{"id":330671,"date":"2016-12-02T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=330671"},"modified":"2017-03-22T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:47:07","slug":"msr-india-academic-research-summit","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/msr-india-academic-research-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"MSR India Academic Research Summit 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venue:<\/strong> Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science<\/p>\n

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Microsoft Research India hosts the Academic Research Summit 2017 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Research India – Academic Research Summit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2017-01-24","msr_enddate":"2017-01-25","msr_location":"Bangalore, India","msr_expirationdate":"2018-06-30","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-region":[197903],"msr-event-type":[197944],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-330671","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-region-asia-pacific","msr-event-type-hosted-by-microsoft","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Venue:<\/strong> Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science\r\n\r\nNews:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMicrosoft Research India hosts the Academic Research Summit 2017<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"","content":"Microsoft Research (MSR) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India co-organized the second edition of the\u00a0Academic Research Summit in partnership with the department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, on January 24th and 25th 2017 in Bangalore. The objective\u00a0was\u00a0to share ideas and explore interesting\u00a0challenges around the theme of 'Technology for Societal Good'.<\/strong> The summit was a forum to foster meaningful discussion and discussion among the Indian Computer Science research community and drive potential collaborations to address\u00a0societal challenges in the country with technology.\r\n\r\nThe agenda included keynotes and plenary talks from distinguished researchers across a variety of areas.\u00a0There were also tracks focused on\u00a0specific\u00a0topics related\u00a0to\u00a0the above theme. Speakers\/Track participants\u00a0at the summit included Kalika Bali<\/a>, Sorav Bansal<\/a>, Ranjita Bhagwan<\/a>, Monojit Choudhury<\/a>,\u00a0R Govindrajan<\/a>, Jayant Haritsa<\/a>, Nutan Limaye<\/a>, Vani Mandava<\/a>, Geetha Manjunath<\/a>, Srujana Merugu<\/a>, Rashmi Mohan<\/a>,\u00a0Madhavan Mukund<\/a>, P J Narayanan<\/a>, Venkat Padmanabhan<\/a>, Raghu Ramakrishnan<\/a>, Timothy Roscoe<\/a>, Yogesh Simmhan<\/a>, Manohar Swaminathan<\/a>, S Sudarshan<\/a>, Mukund Thattai<\/a>, Jaime Teevan<\/a>, Chandu Thekkath<\/a>, Jeannette Wing<\/a>, among others.\r\n\r\nThe\u00a0audience at the summit comprised faculty and research scholars from top engineering institutes across the country and representatives from industry and the government. The range of interests and breadth of the technical topics covered\u00a0hopefully\u00a0provided a unique experience for the attendees.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAgenda:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n24th<\/sup> January 2017<\/u><\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:00 noon: Registration\r\n\r\n12:30 \u2013 2:00 PM : Lunch\r\n\r\n2:00 - 2:10 PM: Welcome Address\r\n\r\n2:10\u00a0\u2013 2:50 PM: Keynote : Mukund Thattai<\/a>, National Centre for Biological Sciences\r\n\r\nTitle: Possible and Impossible Cells: A recording of the talk can be accessed at: https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/possible-impossible-cells\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nAbstract: Cells are the smallest complete units of self-replication, and all life is made up of them. It is becoming clear that cells are best studied as informational and computational units, not just physical machines. Many of the questions of interest to cell biologists fall into the general category of \"how is this or that aspect of a cell encoded in its genome?\" But the connection between molecules and phenotype is complex: cells are irreducible, and must be understood as a whole. I will discuss questions that arise in the study of membrane traffic: the logistics system that moves cargo between different parts of a cell. Surprisingly, many important issues can be phrased as well-posed abstract problems, whose analysis leads to experimentally testable predictions. I will close with our recent experimental work on the evolution of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, the yeast that makes lager beer.\r\n\r\n2:50 \u2013 3:15 PM: ACM India Update - Madhavan Mukund: A recording of the talk can be accessed at: https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/acm-india-update\/<\/a>\r\n\r\n3:15 - 3:30 PM: Tea Break\r\n\r\n3:30 \u2013 5:00 PM: Track: Data Science\u00a0for Social Good\u00a0- Vani Mandava, Manohar Swaminathan, Yogesh Simmhan\r\n\r\n5:00 \u2013 6:30 PM : \u00a0Travel to Dinner Venue (Hotel Jayamahal Palace)\r\n\r\n6:45 \u2013 8:00 PM: ACM India Women \u00a0session (Hotel Jayamahal Palace)\r\n