We help the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) share what’s happening in physics in Australia with AIP members and stakeholders. On these pages you will find:
The AIP has a Twitter feed (@ausphysics), as well as a Facebook page and group. There is also a LinkedIn group for AIP members only. The official AIP website is here.
US researchers are offering Australia a gravitational wave detector worth $140 million provided Australia can build an appropriate facility, costing a further $140 million, to house it.
The sophisticated detector would be part of a global search for gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, but have not yet been found. Read the full article →
Here’s today’s stories from the physics congress in Melbourne.
Good Aussie home wanted for gravitational wave detector
The physics of money – testing the stability of the system
Superconductors reveal their secrets
First results from the ATLAS experiment
Sun sneaks up on winter workers
Watching electrons in action
Laser beams on steroids
Light rays treat tumours
Contact Read the full article →
Also:
Diamond dust adds sparkle to medical imaging
Electronic paper makes itself
Bionic valves without the batteries
Invisible fibres disappearing soon
Acquiring a better feel for disease
Healthy and unhealthy brain states – what role does electrical conductivity play?
Is that a diamond in your eye? Read the full article →
Here’s today’s stories from the physics congress in Melbourne.
Space storms threat to power and phones
Are solar flares damaging our ozone layer?
The future of nuclear science
Superconductors reveal their secrets
Dark matter: detecting the invisible
Pulsar found with 250,000 home computers
Lies, damn lies and climate change sceptics: what has really caused recent global warming?
Australians to play with the Large Hadron Collider
Tuesday 7 December 2010
The Director General of CERN, Switzerland, Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, has announced a new $25m Australian Research Council Centre to explore the origins of the universe after the big bang at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress today.
Led by the University of Melbourne, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Experimental Particle Physics at the Terascale will explore particle physics at terascale energies (a million million electron volts) through the ATLAS experiment, which is a giant particle detector attached to Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Read the full article →
What technologies will surround us in 2060? The clues are in the work of four physicists recognised with awards at the annual conference of the Australian Institute of Physics held in Melbourne in December. Working in fields that will become household names – plasma nanoscience, quantum optics, acoustics and coherent radiation—these scientists are literally creating tomorrow’s world.
For example, 50 years ago the laser was an esoteric research tool and the stuff of James Bond. Today we use dozens of lasers every day in computers, cars and telecommunications. And 30 years ago wireless computing was a dream, now it is taken for granted. You can add to that plasma TVs, computer chips, USB sticks, solar cells, smart phones, and MRI scans—they all stem from research in physics. Read the full article →
A cubic kilometre of South Pole ice looking for dark matter
From the chaos of stirring coffee to stirring rocks and cleaning up polluted ground water
Silk microchips for instant blood tests
Diamond’s light touch
Enlightenment on a chip
A single electron reader for silicon quantum computing
Read the full article →
Over the next week we’re talking immortality, biodiversity, lies, chaos and the end of the world at a series of science events in Melbourne and Canberra, with several media stories available each day.
Welcome to my monthly bulletin for people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for December 2010 and beyond.
The AIP National Congress begins in Melbourne on Sunday, and is chock full of interesting research papers as well as opportunities to get together with your peers. I particularly encourage those attending the congress to also attend the gala dinner. At the dinner the AIP and the Australian Optical Society will present a number of awards. I have details of the AIP award winners below. Read the full article →
From Brian James, President of the Australian Institute of Physics
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It has with news and events for November 2010 and beyond.
The AIP National Congress is almost upon us. I’m pleased to say that we have over 700 registrants, and I encourage those who have not yet registered but intend to come, to do so soon. There is going to be lots of great physics discussed in Melbourne from 5 – 9 December, as well as public events, exhibitions and excellent opportunities for networking and socialising. Read the full article →
From Brian James, President of the Australian Institute of Physics
This month AIP branches are investigating quantum transport in Sydney; celebrating 50 years of lasers in Brisbane, learning to trust machines in Adelaide, and discovering this year’s physics Nobel in Melbourne. Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly bulletin with news and events for September 2010 and beyond.
This month the AIP is stimulating neurons in Canberra, exploiting colour in Sydney, illustrating the history of computers in Brisbane and talking about radiation–free nuclear energy in Melbourne. Read the full article →
Welcome to this special bulletin from the Australian Institute of Physics for National Science Week (14 – 22 August).
We’ve identified 121 Science Week events around the country with a physics component.
You can make a robotic dinosaur; hear about the laser; celebrate science with poetry; see Australia’s brightest light (or at least its home at the Australian Synchrotron); join science quizzes; learn about black holes at the Large Hadron Collider; catch the AIP 2010 Women in Physics lecturer, Elizabeth Winstanley and much more.
Welcome to the AIP President’s monthly bulletin for people around the country with an interest in physics. It has news and events for August 2010 and beyond. Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in Physics. It has news and events for July 2010 and beyond.
This month the AIP is discussing black hole appetites in Canberra, discovering the real CERN in Wollongong, delving into the history of the Nobel Prize in Physics at UQ and adventuring in wide field astronomy in Hobart. These and many more events listed below.
Welcome to my monthly newsletter to people around the country with an interest in Physics. It has news and events for June 2010 and beyond.
This month the AIP is manipulating neurons in Canberra; discovering the real CERN in Sydney; exploring the physics behind the GPS at UQ; unlocking soccer-ball aerodynamics in Adelaide and investigating how diamonds can improve photonic devices in Melbourne. Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly posting to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for May 2010 and beyond.
This month the AIP is celebrating the laser in Canberra; exploring nuclear energy without radioactive radiation in Sydney; discovering the rocky birth of physics at UQ; hunting high energy particles with the Moon in Adelaide; showing off new talent in Melbourne and sniffing the air in Tasmania.
We’re calling for papers for the AIP Congress, which will be in Melbourne in December.
And we’re recognising achievement in physics via a range of AIP awards and medals. Read the full article →
From Brian James, President of the Australian Institute of Physics
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for April 2010 and beyond.
This month’s AIP meetings include discussion of life on Mars, the physics of art and jewellery, web 2.0 in physics education and the great unsolved mysteries of the universe. Read the full article →
{ 0 comments }
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for March 2010 and beyond.
At AIP branch meetings this month we will discuss particle astronomy and living at the speed of light in Sydney, optics and lasers in Hobart, and nanoscale modelling in Melbourne. Read the full article →
{ 0 comments }
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for February 2010 and beyond.
