2013 News archive
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| April 2013 |
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| Fulbright scholarship awarded to PhD student David Waddington 16 April 2013 |
| Optics innovation an industry success 10 April 2013 |
| March 2013 |
| Professor Bryan Gaensler elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science 27 March 2013 |
| Dr Peter Domachuk Memorial Lecture 25 March 2013 |
| February 2013 |
| Sub-Mercury-sized exo-planet, another first for Kepler 21 February 2013 |
| Generous gift funds Professor Walter Stibbs Lectures 13 February 2013 |
| A29 Demolition complete 4 February 2013 |
| The Milky Way is on a diet 1 February 2013 |
| Listening to electrons: New method brings scaling-up quantum devices one step closer 1 February 2013 |
| Images in the extreme 1 February 2013 |
| January 2013 |
| Anti-lensing: the bright side of voids 11 January 2013 |
| PhD Candidate Chris Trinh wins Chambliss Achievement Award 11 January 2013 |
| A vast, thin plane of corotating dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda 3 January 2013 |
PhD Student at the University of Sydney School of Physics ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) David Waddington, has been named the prestigious 2013 ANSTO Fulbright Scholar. The scholarship will take Mr Waddinton to the Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging at Harvard University in Boston for 12 months. He will be working in the Low Field Imaging Laboratory and will be leaving at the end of the year.
An optics innovation by a University of Sydney researcher has been a financial and technology transfer success story creating a wave of sales for Finisar, the Australian company that has used the new technology.
Professor Bryan Gaensler, from the School of Physics and Director of CAASTRO - the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, announced on 27 March 2013.
The vision of the Dr Peter Domachuk Memorial Lecture is to support the sharing of information from leading optical physicists from around the world with our students, academics and researchers. We aspire to attract the world's leading physicists to come to the University of Sydney and present primarily in the area of Optics, with an alternative broader option of lecturing in Experimental Physics.
Sydney Institute for Astronomy researcher and Physics Head of School Professor Tim Bedding and Dr Dennis Stello have contributed to an international team in discovering the first sub Mercury-sized exoplanet, the innermost of three planets that orbit the Sun-like host star, Kepler-37. The results will be published in the prestigious journal Nature on February 28, 2013. 
With a family association to the University of Sydney spanning more than 128 years, and as a science graduate from the University herself, Margaret Stibbs knew there was no better place to make a generous donation to fund a new lecture series in memory of her eminent husband - astronomer Professor Walter Stibbs. 
Stage one of the New Australian Institute of Nanoscience (AIN) is now complete, and to see how the whole thing went down (the Physics annexe A29 that is), we have a great time lapse video of the process to have a look at.
The Milky Way is a lot slimmer than we previously A team of University of Sydney astronomers, led by international PhD student, Prajwal Kafle, and his collaborators, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Geraint Lewis and Sanjib Shama have shown that the Milky Way is a lot slimmer than we previously thought.
Stage one of the New Australian Institute of Nanoscience (AIN) is now complete, and to see how the whole thing went down (the Physics annexe A29 that is), we have a great time lapse video of the process to have a look at.
A synthetic image produced from the data of the dust shell around the red giant star W Hydrae, has earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Science first prize in the annual Canon Australia's Extreme Imaging competition.
University of Sydney Astronomer Dr Krzysztof Bolejko from the Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA) and his colleagues have uncovered a new anti-lensing effect for objects near cosmic voids by making a careful analysis of gravitational lensing. 
School of Physics PhD student Chris Trinh was one of five graduate recipients of the Chambliss Achievement Award. at the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in January 2013.
A newly discovered form of coplanar dwarf galaxy structure is challenging astronomers; not due to their complex orbits, but they present a challenge to our ideas of how all galaxies form and evolve.