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Vedanta - the Cultural Club
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The club organized:
Amrita Pravas to Veda Vigynana Gurukulam on 16th February, 2014. Around 40
students participated in the event.
A workshop on Vedic Life in Modern World, where students were taken through
sessions on spirituality in the modern world and goal setting. The workshop also
focused on Shramaseva, which made students realise the importance of social service.
Spoken Samskritam classes in the campus in the evenings from 6.00 PM to 7.30 PM in
the Yoga Hall from 17th to 28th February, 2014. More than 30 students attended the
event which was conducted by Mr. Tapasi, Diagonising Engineer CISCO. Mr. Tapasi is
associated with an organization called Samskrita Bharathi and teaches samskritam to
students as a part of his social service activity.
Maardhani - the Literary Club
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Maardhani the Literary Club conducted Litathon, an event which included Dumb
Charades, Go Illogical and JAM from 19th to 21st February, 2014. Over 20 students participated
in this event.
Invited Talk
On 24th February 2014 a talk was held by an young researcher Mr. Tarun Ayitam in the
area of Science Communication. He spoke on the topic of Indian Science. The event was
attended by more than 200 students.
Mahashivarathri Celebrations
Mahashivarathri was celebrated in the campus on 27th February, 2014 with great
devotion. The programme was graced by Br. Dhanraj, Director of the School. Many faculty
members and more than 450 students participated in the event. The members of Vedanta Club
enacted a play on Lord Shiva in Samskritam. This was followed by singing of Bhajans by the
Bhajanamritam team. The lyrics of the bhajans were shown on a screen in order to enable the
audience to join the team. Videos on Lord Shiva were also screened. The programme which
went on upto 1.30 AM on 28th February, 2014 was a night of Jagaran in the true sense.
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MAD Nite
The School organized MAD Nite on 28th February, 2014 which was a Music, Art and
Dance night. Students of the school enthusiastically put up performances which included group
songs, group dances and bands. The performances were very well received by the guests and the
audience present.
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Internati nal Conference
NAME TITLE DATE NAME OF THE EVENT
Anasuya Threse Innocent K. Sangeeta
Secure Two-Party Computati n with AES-128: Generic Approach and Exploiting Specific Properties of Functions Approach
17th -19th February, 2014
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Applications of the Digital Information and Web Technologies 2014 at PRIST University-Chennai
Supriya M. Sangeeta K. G.K. Patra
Comparison of Trust Values using Triangular and Gaussian Fuzzy Membership Functi ns for Infrastructure as a Service
21st & 22nd February, 2014
International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network and Computi g, CNC 2014 at Chennai
Papers Presented
Dr. T.S.B. Sudarshan:
attended the World Ranking Summit at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai,
Coimbatore on 25th February 2014 on an invitation, wherein results of the QS World
University Ranking by Subject were announced.
has been invited to be a member of the Technical Program Committee for 2014
International Workshop on Mobile Application (MobiApp 2014) to be held in
Barcelona, Spain during 27th - 29th August, 2014.
Mr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya:
was invited as a Technical Committee Member (Part of the Organizing Committee) for
the International Conference on Remote Sensing and Wireless Communications
(RSWC 2014) which was held on 15th & 16th February, 2014 in Shangai.
reviewed two papers for IEEE Technology and Engineering Education(ITEE) in the
month of February.
Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition
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FACE the departmental forum organized:
Workshop on Android App Development Techniques on 1st February, 2014 by
Mr. Santosh Reddy, a student of S8 CSE. It was a one day workshop held in Krishna
Hall. The workshop was aimed at beginners, who had no prior experience in Java/
Android development. The workshop started with a brief introduction to Java with the
Android app market and explored the interface of the Android Developer Tools. Mr.
Santosh explained about the Android Virtual Device Manager. Then the participants
created a simple Hello World app and executed it on Android Virtual Device Manager.
Students learned how to create a Toast Message, created a login page with fields for a
username & password and a submit button. Nearly 70 students who participated in this
workshop also created alert boxes and designed simple applications. Deployment of
app to Google Play Store was also covered.
A workshop on Web Development on the 5th and from 26th to 28th of February,
2014 in the E-Learning Center. The objective of this event was to inspire the B.Tech.
students to participate in the upcoming event called SLAC. Mr. Adivandhya. B.R. of
S6 CSE took a series of sessions on web development. Students were taught how to
build web applications right from the ground up. Bootstrap, front-end framework along
with back-end coding in python were taught. Many B.Tech. students attended this
workshop.
CTF Training on 20th February, 2014 in the E-Learning Hall. Mr. Tanoy Bose of S8
ECE and Mr. Shiek-Al-Farhan S4 CSE were the speakers. The speakers conducted an
introductory session regarding Capture the Flag (CTF) contests. Students were told
about CTF and how to go about solving challenges. The speakers demonstrated these
techniques by solving a simple CTF and gave a chance for the students to take part in a
CTF. Many B.Tech. students attended the training.
Forum Activities
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Dr. Shikha Tripathi attended the Summit on Higher Education, Innovation & Excellence and
Release of QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2014, at Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai Campus held on 25th February, 2014.
Dr. N.S. Murty arranged a talk on System Verilog for M.Tech. (VLSI Design) students and
for the faculty members of Department of ECE. The talk was delivered by Mr. M. Ramdas,
Verification Engineer at Intel on 1st February, 2014 in the E-learning hall.
Dr. Navin Kumar has reviewed a technical paper for IEEE Transactions on Communication
in February, 2014.
Ms. Susmitha Vekkot has reviewed a technical paper for the IET Image Processing Journal
in February, 2014.
Faculty Achievements / Participation / Recognition
Forum Activities
ECIF the departmental forum organized:
a talk on Social and Behavioral Engineering on 18th February, 2014 in the School. The talk
was delivered by Prof. Vijay K. Arora, an IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer who is
specialized in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is currently working at Wilkes
University. He has delivered many lectures at universities in Australia, Malaysia, Tokyo &
Singapore and has presented his papers around the world. The talk was graced by
Dr. P.R.Vaya and Mr. Satish Manocha, former Professor in the Department of ECE, Amrita
School of Engineering, Bengaluru. Prof. Arora enthralled the audience by explaining the
difference between Science and Engineering with certain humorous illustrations. He then
spoke about the necessary triple package namely, skills for success, teamwork and
leadership. His talk was highly informative and useful for ones career development as it
dealt with various skills that one must possess for a successful career. Around 90 members
attended the event.
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Student Achievements
The two member team comprising of Mr. Subramanian R. of S8 CSE and Mr. Prashanth
Reddy K. of S6 ECE has been selected for the final round of the prestigious University
Mobile Challenge 2014 to be held in Barcelona, Spain between 24th & 26th February, 2014.
The 5-member team comprising of Mr. Viswa Anoop, Mr. Sai Teja Krishna & Mr. Ganesh
Prasad from S8 EIE and Mr. Y.V. Harsha Vardhan & Mr. T. Vinay Sai from S6 ECE under
the Mentorship of Mr. R. Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor in the Department has won the
Second Prize in the Atmel India University Program Embedded Design Contest - AEDC
2013 held at JNTU, Hyderabad on 26th February, 2014. The prize includes a Memento,
Certificates and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3.
The 5-member team comprising of Mr. Shreyas Mohan, Mr