The ACM ICPC 2018 Asia-Amritapuri Multi-site Regional Contest was held on December 29, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri and Coimbatore campuses This years’ ICPC Asia-Amritapuri multi-site regional contest witnessed more than 275 teams from premier institutions like IITs, IIITs, NITs and IISc from India and Bangladesh.
PhD scholars at Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) Mr. Ram Kumar and Ms. Uma Gopalakrishnan published a research work titled “Multiparty Gaze Preservation through Perspective Switching for Interactive eLearning Environments” in the Springer Journal ”Multimedia Tools and Applications” with an Impact factor of 1.5.
Dr. Vandana K. Vasudevan third year PG Scholar from the Department of Prasutitantra and Streeroga, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, won first prize for poster presentation at the “8th World Ayurveda Congress and Arogya Expo” organized by the World Ayurveda Foundation and Ministry of Ayush, Govt of India, conducted at Gujarat University Convention and exhibition Centre, Ahmedabad from December 14-17, 2018.
On 19th December 2018, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Navy for collaboration in aerospace, anti-submarine warfare, cybersecurity, management, and medical research.
Amrita’s UNESCO Chair in Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality hosted its first international colloquium from December 17-19, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kerala.
Dr. P. Rammanohar, Research Director of Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ĀCĀRA), Amrita School of Ayurveda, Amritapuri and faculty member of Integrative Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, visited Moscow from December 2-10, 2018.
Team bi0s from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, participated in the annual Black Hat Europe Conference held in London from December 5-6, 2018.
As we know, Virtual Reality (VR) is dramatically changing the way the world consumes content online and offline. It could prove disastrous for future businesses if they overlook this magnificent feat of technology.
On October 31st, 2018, Dr. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) was invited to give a talk on “Online Engineering and Virtual Laboratories in India: Learners and Teachers Beyond Traditional Classrooms” to professors and their international office team at the Munich Center for Neurosciences– Brain & Mind (MCN) at Munich, Germany.
In another stellar display of its academic excellence, 42 students and young researchers from the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) have presented 11 peer-reviewed papers at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) held between 11th and 15th of September, 2018 at PES University, Bengaluru, India.