NIST e-NEWS(Vol 19, Dec 15, 2003)

Bombay. Prof. Arun Kumar Patnaik andDr.Arun Padhy attended this workshop.Prof. N. S. Ramaswamy also visited NISTon November 27, 2003 and presented aseminar on the same.ObituaryNISTians mourn the sudden untimelydemise of Prof. DasarathiMishra of BerhampurUniversity who died onNovember 9, 2003 due toa sudden mishap when hevisited Tejpur Universityas a visiting faculty. Prof Mishra has visitedNIST on numerous occasions. In April ‘03he was invited by NIST to give a talk on:War on IRAQ - beginning of World WarIII? He is originally from Khandapada(Nayagarh), joined Berhampur University inthe year 1979 as lecturer and became Prof.in 1994. He has significant contribution inAdult Education, and Woman Studies.NamaskarPradeep Patjoshi, UNICEF CoordinatorNamaskar means “Salutation”It means “Greetings”It means “Good Morning”It means “Good Afternoon”It means “Good Evening”It means “Good Night”It means “Welcome”It means “ ‘We’ not ‘I’It means “I bow down before you”It means “You are my Teacher”It means “I learnt a lot from you”It means “You are wonderful”It means “I enjoyed your company”It means “Participation”It means “Learning”It means “CCA : Complete Change ofAttitude”It means “Everything that is good andpositive”It means “May I help you?”It means “We shall do wonderful thingstogether”It means “We shall do things differently”It means “We shall be friends”N I S T e – N E W SIt means “It is a beautiful world”It means “We shall meet again”It means “We shall be friends forever”It means “Thank You”And most of all, “Namaskar” means, “Self-Reform”General NewsNew AppointmentWe welcome Mr. Kabiraj Sahu, Ms.Madhusmita Panda, Mr. Babu Barik, Mr.Sunil Panigrahi who joined us on November24, 2003 as Lab Supervisors in Electronics,Electrical, and Instrumentation Labs.Student’s CornerThey made the differenceThe following student poster papers fromNIST were selected for publication in theInternational Conference on InformationTechnology (CIT 2003) to be held fromDecember 22-25, 2003 at Hotel SwostiPlaza, Bhubaneswar.1. Free space Communication usingLASERs – a viable broadband alternative –Bijoy Shekhar Shroff and Anit KumarSahu, 4 th Year.2. Moletronics – An invisible Technology,Antaniksh Kar, 4 th Year.3. Intelligent Networks, Gaurav Pattnaikand Chandra Sekhar Das, 4 th Year.CONGRATS!! Chinmaya K PattnaikChinmaya K Pattnaik of 4 th year wasawarded the Sports Talent Scholarship bythe Department of Sports and YouthServices of Government of Orissa for hisexemplary performance and contribution insports and extracurricular activities.Life’s little but beautiful rules!!Collected by Prabira K Samanta, M.Tech.BORSTELMANN’S RULE : If everythingseems to be coming your way, you areprobably in the wrong lane!DAVIS’S DICTUM : Problems that goaway by themselves come back bythemselves.National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 4 of 15