About GIAN
The Union Cabinet has approved a new program titled Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs, internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.
In order to garner the best international experience into our systems of education, enable interaction of students and faculty with the best academic and industry experts from all over the world and also share their experiences and expertise to motivate people to work on Indian problems, , there is a need for a Scheme of International Summer and Winter Term. During the ‘Retreat’ of IITs with Minister of Human Resource Development Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani on 29th June, 2014 at Goa, it was decided that “A system of Guest Lectures by internationally and nationally renowned experts would be evolved....
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1. 194028M01: GIAN Course on A COURSE ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY
Foreign Faculty :Prof. Anzhong Wang, United State of America
From: 23 Nov. 2023 To 28 Nov. 2023
Course Coordinator :Prof. Sushant G. Ghosh, Centre for Theoretical Physics, JMI
2. 194028D01: Online Gian Course On Cyber-security Control and Sensing Technology for Future Smart Grids
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Jahangir Hossain, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
23-27 May 2022
Course Coordinator: Prof. Tarikul Islam, Department of Electrical Engineering, JMI
3. 174028N02: Asymmetric Information and Financial Contracts
Foreign Faculty : Alain de Crombrugghe, Belgium
Host Faculty : Prof. Shahid Ashraf and Dr. Mirza Allim Baig
4. 154028N01 : Religious Fundamentalism in a Global Perspective: Islam, Christianity and Judaism
Foreign Faculty : Meir Litvak , Israel
Host Faculty : Javed Ahmed Khan
5. 154028K01 : Graph Mining and Analysis
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Mohammed J. Zaki, Dept. of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof. Muhammad Abulaish
6. 154028M02 : COSMOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL APPLICATIONS OF EXACT SOLUTIONS OF EINSTEIN’S EQUATIONS
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Roberto Allan Sussman Livovsky, Mexico
Host Faculty : Prof. Sushant G. Ghosh
7. 154028M01 : Probing Large Scale Structure of the Universe with Weak Lensing
Foreign Faculty :Prof. Alexandre Refregier, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Host Faculty :Prof. Anjan Ananda Sen
8. 154028D01 : Smart Sensors and Internet of Things
Foreign Faculty : Prof. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay , Professor of Sensing Technology, School of Engineering & Advance Technology, Massey University, New Zealand
Host Faculty : Professor Tarikul Islam9. 154028D03: Controls for Renewable Energy and Microgrids
Foreign Faculty :Professor Adel Nasiri, United States of America
Host Faculty :Professor Majid Jamil
10. 154028N02 : Development, Change, Dysfunction, Mitigation: A Short Course on Business and Social Work
Foreign Faculty : Dr. Alf H. Walle, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States of America
Host Faculty : Professor N. U. Khan
11. 154028N04 : Civilisations and World Orders: The Making of Global International Relations
Foreign Faculty :Amitav Acharya, American University, United States of America
Host Faculty : Prof Rashmi Doraiswamy
12. 164028C01 : Global Cities Sustainability and Management of the Urban Ecosystem
Foreign Faculty :Jürgen Breuste, Professor & Chair, Department of Urban and Landscape Ecology, Austria
Host Faculty :Prof. Atiqur Rahman
13. 164028N02 : South-South Cooperation: Relations between Latin America and Asia
Foreign Faculty :Gladys Lechini, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations. National University of Rosario, Argentina
Host Faculty :Prof. Sonya Surabhi Gupta
14. 154028N05 : Advanced Studies in Human Security
Foreign Faculty :Giorgio Shani, Japan
Host Faculty :Prof. Mohammed Badrul Alam
15. 164028M03 : Introduction to Cosmological Perturbation Theory
Foreign Faculty :Antonio De Felice, associate professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, Japan
Host Faculty :Prof. M. Sami
16. 164028B01 : Recent Developments in Nano Materials for Energy and Health Care Applications
Foreign Faculty :Kandalam V. Ramanujachary, United States of America
Host Faculty :Dr. Tokeer Ahmad
17. 164028N05 : The Changing Geo-political and Geo-economic Dynamics in the Contemporary West Asia/Middle East
Foreign Faculty :Gawdat Bahgat, National Defense University, United States of America, United States of America
Host Faculty :Dr. Sujata Ashwarya
18. 164028N06 : RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN WESTERN ASIA A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Foreign Faculty :Herman G.B. Teule, Faculty of Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium), Belgium
Host Faculty :Dr. Annie KUNNATH
19. 164028D01 : Advances in Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Source
Foreign Faculty :Akhtar Kalam, Victoria University, Australia
Host Faculty :Dr. Ahteshamul Haque
20. 164028G03 : DNA Nanoarchitecture
Foreign Faculty :Sung Ha-Park, Dept. of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea South
Host Faculty :Prof. Zubaida A. Ansari
21. 164028D04 : ADVANCES IN NEUROTECHNOLOGIES FOR BUILDING THE BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES
Foreign Faculty :Nitish V. Thakor, United States of America
Host Faculty :Prof. Munna Khan
22. 164028M04 : New Methods for the Production and Chemical Manipulation of 2D Nanomaterials and Carbon Nanotubes
Foreign Faculty :Emilio M. Pérez, IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain
Host Faculty :Professor S. S. Islam
23. 164028N03 : Quantitative Approaches in the Social Sciences: Survey, Experiment and Content Analysis
Foreign Faculty :Hajo G. Boomgaarden, University of Vienna, Austria
Host Faculty :Dr. Saima Saeed
24. 174028N04 : Microfinance: Battling a Wicked Problem
Foreign Faculty :Arvind Ashta, France
Host Faculty :Dr. Amir Afaque Ahmad Faizi
25. 174028M02 : Diffractive Microoptics of IR and THz ranges
Foreign Faculty :Vladimir S. Pavelyev, Russia
Host Faculty :Prabhash Mishra
26. 164028H01 : Cancer Therapy Through Targeting Mammalian DNA Repair Pathways
Foreign Faculty :Girish Shah, Canada
Host Faculty :Prof. Jawaid Ahmad Khan
27. 174028C02 : Managing Floods and Droughts in a Changing Climate
Foreign Faculty :Hans C Ammentorp, DHI Denmark
Foreign Faculty :Tentatively Starts from: 25th Sep, 2017 to 29th Sep, 2017
Host Faculty :Dr. Azhar Husain
28. 174028B01 : NUTRIENT REMOVAL IN WASTEWATER: RECOVERY AND REUSE
Foreign Faculty :BENI LEW, ARO, VOLCANI CENTER Israel
Host Faculty :Dr. Abid Ali Khan
29. 174028C02 : MANAGING FLOODS AND DROUGHTS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Foreign Faculty :Hans C Ammentorp, DHI Denmark
Tentatively Starts from: 15 Jan. 2018 to 20 Jan. 2018
Course Coordinator : Prof. Mohammed Sharif and Dr. Azhar Husain
Click Here to Register View More30. 174028M01: Title: Cosmological Structure Formation
Foreign Faculty :Ravi Sheth, University of Pennsylvania United States of America
Tentatively Starts from: 9 April 2018 to 14 April 2018
Course Coordinator : Prof. Anjan Ananda Sen
Click Here to Register View More31. 174028M03: Title: ON THE VIABILITY OF THEORIES BEYOND EINSTEIN’S GENERAL RELATIVITY
Foreign Faculty :Radouane Gannouji, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso Chile
Tentatively Starts from: 3rd Dec, 2017 to 8th Dec, 2017
Course Coordinator : SUSHANT G. GHOSH
Click Here to Register View More32. 174028M04: Title: Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) for future lighting and dispalys
Foreign Faculty :Jwo Huei Juo, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 30013 Taiwan
Tentatively Starts from: 27th Dec, 2017 to 31st Dec, 2017
Course Coordinator : Zishan Husain Khan
Click Here to Register View More33. 174028M05: Title: Advanced Nanomaterials for Li-ion Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells: Fundamentals and Applications
Foreign Faculty :habil. Holger Fritze, Technische Universität Clausthal (TUC) Institut für Energieforschung und Physikalische Technologien, Germany Germany
Tentatively Starts from: 19th Feb, 2018 to 28th Feb, 2018
Course Coordinator : Dr. MANIKA KHANUJA
Click Here to Register View More34. 174028D01: Title: ROLE OF SMART BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITY
Foreign Faculty :Saifur Rahman, VirginiaTech Advanced Research Institute, United States of America
Tentatively Starts from: 6th Mar, 2018 to 10th Mar, 2018
Course Coordinator : Prof. Majid Jamil
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Upcoming GIAN Courses
194028M01: GIAN Course on A COURSE ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY
Foreign Faculty :Prof. Anzhong Wang, United State of America
From: 23 Nov. 2023 to 28 Nov. 2023
Course Coordinator :Prof. Sushant G. Ghosh, Centre for Theoretical Physics, JMI
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Contact Us
Prof. Atiqur Rahman
Local GIAN Co-Ordinator,
Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University),
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 110025, INDIA
Email Id: [email protected]
Mobile No. : 9873115404