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INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE, KOLKATA - The Conference Venue
Indian Statistical Institute was founded by Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis in 1931 with the mission of research and developmental activities in the field of statistics and other disciplines of natural and social sciences where statistics can be applied, for the mutual development of statistics and other such related subjects. In 1955, it was declared as an Institute of national importance by an act of Parliament. The Institute has been empowered to confer degrees in statistics, mathematics, economics and computer science. Over all these years, the activities of the institute have encompassed diverse disciplines of statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, physics, geology, biology, anthropology, social science, linguistics, quality control, and so on. Some of the unique features of this Institute in the field of computer science include its contribution in i) Installation of the first ever digital computer of the country in this Institute as early as in 1958, ii) design, development and commissioning of the first ever indigenous digital computer (ISIJU) of the country in 1966, iii) introduction of the first ever formal course on computer science in early sixties in the form of a one-year post-graduate diploma in computer science, followed by a two-year PG diploma, followed by the current M.Tech. program in Computer Science which started in1981. The Institute has devoted to the research and development in various disciplines of computer science right from late seventies till date covering a wide range of topics like architectures, algorithms, VLSI design, testing and verification, networking, parallel and distributed computing, mobile computing, wireless and sensor networks, computational geometry, big data analytics, crowd-sourced computing, social networks, pattern recognition, image processing, natural language processing, soft computing, quantum computing, and so on.
Please visit the ISI Kolkata website http://www.isical.ac.in/ for more details.
About KOLKATA
Wikipedia Link on Kolkata : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata
Kolkata (22°34′N 88°22′E) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port as well as its sole major riverine port. Spread roughly north–south along the east bank of the Hooghly River, Kolkata sits within the lower Ganges Delta of eastern India. Kolkata is known for its literary, artistic, and revolutionary heritage; as the former capital of India, it was the birthplace of modern Indian literary and artistic thought. Kolkata has been called the "City of Furious, Creative Energy" as well as the "cultural capital of India".
During the British colonial era from 1700 to 1912, when Kolkata (then known as Calcutta) was the capital of British India, Kolkata witnessed a spate of frenzied construction activity of buildings largely influenced by the conscious intermingling of Neo-Gothic, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Oriental and Islamic schools of design. Unlike many north Indian cities, whose construction stresses minimalism, the layout of much of the architectural variety in Kolkata owes its origins to European styles and tastes imported by the British and, to a much lesser extent, the Portuguese and French.
Tourist Attractions in and around Kolkata:
- Victoria Memorial was Lord Curzon's brainchild as a memorial to the Empress of India and Queen of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria after her death in 1901, the Victoria Memorial was modelled on the Taj Mahal and was commissioned in 1906. The memorial holds numerous paintings of the British royal family, miniature paintings of the Mughal School, oil paintings of the Company School (notably the uncle - nephew pair of Thomas Daniell and William Daniell), historical artefacts like the throne of the Nawab of Bengal, many lithographs and documents of historical interest, and various post-Raj artefacts significant in the history of Kolkata (added to the collection after independence).
- The Indian Museum is the largest museum in Asia and the oldest in the Asia - Pacific region. It houses perhaps the greatest collection of Indian natural history and an Indian Art collection to rival the Smithsonian Institution and the British Museum. Of specific note are the meteorite hall and dinosaur hall in the Natural History and Geology section, the numismatics section and the collections of Gandhara Art, Burmese woodwork, Mughal miniatures and Tibetan banner sections in the Indian Art section.
- Science City is a complex near the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass featuring a lot of interactive science and live bioscience exhibits, as well as having Kolkata's first OMNIMAX theatre.
- A number of pilgrim places, like Belur Math, Dakhineswar Kali Temple, Birla Temple, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tipu Sultan Mosque etc.
- Famous bridges at the city of Kolkata - Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge), Vidyasagar Setu (Second Hooghly Bridge), Vivekananda Setu (Bally Bridge), Nivedita Setu (Second Bally Bridge)
- Kolkata is one of the few cities in the world to boast of three beautiful 18 hole golf courses within city limits - at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Tollygunj Club and Fort William.
- Eden Gardens - one of only two 100,000 seater amphitheatres for the game of cricket (the other being Melbourne Cricket Ground).
- The Indian Botanical Garden, spread over 270 acres (1.1 km2), was founded in 1786 and is the oldest "botanics" in India. Housing 50,000 species, the Botanical Survey of India and one of the world's most historically relevant herbariums, it is famous for its 250-year-old, 98-foot-tall banyan tree - which has the largest girth of any banyan tree ever recorded (1300 ft).
For more details, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_of_interest_in_Kolkata
Hotels in Kolkata
3-Star:
The Astor: www.astorkolkata.com
Victerrace International: www.victerracegroupofhotels.com/international
The Pearl Hotel: thepearlhotels.com
The Corporate: www.thecorporatekolkata.com
Celesta: http://celesta.in/
4-Star:
HHI: http://www.hhihotels.com/hotel-kolkata/
Kenilworth: www.kenilworthhotels.com/kolkata
Sonnet: www.thesonnet.com
Vedic Village Resort: www.thevedicvillage.com
Peerless Inn: www.peerlesshotels.com/kolkata/
The Lalit Kolkata: www.thelalit.com/The-Lalit-Kolkata/
5-Star:
Hyatt Regency: kolkata.regency.hyatt.com/
ITC Sonar Kolkata: www.itchotels.in/Luxury-Kolkata-Hotel
Novotel: www.novotel.com/Kolkata
The Oberoi Grand: www.oberoihotels.com/hotels-in-kolkata
Swissotel: www.swissotel.com/hotels/kolkata
Taj Bengal: www.tajhotels.com/luxury/city-hotels/taj-bengal-kolkata/
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