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My World Line
Story of My Life. World line refers to a unique path that I am traveling through our 4-dimensional world.
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Schools attended by Surjit Singh
Some Elementary School, Kaithal, Haryana (1952)
mai.n bataa_uu.N jii?
Before entering the educational system, I could read English and Hindi, thanks to my mother. The only thing I remember from this (my first) school is the following incident. The teaching was in Hindi. Whenever a teacher asked a question, many hands were raised and they all said, mai.n bataa_uu.N jii? In Panjabi, bataa_uu.N means brinjal or eggplant. So, to me the statement came out as, I am an eggplant, Sir? I always thought it was funny, always laughed and always got thrown out of class. Many of my classmates were refugees from the Jhang-Maghiana area of Pakistan, i.e. jhaangiis.
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Colleges attended by Surjit Singh
Government College, Ludhiana (1963-1966)
Did good, won awards
I had stood first in the Ludhiana District in 9, 10 and 11 grades; so people knew me. This college had a reputation of producing first class first students in the Panjab University. So people from other cities had come to learn. In the first year examination, I stood first in the Panjab University by obtaining record marks. At this point, the students who were in the next 4 or 5 positions quit the Panjab university and went to other universities! One fellow called Hari Kishan Sahajwani went to the newly-formed Haryana University and stood first in that university in years 2 and 3. I took Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English. I also took Honours in Mathematics. Won lots of books in the annual prize ceremonies. Of course, I stood first in the university in all the examinations and obtained University Medals. I was also given Pandit Hem Raj Medal for standing first in the Math. Honors examination.
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Doctoral Thesis of Surjit Singh
University of Pittsburgh, August 1975
Title
Critical Phenomena in Spin Systems I. Crossover Scaling Functions for Exchange Anisotropy: n=2 and n=3 models II. Studies on the Spherical Model
Subject
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Advisor
Professor David Jasnow. I am his first student
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