The Directorate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is organising its first start-up visit to Fopple Drone Tech Pvt Ltd, a revolutionary agricultural machinery manufacturer in Andhra Pradesh. The programme is scheduled on September 20, 2022, under the leadership of the student community – Industree Owl. The visit will be flagged off by the honourable registrar Dr R Premkumar.

Industrial visit is an integral component of the active learning pedagogy offering students practical exposure in their field of studies. Observing the working culture of an industry from close quarters will help students keep abreast of the latest technologies, corporate strategies, and current trends, being followed in leading companies.

Fopple Drone Technologies, founded by Mr Ambula Gopi Raja, gave rise to the nation’s first agriculture drone. These drones spray fertilizers in a perfect manner as designed by the innovator. They can cover up to fifty acres of land in a single day. With a smaller number of farming labour available in the rural areas, such innovative accessories play a vital role in the sustenance of this dwindling tribe of farmers. In addition, they also save time and spray uniformly unlike humans. The business model of this start-up is unique.

The Directorate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation spares no effort in connecting students with industrial networks. Industrial visits are excellent opportunities to interact with business professionals and experts that may help them in building necessary leadership qualities and management skills.

Industree Owl is one of the student communities operating as part of the Home of Leaders, managed by the Entrepreneurship directorate. The community works with corporates and provides a platform to check the industry readiness of students via events like competitions, conferences, and hackathons. The tentative outcomes of the scheduled industrial visit are as follows.

• Practical exposure to a startup and the challenges – narration from the founder.
• Meeting the founder, his team and learning more about the assembling unit and the research lab.
• Experience the latest drone technology and the various applications in the industry.
• Opportunity to start a Drone Centre of Excellence at SRMAP
• Experience the real customers and the scope of the technology in India in the next 3-5 years
• Meeting the farmers on the field and understanding the true meaning of a “problem statement”.
• Design a solution and inspiration to start a project/ venture in the same domain.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering in association with the SRM AP Hackathon club is organising a webinar titled Introduction to Hackathon: Best Practices from 9 am to 10 am, followed by a 24-hour internal hackathon C2Hack at 10 am on September 24, 2022.

A hackathon is a social coding event bringing together computer programmers and other technology enthusiasts together to conceive a new software programme or redesign an existing programme to enhance its performance. Hackathons present a constructive platform for developing prototypes for various applications and programming languages or for providing solutions to real-life challenges ranging from educational technology to disaster management.

Hackathons are thus classified into different types based on their objectives and themes. Having a well-defined set of rules is a necessity while organising a hackathon. The webinar intends to introduce students to the fundamentals of hackathon and some of the effective practices one may follow while participating in a hackathon. Students will also be given the opportunity to test their hacking skills in an internal hackathon C2Hack following the session.

Join the webinar and learn how to use your tech genius to find solutions to the greatest of real-life challenges. Every hackathon is a smart route to actualise your ideas into innovations.

SRM University-AP is excitedly looking forward to the arrival of the new batch of the year 2022 on September 21, 2022. The inaugural ceremony of the freshers’ day orientation programme is scheduled on the day at 2.30 pm in the august presence of the university dignitaries; Honourable President Dr P Sathyanarayanan, Vice-Chancellor Prof Manoj K Arora and Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof D Narayana Rao.

An array of distinguished talks and motivational sessions has been arranged during the two-week-long programme to gear up the students as they are all set to embark on a new phase of their academic life at the university. Students will also be acquainted with the unique culture of the research-intensive campus, an overview of their university life, and the infrastructure and facilities available at the university.

There will be introductory sessions on various university departments such as Examination, Student Affairs, Information Technology & Knowledge Management and Corporate Communication, Academic Affairs, NSS, Campus Life, Centre for Skill Development, Student Counselling, and so on to help students understand how each department works. Deans and faculty from the departments will also speak to students to provide an overview of the department, its scope, and opportunities.

Recreational sessions in collaboration with Heartfulness Institute have also been scheduled as part of the orientation programme.Leading heartfulness practioners; Mr Ramesh Krishnan, Mr V V S Prasad and Mr Sathish Desai will address the students on the significance of peace and mental health in academic life

During the interactive sessions the following speakers will address the students on various topics of interest:

• Mr Kundana Kumar Lal, President VITTI, Research Foundation
• Dr Jaya Prakash Narayan, IAS, Retd.
• Ms KGV Saritha IPS
• Shri V V Lakshminarayana, IPS, Retd
• Mr Prabhu Bala Srinivasan, Vice President – Flipkart
• Prof P K Singh, Director – IIM Tiruchirappalli

Programme Schedule: Schedule for Freshmen Orientation Programme-2022

Link to Join: https://bit.ly/orientation-programme-2022

The concept of vector spaces and linear maps between vector spaces are used in all branches of mathematics. The Department of Mathematics is organising the sixth distinguished lecture Vector Bundles in affiliation with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati, India. Renowned Indian Mathematician Prof D S Nagaraj is the keynote speaker of the lecture.

Date: September 21, 2022

Time: 3.30 PM

Venue: Tiered classroom, Level 5

The talk will explain the concept of vector bundles and mapping between vector bundles, a natural generalisation of vector spaces, and linear mapping between vector spaces. The concept of vector bundles and mapping between them is helpful in several advanced branches of mathematics.

About the speaker

Prof D S Nagaraj did his PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematical Science (IMSc), Chennai, one of the premier research institutes in India. After his retirement in 2018 from IMSc, he joined as a professor at IISER, Tirupati, and currently is the head of the Mathematics Department there. A conference on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday was held at IMSc in 2018 to celebrate his works. His areas of interest include Algebraic Geometry, Commutative Algebra, and Number Theory. His profound scholarship on the subject influenced many young scholars who later became well-established mathematicians. He is exceptionally generous and approachable to young students who would try to learn algebraic geometry for the first time. He has significantly impacted a generation of mathematicians as a researcher and a great teacher. He was elected as a fellow of the Indian academy of sciences in 2010 and 2017.

Join the lecture through the zoom link!