National Leadership Foundation in collaboration with IIM Kozhikode announces a Youth Leadership Summit.National Leadership Foundation (NLF) founded in 2009 is co-led by students, faculty and alumni of IITs and IIMs and top professional schools of India. NLF is working towards the growth and development of leadership potential amongst the talented youth in India, and is organizing a leadership discovery summit from July 16-18, 2010 in Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerela. The rejuvenating three day workshop is aimed at providing a platform for motivated youngsters in India to:

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The Marketing and Advertising Club (MAD Club) of The Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) is conducting MADison Avenue, a marketing and advertising themed fest, this March.

It will be held in two stages – online as well as on campus. The online leg of the fest will kick off on the 6th of March 2010 and the grand finale is scheduled on the 27th of March 2010 on campus.

A wide bouquet of avenues for participation is on offer, spanning various events right from strategy development, case studies to video ad making.

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Literati is IIT Delhi’s annual literary festival. It will be a part of the Student Week at IIT Delhi which hosts other annual events for debating, sports and cultural festivals as well. The campus during this time will be visited by students from colleges throughout Delhi. Literati is organized by the Board for Student Publications (BSP) in IIT Delhi.



The online events for Literati have already begun. These include “Analytical Writing“, “Caption of the Day” and “The E-Labyrinth“. Head over to http://literati.infinityiitd.com/ to participate.

The BMW Group is pleased to announce its first call for submissions for the Award for Intercultural Commitment. The company is looking for intercultural initiators worldwide whose goal is to motivate people from diverse backgrounds to encounter one another with open minds and to take committed action. With the Award, the BMW Group aims to support the best projects and thus contribute to their lasting success. To this end, the company offers award winners customized support services as well as a financial “jump start”.

The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2010. The award ceremony will take place in Munich, Germany, on 18 November 2010. You will find further information about the Award in the enclosed press release and flyer as well as on www.bmwgroup.com/award

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The coming weekend is all set to be abuzz with frenetic activity on campus, with not one or two but three major events scheduled for the 15th to 17th of January – barely a week before the Grand Fest Season is declared open. Here is a quick peek at what the weekend-before-SF has to offer us:

Regional Symposium on Mathematics

A debut venture from the Mathematics Department, RSM-2010 has a simple objective – to celebrate and revitalize maths as a discipline. It comes packing with guest lectures from three eminent academicians – Prof. MK Ghosh of IISc, an expert on Financial Mathematics; Prof. Seema Nanda of TIFR, specializing in Mathematical Biology; and Prof. D Banerjee of IIAP, a professor of Astrophysics. Aside from events like Cryptic (a cryptanalysis challenge), Mathlete (a mini-olympiad) and Algorithmik (a fast-paced code jam), the fest also features a Scientific Paper Presentation Contest and workshops on Cryptography and SAS (the latter appearing to be a major crowd-puller with almost 200 registrations).

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The DBICA presents International Short Film Festival of India, now in its 4th year, is the largest and most highly attended short film festival in Chennai. The 2 day festival presents over 70 International and National Short films from more than 22 countries, to an audience of 42,000. SFFI is best known for its diverse and cosmopolitan balance of film that ranges from variety of genres like drama, documentary, animation, comedy, science fiction and mystery.

DBICA is the parent organization of the SFFI. It is a non-profit Media and Communication Arts organization that presents the best in world’s short film cinema to audiences in Chennai. The forthcoming 4th International Short Film Festival of India 2010 will be held on 13th and 14th February 2010. More Details can be found here (Mission & General rules of SFFI 2010) and here (Application Form SFFI 2010) .

CodeChef, an online programming competition host (akin to an Indian version of TopCoder),  is holding an ACM ICPC style contest for students starting 21st November. With a prize budget of Rs. 3 lakhs, this event promises to be quite the competitive challenge even despite being held in the middle of exam-season.

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