Newsletter of IEEE CS SBC IIT KHARAGPUR
Sourav Biswas Sukanya Das, Content Writer for IEEE IIT Kharagpur CS Student Chapter
A Pre-U STEM webinar was held on 14th December 2020 to interact with school students on the topic of ‘Searching for Black Holes’ with 91 participants including students from various schools. Black holes are the most extreme environments in nature, where the force of gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape. Theories of stellar evolution predict that black holes of various masses must be everywhere in the Universe. This event interacts with the school students to create a zeal for taking STEM education in the future. The speaker Dr. Somak Raychoudhary discussed the work of Nobel awardee Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel and connected with the audience by discussing India’s present and future research opportunities. A workshop on Docker by an experienced researcher Dr. Arif Ahmed was held on 21st February 2021, attracted a total of 106 participants, and ended with a wonderful Q&A session.
Distinguished Lecture on RFID Systems and Design of Organic Antenna-in-Package
Prajakta Sathe, Chair for IEEE IIT Kharagpur AP MTTS Student Chapter
IEEE IIT Kharagpur APMTTS Student Chapter, under the umbrella of the Kharagpur Section, organized two significant distinguished lectures (DL) attended by several viewers. A DL on “RFID Systems and Applications” was delivered by Prof. Atef Z. Elsherbeni from CMES, USA on 29th December 2020. Starting with a brief overview of the RFID concept, he introduced the superiority of chip-less RFID tags over conventional RFID tags. Prof. Elsherbeni then acquainted the viewers with several real-life applications of UHF RFID technology. This enlightening talk was attended by 50
participants. A distinguished lecture on “Organic Antenna-in-Package Design for Millimeter-Wave Applications” was delivered by Dr Duixian Liu from IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA on 12th January 2021. The main emphasis was on areas related to Millimeter-Wave-Technology of research at IBM and the inevitability of its uses globally. This enlightening talk was attended by 35 participants.