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Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Annual Tech Festival Shaastra is going to be conducted entirely online this year from 25th to 28th February 2021. This is the first time this tech-festival, which is one of the largest student-run events in the country, is going completely virtual.
One of the unique features of Shaastra 2021 will be the creation of a Virtual Rendering of the important sites of IIT Madras Campus. This will enable a viewer to virtually walk through a location in IIT Madras and provide as close to a real-life experience as possible. All the events will be available to the public free of cost. The total prize money for the contests will be worth around Rs. 17 lakh.
In author Christine Suppes’ and photographer Frederic Aranda’s new book, “California Elegance,” the people are just as much a focus as the state’s gorgeous natural landscapes and cultural destinations. From…
April Black Diamond, fashion designer
“Walking down South Broadway in Los Angeles, we saw this shop with the most incredible gowns in the window it was like Paris haute couture,” Suppes says. “It was April’s shop; it turns out she is one of the most sought-after quinceañera dress designers in the state. We spent two days with her just in awe of the pieces.”
“When April decides to do something, she doesn’t hold back,” Aranda says. “Soon after, she rallied a couple of her actual quinceañera clients to come to the store so that we could photograph them being fitted. We ended up shooting our cover there, too. I was sad to leave at the end of the two days as I really liked everyone; I think this comes across in every picture.”
Gary Sanders Retires from Managing Thirty Meter Telescope January 30, 2021
After nearly 17 years of leading the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) as project manager, Gary Sanders retired at the beginning of 2021. He had been responsible for managing the design and construction of the telescope since its inception in 2004.
An accomplished scientist and manager of scientific megaprojects, Sanders says he already knew he wanted to become an experimental elementary-particle physicist when he was 8 years old. I never
wasn t interested in science, he says. I still don t understand what it is that makes me, or makes someone, a scientist. My mother once showed me, when I already had a doctor s degree, a paragraph that I wrote in third grade, which said that I wanted to grow up and be an experimental elementary-particle physicist. That would have been in 1954.