Arvind Mishra

Arvind Mishra
Arvind Mishra Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering of Graphic Era University, Dehradun
Born	(1988-08-28) August 28, 1988
Alma mater	IIT Kanpur
Occupation	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering of Graphic Era University, Dehradun
Years active	1988–present
Known for	Breaking the longest MARATHON LECTURE
Awards	LONGEST MARATHON LECTURE

Arvind Mishra claimed the longest marathon lecture^[1] award hosted by Guinness world records. The journey to triumph began on 1 March 2014, and lasted for 139 hours 42 minutes and 49 seconds.

Marathon lecture

Prof. Kamal Ghanshala, President,Graphic Era University and Vice Chancellor Prof Awasthi inaugurated this historical effort. A dedicated team of 150 students and 35 professors led by Mr. Tushar Gupta, a colleague friend of Mr.Mishra were assisting in Marathon lecture. The lecture contents were prepared from MIT's open course ware on Computational science( Semester 1) and Mathematical Methods (Semester 2) for graduate coursework by Prof Gilbert Strang. The prime components of the lecture were Applied Linear Algebra,Sparse Algebra for large systems, Numerical Methods for Differential equations, Computational partial differential equations and Finite Element Methods. Matlab, a numerical computing software was used throughout for the demonstrations and algorithmization of numerical techniques. The previous record was held by a Polish law Graduate Mr. Errol Muzzawazi, who lectured on democracy, at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, for 121 hours. Arvind Mishra superseded his record on March 6 at 07:01:00 AM. The entire University and national media celebrated his success and his efforts. He further continued his lecture and embarked on setting a new benchmark. Finally,Marathon lecture lasted for 139 hours, 42 minutes and 56 seconds and was declared concluded by Mr. Tushar on early morning of March 7, 2014.

The whole lecture was casted live on website.

Media Coverage

This historical event was covered by national as well as international media such as the Hindustan Times,^[2] JakBak.Com,^[3] graphic era news,^[4] aaj tak,^[5] zee news,^[6] new Indian express,^[7] the Hindu^[8] daily pioneer,^[9] UPI,^[10] Daily Bhaskar^[11] and many more. Other websites such as article.wn.com,^[12] softpedia,^[13] ibnlive,^[14] huffingtonpost,^[15] htcampus,^[16] webindia.^[17] also published about this event. Guinness world records approved the claim of Mr. Arvind Mishra of delivering world's longest marathon lecture on 30 March 2014, and also published it on their site.^[18]

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