Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda, delivered two invited talks during the First Latin American Conference on Ayurveda held at Rosario, Argentina on 5th and 6th of November, 2016 (1 er. Encuentro LatinoAmericano de Ayurveda).
Prashant R. Nair, Vice-Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, was selected for the international and national boards and conference committees in 2016.
Dr. P. Ram Manohar, Research Director, Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda, conducted a pre-conference workshop at Ayurvedic Point, Milan, Italy, on 17th September, 2016. The workshop, held on the eve of the Third International Congress on Ayurveda, focused on: the future in tradition, the use of Sanskrit in the classic texts, and study and comments on the sutras.
The United Nations has officially made Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India’s first-ever UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment. The official bestowing of the UNESCO Chair took place before an audience of 8,000 people during a spiritual programme of the University’s Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in Paris on October 30, 2016.
Sreeram Kongeseri from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was among 50 youth leaders from more than 30 countries selected to present and deliberate solutions for the realization of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
Prof. Rao R. Bhavani, Director of AMMACHI Labs, was a panellist and speaker at the Global Empowerment Summit in La Jolla, California, on October 22, 2016. She gave a talk during the session “Power of Compassion and Global Impact”.
Amrita School of Biotechnology’s Bioinspired robotics study titled “Using Cerebellar Architecture to Control Low-Cost Robotic Arms” was presented as an invited talk by Dr. Shyam Diwakar at the International Symposium on the Neuromechanics of Human Movement, 4th–6th October 2016 organized by University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Amrita School of Biotechnology Associate Professor Dr. Shyam Diwakar presented an invited talk on modelling the computations of cerebellum circuits and how robotic arms can employ such reconstructions for movement control at the NeuroMath Meeting.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Genpact, a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an academia-industry collaboration to meet the ever-increasing demand for data scientists, at the institution’s Bengaluru campus. This unique academia-industry collaboration is a strategic initiative aimed at meeting talent requirements for industry-ready data scientists.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham recently coordinated the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 program between 10 universities in Europe and 10 universities in India with the final meeting conducted at the University of Porto, Portugal from May 24th-25th, 2016.
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