COURSE on “Recent Trends in Advanced Materials and Computing Techniques” begins

Jalandhar, March 11, 2013: The Department of Physics and Computer Science and Engineering of NIT, Jalandhar jointly organised a one week short term course on “Recent Trends in Advanced Materials and Computing Techniques”during March, 11-15.

The objective of this course is to provide exposure to the participants on current research and development in material and computing areas.

The programme was inaugurated by Professor Dr. Samir Kumar Das, Director, NIT Jalandhar. He welcomed all the participants and make them aware about the objectives of the course. He also highlighted that nowadays, the demand of advanced materials is increasing in a tremendous way due to their fundamental importance and technological applications in multidisciplinary areas of science, engineering and technology. The main objective of this course is to discuss the recent advances in novel materials and computing techniques and explore their potential applications to strengthen the science and technology.

The inaugural session was attended by various Deans and heads of various departments of NIT.

First time all the sessions of this course will be conducted in the Virtual Class Room of NIT Jalandhar and will be webcasted in various NITs and IITs of India simultaneously through Virtual Class Room.  The course will be attended by an around 70 Participants from various institutes of India.

On first day, three experts lectures were delivered by Prof. BSS Daniel, Departmentof Metallurgical and Material Science and Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dr. Aakash Deep from ,CSIO, Chandigarh and Dr. B.S. Kaith from NIT Jalandhar. All the experts highlighted the need of smart materials and their use for the development of new technologies.

Earlier, Dr. HM Mittal, Head, Department of Physics and Dr. Harsh Verma, Head Department of Computer Science and Engineering welcomed all the participants and told them the objective the course.

Dr. Rohit Mehra, coordinator of the course highlighted the use of Materials and their use in terms of cost effectiveness and stressed on building connectivity and knowledge network among and within institutions of higher learning in the country with a view of achieving critical mass of researchers in any given field and availability of effective technology.

Dr. Praveen Malik of Department of Physics, Coordinator of the course presented the Vote of thanks.