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Director's Message
Dear Colleagues,
It's great to see campus getting busier with O-week starting this week. Good luck to everyone getting classes started for the new semester, and welcome to all our new students joining the Physics community.
Last Friday I thoroughly enjoyed the first Director's Colloquium with Professor Giuliano Scarcelli from The University of Maryland presenting "Brillouin Microscopy: From Fundamental Optics To The Clinic.... And Back". Thanks to Dr Steve Lee from JCSMR for facilitating this excellent connection. Associate Director Research Cedric Simenel and his committee with representatives from each department are currently developing a program of speakers for the year. If you have suggestions, particularly people you know may be visiting Canberra, please reach out to Cedric keeping gender balance in mind.
As you might know, the university's co-design process for ANU's 2026-2030 strategic plan is now underway. Heads of Department will be reaching out (or may have done so already) asking for your views on the next phase, which focuses on "how we get there" by identifying opportunities and priorities for the next three to five years. If you are not in a department or would prefer not to send feedback via your Head of Department, please send your thoughts directly to the School Manager. Please send any feedback by 10am Thursday 19th February.
This week's featured paper is titled 'Metalasers with arbitrarily shaped wavefront' and is from a collaboration of Professor Yuri Kivshar’s. The idea arose from discussions with colleagues and it was particularly nice to see this work realized experimentally. The paper can be found here.
As a reminder, if you would like to have a paper featured in the Event Horizon, please submit via this link.
Jodie |
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Notepad++ Security Compromise
The widely used Notepad++ software was potentially compromised for the last 9 months. The self-update feature was serving up compromised software to selected users allowing Chinese hackers backdoor access into machines. If you have Notepad++ installed please either uninstall it or download and install the latest version (without using the built in self-updater). Hopefully Defender will soon gain the ability to detect this novel backdoor software and we will know if any of our machines have been infected. |
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Oxford PhD Exchange 2026/2027 | ANU to Oxford University
The Australian National University (ANU) has been invited to nominate one Higher Degree Research (HDR) candidate for the 2026 - 2027 round of the Oxford PhD Exchange (ANU to Oxford University).
The Oxford PhD Exchange is a graduate candidate exchange program between Oxford University and the ANU. The exchange aims to enable excellent PhD scholars to enrich their research in an international setting.
Applicants can apply for an exchange period of one academic year, or one or two academic terms. Applicants for this exchange should be aware that first term at Oxford is from October-December 2026, second term is from January-March 2027 and third term is from April-June 2027.
Further information available here. |
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Noura Alzaidan (MP, PhD student) who won the best presentation award at the Australasian Colloid and Interface Symposium held 1-4 February 2026 for her talk, "Nanobubbles - Exploratory Detection Using Resonant Mass Measurement”. |
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Pint of Science Festival 2026 | EoI
The Pint of Science festival, held annually in May, offers researchers the opportunity to engage with their local community and share their recent work in a relaxed and casual pub environment.
We love having researchers from all discipline areas and levels of experience and want the community where you work or live, to hear and learn about what you do!
Expressions of interest are now open! Please fill out the form to register.
Please note that completing an EOI form only expresses your interest and does not commit you to present at the festival. You will hear back from us closer to the festival to confirm your availability and interest. » read more
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Megavolts 15: Deer Antlers And Coral Reefs
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Forget needles in haystacks: if you’re looking for a million billionth of a gram of a radioactive isotope, hidden, say in sea water, coral, or the antler of a deer – then accelerator mass spectrometry is the tool for you! » read more
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Statistical Support For HDR Students
As the academic year is about to begin, it's a good time to remind researchers across the University that the services of the Statistical Support Network are available to Masters and PhD students for their research projects. Statistical support is available for design of experiments and surveys, data management, exploratory data analysis, statistical modelling and data presentation.
Students and their supervisors are welcome to book an initial consultation with the SSN lead via this link. Consultations are free. Depending on the nature of the support required, students may be provided with links to relevant videos, text-based or web-based tutorials, or may be connected with SSN members in Colleges who have volunteered their time to advise research students.
If you have any queries about the Statistical Support Network or the services it provides, please contact ssn@anu.edu.au. The network members look forward to collaborating with you on your projects! |
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College Hot Desking In Physics
HR & RM Teams
Thursday Mornings
Lv2 Tearoom, Bldg 160 » read more
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University Travel
- When booking travel for any type of University business, it is mandatory to use ATPI - » read more
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2026 Wall Planners
2026 wall planners are available now at Reception (C3.07). |
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Departmental seminars
Mr Hendrik Heimes - 25 February
Squeezing And Twisting Carbon Until It Gives Up
» read more
Mr Oleg Kameshkov - 4 March
Terahertz Polarization Elements
» read more
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Know your administrators...
Nikki Azzopardi, Belinda Barbour, Petra Rickman & Michelle Bettanin » read more
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Know your HDR Convenors...
A/Prof Vanessa Robins
Dr Michaela Froehlich
HDR Convenors
Prof Vince Craig
Associate Director HDR |
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HR Support For CoSM SharePoint
The People and Culture division have re-aligned work within functional teams to improve consistency and quality of advice across the University.
This includes re-aligning recruitment support to the People and Culture recruitment team for CoSM. Information to assist CoSM Schools and areas, and to provide some clarity on who to contact for support, can be found at the HR Support for CoSM SharePoint. » read more
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