Ms.Gayathri Shanmugham, Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Science Hopper, interacted with students of Amrita School of Business, Bengaluru and discussed the world of Business Ventures on January 23, 2016.
A two-day hands-on endoscopy workshop, Amrita GI Endo Meet (A-GEM), was held at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences during January 16–17, 2016. The workshop aimed at teaching specialized endoscopic procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of certain gastrointestinal disorders, to upcoming gastrointestinal physicians from across the country.
Prof. T. S. Keshava Prasad gave an extensive talk on “Proteomics and Proteogenomic Approaches to Investigate Human Diseases” at Amrita School of Biotechnology on 3rd February, 2016
Dr. Kshitij Bansal, Fellow in Pediatric Neurology, Amrita, won the 2nd best paper award at the International Conference on Child Neurology in Chennai during January 22 – 24, 2016.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has had partnered with The India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability (IC-IMPACTS) to develop and implement community-based solutions to meet the most urgent needs of Canada and India: poor water quality, unsafe and unsustainable infrastructure, and poor health from waterbornewater-borne and infectious diseases. The collaboration is to develop and test local solutions that can be scaled up across India and Canada.
Researchers from Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine won Best Poster and Oral Presentation Travel Awards at the International Conference on Nanotechnology ‘Nano Today 2015’ at Dubai, during 5-9 Dec 2015.
Students experienced sheer sense of joy and happiness as participants of the Janam TV Campus Fest programme organized on February 1, 2016.
Among the most exciting recent events at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore (ASB Coimbatore) was its alumni meet, held on 23rd and 24th January, 2016. The two-day meet saw an enthusiastic participation of alumni, professors and current students. Two hundred+ alumni from all walks of life, including Executive VPs, Directors, CEOs and entrepreneurs from across the globe, walked into the campus to relive their memories of their Alma Mater.
A paper titled “Small Signal Modeling of Gas Turbine Plant for Load Frequency Control” authored by S. Selvakumar and Dr. S. Balamurugan of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Campus, received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Biennial International Conference on Power and Energy Systems towards Sustainable Energy (PESTSE – 2016) held at Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru during January 21-23, 2016.
The Department of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, organised a two-day workshop on MATLAB/OCTAVE from January 29-30, 2016.