Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology and Associate Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, was an invited speaker for the third time at an event organised by the International School of Brain Cells & Circuits.
The articles authored by Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Kochi, are featured in the November and December 2017 issues of CSI Communications magazine of Computer Society of India (CSI).
A 15-member team of officials from the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to India, New Delhi, and constituent nations of EU, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Kochi from November 23-24, 2017.
The researchers at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi has found a way to burn liver cancer. They have turned a substance commonly found in bones into apotent weapon that can seek and kill tumour cells.
Amrita Computational Neuroscience & Neurophysiology Lab recently developed a ‘Narrative Construct Sequence Learning’ method based on human capability towards narration of stories. The method was evaluated in the context of online systems.
Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), the global leader in trusted insights and analytics for research and innovation, announced the 6th edition of the India Research Excellence-Citation Awards-2017, recognizing and honouring research excellence in the country on different fields and Dr. R. Jayakumar, Professor at the Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has received this award under the “Medical & Health Sciences” discipline. The awards were held at Sheraton, New Delhi, on November 3, 2017.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has signed an MoU with Uppsala University, Sweden, for extending research and educational exchanges and joint activities between faculty members and departments in both institutions.
Dr. Vijay Harish Somasundaram, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, presented a part of his doctoral work at the 15th annual ANMPI (Association of Nuclear Medicine Physicians of India) conference held in association with the ICC (Indian Cancer Congress) 2017 conference at Bangalore, from November 8th to 12th, 2017.
Amrita faculty members, Mr. Prashant R. Nair, Vice Chairman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, and Dr. K. V. Shriram, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Coimbatore, have authored a textbook, Software Project Management, published by the reputed publishing house, Narosa.
Amrita faculty member, Mr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, and Associate Professor at Amrita School of Biotechnology, was invited to give talks at IIT Hyderabad and IIT Madras on August 17th and 23rd August, 2017.