MUIMUN scholarship awarded to Somansh

University of Münster is organizing the first Münster University International Model United Nations from April 1st - 5th, 2007. A Model United Nations (MUN) is a simulation of the United Nations, where international students have the chance to act in different committees of the UN. In this conference 250 students from 75 countries are meeting to debate on topics which are of global concern.

The participants take up the role as ambassador of a specific country different to their own. For instance a student of India has to defend the role of Pakistan in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or a German student could be an American ambassador and therefore would have to explain its Iraq policy to its European allies.

With this program MUNs play an active role for better international understanding, which is highly recognized by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The students not only learn how decisions are made on an international level, but get a better understanding of different cultures and customs, and build up new networks around the globe.

Somansh Bansal is representing India in the world bank committee of United Nations to discuss on two topics:
1. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Loan Proposals
2. Micro Financing in times of contemporary challenges – non-profit v/s commerical micro
financing

Cheers,
Ganga - Bistrobanter, Münster

Guest Lecture by Mr.Dhimant Shah tomorrow @ 2.30pm

Dear all,

On Thursday, 29th March, Mr. Dhimant Shah, General Manager – Systems, CSC India will be coming over to our campus for a guest lecture.

His brief profile is as under:

• Worked with LTITL for 4.5 years before joining CSC
• Joined CSC as Project Leader 10 years back. Currently General Manager at CSC
• Over 14 years of industry experience across Manufacturing and Insurance verticals
• Heading insurance vertical for last 6 years. Life insurance, P&C insurance - across geography

Topic: Current trends in BFSI sector.

Date: 29th March 2007

Time: 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Venue: SM 2 (erstwhile FMB 2)

Cheers,

Ganga

Pallavi n Mitros Budday

Listen to your heart

Listen to your heart,
As it whispers to you,
the name of your soul-mate!

Listen to your heart,
As it sings a happy tune,
eternalising your love for your soul-mate!

Listen to your heart,
As it prays to the Almighty,
for the well-being of your soul-mate!

Listen to your heart,
As it eagerly awaits,
the embrace of your soul-mate!

Listen to your heart,
anytime it weeps,
Sharing the sorrows of your soul-mate!

Listen to your heart,
as it speaks,
About itself to your soul-mate!

Listen to your heart,
when the whole world and your head doubts,
about the appropriateness of your soul-mate!

- Prof. Latha L

Profile: Dr.Michael Thompson

Name:	Michael S. Thompson
Occupation:	Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Location:	Blacksburg, VA, USA
Hometown:	Southern Pines, NC, USA
Hobbies:	Carpentry, computing, cooking, weight lifting, running, photography

Favorite Things:

• Beverages: A cold stout
• Foods: Anything cooked over an open fire
• Movies: "The Hunt for Red October" and "Animal House"
• Books: No clue
• Color: Blue
• Sports: College football and college basketball
• Clothing: Jeans and t-shirt
• Animals: Dog (guinea pigs are pretty funny, too)
• Time of day: Morning, before everyone else gets up

Other Interesting Facts:

• Fourth Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do
• Reside in an actual log cabin (pic here)
• I am a truck-guy (hence the truck in the above picture)

Current Ambitions and Goals:

• Obtain a faculty job at a University in computer engineering.
• Own 50 acres of land and a tractor.
• Start teaching Tae Kwon Do again.
• Possibly get married (someday).
• Children... who knows.

Current Academic Activities:

• Using Lego Mindstorms and Windows Mobile devices to build robots.
• Pervasive computing and embedding communications in any and everything.
• Anything dealing with computer networking.

Favorite Time-consuming Web Sites:

• Wired.com
• PhD Comics
• Google News
• Digg
• Userfriendly

Cheers,
PRCom

Dr. Stu's assignment

Folks! Check out the soooperb creativity of our class at this link.
Loki, your page is the best one buddy! LOL!


Cheers,
Ganga

Sketches by Sonaal Bangera

Memories

Memories are the archives of Times,
As we live, we compose those rhymes.

some r sweet some r sour
some r bright some r hazy

some bring in that broad smile
some bring in the blue Nile

some steer our lives to a new direction
some halt for a long time in one destination

some guide u like a shining star
some remind u of a hurting scar

Memories are the archives of Times
As we live, we compose those rhymes!

- Prof. Latha L

Padhaaro Mhaare Des

17-19th March..Destination Mt.Abu. Had great fun!




Cheers,
Ganga

Guest Lecture Invitation:

Dear All,

On Thursday, 15th March, Mr. Shekhar Agrawal, Director and Business Head of Alcatel-Lucent will be coming over to our campus for a guest lecture. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and Telecom with current assignment being ‘Director and Head of Enterprise and Vertical business for South Asia’ with Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to this he was holding senior management positions at Cisco, Lucent technologies and HCL Group at various points during his career. All through, he has been in Sales, Marketing and Business management positions.

Topic: Opportunities and success factors in IT and Telecom sector for management grads.

Date: 15th March 2007

Time: 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm

Venue: DOME 2

Kindly register yourself for the session in advance by filling details at the following location.

\\dataserver\students\GuestLecture\Register_GuestLecture_ Mr.ShekarAgrawal.xls

NB: Participants of PGDSM MIT 03 need not register in the sheet.

Cheers,
Ganga

Dr.Arthur 51 rule...

We are having a great time learning, unlearning, discussing and debating in Dr. Arthur's class. The best part is that he interacts with us in such an approachable way. Had a good time preparing for and presenting the critique of the MPSP (main prog sub prog) archi...Sonaal and Baldi were their usual creative best with the ppt master. What with the curvy lens effect on the title and all..simply soooperb! Javed and I had taken the mantle of presenting the ideas of our group (3). We did a decent job I guess...The context, our evaluation criteria and the critique layout went down well with the profs. Dr. Arthur congratulated both the groups.. 1 and 3..for a superlative effort. Prof. Gogate's words were also encouraging. After a hectic day of sessions and presentations, Dr. Arthur took a vote on whether or not to continue the sessions. A moment later he jokingly said that he reserved 51% stake in the voting :))

Earlier in the day, we discussed about the metrics management...Raleigh curve - staffing plan..mean time to failure etc. Dr. Arthur has a vast experience working for the DoD (Dept. of Defence, USA). He has worked on the Tomahawk Cruise Missile ground support system software. He also recollected how while working on SLBM, his team had to work on migration from Fortran to an OO language...and how one person from the client's side wanted to push C++ more than Java.

Dr. Arthur is a fan of tandoori chicken. He peppers his conversation with Hindi words like 'bachchon ka khel' and 'chai'. Know what, he owns a motor boat back home...enjoys fishing. He has recommended Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry and Tom Hanks' Apollo 13 for us to watch. So far we have had one *pop* quiz!

So, people..who handles a project that has budget and schedule over-runs and no metrics whatsoever? The class fervently shouts in unison... IIMmer.

It's bedtime folks...
Cheers,
Ganga

Hearty welcome to Dr. James Arthur!

It is a great pleasure for the students and faculty of PGDSM MIT to extend a warm welcome to Dr. James Arthur.
Cheers,
Ganga

Fascinating Quotes - 1

"Necessity is the invention of all mothers"

- Lord Mano Ranjan