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Director's Message
Dear Colleagues,
The call for the Director's Awards for 2025 was sent out at the end of last week. This year, in addition to the Individual and Team awards, we have two new awards to recognise outstanding publications by a PhD student and an EMCR in the school. A committee will be selected to judge the nominations, which should be sent to the School Manager by 5pm on Monday 20 October.
This week's paper comes from The Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications on "Coulomb excitation of 124Te: Emerging collectivity and persisting seniority structure in the 6+1 level" just published in Physical Review C. The work was done as part of Martha Reece's Honours thesis which won the AIP TH Laby Medal in 2023. The experimental work was done at HIAF and featured a new auxiliary detector setup for the CAESAR array. Martha is now doing great things as a PhD student at GSI Germany. Congratulations to the whole team – wonderful to see such a nice publication come out of an honours project.
I met Danielle Neale last week who is the new (ish!) Head of Commercialisation & IP. She is keen to get to know people in the school and has let me know that her office has a position open for someone with expertise in the physical sciences and materials space. This might be an opportunity for someone in the school, or feel free to share with your networks.
Finally, a reminder that abstracts for ICONN 2026, Australia's largest biennial conference in nanoscience, are due by 17 October, so please get those submissions in soon.
Jodie |
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New University Travel Training Sessions
- When booking travel for any type of University business, it is mandatory to use ATPI -
In response to the roll-out of the new travel approval and booking systems, a series of training sessions have been scheduled to support staff in navigating the new tools and updated travel policy and handbook.
Please 'read more' to view recordings from these sessions. » read more
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ICONN 2026 | Feb 3-5
ICONN 2026 is fast approaching, and this is your last chance to showcase your cutting-edge research on the global stage. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of Australia’s premier nanotechnology conference.
Submit your abstract before the 17th of October deadline! » read more
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Dark Matter Experiment SABRE South Welcomes New Equipment
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Works are in full swing in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory, where researchers from Australian universities including the ANU build a direct dark matter experiment SABRE South. In the last two weeks, a clean tent has been constructed. It will be used to assure controlled, contaminant-free environment when assembling the dark matter detector. It will host a glovebox used by scientists handling the ultra-pure crystals at the heart of the experiment. These crystals are incredibly fragile and would start to degrade on contact with air.
Picture: PhD student Kyle Leaver from University of Adelaide, SUPL employee Steven Rushbrook and ANU postdoc Zuzana Slavkovska, standing in the freshly constructed frame of the clean tent |
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Job Opportunity | Commercial Development Manager
Are you passionate about translating research for societal impact?
The Research and Innovation Portfolio provides leadership and oversight of the University’s research strategies to deliver high quality research outcomes and impact, including through commercialisation, and industry and business engagement. The Office of Research, Partnerships and Translation (RPT) is responsible for partnering with ANU researchers, professional staff and external stakeholders to help create impact and drive growth through commercial and end-user engagement. » read more
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AIML-CEB 2025 | Dec 2
The Workshop on AI/ML in Computational and Experimental Biology (AIML-CEB 2025), to be held in conjunction with the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI 2025).
The integration of artificial intelligence into computational and experimental biology is transforming how we predict, design, and optimize biological systems. This workshop will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and applied research to share the latest advances and applications at the intersection of machine learning and biology.
AIML-CEB is co-organized by CSIRO and the Australian National University. As a non-archival venue, the workshop welcomes the presentation of early ideas, works-in-progress, and drafts that can spark discussion and collaboration.
The workshop will be hosted at the Australian National University from 9am-12:30pm on the 2nd of December 2025. More details, including program and participation information, are available at: https://aiml-ceb.github.io/ |
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Annual Student Data Visualisation Competition
If you are a Honours/Masters/PhD student and have developed a really cool graphic as part of your project, enter this competition to be in the running for prizes, and a spot in our gallery of winners to be on display at the ANU Research Expo next year.
Entrants should submit their graphic and no more than 300 words describing the context of the graph and the information that it conveys. If the graphic was produced in R, please submit the R code as well. Entry is limited to one submission per person.
Closing date in 2025 is Friday 31 October.
If you are a supervisor, please encourage all your students to consider entering - you don't need to be an Statistical Support Network client to enter.
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to get in touch. » read more
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Level Up Your LinkedIn: A Practical Workshop
Bring your laptop and join Franklin Women for a hands-on, 2-hour workshop where you’ll refresh your LinkedIn profile and learn top tips to use the platform more strategically in your career. After the workshop, stay for a light afternoon tea and relaxed IRL networking with a room full of great women making an impact in the ACT health and medical research ecosystem.
When: Thursday 20 November, 2-4:30pm
Where: Clive Price Suite, University of Canberra
Tickets: Purchase your tickets here (get in quick as they are limited!)
- Member $40
- Non-member $79
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Considering a Career with TGA ? | Oct 20
Discover how your research skills can make an impact beyond academia.
Join representatives from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to explore career pathways, recruitment insights, and the transition from research to regulatory and policy roles within Australia’s health sector.
The session will also cover professional growth and development opportunities at TGA, followed by a Q&A with agency representatives.
Open to HDR candidates, ECRs, and research staff interested in broadening their career horizons beyond academia.
Date: Monday 20th October
Time: 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Location: Finkel Theatre, JCSMR
Register Here |
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2026 CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics Application
Applications are open for the CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics.
Research in physics and mathematics is fundamental for Australia's future. The founders of this scholarship know that early experience in leading overseas laboratories greatly benefits graduates embarking on a research career.
The CSIRO Alumni Scholarship in Physics was established to commemorate the scientific contributions of Drs. John Dunlop, Tony Farmer, Gerry Haddad and Don Price who died in a helicopter crash in March 2013.
The $6,000 travel scholarship helps post-graduate students visit and/or conduct research in an overseas or interstate institution such as a university or research establishment of international standing in the field of proposed research. The CSIRO are keen to keep awarding this scholarship each year.
Funding for the scholarship is made possible by the generosity of family, friends, CSIRO alumni and colleagues of Drs. John Dunlop, Gerry Haddad, Don Price and Tony Farmer. The Scholarship team also acknowledges the generous contributions from the Laboratories Credit Union and CSIRO. |
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College Hot Desking In Physics
Finance, HR & RM Teams
Thursday Mornings
Lv2 Tearoom, Bldg 160 |
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Staff Movements
Prof Greg Lane will be away 13/10/25 - 23/10/25
Ed Simpson has kindly agreed to be acting HoD in this period |
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Departmental seminars
Ms Caroline Seabra - 15 October
Investigating the onset of dissipative processes in heavy ion fusion using MANTEIS
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Early & Mid-Career Academics (EMCA) Lunch/Social
A reminder to RSVP if you haven't already done so... » read more
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School Seminar Program - 14 October
Probing Gravity, spacetime, and the dark sector — Gravitational-Wave insights from colliding black holes - Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun » read more
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Founder's Day 2025 - 24 October
Physics Auditorium & Foyer » read more
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Know your administrators...
Nikki Azzopardi, Belinda Barbour & Petra Rickman » read more
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Know your HDR Convenors...
A/Prof Vanessa Robins
Dr Michaela Froehlich
HDR Convenors
Prof Vince Craig
Associate Director HDR |
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The History and Mystery Series
The ASA ECR Chapter's online talk series "The History and Mystery Series" aims to explore aspects of astronomy (e.g., social, political, geographical, and historical perspectives) that are usually not covered in conventional scientific talks. The talks are open to all, please register here. » read more
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ANU Futures Workshop: Recent Progress of Harmonic Analysis in General Relativity & Quantum Information
A workshop introducing researchers with some background in harmonic analysis and dispersive partial differential equations to some open problems in general relativity and quantum information.
Date: Mon 17 Nov - Sat 22 Nov 2025
Time: 9am (Mon) -1pm (Sat)
Location: Seminar Rooms 1.33 & 1.37, Hanna Neumann Bldg #145 » read more
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LGBTIQA+ Ally Training
Upcoming Ally Training
- 15 October
- 13 November
- 20 November » read more
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