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.
Professor Marcela Bilek and colleagues have won the Australian Innovation Challenge Health award for their new technique to attach biologically functional molecules to surfaces.
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.
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.
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).
School of Physics renowned astronomer and astrophotonics pioneer, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
School of Physics researchers have been awarded over $3.6million in funding through ARC Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA).
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).
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.
Matthew Carr, a PhD student in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney has published research into a desktop device for studying fusion. Matthew has helped uncover some of the basic principles behind the fusion device called a Polywell, and brought the technology a step closer to being understood with impressive modeling and exciting plans for future research.
A team of University of Sydney researchers have been awarded a NHMRC Grant of $606,325 over three years to develop a stent technology that can simultaneously address the problems of restenosis and thrombogenicity and provide fundamental biocompatibillity.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, is the face of the YouTube Space Lab competition for the Asia Pacific region.
A pit of writhing snakes, is how the first picture of turbulent gas in our Milky Way has been described by renowned astronomer, Professor Bryan Gaensler, who is based in the University of Sydney's School of Physics.
The who's who of astronomy attended the launch of the School of Physics headquartered ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, CAASTRO, at Sydney Observatory on Monday 12 September.
Five School of Physics researchers - Professor Ben Eggleton, Associate Professor David Moss, Professor Manfred Lenzen, Dr Joy Murray and Dr Chris Dey - took out three prestigious Eureka Prizes at a gala event held on Tuesday 6 September.
Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, in the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for Excellence in Measurement Techniques by a scientist under 35.
A generous gift of $5 million from one of Australia's leading businessmen will enable us to make major advances in the exciting new field of nanoscience.
Associate Professor David Moss has announced a revolutionary new chip that uses little energy and operates at ultrafast speeds for telecommunications and computing.
School of Physics researchers, Professor Marcela Bilek and Professor David McKenzie, have developed a revolutionary new platform technology that is set to have a huge impact on areas as diverse as the early prediction of disease and the production of biofuels.
School of Physics researchers have developed a revolutionary new platform technology that is set to have a huge impact on areas as diverse as the early prediction of disease and the production of biofuels.
Two individuals and a research group from the School of Physics Science have been named as finalists in the 2011 Eureka Prizes, commonly referred to as the Oscars of Australian science.
Dr Sean Farrell, an ARC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Physics, is part of an international team of astronomers that has observed an incredibly rare astronomical event - a star that strayed too close to a Super Massive Black Hole being literally torn apart.
In a world first astronomers from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, together with collaborators at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) have commissioned a new instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), making use of new and novel astrophotonic technology.
Joelene Puntoriero from the Northern Territory has been awarded the coveted Mulpha Leadership Award as part of the 36th Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS) - Light and Matter
Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb AC, presented Hadleigh Frost and ISS2011 scholar from Lincoln High School in Canterbury New Zealand, with the prestigious Len Basser Prize for Scientific Leadership at a special reception last night.
Adjunct Assoc. Professor Lyn Oliver was recently recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to medical physics in the field of radiation oncology, and through executive roles with the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, and to professional associations".
Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), was invited to present as a guest speaker at TEDxSydney recently.
For the first time in its 49-year history as many as eight Indigenous Science Scholars will attend the 36th Professor Harry Messel International Science School: Light & Matter (ISS2011), a science education program being held in the School of Physics from 3-16 July.
Professor Alan Title, a US solar physicist from Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, will present stunning images of the Sun in a special Colloquium to be held at the School of Physics on Tuesday 5 July.
The Particle Physics Group in the School of Physics is part of the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP), a new ARC research centre for particle physics.
Research into tumour-targeting cancer technology by Professor Dale Bailey from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor Clive Baldock and Associate Professor Zdenka Kuncic, both from the School of Physics, will receive $265,000 over four years.
Two astronomers in the School of Physics, Professor Geraint Lewis and Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, have each been awarded individual observation time on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, in the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for excellence in measurement techniques by a scientist under 35.
School of Physics' Professor Rod Cross has written a book titled, "Physics of Baseball and Softball" that was recently published in the USA by Springer.
The Science Foundation for Physics, which supports the School of Physics, has elected Mr Jim O'Connor as the Foundation's President, and for Mr Albert Wong as its Deputy President.
Barnaby Norris, an astronomy student based within the School of Physics has won the 2011 Bok Prize for the Best Honours Thesis in astronomy across all Australian universities.
Groundbreaking research in quantum light sources led by CUDOS researchers based within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney will result in information speeds many times faster and data that is almost impossible to hack.
Professor Bernard (Bernie) Mills, FRS, AC, the fabled academic's academic died recently. Emeritus Professor Harry Messel pays tribute to a great astronomer.
There are over 400 million stars in the Milky Way but only a few are truly massive. An astronomy team at the School of Physics has used the bright X-ray glow from these stars to find where they are hiding in our Galaxy.
University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of stars known as red giants, finding a way to peer deep into their cores to discover which ones are in early infancy, which are fresh-faced teenagers, and which are facing their dying days.
NASA's revolutionary Kepler satellite has discovered a unique triply eclipsing triple star, reports an international team of astronomers including those from the School of Physics.
New light has been shed on the 150-year-old math puzzle known as the Riemann hypothesis, say mathematical physicists in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.
University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars.
University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars.
School of Physics astronomer, Professor Geraint Lewis, is part of a team of international astronomers who have identified a thick stellar disc in the nearby Andromeda galaxy for the first time.
Dr Nicolae Alexandru Nicorovici was born in Bucharest Rumania in the last year of World War II. He completed his education at the University of Bucharest with a PhD in Atomic Physics, dealing with the relation between interaction cross-sections and unitary symmetries. He then worked for the Rumanian Atomic Energy Commission, specialising in computation and theoretical physics.
A memorial will be held on Thursday 24 February at 10.30am in MacLaurin Hall, the University of Sydney, for Emeritus Professor John Bennett, a pioneering computer engineer who worked on SILLIAC.
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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.
Professor Marcela Bilek and colleagues have won the Australian Innovation Challenge Health award for their new technique to attach biologically functional molecules to surfaces.
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.
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.
The School of Physics' Quantum Nanoscience Laboratory, under the direction of Dr David Reilly, was opened on 24 November.
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). 
School of Physics renowned astronomer and astrophotonics pioneer, Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
School of Physics researchers have been awarded over $3.6million in funding through ARC Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA).
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).
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.
Matthew Carr, a PhD student in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney has published research into a desktop device for studying fusion. Matthew has helped uncover some of the basic principles behind the fusion device called a Polywell, and brought the technology a step closer to being understood with impressive modeling and exciting plans for future research.
School of Physics researchers have been awarded over $1.6M in ARC Discovery Grants. 
A team of University of Sydney researchers have been awarded a NHMRC Grant of $606,325 over three years to develop a stent technology that can simultaneously address the problems of restenosis and thrombogenicity and provide fundamental biocompatibillity. 
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, is the face of the YouTube Space Lab competition for the Asia Pacific region.
Tom Gordon, the School of Physics' Science Communicator, has secured a University of Sydney Compass Widening Participation grant of approx. $20,000. 
Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate (1996) will visit the School of Physics next week to discuss nanoscience.
The who's who of astronomy attended the launch of the School of Physics headquartered ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, CAASTRO, at Sydney Observatory on Monday 12 September.
Five School of Physics researchers - Professor Ben Eggleton, Associate Professor David Moss, Professor Manfred Lenzen, Dr Joy Murray and Dr Chris Dey - took out three prestigious Eureka Prizes at a gala event held on Tuesday 6 September.
Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, in the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for Excellence in Measurement Techniques by a scientist under 35.
A generous gift of $5 million from one of Australia's leading businessmen will enable us to make major advances in the exciting new field of nanoscience.
Associate Professor David Moss has announced a revolutionary new chip that uses little energy and operates at ultrafast speeds for telecommunications and computing.
School of Physics researchers, Professor Marcela Bilek and Professor David McKenzie, have developed a revolutionary new platform technology that is set to have a huge impact on areas as diverse as the early prediction of disease and the production of biofuels.
Two individuals and a research group from the School of Physics Science have been named as finalists in the 2011 Eureka Prizes, commonly referred to as the Oscars of Australian science.
Dr Sean Farrell, an ARC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Physics, is part of an international team of astronomers that has observed an incredibly rare astronomical event - a star that strayed too close to a Super Massive Black Hole being literally torn apart.
In a world first astronomers from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, together with collaborators at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) have commissioned a new instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), making use of new and novel astrophotonic technology.
Joelene Puntoriero from the Northern Territory has been awarded the coveted Mulpha Leadership Award as part of the 36th Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS) - Light and Matter
Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb AC, presented Hadleigh Frost and ISS2011 scholar from Lincoln High School in Canterbury New Zealand, with the prestigious Len Basser Prize for Scientific Leadership at a special reception last night.
Adjunct Assoc. Professor Lyn Oliver was recently recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to medical physics in the field of radiation oncology, and through executive roles with the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, and to professional associations". 
Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), was invited to present as a guest speaker at TEDxSydney recently.
For the first time in its 49-year history as many as eight Indigenous Science Scholars will attend the 36th Professor Harry Messel International Science School: Light & Matter (ISS2011), a science education program being held in the School of Physics from 3-16 July.
The Particle Physics Group in the School of Physics is part of the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP), a new ARC research centre for particle physics. 
Research into tumour-targeting cancer technology by Professor Dale Bailey from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor Clive Baldock and Associate Professor Zdenka Kuncic, both from the School of Physics, will receive $265,000 over four years. 
Two astronomers in the School of Physics, Professor Geraint Lewis and Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, have each been awarded individual observation time on the Hubble Space Telescope. 
Scholarships and prizes were awarded to the most outstanding Physics students at a recent ceremony in the School of Physics.
Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, in the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for excellence in measurement techniques by a scientist under 35. 
School of Physics' Professor Rod Cross has written a book titled, "Physics of Baseball and Softball" that was recently published in the USA by Springer. 
The Science Foundation for Physics, which supports the School of Physics, has elected Mr Jim O'Connor as the Foundation's President, and for Mr Albert Wong as its Deputy President. 
Barnaby Norris, an astronomy student based within the School of Physics has won the 2011 Bok Prize for the Best Honours Thesis in astronomy across all Australian universities. 
Professor Bernard (Bernie) Mills, FRS, AC, the fabled academic's academic died recently. Emeritus Professor Harry Messel pays tribute to a great astronomer.
There are over 400 million stars in the Milky Way but only a few are truly massive. An astronomy team at the School of Physics has used the bright X-ray glow from these stars to find where they are hiding in our Galaxy. 
NASA's revolutionary Kepler satellite has discovered a unique triply eclipsing triple star, reports an international team of astronomers including those from the School of Physics.
School of Physics photonics & optics physicist, Professor Ross McPhedran, has been honoured by election to the Australian Academy of Science.
University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars. 
University of Sydney astronomer, Professor Peter Tuthill, is one of an international team of astronomers who have announced a major step forward in the quest to find planets in orbit around distant stars. 
School of Physics astronomer, Professor Geraint Lewis, is part of a team of international astronomers who have identified a thick stellar disc in the nearby Andromeda galaxy for the first time.
Dr Graham Derrick (1934-2010) was a former staff member of the School of Physics. His colleague, Professor Ross McPhedran, pays tribute to him.
Dr Nicolae Alexandru Nicorovici was born in Bucharest Rumania in the last year of World War II. He completed his education at the University of Bucharest with a PhD in Atomic Physics, dealing with the relation between interaction cross-sections and unitary symmetries. He then worked for the Rumanian Atomic Energy Commission, specialising in computation and theoretical physics.
A memorial will be held on Thursday 24 February at 10.30am in MacLaurin Hall, the University of Sydney, for Emeritus Professor John Bennett, a pioneering computer engineer who worked on SILLIAC.