Investor Awareness Programme on Basics of Stock Market

Investor Awareness Programme on Basics of Stock Market conducted by Cochin Stock Exchange Ltd. in association with the Department of Economics, St. Albert's College on 13th July 2012 at 11: 30 at Archbishop Bernard Hall (Seminar Hall), St. Albert's College, Ernakulam.

CA PS Menon, Chirman, Cochin Stock Brokers Ltd. will deliver the Key-note address on Basics of Stock Market. 

Rev. Dr. Clement Valluvassery, Manager, St. Albert's College will inaugurate the programme. Prof. Harry Cleetus, Principal St. Albert's College, Ernakulam will preside the meeting. Dr. Cyriac Mathew, Vice Principal and Prof. Robins Jacob H.O.D, Dept. of Economics will address the gathering. 

Heart welcome to all...

Talk on "The Elusive Particle"

Discovery of Higg's Boson - A breakthrough for the Science World

Prof. Harry Cleetus - Principal, St. Albert's
College during his inaugural address
Prof. Lawrel Gregor, Head,
Dept. of Physics,
Dr. N Shaji, Maharajas College,
Dr. Cyriac Mathew -Vice Principal,
St. Albert's College can seen in the photo

Asterix - the Astro Club of St. Albert's College, Ernakulam arranged a talk on "The Elusive Particle" by Dr. N Shaji, Maharajas College, Ernakulam. The talk was inaugurated by Prof. Harry Cleetus - Principal St. Albert's College, Dr. Cyriac Mathew - Vice Principal, Prof. Lawrel Gregory - Head Dept. of Physics, Prof. Shaji Joseph - Astro Club Coordinator also addressed the gathering.

"The Elusive Particle"
Scientists had discovered a new particle whose characteristics match those of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in physics, which could help unlock some of the universe's deepest secrets. 

Rolf Heuer, the director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which has been carrying out experiments in search of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator said:

"We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature, the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe" 

The particle has been so difficult to pin down that the physicist Leon Lederman reportedly wanted to call his book "The Goddamn Particle" But he truncated that epithet to "The God Particle," which may have helped elevate the particle's allure in popular culture.Announcements by scientists about their analysis of data generated by trillions of particle collisions in the LHC, which is located beneath the Alps, drew avid applause at an eagerly awaited seminar in Geneva, Switzerland.

Finding the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass, one of the open questions in physicists' current understanding of the way the universe works. "A more complete picture of today's observations will emerge later this year (2012) after the LHC provides the experiments with more data," the nuclear research organization, known as CERN, said in its statement. But despite the words of caution, the scientists' mood and many of their comments were brimming with enthusiasm about the potential scope of what they had discovered.
They had crept closer to proving the existence of the Higgs boson but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion. The U.S.-based scientists outlined their final analysis based on more than 10 years of research and 500 trillion particle collisions using the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab Tevatron collider near Batavia, Illinois, whose budgetary woes shut it down last year. 
They passed the baton onto their counterparts using the LHC, which is much more powerful than the Tevatron. Located 328 feet underneath the border of France and Switzerland, the LHC cost $10 billion and has been sending particles smashing together in 17-mile tunnel for the past 18 months. High speed proton collisions generate a range of even smaller particles that scientists have been sifting through in search of a signal in the data suggesting the existence of the Higgs boson.The elusive particle is part of a theory first proposed by physicist Peter Higgs and others in the 1960s to explain how particles obtain mass.The theory proposes that a so-called Higgs energy field exists everywhere in the universe. As particles zoom around in this field, they interact with and attract Higgs bosons, which cluster around the particles in varying numbers.

Imagine the universe like a party. Relatively unknown guests at the party can pass quickly through the room unnoticed; more popular guests will attract groups of people (the Higgs bosons) who will then slow their movement through the room. The speed of particles moving through the Higgs field works much in the same way. Certain particles will attract larger clusters of Higgs bosons -- and the more Higgs bosons a particle attracts, the greater its mass will be. 



Why is finding the Higgs boson so important?
While finding the Higgs boson won't tell us everything we need to know about how the universe works, it will fill in a huge hole in the Standard Model that has existed for more than 50 years, according to experts. The Higgs boson is the last missing piece of our current understanding of the most fundamental nature of the universe. Only now with the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] are we able to really tick that box off and say 'This is how the universe works, or at least we think it does'. It's not the be all and end all -- but in terms of what can we say practically about the world and how the world is, it actually tells us a lot.
Gordon Kane, director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, said that the finding evidence of the Higgs boson would be a "very wonderful success of science and of people for four centuries." 


Physicist Martin Archer said "Higgs boson is the last missing piece of our current understanding of the most fundamental nature of the universe".

Aquaponics Workshop - “Aquaponics – Water Conserving Agriculture”

Aquaponics Workshop - “Aquaponics – Water Conserving Agriculture” on 2012 June 28th.

The International Internship students of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA and the Aquaponics Club members of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, St. Albert’s College, organized a workshop on “Aquaponics – Water Conserving Agriculture” as a culmination of the month long internship by the Wisconsin students, papali hall, st.albert’s college on the 28^th of june. The programme commenced at with Dr. Ajith Thomas John, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Internship giving an overview of the workshop.  Mr. Shajan M. John of Mahattil International llC, welcomed the guests. Rev. Dr. Clement Valluvassery, Manager St.albert’s College, addressed the gathering and spoke at length about the necessity of technological improvements to solve problems relating to the agriculture sector. Prof. Harry Cleetus, Principal, spoke on the need for student involvement in such intersnhip that generate better awareness of new technological developments in the field of Aquaculture. 

Rev. Dr. Clement Valluvassery, 
Manager St. Albert’s College Addressing the gathering, 
Vice Principal Dr. Cyriac Mathew, Principal Prof. Harry Cleetus, 

Head, Dept. of Aquaculture Dr. Benno Pereira near by 

Mr. Shivdas B. Menon, MD of Sterling Group of Companies, dealers in agro products, spoke about the research and development opportunities on the concept of aquaponics and the necessity for experimenting different plant species to grow more food. Dr. Sunny George, Consultant Limnologist Associating with KIDS, Kottappuram, spoke at length on the necessity to make available the technical know-how of aquaponics to the lower statas of society with the assistance of self-help groups. Dr. L. Jose, Head, Department of Botany, spoke on the inter-disciplinary nature of the concept and need to adapt the concept to the local availability and needs of the vegetable markets. 

Participants for  workshop on
“Aquaponics – Water Conserving Agriculture” 

Dr. Benno Pereira, Head, Department of Aquaculture, appreciated the team on the sincerity with which they worked and the interaction opportunity that was created between the students of the two countries. Mr. Vikas PA, subject matter specialist, KVK, Ernakulam, spoke on the immense opportunities that the concept holds for the students of Aquaculture and Industrial Fisheries. Chaya Nayak of Sweet Water Foundation, US, which is the organization transfering the technology to Kerala, proposed the vote of thanks.

The workshop was attended by faculty, students and research scholars from neighbouring institutions like the school of Industrial Fisheries, CUSAT, St. Teresas College and the Albertian Institute of Management studies.