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Welcome to the homepage for the NSW Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics. The NSW branch aims to support physicists in education and research and promote all aspects of physics to the wider community in NSW. This is achieved through numerous activities including a series of scientific meetings and lectures inclucing the Youth and Women in Physics lecture series and Physics in Industry day, organization of and participation in physics conferences in NSW, education and outreach activities at all three educational levels and for the general community and assisting in the development of state and federal government science policy. For more information on our activities, please see our most recent annual report and the many links that follow below.

     
Australian Institute of Physics, NSW Branch - Events for 2012

DATE

EVENT

SPEAKER

TITLE of TALK

 

Tuesday 20 March

 

1st General Meeting

Talk will commence at

6:30PM

 

Prof Richard Newbury

University of New South Wales


Venue: Slade Lecture Theatre, Physics Department ,Sydney University

Some Interesting Experiments in Quantum Electronic Transport

 

 

Tuesday 15 May

2nd General Meeting
Joint Event with Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Special facilities ANSTO tour will commence at 6:00PM with Talk commencing at 7:00PM

Dr Vincent Smith
CERN in Switzerland and Fermilab in the USA

Venue: ANSTO (directions)

Weak Interactions, especially the properties of short-lived strange particles known as Hyperons

 

Monday 22 August
Einstein’s Lecture at the Power House Museum

Talk will commence at 6:30PM

Speaker: TBA

Venue: Power House Museum

Topic TBA

 

Women in Physics Lecture Series

Talk will commence at 6:30PM

Entry Cost: $5

Speaker TBA

Venue: Sydney Observatory, Watson Road, Observatory Hill

Topic TBA

 

 

Thursday 8 November

Physics Industry Day

Registration Opens at 8:30AM

 


Venue: CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering, Bradfield Road West Lindfield

Topic TBA


Tuesday 20 November

Postgraduate Awards Day
Annual Dinner

Postgraduate Awards Day will commence at 2:00PM

Special speaker's talk will commence at 6:30PM

Dr Stephen Bosi

Venue: Slade Lecture Theatre University of Sydney

Stupid Ideas That Worked