SYMPOSIUM STRUCTURE

IEEE-VESIT Student Branch

Day 1 : 23/1/2000 Wednesday

Theme: Communications and Internetworking

1.45 - 2.00 Symposium Inauguration and Inaugural address

By Mr.Q. Bakir, Immediate past President, Bombay Section,

Vice-President, Hinditron Ltd.

2.00 - 2.05 Inaugural address by Dr. G. Haridasan

2.05 - 2.20 Keynote address on Communications by Dr. Patro, SAMEER

2.35 - 3.35 Talk on Virtual private networks (VPN) + demo

By Mr. Patrick Mathias from INTEL

3.35 – 3.55 Aryabhatt Linux

By Mr. Vishal Gupta, CEO, Linux Technologies

4.00 - 4.25 Break

4.30 - 5.15 Talk on Wireless Local Loops + demo

By Mr. Bharadwaj from Hughes ISPAT

5.20 - 5.55 Talk on Wireless LANs

By Mr. D. P. Shankar from Datamatics

5.50 Tea

Day 2 : 24/1/2000 Thursday

Theme: Multimedia, Graphics & Imaging

1.45 - 2.00 Keynote address on Theme

2.05 - 3.00 Image processing

By Prof U.B.Desai, Dept of Electrical Engg, IIT Bombay

3.05 - 4.15 2D & 3D Animation

By Mr. Prasad Ganguly & Mr. Vikrant, TATA ELXSI

4.15 - 4.45 Break

4.50 - 5.40 Talk on Virtual Trade Fairs by Ms. Anjali (NCST)

5.45 – 6.00 Tea

6.00 -7.00 Quiz finals

Day 3 : 25/1/2000 Friday

Theme: Emerging thrust areas in Electrical

Engineering

1.45 - 2.10 Keynote address on Theme by Dr. Umesh Chandra

2.10 - 3.00 Nanotechnology by Dr. (Mrs) Ratna Phadke, TIFR

3.05 - 4.00 Avionics by Mr. S.M. Rao, Air India

4.00 - 4.30 Break

4.35 - 5.15 Aerospace Design project undertaken by the aeronautical department IIT, Bombay by Sqd Leader Shiv Kumar.

5.15 - 5.45 Demo of previous talk on aerospace design.

5.45 Tea