Out of a total of 160 abstract submissions in the field of structures, avionics, control systems and aerodynamics, the project work on “Low cost attitude control system for small fixed wing unmanned air vehicles” presented by Tanmay Kumar Mandal, GS Vimal and Himanshu Shukla was selected for the award.

The Scholars’ Avenue congratulates the trio for their splendid performance.

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).

Megalith

Another newcomer to the Dept-fest ring, the Civil Engineering Department’s Megalith ’10 aims to provide a platform for interaction between the industry and academia (and to that end, there’s a panel discussion to get the ball rolling). But that’s not all it’s about, with the fest playing host to a plethora of challenging events ranging from design (Coordinates) to algorithms (Darkode) to robotics (Civionics) to even your run-of-the-mill quiz (C-wiz). Other features to look out for – the Industrial Design Problem, Case Study and Criar, a bridge-modeling contest.

http://www.megalith.co.in

Global Entrepreneurship Summit

As E-Cell’s flagship event, GES is one of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business personalities, venture capitalists and the students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavours and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship to greater scales. This year the competitions have increased with the Cleantech challenge being held for the first time in India along with Concipio, Envision, Negocio, Eclairez, Sales Pitch, Online Video Contest along with other on-the-spot events like Bizturks and TGIF. This year will see a lot of foreign as well as national participation in the events as well as in the International Conference on Entrepreneurship. Guest lectures by eminent personalities will be organised along with certified workshops held by CII and Novell. GES 2010 also brings the Startup Camp which is an invaluable opportunity for promising startups of the country to raise seed capital and hire college students as a full time employee or as an intern (as of now, Zice Holidays, Intinno, P2Power Solutions and Orangified have been confirmed in attendance). Wipro will be organising Wi-Camp on the 16th. You can register for Wipro’s Wi-Camp at http://barcamp.org/WiCampKGP/ .

http://www.esummit.ecell-iitkgp.org

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) .

Prizes: Rs 3,00,000 to be given out in cash as prizes

Contest Dates: Online round 21st Nov., 7pm-12am. Onsite round 10th Jan 2010. Top teams to be flown down to Mumbai.

Participation: 3 students from the same college may form a team

Format: Standard ACM ICPC style contest with penalties for wrong answers.

Registration date: On or before 20th November ’09 midnight

Registration Link: http://www.codechef.com/teams/register/SNACKDWN.

For further details, check out the CodeChef blog at http://blog.codechef.com/2009/10/27/the-super-gigantic-mega-announcement/

31st October

Stand-up comedy: “I Am Serious” by Rivaldo (of IIT Bombay and Love in December fame):
Venue and time: Kalidas Auditorium at 8 pm. Catch all his previous videos here.

1st November

Performance by British Council: Titled “Jaibati Kanya Story” it will be directed by Tapan Das, who has been associated with various international projects including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
Venue and time: Kalidas at 7:30 pm.

It then moves on to a PEACE FOR YOUTH workshop exclusively for the first year students of IIT Kharagpur on the 1st of November. The workshop aims to be a platform of action for those who wish to live in peace with themselves, their friends, colleagues and with society. It is conducted by two students of human rights from NEPAL.
The application is available at the following address:
http://springfest.iitkgp.ernet.in/SFPeaceForYouthApp.doc

Please submit your applications at submissions@springfest.in

Link for more info: http://www.shell.com/home/content/eco-marathon-en/asia/welcome_sem_asia2.html

The dual aims of the fest are to

1. Inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the student community.
2. Help the start- ups in establishing a successful enterprise of their own.