NSW AIP Women in Physics Lectures

The Australian Institute of Physics International Women in Physics Lecture Series was instituted in 1998 to celebrate the contribution of women to advances in physics. Under this scheme, a woman who has made a significant contribution in a field of physics will give (at least) one lecture in a venue arranged by each participating branch of the AIP. The lecture will be of interest to a non-specialist physics audience and is expected to increase awareness among students and their families of the possibilities offered by continuing to study physics.

For further information contact: Annette Dowd from UTS.

Women in Physics Lectures in 2006

Prof. Deb Kane, Department of Physics, Macquarie University.

• Public Lecture - AIP Women in Physics Lecture Tour 2006, Saturday 30 September at 2pm, Power House Museum Sydney.
  
  "Light, Particles, Action"
   
  We bask in direct light from the sun most days. It warms us and enables us, with the use of our own sophisticated optical imaging system (the eye and brain), to see the world. But, we don’t expect to move boulders with sunbeams. However, when we replace the sun with a pulsed laser beam; scale the boulder down to a micro- or nano-sized particle sitting on a surface; things change significantly. Come and hear about laser/particle/surface interactions, laser cleaning, laser/particle micro- and nano-patterning and how micro- and nano-optics can be very different than our understanding of optics on the macro-scale (such as our own eye/brain system, microscopes, telescopes, cameras etc). The science described is fascinating in its own right but also has technological application in areas such as semiconductor fabrication, manufacturing industries, and art & cultural heritage conservation.
  

Women in Physics Lectures in 2004

Dr Mahananda Dasgupta, Australian National University - Public Lecture Abstract and Research Seminar Abstract

• WiP Public Lecture - "Accelerated Nuclei: Exploring the Nucleus and the Natural Environment" (Wednesday 25th August 7pm - The Australian Museum Theatrette)
• WiP Research Seminar - "Evolving Concepts in the Fusion of Heavy Nuclei" (Thursday 26th August 5pm - Slade Lecture Theatre, Physics Department, Sydney University)

Women in Physics Lectures in 2003

Prof. Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland on Laser Micromanipulation - Further information and Abstracts

• WiP Lecture - "Catch, Move and Twist using Optical Tweezers" (Wednesday 3rd September (time T.B.A.) - Pymble Ladies College (PLC), Boundary St, Croydon.)
• WiP Technical symposium - "Laser Manipulation of Microparticles and Atoms" (Tuesday 2nd September 4-5pm - Rm 64, School of Physics, Old Main Building K15, UNSW)

Women in Physics Lectures in 2002

Dr Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology on "Physics and its Masters"

• Thursday 29th August, UTS Lecture Theatre 2/413, University of Technology Sydney.
• Friday 30th August, Pymble Ladies College (PLC), Boundary St. Croydon.

Women in Physics Lectures in 2001

Dr Gabriela Gonzalez, Pennsylvania State University USA on "Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe"

• Tuesday 8th May, Burrows Lecture Theatre, University of NSW.

Women in Physics Lectures in 2000

Dr Michelle Simmons, University of NSW on "Nanotechnology: Physics, Chemistry and Biology Unite at the Ultra-small Scale"

• Monday 14th August, Burrows Lecture Theatre, University of NSW.
• Monday 21st August, Slade Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney.
• Tuesday 22nd August, Japan Theatre, National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra.