Events – Page 18 – The KGP Chronicle

Apr

10

2019

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And then there were some more

Events30 Under 30, Big Money, Cogoport, Forbes Asia, Kalyan Babu Kuramana, Nishant Dalmia, Pavan Guntupalli, Rapido, TAI

Forbes Asia’s 2019 list of 30 Under 30 features 300 young innovators and disruptors from 24 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Listed across 10 categories, they are an ambitious yet socially conscious bunch of entrepreneurs, leaders and stars who are re-inventing their industries and driving change across this diverse region. Here is the story of the other KGPians who have made it to the coveted list and done their alma mater proud. Subhadeep Mondal (2013/BTech/Biotech) and S.L. Sivareena (2015/BTech/ME), co-founders of PregBuddy, India’s first AI-enabled care continuum platform for the care of expecting mothers, have made it to Forbes…

Apr

08

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Happiness is here and now

EventsBhutan, Gallup, GNH, Happiness and Wellbeing, IIT Kharagpur, Rekhi Center, World Happiness Report

Times of India Careers360 Is the Gallup poll a fair measure of happiness? Should generalities matter or cultural specificities while measuring happiness? How happy are the men in Khakhi? Is internet a threat or a support? Is happiness a private affair or a state concern? How can governments create happiness? These were some of the questions that came up during the deliberations at the 2nd International Workshop on Happiness and Wellbeing organized by IIT Kharagpur’s Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness. The workshop from April 4-6 addressed two themes – Wellbeing of communities, cities and states; and…

Apr

01

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

IITKGP’s Happiness Boost for Sports

EventsBadminton, Gopichand, happiness, Rekhi, Resilience, sports

Times of India Hindustan Times Indian Express Ei Samay Business Standard Deccan Chronicle Asian Age Sakshi News The Hindu (Sportstar) Outlook InsideSport Sportsavour IIT Kharagpur signed an MoU with Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy (PGBA), Hyderabad to promote health and wellbeing within the scope of academics and extra-academic activities. A delegation from IIT Kharagpur led by Director Prof. P P Chakrabarti met the Padma Bhushan awardee and Chief National Coach for the…

Mar

29

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Happiness in the Air

Eventscommunity, happiness, social network, workshop

Happiness and wellbeing are the two most causal factors of our existence. Today policymakers and corporate giants strongly acknowledge how crucial these are in comparison to financial growth, stability, profit and affluence. In all fields exploring social realities or bringing about social changes, happiness and wellbeing have become key areas of interest. The Rekhi Centre for Science of Happiness at IIT Kharagpur will explore these domains in an international workshop from April 4-6, 2019, bringing in global experts to interrogate the current state of happiness and wellbeing studies, especially in the context of Communities, Cities and States, and the Networked…

Mar

29

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Thrust to 5G and AI

Events5G, AI, Artificial Intelligence, corporate collaboration, MoU, Wipro

Business Standard Business Standard (PTI) Times of India India Today Indian Express Careers360 Economic Times Money Control Jagran Equity Bull Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company and IIT Kharagpur, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on March 28, 2019 to collaborate on high-impact, industry-focused applied research in the areas of 5G and AI. Research outcomes from this partnership will be leveraged by Wipro to develop solutions for its customers, across industry verticals. IIT Kharagpur will benefit from the commercialization of the joint…

Mar

20

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Business Analytics Placement Scales New Heights

Eventsanalytics, Business Analytics, career development, Collaborative Programs, Placement, Postgraduate Diploma, VGSoM

Times of India Business Standard Outlook NDTV India Today Careers360 The Final Placements for the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analytics Programme of IIM Calcutta, ISI and IIT Kharagpur for the 2017-2019 batch concluded with the batch of 52 receiving a total of 66 offers made by 35 firms. The programme which has been ranked top in India and 14th globally among full-time business analytics course by the QS Rankings has witnessed a record increase of 11% in domestic offers alone with the mean salary going upto Rs. 24.40 lakh per annum. The…

Mar

18

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Amazon Cloud for IIT KGP Students

EventsAI education, Amazon, AWS, AWS Educate, Cloud, Cloud learning, IIT KGP students, Kgpians

Hindustan Times Times of India Business Standard India Today News18 Careers360 Asian Age Express Computer (Indian Express) India Education Diary Gadgets Now NDTV Reddit IIT Kharagpur will adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate, a program designed to help students gain in-demand cloud computing skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) hands-on experience, and other competencies from the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud services provider. "We are happy to introduce AWS Educate program to provide AWS Cloud Computing experience and AI-enablement for all our students, irrespective of their branch of…

Mar

15

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

And the 1st Prize goes to . . .

EventsAPICS, Industrial and Systems Engineering, industrial operations, industrial solutions, logistics, operations, operations management, supply chain

Times of India India Today Careers360 Jagran Josh A two-member student team from IIT KGP has adjudged winner of the APICS Supply Chain Case Competition for South and Western Asia. The American Production and Inventory Control Society known as APICS is the world’s leading professional body for end-to-end supply chain excellence. The Case Competition has two segments in Asia, the Singapore edition for East Asian and South East Asian countries and the Hyderabad edition for West Asian and South Asian countries. The winning team comprising Rohan Sewani and Rohit Sar from IIT Kharagpur was given…

Mar

15

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Ground rules

EventsIIT Kharagpur, Mine safety, Mining, MTech, SHE

Two new MTech courses introduced by IIT Kharagpur will have wide acceptability in the industry India Today Jagran Josh AglaSem Swarajya Starting next semester, that is July 2019, the Mining Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur will throw open two new MTech programs – one in GeoMechanics for Mineral and Energy Resources, and the other in Safety, Health and Environment. The Department so long allowed an MTech in Mining Engineering, which will be replaced with the two new ones. However, it also allows a Dual Degree in Mining Engineering and in Safety Engineering that will continue. “The MTech course in GeoMechanics…

Mar

13

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

IIT KGP’s Another First – 1.3 petaFLOPS High-Performance Computing

EventsHigh performance computing, supercomputing

IIT Kharagpur and C-DAC to set up India’s First 1.3 PetaFlop HPC Facility and Data Centre under National Supercomputing Mission Times of India Indian Express India Today The Week Business Standard Millenium Post BusinessLine Jagran Josh Swarajya Down To Earth NDTV High-Performance Computation based R&D in India is going to witness a new phase with the setting up of India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and datacenter ecosystem at IIT Kharagpur under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The Institute signed an MoU with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an autonomous Scientific Society of the Ministry…