NSW Nominees for AIP Bragg Medal (Best Ph.D. Thesis)

The AIP Bragg gold medal for the best Ph.D. thesis by a student from an Australian University was established in 1992 as an initiative of the SA Branch of the AIP to commemorate Sir Laurence Bragg and his father Sir William Bragg and is awareded annually. The prize involves a three stage selection process where each university nominates one candidate to its state branch, each state branch then selects two of these candidates as nominees for its state and the winner is finally chosen from these nominees by a national judging panel. Nominations from NSW universities should reach the secretary of the NSW branch by 28th July, 2006.

For further information contact: Graeme Melville (NSW-AIP Secretary).

Previous Bragg Medal Winners from NSW

• 1998: Dr Tanya Monro, University of Sydney

NSW Nominees for 2006

• Dr Alexander Argyros, University of Sydney for "Bragg Reflection and Bandgaps in Microstructured Optical Fibres".
• Dr Warrick Clarke, University of NSW for "Quantum Interaction Phenomena in p-GaAs Microelectronic Devices".
  

NSW Nominees for 2005

• Dr Carlin Yasin - University of NSW and Dr Richard White - Macquarie University
  

NSW Nominees for 2003

• Dr Michael Murphy, University of NSW for "Probing Variations in the Fundamental Constants with Quasar Absorption Lines"

NSW Nominees for 2002

• Dr Jeremy O'Brien, University of NSW for "Correlated and Confined Electrons: Towards the Fabrication of a Solid State Quantum Computer"
• Dr Saiedeh Saghafi, Macquarie University for "Characterisation of Output Beams produced by High Power Unstable Laser Resonators through Model Analysis"

NSW Nominees for 2001

• Dr Kieran Larkin, University of Sydney
• Dr Jon Lawrence, Macquarie University

NSW Nominees for 2000

• Dr Nicholas Armstrong, University of Technology Sydney for "Application of Maximum Entropy Method to X-ray Profile Analysis"
• Dr C.G. Poulton, University of Sydney for " Asymptotics and Wave Propagation in Cylindrical Geometries"