the Indian Case Challenge 2012 also included a delegate dinner at the Dreamland restaurant, an institute tour and other social activities. The fact that the finalists were given a live case by a reputed company ensured a challenging case environment, where the finalists were judged on-spot on the basis of their business acumen, industry knowledge and presentation skills. Internship and placement opportunities were further incentives for the finalists in what turned out to be a remarkably well organised and high quality competition. The event was an overall success.

The Tethys Ocean once separated Eurasia and the dispersing fragments of Gondwana. When Tethys began to close, about 120-90 million years ago, these fragments (i.e., Africa, Arabia, India, and Australia) were driven northward. The leading edges of these continents acted as relatively strong indentors that ploughed into the complex geography of the northern Tethyan margin (i.e. Eurasia). We want to understand the dynamics of this process, loosely referred to in the Earth Sciences as the end of a Wilson Cycle. To this purpose the project will develop a unified dynamic model of the closure of the ancient Tethys Ocean from deep time until the present day. Such a dynamic model will require the application of forces and boundary conditions to move and deform tectonic plates, and in the process lead to the development of geodynamic theory while producing tectonic reconstructions that are consistent with geology, geodesy, and the timing of event sequences measured at “orogenic listening posts”.

Prefinal year students strongly interested in doing a Ph.D can approach the contact, Professor Gordon Lister, to enrol themselves in this program.

Applications are invited from interested students and teachers for these Fellowships. The applications should be submitted online through one of our websites; however a copy of the application together with enclosures must be sent by post to the address given below. The last date for receipt of applications online is 31st December, 2011.

Information of selection along with concurrence of the guide will be dispatched by early March 2012. The selected students/teachers will be provided appropriate round trip train fare and a monthly fellowship to meet their living expenses at the place of work.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

The Coordinator
Science Education Programme
Indian Academy of Sciences
C.V. Raman Avenue
Near Mekhri Circle
Sadashivanagar
Bangalore 560 080

Tel: (080) 2266 1201, (080) 2266 1202
Fax: (080) 2361 6094
e-mail: sumfel@ias.ernet.in
website: www.ias.ac.in

The Scholars’ Avenue presents its Internship Blog : internships.scholarsavenue.org

Did you spend your summer roaming the streets of night-time Amsterdam? Did you come back with a pile of money and an awesome experience to boot? Perhaps you took the road less taken, and had an out-of-the-box internship? Whether the summer saw you rediscovering the zeal for engineering or losing interest in everything technical, it’s probably a story worth telling. And we’re listening.

thescholarsavenue@gmail.com.

To start off, we have entries from a few fourth years who interned at companies like ITC and HUL.

Read and be read!

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:

Discover themselves

Decode their talents

Deliver exceptional value to the country.

This will also be a forum where selected participants can interact with their highly gifted peer group representing the top five percent of the talent pool of young India. This may provide them with an opportunity to undertake a project that they may choose to pursue. They may also seek mentorship from contemporary leaders while learning lessons on life and leadership. The workshop will enable the participants to gain fundamental clarity about their thoughts, beliefs and actions and a new orientation to life.

The workshop will be designed and led by Professor Debashis Chatterjee, Founder, National Leadership Foundation, Harvard University Scholar, Global Thought Leader, and currently Director of IIM Kozhikode.

More details on Professor Debashis Chatterjee can be found at (http://www.debchat.com).

ELIGIBILITY AND HOW TO APPLY:

All students (undergraduates and postgraduates across all the fields: Engineering, Management, Medicine, Arts, Commerce, Science, Law, etc.) interested in making a difference and contributing to their community. The students are expected to apply and wait for the acceptance decision. Application procedure requires responding questionnaire by e-mail. Based on the answers submitted students will be interviewed personally and or telephonically. A set of 12-20 students will be finally selected and invited to attend the workshop. We particularly encourage students who are passionate and committed to make a fundamental contribution to India through their initiatives to apply. For details on application procedure please visit (http://www.nlf.org.in/forum.html)

Last date to apply: July 05, 2010

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

Students shall be evaluated based on their past contributions/achievements, and future aspirations. Exceptionally promising youngsters shall be awarded scholarships in form of partial or full registration fee waiver and travel grant to Kozhikode. However, board and lodging shall be provided to all the accepted participants.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Specific queries can be addressed to Nikhil Padhye (nikhil@nlf.org.in) +91 9415003211

PK Sinha Center for Bioenergy invites applications for  summer projects on Green Energy Innovation. Interested students (2nd Year B.Tech or higher upto 5th Year Dual Degree) may apply.

For Details click here.

Playdom, Inc. is a leading social gaming company based in Mountain View, California. We are committed to delivering the best possible player experience to more than 26 million monthly active users of our games on Facebook, MySpace and iPhone.

Fueled by explosive growth of our games on Facebook and an expanding pipeline of new games and features, we may be the fastest growing social gaming company on the planet. How do we do it? We’re obsessed with one thing: our players. Playdom has now started operations in Bangalore, India. The Bangalore office is an independent game studio where we hope to attract some of the smartest people in the country who believe in the future of social gaming.

We don’t try to fit people into positions. Instead, we recruit the smartest people and then build positions around them.

If you think you fit the bill, please email us at campus [at] playdom.in with your latest resume.

You will be pleased to note that a larger number of departments are now part of the program — biotechnology, chemistry, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, geology/geophysics, mechanical engineering, math and statistics. If students in the food and agricultural engineering have molecular biology/biochemistry expertise then would also be eligible.

The program is open to 3rd year undergraduate students with someexceptions for 4th year students (returning students). Preference will be given to students from faculty where there is interest for further collaboration/or there is an existing collaboration (Suman Chakraborty, TK Maiti and MD Behera)

This invitation is open to 3rd year IIT Kharagpur’s undergraduate students from departments listed above. Exceptions may be made for 4th year B.Tech/M.Tech dual degree students who participated in the 2009 summer research program at Berkeley.

Download this document for further details.