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MARCH 2010 NEWSLETTER
Dear friends,
The Distinguished Alumnus Awardees for 2010 are Dr. Nitish Thakor, Mr. R. Chandrashekhar, Mr. Adil Zainulbhai, Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa, and Mr. Colin H. Gonsalves ... more. The awards were presented at IIT Bombay's 51st Foundation Day which was celebrated on March 10 with TIFR Director Barma as the chief guest ... more.
Subhash Khot ('99), most well known for his "Unique Games Conjecture", has received the prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award is given annually to an outstanding young researcher in any field of science and engineering supported by the NSF... more.
HRD Minister Sibal has suggested scrapping the JEE for a common aptitude test. News reports suggest that any move to end the JEE is likely to ignite opposition from within the IIT community ... more.
IIT Bombay has bagged 5 out of 20 Young Innovators Awards for India announced by MIT's Technology Review ... more.
HATS websites launched for all Hostels - help make a difference for your campus home away from home ... more. Alumni donations for the Young Faculty Award (YFA) program are helping IITB attract top-notch young faculty and nurture their development ... more.
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Events and Announcements ... more
Alumni in the News:
- Animesh Verma, Sushil Borkar, Dhiraj Kacker, Peeyush Rai, Prabhkiran Singh ... more.
Please write to us at office@iitbombay.org with news items featuring IIT Bombay or any of our alumni.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
- YFA - February Interview: Prof. Salil Kulkarni
- The Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to attract top-notch young faculty to IIT Bombay and nurture their development in supporting IIT Bombay’s "Tryst with Excellence" and continued global technological leadership. The February YFA interview features Prof. Salil Kulkarni of the Mechanical Engg. Department at IIT Bombay.
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- IIT-IIM grads opt for domestic offers
- Even though students across IIMs this year got good international offers, unlike last year, from firms in Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong, U.S and Australia, they have preferred to take domestic over international ones. Better career prospects in India, because of the booming economy, are the main reason. IIT Bombay alum Aditya, who got an offer from one of the leading I-banks where he would have been placed in NY, London, Hong Kong or Singapore, preferred to stay in India looking at a long-term career in India.
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- Yuppy by day, writer by night
- IIT Bombay alumnus Animesh Verma has already witnessed his second book disappearing off the shelves, the economic recession — a key theme in the book — apparently striking a chord with readers. Verma’s first novel, Love, Life and Dream On, which he wrote while he was still at IIT, dealt with the 2005 Delhi bomb blasts and the anti-reservation protests that rocked the capital over the next three years. His second book, I Am Broke ... Love Me, follows a young Indian investment banker based in the US who loses his job in the recession.
- Humble vegetable oil brings them electricity
- The inhabitants 65 tribal families of remote Kolha village in Dhenkanal district never thought of experiencing the joy of electricity in their lifetime. But now with indigenously developed straight vegetable oil (SVO) technology, they would fulfil their long-standing desire. A prototype project, developed by Cummins India Limited (CIL) and IIT Mumbai through a collaborative research work, perhaps would lead the way for other remote areas where grassroots social service organisations can replicate the story.
- Salary offers at IITs yet to pick up
- Graduates expect a 10-15 per cent rise compared to last year ... while students at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are uncorking the bubbly with salary offers that have bettered last year’s figures, the scenario at many Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year is not all that chirpy. At IIT Bombay, things are at the brightest. Around 1,150 students are up for placements this year. Sources informed that the highest salary at the institute is Rs 40 lakh this year, nearly double of the highest salary secured last year.
- C-Dac developing green tech for PARAM supercomputer
- Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-Dac) is designing and developing a green computing technology for running a top end high speed PARAM supercomputer, top officials said. A computational electromagnetic simulation, consisting of two billion cell points on PARAM Yuva was carried out by scientist GK Shavare from IIT Bombay.
- The foreign invasion in education will take its toll
- Mumbai: The Union cabinet has served a “wake-up call” on educational institutions in India by nodding for the foreign educational institutions (regulation of entry and operation, maintenance of quality and prevention of commercialisation) bill, 2010.
- Canvera, a startup by IITB alumni, presents Kumble's 'Wide Angle'
- Cricket star Anil Kumble’s Wide Angle brings together the great player’s abiding passions – cricket, photography and wildlife. The book is being printed and distributed by India’s premier online Digital Photography company Canvera, a startup by two IIT Bombay Alumni-Dhiraj Kacker and Peeyush Rai, who have won many awards for the quality of their coffee-table-books. Canvera has built a full ecommerce site that will allow cricket lovers around the globe to preview and buy the book.
- Washington University in St. Louis students at IIT Bombay
- Students from the Washington Univ. in St. Louis will visit IIT Bombay in Summer 2010. Students will receive a broad exposure to energy and environmental projects, and learn about active collaborative projects underway in areas of energy and environment, materials engineering, transport phenomena and reaction engineering, between Washington University in St. Louis and IIT Bombay.
- Now, a dual degree at IIT Bombay
- Mumbai: A dual degree – MSc-PhD programme in Environmental Science and Engineering – will soon be started by IIT Bombay. Virendra Sethi, head of the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) at IIT Bombay, said, “A large pool of talented people may not get into medicine or engineering after Std XII. And once they finish their Bachelor of Science (BSc) course, many don't know what their work options are. This dual degree programme is meant to help them.”
- State varsities will have to pull up socks, or they will perish: Experts
- Devang Khakhar, IIT Bombay director, said foreign universities were likely to impact faculty recruitment. “We recruit the best talent. So, we will be competing with foreign universities while trying to attract new talent,” he said.
- IITs to propose Ganga basin management plan
- A consortium of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Guwahati and Roorkee) will propose a Ganga river basin management plan to the ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). The proposal was mooted at the first joint Environmental Energy and Climate Change Education and Research meet at IIT Bombay on Saturday.
- 3 IITB Alumni in 2010 Forbes Billionaire List
- Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani (78), Romesh Wadhwani (69), Chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group, and Bharat Desai (75), Founder and Chairman of Syntel Inc., are featured on the Forbes list of billionaires announced on March 10.
- Jairam Ramesh speech at IIT Bombay on Mar 13
- A dedicated satellite would be launched with the support of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2012 to monitor India's greenhouse gas emission, Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh told reporters at IIT Powai. He also said that a National Green Tribunal is to be established soon. And despite government taking several measures to keep river Ganga clean and pollution free, he said the task of cleaning is unlikely to happen in next five years unless there is awareness on part of common man.
- Jairam Ramesh to speak on campus on Mar 13
- IIT Bombay alumnus Jairam Ramesh ('75), India's Minister of Environment and Forests will be speaking on campus in the Convocation Hall at 11:30 am on March 13. Mr. Ramesh is a Member of Parliament representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha since June 2004. Before taking charge of the Ministry of Environment and Forests in May 2009, he was the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry as well as the Minister of State for Power.
Sincerely,
Team IITBHF & IITBAA
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