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Countries Visited by Dr. M. Ponnavaikko |
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Sl.No. |
Country |
Period |
Purpose |
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United
States of America |
Sep-Oct.
1981 |
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Paper Presentation at IEEE Conference in Minneapolis |
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Jun-Jul.
2003 |
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To award Certificates to the students of TVU at the
California Tamil Academy and to present TVU at FETNA Conference in New
Jersey. |
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Sep-Oct. 2004 |
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Visit to MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford
University |
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June, July.
2006 |
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Visit to MIT, Stanford University, University of
California, Berkley, Brown University, Rode Island, Johnson & Wales
University, Rode Island, . Rode Island School of design, Bryant
University, Rode Island, Partners Health Services, Boston and
Massachusetts General Hospital for Academic collaboration. Also attended
and delivered a talk in the Annual conference of the Federation of
Tamil Sangams in North America, held in New York during 1st
to 3rd July |
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March 2007 |
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Deputed by the Govt. of Tamil Nadu to participate in the
UTC meeting of the Unicode Consortium in Mountain View, California |
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June, 2011 |
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Participated in the TamilNet 2011 at the University of Pencilvania during 17th to 19th June. Visited PenState University, Dayton University, University of Georgia during 20th to 23rd June and Virginia Common wealth University on 27th and 28th June. |
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| 2 |
Canada |
Sep. 1981 |
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Visit to Niagara as a tourist |
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June 2006 |
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Visit to Queen’s University, Kingston and Waterloo University, Waterloo
for academic collaboration.
Also
attended IIT Alumni meet at Toranto |
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| 3 |
United
Kingdom |
Sep. 1981 |
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Visit to London |
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Jun-Jul.
1987 |
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Discussion with Westing House |
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| 4 |
France |
Jun. 1987 |
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Visit to Paris as a tourist |
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Switzerland |
Jun. 1987 |
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Visit to the Country as a tourist |
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Italy
(Rome) |
Jul. 1987 |
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Visit to Rome as a tourist |
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Malta |
Jun. 1987 |
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Visit to the Island as a tourist |
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Libya |
Feb 1984 -
Sept 1989 |
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Employment initially in an Indo-Libyan joint venture, Tripoli, as Advisor and later at the Higher Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engg., Hoon, as Visiting Professor |
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| 9 |
Nepal |
Jul. 1982 |
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Discussion with the Energy Ministry of Nepal |
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| 10 |
Sri
Lanka |
Aug. 1999
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To participate in the pre-Conference Meeting of Tamilnet
2000 |
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Nov. 2000 |
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Invited by the Sri Lankan Government to participate in
the conference on Tamil Computing and Inaugurating Tamil Information
Technology, Sri Lanka |
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Jul. 2002 |
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To participate TVU programmes and to start TVU Study
Centres |
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| 11 |
Japan |
Jul. 2000 |
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To Participate in INET 2000, an international Conference
on Internet |
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March/April
2007 |
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Visited Tokai University and Union of Japanese Scientists
and Engineers ( JUSE ) for academic collaboration |
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| 12 |
Singapore |
Jul. 2000 |
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To Participate and Chair Technical Sessions at Tamil
Iniyam 2000, an International Conference on Information Technology in
Tamil |
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Malaysia |
Aug. 2001 |
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To Participate and Chair Technical Sessions at Tamil
Iniyam 2001, an International Conference on Information Technology in
Tamil |
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March 2007 |
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Attended IEEE R-10 Annual meeting as the Chairman, IEEE
Madras Section. |
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May 2007 |
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To discuss with the Ministry of Higher Education in
connection with starting an off-shore campus of SRM University |
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| 14 |
South
Africa |
Feb. 2002 |
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To popularize TVU Programmes and to start TVU Study
Centres |
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Jan. 2014 |
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To inaugurate Diaspora Tamil Teacher Diploma course in Durban. |
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Nov. 2017 |
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To participate in the release function of the Tamil Books for the 1st to 12th Standards South African Schools , written under my supervision, in Durban on 4th Nov. 2017 |
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| 15 |
Mauritius |
Feb. 2002 |
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To popularize TVU Programmes and to start TVU Study
Centres |
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| 16 |
Thailand |
March 2006
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To participate in the IEEE R-10 Annual meeting as the
Chairman, IEEE Madras Section |
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| 17 |
Ghana |
Feb. 2007 |
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Attended the Graduation Day of the All Nations University
College, Ghana as a Guest of Honour. |
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| 18 |
Germany |
Feb. 2007 |
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Visited Karlsruhe Technical University for academic
collaboration. |
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Dubai |
Feb. 2007 |
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Visited to study the feasibility of opening an off-shore
campus of SRM University in Dubai. |
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| 20 |
China |
May 2007 |
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Visited Ghuangdong Polytechnic Normal University and
Huanghe College of Science & Technology for academic collaboration |
