Praktani Adda Session 41:

एक शाम देवघर के नाम - सरोद वादन

Ek Shaam Deoghar Ke Naam, Sarod Recital

Topic:

एक शाम देवघर के नाम - सरोद वादन 

Day, Date and Time:

Saturday, March 18, 2023 (18:00 IST)

Name of the Speaker:

Pandit Biswajit Roy Chowdhury (RKMV 1973 Batch)

Zoom Link: https://vyakta.zoom.us/j/86959226049

About the speaker

Biswajit is an acclaimed musician with a vast experience of around five decades. He has been trained under various masteros starting with his father, Ranajit Roy Chowdhury, Pandit Indraneel Bhattacharya, sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur, Vidushi Sumati Mutatkar and Pandit Balasahab Poochwale.

Biswajit’s music creates a unique and dynamic dialogue with the tradition of North Indian Art music. He is perhaps the only sarod player who plays the coveted compositions from the Jaipur-Atrauli style on the sarod.

Know More - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biswajit_Roy_Chowdhury

About the session

It will be a live Sarod Recital.

Praktani Adda Session 40:

Impact of Diagnostic Laboratories in Health & Disease

Topic:

Impact of Diagnostic Laboratories in Health & Disease 

Day, Date and Time:

Saturday, March 4, 2023 (1700 IST)

Name of the Speaker:

Bhaskar Bhattacharya (RKMV 1988 Batch)

Zoom Link: https://vyakta.zoom.us/j/89304548501

About the speaker

Bhaskar has a rich experience of over two decades of working in the diagnostic laboratory field.

He completed medical graduation from Gauhati Medical College & Hospital in 1995 and served at R.K. Mission Hospital, Itanagar, till 1998.

After that, Bhaskar completed P.G. in Medical Biochemistry from MSR Hospitals, Bangalore and did advanced Biochemistry Laboratory Training at NIMHANS, Bangalore.

He has been engaged with the National Accreditation Board of Testing & Calibration Laboratories ( since the year 2010 ) as Empanelled Lead Inspector for the inspection and assessment of Diagnostic Labs PAN INDIA and SAARC countries and has been selected as a national representative of India as reference laboratory in the IFCC Network of Reference Laboratories for Standardization of HbA1c.

About the session

Diagnostic tests are a crucial aspect of clinical practice since they assist clinicians in establishing whether a patient has or does not have a particular condition.

In order for any clinical test to be used most appropriately, it is essential that several parameters be established regarding the test and that these are made known to clinicians to inform their clinical decision-making.

These include the test’s sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and likelihood ratios. 

Laboratory tests are particularly useful in validating a diagnosis, predicting disease severity, and monitoring disease progression in patients with infectious diseases or immunological disorders or monitoring of disease progression, manifestations or recovery in non - communicable diseases.

Timely diagnostic assessment and implementation of reliable tests are extremely important in disease management.

Praktani Adda Session 39:

Radiology: The art of Looking into Human Body

Speaker: Dr. Ishan Kumar, RKMV 2005

Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023

Time: 17:00 to 1900 IST

Adda Link: https://vyakta.zoom.us/j/81529467513

About the Speaker: 

Dr. Ishan Kumar completed his class 12 from Vidyapith in 2005 and in the same year he joined MBBS course at Banaras Hindu University, later on he did MD in Radiology from the same Institute. He did senior residency in Body Imaging and Interventional Radiology from PGIMER, Chandigarh. Currently he is Associate Professor, Institute Of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University where he teaches and practices as a faculty member.

About the Adda:

In this adda our speaker will discuss how various diseases of human body get diagnosed using radiological techniques. He will also discuss when and how one should get himself/herself checked with special focus on  early cancer detection in a adda titled “Radiology: The art of looking into human body”

Dear Brothers,

Our alumni Dr. Ishan Kumar, RKMV 2005 is currently working as Associate Professor, Institute Of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. He is our adda speaker on Saturday, February 25, 2023 1700 IST. He will discuss how various diseases of the human body get diagnosed using radiological techniques with special focus on early cancer detection in adda titled “Radiology: TheArt of Looking into Human Body”.

Come join us to listen and inspired by his journey Zoom Link : https://vyakta.zoom.us/j/81529467513

Sincerely,

Welfare and Events Committee

About the Speakers: 

Vivek (X- 2001) is Director of Data Science & Advanced Analytics at GAP Inc. based out of Austin, TX. He leads a team of Data Scientists and Operations Research Scientists building models that optimise business outcomes. The essence of his team's mandate is predicting what is going to sell and where (forecasting), and then using that information to make optimal decisions related to the procurement and placement of inventory (Pack Optimization & Inventory Optimization) and the pricing of merchandise (Price Optimization). He has has obtained his BS-MS Dual degree from IISER Pune, and a MS in Operations Research from Columbia University

Parivesh (X-2002) is an Applied Scientist at Amazon based out of the Bay area, and works in Search on building and deploying models for spelling correction across languages and multimodal search ranking & relevance. Parivesh obtained his BS-MS Dual degree from IISER Pune, and a MS in Operations Research from Columbia University.

Jayant (X-2003) is a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn based out of the Bay area, and works  on protecting your accounts from abuse and cybercrimes. He has obtained a BE degree from BITS Pilani and a M Tech degree from NUS Singapore.

About the Adda:

The session will be a collaborative session by Vivek with two other RKM Alumni Parivesh Priye and Jayant Kumar, who will give an overview of Data Science, ML application & will talk about applications of Data Science & ML into three different areas. Each of those sessions will be 15 mins long, and then the last 15 minutes will be reserved for Q&A. Let's join the session and learn from the expert. See you all there.

About the Speaker: 

Gautam Sengupta is an alumnus of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar (1964-1969), Visva-Bharati (1974-1977), Jawaharlal Nehru University (1977-1979), and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1983-1990). He taught Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jadavpur University, and the University of Hyderabad, retiring from service and relocating to Kolkata in 2019. 

His academic activities and interests span the fields of semantics, philosophy of language, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. He has delivered plenary/keynote lectures at numerous institutions worldwide, including Cornell University, the University of Goettingen, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics.

He is also a fitness freak who counts among his significant achievements in life the ability to engage in high-intensity interval training at the age of 70 with severe spinal stenosis, which, according to experts, should have made it impossible for him to walk.

Gautam is a Carnatic enthusiast who produced a Hindi version of a more-than-half-a-millennium-old Carnatic krithi which happens to be the first ever classical Carnatic composition to be translated into and sung in Hindi. This initiative is known as Project Anukriti.

Enjoy the Carnatic and other music projects that Gautam has worked on, in various capacities, under Project Anukriti and elsewhere: 

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFHmKcQGj4k

Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLXifpRKJ0

Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFyXzl2cOi4&t=5s

Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ii9ewOwaU

Video 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cxSZGI0qw

Video 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p0_MUyHNPs

Coverage in The Hindu Friday Review: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ifU9v-LKh2vb57fmKF4F27QBvVDfCVNG/view?usp=sharing

About the Adda:

Unlike India's languages, all of her indigenous writing systems are derived from a single source: the Ashokan Brahmi script which is a marvel of human ingenuity and innovation. The odds are that our kids will grow up without any knowledge, understanding, or appreciation of these writing systems. In this brief presentation, Gautam Sengupta will focus on the beauty and architectural grandeur of these Brahmi-derived writing systems with the hope that an appreciation of the esthetics of their design will motivate the audience to make a sincere effort to teach their children how to use them and thereby save them from extinction.

Moderator: 

Professor Dr. Aloke Gopal Ghoshal, RKMV 1969

About the Speaker: 

Dr. Biswaroop Chakrabarty is currently Additional Professor of Pediatric Neurology at AIIMS, New Delhi. He has been serving as faculty of the MBBS, MD, DM, and Ph.D. curriculum at AIIMS, New Delhi, since 2014. Biswaroop completed his MBBS and MD Pediatrics at MAMC, New Delhi and DM Pediatric Neurology at AIIMS, New Delhi. He has more than 100 research publications in indexed medical journals and around 30 chapters in leading textbooks. He has received numerous research grants as Principal and Co-investigator and is passionate about Pediatric Neurology health advocacy in our country.

About the Adda:

The adda will focus on the professional scope in India's premier and one of the leading medical universities in the world, AIIMS, New Delhi, in the areas of clinics, academics, research, role in health advocacy, and the balancing act.

About the Speaker: 

Dr Subrat Kumar is the CEO of People Labs, a company working in the areas of youth development, training and recruitment. He founded People Labs 12 years ago, and in the last 12 years, he has trained almost 40000 individuals across industry and academia. He has worked with leading names across the industry and academia including ADP, PepsiCo, Airtel, Axis Bank, DarwinBox, Oyo, Maruti, SBI, GSK and academic institutes like Ms, MDI, IMT, IMI, Nirma University, IIFM. He has completed his Doctorate in Management from IMI-Delhi in the area of leadership and governance. He is an MBA from MDI-Gurgaon and an Engg. from G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology.

About the Adda:

The adda will focus on identifying business opportunities and moving from ideation to implementation. The cornerstone of the talk will be a live 500 cr opportunity which is up for grabs. He will also draw from his 12-year entrepreneurial journey and share do's and don'ts for the entrepreneurs as well as wannabe entrepreneurs.