NPS Executive: Archive

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Executive Committee 2066/68(2009-11)


President
Prof.Dr.Shekhar Gurung
grgshekha[at]yahoo.com

I.P.President
Mr.Ramesh Shakya
rameshshakya[ at ]hotmail.com

Vice-President  
Prof.Dr.Nanda Bdr Maharjan
n_b_maharjan{at]yahoo.com.hk

Secretary       
Dr.Tika Katuwal          
katuwal_tika[at }hotmail. com

J.Secretary     
Mr.Deependra Parajuli    
deepenparaj a]t yahoo.com

Treasurer       
Dr.Sanju Shrestha        
sanju12np at yahoo.com

Editor          
Dr.Binil Aryal           
binil.aryal{ at} uibk.ac.at


Members        
Mr.Gopi Chandra Kafle   
gopikafle  at hotmail.com

                  
Mr.Jagannath Devkota    
jd.phys [at ] gmail.com

                 
Mr.Nava Raj Subedi      
nrscluster[at]yahoo.com

                
Mr.Ram Babu Ray         

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Executive Committee 2062/64(2005-07)



President:
Mr. Ramesh Shakya

Immediate Past-president
Prof. Dr. Shesh Kanta Aryal

Vice-President:
Dr. Jeevan Jyoti Nakarmi

Secretary:
Dr. Pradeep Bhattarai

Joint-Secretary:
Mr. Niraj Man Shrestha

Treasurer:
Dr. Sanju Shrestha

Editor:
Dr. Narayan Prasad Adhikari

Members:
Mr. Nabin Paudel
Mr. Rajendra Prasad Koirala
Mr. Krishna Bahadur Rai
Mr. Dipendra Parajuli
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Executive Committee 2064/66(2007-09)

President
Prof. Dr. Shesh Kanta Aryal

Immediate Past-president
Prof. Dr. Shekhar Gurung


Vice-President
Mrs. Shyama Regmi (Adhikari)

Secretary
Dr. Bhadra Prasad Pokharel

Joint-Secretary
Mr. Hom Bahadur Baniya

Treasurer
Mrs. Usha Joshi

Editor
Dr. Raju Khanal

Members
Mr. Amba Datta Pant
Mr. Niraj Man Shrestha
Mr. Nurapati Pantha
Mr. Nabin Kumar Malakar

Editorial Board Members
Mr. Hari Shankar Mallik
Ms. Pramila Shakya
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 Executive Committee 2060/62

President
Prof. Dr. Shekhar Gurung

Immediate Past-president
Prof. Dr. Devendra Raj Mishra

Vice-President
Mr. Ramesh Shakya

Secretary
Dr. Balkrishna Sapkota

Joint-Secretary
Mr. Rudra Aryal

Treasurer
Mrs. Usha Joshi

Editor
Dr. Bhadra Prasad Pokharel

Members
Mr. Rajendra Prasad Dahal
Mr. Hom Bahadur Baniya
Mr. Ganapati Nath Jha
Dr. Dilli Prasad Banjade

Editorial Board Members
Dr. Ram Prasad Regmi
Mr. Yadav pandit 

Source: nps.org.np

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!)