Distinguished lecture by Prof Anand Teltumbde
India’s Democratic Deficit: The Post-Colonial Assessment Date and Time: Mon, 3 Apr 2017; 3:45 PM Venue: 105 (Audi), Himalaya Building, IIIT-H Abstract India is reckoned as the largest democracy in the world. At the same time it has largest number of ill fed people, stunted children, anaemic mothers, illiterate people, and unemployable and unemployed youth. It inherited […]
LTRC Talk on ‘Language Use in Written Dialog: Beliefs, Gender, Social Networks, and Power’
By Dr. Owen Rambow, Columbia University Date: March 3rd, 2017 Time: 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm Venue: H-104, IIIT Hyderabad Faculty Host: Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma Abstract: Email remains an ubiquitous form of communication, but studying it, and developing computational tools for it, is restricted for academic research by the paucity of corpora. The major available corpus […]
Distinguished Lecture on Hyperbolic Geometry and Chaos in the Complex Plane
Hyperbolic Geometry and Chaos in the Complex Plane By Prof Mahan Mj, School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 Time: 3:45 PM Venue: 105 (Audi), Himalaya Building, IIIT-H Abstract: Instances of hyperbolic geometry come up in nature whenever a system starts developing fast interconnections. Examples include trees, the human brain and the internet. A tell-tale signature is the existence […]
Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Nivedita Menon
Title: Is Science a ‘culture’? Feminist deconstruction of objectivity Speaker: Prof. Nivedita Menon, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Date: 9 Feb 2017 Time: 3:45 PM Venue: 105 (Auditorium), Himalaya Building, IIIT-Hyderabad. Abstract: We are familiar with the distinction made between the study of the human world and the non-human natural world, in […]
KCIS Distinguished Talk on “An AI Approach to Measuring Social Good”
“An AI Approach to Measuring Social Good” By Professor Mark S. Fox Date : 27 Feb, 2017 Time : 4:00 PM Venue : 105 (Auditorium), Himalaya Building, IIIT-Hyderabad Dear All, Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS), IIIT Hyderabad and IT, Electronics & Communications Dept, Govt. of Telangana are jointly organizing the talk on “An AI Approach to Measuring […]
Panini Linguistics Olympiad and Camp 2017
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Distinguished lecture on ‘Not human, not animal’: does India have room for the adivasi? – By Prof Nandini Sundar
Title: ‘Not human, not animal’: does India have room for the adivasi? Speaker: Prof Nandini Sundar, Department of Sociology, Delhi University Date: 5 Jan 2017 Time: 3:45 p.m. Venue: 105 (Auditorium), Himalaya Building, IIIT-Hyderabad. Abstract: In India, the Scheduled Tribes or Adivasis are considered either as people in want of modernization or as eco-warriors. In […]
Modeling the Generation Process of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Speech – Seminar
“Centre of Excellence in Signal Processing (CESP)” is organising a seminar on November 21, 2016 (Monday) by Professor Hiroya Fujisaki, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan. Title Modeling the Generation Process of Fundamental Frequency Contours of Speech — An Example of Interplay between Physiology, Physics, Phonetics, and Spoken Language Processing Date: November 21, 2016 (Monday) Time: […]
Short Course on Deep Learning – Thu 1st Dec to Sun 4th Dec, 2016
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Talk on ‘Exploring genderscapes in higher education’ by Dr Kalpana Kannabiran
Special Lecture Series (GSC) Talk on ‘Exploring genderscapes in higher education‘ by Dr Kalpana Kannabiran Date and time: Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 5:00pm. Venue: Himalaya 105 Abstract: Through this session, I hope to trigger a sustained dialogue on gender lines, cross overs, intersectionality and social justice among young adults — with the hope that the […]