List of Seminars & Conferences held at BITS, Pilani.  

• Asia Regional Workshop on PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMUNITY-BASED RURAL TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
                         at BITS, Pilani from September 6 - 8, 2004.
  
  The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD) have jointly produced a toolkit to guide Rural Transport practitioners and planners to design sustainable small-scale or community-based rural transport infrastructure projects. The toolkit brings in best practices and case studies from different parts of the world, which prove that community-managed and small-scale projects are sustainable at the community level. It envisages a greater understanding of the political and social relationships between stakeholders and promotes recognition of the interdependence of rehabilitation and maintenance as a condition of sustainability.
  
  The involvement of the communities and consideration of social benefits in rural infrastructure planning, construction and maintenance of rural infrastructure are vital factors. The planned series of workshops in Asia, Franco Phone Africa and Latin America will draw all relevant stakeholders (planners, practitioners, civil society organisations) together to review and analyse the information provided in the toolkit and to identify potential avenues for the best adaptation of these approaches. The International Focus Group (IFG) on Rural Road Engineering is expected to take the lead role in pushing forward the recommendations of these workshops internationally through its network of rural road planners and engineers.
  
  The Workshop will draw upon the lessons learnt from different experiences around the world to highlight maintenance and the socio-political implications of relationships between stakeholders as key determinants of a successful and sustainable intervention.

• national Seminar on Meeting Communication Challenges in Workplaces
  
                                at BITS, Pilani from September 10-11, 2004
  
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  Communicating formal and technical messages is vital for the success, growth and sustenance of any organization be it academic or business. Today, the reputation of an organization, industry or nation depends upon the quality and quantity of information they transmit and exchange. Gone are the days when information dissemination used to be earmarked for a counted group in an organization. With the phenomenal advancement in technology, information has now become a common commodity. This fact makes it necessary for both the institutions offering professional education and the business organizations to reorient themselves towards a better understanding of the process of transmitting and receiving information with greater effectiveness and efficiency than before through oral and written media

• National Seminar on challenges posed by IPR regimes (Download Registration form)
  
               at BITS, Pilani from September 15-16 2004
  
  In globalization scenario, IPR issues are impacting many vital policy issues such as health, environment, trade, electronic commerce etc. It has now become necessary to expose and equip all concerned especially, the policy makers with required skills and knowledge to enable them to perform their functions far more effectively. During the present century, intellectual property would play even more important role on the international stage. The promotion and effective protection of intellectual property is inextricably linked with any policy for sustained social, economic, cultural and technological development. Knowledge of IPR has gained further importance for researchers, S&T administrators, policy makers and innovative students.

  The Internet, new technologies and movements such as open source management have greatly challenged traditional notions of property, authorship, originality and ownership. We need to find answer to the question as to what do these challenges mean for our understanding of IPR and what alternate accounts of IPR are required to be able to argue for a larger notion of the public domain in the context of IPR?

  The purpose of this National Seminar is to bring the Scientists, Researchers, Academicians, Technocrats, Bureaucrats and Policy makers on one platform to share knowledge and views about IPR and deliberate on challenges posed by IPR regimes.

  This Seminar is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi.
   

• National conference on STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS (sem 04)
                         at BITS, Pilani from September 24-25, 2004
  
  Best planning, design and construction of various structures comprise maximum return with least expenditure. In the olden days, engineers used to tackle these tasks through their experience and rules of thumb developed over the years. To achieve best results in terms of cost and utility proper understanding of the behavior of these structures is necessary. Behavior of a structure under different loading conditions is a very complex phenomenon, which requires interdisciplinary discussions. Although structural engineering developed a lot in the past still due to the phenomenal advancements in science & technology and to cater the demand of present age, improvements are needed. With the advent of modern computational tools it is possible now to numerically model the structural behavior and obtain the required results, in-place of doing the expansive experiments. Therefore, it is mandatory to sit and discuss the planning, analysis and design in structural engineering in the light of modern developments. This conference will provide an opportunity to the researchers, scientists, engineers, builders and the students in the field of structural engineering to interact with each other in a fruitful manner.

• National Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (NCMMA 2004)
  
                               at BITS, Pilani from October 08-09, 2004
  
  Mathematical modeling plays a vital role for scientific study of various processes and activities in all walks of real life problem. Analysis of Mathematical modeling has direct impact in Biological systems, Environmental Pollution, Industries etc. Also fluid mechanics plays an important role in various disciplines of Science and Engineering such as blood flow, flow of mucus, heat and mass transfer. In view of these, the Mathematics Group proposes to conduct a TWO-day National conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis.

• Symposium on Prediction in Ungauged Basins for Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management (PUBSWRPM-2004))
  
                               at BITS, Pilani on October 30, 2004
  
  In most of the river basins across the world, human activities have disturbed the natural hydrological and ecological regimes. This is especially true for the river basins in developing countries where climatic variability assessment and basin development have taken place with little or no hydrological data. This led to the unplanned depletion of water resources and degradation of ecosystem, consequently affecting the quality of human life. New and advanced methodologies are essential to predict the hydrologic and other relevant data about the ungauged or poorly gauged basins. Thus there is an urgent need for research in this direction to facilitate appropriate policy measures. To assess the present status and identify further lines of research, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, is organising a Symposium on “Prediction in Ungauged Basins for Sustainable Water Resources Planning and Management (PUBSWRPM-2004)” on October 30, 2004. The objective of the symposium is to reduce the gap between research and implementation and mobilise the scientific community in a coordinated and effective way to address this major challenge. Besides technical sessions, a brain storming session has been planned to discuss the specific problems in dealing with the ungauged or poorly gauged basins in India. The enlightening deliberations of the symposium will help in framing suitable policy measures which can be implemented by the concerned organisations.

• Training Workshop on building Digital Libraries
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                               at BITS, Pilani on Nov 29-Dec 2, 2004
  
  Of late there has been growing interest in the area of digitization and development of digital libraries in the country. Digital libraries have become an integral part of library services and the librarians quickly need to equip with the necessary skills in this area. There are good open sources for building digital libraries; very few library schools in the country provide training in this area because of lack of both infrastructure and training skills. Keeping the above in view, a training workshop on building digital libraries will be held at BITS Pilani during 29^th November – 2^nd December. Objectives of the workshop are : (1) To provide background knowledge on building digital library and related concepts (2) To offer hands on experience on developing digital libraries using open software D Space, (3) To offer basis knowledge on Linux installation, (4) To provide knowledge on developing e-print archieves and institutional depositories. The resource persons for the workshop will be drawn from BITS Pilani, Documentation Research and Training Center, Bangalore and Inflibnet, Ahmedabad.




• International Symposium on RECENT ADVANCES IN DRUG DESIGN & DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
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                               at BITS, Pilani on February 26-27, 2005
  
  Pharmacy Group at BITS, Pilani is organizing a two-day Symposium on RECENT ADVANCES IN DRUG DESIGN & DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS. The main aim of this symposium is to bring together multidisciplinary researchers around the world in the areas of drug design, pharmaceutics, polymer science, cell and molecular biology, medicine and pharmaceutical technology. It is expected that this symposium will act as a stimulus to discuss and channelise ideas in: Multi-disciplinary approaches for drug design; Bio-informatics (chemi-informatics) based high throughput design and screening; Recent advances in novel drug delivery systems including nano-systems; Unique challenges in the formulation development of parenteral and non-parenteral synthetically derived peptide drug products. Novel drug delivery systems designed for biopharmaceuticals; Challenges in the evaluation and clinical trial of novel drug delivery system; Key regulatory issues as they pertain to drug design, formulation development, drug product characterization and manufacturing; and IPR issues.

  Poster session will provide young scientists an opportunity and platform to showcase and deliberate their research activities with senior experts in the field. The selected posters will be given an opportunity to be published as full-length paper in the Proceedings of the Symposium. It is planned to publish the proceedings as a book volume through a reputed publisher. The symposium supported University Grants Commission New Delhi, India





• Work Shop on Energy Savings in Steam Systems
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                               at BITS, Pilani on April 26-30, 2005
  
  This workshop is intended to train Managers, operators, engineers, designers, maintenance superintendents, inspectors, consultants and academicians interested in steam system optimisation. The workshop cover lectures including certain case studies, software demonstrations. This workshop will provide the participants an opportunity to make a clear and refreshing examination of steam systems.

• Entrepreneurship Culture: Issues & Challenges of Small and Intermediate Entrepreneurs (SIEs) at Grassroots Level   >>>
  
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                               at BITS, Pilani on September 02-04, 2005

India has a glorious entrepreneurial heritage and culture extending over its recorded history of about 5000 years. It was a rich society with very enterprising people who pioneered new products and opened up new avenues for their marketing. Indian entrepreneurs have made their presence felt on the world map. Still, India certainly does not belong to the rich League of Nations. It is today the world’s greatest functioning democracy, but at home it cannot boast of widespread prosperity, literacy, or housing or medical facilities for all. If India has to come out of these lacunae, it has to rekindle the spirit of enterprise at the grassroots level. Today, cultivating entrepreneurial culture is a key factor towards facing the challenges of building a new socially and economically vibrant India





• National Conference on “Energy Management in Changing Business Scenario (EMCBS- 2005)" ( Second Announcement )
  (Download Registration Form and Information Brochure)
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                               at BITS, Pilani on October 08-09, 2005

  The forthcoming national conference will be discussing the issues in better management of energy and will provide a forum for exchanging the ideas regarding planning, optimization, integration and management of conventional and renewable energy technologies and deliberating the new regimes in the management of energy.

   

• UGC Refresher Course On Manufacturing Excellence
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                               at BITS, Pilani on December 12-31, 2005

  Manufacturing is vital for the health of any country. It helps the countries in assessing its economy. Since introduction of economic reforms in 1991, Indian industries are facing a very different competitive scenario compared with the past. Manufacturing in India is at a critical juncture. International competitors are continuously working on improving manufacturing, bringing in new products and making manufacturing more proactive and responsive. The manufacturing game plan today has changed from one in which the field is defined by national boundaries to one in which there are no boundaries. This course would provide a platform to introduce and highlight Manufacturing Excellence strategies/practices.
  The last date for receipt of registration form with fee is October 31,2005

   




• UGC Refresher Course on "Theoretical and Computational Physics "
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                               at BITS, Pilani on December 12-31, 2005

  Computers are playing an increasingly important role in both research and teaching. Physics researchers need computers to model/simulate physical phenomena, and with graphics and animation, computer has become a powerful teaching aid.

  Keeping the above two objectives in mind, the refresher course has been designed i) to provide a quick review of basic subjects of the physics curricula of Indian universities, with emphasis on recent developments and problem solving, and ii) to introduce the participants to some basic computational techniques used in physics research and to the use of computers to increase the appeal of physics teaching.
  The last date for receipt of registration form with fee is October 31,2005

  
  

• National Conference on DESIGN FOR PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
  
                               at BITS, Pilani on February 17-18, 2006

This conference is on the emerging philosophy of incorporating the constraints of various other stages in the product life cycle at design stage itself. What was a discrete and completely disconnected scenario of product life cycle with inherent inefficiency has now completely metamorphosed into an integrated set of activities. Developments in many technical areas of design and manufacturing have been responsible for successful integration. These state-of-the-art technologies in both systems and technological frameworks form the topics of this conference. All the papers presented at the conference will be published in the form of proceedings. Papers are invited for oral and poster presentation in all related areas of design for product life cycle.

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• International workshop on BIOSENSORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
  
                               at BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus on February 21-23, 2006

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing the recent advances in biosensors to address real life pollution problems, bio-analytical technology, and exchange of knowledge. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to strengthen existing network of education and research among participating Institutions. Student participation is particularly welcome and awards for outstanding student presentation are planned.

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• National workshop on VLSI Design and Embedded systems
  
                               at BITS, Pilani on February 24-26, 2006

This workshop aims at providing training to the participants to design VLSI integrated circuits. Emphasis will be on first hand experience of the implementation of digital design methodology through extensive “hands on” sessions. It will cover the fundamental techniques required for the design of digital ICs using schematic and HDL approaches.....

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• National Conference on ISSUES RELATED TO IPRs: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES
                                  &
  National Workshop on PATENT SEARCH, DOCUMENTATION, DRAFTING & INFRINGEMENT ANALYSIS
  
                               at BITS, Pilani on March 3^rd & 4^th, 2006

  In the last several years, a large number of Workshops, Symposia and Conferences have been conducted in the country to increase the level of awareness towards intellectual property and its protection amongst experts/ scientists in R&D and academia.
  
  This conference-cum-workshop is aimed at deliberating and giving hands-on experience on the art and science of patent literature search, documentation of in-house Intellectual Property generation process and the output thereof and drafting and filing of patent applications.
  
  Experts on Patents and other Intellectual Property Rights would deliver lectures and provide hands-on training on the techniques of patent literature search, documentation, drafting of patent and infringement analysis.

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