A new start

1 01 2010

A very very Happy New Year to all of you.. :-)
2009 :- The previous year 2009 had a lots of happy as well as sad remembrances.. but overall the last year was an awesome year..
As they say,..”Time and tide waits for none”.. The year 2009 also passed away leaving memories which we’ll never forget. This was the year where we entered in our final year of graduation with lots of hopes and determination to successfully complete it with awesome good marks.. B-)

Being it the last year, we all collected the memories of it with our friends by celebrating our last time with our friends, but the books are still out of reach :D

2010 :- This new Year brings a lot of  opportunities and resolutions to make..

We should take this year as a new chance to achieve our motives and succeed in our lives.  We all know that whatever we do this year, will decide our future career. As we go on with this new year, let us wish that whatever we do this year favors our life and our future. We will work hard, enjoy hard, play hard, and learn hard :-)
Let us hope that we will start this new year on a good note, we will keep an optimistic approach to whatever we do, and that too in a rocking style.. ;-) . We will help others and will try to make others’ smile. This resolution may seem to some kind of teaching, but truly speaking this is the essence of all of our happiness, which we need.

Top Ten Resolutions to make on this new year

Enjoy Life
1. Enjoy Life( No Worries)
Go Ahead
2. Reach office on time
Friends & Family
3. Spend time with friends and family
Go for Outings
4. Go for Trips & Outings
Keep House Clean
5. Keep House Clean
quit smoking
6. Quit Drinking & Smoking
No to junk food
7. Say no to junk food
Read Books
8. Buy & Read Books
Workout Excercise
9. Workout & Exercise
Writing Diary
10. Write Diary

A very very Happy New Year to all of you…





See..the blunder made.

18 11 2009

Our Delhi University website: http://www.du.ac.in opens in below format.

You can even check this through google search.

du-website

And the homepage, have a look:

du-website homepage

Moreover, the results page which i sought through google search of ‘DU’, it links to following page:

du-website results

Now, that means, the domain name: du.ac.in has been given to Ernet India, thats why the ‘results’ page cannot be found.

Whatsoever, but this fault is simply a blunder for a such a huge university, and must be rectified as soon as possible.

(Note:Please let others know about this problem, and do comment on this topic.)






Convictions With Confusions – CWC

9 09 2009

Well..
Its have been a long time, I got so busy that i just forgot that i have a big fan following who consistently wait for my posts ;-D
But no matter,i am back..
To start of with, my biggest achievement this summer was that, I became ‘MAMA’.
The prince we got is cutest and the sweetest of all the children i ever seen..(well, u can think of it as if am glorifying it, but still its true..)
The video will be enclosed, you can see and add your comments.And the name ‘MAHI’ is given by me.

By the way, I have turned to writing this post is for one more reason..

The past two months have been a flash of wind for me. They just passed and i am standing there where i stood two months before,though a lot of change took place in that time too..
I decremented from the boast of being the topper(of my class..at least;-P), I secured the 3rd position, however that does not matter me anyhow.. the thing that worries me a lot is the reason why I am here? I do not know why I am studying that crap, which is repeatedly taught in colleges (especially in DU) for last 10 years or so.
In past two months, almost our full syllabus have been covered by our teachers(well their main aim is to just complete the syllabus, not to teach, so, i should not call them the teachers ;-/) The daily classes were there just to wake me up early, and get ready for college(As my college is at 2 hrs distance from my home,which i cover mainly by bus). But still the classes which i attended, well, i attended almost 80-85% of my classes, were no good for me..may be its not the case for others who love roting the big big copies of notes which they write through their class.
However the only subject which I liked was Numerical Analysis(may be because, still there some brain is used) and a little bit of Micro processors. I do not know why i am writing this, may be I am fearing the exams which are just starting from next week or it could be just that I do not want to study this!!(you can take it, either way). By the way, I should not blame our teachers for this, the problem is in our course and syllabus pattern, the 18 chapters of Economics which we have to study in just 3 months(or may be i should say 2 months), is the 2.5 yrs course of a regular B.Com(H), So how in hell, one could study such a big course in those 2 months(Now i know why B.Com(H) students seem to roam here and there 365 days a year ;-P)
I got diverted, it seems so..;-) ok, the thing i was saying that, first problem is the big syllabus and second problem is the course content. We all know that technology changes every hour, then why should we study the Assembly programming which was done in 1980s for 8086 processors(well this is crap ;-/)
I dont know what is the solution to this question, but i surely know that I am not supposed to be here..
In precise, my exams are starting from 18th of this month, and i haven’t studied a single thing or i would say i didn’t felt like studying. But no worries, still I can pass the exams easily, that’s not a problem.

And one more good thing I have joined a 6-months internship programme from MSF, which is starting from 14th August..(well that’s a good thing for me at least ;-) )

Well..time to leave..and don’t forget to click the video, which must be down some where here ;-) (Well..the title is given by his mother, but the video is created by me B-)






The Incredible PROGRAMME(IAYM) ends!!

28 06 2009

Dr. Dinesh Singh

Dr. Dinesh Singh

Wing Cmdr. Sharad Chaturwedi

Wing Cmdr. Sharad Chaturwedi

As according to Wing  Cmdr.  Sharad chaturwedi,”All good things must come to an end”, finally, the so-called IAYM Programme, comes to an end. But the memories and experiences it cherished, will never end in the MSF books, and in the minds of the 70 Students, the members of MSF, especially the mentors, the associates, and the assistants.
The Programme provided a lot more than its expectations. The programme’s main motive was to instill the spirit of Mathematics, the different way of learning things with an unusual learning environment, however it generated a lot more. The students came with expectations of learning things, as it meant to be in a normal school or institute, but the environment which they recieved here, was completely out of the box. They learned how things should be learned, they learned to devise their own techniques and procedures for understanding things. The programme changed the level and way of thinking of every student who came here. The presentations which took place the final day were Chandrayaan(School group), the Error Correction(College), the Circumference Of the Earth, and Search Engine(Eagle 1 Group).
Each of the project mentioned above, brought new and innovative algorithms, techniques, and steps to solve any kind of problem mentioned above.
The Chandrayaan School group showed their experiment of the projectile motion by inventing their launch pads and their original and unique technique of measuring range, height, angle, gravity, air drag etc. of the projectile. They showed that to do some new, innovative and brilliant, age do not matter. They came up with their skit of Maths communication project on Quadratic equations. Infact their use of knowledge with MATHEMATICA was impressive.
Moving on to Error Correction, this group came up with their own algorithm and methods of determining and correcting errors in a transmitted message.
The circumference Group came up with their method of measuring the circumference of earth, using the shadows measurement of any object at any two places. I will not move into the technicalities of the project. Overall, their show was very good.
Last, but not the least, their was Search Engine’s Eagle 1. The main purpose of the project was to just devise some simple techniques for building a search engine for images. The image searching was done using CBIR technique i.e. Content Based Image Retrieval System. The procedure included many steps like wavelet transformations, average & differencing, cluster formations etc.
All the presentations were awesome and fantastic. The cheer and charm of the occassion cannot be expressed in words, one had to be there to feel it.
In the beginning of the programme, Dr.Agarwal said one thing to all of us and the students,” Even if you do not achieve any milestone in your project,but still you will return with around 71 friends and 14 non-friends. The course of the programme proved his saying, though the achievement was more of a “Sone pe Suhaga” kind, the students’ face showed their happiness when being with friends, whom they did not even know, one month before, “THIS WAS THE MAGIC OF IAYM”.

Finally the departing lecture of Dr. Dinesh Singh was a bonus. He talked about how he just came from Houston that morning, but still, inspite of the tiring flight, he managed to came to the DPS. He was astonished and excited to see the refreshing faces of the students and their mind-blowing presentations. He said that we students of India have the responsibility to give back India his glory in terms of his rich educational heritage. He requested the students to study at any college, any course, home or abroad, but they should come back to India, for making India better.

I want to write more, but lack of time prohibits me from doing this…
Ahh.. We should not forget the beautiful and melodius song sung by Mr. Vijay Kumar jayanti Bhai Solanki(thats his full name) “Jab zero diya mere Bharat ne, Duniya ko tab ginti aayi….”

In the end, My word of in-expressible thanks to Dr. Sanjeev Agarwal, Dr. Amber Habib, Wing Cdr. Sharad Sir, Dr. Saha, Zia Sir, Cyed Sir, Anjani Sir, Jatin Sir, Niteesh Sir,the trio- Charu Mam, Shivani Mam, Manisha Mam, and my friends- Sanad and Sarvesh. AND DPS!!!

You can also look at this or related posts at IAYM’s blog.

For the pictures of the programme, you can click here.

Thanks!!!!!!

Ajaz Ahmed





The Climax starts…

28 06 2009
Bright Students

The Climax

The so-awaited presentations ceremony started on june 26th. The students’ hardwork and their invaluable ideas started to show up. The presentations were so divided, that they could be spread out two days: 26th and 27th of June. There were 11 groups. Every group had prepared one presentation on their main project and one on their Maths Communication.
So Every group has to submit two presentations and two reports for the same mentioned earlier. Though many groups prepared their presentations and reports at the later stage, but still they managed  to response back nicely. Their on-stage performance was perfect.

The presenations which took place that day include groups: Chandrayaan 1, Chandrayaan 2(College Groups), Encryption(College), Encryption(School), Error Correction(School), Jantar Mantar, Search Engine( Eagle 2).

Each group mentioned above came up with a different concept to be explained in their Maths Communication. They used MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, FLASH, MUPAD etc. in their presentations impressively, which is quite difficult to those students, who did not even know about these Softwares a month before. The students were simply brilliant and amzing in teir approach towards the subject. Some came up with a story, some came up with a game, some came up with a quiz and so on in their Maths comm. project to explain different concepts. This shows how Mathematics is linked with everyone and everything in this world.
The day overall was a fantastic one. The whole day many students and some of the faculty clicked as many pictures as they could, as everyone of us knew that, how precious that moment and occasion was. Each one wanted to store these moments for their future.

I think around 2000 or more pictures were clicked on the same day. The programme left the students with cheer in their heart, and at the same time, a fear of leaving their friends on the last day. The students energy level showed their excitement.
This can also be felt by the faces of students-cum-faculty members who were clicking snaps, capturing videos etc.

The day was very special to me, in particular, because I turned 20, the same day… Though I wanted to go home early, that day, still I was very happy to be a part of the occassion that day. I made a lot of friends and this memories which I gathered here will cherish me, in my future life.

The Final day was not over.. it was the second last one…
So, let us move to the final day, Thanks!!!

Check out the pics here.
Move on to the  IAYM’s blog.

Ajaz Ahmed





IAYM continues…

23 06 2009

lecture room

The auditorium

Today is 23rd June 2009, the programme has almost reached to its end. The students have almost completed their preparations for their presentations.
Today, there was a small change in the schedule. Instead of the daily lectures of 9:30, students were shown an interesting movie, called ‘Flatland’. The movie was an animated & fantastic story of figures of dimensions. It showed the conflict between dimensions.
The motive behind the story wass ‘The things you cant see, doesn’t means that it do not exist’.

After that there was a  tea break, then there was supposed to be a lecture
by Prof. Sanjay Jain on ‘Origin of Life’ at 10:30, but due to some reasons it was postponed to 11:30. Prof. Jain is a physicist working at the National Physics Laboratory, New Delhi. Prof. Jain talked about the evolution of life on earth, that is the first single-celled organism. He talked about the internal structure and the chemical composition of a cell or a bacterial cell specifically. The lecture was very informative and interesting though it stretched a little lot.

After his lecture, their was the lunch break. From 1:30 students  followed their daily routine…

As the day followed a changed routine, the enthusiasm increased to a lot. Moreover, when the students left to their homes, they shall think, ‘Is there a 4th dimension?’- Flatland

Thanks…

To be continued….





IAYM(Inviting All Young Minds)

18 06 2009

IAYM(Inviting All Young Minds), is an initiative and a summer internship programme undertaken by Mathematical Sciences Foundation, a non-profit organization, for the students of college and school level.MSF has been in existence from 1997, though it was formally established in year 2002.

Since then, the foundation have been working for the growth and development of Mathematics in the minds of people of each age-grade. IAYM though started informally in the month of April, it started formally on June 01, 2009, at DPS, R K Puram, New Delhi.

The programme invited students from all over the country. The Foundation recieved over 500 invitations from all over the country, but due to the arrangements possible only for few students. So, only 72 students were selected depending on their academic performance and their recommendations.

36 students from college, 36 students from school have been selected.

The outstation students have been provided with hostel facility. Moreover the students who are selected  will also be provided with the stipend of 5000/-, along with the certificates.

The course of the programme have been divided into five major projects, as listed:

  1. Chandrayaan
  2. Search Engine.
  3. Jantar Mantar
  4. Error Correction.
  5. Encryption.
  6. Circumference of Earth.

Depending on the choice and skills of the students, the projects have been allotted to the students. 12 students are working on each project, 6 from school, 6 from college. The programme has completed over two weeks. And the enthusiasm and excitement of the students is increasing day by day. The students are now enjoying the concept and style of teaching, by their lecturers. The students have felt and realized the meaning of true learning and knowledge earning, they have been shown the techniques and ways of learning things practically.

The summer programme is a great success and will yield positive and great results…..

To be continued……

For more information, you may visit : www.mathscifound.org








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