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Director's Message
Dear Colleagues,
It is really a great pleasure to congratulate Distinguished Professor Yuri Kivshar (MP) on being awarded the 2025 ZIESS Research Award. This international award recognizes exceptional research in optics or photonics. The awards ceremony will take place on 10 July 2025 in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
At the end of this month, the Focus PDR cycle is about to move into its second phase. Please reach out to your supervisors and promote a discussion about your agreed goals.
From snuffling monotremes to fearless dragons it’s always good to see local wildlife enjoying the campus. Until this year I haven’t seen Gippsland Water Dragons actually in the gardens around the School, so far from Sullivan’s Creek. This youngster was photographed just up from the SF6 storage tank. Something that makes me smile.
Have a good weekend,
Tim |
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Automatic Email Forwarding To Be Disabled From 2 June 2025
Automatic forwarding of email to non-ANU accounts for Staff and VaHas will be disabled on the 2nd of June. This will affect staff and visitors who have been using a service such as Gmail for their ANU email.
More details are available at the FAQ. |
Science Comedy Program |
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Inspiring Australia ACT is funding eight positions in the Science Comedy Program for researchers, scientists and post-graduate students.
The program, which begins on Monday 24 March, involves a series of group and 1:1 online workshops to improve the public speaking and storytelling skills of science professionals.
Positions are being filled now - applicants who apply early are very likely to be selected. » read more
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They Found The Higgs Boson, But There Might Be Five More!
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Anomalous results in particle physics experiments could be a hint to the existence of another five Higgs bosons, calculations have shown.
In the sixties Peter Higgs predicted the existence of a scalar particle of the Higgs field, and estimated it would be very heavy: it took decades for a particle collider with sufficient energy to be developed – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – that could, by 2012, create a Higgs boson at the predicted mass of 126 GeV (about 200,000 times heavier than an electron). » read more
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Upnano Seminar - March 26
Date: Wed 26 March 2025
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Physics Auditorium
Upnano will present capabilities of 2-photon polymerization (2PP) for 3D printing. This technology has allowed researchers in recent years to create a variety of micron and submicron photopolymerized structures, as well as extend the capabilities for fabrication of micro-components as well as MEMS. In this seminar, UpNano will present highlight several recent case studies where a NanoOne 3D printer has been used to extend what is currently achievable in high-resolution manufacturing. If you are interested in printing small things, come and ask questions. |
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Chance Find Of Rare Atoms Could Reveal Big Surprises In Earth’s Past
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As Dr Dominik Koll was investigating a new method of radio-dating ancient samples, he stumbled across evidence of a major event in the Earth’s history, around ten million years ago.
“It was completely unexpected. I was just dating an environmental archive with the radio isotope beryllium-10 and I didn’t expect anything exciting to happen,” said Dr Koll, who did the work as part of his PhD in the Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications.
“I stumbled on an unexpected accumulation of beryllium-10 around ten million years ago; what caused it is unknown, but it may point to major events such as global shifts in ocean currents, or nearby astrophysical events.”
Dr Koll, who was a student jointly with Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), is lead author of a paper detailing the surprise, published in Nature Communications. » read more
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Quantum Science and Engineering Fellowships
The EPFL QSE Center has the pleasure to launch its second call for QSE postdoctoral fellowships. This fellowship offers motivated young researchers from Switzerland and abroad the opportunity to carry out their research in collaboration with the EPFL QSE community on cutting-edge topics in quantum science and quantum engineering.
The submission deadline is 18 March 2025 and the earliest project start is August 2025. » read more
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Oliphant Bldg. Meeting Rooms - Closed
All Oliphant (Bldg. #60) Meeting rooms will be closed from 12/12/24. » read more
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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
Dr Samuel Poincloux - 12 March
Frictional troubles in knit mechanics
» read more
Professor Saman Aryana - 14 March
A Multiscale Perspective on Flow in the Subsurface
» read more
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Know your administrators...
Julie Arnold, Nikki Azzopardi, Belinda Barbour & Petra Rickman » read more
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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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Free Flu Vaccinations
To provide flexibility for staff in 2025, the University is offering three options for receiving the flu vaccination:
1. On campus at the ANU Medical Centre (appointment bookings are available from the 31 March 2025);
2. On campus at the ANU Pharmacy
3. Off campus by accessing a voucher code to be used at a Terry White Chemist. (available in HORUS from April 2025). » read more
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