NIST e-NEWS(Vol 80, April 15, 2012)

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Invited Talks by NIST Faculty Member Dr. Mihir Hota, Faculty Member , Dept. of Physics delivered an Invited Talk on “Nanotechnology and its impact on Society” at National Conference in Nagaland held by Agricultural University (Nagaland Central University) on 18 th February 2012. The topic of the conference was “Material Science”. The conference was organised by Department of Chemistry, Patkai Christian College (Autonomous) in collaboration with School of Agricultural Science and Rural Development, Nagaland University. NIST Faculty Members as Soft Skill Trainers Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka and Mr. Amrut Phalguni Mohanty, Faculty members, Dept. of English visited Vikram Deb Autonomous College, Jeypore as Resource Persons for a 6-Day Soft Skills Training Program. The training was imparted to the graduate and post graduate students of all disciplines. Around 50 students attended the program. High Performance Computing Lab@nist The institute installed a High Performance Computing (HPC) Lab with the help of TIS Lab, Kolkata, to enable students work efficiently on many of their projects. Four Dell Power edge Rack Servers were used to setup the lab. Cent OS was used as operating systems with other HPC tools. This lab is primarily used to write parallel and distributed computing based programs. At present around 10 B. Tech project groups are using the lab for developing their projects in OpenMp/MPI. Mr. Kaushik Goswami, and Dr. P. A. Sreeram, TIS Lab, Kolkata, demonstrated the various functioning of the very lab equipment. A 1-Day Workshop on ‘The Challenges of Teaching English to Engineering Students’ The Department of English organized a 1-Day workshop on ‘The Challenges of Teaching English to Engineering Students’ sponsored by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, on 15 th February 2012. Dr. Meenakshi Raman, Prof., and Head, Dept. of Humanities, BITS, Pilani, Goa Campus and Dr. E. Raja Rao, Prof., Dept. of English, NIST delivered talks on the topic to around 40 delegates from different engineering and management institutes of the state of Odisha and the neighbouring states. During the panel discussion on the topic, participants shared their practical classroom problems and an effort was made to bring out the solutions to face the challenges of teaching English. Ms. Tripti Mund coordinated the program. National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 7 of 22
NIST Robotics Club @ ROBOCON 2012 NIST Robotics Club (NRC), the only contender from Odisha, participated in the ROBOCON 2012 during 1 st – 3 rd March 2012 held at MIT, Pune. ROBOCON is a national level contest jointly organized by Doordarshan and MIT, Pune. The winner of this contest will be representing India in the international contest. In ROBOCON 2010 NIST won the National Award for BEST IDEA for design of Robot. This year the theme of ROBOCON 2012 was ‘In Pursuit of Peace and Prosperity’. A total of 67 colleges from the country participated in this mega event including IITs and NITs. Contending with the top institutes, NIST was ranked 12 th out of 18 top performing colleges. Eventually the host, the organizing institute, MIT, Pune became the winner of the contest. Mr. Swagat Samantaray, Faculty Advisor, NRC along with a team of 18 students from B. Tech pre-final year and final year represented NIST at this event. DST INSPIRE Program The Institute organized the 3rd DST Sponsored INSPIRE Science Camp at the institute premises during 31st January – 4th February 2012. Around 350 top 1% students from all over the state of Odisha participated in the program. A host of luminaries, academicians and scientists through their talks and presentations exposed the students to various aspects of science. Among the speakers were, Dr. Anil K. Rajvanshi, Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Maharastra, Dr. Sanjio S. Zade, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER, West Bengal, Prof S P Pati, Dept. of Physical Sciences, Former Professor, Sambalpur Univeristy, Prof. Bimalendu B. Bhattacharya, Dept. of Geology, INAE Distinguished Professor, S N Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Prof. Bichitra K. Guha, Dept. of Popular Science, Professor of Physics and DEAN, Faculty of Basic and Applied Science, BESU, Shibpur, Howrah, Prof. Indranath Sengupta, Dept. of Mathematics, Jadavpur Univeristy, Prof. Debi Prasad Duari, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Director, Research and Academic, M P Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Prof. Tavarekere. K. Chandrashekar, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, Director, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER),and Dr. Subhash Chandra Bose, Dept of Electronics, Scientist, CEERI, Pilani. National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur, 761008 8 of 22
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