IIMC student selected for Europe meet

A student of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has bagged a scholarship to the Euro Summer Institute at Turkey.

Sethuraman J of IIMC has been selected the Euro-Ifors Fellow for the 22nd Euro Summer Institute (ESI) on optimization and data mining to be held at Ankara, Turkey, from July 9 to 25. Sethuraman is the only person from the developing countries who has been awarded this scholarship.

ESI is organized jointly by the International Federation of Operational Research (Ifors) and the Association of European Operational Research (Euro) societies.

The scholarship was offered on the basis of a paper titled 'Soft computing techniques for high dimensional problems: An illustration with bond rating prediction' written by Sethuraman. The paper was based on two doctoral level course projects in fuzzy sets and systems and advanced fuzzy sets and systems presented at IIMC by Asim Pal, a faculty member.

The Euro Summer and Winter Institutes (ESWI) are organized to establish a network of OR scholars. Participation is limited to about 25 people.