4 February – 6 February 2009, Wagga Wagga

Editorial and Program

Downloadable Conference Papers

Wednesday, 4 February

• W2 – Ultrafast Interactions in Condensed Matter as Source of Terahertz-Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation Stuart Hargraves and R. A. Lewis
• WP4 – Quantum Phase Diagram for a Planar Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet A. Fabricio Albuquerque, Chris J. Hamer and Jaan Oitmaa
• WP10 – Weak Measurements on Entangled Solid-State Qubits D.J. Miller
• WP15 – Elasticity, Toughening and Damping Enhancement of Polypropylene after Blending with Polysiloxane Elastomers Huan Yao (Peter) Huang, Balaji Rengarajan, Robert Shanks
• WP19 – Ion Beam Assisted Formation of Magnetic Nano-particles Anwaar E. Malik, K. Belay, David Llewellyn, W.D. Hutchison and R. Elliman
• WP23 – The Generation of Terahertz Frequency Radiation by Optical Rectification K. Radhanpura, S. Hargreaves and R.A. Lewis
• WP26 – Influence of Fe on the magnetic properties of h-Yb(Mn_1-xFe_x)O₃ Hazar A. Salamaand Glen A. Stewart
• WP29 – Stimulated Emission of Radiation: an Example in Special Relativity for Undergraduate Years Gordon J.Troup, David M. Paganin and Andrew E. Smith

Thursday, 5 February

• T6 – Power Law dependence of Ageing in a Colloidal Hard Sphere Glass V.A Martinez, G. Bryant and W. van Megen
• TP7 – Low Energy Photoelectron Diffraction at High Angular Resolution as a Surface Structure Probe G.P. Cousland, A.E. Smith, J.D. Riley and A.P.J. Stampfl
• TP10 – Extrusion Grafting of Starch with Reactive Dyes to Form Sheets with Reduced Retrogradation Kris Frost, Daniel Kaminski and Robert Shanks
• TP12 – Dynamic and Modulated Thermomechanical Behaviour of Toughened Polypropylene Composites Huan Yao (Peter) Huang, Balaji Rengarajan, Robert Shanks
• TP13 – Exploring the Magnetic Anisotropy of (Pr_0.5Nd_0.5)_1-xGd_xNi L.Y.S. Soo, W.D. Hutchison, Y. Tajiri and K. Nishimura
• TP16 – Studies of the Electroresistive Properties of Electronic Oxides J.C. Knott and R.A. Lewis
• TP18 – Electron density analysis of the effects of sugars on the structure of lipid bilayers at low hydration – a preliminary study. Thomas Lenné, B. Kent, Karen L. Koster, Christopher J. Garvey and Gary Bryant
• TP22 – Carbon Cluster output of Cesium-Sputtering Ion Sources with Modified Cathode Geometries Anwaar E. Malik
• TP23 – Vibration Characterisation and Reduction of a Joule-Thomson Cryocooler using a High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) SQUID Petra A. Probst and Gerard J.J.B. de Groot
• TP24 – Surface electron band structure and VLEED reflectivity for Al(111) M.N. Read
• TP26 – Annealing and Thermal History Relaxations of Polymer Nanocomposites with Hyperbranched Polymer Particles S. Spoljaric, A. Genovese, T.K. Goh, G. Qiao and R.A. Shanks
• TP27 – Temperature, Structural and Relaxation Asymmetry Contributions to Physical Ageing of Polymer-Silica Nanocomposites S. Spoljaric, A. Genovese, G. Qiao and R.A. Shanks
• TP29 – The magnetic ground state of Tm³⁺ site in TmMn₂Si₂ B. Saensunon, K. Nishimura and G.A. Stewart
• TP33 – The Emission of Visible Radiation by Peeling Adhesive Tape E. Constable, Y. Hu, J. Horvat and R.A. Lewis
• TP34 – Thermodynamics of Ferro-Antiferro J₁-J₂ Spin-Half Chain Materials Jaan Oitmaa and A. Fabricio Albuquerque

Friday, 6 February

• F3 – Critical Behaviour of Structure Factors at a Quantum Phase Transition C.J. Hamer
• F8 – New Shape-Memory Compositions in the Au_2-xCu_1+xAl (0<x<2) β-Phase Vijay Bhatia, C.S. Kealley, A. Dowd and M.B. Cortie