My Best Birthday Gift Ever!

Nothing can match the quality of a birthday gift as much as this does! Swarup, (now a master's student at University of Texas, Austin) has narrated his experience as a student, starting from his first year B.Tech days as my student to the days when he spent as a semi-intern at IISc with me. He embellishingly spills his droplets of memories of his association with me. A thematic picture to remember :-). The best part is the paper that he talks about at the end, silently conveying with a lot of pride and regards with a tone "Drona, look at me! here's your Arjuna..... All set to conquer!". Made my day? Nope! made my year!!!!! 

I have very joyously turned 30 as of today in the comradeship of  bright and intellectually curious souls like Swarup!

Am proud of you boy!!!

Thank you for the best birthday wish ever!

From: Swarup <swarup.chandra@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM

Subject: Happy Birthday !!!

To: Sudarshan Iyengar <sudarshaniisc@gmail.com>

Hi Sir,

How are you doing? Many Many happy returns of the day.

    Incidentally, I was looking at all the notes that I had from the times when we used to meet at 7:30 a.m at PESIT to learn vector spaces, and the meetings that we had every weekend (almost) at IISc. I was completely filled with those thoughts where we used to sit at the student council building (photo attached :) ) and learn about proofs on primality testing, finite field theorems galois fields etc. I remembered how we used to take a long walk across the main entrance to the coffee house .... discussing proofs like characteristic of a finite field a prime, understanding miller-rabin primality tests etc :) .... walking towards the hostel mess and discuss proofs of multiplicative groups, order of subfields etc over lunch.

      

    These were awesome times and I was missing that a lot. Thank you very much for all that. I am sure everyone in the group enjoyed every moment of it ... the moment not only to cherish but to indulge in whenever one feels like .... and get all those and much more back and enjoy more !!! :)

        

    I was working on a problem of location estimation on social networks .... and got a very small paper published out of it. This is my first paper ... was accepted at SocialCom 2011 as a poster paper ... just wanted to share with you sir. I have attached the paper. I would be extremely happy if you could review it and give your comments.

Have a very nice day!!!

swarup