Director's Message

Dear Colleagues,

The winners of this year’s Grand Challenges have just been announced, and my congratulations go to Prof Ken Baldwin for leading the team on “Delivering zero-carbon energy to Asia Pacific”. It is wonderful to see physics again a key part of this fantastic cross-campus program.

This week’s picture shows Michael Blacksell in France presenting the Director General of the ITER Organization with a boomerang. ITER is one of the most ambitious energy projects even undertaken and Michael is in the middle of it for the next 4 months, where he’ll contribute his engineering expertise to an ANU-lead project employing diagnostics developed by Em/Prof John Howard’s group.

Founder’s Day Director's awards close this Friday.  Please submit a brief nomination for your favourite person or team, at RSPE or on campus, who work above and beyond by the end of this week.

The biennial Voice Survey is under way.  You will have received a personalised email to complete this survey, please use only the link within that email. To help you search for the email it will have come from “Voice Project on behalf of ANU <ben.eastment@voiceproject.com>" on or around Monday 17th September.  This is an important survey and many universities now rely on it for comparisons around the sector.  Our VC is very keen to have our feedback back the end of this week.

Have a great week,

Tim

Shower and Bike Locations

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Do you have an unused unloved bike tied up around RSPE? Please take it home. F&S will be working with Security to remove all unclaimed bikes in the near future. 

The HDR student representatives are starting a mentoring program for HDR students across RSPE! We hope this mentoring program will give HDR candidates the opportunity to provide support for each other, develop skills and expand student networks across the research school. For anyone interested in participating, please respond to the below google forms survey by 28th September.

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Do you have a question about the commercialisation of your research? Not sure where or how to get started? Come and chat to a specialist from the Technology Transfer Office.

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Thought by many to have been snubbed for a Nobel prize for the discovery of pulsars, astrophysicist Bell Burnell has been awarded an $3-million Breakthrough Prize. She plans to spend the prize money — awarded 50 years after the discovery — on increasing diversity in science.

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We are seeking women from STEM backgrounds who are keen to make a difference by coaching/mentoring a high school student who has enrolled in the Curious Minds program. 

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The Joint College Executives have approved the introduction and implementation of ‘hard internal deadlines’ for the upcoming 2018/2019 major grants round.

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Departmental Seminars

2 Oct 2018
Amol Choudhary
On-chip light-sound interactions for microwave and optical communications
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