Exchanges & Visits
January 2009
The Vice-Chancellor will make a return visit to New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai.
October 2008
Dr Amit Bhave from Chemical Engineering and Hughes Hall represented the University and his company, reSolutions, at the "EUROPE-INDIA ENERGY & TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE: Partnership for Technical Education & Business Innovation" held in Aachen on 6 & 7 October. In Dec 2007, reSolutions was selected as a part of the UKTI's British business delegation to India, aimed at showcasing technology intensive SMEs to the Indian market.
Dame Sandra Dawson, Chair of the Cambridge India Partnership, with Ann Puntis, Chief Executive of University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), welcomed participants to CIE's first Higher Education Advisory Council for India. The group will advise on all matters pertaining to progression for students with CIE qualifications into Indian higher education. The group includes representatives from major universities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Madras, Hyderabad and Gujarat as well as representatives from the Medical Council of India and NCERT and an adviser to India's National Knowledge Commission.
Professor Vipin Srivastava, Dean of School of Physics at the University of Hyderabad, is visiting the Cavendish Laboratory through Professor Sam Edwards of Gonville and Caius College. Professor Srivastava has cross-disciplinary interests in cognitive science and is in Cambridge until 24 October.
Dr Tim Minshall and Dr Satya Dash of the Technology Enterprise Group in the University's Institute for Manufacturing, accompanied by Martin Rigby, MD of ET Capital and David Gill, incoming director of St John's Innovation Centre, travelled to New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai in late September and early October, meeting with a range of companies, investors and public sector organisations as part of their research for a 'Funding Technology' report on India.
September 2008
Professor Peter Littlewood, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, visited the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai with colleagues to follow up on the MOU signed last January.
Professor Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School, visited Mumbai in late September to give a keynote speech at CII's Annual Manufacturing Summit and also met Indian industry leaders who have taken the lead in becoming innovating companies.
A senior delegation from India's Ministry of Human Resource Development, in England for the first UK India Education Forum, made a fact-finding visit to Cambridge and held discussions with Dr Kate Pretty, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Relations.
Jaideep Prabhu, the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, and Director, Cambridge Centre for Indian Business, Judge Business School, visited Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore between September 12 and 22, on a research trip to understand how multinationals and Indian firms are doing innovation/R&D in India. During his trip he met with and interviewed executives from Tata Teleservices, JP Morgan, Bajaj-Allianz, and the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy in Mumbai; Google, Zenotech, Shantha Biotech, Novartis and Satyam in Hyderabad; Infosys, Yahoo, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Novell in Bangalore. In Mumbai he also visited the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and in Hyderabad he visited the Indian School of Business as well.
July and August 2008
Professor Sir Tom Blundell, William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry and Head of the School of Biological Sciences, was at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore (IISc) for three weeks as the Ramachandran Professor.
Professor Sabhyasachi (Shobho) Bhattacharya, ex-Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), is currently on sabbatical at the Cavendish Labs. He is a visiting Fellow at Trinity College.
Dr Chander Velu, Chairman of the MBA Admissions Committee, Judge Business School, was in India in August on an outreach visit to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, and met with Judge alumni and prospective MBA students.
June 2008
A Tata Group technology delegation visited Cambridge on 27 June. The purpose of the visit was to expose Tata Technology leaders to cutting-edge research in Nanotechnology, Material Sciences, and Automotive Engineering and to meet with executives of Centre for Technology Management, and Cambridge Enterprise.
May 2008
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson was in India as part in the UK-India Round Table talks in Simla.
There was a visit by a delegation of 15 Heads of Academic Institutions from Mumbai led by the Sheriff of Mumbai, Dr Indu Shahani. The delegation visited the Judge Business School, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge Programme for Industry, the Nanoscience Centre and the Cavendish Laboratory.
April 2008
Professor Alan Windle, Professor of Materials Science, visited IIT-Bombay in Mumbai to sign an MOU for collaboration in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Dr Jonathan Trevor of Judge Business School visited Mumbai to interview prospective MBA students for admission, to give a lecture to the Cambridge Society Bombay on Judge and his specialist research area, HR in Energing Economies, and to meet with Tata Group representatives.
March 2008
Dr Helen Haugh of Judge Business School visited Gujarat in connection with the Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme.
January 2008
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard, and more than twenty senior academics visited New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai to increase the visibility of a wide and deep array of existing relationships between Cambridge and India, to develop new collaborations with academic, business and policy communities, to strengthen ties with alumni, who for over a century have been a vital part of the Cambridge diaspora, and to thank those who have supported Cambridge-based trusts which provide vital funding for students from India.