Welcome to the Australian Institute of Physics - President's blog
I use this page for my monthly 'Physics in Australia' bulletins and for other occasional physics news. It complements the AIP's site at www.aip.org.au.
Comments and other ideas are very welcome!
Brian James,
President, Australian Institute of Physics
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Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for March 2010 and beyond.
At AIP branch meetings this month we will discuss particle astronomy and living at the speed of light in Sydney, optics and lasers in Hobart, and nanoscale modelling in Melbourne.
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Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. It contains news and events for February 2010 and beyond.
The AIP year always starts with our AGM and Council.
The AIP AGM will be held in the Hercus Lecture Theatre, University of Melbourne at 6 pm on Monday 8 February, followed [...]
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Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics – with news and events for December 2009 and January 2010.
This month we’re exploring quantum matter in Canberra and Melbourne with Austrian Rudolf Grimm, sub-atomic physics in Adelaide; a teachers’ seminar in Tassie, and the director of the SKA project, [...]
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From Brian James, AIP President
Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics. This email has news and events for November and beyond.
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Welcome to my monthly newsletter to people around the country with an interest in physics, following a big showing by physics in National Science Week. Congratulations to all involved in holding events-I know of at least 120 physics events that took place.
This month I report on FASTS, the Square Kilometre Array bid, Eureka Prize and [...]
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Welcome to my special bulletin for National Science Week 2009.
There are over 650 events being held around Australia during Science Week, which runs from 15-23 August, and many of them have a focus on physics. National events include a speaking tour by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss and the Big Aussie Star Hunt.
I’ve listed the National [...]
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Welcome to my monthly email to people around the country with an interest in physics, as we remember the first moon landing 40 years ago. In August, Christine Charles, the AIP’s 2009 Women in Physics lecturer, is busy talking to school students and the public in Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. The IYA lecturers are also [...]
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Welcome to my monthly email to people with an interest in physics.
July activities from the Australian Institute of Physics include Reinhard Genzel talking on black holes and galaxies in the Canberra and Perth,
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Welcome to my monthly email to AIP members. This month AIP activities include Ziggy Switkowski on nuclear energy, Bryan Gaensler on radio polarimetry and John Mainstone on science in Queensland. Public lectures cover wind energy with David Wood and solar energy with Martin Green, and I also list some significant events coming up in July [...]
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