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Week 30: 31 July 2017 - 4 August 2017 Book of the week: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History New...

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As the sixth batch graduates, ambitions soar and emotions roar

The institute held its sixth Convocation on August 5 this year. Among the graduating students, 124 were awarded BTech, 47 were awarded Msc, 5 students were awarded MA, 4 students were awarded the PGDIIT and 14 were awarded the PhD degrees. Mr Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, Quality Council of India was the Chief  Guest at the event. Prof Sudhir k Jain, Director, IITGN congratulated the students, following which medals were awarded to recognise the achievements of students in academics, innovation, social services, humanity, research, sports, best leadership and arts & culture. Rishab Anand was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for BTech while Kamal...

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Students learn concepts of electrochemistry at IITGN

A two-day workshop named Electrochemistry School was conducted by the Department of Chemistry at the institute during July 24-25. Around 40 students from all over Gujarat participated in this workshop dealing with energy systems. IITGN has taken a lead in collaboration with Metrohm India and conducted a workshop for the students of Gujarat. The main purpose of this workshop is to expose students to various concepts in this area. The school had a combination of classroom lectures and lab sessions. In today’s era when there is a constant search for pollution-free energy generation, electrochemistry has a vital role to play. Be it hydrogen generation...

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ATM school on advanced linear algebra

An Advanced Training in Mathematics (ATM) school on Advanced Linear Algebra was organised at the institute during July 10-22, 2017 in association with the National Centre for Mathematics. This workshop covered topics in Linear Algebra which are beyond the scope of a standard MSc curriculum. Lectures were delivered by Prof K N Raghavan from Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Prof J K Verma & Prof Ananthanarayan Hariharan from IIT Bombay, Prof Ritumoni Sharma from IIT Delhi and Prof Indranath Sengupta & Prof Neeldhara Misra from IITGN. ATM Schools were launched by the National Board for Higher Mathematics in 2004. The objective is to provide training in core subjects of Mathematics to...

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