Amrita Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE), Corporate and Industry Relations (CIR), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, successfully concluded its first month-long Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) on 27th June, 2016. The programme, organized by ACE, CIR, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, was sponsored by National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, and routed via Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad.
The Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham MBA Programme and the Center for Economic Fragility & Governance (CEFg), Amritapuri campus, jointly organized a Seminar on Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries on 18th June, 2016, in Amritapuri. The invited speaker for the event was Dr. Alok Bhargava, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, USA.
Simple techniques like hand hygiene, surgical safety check-lists, and empowering nurses to confidently communicate patient concerns can drastically improve outcomes for infants and children undergoing heart surgery in India, according to world’s top pediatric cardiologists assembled at the Amrita Hospital in Kochi.
The Seventh International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP) is hosted by the Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. It will be held in Bangalore, India, on August 2- 6, 2016.
Senior Scientist and Strategist Dr. Jayant Sathaye, who contributed to the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke on the topic ‘Understanding Climate Change to Limit Atmospheric Temperature Increase and Impact on Utilities’ at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore on June 11, 2016.
A two-day national workshop focusing on issues and difficulties faced by women-headed families, sponsored by the National Commission for Women, was held at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from June 14-15, 2016.
Dr. Jayant Sathaye will deliver a lecture on “Climate Change” at Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore on Saturday, June 11, 2016, at ECR Hall in the campus.
India’s top medical experts assembled at a two-day ‘National Conference on Healthcare Management’ at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (“Amrita Hospital”) during May 20 – 21, 2016 to call for frugal innovation to make healthcare affordable without sacrificing quality.
A special talk on “Internet of Energy: Implication on Infrastructure and Democratization of Energy Use” by Dr. Priyaranjan Mishra, Principal Scientist, Philips – India, was organized by the student branch of IEEE Power Electronics Society, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru on April 15, 2016.
On 9th April, 2016, a workshop on Advanced Network Implementation-CISCO was conducted by Mr. Vinod N. V., Member of Technical Staff, Juniper Networks Pvt. Ltd. The interactive sessions included Computer Network Fundamentals, TCP/IP and OSI Layers, IP Addressing, Static Routing and Dynamic Routing.
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