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.
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 →
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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.
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics – with news and events for December 2009 and January 2010.
This month we’re exploring quantum matter in Canberra and Melbourne with Austrian Rudolf Grimm, sub-atomic physics in Adelaide; a teachers’ seminar in Tassie, and the director of the SKA project, Richard Schilizzi speaks in Melbourne. Read the full article →
From Brian James, AIP President
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. This email has news and events for November and beyond. Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly newsletter to those with an interest in physics around Australia. Read the full article →
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Welcome to my monthly newsletter to people around the country with an interest in physics, following a big showing by physics in National Science Week. Congratulations to all involved in holding events-I know of at least 120 physics events that took place.
This month I report on FASTS, the Square Kilometre Array bid, Eureka Prize and L’Oreal For Women in Science winners, upcoming activities for the International Year of Astronomy, and new places to place or find physics jobs on the net. Read the full article →
Welcome to my special bulletin for National Science Week 2009.
There are over 650 events being held around Australia during Science Week, which runs from 15-23 August, and many of them have a focus on physics. National events include a speaking tour by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss and the Big Aussie Star Hunt.
I’ve listed the National Science Week events below and full details are online at www.scienceweek.gov.au.
I’ve also listed the various AIP events, as a reminder (many of them were in the last bulletin). Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics, as we remember the first moon landing 40 years ago. In August, Christine Charles, the AIP’s 2009 Women in Physics lecturer, is busy talking to school students and the public in Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. The IYA lecturers are also busy in Western Australia, and Reinhard Genzel is talking in Canberra.
For a general audience, US cosmologist Lawrence Krauss is appearing around the country for Science Week. Highlights include a talk to the AIP in Victoria, and at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly email to people with an interest in physics.
July activities from the Australian Institute of Physics include Reinhard Genzel talking on black holes and galaxies in the Canberra and Perth, Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly email to AIP members. This month AIP activities include Ziggy Switkowski on nuclear energy, Bryan Gaensler on radio polarimetry and John Mainstone on science in Queensland. Public lectures cover wind energy with David Wood and solar energy with Martin Green, and I also list some significant events coming up in July including the Parkes Observatory open day and the July lecture series in physics at the University of Melbourne. Read the full article →
Welcome to my monthly email to AIP members.
Coming up in May: plasmas, orreries, musical wind instruments and particles in AIP events around the country.
Astronomy features at the Sydney Writers Festival and in talks in Sydney, Melbourne and the ACT. And there are teacher development courses covering nanotechnology, astronomy and astrophysics. All these and more below. Read the full article →
Coming up in April: acoustics of wind instruments and the opening of a new photonics institute in Sydney; Brian Schmidt explains the universe from beginning to end; and the gaseous holes of galaxies in Melbourne. And dozens of astronomy events. Read the full article →
This month discuss optical illusions in Canberra; and film special effects in SA; there’s a physics in-service for teachers in Melbourne; and a workshop on undergraduate teaching in Canberra. Read the full article →
This is my last newsletter as AIP President. The AIP AGM will be held in Melbourne on Thursday 12 February (details below), after which we will have a new executive committee. Next month Brian James, who will become AIP President, will bring you all the news and events. Read the full article →
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Welcome to a much anticipated year for physics in Australia. Not only is it the International Year of Astronomy, but there are also several significant astronomy projects starting in Australia. We have a physicist as Australia’s chief scientist, another as chief defence scientist, and two physicists will serve as senior advisers to President-elect Obama. Read the full article →
3 December 2008
Three medals will be presented to leading scientists in Adelaide tonight.
Three CSIRO scientists will be awarded the Walsh Medal in Adelaide tonight for their work to destroy CFCs. Their approach – using a plasma reactor working at 20,000 degrees – is now in use in the US and Australia, and is earning carbon credits for Mexico. Read the full article →
The UK’s Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars by chance when she was a student. Detecting a bit of “scruff” on her chart recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars, Bell Burnell found that the signal was regularly pulsing, about once each second. Read the full article →
The nation’s physicists are meeting in Adelaide this week.
Some of the topics on the agenda are:
Michael Geyer, Abengoa Solar will talk about introducing concentrated solar power on the international energy market. This Spanish company is building the world’s largest solar plant – 280 Mw – in Arizona. Read the full article →
From Cathy Foley (AIP President)
Welcome to my December blog.
The highlight of upcoming events is of course the AIP Congress, starting on Sunday in Adelaide. I hope to see you there! Read the full article →
Welcome to my November bulletin to AIP members.
Coming events include a ‘Physics in Industry’ day in New South Wales and AGMs in Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland. Physics seminars are listed at seven different institutions and the other events include a public lecture in Melbourne by Jocelyn Bell Burnell from the University of Oxford, who will also be a plenary speaker at the AIP Congress. Read the full article →
