During the last visit of the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Washington, DC, and subsequently in the presence of the Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in Delhi, a landmark Indo-US MoU was signed to bring faculty of some of the eminent Universities of the United States to Universities and Colleges in India for teaching both short-term and semester-long courses on the Edusat Network from a state of the art E-Learning Studio hosted at Amrita University’s beautiful hillside campus.

COURSES:

• "Engineering Electromagnetism" by Professor N. Narayana Rao, Edward C. Jordan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• "Solid-State Devices & Circuits", by Professor Jose Schutt-Aine, University of Illinois.

• "Advanced Network Systems" , by Professor Ramalingam Sridhar, University at Buffalo, New York.

• "Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials", by Dr. Ranjith Kunnath, Harvard University.
  

• "Pattern Recognition", by Professor J.K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin.

• "Telematics", by Professor R. Jayakrishnan, University of California, Irvine.

• "Machine Language Translation", by Dr. Srini Narayanan , UC Berkeley.

• "Earthquakes: Mechanics, Geological and Structural Engineering Aspects" by Dr. H.M. Iyer the U.S. Geological Survey and Dr. K. N. Khattri, Roorkee University.

Dr. Eric Brewer, Professor at UC Berkeley, Topic: "Technologies for Emerging Regions in Societal Transformation", Dr. Prasad Venkatesh, Group and Technical Leader, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, “Infotronics : Foundations and Applications”, Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, Director, NSF/IUCR Center for Surfactants and La Von Duddleson Krumb Professor, Columbia University, "Challenges and opportunities for Nano technology”, Professor Anja Feldmann, Senior Professor, Technical University of Berlin, “Recent Trends in Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention”, Dr. T.Keshavadas, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Adjunct Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, New York, “Medical applications of Virtual Reality-the Amrita-UB Initiative”, Dr. Thomas John, Dean, School of Management, University at Buffalo, New York, Dr. Satish Tripathi, Provost, University at Buffalo, New York, Dr. Robert Treder, Chief Scientific Officer, Insightful Corp. Seattle, Dr. Paul Murugan, Research Scientist, Stanford University, Dr. C. Mohan, IBM Fellow & IBM India Chief Scientist, Professor Robert Norris, Chief, Division of Emergency Medicine of Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Maria M. Klawe, Dean at Princeton University, Dr. Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Dean of Physical Sciences, Harvard University, Mr. K B Chandrasekhar, Founder, CEO - Jamcracker, Dr. Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, Director, Center For Materials Processing and Tribology, Purdue University.

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Graduate Student Visitors:

• Joyojeet Pal, Graduate Student, University of California at Berkeley.
• Richard Hartmann, Technical University of Munich, lecture series on “VoIP Detection”.
• Vinay Aggarwal, Technical University of Berlin/ Deutsche Telecom Labs, Berlin, Germany.

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES:

•  University of California-India: India’s premier science and technology organizations, including the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), TIFAC, and Indo-US S&T Forum, and Amrita University, IIT Kanpur, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, and SETS, together signed a 5-year agreement with the ten campus University of California System to carry out research in globally challenging and impactful areas. Projects considered under this initiative in 2006: JNCASR's Material Sciences Project, IIT Kanpur's Fuel Cell Project, SETS' Cyber security, Amrita University's Nano-Solar Project.

• WINSOC: Wireless Sensor Networks with Self-Organization Capabilities for Critical and Emergency Applications
  European Commission, Selex Communications - Roma Italy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Ceal-Leti - Grenoble France, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona Spain, Intracom s.a. Athens Greece, Dune s.l.r., Rome, IItaly, Sapienza, s.l Madrid Spain, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Ceske Centrum pro Vedu a Spolecnost Praha Czech Republic, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), Antrix Corp.

• Indo-German bilateral cooperation in education and research
  Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Technical University of Munich and Technical University of Berlin, "Next Generation Secure Internet Technology for Globally Distributed Enterprise".

• Indo-Italian, Amrita University and University of Milano bilateral cooperation in education and research: Autonomous Mobile Robots based on Bioinspired Artificial Control.

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