Inviting All Young Minds

Admissions

2011-05-07T14:29:00.000+05:30

We are finalizing the list of selected students. Over the next few days we will contact the selected students by phone/email to confirm their participation.

On Monday, May 9, the results will also be uploaded on this website. A small waitlist will be kept for use in case of any withdrawals by selected students.

Our apologies for making you wait. The process is being slowed by the number of good applications!

One More Day to Apply

2011-04-29T22:23:00.002+05:30

The deadline for submission of the online form has been extended by one day - to midnight, May 1. All other dates/deadlines are unchanged.

Richard Hamming

2011-04-26T13:51:00.000+05:30

Richard Hamming (1915--98) was one of the great applied mathematicians. Many past student projects at MSF have used structures that he created. This quote by him seems appropriate for IAYM:

"In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it."

Four Days to April 30

2011-04-26T10:18:00.001+05:30

With 4 days to go till the application, deadline, we have received forms from a large part of the country. This map shows the places from which students have applied (but not how many have applied).

View MSF IAYM 2011 Applicants in a larger map

Change in Dates

2011-04-20T16:35:00.002+05:30

Important: The IAYM programme has been shortened by 3 days - It will now run from June 6 to 28.

Questions & Answers

2011-04-18T15:54:00.001+05:30

We have just put up a FAQ page on this blog - it has answers to some questions that applicants have asked us.

IAYM 2011 Officially Up and Running

2011-04-15T11:10:00.007+05:30

The IAYM 2011 summer programme has been launched. Visit the MSF website for all the details, application form, etc. The key dates are:

Duration: June 6 to July 1
Deadline for submitting online application form: Midnight, May 01
Deadline for receipt of recommendation letters: May 3
Announcement of selections: May 7

The major sponsor for this year's programme is the proposed Shiv Nadar University of the Shiv Nadar Foundation (www.shivnadarfoundation.org).

IAYM 2011 About to Launch

2011-03-22T11:27:00.001+05:30

The summer 2011 edition of IAYM is almost set for launch. The MSF website will soon have all the details. The dates of the programme will be June 1--28, and the venue is likely to again be The Air Force School, Subroto Park.

While we wait, here is a Facebook album of some photos from last year's edition!

IAYM in Verse

2010-06-25T23:43:00.000+05:30

One of our students - Bhavika Sharma - has composed the following!

IAYM is "Inviting All Young Minds",
With more innovative ideas of every kind,
And lots of Einsteins to find,
But not to become bookworms and get blind.

MSF is the team for making our future,
To bring the children and give them nurture,
With lots of inventive features,
The friendly, kind, loving and intelligent teachers.

Thoughtful lectures for everyone to learn,
Creating new formulas and learning with fun,
Instead of reading and reading and making eyes burn,
Give the power not from education to turn.

Very hearty thanks,
For making children get excellent ranks,
With lots of fun and many pranks,
And making us aware nothing within us lacks.

Readme - If You Can

2010-06-21T16:18:00.000+05:30

Public key is (25060027,24087)

Method used: RSA encryption

Private key is ????????

Encrypted code is

18475690 16353297 5743680 5743680 6994256 3100512 18872933 16277707 3807486 1030672 18872933 3798005 6994256 11970423 18872933 7063003 16353297 16277707 10737901 3798005 10837629 22028366 24228033

Encrypted text is ª@@P`eËþeõPweÛËíõ}NÁ

Decrypted text is ????

The encryption group consists of four young minds under the guidance of Dr. Sanjeev Agrawal and Ms. Shivani Wadehra. We have studied various methods of encryption which have developed from the simple Caesar Cipher to complex methods such as blowfish, AES AND RSA encryption. We studied extensively on RSA encryption, learning about modular congruencies and theorems such as Fermat’s little theorem and Chinese remainder theorem which form the basis of RSA encryption. We also made a code on C++ to generate random prime numbers, encryption and decryption key to encrypt and decrypt messages using this method. Finally, we have developed our own method of private key encryption using an NP-hard problem.

Apart from encryption, we have also been working on a math communication project for the topic “Applications of Trigonometry”. IAYM 2010 so far has been a great experience. Although we work from 9:30- 5:00, it seems like the day is over in just a few minutes. Apart from the amazing mentors and the guest lectures, we have met amazing students who have a similar passion in mathematics and who have helped us further appreciate its beauty and hone our knowledge.

Team members- Karanveer Mohan, Pooja Singh, Gautam Nagpal, Bhavika Sharma

PS-Private key was 13442791

Decrypted text- Hello, can you decrypt?

The Final Frontier

2010-06-17T16:51:00.000+05:30

The "space science group" consists of 10 high school students from classes X to XII:

"Space, the unconquerable dimension. What lies out there has left many people amazed. The simple idea of another universe is mind boggling. We, the new generation are trying to do, what many men at NASA did years ago. Limited by our resources, we thought of making a simple, but effective “water rocket”. The basic principles that it runs on are already present everywhere around us. The Water Rocket, that we planned to make was, not your everyday backyard experiment. What we planned to do was to control the rocket’s fight path, its trajectory and its stages. A rocket, which is designed to go to outer space, has 3-4 stages; these stages break off one by one after they run out of fuel, we planned to do the same. We are students from all over India, who have teamed up with our mentor Mr. Jatin Anand sir and vowed to build a rocket that would do what we all desired- reach the final frontier.

We started off small; on paper we drew basic guidelines to build us a rocket. Every one of us contributed to the designing of the rocket. Ideas poured in from every direction, and soon our creation was complete, well on paper at least. We were guided carefully, by our mentor, and soon we had a finalized design and parts ready at hand. The two groups that we were divided into were evenly balanced, so we had no problem in communication. As we started building our rocket we felt how different it is to do one thing in paper, and in practical. I really hope when we are done, we have a working 2-stage rocket. After all that testing and drawing, we also had a few laughs. Mathematics was also implemented everywhere. We learnt how to handle the data given to us, find the trajectory and have fun."

Abhishek Oswal, Anant Singh, Chandramani Verma, Deeksha Agrawal, Jeevan Singh Nayal, Kunal Maini, Pranav Obhrai, Raj Anmol Singh Garg, Sheena Arora, Vardaan Choudhari.

Virus-AntiVirus

2010-06-16T18:11:00.000+05:30

“Silent Assassins - as the name suggests, are silently trying to assassinate PC’s by pursuing the Virus-Anti-Virus project. This uphill task has been undertaken by our team under the guidance of our mentor Mr Niteesh Sahni and with the dedicated support of Mr. Rahul, and is being carried out in assembly language. After grasping certain basic concepts of assembly language, we have started developing “Overwritten Virus”, which is one of the categories of viruses. We are doing this, so as to get a snapshot of how a virus actually searches for its host and infects by replicating itself.

Further, after getting the basic understanding of viruses, we will try to develop viruses with more complexities like companion viruses, parasitic viruses as well as source code viruses.MSF is simply awesome!! Along with the superb task of developing viruses, here we enjoy learning mathematics in a quite innovative manner. We wholeheartedly thank MSF for providing us a platform to enhance our skills by organising IAYM-2010. MSF ROCKS!!!"

Ankit Kumar, Biplob Biswas, Manika Bindal, Nandini Deka, Neha Singh, Reyaz Ahmed Siddiqui, Rishabh Bhasin, Ritwik Rath, Saurabh Kumar Saha, Shreyas Kapoor, Subh Vardhan.

IAYM on YouTube

2010-06-14T20:53:00.002+05:30

Links to IAYM clips on YouTube:

Slide show of images from the first days.
Videos of the inauguration.

Face Detection... the experience so far

2010-06-13T14:25:00.001+05:30

"95% match….These are the words that the computer displayed in bold letters after we ran our first test. We have a crew of six members, who have been working on the project “FACE DETECTION”. The scope for the project is enormous. Although we have implemented some features of our own in the project like face isolation using probability, rgb and ycbcr colour modes, these ideas are yet to be perfected in practice.

To start with, we took a database of over 150 individuals each having 20 images and constructed image vectors from the matrices obtained. These image vectors consisted of 36000 pixels each and hence formed a subspace of R36000. An orthonormal basis of this subspace was found using the PCA(Principal Component Analysis) and SVD(Singular Value Decomposition Theorem). These vectors were arranged in order of their contribution to the database images. These were called the eigenfaces. It was further found that majority of the features of the face depended upon the initial few eigenfaces.

The test images were reconstructed using these eigenfaces. We also used K-means clustering to group various images of the same person in the database. However some of our endeavors failed during execution some of which were- Edge Detection, Hausdorff Distance Measurement, Circular Object Detection, Binary Image Method."

- Akshay Agrawal, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Parth Singh, Pooja Narula, Shashwat Goel, Vibhor Kalra

A Matter of Perspective

2010-06-11T23:49:00.001+05:30

In this morning's lecture I asked the students to draw an approaching train - this is a favourite of mine when I need a break from the usual topics and it leads to nice discussions of perspective and geometry. Today's session went rather smoothly. In the past I have had students just stare blankly at their sheet of paper and refuse to draw!

But that's just my perception. Hopefully, this blog will start featuring students' voices too. We are collecting their comments to put up. In the meanwhile, check out Nitin Agrawal's blog. (Any other students with blogs? Let us know.)

The Bamboo Team

2010-06-10T06:35:00.005+05:30

Along with the IAYM students, there is a group of students working on a special project - developing innovative uses of bamboo in educational aids and other devices. This is part of a yearlong project funded by the National Mission on Bamboo Applications, and being executed by MSF with the aid of designers and artisans who specialize in bamboo based designs.

	During June 2-3, we were visited by Ms Rebecca Reubens, Managing Director of RHIZOME. Rebecca is a designer with a particular interest in the use of bamboo towards promoting environmentally sustainable and socially just practices.
	In a workshop with Rebecca, two students jot down their pet likes and dislikes about their educational experiences.This was the first step towards formulating the goals of the project.
	The list grows longer.
	At the end of the session, the students have arrived at a list of principles they would like to demonstrate through bamboo-based devices, as well as the key properties these should have.

Three Musketeers...

2010-06-08T07:43:00.005+05:30

Students in the TAFS hostel.

IAYM 2010 Day 1

2010-06-03T07:13:00.004+05:30

	Students at the opening session in the Audio-Visual room of The Air Force School.
	Prof. Dinesh Singh, Director, MSF.
	The Space Science group with Jatin Anand.
	The Virus group with Rahul Kumar.

IAYM 2010 Day 1 - Part 2

2010-06-02T15:13:00.017+05:30

	The Mathematical Biology group with Charu Sharma.
	The Alternate Energy group with Professors L M Saha and Shobha Bagai.
	The Face Detection group with Satish Pandey.
	TAFS campus. A retired Hawker Hunter of the Indian Air Force.
	TAFS campus.

IAYM - a year ago

2010-05-31T14:26:00.003+05:30

IAYM 2010 starts tomorrow! Let's look back to a description of the final days of IAYM 2009 by Ajaz Ahmed:

The much-awaited presentations ceremony started on June 26th. The students' hard work 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 a late stage, but still they managed to respond nicely. Their on-stage performance was perfect.

The presentations which took place that day included the 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 software a month earlier. The students were simply brilliant and amazing in their 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 occasion 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.

Ajaz Ahmed

RIP: the pied piper of mathematics

2010-05-29T15:32:00.001+05:30

Martin Gardner is no more. Read about him here. Then give yourself a treat and read his books!

Get in line

2010-05-27T15:34:00.003+05:30

Shivani Wadehra will be leading the group working on Queuing Theory. She has a master's degree in Operations Research from the University of Delhi.

"Queues are formed at movie halls, metro stations, traffic lights, etc. We would like to optimise these queues so that waiting times are as low as possible, or the number of servers is economically efficient. Longer waiting times lead to costs such as loss of productive time, higher fuel consumption, etc. For example, in Hong Kong, it was computed that a 10 minute delay each day for every worker would lead to a loss of output of about US $2.28 billion a year."

"How do we study the impact of different factors on a queue? One way to get insight is to simulate random arrivals and departures on a computer - this involves basic probability combined with "random numbers" (Ever noticed the RAND button on your scientific calculator?). The diagram shows a simulation of the changing length of a queue where arrivals are random but on average are once every 10 minutes. The service time is similarly random, but on average is one customer every 5 minutes. Note that even though the service time is - on average - quite short, the queue can still get quite long!"

Trading in pairs

2010-05-26T22:14:00.009+05:30

This contribution is from Tanmoy Neog, who recently completed his masters in Financial Mathematics from the University of Warwick.

"We see that the two stock price series in the first diagram display a lot of co-movement. Can we take advantage of the co-movement of stocks to build a trading strategy? In fact we can. By taking appropriate amounts of the two stocks we obtain the second diagram."

"We observe that we can now sell one stock and buy another simultaneously at certain time intervals to register a profit. This strategy is based on the premise that certain portfolios of stocks have a long run equilibrium value. Due to speculative trading on individual stocks there is a deviation from this value. We take advantage of this fact!!"

"These stocks are in fact Infosys and Wipro on the Bombay Stock Exchange!!"

The job of mathematics is to create ways of identifying such co-movement and the appropriate combinations which will allow this strategy to work...

Maths in Biology

2010-05-25T23:12:00.006+05:30

Charu Sharma, senior lecturer at MSF, carried out this analysis of genetic data from 78 individuals. Some simple applications of matrices and statistics show that the individuals belong to 3 distinct groups (in fact these individuals are grouped geographically - they are from the Middle East, China and Brazil). In IAYM we will explore whether such techniques can also distinguish the healthy from those in the early stages of a disease!

Charu has a masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Houston, and is currently collaborating with faculty of the Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), a premier CSIR institute, towards developing mathematical tools and software for use in biology.

Up, up, and ...

2010-05-21T15:10:00.008+05:30

As our faculty put the finishing touches on the preparations, some are having more fun than others. Here we see Jatin Anand, in charge of the Space Science project, launching a water rocket he has constructed from the barest of materials. Start thinking on how to improve it!

Jatin has a masters in Mathematics from University of Delhi. As is visible here, he particularly enjoys creating tools and models for use in education.

IAYM 2010 is at The Air Force School

2010-05-20T15:42:00.007+05:30

This year's venue is The Air Force School (TAFS), Subroto Park, New Delhi. Outstation participants will be accommodated in the TAFS hostel.

See the Google map below:

View Larger Map

IAYM 2010 - Ready for Launch

2010-05-08T17:17:00.005+05:30

The second edition of IAYM is due to start on June 1, 2010. We are currently finalizing the list of selected students - a heavy task since there were over 1500 applications for about 60 seats! The selections will be announced by 5 pm Monday, May 10.

The Incredible PROGRAMME(IAYM) ends!!

2009-06-29T22:52:00.004+05:30

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

Thanks!!!!!!

Ajaz Ahmed

The Climax starts...

2009-06-29T22:36:00.004+05:30

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

Check out the pictures of the programme here.
Take a look at my blog.

Ajaz Ahmed

Temperature twins

2009-06-29T13:18:00.003+05:30

There should be some mathematics on this blog :-) I am still waiting for a solution to this question I asked in class: Modeling the earth as a sphere, and assuming temperature varies continuously on its surface, show there are two antipodal (i.e. opposite) points on the Earth's surface with the same temperature. (Two students came close but didn't push through to the end.)

Pictures of the Programme

2009-06-24T15:22:00.003+05:30

for more pics visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/39443520@N07

Students at the audi..

2009-06-23T14:36:00.005+05:30

: The auditorium

Today is 23rd June 2009, the programme has almost reached 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 lecture at 9:30, students were shown an interesting movie, called 'Flatland'. The movie was an animated & fantastic story of figures of two dimensions. It showed the conflict between dimensions.
The motive behind the story was 'The thing you can't see, doesn't means that it does 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 University of Delhi. Prof. Jain talked about the evolution of life on earth, that is the coming into being of the first single-celled organisms. 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, there was the lunch break. From 1:30 students followed their daily routine...

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

Thanks...

To be continued....

Progress Report 18th June

2009-06-19T14:38:00.002+05:30

Now the dates have been finalized for the interns to submit thei r project material. The instructions to the students are as follows:
1. Math Comm Projects to be submitted by Tuesday 23/06/2009.
2. Main Projects to be submitted by Wednesday 24/06/2009.
3. Both Reports should be given in soft copy.
4. For Math Comm, Main Script discussing the problem, Story Plot etc. to be given in crude form in detail and a small presentation to be showed on stage.
5. Their Main Project is important. They should concentrate on that. It must as complete as possible.
The students now have whole day long lab sessions. Now students are on the verge of completing their Projects. Students who don’t get chance of getting a computer in the lab are separately allotted MSF Laptops for continuing their work. The students have organized themselves and have assigned each other jobs within the group.

WEEKLY FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

2009-06-19T14:33:00.001+05:30

IAYM SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009
WEEKLY FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS
FOR THE PERIOD 01 TO 07 JUNE 2009

SUMMARY OF COMMENTS

Guest lectures should be introduced and their achievements highlighted.
Computer lab session most interesting part of the programme.
Lab session and lectures by Dr Dinesh Singh most interesting part of the programme. There is a vast ocean of knowledge waiting to be explored.
“The cherry on the ice cake are the tricks and paradoxes shared by Sanjeev Sir (also not to miss the delicious and yummy food). MSF teachers are very kind & helpful and we have learnt many new and wonderful things from them. They are full of knowledge”.
Answer to question,”What is the most interesting part of the programme”? “There is no such specific interesting part, because each and every part of the programme is very very interesting. MSF has provided us the platform we have been waiting for till now”.
Answer to question,”What is the least interesting part of the programme”? “You are to blame, as there is no part which is not interesting”.

Sharad Chaturvedi
Wg Cdr (retd)
Project Manager

SUMMARY OF COMMENTS GIVEN IN FEEDBACK BY PARTICIPANTS

2009-06-19T14:22:00.000+05:30

IAYM SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME 2009
SUMMARY OF COMMENTS GIVEN IN FEEDBACK BY PARTICIPANTS
FOR THE 2ND WEEK ENDING 14 JUNE, 2009

1. I really like the computer lab session, because we learn new & interesting things. This internship programme has really helped a lot in learning new and interesting things. It has helped us in remembering our basics. I would just like to have more time to work on our project rather than having just 2 hours at the end of the day.
2. The opportunity to interact with different students and working along with them is the most interesting part.
3. Lab session by Nitish Sir very interesting. The session with Sanjeev Sir on Saturday (group-wise discussion), which gave us a clear view of what exactly we have to do in our project, and proved very beneficial.
4. The lecture on probability was interesting, and in lectures by Dr Das, there was always something new to learn. We should have more lectures like the one Dr Jonaki Ghosh gave.
5. Lecture on functions was greatly appreciated, as concepts are never clear in that particular area. Queuing theory lecture was excellent. Lectures which include applications of theory we learn, would be appreciated.
6. The best part is that the teachers are very supporting & friendly and always trying to help us.
7. I am very happy & satisfied at IAYM. Good care is taken of students. Delicious food is provided, many new techniques are taught. The second week was quite informative and helpful regarding our Encryption project. Quite a lot of information was provided to us which really helped.
8. SELF-EVALUATION, getting exposed to facts & concepts I never bothered to ponder on.

Sharad Chaturvedi
Wg Cdr (retd)
Project Manager

Class room stills

2009-06-19T10:16:00.001+05:30

2009-06-19T10:06:00.000+05:30

Progress Report 17th June

2009-06-18T13:26:00.009+05:30

In IAYM, Everything is going very fast and smooth. Students are now busy in making presentations which they have to show at the end of the programme and completing their projects.
Their mentors are helping them and training them in every aspect they require whether it be of any kind from technical programming to mathematical concepts, from logical reasoning to theoretical knowledge. In each project groups are working towards their goal. Many groups have created their presentations and many are busy working for it. I have seen that they are so determined and submerged in their tasks that they even forget to have tea and lunch and if remember they wind them up fast and come back for further work of their project. I must say that they have taken up this programme and the projects seriously and are striving to achieve things out of them.

2009-06-18T12:32:00.003+05:30

Students' interest in IAYM

It is possibly the end of the third week of the programme, but at the same time students involvement and interest in the programme has increased to a great extent.
The students have started preparing presentations for their projects and also maths communication.
The ideas and thoughts of the students about their projects are simply fantastic and very innovative. The excitement among the students have encouraged them a lot to work harder, in their projects.
I have been looking over the preparation of many students, and I found that many are going to present their ideas through flash, many through powerpoint, some will use MATLAB. This kind of response of the students is quite exciting and encourageous to even the faculty members....

Looking over to the climax of the programme, I bet that, that would be more fantastic and more encouraging than our thoughts. All thanks to the managing commitee members and our lectures' efforts...

Search Engine Project

2009-06-18T12:05:00.002+05:30

If any of the students working in the Search Engine project wants to make a GUI in MATLAB for a more professional presentation of their project, then they are invited to fix a time for a special lecture.

2009-06-17T16:48:00.006+05:30

IAYM (Inviting All Young Minds) is a very unique and innovative programme for the talented students. The Journey of this programme had started in the month of March(like Planning and all stuff). There had been more discussion about the project for example how may project should be and what would be the name of the project.

Finally 6 project has been finalized.

Projects are:

1. Chandrayaan

2. Jantar mantar

3. Search Engine for Images

4. Projectile Motion

5. Encryption

6. Error Correction

There had been 72 students selected from all over India in which 36 from school and 36 from College level

Faculty members were overwhelmed by the response that we got. We have received over 350 applications from all over India. Students from over 75 different institutions and from 50 different courses of study have applied. The selection of the participants has been a heartbreaking task for us. We have increased the number of seats, but it has been impossible for us to accommodate many deserving applicants.

Keeping in mind the recommendation letters, the statement of purpose, the academic record, the constraints on hostel accommodation, diversity of courses and region of the students.

continued ….

2009-06-17T15:59:00.003+05:30

2009-06-16T16:46:00.001+05:30

Some pictures during the class sessions ...

Join in!

2009-06-13T18:50:00.003+05:30

The MSF faculty has been too busy running the programme to update this blog regularly. One of our students, however, has been writing regularly on his blog. Check out his posts on http://nitinagrawalsblog.blogspot.com/

We invite our students to contribute to this blog and make something of it! Email us at iaym09.msf@gmail.com with your reference number and we will enable you to write posts on this blog.

IAYM

2009-06-08T10:06:00.005+05:30

The chandrayaan people are now moving smoothly towards the goals set by our mentors.
College group will be working on two-body problem to discover the methods to fix an orbit around moon for a spacecraft/satellite.
School are in the process of discovering new activities depicting projectile motion and new ways to solve kepler's equation

IAYM 2009 Underway

2009-06-05T16:54:00.007+05:30

IAYM 2009 is underway at Delhi Public School, R K Puram, New Delhi. There are 72 participating students from all over India, and 32 of these are staying at the DPS hostel. The programme began on June 1 and will conclude on June 27. During these 4 weeks, participants will work on projects related to the Chandrayaan space mission, the Jantar Mantar observatories, Search engines for images, Encryption, and Error correcting codes. They will also work on a project in Mathematics communication and attend classes and computer labs.


IAYM students at the inaugural session.