Alumni Meet 2018, Hyderabad
After successful alumni meets in Bangalore followed by two more get-togethers in Seattle and Bay Area in August, the final alumni meet for 2018 culminated in the Hyderabad meet to coincide with IIIT-H’s 20th anniversary celebrations on 1st September. The
Visual recognition of human communications
Dr. Joon Son Chung, research scientist at Naver Corp and Triantafyllos Afouras, a 2nd year Ph.D student in the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Zisserman gave a talk on Visual recognition
Workshop on making Clay-Ganesha Idol
Shajil K G, visual artist and lecturer from Center for Exact Humanities (CEH) conducted a clay Ganesha-making workshop on 12 and 13 October at Sculpture Studio. Participants got to explore the sculpture form of idol-making. The first day of the
Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations
Ganesh Chaturthi was celebrated from 13 - 19 September at the institute guest house with pooja and aarthi performed every evening. Faculty, staff and students actively participated in the celebrations. Ganesh visarjan on 19th included a pooja followed by a
Straight Talk: Early Preparation for Advanced Stud...
Ms. Heather Wallick’s Straight Talk: Early Preparation for Advanced Study (Masters/PhD) on 10 September gave students an insight into the graduate school application process from the perspective of a person who has actually screened more than 1500 Indian aspirant applications
Standing out in speech: Prosodic prominence in spe...
Prof. Jennifer Cole, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University gave a talk on 3rd September on Standing out in speech: Prosodic prominence in speech production and perception. Across languages, it is often observed that variation in the prosodic form of utterances