Director's Message

Dear Colleagues,

It is with enormous pleasure to congratulate Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish on his election as foreign member to the Chinese Academy of Science. This is a very rare privilege and to date only one other Australian has been awarded this high honour.  

This week Clarivate released their 2023 High Cited awards. For the seventh year running, Distinguished Professor Yuri Kivshar has made it to the list for Physics. Seven years is amazing! He is the only one of two Australian physicists this year, the other is a familiar colleague, Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko (UNSW). And, Professor Dragomir Neshev has also earned this distinction for the third year running in the category of Cross-Field. HiCi awards go to less than 1 in 1000 researchers. To win them in successive years is truly remarkable and demonstrates significant impact.

My warmest congratulations to our all colleagues above, please pass on yours when you see them next.

We’re in the final countdown for the KOALA 2023, a student conference on optics, atoms and laser applications. All students in RSPhys are very welcome to attend the Industry networking event on Wednesday 29th Nov from 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm. Register here.

Above, some of our amazing students (Phoebe, Charlie, Sam and Sophie) were so inspired by their quantum field theory course they baked two Compton scattering cakes, one with the direct term and one with the exchange term. I never thought Feynman diagrams as delicious, but there you go.

I'll have a message from our teams at Shandong for next week. Wishing them all the best.

Have a good weekend,
Tim

The Research School of Physics has had spectacular success in the 2023 awards season.

Our staff and students snared medals from the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) for best honours thesis, best PhD thesis, and for research excellence. And from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the 2023 Environmental Chemistry Medal Award.

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Prof Yuri Kivshar (FTP) and Dr Sergey Kruk (FTP) who were both successful in winning a grant of the Australia Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme.

They were awarded AUD $25k each across two years to build and support collaborations with groups in Germany.

It was lovely to celebrate the Dept of Electronic Materials Engineering (EME) turning 35 years old.

EME started in 1988 and has gone from strength to strength, producing excellent PhD students and outstanding researchers.

Great to see so many current and past staff and students joining the celebration.

Lan Fu the current Head gave a short speech before the history was provided by the EME foundation Head, Jim Williams.

KOALA - ANU Physics Industry Night 2023

If you want to expand your career horizons or are interested in the intersect between academia and industry then this event is for you!

KOALA Conference 2023, in partnership with the ANU Research School of Physics, will host an industry networking event for STEM research students and early career researchers at the ANU.

Invited are a range of local and national industry representatives and conference sponsors interested in connecting with STEM researchers. The event will feature short one minute pitches from invited industry guests followed by a casual networking session with food and non-alcoholic drinks provided. 

For catering and to allocate name-badges bookings are essential!

When: 29/11/23 6pm – 7:45pm
Where: Research School of Physics Foyer, Bld 160

Please register your attendance

AMSI Summer School

Join other honours and postgraduate students, early career researchers and industry professionals in Canberra from 8 January - 2 February for the 22nd AMSI Summer School, hosted by the Australian National University (virtual participation also available). 

Connect with peers, researchers and potential future employers while developing your maths, stats and data science skills. 

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CGA is walking 35km in The Bloody Long Walk to help Australians living with mitochondrial disease.

Mito is a notorious disease that robs the body’s cells of energy, causing multiple organ dysfunction or failure. It can affect anyone at any age.

Please sponsor our walk to fund research into desperately needed treatments and cures for this devastating disease. Every dollar will make a difference.

ASCA Website

For those interested in defence related research, the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) website has gone live https://www.asca.gov.au/. The website provides information about ASCA’s approach to problem solving through missions, innovation incubation and emerging and disruptive technologies.

Celebrating the creativity and innovation of HDR researchers

Research Fest is a day to think and play in a creative environment, try new ideas and connect with your fellow HDR travellers.

Date: Friday 1st December
Time: 9:00am — 3:00pm

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ACT ASCA Forum 2023 - Nov 29

ACT ASCA Forum, November 29 @ ANU
Date: 29th November 2023
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Australian Centre on China in the World, bldg 188, ANU

Register

New Reimbursement Process

Staff Movements

Cedric Simenel will be away 20/11/23 - 31/1/24
^{Yuri Kivshar will be Acting HoD in this period}

Lan Fu will be away
17/11/23 - 9/12/23
^{Andrey Sukhorukov will be Acting HoD in this period}

College Hot Desking In Physics

Finance, HR & RM Teams
Thursday Mornings
^{Lv2 Tearoom, Bldg 160}

EVENTS

Departmental seminars

Mr Mohsen Mahmoudi - 20 November
Charge modulation for efficient CO2 capture and reduction reactions: an integrated ab-initio and numerical methods approach
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Ms Yiyi Zhong - 23 November
Characterization of cosmogenic backgrounds in NaI(Tl) for dark matter experiments
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Mr Nathan Holland - 23 November
Automation and Characterisation of the TorPeDO Controls Prototype Interferometric Sensing System
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Save the Date - 15 December

Vice-Chancellor's End of Year Garden Party

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