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25.01.2022 Science funding will fall by 16% per student if the Australian government's Job-ready Graduates Package goes through, says AIP president Jodie Bradby. Bradby told the Financial Reviews education editor Robert Bolton that if the legislation passed Parliament this week, there would be "significant job losses" in university physics departments, even though they produced the sort of graduates the government wanted. "We consider that the tight focus on job readiness & short-term... economic benefits [is] contrary to long-term society interests, she said. We do not consider it wise for the government to pick winners." Read more https://www.afr.com//crippling-loss-scientists-warn-of-dam

25.01.2022 Photovoltaics and machine-learning: get set for our latest livestreamed event Join Dr Nas Meftahi, Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science as she explores machine learning approaches that can leverage computationally expensive DFT calculations to estimate key photovoltaics material properties quickly and accurately. Dr Meftahis talk, called A shortcut to property prediction for photovoltaic material through machine learning, is a joint venture bet...ween Exciton Science and AIP. It takes place on Friday, September 4, at 11am AEST. More info here: https://excitonscience.com//exciton-science-webinar-4septe Register here: https://bit.ly/2YBSpg6

24.01.2022 Researchers at the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors including Australias OzGrav - ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery Professor Susan Scott have confirmed the collision of two black holes, an event which created a monster third, some 142-times more massive the Sun. Scientists are calling the new intermediate mass black hole, formally titled GW190521, a cosmic missing link, which may provide valuable clues to how supermassive black holes come into existence.

24.01.2022 Very honoured to be presented the Dirac Medal for Theoretical Physics last night by the inimitable Dean of UNSW Science Professor Emma Johnston And it was w...onderful to present the Dirac Public Lecture to live humans in a theatre as well as to live humans online Anu Cga OzGrav - ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery Science at The Australian National University Australian Academy of Science Australian Institute of Physics Research School of Physics: ANU Ligo Homeward Bound Homeward Bound 2 (2018) Participants

23.01.2022 Associate Prof Jennifer MacLeod will chair the biennial AIP Summer Meeting, set to take place at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane from December 6 to 9. Details, program, registration and sponsors soon at https://aip-summer-meeting.com/ Mark your diaries!

23.01.2022 Astro in the Home #3: Use a microwave and a chocolate bar to measure the speed of light! Chandra Murugeshan from Swinburne University of Technology will show you how. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/2E12GLD

22.01.2022 Space is big, really big. ICRAR/Curtin University's Prof Steven Tingay says, Since we cant really assume how possible alien civilisations might utilise techn...ology, we need to search in many different ways. Using radio telescopes, we can explore an eight-dimensional search space. Although there is a long way to go in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, telescopes such as the MWA will continue to push the limitswe have to keep looking. Read more: https://www.icrar.org/looking-for-et/ Dipole antennas of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in Mid West Western Australia. Credit: Dragonfly Media. CSIRO, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Square Kilometre Array, Cambridge University Press

22.01.2022 The first 2021 edition of Space Times is now live! Read about OzGrav's new, exciting research, like the most massive black hole near Earth, a bizarre magnetar and missing galactic matter. https://bit.ly/3lj8ktS

22.01.2022 Throwback Thursday: April 1987 covered the Chernobyl disaster one year after the incident, looking at what happened and what had happened since, the Spacelab-2 plasma depletion experiment, and more physics fun! Read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/2FHXME0

21.01.2022 Check out this CSIRO / National Science Week webinar on the Square Kilometre Array, featuring Mia Walker on a panel with Professor Fred Watson, Vanessa Moss and Carole Jackson, Exploring the Universe without Leaving Home, is on tonight at 5:30pm (AWST). https://events.csiro.au/ska

20.01.2022 How has COVID19 affected your personal and professional life? Physics World is inviting physicists from around the world to share their experiences (contact [email protected]). One physics teacher in the Philippines offers his techniques for fighting off the "Zoombies."

20.01.2022 Astro in the Home #10: Try to grasp the relative size of planets by using playdough! Garima Chauhan and Ruby Wright from the University of Western Australia explain it all. Watch here: https://bit.ly/3h9yxbw

19.01.2022 The AIP is proud to support Wear It Purple Day 2020 today to celebrate our LGBTQ+ community.

19.01.2022 Multiple PhD opportunities are available for domestic physics and mathematics graduates to join the Climate and Fluid Physics group at The Australian National University. Expressions of interest (including CV, academic transcript and contact details for academic referees) are due by Wednesday 30 September 2020. More details here: https://bit.ly/2CKJktK

19.01.2022 Astro in the Home #4: Make a spectroscope and a colour wheel to explore how light and colour behave! From Swinburne University of Technology, Associate Professor Emma Ryan-Weber will take you through spectroscopy. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/33YvU8U

17.01.2022 Throwback Thursday: March/April 1997 included articles about uranium enrichment with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, a workshop at the Lucas Heights Research laboratories of ANSTO, early legacy of the National Measurement Institute Australia, and more! Read the full issue here https://bit.ly/3jk2xlP

17.01.2022 Astro in the Home #5: Create an origami star and discover diffraction spikes! Adam Batten from Swinburne University of Technology will make you think about the connection between telescopes and our own eyes. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/2XWC59s

17.01.2022 A subwoofer and vibrating earthworms pick up an Ig Nobel Prize for Physics for Aussie scientists Ivan Maksymov & Andrey Pototsky from Swinburne University of Technology. The experiment demonstrated that a vibrated earthworm behaves similar to a water drop, said Maksymov. The Ig Nobel Prizes recognise achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. You can read the vibrating worm paper here: https://bit.ly/3hL5XwC

16.01.2022 Throwback Thursday: September 1982 included articles about ultrasonic absorption of human blood, a new look at the Milky Way, analysis of ions from flames, & more physics fun! Read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/2FVIThI

15.01.2022 There's still time to register for tonight's public talk by Susan Scott. Don't miss out on learning about black holes and gravitational waves, online and in-person at UNSW.

15.01.2022 Our submission on the draft legislation Job-ready Graduates Higher Education Reform Package 2020 can be found here: aip.org.au/advocacy/ We encourage everyone interested in the future of higher education in Australia to engage with this important process.

14.01.2022 There's still time to register and get a look behind the scenes at the home of neutron science in Australia, tonight 7:00pm 8:30pm AEST.

14.01.2022 Closer ties between South Korean & Australian theoretical physicists are likely following an agreement struck between the AIP & Asia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics (APCTP). The arrangement means more AIP involvement in APCTP activities, including conferences & workshops. A series of collaborative seminars is already being organised. Watch out for these events & other news coming soon on the newly minted Twitter handle for our theoretical physics group: https://twitter.com/ausphysicsTPG

13.01.2022 Estimating key photovoltaics material properties quickly and accurately with machine learning. Webinar today at 11am! Don't miss out on the latest in our monthly series of talks from physics-themed ARC Centres of Excellence, co-organised by the AIP and FLEET: Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies.

12.01.2022 What can you do with a physics degree? What jobs can it lead to? Find out during AIP's Physics Careers Week, with 10 physicists over 5 days showcasing the variety of careers possible. Online Mon 30 Nov - Fri 4 Dec. Hosted by CSIRO. Register: https://bit.ly/36IBzQ9

12.01.2022 The AIP Executive would like to report the following nominations were received for the roles of the AIP executive. Each member will be elected at the next AGM in February 2021. The roles are as follows: Sven Rogge (as President) Nicole Bell (as Vice-President)... Kirrily Rule (as Honorary Secretary) Stephen Collins (as Honorary Registrar) Judith Pollard (as Honorary Treasurer) See more

12.01.2022 Searching for alien life with exoplanet expert Chris Tinney and origin of life researcher Martin Van Kranendonk. Don't miss out on this free event tonight 6:30pm AEST.

11.01.2022 Astro in the Home #11: Learn how to interpret what we see in the night sky! Aman Chokshi from the University of Melbourne gives you an introduction to stargazing in your backyard, alongside his own images and videos of objects in the night sky. Watch here: https://bit.ly/2FKpnVv

11.01.2022 NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK 2020 ANTI-MATTER To understand Nature we need Mathematics. There is no other way. And it requires hard work, as Euclid once said There ...is no royal road to Geometry. But however hard it may be, we need to learn it. STEM education is utterly important for our country and needs to be promoted in our schools, starting from a young age and encouraging for both genders. For some reasons, which are still hotly debated, Mathematics can predict entirely new phenomena and open up new horizons on paper before they are confirmed by observations! That is the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, as succinctly put by Wigner. Below is a promotional video for that Beauty of Mathematics: The prediction of the weird and once unbelievable anti-matter. Unbelievable but already found its use in medical diagnosis in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), an imaging tool to visualize and measure metabolic processes in the body. Australian Institute of Physics, Scienceworks, CSIRO, Royal Society of Victoria

10.01.2022 Astro in the Home #6: Make some yummy ice cream and learn about quasars! Today's video comes from Keven Ren from the University of Melbourne. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/2Q2gTdG

10.01.2022 AIP fights physics education cuts, Photovoltaics and machine-learning with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, Hidden Physicist Dr Phil Dooley Phil Up On Science, These stories and more as physics springs into September! Read the full bulletin here: bit.ly/3hNBe2G

09.01.2022 When were computers first used in tennis training and what did a UK pub have to do with it? Our member bulletin now features excerpts from past issues of Australian Physics magazine. Check the September issue, in your inbox now. Not subscribed? Read it here: https://bit.ly/3bdndZM

08.01.2022 ASTRO 3D researchers Chiaki Kobayashi at University of Hertfordshire and Amanda Karakas at Monash University have produced a new-look Periodic Table, showing th...e origin of elements created in stars (stellar origins) in naturally occurring elements from carbon to uranium. This updated Table comes from the analysis of spectra using simulations which reveals that the role of neutron stars may have been considerably overestimated and that another stellar element creation process altogether is responsible for making most of the heavy elements, including gold. Read more on our website: https://astro3d.org.au/elements-of-surprise-neutron-stars-/

07.01.2022 Children in remote and regional schools will soon be visited by astronomers bearing gifts in a quest to kindle interest in the cosmos. The scientists drawn fr...om the ranks of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D) and The Australian National University will donate a powerful telescope and high-tech accessories to each school so classes can continue to explore the Universe long after the astronomers have left. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3kIwVXf Image credit: ANU Media

07.01.2022 Throwback Thursday: March/April 2001 included articles about the end of DELPHI (Detector with Lepton, Photon and Hadron Identification) at CERN, the 2000 International Physics Olympiad, & more physics fun! Read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/3k1gLZe

06.01.2022 Were you at the AIP Congress held in Brisbane in 1984? Does history lurk in your bookshelves? AIP’s secretariat is on the hunt for a copy of the event program. If you’ve got one stashed away, please get in touch on [email protected]

06.01.2022 Astro in the Home #7: Use elastic bands and balloons to explain the expanding universe! Dr Rob Bassett from Swinburne University of Technology will show you how. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/31OZJFZ

05.01.2022 Are you the AIP 2021 Women in Physics lecturer? Get your application in before September 1 for the opportunity to travel the country, talking about your research. The Women in Physics lectureship is an opportunity to promote research and to encourage the next generation of scientists in Australia. For the 2021 lecturer, we are seeking an Australia-based physicist who has made a significant contribution to research, has demonstrated public speaking ability and is available to ...visit Canberra and the six Australian state capital cities and surrounding regions. The lecturer will have costs for travel and accommodation covered during the tour, which will last approximately three weeks. Please note, this is a volunteer outreach activity. Applications close Tuesday 1 September. More information here: https://bit.ly/2Yuqqiq

04.01.2022 Photovoltaics and machine-learning: get set for our latest live-streamed event with Dr Nastaran Meftahi, research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science Friday, September 4, at 11am AEST. Register here bit.ly/3gNzaq6

04.01.2022 Optics in Australia Accreditation in Kuwait The Ig Nobel Prize for physics and more physics fun! We look back to November/December 2005 for this Throwback Thursday: https://bit.ly/2ISLPx7

04.01.2022 What is an exciton? And how do we use them to generate renewable energy? Discover the answers, meet the researchers and find out what happens in an Australian R...esearch Council Centre of Excellence in the first episode of #QandARC Throughout this series, youll get access to the amazing work taking place to better understand renewable energy, Australian biodiversity, climate extremes, quantum computing and more! Use the hashtag #QandARC to stay up to date - theres a new video from a different Centre of Excellence set to be published each week. http://bit.ly/QandARC-playlist

03.01.2022 Throwback Thursday: March/April 2000 covered TIGER (Tasman International Geospace Environment Radar), an initiative of La Trobe University, Monash University and The University of Newcastle, Australia to study the ionosphere above the earth, and more physics articles! Read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/31PJ5rb

03.01.2022 Coming soon: Next week we're launching #QandARC In this video series, youll discover the awesome people and fascinating work taking place within Australian Res...earch Council Centres of Excellence. First up in Episode 1 is us - Exciton Science! Stay tune for the full video next week.

02.01.2022 On Friday, Dr Cathy Foley presented to the Frontiers of Science Forum about how the way we work is changing and how we can harness the powers of quantum and the... full human potential to stay ahead of the curve. Thank you to Australian Institute of Physics, The Teachers' Guild of NSW and the The Royal Australian Chemical Institute for hosting this event.

02.01.2022 Milky Way ancient star orbits are more diverse than thought, prompting a rethink on galaxy evolution, astronomers led by the University of Padova’s Giacomo Cord...oni and Gary Da Costa from The Australian National University and ASTRO 3D reveal in a new paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). The research involved a team from ANU, University of Padova, Monash University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Uppsala University, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and Stockholm University. The paper is on early release here: https://bit.ly/36pAlZX Read more here: https://bit.ly/3nwLr63 See more

02.01.2022 Send us your physics pix and selfies! The Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Physics is on the hunt for great field or lab photos to illustrate its end-of-term report on the 2012-2021physics decadal plan. Details here: https://bit.ly/2MQiJkc

01.01.2022 On the 5th anniversary of GW150914 - the first gravitational-wave detection, LIGO India and OzGrav - ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery j...ointly present an exciting *LIVE* Virtual Tour of LIGO in Minecraft! . **Join via** - Minecraft (limited places!) minecraft.ozgrav.org:25593 - YouTube (unlimited!) youtube.com/c/LIGOIndia/live 14th September 2020 (Monday) Tour 11:30 - 12:15 hrs IST / 15:30 - 16:15 hrs ACST Q&A (Twitter) 12:15 - 12:30 hrs IST / 16:15 - 16:30 hrs ACST . Dont miss the Twitter Q&A session after the tour! . Tweet us your questions... @LIGOIndia, @ARC_OzGrav or @AdelaideOzGrav . ...using hashtags #AskLIGOIndia or #AskOzGrav . . . . #GW150914 #LIGO #LiveTour #VirtualTour #Minecraft #LearnWithLIGOIndia

01.01.2022 Astro in the Home #8: Use slinkies to understand how Doppler shifts of light occur in space! Today's video is hosted by the University of Melbourne's Alex Cameron. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/2PTAIUs

01.01.2022 Did you miss last night's livestream of Life Among The Stars - with exoplanet expert Chris Tinney and origin of life researcher Martin Van Kranendonk? Well you can watch the whole thing here!

01.01.2022 We're ending National Science Week on a bright note, with Astro in the Home #9: Create coloured flames to see how a galaxy's colour is affected by its metallici...ty! This video comes to you from Pipit Triani from Swinburne University of Technology. #ScienceWeek Watch here: https://bit.ly/323aDYO