Latest News

• Professor Ben Eggleton wins Walter Boas Meda[3 February 2012]

  

  Prof. Ben Eggleton, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) in the School of Physics, has won the Walter Boas Medal from the Australian Institute of Physics. More

• Astronomer awarded prestigious RAS medal[13 January 2012]

  

  School of Physics astronomer and astrophotonics pioneer, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, has been awarded the 2012 Jackson Gwilt medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). More

• One step closer in the search for the Higgs boson[15 December 2011]

  

  University of Sydney scientists working with an international team using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have made an important step towards the discovery of the Higgs boson. More

• Ageing stars are slow on the outside but fast on the inside[8 December 2011]

  

  An international team of scientists, including University of Sydney astronomers Professor Tim Bedding and Dr Dennis Stello, has made a new discovery about how old stars called 'red giants' rotate, giving an insight into what our sun will look like in five billion years. More

• Winner in the Australian Innovation Challenge[8 December 2011]

  

  Professor Marcela Bilek and colleagues have won the Australian Innovation Challenge Health award for their new technique to attach biologically functional molecules to surfaces. More

• A Beast With Four Tails[2 December 2011]

  

  School of Physics astronomer Professor Geraint Lewis is part of a team that has discovered two 'streams' of stars spread across the southern sky, produced by our Milky Way galaxy devouring one of its smaller neighbours. More

• Quantum Nanoscience Lab opens[24 November 2011]

  

  The School of Physics' Quantum Nanoscience Laboratory, under the direction of Dr David Reilly, was opened on 24 November. More

• AIP Prize Winner[23 November 2011]

  

  School of Physics PhD candidate, Ms. Stacey Hirsh, has been awarded the 2011 Ken Doolan Memorial Prize ($1,000) by the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP). More

• Astronomer elected OSA Fellow[21 November 2011]

  

  School of Physics renowned astronomer and astrophotonics pioneer, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). More

• Physics Researchers are ARC winners[15 November 2011]

  

  School of Physics researchers have been awarded over $3.6million in funding through ARC Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA). More

• Quantum physicist earns innovation nomination[14 November 2011]

  

  School of Physics Quantum Physicist, Dr Michael J Beircuk, has been announced as one of four finalists in the Australian Innovation Challenge Awards - Minerals and Energy category - run in association with Shell and supported by the Federal Government's Department of Innovation, Industry and Science and Research (DIISR). More

• Young Tall Poppy Award Winners[4 November 2011]

  

  School of Physics optical researcher, Dr Boris Kuhlmey, has been awarded a Tall Poppy from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, announced at an awards ceremony on 3 November 2011. More