Summer 2006 Newsletter of the

American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association

News Items

Comments from the President

ACIPA Prizes

by Jainendra K. Jain, The Pennsylvania State University & Executive Officer of ACIPA

Treasurer's Report

by Savitri Iyer, State University of New York at Geneseo & Executive Officer of ACIPA

Articles

Professor Vijay R. Pandharipande (1940-2006)

by Gordon Baym, University of Illinois at Urbana and

Christopher J. Pethick, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Denmark

The Stories of Two Indian Cosmologists - A.K. Raychaudhuri and P.C. Vaidya

Shorter Version of the Video

Larger Version of the Video (may take a while to download)

by Naresh Dadhich and Jayant Narlikar of the Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India in DVD Format

(converted to streaming video by Suvendra Nath Dutta, Harvard University &

Executive Officer of ACIPA)

About the New Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research at Kolkata and Pune

by Sushanta Dattagupta, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India