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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 of 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

ACIPA is grateful to

Professors Ravin Bhatt (chair), Umesh Garg, Vasudev (Nitant) Kenkre, Abhay Ashtekar and Rajarshi Roy

for their work in the ACIPA 2009 Prize Committee

ACIPA Satellite Session in the APS March Meeting in Pittsburgh on Monday, March 16, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

at the BUTLER ROOM of THE WESTIN

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO AN INFORMAL EVENING WITH OUR PRIZE WINNERS

Prof Savitri Iyer will chair the meeting,

Prof Mustansir Barma, Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Prof John W Clark, Chair of the APS Forum on International Physics will speak to the get-together

News Item 1: ACIPA AWARDS 2009 PRIZES TO VARMA, CHAKRAVARTY AND SENTHIL

The 2009 ACIPA Distinguished Scholar Prize is awarded to Chandra M. Varma and Sudip Chakravarty “for their wide ranging contributions to condensed matter physics, in particular to strongly correlated systems.” Chandra Varma is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California at Riverside and Sudip Chakravarty is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California at Los Angeles.		The 2009 ACIPA Outstanding Young Physicist Prize is awarded to T. Senthil “for his pioneering work on the gauge theories of quantum phases of correlated electron systems, and of unconventional quantum phase transitions." Senthil Todadri is an associate professor of physics at MIT.
Here are the stories of Professors Chakravarty and Senthil - "in their own words"

News Item 2: Professor Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste and Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and ACIPA Distinguished Scholar Prize winner will receive the 2008 Nicholson Medal of the APS on Monday, March 16, 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA

News Item 2: Professor Girish Saran Agarwal, Noble Foundation chair and Regents Professor, Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008

News Item 3: Dr Rajan Gupta of Los Alamos National Labs tells us about his work in physics and on HIV/AIDS education - click here

News Item 4: APS Announces the second round of the Indo-US Travel Grant Program

News Item 5: Fulbright announces 2009 International Fulbright Science and Technology Awards

for Outstanding Foreign students to study in the US

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Last Updated on 3/10/09

Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Professor James Eisenstein of the

California Institute of Technology for permission to allow us to use the theme image