An Appeal

Dear Friends,

Now that our department is in sixth year since its inception in 2012, with four batches of M. Sc. students having already graduated from the department, we feel that the time is now ripe to form an Alumni Association of the department, hereafter referred to as the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI) – Physics Alumni Association. It is our hope that the forum would address the following:

1. Facilitate mutual interaction among alumni of the department spread across the world.
2. Keep them connected with the activities of the department.
3. Receive continuous feedback and advice from the alumni on various activities of the department.
4. Collect and disseminate via the alumni association website write-ups on topics of relevance (or even just personal reminiscences) by alumni.
5. Occasionally arrange social gatherings of the alumni in the department.

Membership of RKMVERI-Physics Alumni Association is open to:

1. Anyone who has acquired either an M. Sc. or a Ph. D. degree from the department.
2. Any ex-employee/adjunct faculty/young associate who has worked for/has been associated with the department for at least two years.
3. Any postdoctoral fellow who has worked in the department for at least a year.

If you are planning to visit the department and are willing to give a talk on a topic of mutual interest, please do send an email to well in advance, so that we may arrange your visit and talk.
We earnestly urge you to become a LIFE MEMBER of the RKMVERI-Physics Alumni Association by filling up the subscription form appended below and by paying a subscription fee of 100 INR. Please do not forget to attach two copies of your passport-size photograph. You may submit the form and the photos and deposit the subscription fee in cash at the RKMVERI Reception, Belur Math, during office hours 10 am – 5 pm, Monday to Saturday (excepting University holidays). Alternatively, you may send by post the filled-in form and the photos together with a Demand Draft of 100 INR drawn in favour of ‘Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Howrah’ (payable at Belur Math, Howrah, preferably at UBI or SBI), to the following address:

Registrar
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute
Belur Math, Howrah 711202, West Bengal

Please write on the envelope: RKMVERI-Physics Alumni Association Membership Form.
As you are aware, RKMVERI is a non-profit educational institution that relies on financial support from government bodies, corporates, and individual donors. If you would like to make donations to RKMVERI and the department, please visit the website http://rkmvu.ac.in/donations/ for details on how you may contribute towards Student Scholarships, Faculty Scholarships and Chairs, Support to Monastic Faculties and Members, General Fund, and Community Service Activities of RKMVERI.
Looking forward to your active participation in helping us actualize the dream Swami Vivekananda had dreamt of the University,
With regards and best wishes,

Yours Sincerely,
Abhijit Bandyopadhyay and Shamik Gupta (Members, RKMVERI-Physics Alumni Association)
March, 2018, Belur Math

Download the Membership Form