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SC&SS Seminar

SC&SS Seminar

Seminars @ SC&SS

It's a great occasion to take cue, beyond price, from the progenitors of respective field of research, work etc. School organizes seminars at least once in a week, in order to have understanding of ongoing research and new technology added to Computer Science, also new working methodology adopted by industry.

School distils the thought idea, and information from go-getter of contemporary world i.e. we invite scholars and researchers from entire gamut of computer science. We ferret out information and trade our ideas & feeling with the man in show by batteries of questions. Its a process to season academic chores with toothsome research and information.

Stirring seminar does act as to fashion the way of thinking and working of student of SC&SS, JNU. It's a step to quench the thirst of happenings and to season academic session with latest development and research in national & international arena of Computer Science. We lay the red carpet to scholars from different universities, national and international, industries in order to have heartening effect on the fetish to have a world-beater. It's conducted in order to have its talent exacting & copasetic standard of software field.


Topic Delivered by Date & Venue
Excellence and Impact of Research and Publications Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab,
The University of Melbourne, Australia,
CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia		 November 6, 2017, 3:00 to 5:00 PM
Seminar Hall, SC&SS, JNU
Advances in Human and Machine Speech Communication Technologies Prof. Arun Kumar
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi		 October 11, 2017, 3:00 to 5:00 PM
Seminar Hall, SC&SS, JNU

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.