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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