The MOU puts 91亚色 researchers in a stronger position to be at the forefront of research in areas of global importance including nanotechnology, advanced materials, bio-informatics, public safety technology and sensors, or any areas where they believe international collaboration will advance their research goals.

The Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, Dr V.K. Saraswat and the Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert聽Hach茅聽sign an MOU between DRDO and 91亚色 for cooperation in the areas of joint research and development in defence science & technology, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, and the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, in New Delhi on Nov. 06.

The new framework gives 91亚色 researchers greater opportunity to access funding for international partnerships and benefits research based collaborations by linking 91亚色 researchers with their potential partners from top tier universities in India.

The MOU was signed by Hach茅 and the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Chief of the Defence Organisation, V.K. Saraswat on Nov. 6, in the presence of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi, India.

鈥淲e recognize the importance of international research collaborations and synergistic partnerships in building and strengthening research capacity, enhancing opportunities for research training and the sharing of global perspectives,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 Vice-President Research & Innovation. 鈥淭his agreement enhances opportunities for international research collaborations that will provide insight into critical scientific issues impacting individuals in both countries and beyond.鈥�

DRDO has a network of 52 laboratories deeply engaged in research with many prestigious universities and research institutions in India, including the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. The agreement is the culmination of close collaborative working and relationships established between leading academic researchers from Canada and India.

鈥淭his is a fantastic opportunity for 91亚色 researchers to forge the type of enduring partnerships that can achieve real results for everyone involved and to work together with international colleagues in developing solutions to some of the greatest challenges we face,鈥� added Janusz Kozinski, dean of the Lassonde School of Engineering.

In 2011, a delegation from 91亚色 took part in a high-level research聽workshop in New Delhi聽co-sponsored by the International Science聽& Technology Partnerships Canada, Global Innovation & Technology Alliance,聽the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research and India's DRDO during a nine-day partnership building .

At the end of last year, it was 91亚色鈥檚 turn to play host to researchers from India at a at the Keele Campus聽where among the topics discussed was 聽鈥楨arly Warning and Advanced Response Network鈥� which concerns detection, identification, quantification and neutralization of harmful substances released in public buildings (e.g., hospitals, schools, shopping malls, airports).

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The trip, which began Jan. 1, continues until Jan. 18.聽A team of senior academic and administrative staff will visit Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai, with stops at notable universities, fine arts training centres and cultural institutions.

鈥淲e already have a well-established program of international participation, but we鈥檙e always looking to expand our outreach and involvement,鈥� said Barbara Sellers-Young (left), dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, who is leading the delegation.

Studio and theory courses with a South Asian focus are a standard part of the curriculum in 91亚色鈥檚 Departments of Dance, Film, Music and Visual Arts. Special projects in recent years include Theatre @ 91亚色鈥檚 premiere of a modern adaptation of Kalidasa鈥檚 Shakuntala written and directed by then graduate student Charles Roy, who took the play on to its first Canadian professional production and to the Cultural Olympics at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. The Faculty of Fine Arts has several times hosted DanceIntense Canada, in partnership with Sampradaya Dance Creations, headed by alumna Lata Pada (MA 鈥�96), a recipient of the Order of Canada and India鈥檚 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award.

A number of distinguished artist-scholars of Indian heritage hold professorships in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts. They include internationally acclaimed master percussionist , who co-founded 91亚色鈥檚 groundbreaking South Indian music studies program 40 years ago; jazz musician, composer, recording and touring artist ; award-winning documentary filmmaker ; and adjunct professor, choreographer and dancer , who is credited with bringing classical Indian dance 聽into the cultural mainstream in Canada.

Underpinning these artistic and academic connections are both longstanding and recent linkages between 91亚色 and educational institutions in India.

91亚色 has agreements in place with the University of Madras and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and the team from the Faculty of Fine Arts will be visiting both institutions to explore opportunities to build on these relationships. 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business maintains a Satellite Centre partnered with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, IIM Bangalore and the Indian School of Business. It also runs the Schulich MBA in India program in partnership with the Mumbai-based SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, and is opening its own campus in Hyderabad in 2013. The renowned A.J.K. Mass Communications Research Centre at New Delhi鈥檚 Jamia Millia Islamia University was originally set up in collaboration with 91亚色, and Faculty of Fine Arts film professors were among the first generation of teachers there.

This solid foundation of existing connections makes India a natural choice for a concerted exploratory visit by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts.

鈥淥ur main objective is to promote research collaboration and expand student learning opportunities, with a focus on exchange opportunities for international scholars and students to mutually enhance the academic and research culture in each organization,鈥� said Sellers-Young.

She is joined on the trip by Sheila Embleton, distinguished research professor of linguistics, a lead architect of 91亚色鈥檚 India Strategy who has served as 91亚色鈥檚 representative at the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute for the past decade; Design Professor Michael Longford, associate dean of Graduate Studies聽& Research in the Faculty of Fine Arts; Film Professor Ali Kazimi; and Ina Agastra, international relations and development officer in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

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The AGYU invites you to "surge out there" as it joins with Raqs Media Collective: technological poets for an India in transition, to present their newest exhibit 聽Surjection.

Of the current generation of Indian artists, the from New Delhi (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta) are among the best known and most widely exposed in the west 鈥� and certainly the most media conscious. Having started as documentary filmmakers, over the past聽20 years they have evolved a sophisticated, and sometimes performative, practice that combines film, media, audio and text, all of which draw upon philosophy and political theory, in installations of an unresolved poetics.

Right: Members of the Raqs Media Collective, from left, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi and Monica Narula

The Raqs Media Collective exhibition, Surjection, opens with a free public reception tonight, from 6 to 9pm at the Art Gallery of 91亚色. The聽artists will be at the reception.

The collective describes their聽AGYU exhibition this way:聽鈥淩aqs Media Collective delights in transposing the plenitude of the incalculable onto the fabric of the ordinary. By counting to infinity, sensing animation in stillness and speaking in the language of silence, Raqs will breathe numbers, figures, proverbs and stories into the galleries of the Art Gallery of 91亚色.鈥�

In this exhibition of entirely new work, the artists start with traces that are minimal but that contain great amplitude within them, such as the palm print of Raj Konai 鈥� the ancestral trace (from 1859) of the entire history of forensic identification 鈥� that hovers over the exhibition. Now animated, this image of a counting hand initiates a series of moves that the viewer animates through the exhibition. At the same time, the viewer witnesses other evolutions in video projection where stillness itself slowly is animated. Surjection begins outside, in AGYU Vitrines and occupies both galleries.

The elements of the exhibition are in a surjective relationship to each other. 鈥淪urjection鈥� is a mathematical concept devised by the Bourbaki Group, whereby the elements of one set are applied, transposed, or mapped onto those of another set. Surjection continues until Sunday, Dec. 4.聽聽

Surject yourself onto the Performance Bus

It鈥檚 an entirely different experience of numbers and letters on the Bingo Dilemma Bus. The game starts tonight at 6pm sharp when聽the Performance Bus departs the Ontario College of Art & Design University campus at聽100 McCaul St.. Riders聽gather the clues to the game on the way to the Raqs Media Collective exhibition opening at the聽AGYU. Artist and game host聽Oliver Husain will be on the bus calling out the game clues. Performance Bus returns downtown at 9pm.

Math too tough for you? Go back to school with聽AGYU @ Art Toronto

The AGYU tricks or treats fair patrons with one of its specially commissioned installations featuring Toronto novelist Derek McCormack and Toronto artist Ian Phillips. The haunted schoolhouse is the outcome of an聽 four-year project supported by the AGYU of H.A.M.S. (Holiday Arts Mail-Order School), which is a correspondence course (for the 1936-1937 school year) devoted to the holiday arts. Hallowe鈥檈nologists will be on hand to take your questions and offer demonstrations. Alumni are welcome.聽聽

Virtually AGYU

The surjective relations continue online with the聽 as independent Toronto curator Su-Ying Lee visits the studio of New 91亚色-based artist Alexandre Singh, whom she met in Paris this past summer while travelling in Europe. on her travels through Europe.聽聽

Writing from the ash-filled Grimsv枚tn sky, Toronto artist counts down the rest of her days in Iceland as she聽writes about聽contemporary art and generous helpings of never-ending splendour, mind-blowing sunsets, migratory birds, half-shorn sheep, geothermal pools and more.聽

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