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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, Umesh Garg (chair), Vasudev (Nitant) Kenkre, Jogesh Pati and Rajarshi Roy

for their work in the ACIPA 2008 Prize Committee

ACIPA Satellite Session in the APS March Meeting in the

New Orleans MARRIOTT is on Tuesday, March 11 between 7:30pm and 9:30pm

at LE GALERIE 1

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

News Item 1: ACIPA AWARDS 2008 PRIZES TO SUDARSHAN, JAIN, KACHRU AND NAYAK

In 2008, ACIPA will present a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award to Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan “for his lifetime achievements in different branches of theoretical physics; especially for being the first to propose The Universal V-A Theory of the weak interactions, and to formulate The Quantum Optical Equivalence Theorem, the predictions of both of which have been confirmed by experiments in their minutest details." E.C.G. Sudarshan is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin.	The 2008 ACIPA Distinguished Scholar Prize is awarded to Jainendra K. Jain “for his discovery of the composite fermions.” Jainendra Jain is the Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics at the Pennsylvania State University.	The 2008 ACIPA Outstanding Young Physicist Prize is awarded to Shamit Kachru “for fundamental contributions shedding light on the nature of string theory ground states, and on the origin of dark energy in string theory, leading to an accelerating universe." Shamit Kachru is a professor of physics at Stanford University and holds a joint appointment in the Theoretical Physics group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.	The 2008 ACIPA Outstanding Young Physicist Prize is awarded to Chetan Nayak “for his leadership in the analysis of Fractional Quantum Hall effect systems, the study of topological correlations in the bulk, the conformal theory of the edge, and how the two theories might be harnessed together to implement quantum computation.” Chetan Nayak is a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a senior researcher at Microsoft Station Q.
For a complete write up on Professors Sudarshan, Jain, Kachru and Nayak - "in their own words" - click here

News Item 2: Fulbright announces 2009 International Fulbright Science and Technology International Awards Competition

for Outstanding Indian students who wish to pursue PhD at top US Universities

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Last Updated on 3/2/08