SSSIHL Participates in the 3rd AP Higher Education Planning Board Meet
The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) organized the 3rd Meeting of AP Higher Education Planning Board on the 29 & 30 July 2022 at Anantapur. The Theme for the meet was “Education 4.0 – A Roadmap for a New Era of Higher Education.
Prof. C B Sanjeevi, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning had the privilege and opportunity to participate in the event and share the Institutional Best Practices of SSSIHL with Vice-Chancellors from over 30 Universities in the State of Andhra Pradesh who participated in the 2-day event.
Sri Botcha Satyanarayana, Minister of Education, Govt. Of Andhra Pradesh was the Chief Guest and Sri J Shyamala Rao, I.A.S., Principal Secretary, Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh the Guest of Honor for the meet. The event was presided by Prof. K Hemachandra Reddy, Chairman, APSCHE & Chairman, APHEPB, Andhra Pradesh and had Dr Buddha Chandrashekhar, Chief Coordinating Officer, AICTE, as the key speaker.
2022 CAS Individual Research Grant Awarded to SSSIHL Actuarial Data Science Team
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) appreciates Casualty Actuarial Society for awarding the 2022 Individual Research Grant to the Actuarial Data Science group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
The project team is led by Professor Pallav Kumar Baruah and Satya Sai Mudigonda.
About Individual Grants Competition:
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA) Committee on Knowledge Extension Research (CKER) announce the 2022 Individual Grants Competition to support the advancement of knowledge in actuarial science and contribute in an important way to areas of interest to the actuarial profession.
About CAS:
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is a leading international organization for credentialing and professional education. Founded in 1914, the CAS is the world’s only actuarial organization focused exclusively on property and casualty risks and serves over 9,100 members worldwide. CAS members are experts in property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, finance, risk management, and enterprise risk management. Professionals educated by the CAS empower business and government to make well-informed strategic, financial and operational decisions.
About SSSIHL Actuarial Data Science:
SSSIHL is actively involved in actuarial data science research, specifically in the area of fraud detection. It has to its credit about 30 research papers/book chapters, 20 dissertations in non-life actuarial stream and 2 PhDs awarded in the area of actuarial data science. In fact, SSSIHL is one of the first University to award PhD in Actuarial Science in India.
About the Project:
The project is in the area of Insurance Fraud Detection using Actuarial and Data Science techniques. The project commenced on 1st June 2022 and will end by March 2023.
We wish the SSSIHL Actuarial Data Science Team all the best for the execution of this project.
Sri Suryanarayana Murthy Wins the First Prize for His Sitar Recital at Pt. Rupak Kulkarni Flute Academy’s Music Competition 2022
Sri Suryanarayana Murthy, Asst. Lecturer, Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri College of Music, SSSIHL, won the First prize for his Sitar recital in the above 18 Years category at the Pt. Rupak Kulkarni Flute Academy’s Music Competition 2022.
The online competition was organised in honour of renowned Flutist Pt. Rupak Kulkarni’s Musical journey of 45 years. The academy invited entries for Flute, Sitar and Tabla in two age categories – below and above 18 years. The winners were selected by Flutist Pt. Rupak Kulkarni and Sitar Maestro Pt. Niladri Kumar and then invited to a live ceremony held at the Nehru Centre, Mumbai where they received their prizes from the judges.
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning congratulates Sri Suryanarayana Murthy for this achievement and is proud to have him as our faculty at Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri College of Music.
Prof. Madhu Kapani Asserts the Role of Mothers in Building a Nation at an International Conference held by GLS University and WILPF Foundation
Prof. Madhu Kapani, Hon. Professor, Dept. of Education, attended a two-day International Conference on ‘Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity’ organized jointly by Gujarat Law Society’s University and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF- foundation, India Section) on 26-27 March 2022, at Ahmedabad. Invited as chief guest for the Valedictory Session on the 27th March 2022, Prof. Madhu Kapani presented a paper on ‘Redefining Womanhood – Good Mothers are a Nation’s Pride’.
The paper explored the role of several illustrious, noble and brave Indian women, who brought honour and glory to the sacred land by their unflinching adherence to the ideals of dharma, shaping the ethos of the country. Through various anecdotes and examples, the paper emphasized how women with sterling virtues have not just been the very foundation of the nation and its pride upholding the culture of their motherland but also singularly responsible for the blossoming of children of character and thereby shaping them into potential leaders of the nation.
Prof. Madhu Kapani also shared the example of how Mother Easwaramma was instrumental in bringing to life three mammoth projects viz., Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (Education), Sri Sathya Sai Super-Specialty Hospitals (Health), and Sri Sathya Sai Drinking Water Project (Water) that are offered free to the people. Thus, sharing how in every age it is the goodness and greatness of the mother that has made their sons illustrious exemplars.
The presentation was very well appreciated by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. B.H. Joshi of GLS University and the audience. Prof. Madhu Kapani was also honored with a Certificate and a memento at the event.
DFNS Research Scholar Ms. Sai Sruthi Shree Recognized at The Chellaram Foundation Diabetes Research Awards 2022
A ‘Special Appreciation Prize’ was awarded to Ms. Sai Sruthi Shree K. K, Doctoral Research Scholar, DFNS, for her presentation under the ‘Basic Science’ category at ‘The Chellaram Foundation Diabetes Research Awards’ held on 4-6 March, during the 6th International Diabetes Summit (Virtual) – 2022.
The paper entitled ‘Designing and evaluation of a low-GI pigmented rice-based vegan gluten-free protein formulation suitable for malnutrition modulated and lean T2-diabetes mellitus’ was co-authored by Prof. N. Srividya, Research Supervisor & Head, DFNS, and Ms. Ashrita C. Haldipur, Research Scholar, DFNS.
In the study, low-GI pigmented rice and plant protein isolates were used as novel ingredients to scientifically design a gluten-free protein formulation. The nutritional analysis revealed the formulation to be a cost-effective dietary supplement suitable for preventing and managing lean T-2 diabetes mellitus.
Organized by the Chellaram’s Diabetes Institute (CDI), Pune, the event hosted best-in-class experts in the field of diabetes from leading national and global diabetes institutions and had over 9000 participants.
Congratulations to Ms. Sai Sruthi Shree on the recognition, and we wish her the very best for many more to come in the future.
SSSIHL Celebrates National Science Day 2022
Invoking the blessings of our Founder Chancellor Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the *National Science Day (NSD) 2022 was celebrated by the students and faculty of the Science Departments of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam Campus on Monday, 28 February, 2022.
As a precursor to the celebrations, the faculty and students were addressed on the 24 February 2022 by Dr Anuj Mubayi, a research scientist and the lead at the Infectious Disease Forecasting Group at The Public Health Company. A distinguished IBA fellow at Centre for Collaborative Studies in Mathematical Biology, Illinois State University Dr. Anuj is also an Applied and Computational Mathematics Scientist with more than 10 years of experience in disease modelling and health decision analysis. He spoke on the topic ‘Seeing into the Future through the Lens of Modelling of Complex Systems’.
Commemorating NSD 2022 on 28 February, Prof. (Dr.) C. B. Sanjeevi, the Vice Chancellor, SSSIHL commenced the event with the inaugural address. This was followed by enlightening and invigorating talks by two eminent speakers from the scientific fraternity interspaced by short presentations by the faculty of the Science Departments, SSSIHL on various research activities undertaken by them, Divine Excerpts on Science and Spirituality from a discourse of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and prize distribution for various competitions held as part of the NSD 2022.
The two eminent speakers were Dr. Vinay K Nandicoori, Director, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, who spoke on the topic “Evolution of Resistance in Pathogens” and Padma Shri A. S. Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), who spoke on the topic ‘India’s Space Science Missions’.
For more information, please read:
NSD 2022 @ SSSIHL – A Summary of the Proceedings of the Celebrations
Program Schedule
*National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928.
Sir C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the discovery.
Dr. Balaram Khamari’s Agar Art Featured on ‘OMG! Yeh Mera India’, Telecast on History TV18
When science meets art, the outcome could want to make you say OMG!
A few years ago, when Dr. Balaram Khamari brought his love for art into the BioScience lab at SSSIHL, he discovered a new form of expression through a recently popular unusual art form called ‘Agar art‘.
Fascinated with his unusual yet amazing talent, the History TV18 channel has now featured Dr. Balaram and his work on their popular show OMG! Yeh Mera India, which showcases stories of Indians with extraordinary and unique talents. Balaram was featured in episode 7, season 8 of the show that was aired on 7 March 2022.
A student of BioScience from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Balaram completed his B.Sc. (Hons) in 2014 and his M.Sc. with a Gold medal in 2016. He later went on to complete his Ph.D. in 2021 under the supervision of Dr. B.E. Pradeep, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, Prasanthi Nilayam campus and is currently the Project Coordinator in a BIRAC funded project, AMR Laboratory, Department of Biosciences at the Prasanthi Nilayam campus of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.
In 2020, Dr. Balaram received 2nd place in the annual Agar art contest organised by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for his work ‘Microbial Peacock’.
What is Agar art?
Agar is a jelly-like substance made from seaweed. When used as a medium to grow or culture micro-organisms (bacteria, yeast, fungi, or protists) into specific patterns/forms, it is called Agar art and those practicing are known as Agar artists.
Chosen for their colors, the microbes arranged on the Agar plate (canvas) lend their color to the intricate pattern/design as they grow, creating stunning visuals/pictures
View video: https://youtu.be/TwDmi57zCG0
We congratulate Dr.Balaram Khamari for his achievements and for making us proud and wish him many more in the future.
Optimal Control Studies on Age Structured Modeling of COVID-19
Identifying the Issue
COVID -19 pandemic has caused the most severe health problems to adults over 60 years of age, with particularly fatal consequences for those over 80. In this case, age-structured mathematical modelling could be useful to determine the spread of the disease and to develop a better control strategy for different age groups. In this study, we first propose an age-structured model considering two different age groups, the first group with population age below 30 years and the second with population age above 30 years, and discuss the stability of the equilibrium points and the sensitivity of the model parameters. In the second part of the study, we propose an optimal control problem to understand the age-specific role of treatment in controlling the spread of COVID -19 infection.
Objective of the Research
- We propose to study the stability analysis of an age-structured model incorporating the saturation in medical treatment
- We propose to study the optimal control problem to study the effectiveness of treatment in reducing COVID-19 infection
Who should read this?
Academics, Mathematics, Bio-Mathematics, Mathematical Modelling, Doctors-Physicians, Research
Solution
In this research article we work on age-structured models considering two different age groups, the first group with population age below 30 years and the second with population age above 30 years. The results and findings of the modelling studies shows that infection decreases with the implementation of an optimal treatment strategy namely a combined treatment strategy considering treatment for both age groups is effective in keeping cumulative infection low in severe epidemics. Cumulative infection was found to increase with increasing saturation in medical treatment.
Key Features and Benefits
- It is found that the behaviour of the system depends on the value of basic reproduction number. Stability changes based on the value of basic reproduction number
- The results from the optimal control study suggests that with optimal treatment COVID-19 infection can be decreased
Team
- Sri Bishal Chhetri, Research Scholar, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, SSSIHL
- Dr. D K K Vamsi, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, SSSIHL
- Prof. (Dr) Carani B Sanjeevi, Vice-Chancellor, SSSIHL
Paper Published in: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
Title of paper: Optimal Control Studies on Age Structured Modeling of COVID-19 in Presence of Saturated Medical Treatment of Holling Type III
Read Paper Here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12591-022-00593-z