Dear Colleagues -

Our apologies for the delay in publishing the 2007 Newsletter. Thank you for your incredible support through the years. We are happy to report that ACIPA is alive and well. We have just made our 2008 ACIPA Prize Announcement. Professor Umesh Garg of the University of Notre Dame will chair the 2008 Prize Committee. The members are Ravindra Bhatt of Princeton, Nitant Kenkre of the University of New Mexico, Jogesh Pati of SLAC and Rajarshi Roy of the University of Maryland.

Our Life Membership has increased manifold and our budgetary condition looks good for the next 2 years. We are reviewing our current investments to insure growth of our capital. Professor Savi Iyer, our able Treasurer has been working very hard on this score.

Dr Suvendra Dutta, one of our executive officers is working to keep the newsletter going and to solicit articles. I urge you to contribute news items and to contribute articles (please email to me sen@nsm.buffalo.edu).

We hope you enjoy the articles.

Thank you again for your continued support of ACIPA. We promise to make the 2008 March Meeting as lively as possible. Your suggestions regarding the 2008 March Meeting will be most appreciated.

Thank you.

The Executive Committee Members

Suvendra Dutta, Harvard University

Savi Iyer, SUNY at Geneseo

Jainendra Jain, The Pennsylvania State University

Surajit Sen, SUNY-Buffalo