Dear {Contact_First_Name},
Congratulations to Prof Michael Tobar, who has been awarded the Harrie
Massey Medal for his work on precision measurement. More below.
AIP plans for the 2025 International Year
of Quantum Science and Technology are gearing up and we now need your help!
Volunteer opportunities are available to help with outreach activities,
industry events, communications and more. Read below to find out how to get
involved.
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Geoff Shute last month. Geoff
was one of the original AIP members at our inauguration in 1963. He
continued teaching in the undergraduate labs at U. Melbourne for many years
beyond retirement, leaving a positive and lasting impression on countless
students, me included!
For those in Brisbane and Sydney, you can
catch the final 2024 Women in Physics lectures from Prof Sue Coppersmith later
this month. More below.
The AIP Congress is fast approaching!
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first AIP Congress in
1974, and Congress Chair Kaye Morgan and her team have been hard at work
putting together a great line up of Congress activities. Don't forget to
register!
Best wishes, Nicole Bell
President, Australian Institute of Physics
president@aip.org.au
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Massey medal winner: Michael Tobar
Congratulations to Professor Michael Edmund Tobar, The
University of Western Australia, who was awarded the Harrie Massey Medal and
Prize.
Michael created and undertook numerous new precision
measurement techniques and experiments in the field of time and frequency, and
low temperature quantum physics, with the goal of solving some of the biggest
questions in fundamental physics. These led to several translational outcomes.
The award is a gift of the Institute of Physics (UK) to the
AIP. It will be presented at AIP Congress in December by IOP President Elect
Michele Dougherty.
More about the 2024 winner and the award here.
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Quantum Year
The AIP’s plans for the UN’s 2025 International Year of
Quantum Science and Technology are gearing up, and we need your help! We are
calling for volunteers to help with:
- outreach events
- industry events
- state-level leadership
- national- and state-level communications roles
To get involved, please contact info@quantum2025.org.au.
Read more about Quantum
Year.
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Final Women in Physics lectures
The last lectures for this year’s Women in Physics lecture
tour with Prof Susan Coppersmith are in Brisbane and
Sydney.
Optimising silicon/silicon-germanium quantum dot qubits:
Brisbane, 8 Oct.
What do theoretical physicists do? WIP lecture: Brisbane, 8
Oct.
Girls in Physics Breakfast: Brisbane, 10 Oct.
What do theoretical physicists do? WIP lecture: Sydney, 17
Oct.
More info.
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New 'Service' awards presented in NSW
The AIP NSW Branch’s new annual prize, the AIP NSW Branch
2024 Service Award, is awarded to a member who has made an outstanding
contribution to the development of the branch and the NSW physics community in
general.
Congratulations to A/Prof Matthew Arnold MAIP, Prof
Michael Lerch FAIP, Dr Scott Martin FAIP, and Dr Graeme Melville
FAIP for the amazing volunteer work you do to give our profession a bright
future.
This new award was presented at the AIP NSW Branch
Presidents’ Dinner in September. Read more about the award and winners here.
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2024 AIP Congress: Student travel awards
Students who are presenting work (oral or poster) at the 2024 AIP Congress, may be eligible to apply for an AIP Student Travel Award.
Please read the eligibility requirements carefully to avoid disappointment. Eligible applicants must have been financial student members of the AIP for at least six months prior to the Congress (i.e. joined before 1 June 2024).
Applications close 16 October. Apply here.
2024 AIP Congress program queries: aip2024@arinexgroup.com AIP Student Travel Award queries: aip@aip.org.au
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News and opportunities
Abstract submissions are now open for the 47th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, “Wagga 2025”. The conference is 4-7 Feb 2025. Registrations open soon. Read more.
The CSIRO Alumni Scholarships in Physics connect postgraduate physicists or mathematicians to a leading research centre overseas or in Australia: $6000 for travel to visit or conduct research in an overseas or interstate institution. Deadline Fri 29 Nov 2024. Read more.
Nominations for the 2024 AIPNSW Postgraduate Awards Day close 12 Oct. The Awards Day is 12 Nov in Sydney. More about the awards and the event.
The International Conference on Quark Confinement and Hadron Structure was hosted in Cairns this August. 300 participants discussed latest developments, from the properties of neutron stars (which contain the most dense matter in the Universe) to Dark Matter’s nature and attempts to detect it. With Dr Ayse Kizilersu from Adelaide as Chair, the meeting was regarded by all as a tremendous success.
Contribute a technical article for Australian Physics magazine: Contact the editors: editors@aip.org.au.
Sadly, two former AIP members passed away in recent weeks. Vale Dr Geoffrey Shute, an original AIP member from our 1963 inauguration and long-term staff member of the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne, and Philip Spark, who at various times taught physics at UNSW, La Trobe University Bendigo, and UNE.
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Australian physics in the news
Even the heaviest particles experience the usual quantum weirdness, new experiment shows (The Conversation)
How dung beetles and the Milky Way are helping engineers to improve navigation systems (The Brighter Side of News)
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Applications close 9 October. Read more.
Physics World Careers is a guide aimed at helping
those with a physics background make informed decisions about their career
path. Download a copy of Physics World Careers
2024.
If you have a physics-related job or
PhD opportunity, let us know and we can provide a free link. For a small fee,
we can advertise your job as a feature with more details and a picture. EmailMichael Schmidt for more information.
Need help? Contact aip@aip.org.au.
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