E-Cell or Entrepreneur cell at SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh fosters a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Most of the renowned and thriving enterprises across the globe have been envisioned from an E-cell of a college or a university campus. Subsequently, E-cell at SRM University-AP endorses and facilitates startup ideas of students. Enhancing the essence of the impactful community of leaders, Ms Navya and Ms Abhigna have joined the e-cell as the core team members.

On March 23, 2021, at 5.30 PM, the E-cell has organized “Why top companies started at the university campus?” where the special guest Mr Amara Aditya Manikanta, a final year student from Dehradun University, and the founder of a startup supported by his university E-cell, along with the core team will identify the significance of campus E-cells in shaping young entrepreneurs and establishing innovative startups that potentially transforms the world and society.

The second chapter of the Biology Seminar Series presented by the Department of Biological Sciences, SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh will have Prof Pankaj Poddar, Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) & Senior Principal Scientist, Physical & Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, speak on “M3: Microscopy, microbes, and materials”. The interaction of cells with Materials Science yields surprising inferences due to their sensitivity to the surrounding environment. Whether it is the study of cytotoxicity of various materials against mammalian cells or microbial cells, cells respond often in an unpredictable fashion when in proximity to the inorganic/organic materials. On March 27, 2021, at 11 AM, Prof Poddar will present highlights of this fascinating journey in his laboratory where he used various tools to look at the cells closely and invented a method ‘biomilling’ which has the potential for bioremediation in industries.

Since he was young, Prof Poddar had a keen interest in understanding the secrets of nature. After completing his PhD in Physical Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2000, he worked at the School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, and in the Department of Physics, University of South Florida. In April 2005, he returned to India and joined CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune as a scientist and started his research group. His early research focused on bio-inspired material sciences, microscopy of biological objects where his team investigated the interesting Physics of microbes and their interaction with the surroundings. Later, he worked on multimodel imaging, and drug-delivery systems for cancer cells using rare-earth phosphor nanomaterials, quantum-clusters, etc. Prof Poddar has been awarded with CSIR-Young Scientist Award in Physical Sciences, Scientist of the Year Award by CSIR-NCL, and MRSI- medal by Materials Research Society of India. He is also a fellow of the Electron Microscope Society of India, and the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering welcomes Dr Jaganmohan Rao, Divisional Manager, Ashok Leyland, Chennai, on a Webinar to enlighten the students on ” Automotive NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) – Future Challenges”. The webinar is scheduled for March 04, 2021, at 6 pm. In his speech, Dr Rao will concentrate on the Basics of Automotive Noise and Vibration, NVH Development Process in Industry, NVH Tools and Techniques and Vehicle and Systems NVH.

Dr Jaganmohan Rao is an automotive professional with twenty years of vehicle development and testing experience in major automotive companies such as – Ashok Leyland, Cummins, Hero Honda and TVS motor) in India. He has been the Project Manager for many new product developments in Ashok Leyland in the NVH Domain. He further has Six Sigma Green belt and Black Belt certifications. Dr Rao was the TQBM Coordinator for Product development and a key member of Institute and Industry Relation Developments.

Dr Rao has obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Trichy. He is a veteran in the field of Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH). Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr Rao did M.S. in Applied Mechanics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. His bachelor studies in Mechanical Engineering was pursued from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, Andra Pradesh. He has published 14 papers in international Journals and Conferences. He is the proud owner of 2 patents in Electric vehicle fan design. As a Research Supervisor, he has guided 10 B.Tech and 2 M.Tech Projects. Dr Rao further owns a first level TRIZ certificate from The International TRIZ Association.

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Progressing with the series of Departmental Seminars, Department of Mathematics, SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh invites Dr Gaurav Bhatnagar, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ashoka University to deliver a lecture titled “The Partition-Frequency Enumeration Matrix” on March 10, 2021, at 3 PM.

The Partition-Frequency Enumeration (PFE) matrix is an infinite upper-triangular number-theoretic matrix that is used to enumerate partition-like objects as an elementary approach. This matrix unifies voluminous results connecting number-theoretic functions to partition-type functions. The calculus is extended to arbitrary generating functions and functions with Weierstrass products. As a by-product, some well-known recurrence relations for many number-theoretic functions are recovered. These include the sum of divisors function, Ramanujan’s $\tau$ function, sums of squares and triangular numbers, and $\zeta(2n)$, where $n$ is a positive integer. As an application, Ramanujan’s famous congruences $p(5n+4)\equiv 0$ (mod $5)$ and $\tau(5n+5)\equiv 0$ (mod $5)$ are embedded into an infinite family of such congruences. During the lecture, Dr Gaurav Bhatnagar will highlight two other congruence results concerning the sum of the divisor function.