Programs
- M. Sc. Cognitive Sciences, Learning and Technology - Postgraduate
- Bachelor of Social Work – Honours with Research - Undergraduate
Dr. Balagopal Varma R., Professor & Head, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Principal of Amrita School of Dentistry received the “Star Pedodontist” award at the 37th National Conference of Indian Society of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry held at Raipur from October 7-10, 2015.
Many villages in India do not have access to electricity. Villages that do receive power, do so intermittently and with frequent disruption, making the supply of electricity unreliable. Komalikudi, a tribal settlement in Kerala well-known for its abundant natural resources, is one such village.
In the International KAKENHI Workshop on Long-term Growth of Firms and Corporate Governance, organized by Chuo Univerisity and Musashi University in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)- Mumbai from September 2-3, 2015, Dr. Sangeetha Gunasekar, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore along with Ms. K. G. Sofi Dinesh, Faculty Associate, Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri presented a paper titled ‘Impact of board independence on the performance of listed Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in India’.
Dr. Roshy John, Head of TCS Robotics and Cognitive Systems Group, Kochi, Project Manager Rajaram and Reeja George, the Academic Relationship Manager for TCS Kerala visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to interact with AMMACHI Labs’ MTech students and Amrita faculty.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated at the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) 2015 held at Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy from September 20-24, 2015.
Amrita Multimodal Applications and Computer Human Interaction (AMMACHI) Labs, established in 2009, is a multidisciplinary research center of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham with a focus in technological innovation for social impact in the fields of computer-human interaction, haptics, multimedia and virtual reality.
September 23rd & 24th 2015, marked the third annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held at Columbia University in New York City. The conference’s theme, Implementing the SDGs: Getting Started had riveting discussions concerning the United Nation’s latest endeavour to launch the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Dr. P. Balasubramanian, Associate Professor, Amrita School of Business (ASB), Coimbatore presented a paper on ‘Sunk Cost Fallacy– Effect of Situational Knowledge on Irrational Choices’ at Singapore Economic Review conference (SERC) 2015 from August 5th-7th.
The Department of Mathematics, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru organized a two-day workshop on Graph Theory and its Applications on 6th and 7th August 2015. About 30 delegates from various engineering colleges of India and around 30 members, including faculty members, research scholars and M.Tech. students from Amrita, attended the workshop.
Preeja Pradeep, Research Associate and PhD Scholar at AmritaWNA presented papers at the 5th International Conference on IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from August 24-27, 2015.