# 1:	International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing
Conference Dates	13th - 15th January, 2012
Venue	Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, Pataliputra colony, Patna-800013,BIHAR, INDIA
Organized by	IIT Patna
Organizing Chair	Dr. Maheshkumar H. Kolekar Assistant Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna, Ph.No. : +91-8986184240 E-mail: mahesh@iitp.ac.in
General Chair	Prof Anil K. Bhowmick, Director, IIT Patna
Excerpt of the Conference Report	IIT Patna organized International Conference on Signal, Image and Video Processing (ICSIVP- 2012). Many scientists from organization such as CDAC, DRDO, academicians from premiere institutions such as ISI Kolkata, IITs, NITs, IIITs and engineers from industries such as National instruments, Edgate Technologies participated in the conference. There were many good quality papers and plenary speeches related to research area in Biometrics, Medical Image Processing, Information Coding, Pattern Recognition, and Video Surveillance.
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	Inaugural session	Release of the proceedings
Conference URL	https://www.iitp.ac.in/ICSIVP2012/

# 2:	International Conference on Innovative Techno Management Solutions for Social Sectors
Conference Dates	17th - 18th January, 2012
Venue	Science City, Kolkata
Organized by	Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section
Conference Chair	Prof. Ranjan Ghosh and Prof. K.K.Ghosh Email: conference.secretary@iemcal.com, secretary@iemcal.com
Excerpt of the Conference Report	Institute of Engineering and Management, Salt Lake, Kolkata organized an International Conference entitled Innovative Techno-Management Solutions for Social Sector (IEMCON2012). Around two hundred participants was there including faculty members, research scholars, practicing engineers and students. The conference was sponsored by IEEE Calcutta section, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Ltd, Aircel, Infosys, National Entrepreneurship Network, Cognizant, Acclaris, IBM, Sunplant, RN Consultancy, ZEE Akash Pvt Ltd. Television partners were 24 Ghanta, Radio partners were Power FM, News partners were Times of India and Print & Publication partners were TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Ltd.
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	Inaugural Ceremony of IEMCON 2012	Vice Chancellor of BESU offering his speech
Conference URL	https://iem.edu.in/conference/

# 3:	2012 2nd National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing (CISP)
Conference Dates	2nd - 3rd March, 2012
Venue	Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology (DBCET), Guwahati, Assam
Organized by	Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology (DBCET) Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section
Conference Chair	Dr. Sumita Dhar Choudhury Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, Azara Guwahati Assam 781017 India E-mail: sumitadc2u@gmail.com
Excerpt of the Conference Report	On 2nd and 3rd March 2012 the 2nd National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Signal Processing (CISP2012) organized by Assam Don Bosco University was held at Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology, Guwahati. The conference was technically sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section and supported by AICTE. The objective of the conference was to create awareness about the developments in the interdisciplinary field that combines signal processing with computational technologies and promote research and developmental activities for real life applications. This objective was neatly taken care in this conference as CISP2012 brought together industry professionals, researchers and academicians together who presented their findings and had given intellectual deliberations on emerging technologies. [Detailed Report]
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	Keynote Address by Prof Nikhil Ranjan Pal	Group Photograph of the participants of CISP2012
Conference URL	https://www.conferences.dbuniversity.ac.in/CISP2012

# 4 :	National Conference on "Paradigm Shift in Education Technology & Content Management, E-TCM 2012"
Conference Dates	2nd - 3rd March, 2012
Venue	Techno India, EM-4/1, Sector V, Salt Lake, Kolkata
Organized by	Department of Information Technology & Masters of Computer Application, Techno India & Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section
Organizing Chairs	1) Prof. Piyal Sarkar, Dept. of IT, Techno India E-mail: sarkar.piyal@gmail.com Contact No.: +91 98301 49336 2) Prof. B. B.Sarkar, Dept. of MCA, Techno India E-mail: bidyutbiman@yahoo.com Contact: + 91 92300 99359 3)Prof. Soumitra Sasmal, Dept. of IT, Techno India E-mail: soumitrasasmal@gmail.com Contact: + 91 98317 68321
Excerpt of the Conference Report	Department of Information Technology and Department of MCA, Techno India organized AICTE sponsored National Conference on "Paradigm Shift in Education Technology and Content Management" on March 2 and 3, 2012 at Techno India, Salt Lake campus. The conference was technically co-sponsored by IEEE, Kolkata Section, Computer Society of India, Kolkata Chapter and IE(I) Kolkata. The conference had several industry partners as well like Royal Fortune (I) Pvt. Ltd, HP, Ideation Technology Solutions also academic Collaboration with C-DAC, Kolkata. We the Techno Indians wanted to take this platform as a benchmark for industry-academia interrelationships. [Detailed Report]
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	Seminar session in progress	Inaugural function
Conference URL	https://www.ticollege.ac.in/etcm

# 5 :	2012 3rd National Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Computer Science-(NCETACS - 2012)
Conference Dates	30th - 31st March, 2012
Venue	St. Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya
Organized by	St. Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya Technically Sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section
Conference Chair	Mrs. Aiusha V Hujon St. Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya E-mail: principal@anthonys.ac.in , avhujon@rediffmail.com
Excerpt of the Conference Report	The first day began with two sessions back-to-back presided over by Dr. S. B. Nair, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati and assisted by his team of students. Speaking on the topic "Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence". The second segment of the Tutorial Session saw school students from eight different schools attending the interactive talk with Dr. Nair and his team. The students were greatly intrigued by the motor robots which performed various activities responding sound, light and touch. This Interactive Session with students was sponsored by the State Council of Science, Technology and Engineering, Government of Meghalaya. [Detailed Report]
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	Keynote speech	Release of proceedings
Conference URL	https://ncetacs.anthonys.ac.in

# 7 :	National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (NCCCS-2012)
Conference Dates	21st - 22nd November, 2012
Venue	Dr. B.C Roy Engineering College, Jemua Road, Fuljhore, Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Pin: 713206 Ph – (0343) 250 1353 / 3424 / 4106 / 2449, Tele-Fax no: 0343-2503424, Website: www.bcrec.org
Organized by	Department of CSE & IT, Dr. B.C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section
Conference Chair	Prof. G.P Bhattacharjee, Ex- Professor, IIT, Kharagpur E-mail: gpbh8@hotmail.com, gpbh8@yahoo.co.in
Program Chair	Prof. Sanjoy Biswas, HOD, CSE, Dr. B.C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, E-mail:sanjoy.biswas@bcrec.org
Excerpt of the Conference Report	National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems 2012 (NCCCS-2012) has been organized by the department of Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology, Dr. B.C Roy Engineering College, Durgapur; West Bengal from 21st Nov-22nd Nov 2012. NCCCS-2012 was technically co-sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section, IEEE Kharagpur Section, International Neural Network Society -India Regional Chapter, Mirlabs-India, and Computer Society of India. The National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems 2012 (NCCCS-2012) was a comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in Computing and Communication Systems. The NCCCS platform promoted an intense dialogue between academia and industry. NCCCS also facilitated researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to contribute ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Computing and Communication Systems in both theoretical and experimental research. In terms of technical paper submission, the conference has received an overwhelming response from academicians and researchers from several renowned Institutes including Massachusetts institute of technology (popularly known as MIT,USA), University of Johannesburg, University of Electronic Science and Technology Chengdu, China, Sadjad University Mashhad, Iran, Ferdowsi University Mashhad, Iran, IIT-Bhubaneswar, IIT-Chennai, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Indore, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Patna, IIT-Roorkee, ISI-Kolkata, ISM-Dhanbad, IT-BHU Varanasi, DRDO, HP Labs India, Larsen & Toubro infotech India Pvt. Ltd., TCS-Kolkata, Infosys etc. and many other reputed Govt. & private institutions across the nation. We are happy to announce that NCCCS-2012 has received 270 number of research papers out of which only 87 papers has been accepted for presentation after successful completion of peer-review process from reputed experts from India and abroad. The conference was inaugurated by Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy, Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on 21st November 2012. The Keynote speaker was Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy, Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The invited speakers were Prof. Bhabani Prasad Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Prof. Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Prof. Debasis Samanta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Arpan Pal, Tata Consultancy Services.
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	Inauguration of the conference by lighting the lamp by Prof. Bimal K Roy, Director, ISI Kolkata	Release of the Proceedings of the Conference
Conference URL	https://www.ncccs12.org/

# 8:	6th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST'12)
Conference Dates	19th - 21st December, 2012
Venue	Hyatt Regency, Kolkata
Organized by	Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata Massey University, New Zealand Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Calcutta Section and IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
Conference Chair:	General Co-Chairs Dr. Nabarun Bhattacharyya, C-DAC, Kolkata, India Prof. Subhas Mukhopadhyay, MU, NZ Technical Program Co-Chairs Alex Mason, LJMU., UK K.P. Jayasundera, MU, NZ
Excerpt of the Conference Report:	CDAC Kolkata organized the 6th International Conference on sensing technologies (ICST 2012) along with Massey University New Zealand from 19 Dec to 21 Dec 2012 preceded by a tutorial session on 18 Dec 2012. The objective of the conference was to create awareness about the developments in sensors and sensing technologies and also aimed to provide an international window to the participants, where they can exchange views, and achieve a better understanding and available solutions relevant to agriculture & environmental monitoring.
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	Inaugural Ceremony of ICST 2012	Seminar session in progress
Conference URL	https://seat.massey.ac.nz/conferences/icst2012

# 9 :	ICPEN 2012, 1st IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy in NERIST, 2012
Conference Dates	28th - 29th December, 2012
Venue	North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh
Organized by	North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST)
Organizing Chair with contact details	Prof. H. S. Yadav, NERIST
Program Chair with contact details	Prof. K. Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University
Report on ICPEN-2012	'1st International Conference on Power and Energy in NERIST-2012' organized by NERIST in technical co-sponsorship from IEEE Kolkata section, Kolkata Chapters of DEIS and PES and financial co-sponsorship from NEC, CSIR, PGCIL and Schneider Electric Corporation. It was the first IEEE sponsored conference in NERIST and Arunachal Pradesh. Through this conference the organizers aimed to provide a platform to share ideas in areas related to theory, development, applications, and evaluation in the field of power systems, high voltage, energy and industry applications. Highlights of the conference were Keynote Address on 'Solar Photovoltaics: An Overview' and invited lecture on 'Ethical Issues for Science and Technology' both by Padmashree Prof K L Chopra. IEEE Distinguished lectures were organized in the conference as follows: 'Energy Supply for Future' by Dr. Hermann Koch, IEEE Fellow and PES DL from Siemens, Germany and 'Multiphysics Modeling of Streamer Discharges in Transformer Oil-Pressboard Systems' by Prof Markus Zahn, IEEE Fellow and DEIS DL from MIT, USA. Special invited lectures were given on 'Gas Insulated Transmission Line' by Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti, Chairman IEEE Kolkata Section and PES Distinguished Lecturer and '1200 kV UHV Transmission Line in India' by Mr. Akhil Sundaram, PGCIL. One hundred seven papers from leading institutions and organizations in India and abroad were submitted, which were reviewed by experts from reputed institutes and industries all over the world. Sixty five papers were finally accepted by the Technical Committee, out of which forty five papers will be uploaded to IEEEXplore. The papers were presented in four technical sessions related to energy, high voltage, power system and industry applications chaired by Dr. Hermann Koch, Prof Markus Zahn, Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti and Prof. K. L. Chopra, respectively. Fifty one registered authors and participants attended the conference.
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	Inaugural program of ICPEN 2012	Prof. K.L.Chopra delivering the keynote address
Conference URL	https://icpen2012.org