Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has been hosting the world’s prestigious and largest collegiate programming contest, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), for the past 11 years. This “Olympics of programming contest” attracts worldwide participation every year from students of computer science and engineering. Over these past eleven years, the participation has increased multiple times, reaching 1500+ teams this year. From 240+ institutions across the country, 4500+ talented brains will complete in this contest on Sunday, the 11th of October. Four to five algorithmic problems will be posted for the contest of 3 hours duration. The contest is hosted in CodeChef.com one of the best learning platforms for competitive programming aspirants. To a great extent, CodeChef has contributed in the growth of competitive programming culture in India.
A Workshop on Industrial Energy Audit was organized by the student branch chapters- IEEE Power Energy Society (PES) and IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), on September 19, 2015.
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.
The IEEE Power Electronics Society Student Branch Chapter was inaugurated by Dr. Priya Ranjan Mishra, Principal Scientist, Philips, Bangalore and Dr. Balaraman Kannan, PRDC, Vice Chair of PES Chapter, Bangalore at the Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus on September 10th, 2015.
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.
An Amrita research paper titled, Recommending Customizable Products: A Multiple Choice Knapsack Solution, was presented at the 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining & Semantics (WIMS ’15), Limassol, Cyprus from July 13-14, 2015.
The 12th Convocation of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was held at Coimbatore campus on September 7, 2015. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Honourable Union Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India and Shri. N. Chandrasekaran, CEO, TCS, were the Guests of Honour at the convocation ceremony.
Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru Campus organized the 2nd Annual Alumni Meet on 1st August, 2015. The program was graced by Associate Dean & Head, Dr. Rakesh S.G. and Ms. Supriya M., Chair of the Alumni Association, Bengaluru Chapter & Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru.
IEEE Women in Engineering Student Branch was inaugurated at the Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru campus on July 23, 2015.
IEEE Power Energy Society Student Chapter was inaugurated at the Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru campus on August 10, 2015.
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