Director's Message

I always enjoy starting the EH with news of an award. This week, it’s a great pleasure to congratulate Dr Kirill Koshelev on his recent award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) of the Early Career Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for 2025. IUPAP is the only global organization covering all areas of physics and has brought international harmony around standards and conventions for over 103 years. 

With global pressures on academic institutions now is a great time to show solidarity and join the Australian Institute of Physics. Postgraduate students holding an accredited Physics degree are encouraged to apply for full Membership (MAIP), paying a reduced student rate for their membership, Member Full-Time Student. They receive physical copies of the Australian Physics magazine and also have access to benefits such as travel funds and reduced rates for the 2024 AIP Congress and 2025 AIP Summer Meeting. 

Physicists unite!

And lastly, below a lone pigeon wonders where all their colleagues have gone. Clearly they weren’t reading the Event Horizon and missed that the flock has flown the coup after a long overdue clean of the back alley behind the School Manager’s and Director’s office – pew!!! Might be wise to skip visiting us for a few days. (photo credit: James Irwin)

Have a great weekend, rug up.
Tim

Congratulations to Dhruv Hariharan and Ivan Toftul (DMP), who demonstrated, with collaborators, that a monoclinic metasurface composed of achiral meta-atoms can convert resonantly linearly polarized light into elliptically polarized light in both linear and nonlinear regimes. The paper originated from Dhruv’s ASC project, underpinning a great success of our PhB program in physics.

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MSI Seminar - May 5

The Mathematical Data Science Centre seminar series
'An Entropic Frank-Wolfe Method'
James Nichols, Australian National University

Date: Mon 5 May 2025
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Seminar Room 1.37, Hanna Neumann Building 145

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Call For Applications | The Boswell Technologies HDR Award For Space Exploration, Moon and Mars - Closing Date 30 June 2025

Applications are being sought for the Boswell Technologies HDR Award for Space Exploration, Moon and Mars. This award is intended to aid higher degree research students undertaking research in the area of space exploration and technology, Moon and Mars.

Funding is provided by the Boswell Technologies Endowment fund, established by Prof Roderick Boswell. The award could be used towards travel, acquiring of equipment or collaboration activities. The value of the award is up to $4000 that can be shared between more than one recipient.

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Fulbright Scholarship Information Sessions | 2026/2027 Opportunities | Register NOW

The Fulbright Program empowers Australian citizens to pursue transformative study and research experiences in the United States. With a 75-year legacy of academic and cultural exchange, Fulbright fosters bilateral collaboration, knowledge transfer, and diplomacy.

Discover how a Fulbright Scholarship can shape your future and contribute to global knowledge exchange.

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Join us for an evening of numbers, patterns, and surprises at Math in the Pub, where local experts will explore the beauty of mathematics in a fun and casual setting.

Date: Tues 13 May 2025
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Smith’s Alternative, 76 Alinga St, Civic

Register

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College Hot Desking In Physics

Finance, HR & RM Teams
Thursday Mornings
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EVENTS

Departmental seminars

Dr Philipp Loesel - 7 May
Self-Supervised learning for particle separation without manually annotated training data
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