CSA Open Day 2017

Open Day is the occasion where the Indian Institute of Science opens its doors to the general public to visit, learn, ask and understand the research culture here. CSA gladly invites students, professors, lecturers and teachers from various academic institutions and professionals from the Industry, in general — anyone with curiosity.

Tailored to address the wide variety of audience — from school kids to Professors — CSA Open Day involves a variety of events:

Competitive Events: Programming, machine learning and so much more!

Talks: Technical lectures by eminent personalities in the field of Computer Science.

Open Labs: Project and tool demonstrations, posters describing the work done in the various laboratories.

Interactive Demos: A plethora of models related to Computer Science topics that cater to a wide audience.

Stalls: Set up by our sponsors and the Karnataka Free Software Movement.

Programming Parliament: competitive programming
Blind Coding
Amazon QLearn: machine learning
Microsoft Hackathon: data science hackathon
Inquizitive (School): logical reasoning quiz
Inquizitive (College): algorithmic quiz
Quest for the Next: capture the flag
Hour Fire: hourly quiz

Dr. P. Balamuralidhar (TCS Innovation Labs)
Monojit Choudhury (Microsoft Research India)
Sridharan Devarajan (CNS, Indian Institute of Science)

None (Free)

The Institute is known as Tata Institute to the locals. It is better to use the name Tata Institute with the taxi, auto-rickshaw drivers, and bus conductors. Inside the institute, the department of CSA is close to the canteen Prakruthi, ask for directions to the canteen.