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Weekly newsletter | vol 43 no 47 | 11–15 December 2017

 

Director's Message

Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks for your valued feedback on the administration restructure. I met with HoDs and administrators yesterday and went over the key points from this feedback.  Early next week I will circulate some suggestions to this group for final comment and I hope to finalise this by the end of that week.

This week’s pic shows a delicious and festive lunch arranged by the admin staff on Monday, with decorations by Gaye and lucky dip by Sue.  This week’s surprise pic (see below) shows a new Canberra landmark, right next to Physics South. Apparently, this was approved back in 2011 but the sign was only recently erected.  Who knew?

Have a good weekend

Tim

 

Important Dates

 

Monday 11 December

12:30-1:30 pm

Support breastfeeding at ANU launch

Don’t forget to register for this event

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Monday 11 December 2017

3:00-5:00 pm

The lawns @ Science Central – Peter Baume Building #42

Register your intension to attend via eventbrite.

 

Wednesday 13 December 2017

10:30 - 11:30 am

You are invited to morning tea to congratulate the class of 2017.

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Friday 15 December

10:30 - 11:30 am

Farewell Morning Tea

Join us in saying goodbye

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Wednesday 20 December

10:30 - 11:30 am

Mince Pie Morning Tea

Come and celebrate the end of 2017

 

Wednesday 20 December

4:00 - 6:00 pm

VC's Garden Party

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Important dates for ES Financials processing by FSS and staffing levels in Jaeger finance.

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The ANU Identity and Access Management (IdAM) system has a significant upgrade scheduled to occur during the 2017 shutdown, from 22 December 2017 to 1 January 2018.

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Departmental seminars

Prof Artur Malaquias
11 December
Experimental investigation of equilibrium relevant profiles during AC transition in the ISTTOK tokamak.
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Mr Ben McMillan
12 December
'A nonlinear approach to transition in subcritical plasmas with sheared flow'
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Mr Michael Barson
14 December
The mechanical and thermal properties of the Nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond and their use in nanoscale metrology
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Prof Demetrios Christodoulides
14 December
SPIE 2017 Visiting Lecture - Parity-Time Symmetry in Optics and Photonics
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A/Prof Mercedeh Khajavikhan
14 December
SPIE 2017 Visiting Lecture - Coherence and Collective Properties of Metallic Nanolasers
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Prof Greg Sun
15 December
Joint Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, IEEE Nanotechnology Council & Photonics Society Seminar: Why size matters and how it alters plasmonic field enhancement?
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Prof Albert Polman
18 December
Time-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of optical metasurfaces
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Prof Albert Polman
19 December
RSPE, Australian Optical Society, ECI & The Academy of Science present 2017 Frew Fellowship recipient Seminar-Light management in photovoltaic materials
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Summer Shutdown

The Vice-Chancellor has confirmed that the University will be closed from close of business Friday 22 December until Monday 1 January 2018, reopening on Tuesday 2 January 2018.

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ANU media stars shine in a year of ‘fake news’ Congratulations to all....

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PhB end of semester summary

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