Lecture tours in India as new scheme is launched

Two senior Cambridge academics have recently returned from lecture tours in India thanks to a newly-launched Scheme supported by distinguished alumnus Dr Yusuf Hamied (pictured). The Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lecture Scheme has been established to stimulate exchange of ideas and academic collaboration between India and the University of Cambridge. It is named after its founder Dr Yusuf Hamied, Chairman of Cipla Ltd, India, and an alumnus of the University's Department of Chemistry and Christ's College. Frank Kelly, Professor of the Mathematics of Systems, has recently returned from India where he visited three cities as the inaugural Cambridge-Hamied Visiting Lecturer. The Master of Christ's College, Professor Kelly's main research interests are in random processes, networks and optimisation. He is especially interested in applications to the design and control of networks and to the understanding of self-regulation in large-scale systems. He first travelled to Chennai at the invitation of one of his former PhD students, Dr Gaurav Raina, based at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.