The contest called ‘Cricket Hackathon 2021’ is for anyone who have basic knowledge of cricket, Python language skills.

What if one is a non-coder? A non competitive ‘Guess the score’ event is open to all the non-programmers who want to participate without writing any code.

Points to remember
Individuals can participate in the contest by IIT Madras as a single participant or as a team.

The participating team can have a maximum of four members.

This academic competition of IIT Madras has been designed for beginners to learn and and compete as well as professionals to demonstrate their capabilities.

Even those who are new to data science, but have the interest to learn can go through the resources available online and try participating by using simple mathematical models.

Participants (individuals or teams) with the lowest error in their prediction over 50 innings will be declared as the winner of the IIT Madras BSc Degree’s Cricket Hackathon 2021.

IIT Madras to conduct great cricket contest to promote Data Science

There is no registration fee for taking part in the contest by IIT Madras.

Registration
Candidates willing to take part can click the url ‘https://onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in/contest/’ to register.

The registrations begin from April 13.

Soon after the webpage downloads upon clicking the above url, participants can click the button ‘Register Now’ located below the banner to commence the registration.

A sample input file (which the code has to accept and process) and some videos introducing basic data science concepts and introducing the data set will also be provided.

This competition is structured as an academic activity where participants will try to predict the score at the end of six overs in every innings for a set of matches.

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The contest is expected to run for about 50 innings of the T20 matches.

For each innings of each match, the output of the code must be a single number, which is the score at the end of the 6th over.

Participants in the contest by IIT Madras can submit and change their code everyday which will be used for evaluation by IIT Madras BSc team to get the score prediction.

Instructions
Each participant (individual/team) in the competition by IIT Madras will submit the code and a writeup of the logic or algorithm used along with the score predicted by the code (when run on their local system prior to the match.

Teams can update and resubmit their code to improve their predictions at regular intervals during the contest.

The cut-off time for updated submissions is 2 pm for each match day.

Top five individuals/teams of the contest by IIT Madras will get a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh each along with the Certificate of Appreciation.

Teams in positions 6 to 10 will get a cash prize of Rs 25,000 each along with the Certificate of Appreciation.

Teams in positions 11 to 50 will get a cash prize of 5,000 each along with the Certificate of Appreciation.

IIT Madras BSc programme T-shirts will be provided for unique winners getting into Leaderboard of the Day.

Decisions of the IIT Madras BSc team will be final in evaluating the codes and the winners.

Professor speaks

Professor Prathap Haridoss, Professor-in-charge, BSc Degree Program, IIT Madras said it is important to have skilled manpower in Data Science from India to meet the requirements of the global economy.

India will continue to have a competitive advantage if we are able to nurture and develop young talent in the area of Data Science, he said.

In 2020, IIT Madras launched the world’s first BSc in Programming and Data Science, aiming to eliminate barriers of age, discipline, and geographic locations, and giving access to world-class education to all from the comfort of one’s home.

Currently, 7000 students are already learning in the BSc programme and the application form to apply for the next batch is open. Visit ‘https://onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in’ for more details.

Development of this advanced facility is a key demonstration of the research and technical capabilities of IIT Madras and the nation.

Solutions

This is a unique facility that can address challenging problems in Indian ports, waterways and coastal Engineering.

Facility

This facility has been established through the National Technology Centre for Ports Waterways and Coasts (NTCPWC), a centre dedicated for technological innovations and the evolution of new ideas and breakthroughs in the port and maritime sector.

It works as the technology arm of the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India and provides the needful technological support to ports, IWAI and other institutions, say sources from IIT Madras.

Department of Ocean Engineering at IIT Madras

Prof. Prof. K. Murali, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, said, this facility will position IIT Madras in international arena as one of the institutes that operates the large scale shallow wave basin for research and industry applications.

We no longer need to depend on technology from other countries for the generation of waves in laboratory, he said.

Initiative

Prof. V. Sriram, also from the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, said except a few items that they needed to import due to non-availability, rest of the Shallow Wave Basin was truly a ‘Make in India’ initiative.

It was indigenously developed with most of the fabrications of the wavemaker done within IIT Madras itself, he said.

The entire architecture, communications and designs were made in-house for the operations and sustainability of the facility over the long term, he said.

The facility was conceived with the future government of India initiatives in mind for the new ports and coastal engineering as well as for inland waterways projects, he said.

Prof. Torsten Schlurmann who is also a long-term collaborator at IIT Madras added, that the facility will elevate IIT Madras’ status as a world-class institution for marine science and engineering by facilitating ground-breaking research and international collaboration across a broad range of disciplines.

Fundamental understanding

This state-of-the-art research facility can be used for fundamental understanding as well as for application projects, where the influence of 3D waves on the structures can be critical.

The basin can be used for harbour, coastal, offshore, inland waterways and shallow water manoeuvring-related projects, say sources from IIT Madras.

In these studies, sediment transport – mobile bed modelling, stability of the armour units, hydraulic and hydrodynamic performances, wave impact loading and the determination of the relevant design aspects due to climate change can be ascertained.

Key benefits

The key benefits of this facility include testing of varieties of the coastal structures, post impact analysis of the coastal structures, large solar floating plants, climate change effects and many more.

This large-scale facility is one of its kind in the world with mobile wave maker, thus multiple projects can be carried out parallel, if required.

Planning

With the growing development of new ports in Indian coasts, this indigenous facility will help with the planning and is set to become a crucial tool, say sources from IIT Madras.

With the knowledge gained by creating such a large scale facility, IIT Madras is also set to help other institutes like NITs, IITs and research institutes in India to establish such cutting-edge research centres for their academic and research purposes.

Both waves, current and a combination of these can be generated. As of now, due to the available stroke, velocity limits and basin size, for example, a wave period range from 5 s- 18 s with a significant wave height upto 3m can be easily generated in 1:10 scale or in large scale easily.

The circulation facility around the tank can be efficiently used to generate the currents inside the basin, this will be implemented in the near future.

Scientific support

The NTCPWC gives effective solutions to an extensive range of problems being faced in the industry through scientific support.

It also provides valuable education, applied research and technology transfer in maritime transportation at the local, regional, national and International levels.

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