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New ANU endowment for developing-world scientists

Distinguished physics Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his wife Vidya have kickstarted a new endowment fund to bring science students and academics from the developing world to study...

10 December 2015

QuintessenceLabs wins global award

A high-technology company started by physicists from The Research School of Physics and Engineering has won a major international award for its quantum cyber-security technology. QuintessenceLabs...

24 November 2015

Liquid Instruments wins national innovation awards

Liquid Instruments recently won four awards in the 2015 Tech23 Australian innovation awards. Daniel Shaddock impressed the audience with his engaging presentation taking away the Tech23...

19 November 2015

New link with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

A new Memorandum of Understanding on research collaboration was signed in September 2015 between the Plasma Research Laboratory (home to the APFRF) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma...

20 October 2015

PRL research featured in International Innovation

A team from the Plasma Research Laboratory at the Australian National University has developed new optical instruments for studying plasma behaviour. The so-called coherence-imaging...

9 September 2015

Rising-star graduates from RSPE

It is possible to create a star on earth with a nuclear fusion device, with the H1-Heliac at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering doing just this. The research...

19 August 2015

The 2015 Stjepan Marcelja Fellowships

The Department of of Applied Mathematics is delighted to announce the first recipients of the 2015 Marcelja Fellowships. The Marcelja Fellowship, named in honour of Stjepan Marcelja,...

12 June 2015

Test cricket Brad Haddin helps ANU bat researchers

Scientists from the ANU have sought the advice of Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin for their high-technology research into cricket bats. ANU physicists are for the first time studying...

8 May 2015

Fusion energy boost for high-tech Australia

The world's largest fusion energy experiment, ITER, has turned to Australian physicists to supply a crucial imaging system for the multi-billion-euro experiment. Engaging with ITER...

7 May 2015

ANZAC Day image fabricated by Focused Ion Beam

The ANZAC pattern was fabricated by using Focused Ion Bean (FIB) system at the Australian National Fabrication Facility by Dr Evgeny Mironov a recently graduated visiting PhD student...

24 April 2015

A gift of Love to ANU

After a long career of teaching and research, Emeritus Professor John Love believes it is now time to give some more. Professor Love is donating $1 million to the ANU to fund a new scholarship...

14 November 2014

Long-distance reversible laser tractor beam created

Laser physicists have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre. It is the first long-distance...

22 October 2014

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