Category: Recent Events

Dhwani, the theatre and fine arts club of VIT-AP, is organizing a talent show on Saturday the 25^th of August. The event is open to all VITians!
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Beat the Heat, the dance club of VIT-AP, organized a Flamenco workshop on 18^th August 2018. The workshop was conducted by Ms.Yuka Shori, a professional expert and trainer of the Flamenco art form.

Ms. Yuka Shori has learnt Flamenco from her time at SFC Spanish dance group in Keio University in Japan from 2006 to 2010. From early on, she has had several national stage experiences conducted by FLESPON (National Student Flamenco Federation). As a trainee, she completed professional teacher training course of “Introduction to Basic Flamenco” conducted by Alegria Dance School in Japan.

The Department of Mathematics, VIT-AP, organized a 3 day FDP on Statistical data analysis and Machine learning using R during 10^th to 12^th July 2018. 60 faculty members from all the departments, including Management and English & Soft Skills, took part in the programme. This FDP provided deep insights into statistical data analysis with the help of R. Dr. Indranil Mukhopadhyay along with Mrs. Sharmistha Das beautifully crafted the Programme. They kept the sessions quite interactive and were ever ready to help the participants. In these 3 days, Dr. Mukhopadhyay explained how to do Regression analysis, Hypothesis testing, and Machine learning using R, along with simultaneous hands-on sessions. He lucidly explained the concepts of the workshop and made it easier for everyone to understand. Lastly, he advised the participants to focus on intuition while dealing with statistical data and provided a perspective to look at statistics as the study of the variances in data.

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The 72^nd Independence Day was celebrated at VIT-AP on 15^th August, 2018. The occasion was graced by Chief Guest Sri K. Satyanarayana, I.P.S. Director General, State Disaster Response and Fire Services, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh and Guest of Honour Sri Lt. Col. S.M. Kannan, Chairman, VIT Alumni Association.

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VIT-AP, in collaboration with APSSDC, hosted the IIEECP(IUCEE International Engineering Educator Certification Programme) Workshop for Batch-2 from 12^th -14^th July 2018 on the university campus.
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The Bioscope club ( Movie making and Screening Club) had its first screening on campus. The chief guest for the inauguration ceremony was Ms. Kolluru Puja Aparna. Ms. Puja Aparna hails from Vijayawada who achieved an invitation (in 2013) for pursuing a four-year Undergraduate Course in Digital Film-making with a full scholarship at Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota (Florida) in the US. She has won several awards for her short films in the US. Ms. Puja will be sharing her movie making journey and inspire the young minds at VIT-AP.

The Department of English & Soft Skills organised a Faculty Development Programme entitled “Worlds are Made by Words: Language and Construction of Power” on Saturday the 11th of August 2018. Dr. Amit Ranjan, the Australia Awards Ambassador, a faculty at NCERT, Bhubaneswar,and an Indian English Poet delivered a series of lectures on the theme. He talked about how history was rewritten and reinterpreted and how language was used as a tool of power to subjugate the reality. He talked about how the theories of Darwin were used as a pseudoscientific tool to colonize the world and how the history always viewed the “white man’s burden” as an approved norm.

There was an interactive session on Australian Scholarships with students and research scholars following the lectures. It was followed by a poetry session hosted by Toastmasters Club in which he read excerpts from his newly published poetry collection Find Me Leonard Cohen I’m Almost Thirty. Many of the VIT-AP students read their poems. Faculty members, students and research scholars actively participated in the programme making it an interesting and highly interactive session.

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The Department of (CSE), VIT-AP,  organized a 2 day FDP on Java Programming on 14^th and 15^th July 2018. The resource person for the event was Mr. Raja and Mr. Emmerson from Infosys.