2008
August
- The Einstein lecture - Einstein’s energy futures
6-8pm, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Dr Joe Khachan will perform energy demonstrations that look back to Einstein and into the future.
25/08/2008 - 25/08/2008 - New technologies for an old cancer
6.30pm, Jack Brockhoff Lecture Theatre, 3rd floor of the Smorgon Family Building, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Annette Haworth will talk about how high technology radiotherapy equipment has revolutionised the treatment of prostate cancer.
21/08/2008 - 21/08/2008 - To PhD or not to PhD: that is the question
6pm, Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney
Prof. Deb Kane will reflect on what her PhD achieved, for society and for herself Info: fred_osman@exemail.com.au.
19/08/2008 - 19/08/2008 - Imaging the interior of the Earth
8pm, Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania
Dr Anya Reading will discuss how we can build up a picture of what there is, and what is going on, under the Earth’s surface.
19/08/2008 - 19/08/2008
July
- 2008 Physics youth lecture tour, July-August
Regional and metropolitan venues across Queensland
Dr Joel Gilmore will be delivering talks and workshops to school students and teachers on nanotechnology, and providing a community lecture on Black Holes. Info: Peta.Jackson@deta.qld.gov.au
28/07/2008 - 28/08/2008
May
- A Climate For Change Seminar (NSW)
Friday 30 May, 5pm to 11pm, The Macquarie Room, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, North Ryde
Media interest tends to concentrate on the negative aspects of climate change with an emphasis on worst case scenarios. In other words – what does climate change mean for humans?
30/05/2008 - 30/05/2008 - ANSTO – Australian Physics in Action
Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney, 6pm
Organised by AIP NSW. Physics, nuclear science and technology have a symbiotic relationship.
27/05/2008 - 27/05/2008 - Talks after Noon: Phoenix Mission to Mars, Sydney Writers’ Festival 2008
Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris St, Ultimo, Sunday 25 May
Speaker: Kerrie Dougherty is the Powerhouse Museum’s Curator Space Technology and has encyclopaedic knowledge of space exploration.
25/05/2008 - 25/05/2008 - Astronomical, Sydney Writers’ Festival 2008
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 4, Pier 4/5, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay, 1pm
Have you ever wondered what dark matter is or why galaxies collide? Or why the Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth? Space is really, really big, as Douglas Adams once pointed out.
25/05/2008 - 25/05/2008 - Spacefarers of the New Millennium at Glebe Library
Glebe Library, 186 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe. 6:30pm, Sydney’s Writers’ Festival 2008
Speaker: Fred Watson
22/05/2008 - 22/05/2008 - Tales of a Foot-loose Physicist
Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Sandy Bay, 8pm
Speaker: K G McCracken. Dr McCracken uses experiences from his own career to illustrate that a training in physics provides great versatility.
21/05/2008 - 21/05/2008 - An optical astronomer designs a radio telescope: the LOFAR story
Copland Lecture Theatre, Australian National, 5:30pm, Black Hole Society
Speaker: Harvey Butcher, Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
08/05/2008 - 08/05/2008 - The Big Bang - Physics of the Beginning of our Universe
lecture theatre TBA, University of Adelaide
SPEAKER: Harald Fritzsch, Chair of High Energy Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
01/05/2008 - 01/05/2008
April
- ANSTO – Australian Physics in Action
Tuesday 27 May, 6pm, AIP NSW, Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney
George Collins, ANSTO. Physics, nuclear science and technology have a symbiotic relationship.
30/04/2008 - 30/04/2008 - Cluster opening – suspending the laws of physics
VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 40 Dodds St, Southbank
The April AIP Victorian meeting will be held in conjunction with the opening of an art installation, Cluster at the Victorian College for the Arts.
24/04/2008 - 24/04/2008 - Multiscale brain dynamics: towards a first-cut ‘working-brain’ model
Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney
Hear about the latest work to model the human brain.
22/04/2008 - 22/04/2008 - World Space Congress for Youth – 17 to 19 April in Greece
Congress Center of the Athens, Greece
The World Federation of Physics’ Students has organised the World Space Congress for Youth
17/04/2008 - 19/04/2008 - National Measurement Institute International Symposium – 4 April
The National Measurement Institute (NMI) is hosting an international symposium titled ‘The Avogadro Project and Redefinition of the SI Units’
04/04/2008 - 04/04/2008
March
- Accelerator science school
School of Physics, The University of Melbourne and Australian Synchrotron
26/03/2008 - 02/04/2008 - Attracting more students to physics
Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney
PRESENTED on Tuesday 25 Mar, 5:30pm BY Mark Butler
25/03/2008 - 25/03/2008 - The problem of energy states on metal surfaces and how to solve it
Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney
PRESENTED on Tuesday 25 Mar, 7pm BY Marlene Read
25/03/2008 - 25/03/2008 - International perspectives on nanotechnology and the role of measurement
Lehany Theatre, NMI Lindfield
NMI invites you to a unique opportunity to hear two of the worlds leading experts in the field of nanotechnology to share their views.
03/03/2008 - 03/03/2008
February
- Gold, Gold, Gold…for Physics!
Slade Lecture Theatre, ground floor of School of Physics, University of Sydney, Camperdown
PRESENTED on Tuesday 12 Feb, 6:30pm BY Shuyan Xu, Denison Distinguished Visitor, University of Sydney
12/02/2008 - 12/02/2008 - Physics in Biology: How structural biology has revolutionised the new biology
Hercus Theatre University of Melbourne
PRESENTED on Monday 11 Feb, 6:30pm BY Jose Varghese, CSIRO Molecular and Health Sciences
11/02/2008 - 11/02/2008 - Bridging Engineering and Neuroscience: The Restoration of Impaired Neural Function
Theatre 1, ICT Building, 11 Barry St, The University of Melbourne
PRESENTED on Wednesday 6 Feb, 6pm by Anthony Burkitt, The University of Melbourne
06/02/2008 - 06/02/2008
2007
December
- New ways of molding the flow of light with optical fibres:
SA: Union Hall, University of Adelaide
The Women in Physics Lecture by Tanya Monro
12/12/2007 - 12/12/2007 - AGM and dinner
Formal dining room, The University Club, UWA @ 6pm
PRESENTED BY: Justice Robert French, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
05/12/2007 - 05/12/2007 - AGM and Superconductivity: Has it changed or touched your life?
NSW: Slade Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney
Cathy Foley is discussing the past, present and future of superconductivity
04/12/2007 - 04/12/2007
November
- The past and future of our universe
VIC: Laby Theatre, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne
Gottfried lecture, Avi Loeb, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard University, will be presenting a lecture on the evolution of the universe and what the future holds for the M
30/11/2007 - 30/11/2007 - From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new quantum age
ACT: The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Acton
PRESENTED BY: Alain Aspect, Universite de Paris-Sud
27/11/2007 - 27/11/2007 - Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The coolest stuff in the universe
QLD: Ithaca Auditorium, Brisbane City Hall
Includes experimental demonstrations and down-to-earth explanations about atomic clocks
26/11/2007 - 26/11/2007 - Ethics and ethos of being a scientist
Sunderland lecture theatre, Medical Building, The University of Melbourne @ 5:30pm
PRESENTED BY: Frank Dunshea, The University of Melbourne
23/11/2007 - 23/11/2007 - AGM in Victoria
Fritz Loewe Theatre, McCoy (Earth Sciences) Building, University of Melbourne
The Victorian AIP branch is finishing its year with an annual general meeting, a call for office bearer nominations, and the 2007 Walter Boas Medal presentation and lecture.
15/11/2007 - 15/11/2007 - Quantum-enhanced precision measurement
Griffith University @ 4pm
PRESENTED BY: Geoff Pryde, Griffith University
02/11/2007 - 02/11/2007
October
- Informal social meeting over drinks
5th floor, Physics building, University of Western Australia @ 5:30pm
Share a drink over canapés with fellow physicists at the first of many informal gatherings hosted by the West Australian AIP branch.
24/10/2007 - 24/10/2007 - What’s happening to gravity?
Kerr Grant lecture theatre, Physics building, University of Adelaide @ 7:30pm
Join Fred Watson as he explores gravity themes in this entertaining and fully-illustrated talk
15/10/2007 - 15/10/2007 - Surfing the Solar System with Lucy Hawking
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney @ 2pm
Lucy Hawking has collaborated with her world-famous father, Professor Stephen Hawking, to produce his first ever children's book, George's Secret Key to the Universe
14/10/2007 - 14/10/2007 - The Spitzer Space Telescope BY; Robert Wilson, Spitzer project manager
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
The Spitzer Space Telescope, the fourth and last of NASA's Great Observatories, has been exploring the universe at Infra-red wavelengths since late 2003.
14/10/2007 - 14/10/2007 - Computing with light PRESENTED BY: Andrew White, University of Queensland
University of Queensland @ 4pm
This talk, aimed at school teachers & their students, explains developments in quantum computing.
12/10/2007 - 12/10/2007
March
- Lecture:
Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building, University of Melbourne -6 pm.
Dr. James E. Butler is currently visiting the School of Physics, He leads a research group at the Naval Research Laboratory studying the growth, applications, and properties of CVD diamond materials.
07/03/2007 - 07/03/2007
