Abhinand Nandakumar and Srijan Agarwal, B. Tech. sophomore Computer Science and Engineering students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amritapuri Campus, were invited and given travel scholarships to give a talks at FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) APAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia from November 4-6, 2016.
Fourth year student, Anjali Menon, attended the three day Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) representing Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, held at Houston, Texas from October 19-21 2016- a program of the famous Anita Borg Institute.
Tony Thomas, 2016 graduate and an alumnus of FOSS @ Amrita, had the opportunity to attend the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentors Summit at Google Tech. A total of 2,524 mentors were involved, and only around 300 of them were invited by Google for the Mentors Summit at Sunnyvale, California.
Encouraged by Chancellor Mata Amritanandamayi, faculty, staff, and students from the Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA), the Department of Civil Engineering, the Amrita Center for International Programs and Live-in-Labs® at Amrita University, Amritapuri campus, have implemented a sustainable solution for water collection and distribution at Gudipadu Cheruvu, an ASeRve village.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the University of Trento signed an agreement towards education and research mobility on Saturday, November 12th, 2016 in Busto Arsizio, Italy.
Prof. Allan Bateman from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia, UPC Barcelona Tech, Spain, visited the Amritapuri campus in late April-early May 2016.
Dr. Ingrid Paoletti, Associate Professor of Building Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milam – POLIMI), Italy, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in October 2016 as a part of the Rector’s Delegation to India.
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.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated in the 12th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2016, a global conference and exhibition, held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, from 10th to 12th November, 2016. The summit was inaugurated by Shri N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on November 10th.
ACM Student Chapter, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus and Cochin Refineries School, Ambalamugal, organized a one day workshop on Competitive Programming and Problem Solving for high school computer science teachers, on 12th November, 2016, at Cochin Refineries School, Ambalamugal.