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Weekly newsletter | vol 49 no 48 | 9–13 December 2024

 

 

 

Director's Message

Dear Colleagues,

It continues to be a great pleasure to see the auditorium draw in our colleagues from around the world and ISSON has had the pleasure of rounding out the year. Basically, a whole month of international conferences beginning with Korean-Australian Quantum Forum (EH #44), the Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium (top image), the International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids jointly with the International Symposium on Swift Heavy Ions in Matter, and this week the International Symposium on Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology (ISSON). Of course, the significance of the ISSON meeting was greatly amplified as a community tribute to our retiring (but not departing) Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish, AC. We will hold a School morning tea for Jagadish in the new year.

Four of our colleagues have also been feted for career achievements (above);

  • Dr. Rocio Camacho Morales from the Department of Electronics Materials Engineering and TMOS on her award of the Australian and New Zealand Optical Society (ANZOS) Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize. Rocio is recognised for an outstanding contribution to the field of optics and photonics in Australia and New Zealand by an early career researcher.
  • Distinguished Professor Susan Scott George Szekeres Medal by Jessica Purcell - President of the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS). This was during the opening ceremony of the joint meetings of the AustMS, the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society being held in Auckland.
  • Professors Nanda Dasgupta and David Hinde are seen with AIP President Professor Nicole Bell receiving their 2023 joint Walter Boas Medal in person at the recent AIP Congress in Melbourne last week. 

Below photos from the ISSON dinner & a minister visiting Quantum Brilliance.

In the mad flurry that always seems to descend around now I’ve taken a bold decision to move the Director’s awards to the BEGINNING of the year. I’m hoping this casts a fresher perspective on nominations.

On the 18th we’ll have our traditional fruit mince pie morning tea. Come and share this small thank you from me to celebrate the end of the year.

Tim

 

 

All Oliphant (Bldg. #60) Meeting rooms will be closed from 12/12/24.

- Fishbowl - Closed
- Private Room - Closed
- Lv4 Conference Room - Closed
- Oliphant Tearoom - Closing 31/12/24

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End Of Year Finance Cut Off Dates

  • Wednesday 11 December - Last day to submit Self Service Reimbursement requests for payment in 2024
  • Wednesday 11 December - Last day to submit invoices for existing Suppliers, if the payment is due in 2024
  • Monday 16 December - Last day for Financial Delegates to approve invoices and reimbursements in ES Financials for payment in 2024
  • (10pm) Monday 30 December - Last day to approve an expense claim in Concur to ensure the transactions post to ES Financials in 2024

 

Paid PhD internship with Telstra (Melbourne)

WaveSense: Advanced Signal Processing and AI for Next-Gen Human Presence Detection

About the industry partner: Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, offering a full range of communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets. In Australia Telstra provides around 22.5 million retail mobile services and 3.4 million retail bundle and data services.

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New Reimbursement Process

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WHS Notice

There has been an increase in bike and scooter theft in the last couple of months at ANU.

If you witness any suspicious activity around the bike storage areas, do not approach the person.

If you feel it to be safe, take a photo at a distance but do not approach and do not follow them.

Report the activity to the ANU UniSafe team on 6125 2249 as soon as possible.

 

College Hot Desking In Physics

Finance, HR & RM Teams
Thursday Mornings
Lv2 Tearoom, Bldg 160

 

EVENTS

 

Departmental seminars

Professor Davide D'Angelo - 9 December
ASTAROTH - All Sensitive crysTal ARray with lOw THreshold
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Dr Travis Mitchell - 9 December
Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of Two-Phase Flow in Porous and Fractured Media: Applications in gas diffusion electrodes and coal fractures
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Mr Sebastian Klimmer - 12 December
PROBING ULTRAFAST BANDGAP MODULATIONS AND VALLEY IMBALANCES IN ATOMICALLY THIN SEMICONDUCTORS
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Mr Lukas Jager - 12 December
Optical Coupling and Far-Field Emission of Semiconductor Nanowires
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Associate Professor James Sullivan - 12 December
The Jawun Experience
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Professor Andrei V. Lavrinenko - 13 December
Nanostructures in sensing and high harmonic generation
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Know your administrators...

Julie Arnold, Nikki Azzopardi, Belinda Barbour & Petra Rickman

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Know your school team...

Joseph Hong -
Stores/Purchasing Team Leader

Goran Radovanovic -
Stores Services  

Patrick Romero - Stores/Purchasing Services 

purchasing.physics@anu.edu.au

Purchasing - RSPhys Intranet
Stores - RSPhys Intranet

 

Know your student admin...

Liudmila (Luda) Mangos -
Higher Degree Research admin
C3.02C, Cockcroft bldg (Mon-Fri 9:30-5pm) hdr.physics@anu.edu.au

Siobhan Ryman -
Physics Education Centre admin and HDR
1.05, Bldg 38A (Tues 8.30-4pm) ; C3.02C, Cockcroft bldg (Mon,Thurs-Fri 8.30-4pm) pec.physics@anu.edu.au

 

Know your school team...

Phil Dooley -
Manager, Marketing and Communications (part time)
phil.dooley@anu.edu.au
0414 945 577

Got a story idea? Info on ANU Physics Sci Comm is here

 

Know your HDR Convenors...

A/Prof Vanessa Robins
A/Prof James Sullivan
Dr Michaela Froehlich
HDR Convenors

Prof Vince Craig
Associate Director HDR

 

Know your Student Reps...

Aditya Babu, Victoria Bashu, Jessica Wierbik, Hendrik Heimes & Elizaveta Melik-Gaykazyan

hdrsreps.physics@anu.edu.au

 

Know your school team...

Rick Walsh -
WHS Manager

Huma Latif -
WHS Officer

whs.physics@anu.edu.au 

 

Psychosocial Training For ECRs

Starting work as an Early Career Researcher can be challenging, particularly when it comes to navigating one's rights and responsibilities within the university. To introduce you to some of these concepts, you are invited to attend this session on understanding psychosocial hazards, safety, and duty of care in the workplace.

This session will be facilitated by Ingrid Krauss - Manager Injury, Prevention & Wellbeing, People and Culture Division.

WHEN | 10 December, 10 am – 12 pm

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Lunchtime Yoga

Lunchtime yoga sessions for 2024 are back! Every Thursday from 12:00 to 12:45 PM in the Conference Room (4.03), Level 4 of the new building. 

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WHS SharePoint

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Physics @ ANU

 

 


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