centre Head, CIR Kochi campus offered felicitations. At 6 p.m., a Devi Puja was organized for the Papers published in National Hostel students to propitiate the blessings of the Divine to gain strength and power of mind and body. The / International Journals by the Puja was led by Swami Amritakripananda Puri who also gave a satsang.. The rituals and chanting of mantras 6 faculty members created an atmosphere of divine thoughts and was a unique experience to the students. Bhoomi Devi Ningalode 8 Ipprakaram Ramayanam Day Inauguration of 8 Padma Shri Madhu VIDYAMRITAM 2012 The 10th series of the Annual Extramural Expert Internships arranged by Lectures was inaugurated on 9th August 2012 C I R 9 by Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, our Vice Chancellor. Dr. Sarat Menon, a faculty member from Dept. Technical Field Visits and of Sociology, Houston University presided. 10 Photography Camps Felicitations were offered by Senior faculty member Sri. Hari. S. Kartha and Dr. S.K. Ramachandran Departmental Academic Nair, Sr. Medical Administrator, AIMS. 11 Initiatives 12 Vivekanandam 2013 “Only the attitude ‘I am nothing, I know nothing’ will amma says......help you reach the goal.” 2 Extramural Expert Lectures - Vidyamritam 2012 – ‘13 is the 10th anniversary year of the most prestigious Extramural Expert Lecture series Vidyamritam conducted by the School. Following invited lectures were conducted between October 2012 and March 2013. More than 50 experts shared their wisdom. Department of Computer A talk on “Integrated Circuit Design” Sri. Venu Rajamony, IFS, Press Science and I. T. Sri. Jyothi Indirabhai, Intel Secretary to the President of India, Technologies, Kochi. Department of Commerce and Management Sri. Rajesh Touchriver, a renowned and Sri. K. P. Nair, a Diplomatic A lecture on “New trends in Software Project Management” by Sri. N.S. Ranganadhan, Competency Head, Wipro, Kochi. Sri. Vivek Krishna Govind, A talk in ‘Android Application Chartered Accountant and Partner, Varma and Varma Chartered Development’ by Sri. Ramesh Film maker gave an excellent Accountants, Kochi delivered a Journalist, settled in USA, Govind, CEO, Real Consultancy, awareness to the entire campus lecture, giving an Overview of jointly conducted an interactive Kochi. community on the Role and Security Accounting and Finance and session on “ Functions of the of Women. Many students witnessed creating awareness on the Career journalist “ on 8th January 2013. the film “Ente Katha” directed by Sri. Opportunities for Commerce Rajeev. The talk by Dr. Suneetha Students in the field of Finance, on moved the entire audience to the th 14 November, 2012. refreshingly valued heights of spiritual Sri. C.V. George, General Manager, wisdom. A talk on “Code Complete” by Sri. K. Reserve Bank of India (South Jayakrishnan, CEO Xtend Zone) delivered a lecture on the Technologies, Kochi. topic :“Recent Banking trends with Sri. Pramod Prabhu, Chartered coverage of the measures taken by Accountant and CISA gave an RBI to overcome the financial crisis excellent overview of Chartered of the era which included glances of Accountancy as a profession and its financial inclusion in the country” on education ladder for the Commerce Sri. K. Goplakrishnan, CEO, 20th October, 2012. students. Amrita TV gave a talk on the Value Department of Visual media and System of a Journalist followed by sharing his experiences in media, on Dr. Vivek Menon, Associate Communication Professor, Amrita School of Business, Dr. Sarat Menon, Faculty Member, Kochi delivered a lecture on the topic University of Houston, USA, “Information Systems and IT services delivered a talk on “ Local Media : management” on 17th September, agency for Global media.” 2012. 12th November 2012. Sri. G.P. Nair, Head, Technology, Dr. V. N. Suresh, Asst. Professor, Amrita TV , delivered an excellent Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam academic session on Past, Present delivered a session on the topic: and Future of Broadcast Industry on “International Financial Crisis and Eminent Social activist and Founder A talk on “ Data Recovery “ by 17th November 2012. Sri. Manojkumar, from SLI, Kochi. Innovative Financial Instruments” on Director , ‘Prajjwala’, Dr. Suneetha 6th October, 2012. Krishnan, and her husband 3 Amrita Veechi Music Club National Conference and Workshop on Under the tutelage of Dr. C.S. Jayaraman who teaches orchestra classes in Violin, classes in Internet Advertising and Planning Mridangam, Tabla, Keyboard, Harmonium, The Conference cum workshop has conducted Keyboard, Guitar and Carnatic Vocal have on 3rd, 4th and 5th October 2012. Sri. Sankaran also started. M/s Shyam, Vechur Jaykumar, Nampoothiri a renowned Advertising and Chottanikkara Ajaykumar are the other Web Technology Architect and Consultant teachers. The induction Guru vandanam at Chennai was the Principal Mentor of this session was blessed by Pujaneeya Swami totally interactive and practical workshop. He Purnamritananda Puri. This year more than was assisted by Sri. Vinod Laxman our faculty 40 new students have joined the chorus. member. Dr. Madhavan, Head of the R & D, Life orientation sessions and Dr. Renjith from the Nagarjuna Ayurveda Group joined Sri.Nampoothiri for presenting live cases which by Brahmachari Manoj were done by all the participants. All our Visual Media students and the external participants left the campus totally contented by gaining deeper insight into all the nuances of the core subject. All the U.G. 1st and 2nd Year students attended the Motivational Life Skills Development Session by Brahmachari National Conference in Security Monitoring Manoj during September 2012. Department of Computer Science and IT, in technical collaboration with Computer Society IAM Meditation Camps of India (CSI) organized a National conference Camps were conducted for all the batches in “Security Monitoring” (NCSM-2013) on of students from 30th July 2012 onwards. 15th & 16th February 2013 at our campus under Instructions were given by staff Ms. Supriya the coordination of Dr. M. Sethumadhavan, Rajendran (Department of Maths), K.G. Head, Center for Cyber Security, Amrita Gaina (Department of Computer Science Vishwa Vidyapeetham. The programme was and I.T.) and other staff instructors. inaugurated by Sri. A. Unnikrishnan, Associate Director, NPOL (DRDO), Kochi and the blessing address was Teachers’ day and given by Pujaneeya Swami Purnamritananda Puri, General Secretary, Mata Amritanandamayi Math on 15th Sanskrit Exhibition February 2013. Br. Dr. Jayaraj Poroor, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Amrita Research Labs, Amritapuri Campus, On 5th September Teachers’ day was delivered a distinguished keynote lecture. Technical sessions were handled by distinguished invited speakers celebrated and a three day exhibition on namely Dr. M. Sethumadhavan, Shri. S. Mukhopadhyay, General Manager and CISO (former), State Bank Sanskrit was inaugurated. Dr. P.C. Murali of India, Dr. V. Radha, Assistant Professor, Institute for development and Research in Banking Technology, Madhavan, an eminent scholar and Hyderabad. Workshops were conducted by Sri. Tamaghna Basu, Senior Security Engineer, eBay India Pvt. Ltd. Former Dean, Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit Bangalore, Sri. Kandasamy Muniasamy, Director, i-Human India Pvt Ltd, Chennai and Sri. Amalan Maria John, University and Prof. Vijayan Menon, Senior Manager and Practice Head –Security Services, CSC Independent Testing Services. Mentor of I.I.Ms and Civil services and Research scholars and students from Amrita University and various other colleges participated and presented Judicial academies were honoured as guests. papers. Best paper award was given to Sri. V.P. Binu and Dr. A Sreekumar of Cochin University of Science and They both spoke eloquently on teaching as Technology, for the paper titled “An improved Lossless Secret Image Sharing Scheme”. More than 300 students well as Sanskrit. attended along with the faculty members from different campuses. National Conference in Niche Journalism The two day National Conference in ‘NICHE JOURNALISM’ was conducted on October 17th and 18th , 2012. The following experts introduced the participants to the concept of Niche Journalism and its different facets. Sri. Manoj K. Das Sri. Kumar Chellapan Sri. Sabu John (Bureau Sri. Antony John ( Bureau (Resident Editor, TOI, Kochi) ( Special Correspondent, The Chief, Deepika) – Assembly Chief Malayala Manorama) –Niche Journalism Pioneer, Chennai) – Science Reporting – Sports Reporting and Journalism Journalism Sri. V. S. Shine (Chief Sri. Sajeev (Caricature artist) – Sri. T. C. Mathew (Associate Smt. Poornima Sreekanth Photographer, Matrubhumi) Cartoon Making, Salient features Editor, Rashtra Deepika) – (FCI, Kochi) – Jeans & Tees of the Art