IIT-GN FOUNDATION PROGRAMME - 2012

A five-week Foundation Programme was conducted during July 19-August 23, 2012 for the second consecutive year. The programme is designed to inculcate qualities of physical fitness values and ethics, creativity, social awareness, and team-work. The inaugural address of the programme was delivered by Mr Arvind Singhal, Chairman, Technopak Advisors Pvt. Ltd. A number of lectures were delivered by eminent speakers on topics such as Right to information (Dr Sandeep Pandey, Social Activist), Teach for India (Mr Gunvant Jain, Teach for India-NGO), Social media (Mr Vijayendra Haryal, writer), Ethics (Prof. R. P. Chhabra, IIT Kanpur), Grassroot comics (Prof. Suchitra Mathur, IIT Kanpur), Inter personal communication (Ms Rashmi Dutt, Founder, Dialog Services), Technology in ancient India (Mr Michel Danino, archeologist and scholar), Kerala School of Mathematics (Dr M. D. Srinivas, Centre of Policy Studies), Higgs Boson (Prof. Raghavan Rangarajan, PRL Ahmedabad), and Growing inequalities in India (Mr Jaideep Hardiker, Journalist).