Today, as part of the National Science Day, Open Day was celebrated at IISc. The whole institute was open to the general public. Anybody can come and interact with the students and the Professors and get a feel about the various researches occurring there. I too attended some of the sessions. Joe accompanied me in the afternoon. I am not sure whether such an event is organized at IISc every year. But it gives an opportunity for the general public to see what actually happens in India’s top Research Institute. Being from Computer Science background, I attended the sessions organized in the Computer Science and Automation department. I interacted with some of the PhD scholars and one of the faculty of the department. Lot of interesting work is going on in the field of Parallel Programming, Storage and security level apart from the other researches in Theoretical computer science.

In addition to this, I also met a Professor from the Signal Processing Lab along with Joe. It was great to interact with the Professor. We spent a lot of time discussing about the research work occurring in the field of Computer Music both in IISc and abroad. In short, the discussion with him was very much encouraging.

Lot of students from various colleges were present during the event. I wanted to spend some more time in the department, but because I had to come back, we left the place early.

I am definitely happy with such a novel idea from IISc. Hope other research institutes follow the same in the future.