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ACT Branch AGM

The ACT Branch AIP Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 10 December 2024. The 2025 committee elected at the meeting is listed above.

Weare still have room for additional colleagues to join the Branch committee. Contact the branch secretary for further information.

2024 Photography Competition, "The Beauty of Physics".

The ACT Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics is once again inviting photographers of all levels to participate in our photography competition celebrating the awe-inspiring beauty of physics.

Winners of the 2024 competition are below. Learn more about the physics behind each image here.

Grand prize goes to Margaret Wegener for "Doubling Up: Reflection and Refraction".

Second prize was awarded to Jayne Ion for the image below,  entitled "Laser Cavities for Quantum Science".

And the secondary sector award goes to David Stewart for the image below, "Surface tension".

AIP WiP Physics Lecture Tour in the ACT, 2024

Prof. Susan Coppersmith spoke in Canberra as follows:

24 September,  Joint AIP & RSPhys. Directors colloquium: 11.30 am, Physics auditorium Building 160, ANU. See RSPhys. notice https://physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/?EventID=1479.

 24 September, evening Public lecture: 

at the New Physics Building number 160, Mills Rd, ANU. L

Prof. Coppersmith also be visited several local Senior Secondary Schools on 25 September.