We are about to start the final round of disposal of furniture, which we hope to complete before the semester starts.
From today various items of furniture are being placed in the ground floor corridor Physics Building and the first floor corridor Oliphant Building.  It is mostly desks that are for sale.  Bookcases and filing cabinets are generally being kept for future use, as these are expensive to replace and do not date as quickly as desks, and we have future access to a large supply of desks when we need them. Matt Banham from the School Office (35996) will be coordinating the process, so please see him if you have any questions.  PLEASE DO NOT MOVE ANY ITEM WITHOUT DISCUSSING WITH MATT FIRST.

1.      If you have room in your office for an additional bookcase/s and/or filing cabinet/s (even if you do not actually NEED them) please let Matt know.  This 'storage' space would be greatly appreciated - and you can make use of them in the meantime.
2.      If you would like to upgrade existing furniture in your office and see something that would suit, place a pink 'Reserved' slip on it. (Slips available from the School Office).  It would be very helpful if you can arrange to move the item to your office - if this is not possible please see Matt. If you are replacing an item from your office, please place the unwanted item in the corridor outside your office if possible.
3.      Furniture without a Reserved slip on it should be for sale.  If something is of interest to you, please place a green 'Silent Auction' slip on it, with your bid. (Slips available from the School Office)  BIDS WILL BE TAKEN UNTIL FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY AT MIDDAY.
4.      Furniture will need to be taken, or definite arrangements made, by Thursday 24 February.  Payment must be made at the School Office and a receipt given before furniture is taken.  This receipt will show Security why you are removing furniture from the University.
5.      All furniture remaining on Friday 25 February will be sent off to an auction house.  If you wish you may look at the remaining furniture until Thursday 24 February and make a bid, but you must make arrangements to have it removed by Thursday 24 February.
6.      A large MINISKIP has been ordered for next week and will be placed outside the Bragg Lecture Theatre.  Please take this opportunity to clean out your offices and laboratories and work areas, and dispose of unwanted items.  If you and your students can do this yourself, this would be helpful.  If you have problems doing this, contact Matt.  Getting it into the corridor outside your office/lab would be a good first step.  PLEASE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY.  If it hasn't been used in 2 (5?10? 20?) years, it probably won't be used in the future.
7.      Please be tolerant of the clutter that will be in the corridors for the next week or so.  It is an unnecessary expense to move furniture for sale to a 'viewing' area - even if we had one! 

Your co-operation and patience will mean that this messy job will be over soon.  
Robyn Houghton

The Chemistry Society (CsAu) is holding a recruiting drive during O’week, and are looking for volunteers to man the desk for an hour or two from Mon 21st to Wed 23rd, 9am-3pm, to promote chemistry and CsAu. There is a roster in the Chemistry Tea Room for anyone willing to sign up - all help is greatly appreciated.  Look out for the  upcoming bbq, and don’t forget to renew your membership for the new year.

Please find attached a brochure advertising a workshop for beginning postgraduate research superviisors to be held in the AGC on Friday 11 March, 9.15am-1.30pm. A light lunch will be served.

For further information about the workshop contact Gerry Mullins on Extension 34739 or gerry.mullins@adelaide.edu.au   To enrol for the workshop contact Melina Magdalena on Extension 3022 or reply to this email by Monday 7 March.        SupervisorWorkshop_brochure 2_05

Sunday 3 to Thursday 7 July 2005 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour Sydney NSW Australia. In July 2005 the Connect Conference and Exhibition will bring the best in chemistry to Sydney. The National Convention of the RACI is held every five years and is the largest gathering of chemists in Australia. The convention offers an opportunity for all national divisions to be involved in a significant technical program and exhibition in various disciplines of chemistry. The Convention will begin with the Opening of the Exhibition and Welcome Reception on Sunday evening. Technical sessions will run from Monday 4 July to Thursday 7 July. Attendees typically come from academia, industry and government from around Australia with international presenters and delegates also encouraged.

For more information please go to http://www.pco.com.au/connect2005/ or look at the conference brochure on the notice board in the Badger Tea Room (but please do not remove it from the notice board).  PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT.

SPEAKER:       Professor Helen Quinn
TITLE:            The Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter in the Universe, and in the Laws of Physics.
DATE/TIME:    Friday 18 February, 4.10pm
WHERE:          Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre with Tea/Coffee at 3.45pm in Room 121

ABSTRACT:    A major outstanding puzzle at the intersection of particle physics and cosmology is the asymmetry between matter and antimatter. The Universe contains significant amounts of matter and an insignificant amount of antimatter. The puzzle is how this can occur when the laws of physics for matter and antimatter are very close to identical. Unless it arises from a very finely tuned initial condition that is maintained by an absolute conservation law, the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe can only occur due to an asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the laws of physics. In technical terms this asymmetry in the laws of physics is known as CP violation, where C is the operation that interchanges of all particles and antiparticles and P is the operation that reverses all spatial coordinate directions (mirror reflection plus rotation about an axis perpendicular to the mirror).

New School/Discipline phone lists have been attached to the links at the top of the Bulletin. Please let Wayne know if there are any alterations required or if there are any blanks that can be filled in. A 'final' phone list will be posted when all the phone numbers are finalised. Phone numbers are in the process of being changed for the University web as well as the School web contacts pages.

5pm Thursday 24th February 2005, The Tea Room, 5th Floor Molecular Life Science Building, North Terrace

You are invited to attend a session on ARC Linkage and a chance to socialise with Faculty colleagues overdrinks and nibbles. In 2005 $5,000 from Faculty of Sciences to researchers who submit an ARC Linkage Application.

SPEAKERS

Richard Hillis (Faculty of Sciences) 'The Faculty $5,000 Scheme'

Martin Hand (Earth and Environmental Sciences) 'A Researcher's Perspective'. Martin holds 3 current ARC Linkage Grants to the value of $1.6M

Tony Hansen (ARI Research Branch) 'Advice from ARI Research Branch'

Michelle Fraser (Bio Innovation SA) 'How Bio Innovation SA Can Help'. Bio Innovation SA support the company Linkage contribution

John Gayler (Glassy Metal Technology). 'An Industry Partner's Perspective'

ARC Linkage presentations: 5 pm - ~6 pm Drinks and Nibbles: ~6 pm -

RSVP: Tuesday, 22 February - Sharon or Amanda 8303 5650 or email amanda.marshall@adelaide.edu.au