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SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh has been bestowed with “Excellence in Creating Employment” at the 9th FICCI Higher Education Excellence (HEE) Awards organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) on November 29, 2023. Dr Vinayak Kalluri, Dean – Academic Affairs and Dr Karthik Rajendran, Associate Dean – Quality Assurance & Ranking, SRM University-AP received the award on behalf of the varsity for the institutions’ exemplary contribution to creating employment success amongst students at the university.

SRM University-AP has been ensuring 100% placement since its inception, and the university has formulated a system wherein the quality of outgoing students is on par with industry expectations. The revamped curricula, exemplary faculty with doctoral and post-doctoral degrees, and industry-oriented experiential learning are some of the measures undertaken to ensure the quality of students. “Receiving special recognition from FICCI for Excellence in Creating Employment is indeed a proud moment for SRM University-AP. Graduate outcome is our ultimate goal and this worthy achievement has inspired us to further work in significantly improving the graduate outcomes through greater academic rigour and innovative research”, commented Prof. Manoj K Arora, Vice Chancellor, SRM University-AP.

Pro-Chancellor, SRM University-AP, Dr P Sathyanarayanan congratulated the team and stated that the award is a commendable recognition for the Placement Cell of the Directorate of Corporate Relations & Career Services (CR&CS). He lauded the CR&CS Team for their continuous and consistent efforts in honing students’ skills to make them industry-ready.

“SRM University-AP, a nascent institute, has exhibited exponential growth in creating employment. The last academic year witnessed 100% placements, with the highest package being 45 LPA and an average salary of 9 LPA, which is a 25% increase from last year. The university has 1,500 alumni, of which 34% are working in Fortune 500 companies, 17% are studying abroad, and 7 have their own startups. The key objective of the Placement cell at SRM University-AP is to facilitate secure and lucrative placement at reputed companies with a high average salary” remarked Mr Vivekanandan M S, Associate Director – Corporate Relations & Career Services, SRM AP.

The FICCI HEE Awards serve as a prestigious platform that acknowledges innovative practices, cutting-edge research, academic leadership, and industry engagements of higher education institutes and leaders. SRM University-AP, being a young institute, is advancing significantly while exhibiting qualities to learn and adapt to the demands of the evolving job market. Active industry collaborations with significant organisations/companies are assured through the various media by the university.

Dr Soumyajyoti Biswas, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, along with his Doctoral Scholar, Mr Soumyaditya Das, have presented groundbreaking findings through their research work titled “Critical Scaling through Gini Index”. The research paper was featured in the prestigious Physical Review Letters, which has an impact factor of 9.161.

Abstract

In the systems showing critical behaviour, various response functions have a singularity at the critical point. Therefore, as the driving field is tuned toward its critical value, the response functions change drastically, typically diverging with universal critical exponents. In this Letter, we quantify the inequality of response functions with measures traditionally used in economics, namely by constructing a Lorenz curve and calculating the corresponding Gini index. The scaling of such a response function, when written in terms of the Gini index, shows singularity at a point that is at least as universal as the corresponding critical exponent. The critical scaling, therefore, becomes a single parameter fit, which is a considerable simplification from the usual form where the critical point and critical exponents are independent. We also show that another measure of inequality, the Kolkata index, crosses the Gini index at a point just prior to the critical point. Therefore, monitoring these two inequality indices for a system where the critical point is not known can produce a precursory signal for imminent criticality. This could be useful in many systems, including condensed matter, bio- and geophysics to atmospheric physics. The generality and numerical validity of the calculations are shown with the Monte Carlo simulations of the two-dimensional Ising model, site percolation on the square lattice, and the fibre bundle model of fracture.

Fig.1: Shows the crossing point of the Gini index and the Kolkata index prior to critical point for three different models (from left Ising model in 2d, site percolation in 2d and fiber bundle model of fracture) form both side of critical point.

Collaborations and Future Plans

This work essentially builds a framework for indicating imminent critical points for any system. Therefore, in situations where such knowledge is vital, for example, in the fracture of solids, the method is going to be highly useful in forecasting the failure point. We are in the process of working with our collaborators at the University of Barcelona to experimentally verifying our methods for the compressive failure of porous samples. This is a significant first step towards opening new pathways in forecasting fracture points in disordered materials that could have an impact on laboratory-scale fractures to large constructions and eventually to earthquakes.

We wish the teacher-student duo many more fulfilling and enriching research endeavours in future!