The American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association
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Welcome to the ACIPA Homepage!
ACIPA is an organization of physicists, founded in the USA in 1981, with two objectives:
- To develop a spirit of unity among physicists of Indian origin, and indeed the entire Indian subcontinent, living in North America;
- To serve as a channel of communication between these physicists and their colleagues in the Indian subcontinent, for mutual benefit.
ACIPA is an independent professional organization. For natural reasons, ACIPA remains formally linked to the Indian Physics Assocation (webpage).
The 2005-2007 Office Bearers
Recent Newsletters & Other Items
Some Past ACIPA Newsletters
ACIPA December 2005 Newsletter
ACIPA Summer 2006 Newsletter
Arvind Gupta of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, and their work with Toys and Children is summarized in a nice video. To download the file, click in the small red button in the brackets and choose Windows Media Player or some such to watch the video (click here).
Announcements:
Posted - January 2006
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Dr Swapan Chattopadhyay Professor Ranjan Ray (1949-2001)
Swaranjan JBNSTS Scholarship (click here) has been established by our Life Member Dr Swapan Chattopadhyay (click here) of Jefferson Labs in Memory of Professor Ranjan Ray, who passed away suddenly in 2001 while Head of the Department of Physics at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Posted - January 2006
Professor Vijay R. Pandharipande (1940-2006)
Professor Vijay R. Pandharipande, Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana, passed away in January 2006. We will soon carry an article on Professor Pandharipande. Professor Gordon Baym has agreed to write this article.
Posted - April 2006
Professor Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri ("AKR") (1923-2005)
A personal note from Surajit Sen - Amal Raychaudhuri was my professor when I was a student at Presidency College, Calcutta, between 1979 and 1982. Famous to most for what is known as the "Raychaudhuri equation" in cosmology, Amal Babu was one incredible professor, who was quirky yet personable, inspirational and serious yet with a subtle sense of humor and someone who showed us that it is possible to do great theoretical physics pretty much anywhere if one wants to do so. There is a beautiful article on Professor Raychaudhuri by Professor Naresh Dadhich, Director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, in Current Science (Current Science). Professor Dadhich and Dr Arvind Gupta have sent us a DVD on the life of Professor Raychaudhuri and of Professor P.C. Vaidya, two great relativists, both from India. We hope to post these movies on the web.
Posted July 2006
Professor B.N. Meera of the Department of Physics, Bangalore University, has been selected to be the next American Physical Society - Kilambi Ramavataram Fellow. Meera will come to the US in Fall 2006 and spend 9 months in the Department of Physics, Kansas State University. Meera specializes in physics education. Her primary focus is on the undergraduate level. She will be mentored by Professor Dean Zollman, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Department Head at Kansas State University. If you wish to invite or host Meera and help enrich her professional development in the US in Physics Education this academic year, please send her an email (meeri_bn@yahoo.com).