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32nd National Systems Conference (NSC
2008)
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The 32nd National Systems Conference was
organized at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
from December 17-19, 2008. The event was inaugurated
by Revered Prof. P.S. Satsangi, Chairman, Advisory
Committee on Education, Dayalbagh Educational
Institutions and Founder President SSI. During the
Inaugural Ceremony, Revered Prof. Satsangi was
conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award by IIT
Roorkee as well as Systems Society of India Award
for honouring doyens in the field of Systems Science
and Engineering. Prof. Satsangi delivered the
Inaugural Address entitled "Generalizing Physical
Systems Theory for Applied Systems Research". |
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Glimpses of NSC 2008 |
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A large contingent from all DEI Chapters
participated in the NSC and won Best Paper
Presentation Awards in the following session : |
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Business and Social Systems |
Bani Dayal,
P.S. Satsangi |
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Measurement & Instrumentation |
P.S. Satsangi,
Vishal Sahni |
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Biomedical Systems |
V Sumati,
Lotika Singh,
Satish Kumar |
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Computer and Comm. Systems |
Sukhdev Roy,
K. Kulshreshtha |
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Signal & Image Processing |
C Patvardhan,
C V. Lakshmi, Ritu Jain |
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Modern System Techniques–I |
Rahul Sharma,
K. Hans Raj |
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Modern System Techniques – II |
Surat Kumar,
Prateek Pandya |
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Soft Computing |
K. Hans Raj,
Rajat Setia, Rahul Swarup Sharma |
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PARITANTRA 2008
First Indian Students Systems Conference
(March 30, 2008) |
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PARITANTRA 2008, First Indian Students Systems
Conference was organized on March 30, 2008
with the theme as 'Unity in Diversity of
Technologies for attaining perfection'.
Paritrantra is a Sanskrit word which stands
for 'all-encompassing general systems' and
true to its meaning, the conference got huge
contribution from all system domains, from
humanities and literary systems to educational
systems, socio-economic, commerce and business
systems to computing systems, and
life-and-physical sciences to engineering
systems. There were 79 papers in 6 sessions
and the conference witnessed over eight hours
of buzzing activity in all aspects of systems
studies with a wide spectrum of topics being
discussed. |
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Glimpses of PARITANTRA 2008 |
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The high point of the Conference was a Panel
Discussion on Dayalbagh as an Eco-Village
System with participation from
Eco-Environmental Scientists, Dayalbagh and
Soamibagh Nagar Panchayats, ADA Planners,
Journalists and Interested Citizens, and the
environmental NGO SPHEEHA. |
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The best presentations of the day were awarded
with Young Systems Scientist Awards. The
winners were:
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Educational Systems |
P. Binati |
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Engineering Systems |
Pranjal Srivastava |
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Computing Systems
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Lotika Singh |
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Socio-Economic Commerce & Business Systems |
T. Guru Sant |
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Life and Physical Sciences Systems |
Nirupama Singh |
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Humanities and Literary Systems |
Bani Dayal |
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This was followed by an Invited Video Talk by
renowned eco-environmental scientist, Prof.
Jack Ellis, Professor Emeritus in
Environmental Studies, York University,
Toronto, Canada on the topic 'Conceptual
Analysis of Society-Environment Systems'. Dr.
Ellis concluded by saying that young
researchers especially should be encouraged to
take a fresh approach to broaden systems
analysis through innovative thinking.
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