Prof Narayan Rangaraj was invited as a speaker and participant in the Indo German Logistics Forum at Berlin, Germany on October 24, 2013. The visit was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) and the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC), India. He made a presentation on Railway Freight Transport and Multi-modal Logistics in India.

Prof Narayan Rangaraj participated in a workshop on Building National and Regional Economic Corridors organized by the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines on October 16-17, 2013. He made a presentation on Multi-modal Transport Connectivity at the workshop.

Vikas Vikram Singh defended his PhD thesis titled "Some topics in Stochastic Games" on Oct 29, 2013. He has worked under the guidance of Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao and Prof. N. Hemachandra.

He will be joining as a Post-Doc in INRIA, France very soon.

Title: On the geometric rank of the matching polytope
Speaker: Dr. Ashwin Arulselvan, Postdoctoral Associate,
              Institute for Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin.
Time and Date: 2:30pm, 28/10/13 (Monday)
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg. Building.

Abstract:  Recently, Padberg introduced the notion of geometric ranks for mixed integer polyhedra. This
involves in ranking the facets that define a polyhedron. In this talk, we will show that the the 

Recently, Prof. Narayan Rangaraj's expert view on Mumbai city's suburban system was published in DNA newspaper. Below is the link to that article in DNA e-paper.

https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-iit-b-western-railways-join-forc…

http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=2&edcode=820009&eddate=2013-9-20