Come Friday. The state’s Water Resources Department is all set to host the Third Assam Water Conference-2015 with a focal theme of ‘Management of Water-Related Disasters – Urban and Rural. The two days event would take place at the Basistha campus of its Assam Water Research and Management Institute (AWRMI). Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will inaugurate the conference to be attended by Union Minister for Water Resources etc., and DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh.
On the occasion of his birth centenary this year, Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences is announced by his family. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was a world renowned scholar in Statistics who was born on 1st July 1924 in Ramdia, Assam. He received his D.Sc. (with Tres Honorable) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1956 and returned to Assam to teach at Gauhati University where he later became the Head of the Department in Statistics, Dean of Faculty of Science, and Acting Vice-Chancellor. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. He passed away on 3rd February 2017 at the age of 92...
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