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.
A one-day workshop on Raspberry Pi was conducted on 7th April 2016, by Mr. Sajith Warrier, Research Associate at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.
Dr. Manzoor Koyakutty is one of the researchers at the forefront of the ACNSMM work concerning multifunctional nanomedicines for targeting key oncogenic pathways in drug resistant cancer cells.
As part of the B. Tech. elective course, coded HUM 259, Understanding Science of Food and Nutrition, a workshop on Food Service Management and Dietetics was organized by the department of Humanities under the guidance of Dr. Janci Rani P. R. and Dr. Tharanidevi N. on 31st March and 1st April 2016.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, organized the Amritotsavam 2016 Cultural Fest which concluded on April 1, 2016.