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APRIL 2010 NEWSLETTER
Dear friends,
Applied Materials and IIT Bombay have announced a partnership for energy-related initiatives, as a part of which AMAT will donate three process chambers and a solar panel system to IIT Bombay. The panels will be connected to energy efficient LEDs that will light the main avenue on campus ... more.
A number of events are coming up of interest to alumni ... registrations are going strong for PanIIT 2010 to be held in New Delhi from Oct 29-31, 2010. The theme of the conference is "Sustainable Transformation: Our new India". Tom Friedman, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Gurcharan Das, and Nandan Nilelkani are amongst the many eminent speakers ... register now.
Pune-area alumni are urged to send in nominations for three positions on the Executive Committee of the Pune Chapter of IITBAA. Nominations close on April 30th and online elections will be held if necessary from May 7-14 ... more.
Register now for the inaugural PanIIT Research Summit which is to be held in Silicon Valley on May 16th and will feature IITB alum and DARP-E head Dr. Arun Majumdar and Padma Shri Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala and others ... more.
Alumni of Hostel 4 have come together to write a book about their times in H4. The book is being edited by acclaimed author Urmila Deshpande, granddaughter of Sahitya Academy Award winner Iravati Karve, and is slated for release on Alumni Day on Dec 26. Royalty earnings will be utilized for funding H4 HATS ... calling on H4-ites to contribute their anecdotes, memories, pictures etc. --- visit the H4 HATS site for information ... more.
Meanwhile, HATS websites have been launched for all Hostels ... more. Alumni donations are also invited for the pioneering Young Faculty Award (YFA) program which is helping IITB attract top-notch young faculty ... more.
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Alumni in the News:
- Ashank Desai's ('74), Ashish Rangnekar ('02), Dhiraj Kacker ('93), Peeyush Rai ('93), V.P. Baligar ('78), Dr Rama Iyer, Sanjai Kohli ('79), Vasant Prabhu ('81), Nitin Donde ('80) ... more.
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NEWS IN BRIEF:
Visit http://www.iitbombay.org/news for all the news ...
Alumni in the news - April 15 Ashank Desai's ('74) story is about his ability to rise from a childhood of hardship to visionary leadership in the Indian software sector | Ashish Rangnekar ('02) develops apps for iPad | Dhiraj Kacker ('93) and Peeyush Rai ('93) make moolah out of people’s emotive memories at Canvera | V.P. Baligar ('78) leads a Karnataka team in Mumbai to woo investors | Dr Rama Iyer in ‘Backwaters to Boardroom’ , while talking about his experience in IIT Bombay in the early 1960s IIT Bombay Celebrates World IP Day On April 26 Mumbai: This year too, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay celebrates the World IP Day on Monday i.e. April 26, 2010, by arranging two events on the afternoon. Every year, April 26 is being celebrated as the World IP Day at IIT Bombay. Back to India: US universities lose sheen When Bidya Binay Karak decided to get a Ph D. in solar astrophysics, she didn’t consider going to America, the land that — lest we forget — put man on the moon. This, despite the fact that the US is widely upheld as the bastion of astrophysics research. The reason? “Institutes like the IISc [Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore] offer world-class master’s and doctoral programmes,” she says, as a matter of fact. Shahrukh, Aamir To Feature In Cameron’s New Flick Aamir plays the film’s antagonist, a rogue ISI agent cum CIA informant posing as a college student in IIT Mumbai. Talks call before IIT reforms The panel of IIT directors that has recommended relying more on board examination scores than entrance test performances in picking students to engineering schools has also cautioned the government against rushing ahead with the reforms without adequate consultations. Alumni in the news - April 12 Road transport exchange started by three IITB graduates looks to reduce bottlenecks, lead time| Father of mass market GPS is an Indian|Starwood Hotels & Resorts Names Vasant Prabhu Vice Chairman| New kind of green revolution - A T-shirt to help you walk the green mile | Nitin Donde appointed as EVP of Engineering for Aster Data US mentors for Indian faculty - an initiative by the Pan IIT Alumni Association Engineering PhD candidates can now look forward to mentoring from faculty members of some top US engineering institutions. Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) — an initiative by the Pan IIT Alumni Association — has taken up a US co-guide PhD initiative wherein faculty members of Indian engineering institutes would be able to obtain PhDs in a four-year period, with the mentoring of distinguished US faculty. Reliance World launches Robotics camp for school children in Bangalore Reliance World launches Robotics camp ROBOCAMPTM for school students in association with IIT-incubated Company ThinkLABS robo.in in Bangalore. ROBOCAMPTM to help young minds develop invaluable skills such as problem-solving, logical reasoning, critical thinking and creativity Indian Scientist Bags NSF Award The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the selection of New York University's Subhash Khot, an associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, to receive its 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award. Khot earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1999, and a doctorate in computer science from Princeton University in 2003. Student exchanges between Japan and 12 Indian institutes Japanese educational institutions will start student exchange programme with at least 12 educational institutes including Indian Institutes of Technology and other universities Kakodkar panel on IITs looking at fee hike A high-profile committee headed by Dr Anil Kakodkar, chairman of Atomic Energy Commission and IIT Bombay Board of Governors, will meet next week for the first time to examine ways and means to allow IITs to expand their horizons, make academics attractive and boost research. Mumbai Community Card The Mumbai Community Card is a tool that leverages the power of consumer spending to build a better community ... membership offers discounts for shopping at local merchants, ordering food from nearby restaurants, calling a technician to repair your appliances, sending gifts to your loved ones, booking tickets, etc. Meet Nikhil Dhoka, founder and director, who has done his B-Tech from IIT Bombay and Amit Kumar, in-charge of the Set up Operations, is a B Tech, M Tech from IIT B.
Sincerely,
Team IITBHF & IITBAA
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