MoU signed with German varsity for academic exchange

Dipender Manta 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, and Leibniz Universitat Hannover (LUH), Germany, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for academic exchange between both educational institutions in the near future.

The MoU was signed by Professor Timothy A Gonsalves, Director of IIT, Mandi, and Professor Dr lur Volker Epping, president of Leibniz Universitat Hannover, in Germany. The MoU is aimed at mutual benefit by conducting joint research activities and exchanging academic materials. It will pave the way for exchanging of students and academic and administrative staff between the two institutions. Gonsalves said under this MoU, both institutions would develop joint teaching and research projects in future. The visiting scientists will be given an appropriate workplace with ancillary equipment. He said the students would be enrolled according to their academic background and a mutually recognised curriculum would be developed and the hosting institution would help in their academic, social and cultural integration. The MoU between the two institutions is for five years and can be renewed further.“Since 2011, the IIT, Mandi, has had a strategic partnership with the TU9 in Germany to tap into the German excellence in engineering and science. Many of our faculties now, have research collaborations with TU9 institutions, including Leibniz Universitat, Hannover. This MoU will spur the collaboration with LUH to a higher plane and will enable bilateral exchange visits by many students”, he remarked.TU9 is an alliance of the leading universities of technology in Germany, which includes RWTH Aachen University, TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München and University of Stuttgart.

Space club wins bronze at tech meet

The IIT-Mandi’s Space Technology and Astronomy Club (STAC) won a bronze medal in the star cluster identifier Hackathon in the Inter-IIT Tech Meet, held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. A total of 22 teams of various IITs participated in the competition. A team of four students—Shreyas Bapat, third year student, Indresh Kumar, fourth year student, Swapnil Sharma, fourth year student and Akash Dakoor, second year student from the School of Computing & Electrical Engineering made a project on “Star Cluster Identifier” within six hours, on the spot.

Mini maths talent search programme 

The Mini Mathematics Training and Talent Search (MTTS) Programme was organised at the IIT-Mandi to promote mathematical thinking and expose young minds to the excitement of doing mathematics. The programme is one of the most popular and significant training programmes for the undergraduate/postgraduate students in India.The main objective of this programme is to motivate and inspire students to pursue their career in mathematics and mathematical research and enjoy the excitement of mathematics through discovery of the basic mathematical results on their own. A total number of 28 undergraduate students from Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra participated in the programme.

Faculty development programme 

A faculty development programme on high-performance computing was organised at the IIT,Mandi. Computational research can act as a fabric that connects different domains of knowledge such as various branches of engineering, physical, chemical, as well as biological sciences. The goal of the workshop was to provide the attendees, which were the young faculty members or senior research scholars from different institutions of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir in particular and across the country in general, with a focused and in-depth platform for presentations, discussion and interaction in the field of high-performance computing (HPC). Around 40 participants attended the workshop.