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IIT Kharagpur GIAN Course Renewable Energy

IIT Kharagpur’s GIAN Course on Renewable Energy [May 7-18]: Registrations Open

April 4, 2018 by Srishti Srivastav

About In India, the regulatory framework to deal with energy sector has been changed on periodical basis to accommodate the requirement of industry, consumer and the state. However, the changes have largely been related with conventional source of energy with a very sparse provision on renewable sources of energy. In 2003, the Electricity Act has been enacted with a commitment to non-discriminatory open access to end users and participation of private players in generation. The Act fails to give necessary …

GIAN course on Molecular Phylogeny and Next-Generation Sequencing [Aizwal, June 19-28]: Registrations Open

May 25, 2017May 25, 2017 by Debarpita Pande

About: Phylogenetic studies are critically important for understanding the rich and diversified flora and fauna of India, as a good understanding of the past helps effective planning for the future and conservation of biodiversity. Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyses hereditary molecular differences, mainly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism’s evolutionary relationships. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a phylogenetic tree. Molecular phylogenetics is one aspect of molecular systematics, a …

IIT Kanpur’s GIAN Course on Codes for Distributed Storage [July 1-10]: Registrations Open

May 9, 2017May 9, 2017 by Saumya046

About the Course Distributed Storage Systems (DSSs) are an integral part of modern data centres which support large scale computing applications such as those provided by Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. Essentially this technology has evolved by using inexpensive disks which are then distributed and connected through modern communication networks. Erasure and error correcting codes play a vital role in achieving reliability of the stored data. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur supported by MHRD under GIAN (Global Initiative of …