Session on Future of Artificial Intelligence by Next Tech Lab
September 21, 2017 The talk gave a deep dive into everything from the origins of AI to the cutting edge research being performed today, covering Deep Neural networks, Biases present in training data, Ethics of self-driving cars, Music generation and the future possibilities & bottlenecks in the field. There was an interactive Q&A session at
Lecture on “Technology Advancements in Business” by Titan Company Ltd.
September 22, 2017 Mr. Sanjay Renewade and Mr. Santosh Srinivas, representatives of Titan Company Ltd., Hosur engaged the students of SRM Amravati in a productive conversation regarding technological advancements in manufacturing. They spoke to students about the use of emerging technologies such as HCI (human machine interactions), IoT and Artificial Intelligence in businesses these days.
Session on leveraging Augmented Reality to build immersive phone apps
October 7, 2017 Students created their own Augmented reality powered apps in the span of 2 hours using the Unity game engine with Vuforia SDK. Attendees learnt the basics of Unity, the functioning of Vuforia's Computer Vision technology and building/compiling Android/iOS apps.
Student Interaction and Faculty Workshop on Active Learning by MITx Course Designers
Date: 11th November,2017. On this beautiful Saturday morning, the course designers of MITx, Mr. Brandon Muramatsu Associate Director, Ms. Glenda S. Stump and Ms. Kirky Delong, Senior Project Managers at Strategic Education Initiatives MIT, visited the campus of SRM University AP-Amaravati and interacted with the students regarding the impact of the on-going curriculum, designed based
A Musical Evening on Campus
Date: November 14th, 2017 On 14th November 2017, a musical evening was arranged by The Student Council of SRM, Amaravati supported by the Department of Student Affairs. The event was graced by the presence of Smt. Sugunamma M. – MLA of Tirupati. Shrimati Sugunamma addressed the students and gave them the greetings of Children’s Day.
Industry Connect: A lecture by Parameshwar Babu, Managing Director, Param Projects Private Limited, Chennai
Date: November 15, 2017 On the afternoon of 15th November, 2017 a very special talk on ‘industry Connect’ was held in the atrium of SRM-Amaravati. The honorary guest for the afternoon was Parameshwar Babu, Managing Director, Param Projects Private Limited, Chennai. The main focus of his speech was to be connected with industries and learn
Address by Vice-President, TCS
Date: November 21, 2017 On the morning of November 21, 2017, a lecture was arranged in the atrium of SRM-AP with Ms. Hema Gopal, Vice-President of Tata Consultancy Services Limited. In her opening remarks she emphasized the importance and growing influence of IT sector in our daily lives. She educated the student community on various
Revolutionary mega-project on Hydrogen Powered Train announced by SRM Amaravati
Date: November 21, 2017 Adding another starmark to its glory, SRM team has once again come up with a revolutionary mega project-Jal-Janak Rail (Hydrogen Powered Train). A complete green, HYDROGEN powered TRAIN is proposed jointly by SRM University and Integral Coach Factory, Chennai. A seminar was organized on 21st November at Amaravati campus to encourage
Talk on CoE – SAT
Date: November 22, 2017 On the afternoon of 22nd November, 2017 a lecture was arranged in the atrium of SRM-Amaravati. The speaker was Dr. S Harini Priya, Associate Research professor, SRM - KTR who discussed the feasibility establishing a Center of Excellence in Solar Allied Technologies (CoE - SAT) at SRM - AP. With the
“High Performance Computer Cluster” by Dr.Ranjit Thapa, SRM Research Institute
Date: November 22, 2017 Dr. Ranjit Thapa, Associate Professor from SRM Research Institute, SRM University in his lecture on 22nd November 2017 introduces the development and need of supercomputers. He explained how the supercomputers are different from a general-purpose computer in respect of computational capacity. He explained how the scientific problems in different length scale
Frontiers and Challenges in Engineering
Date: November 29, 2017 On the evening of 29th November, 2017 a very special lecture was arranged in the atrium of SRM -AP. The honorary guests for the afternoon was Prof. K.N. Satyanarayana, director of IIT-Tirupati. and Prof. Damodaran, Vice Chancellor of S V University, Tirupati. The dignitaries were cordially welcomed by all the faculty
Amaravati Marathon 2018
Date: January 7, 2018 Amaravati marathon 2018 hosted by the government of Andhra Pradesh took place at Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium in the city of Vijayawada, Krishna district. The marathon symbolises might and emergence of people’s capital, ‘Amravati’. Marathon had different sets of track distance namely Half marathon, 10K, 5K and 3K. More than 100