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SUMMARY:Joint Seat Allocations in IITs and Other CFTIs: Impact of an Algori
 thm
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Surender Baswana (Indian Institute of Technology\nDept
 . of Computer Science & Engineering\nKanpur 208016)\n\nAbstract: \nUntil 2
 014\, the admissions to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were co
 nducted separately (based on JEE Advanced ranks) from the admissions to th
 e non-IIT Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) (based on JEE main
 s ranks). The same set of candidates were eligible to apply for a seat in 
 each of the two sets of institutes\, and several hundred candidates would 
 indeed receive two seats from the two different sets. Each such candidate 
 could use at most one of the seats\, leaving a vacancy in the other seat\;
  this would be noticed much later\, in many cases after classes began. Suc
 h seats would either remain vacant or would be reallocated at a later stag
 e using spot rounds organized locally which used to be inherently unfair a
 nd inefficient.\n\nIn 2015 and 2016\, a new combined seat allocation proce
 ss was implemented to resolve some of these issues\, especially the vacanc
 ies. The process brought all CFTIs under one umbrella for admissions. Each
  candidate submitted a single choice list over all available programs\, an
 d received no more than a single seat from the system\, based on the choic
 es and the ranks in the relevant merit lists. At the core of this seat all
 ocation process lies an algorithm adapted elegantly to many business rules
  of admissions and engineered to handle many practical challenges. At leas
 t 90% of the talk will be accessible even to a non-expert.\n\nAbout the sp
 eaker: Prof. Surender Baswana obtained his BTech\, MTech\, and PhD from th
 e Department of Computer Science and Engineering\, IIT Delhi. Thereafter\,
  he spent nearly three years (2003-06) as a postdoctoral researcher at the
  Max Planck Institute for Informatics\, Saarbruecken\, Germany. In 2006\, 
 he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineerin
 g\, IIT Kanpur.  Prof. Baswana received the INAE Young Engineer Award in 
 2009. His area of research is the design and analysis of efficient algorit
 hms. He is a member of the technical committee for the Joint Seat Allocati
 on project since mid-2014. Along with his students at IIT Kanpur\, he deve
 loped the software which is now used for Joint Seat Allocation.\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/761
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LOCATION:AG-66 (Lecture Theatre)
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