ACT Branch
Branch Meetings List
| Meetings in 2011 | ||||
| Fri 4 Feb | AIP ACT Branch Committee | AGM plus Open Forum on Future Directions for the Branch | RSPE Link Building tea room, Building 60, ANU Campus |
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| Meetings in 2010 | ||||
| Fri 19 Nov | Prof Hans Bachor | Fifty years of Lasers and a brilliant future | Questacon Lecture Theatre | |
| Sat 16 Oct | Prof Hans Bachor | Fifty years of Lasers and a brilliant future | Lecture Theatre 1, Questacon | |
| Wed 22 Sep | Dr Vincent Daria | Dynamic microscopy: From optical micro-manipulation to neuronstimulation | Lecture Theatre PSYCH G6, Building 39 The Australian National University |
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| Wed 25 Aug | Prof Ben Eggleton | Ultrafast photonic integrated circuits: Breaking the Terabit per second-barrier | Lecture Theatre PSYC G6 Building 39, The Australian National University |
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| Wed 28 Jul | Prof Elizabeth Winstanley | Black Holes at the LHC | Dunbar Lecture Theatre (PHYS T) Building 39a, The Australian National University |
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| Wed 23 Jun | Dr Vincent Daria | Dynamic microscopy: From optical micro-manipulation to neuronstimulation | Research School of Physics and Engineering Seminar Room Cockroft/Oliphant Link Building, Australian National University Building 58D on the campus map |
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| Wed 19 May | Prof Peter Hannaford | 50 years of lasing and how it all happened | Research School of Physics and Engineering Seminar Room Cockroft/Oliphant Link Building, Australian National University Building 58D on the campus map |
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| Wed 28 Apr | Dr Stefan Keller | The SkyMapper Telescope | Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre (PHYS T),Australian National University Building 39 on the Campus Map |
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| Wed 31 Mar | Paul Francis | Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe | Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre (PHYS T), Building 39, The Australian National University | |
| Meetings in 2009 | ||||
| Thu 10 Dec | Professor Rudi Grimm (2009 Frew Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science) | Cool and fascinating: Quantum matter at absolute zero and AGM BBQ |
Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre (PHYS T), Building 39 (Psychology), The Australian National University | |
| Mon 16 Nov | Professor Robert Kirshner | Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Cosmos: Einstein's Blunder Undone | Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre (PHYS T), Building 39 The Australian National University |
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| Thu 29 Oct | Prof Brian James | Presentation of the Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics and the AIP Award for Outstanding Service to Physics in Australia | Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre (PHYS T) Building 39, The Australian National University |
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| Wed 14 Oct | Prof Ray Norris | The Astronomy of Aboriginal Australians | Dunbar Physics Lecture Theatre (PHYS T, building 39 on the campus map), The Australian National University |
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| Tue 15 Sep | Prof Matthew Bailes | Millisecond Pulsar Hunting | Lecture Theatre Chem T1, Building 34 The Australian National University |
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| Wed 2 Sep | Dr Charley Lineweaver | Is There More Than One Universe? | NB: change of venue: Physics T Lecture Theatre, Building 39 The Australian National University |
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| Wed 12 Aug | Dr Ross Taylor | The Moon: A Retrospective View | Lecture Theatre Chem T2 Building 34, The Australian National University |
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| Mon 27 Jul | Prof Reinhard Genzel | Black Holes and Galaxies | Lecture Theatre Chem T1, Chemistry Building 33, Australian National University |
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| Thu 30 Apr | Dr Christine Charles, AIP Women in Physics Lecturer 2009 | To planets or just to the shops, Plasmas pave the path | Seminar room P25 (G02), PEMS South,Australian Defence Force Academy (building 26 on the ADFA map) |
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| Fri 27 Mar | Prof Eric Mazur, Dr Judith Pollard, Prof Les Kirkup, Prof Mario Zadnik | Workshop on Interactive Learning in Undergraduate Physics | Copland G30 Australian National University |
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| Thu 26 Mar | Prof Eric Mazur | How the mind tricks us: visualizations and visual illusions | Chem T1 (Arthur Hambley Lecture Theatres) Austalian National University |
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| Wed 18 Mar | Prof Elizabeth Winstanley | Black Holes at the LHC? | Chem T1 (Arthur Hambley Lecture Theatre) Australian National University |
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| Meetings in 2008 | ||||
| Wed 12 Nov | Prof Tanya Monro | Annual General Meeting | Southern Cross Yacht ClubLotus Bay, 1 Mariner PlaceYarralumla ACT 2600 | |
| Tue 1 Jul | Dr Thomas M Baer | Advances in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: The Revolution in Bioimaging and Micro-molecular analysis | LEONARD HUXLEY LECTURE THEATRE, LEONARD HUXLEY BUILDING #56, ground floor | |
| Tue 13 May | Alistair Riddell | Contemporary computer music | Physics Link Seminar Room,RSPhysSE Australian National University |
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| Tue 29 Apr | Speakers: Lachlan McCalman and Ramin Rafei | Student prizes and student talks |
Engineering Lecture Theatre, Building 32 Australian National University |
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| Wed 12 Mar | Prof Steve Buckman | Tour of the positron beamline facility at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies | RSPhysSE Australian National University |
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| Meetings in 2007 | ||||
| Wed 12 Dec | Charley Lineweaver | Branch AGM: Cosmology, Exoplanets and the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics | Southern Cross Yacht Club Lotus Bay, Mariner Place Yarralumla ACT 2600 |
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| Tue 27 Nov | Alain Aspect | From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new quantum age | The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Acton | |
| Thu 25 Oct | Lloyd Hollenberg | Quantum Computing - Beyond the Hype | Huxley Lecture Theatre, Leonard Huxley Building (56) Australian National University |
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| Thu 23 Aug | Prof Mike Dopita | The (not so secret) lives of galaxies | The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Acton | |
| Tue 24 Jul | Dr Bruce Mason | The New Technology Pool at the Australian Institute of Sport | The Visitors Centre, Australian Institute of Sport (building 24 on the AIS Map) |
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| Wed 20 Jun | Ra Inta with Joseph Lai and Theo Evans | How Termites Communicate Using Vibrations - a true multidisciplinary project | LT6, Lecture Theatres North, upper level UNSW@ADFA (see map) |
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| Wed 6 Jun | Prof Hans Bachor | Photons – quantum ideas that could influence your life | The Shine Dome, Gordon Street,Acton, Canberra | |
| Thu 24 May | Prof Pier Luigi Braccini | A cold-war physicist - Bruno Pontecorvo, his life and work | Lecture Theatre PSYCG6, Department of Psychology Australian National University (Building 39 on the ANU Campus Map) |
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| Thu 26 Apr | Nakorn Suwuntanasarn (UNSW@ADFA) and Violaine Vizcaino (ANU) | Graduate student talks and undergraduate prizes | Lecture Theatre PSYCG6, Department of Psychology, Australian National University (building 39 on the campus map). |
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| Wed 21 Mar | Tour Guide: Chris Neil, Speaker: TBA | Visit to the Mt Stromlo Observatory | Mount Stromlo Observatory | |
| Meetings in 2006 | ||||
| Thu 14 Dec | Dr John Close | Annual General Meeting | POD Food, Beltana Rd, Pialligo |
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| Tue 7 Nov | Dr Doug Cato | Sounds in the Ocean | LT6, Lecture Theatres North, upper level UNSW@ADFA (see map) | |
| Wed 20 Sep | Prof Deb Kane | Light, Particles, Action | Physics T Lecture Theatre, Building 39 The Australian National University |
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| Wed 16 Aug | Dr Christine Charles | Plasma power: to Mars and beyond or just to the shops | Lecture Theate PSYC G6, Building 39 The Faculties, Australian National University |
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| Wed 19 Jul | Professor S J Gates Jr | If You Knew SUSY | Physics Lecture Theatre (Physics T), The Faculties, Australian National University (Building 39a on the campus map) |
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| Thu 29 Jun | Professor Yuri Kivshar | Trapping and guiding light in periodic structures | Link Building Seminar Room, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering (building 58D on the campus map) |
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| Mon 22 May | Professor Nergis Mavalvala | Detecting gravitational waves with interferometers: giant detectors, precision measurements and the search for the elusive waves |
Questacon, Parkes, Canberra | |
| Thu 11 May | Dr Warwick Bowen | Experiments towards a quantum information network with squeezed light and entanglement | Huxley Lecture Theatre, RSPhysSE, The Australian National University (Building 56 on the Campus Map) |
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| Tue 11 Apr | Profesor Huw Price | Can the future affect the past? Time-Symmetry in Microphysics | Leonard Huxley Theatre, Huxley Building, ANU Campus | |
| Thu 30 Mar | Drew Evans and Simon Haine |
Treatment of static loadings applied to a cantilever beam, and its application to film stress and photon pressure and Spooking Einstein with atom lasers |
Lecture Theatre PSYC G08 (note change from PSYC G05), Department of Psychology, The Faculties The Australian National University |
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| Thu 23 Feb | Prof Keith Fifield and Dr Steve Tims | Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the Australian National University | Department of Nuclear Physics, RSPhysSE, ANU Building 57 (end of Garran Road) |
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| Meetings in 2005 | ||||
| Thu 24 Nov | N/A | Branch Annual General Meeting | Yarralumla Gallery and Oaks Brasserie, Cottage 1, Yarralumla Nursery, Yarralumla |
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| Wed 16 Nov | Dr Michel Darocogna and Prof H. Eugene Stanley | Lessons Learned From Studying High-frequency Data in Finance and Econophysics: Can Physicists Help Understand Economic Fluctuations? |
Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia, Acton Peninsula | |
| Wed 26 Oct | Prof George Dracoulis | Metastable States and Nuclear Spectroscopy | Lecture Theatre PSYC G06 Building 39, ANU |
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| Wed 28 Sep | Ra Inta | Applications of Acoustics to Replicate High Quality Stringed Musical Instruments | Lecture Theatre 8, Upper Level Lecture Theatres North, UNSW@ADFA |
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| Wed 17 Aug | Professor Hans Bachor | One hundred years of photons - and so much more we can do with them | Lecture Theatre 3, Manning Clark Centre, ANU | |
| Fri 15 Jul | Professor George Ellis, | Cosmology - Universal Questions: where did we come from and are we alone? | Theatre 3, Manning Clark Centre, Australian National University | |
| Thu 16 Jun | Prof David Jamieson (AIP President) | Einstein's theory of Special Relativity: light, time and space. | Lecture Theatre Chem T1, The Faculties, ANU | |
| Thu 2 Jun | Prof Raymond Volkas | The light quantum: from the humble photoelectric effect to the strange world of modern physics. | Lecture Theatre Chem T1, The Faculties, ANU | |
| Thu 26 May | Dr Elisabetta Barberio | E = mc2: energy and matter entwined | Lecture Theatre Chem T1 (Arthur Hambley Lecture Theatre), The Faculties,ANU (Building 34 on the Campus Map) |
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| Thu 7 Apr | Kallista Stewart, Sean Farrell and Hua Xia | Second year prize-giving and talks from the three winners of the 2004 Carver Prize talks. | PSYC G06, Department of Psychology, The Faculties, ANU (building 39 on the Campus Map) |
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| Wed 2 Mar | Glen Nagle | Behind the scenes at Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex | Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex Tidbinbilla |
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| Meetings in 2004 | ||||
| Wed 24 Nov | Professor Neil Manson | Branch Annual General Meeting | Yarralumla Gallery and Oaks Brasserie,Cottage 1, Yarralumla Nursery, Yarralumla | |
| Wed 27 Oct | Maryanne Large, 2004 Eureka Prize Winner | Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres | Link Building Seminar Room, RSPhysSE, ANU |
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| Mon 27 Sep | Dr Mahananda Dasgupta | Accelerated Nuclei: exploring the nucleus and the natural environment | Forestry Lecture Theatre, ANU (Building 48 on the Campus Map) |
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| Thu 9 Sep | G. Scott Hubbard | Exploring Mars with Humans & Robots: Technologies for the New Exploration Vision | The Shine Dome, Gordon Street, Canberra ACT 2601 |
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| Mon 30 Aug | Professor Sir Michael Berry | Making Light of Mathematics | SAS Visions Theatre, National Museum of Australia | |
| Fri 6 Aug | Prof David Jamieson | The 19th Century world wide web: the electric telegraph, relativity and the eccentric Oliver Heaviside | Lecture Room G6, Department of Physics, ANU | |
| Wed 21 Jul | Allan Carpenter | Acoustic Holography and its Application to Noise Source Identification | ADFA | |
| Thu 24 Jun | John Howard | The H-1NF National Facility: Australia's role in the quest for fusion power | RSPhysSE (lab visit) | |
| Thu 20 May | Peter Fisk | Satellites, atoms, lasers, pulsars and relativity: An overview of modern timekeeping | RSPhysSE | |
| Tue 6 Apr | Craig Savage / Tracy Slatyer | Psi in the sky | Department of Physics, ANU | |
| Thu 18 Mar | George Bailey | Tour of the Australian War Memorial's Treloar Technology Centre | Treloar Technology Centre, Mitchell | |
| Thu 26 Feb | Prof David Pritchard | Bose Einstein Condensation: the coldest place on earth | Questacon | |
| Meetings in 2003 | ||||
| Thu 27 Nov | Colin Taylor | The lighter, brighter side of teaching physics | AGM: Vivaldi Restaurant, ANU Campus | |
| Wed 29 Oct | John Finnigan | Complex systems science in the early anthropocene | CSIRO Discovery Theatre | |
| Fri 5 Sep | Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop | Catch, move and twist with optical tweezers | Questacon | |
| Thu 4 Sep | Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop | Laser manipulation of micrparticles and atoms | Huxley Theatre, ANU | |
| Tue 26 Aug | R. A. Robinson | Opportunities for Physics Research at Australia's Research Reactor | RSPhysSE | |
| Thu 24 Jul | Bill Phillips (Nobel Laureate) | Time, Einstein and the Coldest Stuff in the Universe | Manning Clark, ANU | |
| Wed 11 Jun | Scott Foster | Fibre laser hydrophones for sonar applications | ADFA | |
| Thu 22 May | Annette Berriman | Nuclear Fusion: Not as simple as you thought! | RSPhysSE, ANU | |
| Thu 10 Apr | Neil Manson | Quantum Computing: get real? | RSPhysSE ANU | |
| Thu 6 Mar | Duncan Campbell-Wilson / Frank Briggs | Radio-astronomy at Molonglo Observatory (field visit) | Molonglo Observatory | |