IBM Research Day is being planned on February 6, 2016 (Saturday). The day
would comprise of research talks by IBM Researchers , faculty
and students of IIT Kanpur. Also there will be panel discussions on (
Cyber-security and Cyber-physical systems ) and ( Big Data, Web and Text
Mining ) and possibly some interesting panel discussions involving students
on a set of relevant topics, such as career choices, graduate school,
research career in CSE, etc. The Young Researcher award(s) will be
presented at the event (PhD students who wish to apply but have not applied
may still do so by 20 Jan). Below is the tentative schedule

09:30 - 09:45 am -- Overview of IBM in India, IBM Research  -- Anupam
Saronwala (IBM)
09:45 - 10:30 am -- Research areas at IBM in India -- Shivkumar
Kalyanaraman (IBM)
10:30 - 11:15 am -- Panel discussion -- Cyber-Security and Cyber-physical
systems
(Sandeep Shukla (IITK), Indranil Saha (IITK),  Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
(IBM), Mahesh Paradkar (IBM))
11:15 - 11:30 am -- Tea break
11:30 - 12:30 pm -- Panel discussion -- Big Data, Web and Text Mining
(Arnab Bhattacharya (IITK), Piyush Rai (IITK), Purushottam Kar (IITK), Arun
Kumar (IBM))
12:30 - 01:00 pm -- Technical talk - "Approximation Algorithms for Resource
Allocation Problems" -- Anamitra R Choudhury (IBM)
01:00 - 01:45 pm -- Lunch
01:45 - 02:15 pm -- Technical talk - "Cloud-based offerings and
technologies" -- Sreekanth Iyer (IBM)
02:15 - 02:45 pm -- University Relations at IBM -- Nazia Hasan (IBM)
02:45 - 03:00 pm -- Awards for "Best PhD Student"
03:00 - 03:30 pm -- Talks by the winners, followed-by Vote of Thanks
03:30 - 04:00 pm -- Q/A session with students

Lunch will be served for all departmental  students and faculty in the CSE
lawns in front of KD building courtesy IBM. IBM will also be presenting
some goodies to all participants of research day. For more details
regarding it please contact Prof Purushottam Kar (purushot@cse.iitk.ac.in).