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Here are the ongoing and recent activities of the South-Australian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics.By year:
Upcoming Events
The 2011 Year
Free Special Screening
- Date: Tuesday 12th April, 7:00 pm
Event: Yuri's Night
Location: Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre, Physics Building University of Adelaide- Date: Thursday 26th May, 7:30 pm
Speaker: Professor Anthony W. Thomas FAA
Title:Exploring the Fundamental Laws of the Universe
Location: Napier 102 lecture theatre, Napier Building University of Adelaide
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- Date: Wednesday 12th December, 7:30 pm
Speaker: Prof Tanya Monro- Date: Wednesday 7th November, 8:00 pm
Speaker: Dr David Malin- Date: Monday 15th October, 7:30 pm
Speaker: Prof. Fred Watson- Date: Friday 24th August, 2-5pm
- Date: Monday 2nd July, 7:30 pm
Speaker: Prof. Tanya Monro- Date: Monday 28th May, 7:30 pm
Speaker: Dr Terry Burns- Date: Wednesday 11th April, 7:30pm
Speaker: US Astronaut Marsha S. Ivins- Date: Thursday 8th March, 7:30pm
Speakers: Clancy James, Jingxian Yu and Hong Ji
- Date: Thursday 15th February, 7:30pm
Speaker: Dr Robert Loss
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- Date: Wednesday 1st November, 7:30pm
Speaker: Prof. Deborah Kane
- Date: Thursday 28th September, 6:30pm
Speaker: Prof. Rod Boswell- Date: Wednesday 6th September,8:30pm
Speaker: Prof. Fred Watson- Date: Friday 18th August, 2-5pm
- Date: Thursday 17th and Friday 18 thAugust, 7:30pm
Performer: Prof. Mike Gore- Date: Friday 11th August, 7:30pm
Speaker: Professor David Jamieson- Date: Thursday 27th July, 7:30 pm
Speakers: Sean Manning, Alec Deslandes- Date: Friday 21st July, 7:30 pm
Speaker: Prof. Sylvester James Gates Jr- Date: Wednesday 12th July, 7:30 pm
Speaker: NASA astronaut Robert L Satcher Jr
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- Date: Wednesday 30th November, 7:30 pm
After-dinner speaker: Prof. Michael Gore
Location: Public Schools' Club (207 East Terrace)- Date: Wednesday 30th November, 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm
Location: Public Schools' Club (207 East Terrace)- Date: Tuesday 15th November, 6:15 pm
Speaker: Dr Rod Crewther and Dr Sam Drake
Subject: "1905 Einstein's Miraculous Year"- Date: Wednesday 5th October, 8:00pm
Speaker: Dr Frank Briggs
Subject: "Exploring the Dark Age with radio telescopes in Australia"- "Measurements of the Effects of Ageing and Playing on the Violin
by Dr Ra Inta
Date: Wednesday 14 th September- Date: Thursday 8 th September
- Date: Friday 19 th August
- including a talk by Dr Olivia Samardzic
Date: Sunday 7 th August- by Col. Pamela Melroy (NASA astronaut)
Date: Friday 8 th July- "Einstein's theory of Special Relativity: Light, time and Space
by David Jamieson (Melb. Uni., AIP President)
Date: Wednesday 22 th June- Date: Thursday 19th May
Speaker: Mr David Reneke
Subject: "Secrets of the Universe"- Date: Tuesday 26th April
Speaker: A/Prof. Matthew England
Subject: "Ocean Circulation and Climate - what's in store for the next century?"
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- Date: Wednesday 24th November, 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm
Location: Public Schools' Club (207 East Terrace)
- Date: Wednesday 24th November, 7:30 pm
Location: Public Schools' Club (207 East Terrace)
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- Date: Thursday 27th November, 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm
Location: Public Schools' Club (207 East Terrace)
- Date: Thursday 27th November, 7:30 pm
Location: Public Schools' Club (207 East Terrace)- Speaker: Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland
- AIP/ASSA joint meeting
Speaker: Dr Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
- AIP Free Public Lecture
Speaker: A/Professor Lloyd Hollenberg
- AIP Free Public Lecture
Speaker: Emeritus Professor John Prescott
- AIP/CSSM/NITP Lecture
Speaker: Professor Josef Speth
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- WISER/AIP/NITP Lecture
by Rod Boswell
- AIP/ASSA Joint Members' Lecture
by David Malin
- Public Lecture (Claire Corani Memoral Lecture/Women in Physics Lecture Tour)
by Lidia Morawska (Queensland University of Technology)
- Speakers:
Susan Gunner (Flinders University of South Australia)
Aidan Brooks (University of Adelaide)
and presentation of the Silver Bragg Medals
- Joint AIP/AIB Members' Meeting
Speaker: Andrea Gerson (Ian Wark Research Institute, UniSA)
- Dinner with AIP president John O'Connor (Newcastle)
- WISER/NITP/AIP Public Forum
Panel: Dr Paul Bellaire, Prof Abraham Chian and Prof Yohsuke Kamide
- Public Lecture
by A/prof Michael Nielsen
Principal Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics, University of Queensland, and
Program Manager (Quantum Information Theory), Centre for Quantum Computer Technology
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- Held at the Public Schools Club
After dinner speaker: Emeritus Prof John Prescott
University of Adelaide
- Public Lecture
by Emeritus Prof. Roy Chisholm
University of Kent
- Joint AIP/ASSA Members' Meeting
by Prof Matthew Bailes
Swinburne University
- Members' Lecture
by Dr Todd Maddern
Flinders University of SA
- Talk by Jayson Priest, followed by Pizza
- Presentation of the Silver Bragg Awards (for the year 2000) and talks by postgraduate students from each SA University on their research work
- Dinner and talk
by Dr Peter Szekeres
(AIP supported event)
- Brunch and talk
with Margaret Wertheim
Internationally noted science writer and commentator
- Public Lecture
by Dr Gabriela Gonzalez
Dept. of Physics, Pennyslvania State University
- Science Quiz
A national Science week event
run by AIP-SA for high-school students
- Public Lecture
by Prof. M. J. G. Veltman
Emeritus Prof, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1999 Nobel Laureate
- Members' Lecture
by Hervey Bagot
Proprietor of Bagot Bellfoundries
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- Public Lecture by Prof. Paul Davies
- Dr Tony Butterfield, Australian Taxation Office,
Dr Ian Tuohy, British Aerospace (Aust.)
Professor John Prescott, University of Adelaide.- (The 2000 Claire Corani Memorial Lecture)
by Dr Michelle Simmons,
School of Physics,
University of New South Wales
- Date & Time:
- Friday, 1 September 2000 @ 6:00pm
- Saturday, 2 September 2000 @ 9:00am
- Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2000
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Upper Refectory, Level 4, Union Building, University of Adelaide
- Date: Tuesday, 8 August 2000
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Kerr Grant- Featuring:
A Relativistic Model of Pion-Nucleon Scattering by Andrew Lahiff (Flinders U.)
Radar Velocity Studies in Meteor Astronomy by Daniel Badger (U. of Adelaide)
Nano-Bubbles and Computer Simulations of Surface Tension by Michael Moody (U. of SA)
- by Prof. Peter Teubner ,
Flinders University of South Australia
- by Prof. Tony Thomas,
Director, Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter
- BBQ and launch of the Adelaide Uni. Physics Club
- by Dr. Brian Schmidt,
ANU Research School of
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Note: This was a National Science Week event.
The Bronze Bragg Medals were presented at this meeting.
- by Dr. Robert M. Zubrin,
Pioneer Astronautics
- Tours of both the Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (imaging) departments of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
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- A viewing night for AIP-SA members.
- After dinner speaker : Dr Peter Pockley
- by Prof. Don Page,
CIAR Cosmology and Gravitation Fellow
and Professor of Physics
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
- (A joint AIP-SA / ASSA lecture)
by Dr Bryan Gaensler,
Young Australian of the Year
- by Prof. Jesper Munch,
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics,
University of Adelaide.- Featuring:
Electrokinetic Phenomena in a Non-Polar Colloidal System by Suparno (U. South Australia)
Experimental Observations of Coulomb Crystals by Nathan J. Prior (Flinders U.)
Calculating the Mass of the Proton by Stewart V. Wright (U. Adelaide)
- by Prof. Larry H. Ford,
Department of Physics,
Tufts University,
Medford, Massachussetts, U.S.A.
- (The 1999 Claire Corani Memorial Lecture)
by Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
The Open University
Milton Keynes
UK
- by A/Prof. Igor Bray,
School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences
Flinders University
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- by Dr. Greg Kilcup, The Ohio State University
- by Nick Stacy, Defence Science and Technology Organization.
- Interesting Aspects of Cosmology
by Dr. Charley Lineweaver (U. New South Wales)
Joint Meeting of the Australian Institute of Physics (SA branch) and the Astronomical Society of South Australia.- Featuring:
Superelastic Electron Scattering by Kym Stockman (Flinders U.)
Thin Polymeric Film Adhesives by Ben Francis (U. South Australia)
Studying the Highest Energy Particles in Nature by Christopher Wilkinson (U. Adelaide)- by Dr. Christine Davies (Uiversity of Glasgow)
The 1998 Claire Corani Memorial Lecture- by Dr. David Dearborn (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
The Australian Academy of Science's 1998 Selby Fellow
- by Prof. John M. Cameron (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)
A Joint Meeting of the National Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter
- by Dr. Peter Bouwknegt, University of Adelaide
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- by Prof. Michael Kelley
Space Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
- by Dr Brian Henderson
University of Strathclyde
- by Professor Gerald E Brown
Department of Physics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York
- by Dr Matthew Bailes
University of Melbourne
(Review)- Featuring:
Variable SBS Pulse Compressor for Nonlinear Optical Measurements by Patrick Klovekorn (U. Adelaide)
Surface Force Measurement Between Solid and Fluid Surfaces by Jason Connor (U. South Australia)
Electron Momentum Spectroscopy of Solids by Shane Canney (Flinders U.)
and of the presentation of Silver Bragg Medals
and of Claire Corani awards.
(Photos)
- by Dr Rachel Webster
University of Melbourne- by Dr Michael Ashley
Department of Astrophysics, University of NSW
- by Professor David Karoly
CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology- by Scott E. Parazynski (M.D.)
NASA Astronaut
- by Dr David Wineland
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