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Director's Message
Dear Colleagues,
It’s a great welcome back to see so many fabulous graduates. Congratulations to all of our fine students and I invite you to celebrate with them and their families tomorrow at 10am in the foyer of the new building. A very large part of our success as a school is down to the outstanding students we train and the effort they put into their work.
I trust everyone had a safe and refreshing break – I certainly did and am looking forward to the International Year of Quantum. My thanks to Profs Jodie Bradby (MP), Ben Buchler (QST) and Patrick Kluth (MP) for acting while I was off enjoying myself.
One of my (many) guilty pleasures is to reflect on how well our school competes on the global stage from outstanding discovery science through to transformational industry partners. Below are two things that have been front of mind this year already, and like our students, should cause us all to smile and feel part of our enduring success. Below are some photos from the Australian launch of the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials last Thursday. Our VC and Rio Tinto Chief Innovation Officer were both thrilled to jointly announce the 10 year partnership with Imperial College, Berkeley, UBC and Witwatersrand. I would like to give my sincere thanks to Dr Victor Pantano (OreAI, MP) for his stewardship and amazing coordination on this global partnership. One of the things that made me happiest was to see representatives from every corner of ANU join together in our auditorium to celebrate this unique humanities-meets-STEM initiative. And, the other guilty pleasure was to collate our discipline performance in the QS and Shanghai rankings (see here) over the past 5 years among other similar schools. For those who think about these things, this more than highlights our outstanding national discipline leadership. I feel it draws a spotlight on how we engage inclusively and extensively with a diversity of collaborators across the country and the world. This culture doesn’t happen overnight and it we should all recognise the long term value of the research done in Physics.
Best,
Tim |
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Congratulations Graduating Students!
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Keshu Huang (PhD, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics)
Nathan Holland (PhD, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics)
Benjamin Grace (PhD, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics)
Daniel Gould (PhD, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics)
Logan Davis (PhD, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics/Department of Materials Physics)
Shan Liu (PhD, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering)
Ngee-Wein Lau (PhD, Department of Fundamental and Theoretical Physics)
Bikesh Gupta (PhD, Department of Materials Physics)
Qiheng Yang (PhD, Department of Materials Physics)
Shankar Dutt (PhD, Department of Materials Physics)
Xingshuo Huang (PhD, Department of Materials Physics)
Hanaa Alshammari (PhD, Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications)
Lachlan Oberg (PhD, Department of Quantum Science and Technology)
Maryam Boozarjmehr (MPhil, Department of Quantum Science and Technology)
Kabilan Sripathy (PhD, Department of Quantum Science and Technology)
Yun Heng Chen (PhD, Department of Quantum Science and Technology)
Steven Coultes (Graduate Certificate of Nuclear Technology Regulation)
Amanda Roberts (Master of Science in Nuclear Science)
Katrina Eldridge (Master of Science (Advanced) in Nuclear Science)
Patrick Burge (Master of Science (Advanced) in Nuclear Science)
Ryan Leonard (Master of Science (Advanced) in Nuclear Science)
Zihao Zhou (Master of Science (Advanced) in Precision Instrumentation & Measurement)
Chuanyu Wang (Master of Science (Advanced) in Precision Instrumentation & Measurement)
Xiwen Qiu (Master of Science (Advanced) in Quantum Technology)
Jiawei Zhang (Master of Science (Advanced) in Quantum Technology)
Lingxiao Li (Master of Science (Advanced) in Quantum Technology)
Jordan McMahon (Master of Science (Advanced) in Theoretical Physics)
Nicholas Adams (Master of Science in Nuclear Science)
Benjamin Yeldham (Master of Science in Nuclear Science)
Matthew Stapelbroek Foster (Master of Science in Nuclear Science)
Amanda Roberts (Master of Science in Nuclear Science)
Guanjun Chen (Master of Science in Precision Instrumentation & Measurement)
Zekun Chen (Master of Science in Precision Instrumentation & Measurement)
Qining Liu (Master of Science in Quantum Technology)
Ping Wang (Master of Science in Quantum Technology)
Jordan Sandler (Master of Science in Quantum Technology)
Joshua McDonald (Master of Science in Theoretical Physics)
Sohan Kulkarni (Master of Science in Theoretical Physics)
Yizhou Chen (Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours))
Patrick Gleeson (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours))
Gil Goodman (Bachelor of Science (Honours))
Phoebe Grosser (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours))
Sophie Hayles (Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours))
Misty Lakelin (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours))
Annalise Lennon (Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours))
Nicholas Mahoney (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours))
Thomas Perissinotto (Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours))
Isabelle Savill-Brown (Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours))
Tianqi Shen (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours))
Rickson Wielian (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours))
Samantha Williams (Bachelor of Philosophy-Science (Honours)) |
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Women's/Equity in STEM Breakfast
Everyone is invited to attend the Women/Equity in STEM Breakfast!
Date: 11th February
Time: From 8-10am
Location: CSIRO Discovery Café
The theme this year for the IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast is ‘Accelerating Equity in Science’. There will be a panel of women lined up from government, industry and academia to discuss both the theme and their science journey.
Register here » read more
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Research Highlighted In The Nature Index Journal
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Congratulations to Rickson Wielian and Ivan Toftul (DMP), who suggested a new approach to understand topological properties of physical systems using the transfer matrix, that proves to be versatile tool in analysing topological invariants and provides valuable insights into topological edge states. The paper originated from Rickson’s PhB project, and it has been highlighted by Physical Review B, one of a few APS journals listed in the Nature Index » read more
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2025 Birch Lecture | Feb 10 |
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'Spins in Molecules: A Versatile Platform for Quantum Technologies'
Professor Roberta Sessoli
Date: February 10, 2025
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Venue: Ian Wark Theatre, The Shine Dome
A reception will be held immediately after the lecture, with drinks and canapes provided.
Register here » read more
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Experimental Quantum Technology - Lecturer & Professor Positions At Manchester
The Physics and Astronomy department at the University of Manchester is advertising two permanent academic positions – a full professorship and a lecturer (UK naming scheme equivalent of assistant professor, but with tenure) – in the experimental usage of quantum technology in application based science and/or fundamental physics. This is part of a wider quantum technology initiative with professorships in Maths and Computing Science also available.
Closing dates are the 31st March » read more
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Oliphant Bldg. Meeting Rooms - Closed
All Oliphant (Bldg. #60) Meeting rooms will be closed from 12/12/24.
- Fishbowl - Closed
- Private Room - Closed
- Lv4 Conference Room - Closed
- Oliphant Tearoom - Closing TBC |
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College Hot Desking In Physics
Finance, HR & RM Teams
Thursday Mornings
Lv2 Tearoom, Bldg 160 |
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Departmental seminars
Professor William Ducker - 5 February
Experimental Investigation of Surfactants, Ions, and Gases in Confined and Porous Media
» read more
Dr Soeren Ahmerkamp - 11 February
Unveiling the Microscale: Porous media in ocean biogeochemistry
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Professor Jurgen Schreuer - 12 February
Correlations between structure and elastic properties of crystals
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Dr Marie Munchhalfen - 13 February
Exploring dynamic processes and structural instabilities using elasticity
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Know your administrators...
Julie Arnold, Nikki Azzopardi, Belinda Barbour & Petra Rickman » read more
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Know your student admin...
Liudmila (Luda) Mangos -
Higher Degree Research admin
C3.02C, Cockcroft bldg (Mon-Fri 9:30-5pm) hdr.physics@anu.edu.au
Siobhan Ryman -
Physics Education Centre admin and HDR
1.05, Bldg 38A (Tues 8.30-4pm) C3.02C, Cockcroft bldg (Mon,Thurs-Fri 8.30-4pm) pec.physics@anu.edu.au |
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Know your HDR Convenors...
A/Prof Vanessa Robins
A/Prof James Sullivan
Dr Michaela Froehlich
HDR Convenors
Prof Vince Craig
Associate Director HDR |
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Know your Student Reps...
Aditya Babu, Victoria Bashu, Jessica Wierbik, Hendrik Heimes & Elizaveta Melik-Gaykazyan
hdrsreps.physics@anu.edu.au |
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L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science | 2025 Young Talent Fellowships Now Open
In 2025, four Australian and one New Zealand post-doctoral scientists we be awarded a $25,000 Fellowship. Applicants are welcome from a variety of fields. » read more
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