Reason (Vivek)

This is a film review of Reason (Vivek) (2018), directed by Anand Patwardhan

Glass transitions may be similar in 2 and 3 dimensions, after all

This is a commentary on two recent experimental papers in PNAS by Vivek et al. and Illing et al. that convincingly address an issue at the junction of two fundamental questions in glass physics: the role of the dimensionality of space on the glass transition and the possible existence of long wavelength fluctuations in two-dimensional amorphous solids.Comment: 3-page Commentar

VirtuWind – Security in a Virtual and Programmable Industrial Network Prototype Deployed in an operational Wind Park

Ioannis Askoxylakis, Nikolaos Petroulakis, (FORTH), Vivek Kulkami and Florian Zeiger (Siemens

Thin layer chromatographic separation of lipids in ovary, testis and gut of the sea urchin Salmacis virgulata

Sea urchins accumulate large amounts of lipid in ovary during its reproductive cycle (Giese, 1966 ; Vivek Raja, 1980); Lipids deposited in the developing gonads may be synthesized within the oocytes or transported from the gut. A variety of lipid classes are also found to occur in the ovary, testis, gut, body wall and coelomocytes of the sea urchins (Allen, 1974; Vivek Raja, 1980). The present experiment is designed to separate and identify the different lipid classes present in gut, testis and ovary of the sea urchin Salmacis virgulata employing thin layer chromatographic metho

Book review: Socialist register: the question of strategy

"Socialist Register: The Question of Strategy." Leo Panitch, Gregory Albo and Vivek Chibber (eds.). Merlin Press. October 2012. --- How have the occupations of public squares around the world changed the political scene? And what are the most useful forms of political organization in the new conjuncture? The Question of Strategy seeks to answer questions plaguing the left, with contributions from a selection of radical writers and thinkers. Though it aims to challenge and interrogate, this is not a book that will influence political debates because it has disconnected itself from those arguments, concludes Andrew Crines

Infosys Technologies: Improving Organizational Knowledge Flow

Nandan Nilekani, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Infosys Technologies (Infosys), sat at his desk at the company’s headquarters in Bangalore, India, reading an email from one of his account managers in his North American operations. The manager, Vivek Pradhan, had just landed a project with a major Detroit automobile manufacturer, and was commenting to Nandan on how instrumental the company’s knowledge management (KM) program was in his securing the project. Vivek told Nandan that his client had given him 48 hours to develop a pre-proposal on upgrading its nationwide sales and order operations. He added that his technical team had never seen such a project. Vivek felt he could never meet his pre-proposal deadline, but that evening he received an email from Nandan announcing the launch of a new Domain Competency Group (DCG) as part of the company’s nascent knowledge management (KM) initiative. As stated in the email: DCG would serve as a centralized think-tank to provide round-the-clock knowledge support on various industrial domains to our practice units around the world. Vivek further explained that a quick call to the DCG contact number helped him locate a similar project completed for a German automotive company. He was sent the necessary materials, including a client presentation, which proved very similar to what his client had in mind. After reading the email, Nandan sat back in his chair feeling quite pleased at the success of the five-year-old KM program. Infosys’ KM implementation was guided by the KM Maturity Model (KMM) (see Exhibit 1). 2 Infosys was currently working towards attaining the fourth level of KM maturity. However, one requirement was seriously lacking and would impede progress to the next level: Infosys did not have robust metrics for assessing productivity benefits of the KM program

Controlled diffusions with boundary-crossing costs

Bibliography: p. 31.Research supported by ARO contract no. DAAG29-84-K-005 Research supported by ARO contract no. AFOSR 85-0227by Vivek S. Borkar

Ergodic control of multidimensional diffusions I. : the existence results

Bibliography: p. 29-30.Supported in part by ARO Contract No. DAAG29-84-K-005 Supported in part by ARO Contract No. AFOSR 85-0227by Vivek S. Borkar, Mrinal K. Ghosh