EMINENT ACADEMICIANS AND SCIENTISTS/VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENT

List of eminent academicians and scientists/visitors to the department

·         A two-day workshop on “Adobe Photoshop CS3” for the students and faculty was conducted on July 17^th and 18^th, 2014. Dr. Prasanna kumari, Professor and Head, Dept. of Computer Science, Rajalakshmi Engineering College was the resource person. The participants were given hands-on training in Photo editing, banner and invitation designing.

·         An Inter-collegiate symposium ZiB 2014-15 was conducted on 26^th September 2014. Dr. Ananthi Seshasayee, Professor and Head, Dept. of Computer Science, Quaid-E-Millath College for Women inaugurated the symposium. Students from 20 colleges participated enthusiastically in the various competitions. Overall championship was bagged by “Sri Kanyaka Parameswari College for Women”.

·         A guest lecture on “Advanced Computing” was conducted on 29^th January 2015. Dr. P.L. Chitra and Dr. S. Sornam, Assistant Professors, Dept. of Computer Science ,University of Madras were the resource persons. They gave the students an insight into the fields of “Digital Image Processing” and “Artificial Neural Networks”.

·         A two-day workshop on “Web Application development using MySQL and PHP” for the students was conducted on February 3^rd and 4^th, 2015. Mr.Jerald Inico, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science, Loyola College was the resource person. The participants were given hands-on training in web applications development.

·         A seminar on “Recent Techniques in Software Development” was conducted on 12^th February 2015. Mr.R.Rajkumar, M.Tech  (IIT, Madras), CEO, Sampatika Medical Solutions gave a glimpse into the implementation of the software life cycle models in the IT industry.

Guest Lectures and Workshops/Symposium Organized - 2014 To 2015

SNO	MONTH &YEAR	RESOURCE PERSON	TOPIC
1.	July 2014	Dr. Prasannakumari, Professor & Head, Dept. of Computer Science	Adobe Photoshop CS3
2.	September 2014	Dr. Ananthi Seshasayee, Professor and Head, Dept. of Computer Science	Importance of  Research in the field of Computer Science
3.	January 2015	Dr. P.L. Chitra and Dr. S. Sornam, Assistant Professors, Dept. of Computer Science ,University of Madras	Advanced Computing
4.	February 2015	Mr.Jerald Inico, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science, Loyola College	Web Application development using MySQL and PHP
5.	February 2015	Mr.R.Rajkumar, M.Tech  (IIT, Madras), CEO, Sampatika Medical Solutions	Recent Techniques in Software Development