I am not someone who normally goes around expressing pride in public... but this time I take an exception and would like to share with the community the news that I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT titled, "The Diurnal Cycle of Air Pollution in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal". Through intensive field measurements in Nepal and three-dimensional computer simulations, I have come to learn some really interesting things about the processes that control the accumulation and ventilation of air pollution in the Kathmandu Valley. I hope to share these with policymakers, the Kathmandu public, and in sajha very soon.

I would like to thank all of you, friends and well wishers in sajha, who have provided me with companionship, humor and thought provoking discussions over the years. And I would also like to announce that I am emerging from the self-imposed hibernation and after some rest will be returning to active participation in the forum here.

Arnico.

Hi Arnico,

Long time! Congratulations and my best wishes!

Congratulations!

What was the effect of this revolution on air pollution in Kathmandu? I am sure it was positive. :-P

Wow, what a wonderful achievement. Congrats Dr. Pandey.

If possible, please mention more about the 3D computer simulation that you did. Was it a specific simulation software that you used to produce a 3D VRML model kind of stuff and/or was there any manual and/or automatic image rendering processes associated with it. Just curious.

Congratulation for achievement


Completing PhD is like finishing learning alphabets.
After learning alphabet we start forming words using those alphabets.
So, after the PhD, its expected to use that knowledge wisely (may be, this is called wisdom).
We Nepalese are knowledgeable but it seems, may be we lack wisdom.

मेरो तर्फबाट पनि बधाई र अझ धेरै प्रगतिको कामना।

Congrats Arnico bro!!!

Hi Arnico:

Congratulation and sorry for being so late to congratulate you.

I hope, sooner or later, your idea of having a great research university in Nepal will materialise. Neruda once said there is no lone success, and there is no lone future, and I hope to see our collective success in your success and our collective future in your future.

पाण्डे ज्यू!
मूरी-मूरी बधाई छ है मेरो तरफबाट पनि। अब देशाँ फर्किने की यतै रुमल्लिने? कि बिचार गर्नुभा'छ कुन्नी? तर जता रहेपनि साझाको डबली चैं नविर्सम है!! जय होस केरे सबै नेपालीको॥

IF we have a chance to read pdf file of the disseratation, we coul dhave appreciate the work more or less depending on the quality!

hey jerk. .. u posted this earlier.. i mean do u have a short penis n a large ego to feed or what... people are dying in Nepal.. n ur braggin ur scrawny ass..
why dont u donate a few dollars for the people sufferin there instead of lookin for cheap accolades here

Congratulations Arnico!
I hope I'm not very late...

Congratulation, Arniko sir.

para..lai ke bho ? hare...

paradoxnemesis, I have an idea. why dont we stop eating, stop smiling, stop breathing because of what it going on in Nepal?

P.S. Arniko Pandey le timilai "ma donations dinna" bhaneka thiye ho?

Thank you again everyone for your best wishes. I hope I can live up to your expectations.

Karmarana: I look forward to the day it appears online in PDF form, and I will be sure to post a message in sajha that day. It is the policy of my department and research group to post dissertation PDFs online; I need to check with them how quickly they will do so. I look forward to critical feedback.

Paradoxnemesis, if this thread appears at the top again it is because people are posting to it. I recommend that you don't open it. Meanwhile to set the record straight, while there have been more generous donors than me, I *have* made a contribution to the andolan injured people's relief fund. If you need proof, send me an e-mail, I will direct you to website that lists donors and amounts contributed. But give me your name also so that I may check whether you have contributed.

Did you start out as a Chem E. or thats someone else? I heard that he's a real zerk. From your comments it kinda aligns with the description I got of him.

My last message was for you, Dr. Arnico Panday.

Congratulations!!!

I met this one guy from MIT. He walks around with a tuppi. Who is he?

kina thugged out?

you have hots for him? did he have a tuppi in the front side or the back side. I have one in the front side as well.
I think all MIT guys are jerks. Can't be trusted.

I never studied chemical engineering. Did my undergraduate in environmental science and public policy, and my masters in environmental studies, neither of them at MIT.