NL Correspondent
Ganderbal, Nov 7: The two-day Mini Innovation Boot Camp and Workshop organized by the Department of Mathematics, Central University of Kashmir (CUK) began at varsity’s Tulmulla campus here Thursday. Addressing the participants, Dean Academic Affairs, Prof. Shahid Rasool, thanked the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. A Ravinder Nath, for his guidance and encouragement. Highlighting the significance of the event, Prof. Shahid talked about the idea of patenting and the four stages involved in the process of patenting the product. He talked about the importance of innovation in teaching pedagogy at the university level in the light of Viksit Bharat @ 2047. In his speech, Dean, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Prof. Mohammad Yousuf, spoke about the importance of the Innovation Boot Camp in the teaching, Learning, and research for achieving academic accolades for the development of CUKashmir. Resource person, Dr. Rahul Z. More, from IIT Bombay and Oxford Alumnus, enlightened the participants on a variety of topics such as building creative confidence and connecting the dots, shifting reference points through cross industry examples, breakthrough ideas v/s usual ideas, Mindset Gravity, etc. Earlier, Dr. Haribhau R Bhapkar (Programme coordinator) Head, Deptt of Mathematics explained the importance and objectives of the event and its expected outcomes. The session was attended by faculty members of various departments and scholars. Dr. Akhter Bhat, Assistant Prof. was the rapporteur.
