• The workshop consisted of 45 participants and 6 resource persons. Total 12 sessions were done that covered different aspects of doctrinal legal research including Atlas-Ti software. The course was designed to serve a systematic introduction of doctrinal aspects of legal research. It aimed to introduce specific tools and techniques including the application of software like Atlas Ti. The workshop aimed at strengthening the faculty and researchers both. The resource persons were invited from various fields of specializations having vast experience and knowledge in their respective areas to cater the demand of the workshop. Some of eminent speakers during the session were:
• Prof. Ranbir Singh, Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Dwarka
• Prof. Anil Suttar, Chairman, Centre for research Methodlogy, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
• Prof. Ajay Kumar Gupta, Erasmus Mundus Fellow, University of Milan, Italy
• Prof. Shashikala Gurpur Dean Symbiosis Law School, Pune and AHRB Visiting Fellow, Edinburgh Law School.
• Prof. GS Bajpai, Registrar, National Law University, Delhi
• Dr. Priya Rai, Recipient of FCIL Schaffer Grant form American Association of Law Libraries-2012 and Bitner Research Fellowship form Cornell University Law Library (USA)

The sessions at workshop were designed to give multifaceted angle to legal research and thereby covering all the aspects of doctrinal research like steps of data collection in qualitative analysis, methods of analyzing the collected data, and the evil of plagiarism and its repercussions.

The workshop engaged all the participants in exercises and presentations and thereby provided hands on experience on the learning of the workshop. It was a wonderful experience and a great learning as a participant of this workshop.

Prof. Bhavna attended workshop on at NLU, Delhi.

This was an excellent Program designed and coordinated by Dr. J. K. Jha, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Dr. Jitesh J. Thakkar, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. In today’s business environment, organizations and managers are looking for structured, logical and evidence-based decision making due to unparalleled growth of businesses. Consequently, industrial and academic research facilities need to apply rigorous analytical methods to business decision problems for systematic ways of managing the organization.

The purpose of the five-day short-term course on Quantitative Decision Modeling was to equip participants with the advanced analytical tools and background needed to analyze and solve business decision problems.

These are the some of the major learning outcomes:
• Introduction to Quantitative Approach of Decision Making
• Modeling with Linear Programming and Graphical Solution Approach
• Simplex Method and Special Cases
• Revised Simplex Method
• Theory of Duality, Sensitivity Analysis and Post Optimality
• Transportation Problem and Its Variants, Integer Programming
• Assignment Problem
• Integer Programming
• Queuing Theory
• Heuristic Methods in Operations Research
• Hands on exercise using CIPLEX /EXCEL