A Google Widget for Nepali Bloggers

A google widget for Nepal Bloggers has been created: get one here 
The amazing thing is that it works everywhere from your igoogle page to web page or blog. Simply insert the code, and you are good to go. There are functionalities to modify it. You can change the dimension to fit into your available space. For the time being, it is updated every hour and collects from about 60/70 blogs listed in hamrocircle . This is just an attempt to have a list of active Nepali bloggers who are ready to show love to each other by visiting each other and sharing the views. We know that many sites are not yet listed there. It is still being updated.

I would also suggest joining the hamrocircle in facebook .




We can see that there have been growing market of such blog lists. The first I could find was bloggers.com.np . A huge listing of Nepali Bloggers can be found there. A problem however in there is the fact that many of them have gone into hibernation. Some had only few posts. I can understand it, we are not professional bloggers. Even If we want to be, we end up posting news and claiming to be blogger. Well, not that easy job either. I think being a blogger means something different than posting news.

Thank You every body for using it and giving creative feedbacks. 
 
Special Thanks the first time users.

Please let me know if you are using it!

Constellations in the Southern Sky

Last summer, 2008, I was in Sao Paulo Brazil for MaxEnt 2008 conference. Aside the academic matters, we had chance to see the night sky. I have to tell you that the night sky in southern Hemisphere is very very different.
Because of the orientation of the earth, the spiral of the milky way towards center of Galaxy could be seen. It was equally exciting to see the Alpha Centauri from there.

After the Anonymous commented, I wanted to write a little bit on it: (Thanks Anonymy!)
The Milky way galaxy we see in the northern sky is going from north to south. In there, we can see the spiral arm of the Milky way and the center of the galaxy; which is exciting! The Alpha Centauri was also saying hello! from about four and half light years, the whole night sky was so gorgeous! I don't know if you have seen the beauty of sky in the darkness!

See the apod:

The picture is "Astronomy picture of the day". The sky was not much different.
 

Wake up, grab the dream and live it!

Larry Page: the creator of Page Rank system and the founder of Google has given an inspiring note on the commencement of 2009 @ University of Michigan.

Here is a brief quote from his speech:

Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and... I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work. Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web -- he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me. The optimism of youth is often underrated! Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn't even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

More...

Larry Page's University of Michigan Commencement Address here...

List of Nepali Physicists Aboard: Reloaded

I can recall this:
I was a B.Sc. Third year student at Trichandra College, doing my Electronics project with Jeevan Jyoti Nakarmi sir. He was excited to tell us that Nepali Physicists in USA had created a database of all Nepali Physicists.


Later:

I was the president of Students Association of Physics (SAP) and was told by Prof. Devendra Raj Mishra to think about preparing similar data sheet. His vision was to have a list in which one should be able to have knowledge of "who is doing what in where". That facilitates the nation to plan. PhD student are the treasures of nation.


After coming to USA, during my first year, I could not care less. I was able to find the list prepared by Dr. Jagat Shakya. But that list was discontinued. Out of that list I was able to create the list of physicists for Google Group of Nepal Physical Society.  Thankfully, google approved my request to send the mass invitation Email. Many were ignored, many were mis-typed. In anyway it has 193+ verified members with 34 active members.




Similarly, Yahoo Group Created by Sameer Dai had attempted to create a database of the members. It has never been completed. He has been requesting it for long time. Because of technical glitch it is closed to the public. I wish it could be open group.


Google Group also attempted to having such database:
http://groups.google.com/group/nps_nepal/web/we-the-physicists?hl=en
but it did not go very far. Only 22 entries are there.


Another attempt was to have a facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=5646424508
Growing as per the facebook users grow...


Then there comes the "Nepali Physicists around the Globe": A project aimed to put the Nepali Physicists on the Google Map. Amit Dongol and I had volunteered (thanks also to Deepak Rimal and Sanjiv Jha). It got around 120 entries.  It is there http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203971682217583070710.000456d189b41ccc8f917&msa=0&ll=4.996952,24.82544&spn=179.310626,357.890625 Still needs to be updated.


The effort continues...
The question is how to get in touch with the new batch of unlisted Nepali Physicists or how can they find us.

If you are Nepali Physicist and are missing on the list; plus want to be in touch, the best way would be to join the Google Group of Nepal Physical Society. 
People will come and go creating lists but the authentic group will survive forever. 



(Wow!!! written in 32+2 minutes!)

Nepali Physicists in APS March Meeting, 2009 @ Pittsburgh

This year marked the biggest March Meeting in the history of American Physical Society (APS).
At least 40 Nepali Physicists were present at the meeting.
Most (all ?) of the Nepali participants are the member of Nepal Physical Society.
Nepal Physical Society(NPS) is a reciprocal society of the APS.



The following list is composed by Pashupati Dhakal and is taken from the Facebook Group of Nepali Physicists.


Dr. Dandapani Acharya BNL, NY
Dr. Durga Paudel AMES Lab, Iowa
Dr. Hari Dahal LANL, New Mexico
Dr. Lekhnath Bhusal National Renewable Energy Lab
Dr. Mim lal Nakarmi Brooklyn College,NY
Dr. Neeraj Nepal North Carolina State University
Dr. Prem Chapagain Florida International University
Dr. Prem Thapa Kansas State University
Dr. Tara Dhakal University Of Florida
Dr. Tula Paudel Case Western Reserve University
Amit Dangol University of Cincinnati
Ashok Sedhain Kansas State University
Bhuvan Joshi Kent State University
Chandra Pokherel Kent State University
Chirinjivi Lamsal Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Choodamani Khanal Florida International University
Deepak Rimal Florida International University
Giri Raj Joshi Boston College
Indra dev Shau State University of NY, Albany
Jagat Lamsal University of Missouri, Columbia
Keshab Paudel University of Missouri, Columbia
Kiran Khanal University of Akron
Laxman Mainali State University of NY, Albany
Madhab Gautam University of Akron
Madhab Neupane Boston College
Nagendra Dhakal Southern Mississippi University
Naresh Shakya Kent State University
Pashupati Dhakal Boston College
Phadindra Bhatta Kent State University
Pooja Shrestha University of Cincinnati
Prem Basnayat Kent State University
Pushkar Thapa Wayne State University
Rajendra Timilsina Southern Mississippi University
Rajesh Regmi Wayne State University
Rajesh Shah Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Ramesh Dhungana University of North Dakota
Sanjay Pravakar State University of NY, Albany
Shyam Raj Badu State University of NY, Albany
Subas Dhakal Kent State University
Trilochan Paudel Boston College

Resources: http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/events/index.cfm