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• Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus

  • 08 Aug 2022
  • BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

  Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav

  Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa campus

  08 August 2022

  BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus celebrates Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav and Har Ghar Tiranga

   

  The Schedule is as follows

   

  1. 13th August: Painting Competition at 5:00 pm in SAC.

   

  2. 14th August: Dance and Singing Competition in SAC from 5:00 pm onwards

   

  3. 15th August: Flag Hoisting and singing of National Anthem and National Song in Flag Hoisting Area. This will be followed by Sweet distribution and Cultural Programs in the mini auditorium.

• BITS Pilani’s Project Kratos secured 2nd rank at Anatolian Rover Challenge, Turkey

  • 02 Aug 2022
  • BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

  Project Kratos

  BITS Pilani’s Project Kratos secured 2nd rank at Anatolian Rover Challenge, Turkey

  02 August 2022

  Project Kratos, a Mars Rover team from BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus secured a worldwide rank of 2^nd and stood 1^st in Asia in the finals of the Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC) held in Istanbul, Turkey. The team has also been awarded the best ‘Autonomous and Controls Vertical’ and ‘Science Vertical’ by consensus of the Judges and Jury. Kratos scored the most points amongst all the teams in Mission 3 (Testing capabilities of Robotic Arm) and Mission 4 (Testing Science vertical), with a 98 out of 100 score in the latter. Prof. Suman Kundu, Director of BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus congratulated the team on behalf of the Institute.

   

  The Challenge, held from 22^nd to 25^th July 2022, was organized by the Space Exploration Society (UKET), and the final round of the competition hosted over 12 participant teams from all across the world. The competition was highly multidisciplinary and the tasks tested every aspect of the rover. Besides BITS Pilani, IIT Madras was another team from India that participated in the finals.

   

  The various challenges in competition included picking soil samples and identifying them for signs of life, using a robotic arm to lift and manipulate heavy payloads and traversing autonomously through undulating terrain.

   

  The project has participated in the Indian Rover Challenge 2020, the International Mars Hackathon (IMH) conducted by MSSA, International Rover Design Challenge (IRDC) 2021 and URC 2022. At the International Rover Challenge 2020, Project Kratos has qualified top among the new teams. The team secured the topmost position among the Indian competitors, ranked 2^nd in Asia and finished 20^th worldwide in URC 2022 (held in June 2022 at Utah, the USA). In the Science Task category, the team ranked 12^th worldwide.

   

  The students’ team was led by Mr. Saurabh Kalra and supervised by Prof. Toby Joseph (Faculty at Dept. of Physics).

• Congratulations to Prof. Ranjan Dey and Prof. Prasanta Kumar Das

  • 01 Aug 2022
  • BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

  Congratulations

  Congratulations to Prof. Ranjan Dey and Prof. Prasanta Kumar Das

  01 August 2022

  BITS Pilani’s Prof. Ranjan Dey invited to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry

  
   
  
  Recently, Prof. Ranjan Dey from BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus has been invited to join the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Dey is Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), U.K. The designation FRSC is given to a small group of elected Fellows of the Society who have made outstanding contribution in the field of Chemistry.
  
   
  
  Dr. Ranjan Dey has over 20 years of teaching experience, first at the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj and since 2006 at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, during which he has taught a number of discipline, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary courses. He has delivered several keynote and invited lectures in India and abroad including for THERMAM 2019 in Izmir in Turkey; at University of Heidelberg, Germany; and at NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan where he was also a Visiting Associate Professor in 2016.
  
   
  
  He has around 75 publications in various peer reviewed journals with more than 1000 citations and is a Reviewer for over 10 international journals. He has been awarded Outstanding Reviewer from Journal of Molecular Liquids and International Journal of Biological Macromolecules in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal. He was invited as Academic Visitor to the Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, U.K. and spent the summer of 2018 working under the mentorship of Prof. David Wales, a world-renowned authority in the field of Potential Energy Landscapes. His areas of research interest are Thermophysical Properties of Liquid Mixtures, Prediction of Properties, Water- Energy Nexus and New and Renewable Energy.
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
  

  BITS Pilani’s Prof. Prasanta Kumar Das selected in the Visiting Associateship Programme at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune
  

  
   
  
  Recently, Prof. Prasanta Kumar Das, a faculty in the Department of Physics of BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus has been selected in the Visiting Associateship Programme at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.
  
   
  
  IUCAA plays a center of excellence within the university sector for teaching, research and development in Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Visiting Associateship Programme of IUCAA gives a mobility to a faculty member of Indian University can visit IUCAA to develop his or her interest and expertise in Astronomy and Astrophysics.  
  
   
  
  Dr. Das works in the area of Astrophysics, Cosmology and High Energy Physics.  His primary interest is in Inflationary Cosmology, Collider and Astrophysical Signature of Dark Matter and Extra dimension(s) and Quantum Computation in High Energy Physics/Astrophysics.
  
   
  
  Dr. Das has 36 publications in peer-reviewed International Journals. He has collaborators from Institutes/Universities of National and International repute. He is a Reviewer of several International Journals like European Physical Journal C, International Journal of High Energy Physics, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics., Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.  
  
   
  
  He has been invited to visit several universities in the USA e.g. University of Kansas, Kansas; University of Washington at St. Louis, Syracuse University, NY and Kansas State University at Kansas.  Dr. Das is currently the Member of the Executive Council of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - India Consortium and he is also associated with the LIGO India Collaboration at present.

• BITS Pilani Goa Campus student selected for semester exchange at the University of Guelph, Canada

  • 21 Jul 2022
  • BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

  Mr. Advait Anil Menon

  BITS Pilani Goa Campus student selected for semester exchange at the University of Guelph, Canada

  21 July 2022

  Mr. Advait Anil Menon (2019A4PS0414G), a fourth-year student of Dept. of Mechanical Engineering has been selected for a semester exchange at the prestigious University of Guelph, Canada in Semester I of AY 2022-23 (i.e. Sept - Dec 2022).

   

  Mr. Advait will be receiving a scholarship of total tuition fees waiver during his semester exchange at the host university.  The selection was a competitive process amongst BITS students and was based on the overall academic performance of students. The entire process of shortlisting and selection of the student was coordinated by International Programmes & Collaboration Division (IPCD), BITS Pilani, K K Goa Campus and Centre for International Programs Office, University of Guelph.

   

  BITS Pilani congratulates and wishes Advait all the best for his semester exchange at University of Guelph.