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Dear friends,
India got a symbol for the Rupee and joined a select club of countries whose currencies have an unique identity. D. Udaya Kumar, a postgraduate student at IIT Bombay has designed the symbol ... more.
The FAN 2010 Symposium and Faculty Interviews will be held in Santa Clara, CA, on September 26 ... more. The event will feature keynote speeches by Director Devang Khakhar and eminent speakers on the topic of "Bioscience and Bioengineering Research Applications in Healthcare". IIT Bombay will conduct interviews and make offers to qualified faculty candidates at FAN 2010.
Nominations for 3 positions on the Board of IITBAA are due by August 6 and online voting will be held from August 12-19 ... more.
Register now 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". President Pratibha Patil, IITB alums Nandan Nilekani and Arun Majumdar, Tom Friedman, and Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior are amongst the many eminent speakers ...
HATS continues to call for volunteers wishing to support their hostels ... more. Hostel 4 alumni are writing a book about their times in H4, which is slated for release on Alumni Day on Dec 26. Click here for their Facebook page and contribute anecdotes, memories, pictures etc. ... more.
Alumni donations for the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program are helping IITB attract top-notch young faculty and nurture their development ... more.
Alumni are invited to sign up for IITB's extensive online presence on Twitter, Batch-wise YahooGroups, LinkedIn and FaceBook ... more.
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Events and Announcements ... more
- Online elections will be held for three positions on the Board of IITBAA. Nominations are due from Life Members by Aug 6 and voting will be held from Aug 12-19. more.
- B'lore Chapter welcomes new alumni: 12th August Freshie Nite more .
- London Chapter Picnic on August 22nd at Univ. of Southampton more .
- All India Alumni meet in Goa on Sep 4-5 ... more
- Registrations are open for the Class of '85 SJ Reunion ... more.
- Register now for PanIIT 2010 in New Delhi from Oct 29-31 ... more.
- Latest news about alumni giving back to their Hostels via HATS ... more.
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Alumni in the News:
- Dr. Balasubramanian @ Daimler-Benz, Vasant Prabhu @ Starwood, Hon. Min. Jairam Ramesh, Biju D. and Ajay Kela ... more.
Please write to us at office@iitbombay.org with news items featuring IIT Bombay or any of our alumni.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
IIT Panel suggests major changes in admission process to MHRDA panel of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has recommended that 70 percent weightage be given to Class 12 marks and 30 percent to marks obtained in an aptitude test conducted more than once a year for the Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).
IITB students lap up jobs in finance sector
As the economy gathers steam, the domestic financial services sector is on a hiring spree and IIT Bombay has seen 40 per cent jump in campus placements, a senior university official said today.Software tool by IITians-run firms to aid supersonic aircraft researchResearch on supersonic aircraft may soon get a fillip as a group of pune-based IITian startups have developed tools to enhance the designing process and make it faster and cheaper. The software tool is called Integrated Design Using Inline Optimisation Technology, (IDIOT).1st year students in IIT-B will undergo pre-internshipTo get students excited about research, IIT Bombay, for the first time, plans to introduce “pre-internship” opportunities for first year students this year.IITBAA Board Elections 2010Online elections will be held for three positions on the Board of IITBAA. Nominations are due from Life Members by Aug 6 and voting will be held from Aug 12-19 on the election portal at http://www.iitbombayelections.org.New symbol for Indian Rupee designed by IIT Bombay alumThe Indian rupee will soon have a unique symbol - a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' — joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in having a distinct identity. The new symbol, designed by Bombay IIT post-graduate D Udaya Kumar, was approved by the cabinet reflecting the fact that the Indian currency, backed by an over-trillion dollar economy, was finally making its presence felt on the international scene.Alumni in News, July 14Today's Pithy, Cautionary Note on Economic Trends | Starwood on the ascendant | Ramesh refuses to guarantee clearance for Navi Mumbai Airport | The aesthetics of visual effects | Philanthropy can be profit in disguise for corporates | India needs more entrepreneurs: Ashank DesaiAfter decades of leniency, IIT-B gets tough about attendanceThe Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) has got serious about attendance. Its classrooms will soon be fitted with biometric systems, which will take thumbprint records to mark students' attendance. This will be a shift in culture for the Powai institute, which two decades ago did not even have compulsory attendance.At 22, wonder boy joins IIT faculty BANGALORE: Tathagat Tulsi, 22 years, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay.Find it unbelievable? It would have been if it was not Tulsi. For a boy who finished high school (Class X) at the age of 9, this is just another feather on his cap. "I will join IIT Bombay on 19 July. Besides that, I have offers from Waterloo University, Canada, and IISER, Bhopal," he said. "But I chose IITBombay because of my desire to work at a wellestablished institute in India."Tulsi will teach students of his age or elder than him at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.Artisans get sales tips from IIT-BMumbai: Technology is not just about developing humanoids and sending rockets into space. At a recent workshop conducted by IIT Bombay's Industrial Design Centre (IDC), a motley bunch of 24 artisans from Assam learnt how to weave innovative ideas into their craft.Innovations 2011 - PuneInnovations is an event organized by IITBAA - Pune Chapter every year to foster innovation in society - the last date for entries is Oct 6. The event showcases selected novel ideas in practice, and provides a platform for the innovators to disseminate their ideas to a wider and well-connected audience. Innovations 2011 is being held on 8th January 2011 at Pune. Meet the innovators, watch their innovations in action, listen to successful innovators who have scaled up their ideas to commercial success. Be there!
Finally, a warm welcome to Sanjay Pujare ('84) as the new editor of the Monthly Newsletter.
Sincerely,
Team IITBHF & IITBAA
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