GIAN

GIAN (Global Initiative for Academic Networks) enables bringing distinguished foreign faculty to give short courses in Indian educational institutions.

Candidates who wish to participate has to register themselves on the GIAN portal, first and then on the course registration page

The following is the list of GIAN courses hosted in IISc and coordinated by IISc faculty.

“New approaches in tuberculosis research and drug development” by Prof. Christoph Grundner of Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle [Course coordinator: Prof. Amit Singh] Schedule: Dec 11 – 15, 2017

“Kinetics and Modeling of Iron-making Blast Furnace” by Prof. Hiroshi Nogami of Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan [Course Coordinator: Prof. Govind S Gupta] Schedule: Dec 18 – 22, 2017.

“Formal Verification of Cyber Physical Systems” by Prof. Pavithra Prabhakar of Kansas State University, USA. [Course coordinator: Deepak D’Souza, CSA Department, IISc.] Schedule: Jan 8 – 12, 2018

“Topological Derivative: Theory and Applications” by Prof. Andre Novotny of National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petropolis, Brazil. [Course coordinators: https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/people/g-k-ananthasuresh/ and A. K. Nandakumaran] Schedule: Jan 15 – 20, 2018

“Atomization and sprays in Gas Turbine Applications” by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Cameron Tropea of Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, TU-Darmstadt [Course Coordinator: Prof. Saptarshi Basu] Schedule: Nov 12 – 17, 2017

“Molecular View for Polymer Rheology” by Prof. Hiroshi Watanabe of Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University [Course Coordinator: Prof. Suryasarathi Bose] Schedule: Dec 05 – 10, 2016

“Process Metallurgy for 2016 and Beyond” by Prof. Seshadri Seetharaman of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [Course Cordinator: Prof. T.A. Abinandanan] Schedule: Jun 27 – Jul 08, 2016