Background
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The NITP serves the Australian physics community by acting
as an umbrella organisation for Theoretical Physics in
Australia. The purpose of the NITP is to facilitate and promote national
and international exchanges and interactions in the form
of conferences, workshops, and schools.
- The (Adelaide) Institute for Theoretical Physics was
formally opened on 24th March, 1995.
In April 1995 this Institute began formal
operations as the NITP, when with the support of its
partner organisations, it was selected by the
National Committee for Physics of the
Australian Academy of Science, to be the host organisation for the
formation of the national institute.
The formation of the NITP was the result of a
successful competitive bid by members of the
Theoretical Physics
and Mathematical Physics groups in the
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics
at the University of Adelaide,
our partners in the
Department of Pure Mathematics at the University of Adelaide; the
Department of Theoretical Physics at
The Australian National University;
Flinders University; and the
University of New South Wales.
At the present time the Australian Research Council has not provided any
mechanism for networking centres such as the NITP to compete for
federal funding.
Having been selected for this role by the national committee
the NITP will apply for such funding at the
first available opportunity. In the meantime the NITP is able to
run its workshops and provide infrastructure support through the
generosity of a number of benefactors
and organizations as outlined below.
- The Institute has been GENEROUSLY
SUPPORTED by:
and other parties.
- The Institute is also actively supported by the
University of
Melbourne,
the University of
Queensland and by the
University
of Tasmania, who have joined us in our efforts to establish
long-term private and federal funding for the Institute.
- An ongoing
SERIES OF WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES has been organized by the Institute
since 1995 on a wide variety of topics across the whole
breadth of the discipline of Theoretical Physics. These are typically,
but by no means exclusively, held at the Adelaide location of the Institute
to take maximum advantage of the Institute's resources.