What: Electrical Engineering Students Association (EESA), IIT Bombay is organising Aagomani '07, a 2-day workshop cum lecture series in the field of Multimedia and Digital Entertainment. It will be held at the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay on 13 and 14 of October 2007. 

Ever wondered what goes behind those computer or mobile games which keep people hooked for hours at a stretch? Each slight movement you make on those keypads requires software and hardware support to handle the high resolution graphics being displayed on your screens. What seems like a fun thing is actually a multi-billion dollar industry.

Multimedia and Digital entertainment is no more limited to any particular age group, individuals spanning all age groups are hooked on to different forms of multimedia entertainment. From a career point of view it's a hot field right now, and with rapidly growing markets, things are only going to get better.

Want to get started, or already there and want to hone your skills? Either way, a workshop cum lecture series being organised at IIT Bombay might be immensely useful for you. Electrical Engineering Students Association (EESA), IIT Bombay is organising Aagomani '07, a 2-day workshop cum lecture series in the field of Multimedia and Digital Entertainment. It will be held at the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay on 13 and 14 of October 2007. 

With speakers from the pioneers of the Multimedia Industry like NVIDIA, Texas Instruments and Imagination Technologies and academicians from renowned institutes like IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, Aagomani '07 aims at providing an in-depth knowledge of the upcoming technologies, trends and innovations in the ever so popular field of Digital Entertainment. It provides you an opportunity to look into the techniques and tools utilised to develop state-of-the-art graphics, High-resolution Digital Video and hardware devices which can emulate the needs of high memory and real time graphics.

Lectures include eminent speakers like Dr. Ajit Rao (Texas Instruments), James McCarthy and Jeremy Abington (Imagination Technologies). Dr. Rao will be speaking on "Video, Video everywhere: Digital Video Applications" while James will speak on "An Intelligent Approach to Embedded Graphics" and Jeremy on "Digital Receivers".   Dr CP Mammen (NVIDIA) will speak on the NVIDIA GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) technologies.  

Apart from the lectures and workshop, Aagomani '07 has competitions like technical quiz and techno-journalism with prizes worth Rs 15,000. The topics for techno-journalism can be found at the site under the competitions link and entries can be uploaded online on the website itself. To register or to find more about the event, please check the following web site or call Ankoor (09820910824).

http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/student/~eesa/aagomani/index.html