HANDBOOK 20Th AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE of PHYSICS CONGRESS, Incorporating the 37Th CONFERENCE on OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY (ACOFT)
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CONGRESS HANDBOOK 20th AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS CONGRESS, incorporating the For further information contact; 37th AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY (ACOFT) th 9 - 13 December 2012 119 Buckhurst Street South Melbourne VIC 3205 Australia ustralian T + 61 3 9645 6311 F + 61 3 9645 6322 E [email protected] INSTITUTEA OF PHYSICS CONGRESS 20Incorporating the 37th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (Associated event: Australian Optical Society Conference) THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2012 SYDNEY www.aip2012.org.au CSIRO www.csiro.au Open the door to collaboration From developing antibodies to creating lighter metals for next generation aircraft, our materials science division offers scientists incredible opportunity to work on diverse projects with real industrial impact. A critical part of our science and our success is collaboration. We thrive on working with new people with new perspectives. Opportunities for collaboration • CSIRO studentships • Postdoctoral fellowships • Top up grants for PhDs • Funding for internships • CSIRO scholarship program To find out more visit: www.csiro.au/careers or call us on 1300 363 400 CSIRO_CMSE_HalfPageAd.indd 1 1/11/2012 8:54:54 AM The Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) is one of five research institutes at The University of Adelaide. IPAS fosters excellence in research in materials science, chemistry, biology and physics, and across these boundaries, and develops disruptive new tools for measurement. IPAS creates the opportunity to invent and harness new tools for measurement to address many of the current exciting big questions in science. Many of the challenges we face as a society can only be solved by pursuing a transdisciplinary approach that brings together experimental physicists, chemists, material scientists, biologists, experimentally-driven theoretical scientists and medical researchers to create new sensing and measurement technologies. We work to create new tools that will change the questions scientists can ask, stimulate the creation of new industries, and create a new profession of transdisciplinary problem solvers. Our research is focused around six Research Themes, which interconnect and allow us to tackle the major challenges facing Australia and the world and which offer particular opportunities for the development of new and disruptive technologies. An overview of these themes can be seen in a short video, which can be found at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ipas/ We work on a wide spectrum of projects that range from fundamental to applied research projects, which gives us a feedstock of new approaches to bring to practical problems and opportunities to drive world-class research as well as engage closely with industry. The list below shows a cross section of some of the applications we are working on with industrial and government partners in specific market sectors: • Defence & national security – corrosion detection, high power lasers and luminescence techniques. • Environmental & agricultural monitoring – laser radar systems for monitoring wind, moisture and pollution in the atmosphere, sensors for monitoring soil and water quality. • Medical diagnostics – rapid virus detection to help prevent global flu pandemics, early detection of cancer biomarkers and technologies to improve IVF success rates. • Food & wine – monitoring of wine maturation, soil nutrient monitoring. We are always seeking excellent scientists to join the team at IPAS – please visit our website www.adelaide.edu.au/ipas/jobs-study to find out more about the opportunities we have available. 1 Welcome from the Congress Chair On behalf of the Australian Institute of Physics and the New South Wales Branch, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 20th Australian Institute of Physics Congress held at the University of New South Wales over the coming week. Co-located with the 37th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), the AIP/ACOFT 2012 Congress is the biggest and most diverse scientific meeting of the Australian physics calendar in 2012. The Congress once again has attracted many of Australia’s finest physicists plus a number of prominent overseas Plenary Speakers and attendees, respresenting over 14 different countries. It provides a forum for discussions within specialist physics topic areas and opportunities for physicists from academia, government, industry and the commercial sector to keep up to date in areas outside their core interests. The Congress brings together approximately 20 special interest groups and, as was achieved in 2010, the incorporation of ACOFT will attract specialists working on diverse research applications of optical fibre technology. Over the next four days I encourage you to maximise the opportunity to engage in plenary lectures, parallel sessions, poster sessions, a public lecture, industry workshops and poster sessions. In addition, please spend time in the exhibition area learning more about the latest products and services available in the marketplace. Of course the social elements of the Congress allow for networking and engagement with your peers and colleagues so I look forward to seeing you at the Welcome Reception and Congress Dinner. Thank you for taking the time to join us at the Congress and I hope you find the experience informative and enjoyable. Dr Cathy Foley Congress Chair Welcome from the AIP President Welcome to the 20th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, incorporating the 37th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT). Once again many of our cognate societies have joined us at the Congress to hold their specialist meetings. Some of these are here for the first time like the Australian Society of Rheology and so we look forward to learning about new and varied areas of physics. This has been a very special year for physics in Australia with Brian Schmidt (one of our plenary speakers) winning the Nobel Prize for Physics, the announcement of Western Australia as the selected site for the low frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array, operating funds for the Australian Synchrotron secured and the announcement, jointly at CERN and in Melbourne at the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics, of the observation of the Higgs boson. We will hear about all these things and more. In addition we start the 50th anniversary year of the Australian Institute of Physics at this Congress and there will be some announcements about activities for the year and new initiatives as part of the celebrations of our semi-centenary. Running such a large and diverse meeting of physicists requires a team of dedicated and hard working people and I would like to thank the people behind the scenes who have made this meeting possible: Cathy Foley and her local Organising Committee; Rob Robinson and his Scientific Program Committee; the host organisations (AIP, AOS, ACOFT & Engineers Australia); and WALDRONSMITH Management our Conference Organisers and AIP Secretariat providers. I wish all participants an enjoyable and productive Congress. Dr Marc Duldig President – Australian Institute of Physics 2012 AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND L’ORÉAL FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE FELLOWS WE SUPPORT WOMEN WHO MOVE SCIENCE FORWARD. Dr Baohua Jia Dr Suetonia Palmer Dr Kylie Mason Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research / More effi cient solar cells using quantum dots. Giving people with kidney disease control of their lives. Royal Melbourne Hospital. New treatments for blood cancers. L’Oréal For Women in Science has grown into a global program that includes International, Regional and National Fellowships and an international network of more than 1,300 women in 106 countries. Each year, the national L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowship awards three early career, female scientists with AUD$25,000 for their remarkable contributions in science. Applications for the 2013 Australian & New Zealand Fellowships reopen in April, 2013. www.forwomeninscience.com 314991_FWIS_AdResize.indd 1 7/11/12 2:06 PM 2012 AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 3 L’ORÉAL FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE FELLOWS WE SUPPORT WOMEN WHO MOVE SCIENCE FORWARD. Contents WELCOME 1 MEDIA 3 CONGRESS ORGANISERS 3 ORGANISING COMMITTEE 5 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE 5 CONGRESS HOSTS 5 AIP 2012 Congress TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE 6 proudly sponsored by SPONSORS 8 EXHIBITOR DIRECTORY & FLOOR PLAN 9 VENUE 10 UNSW School GENERAL INFORMATION 12 REGISTRATION ENTITLEMENTS 13 CONGRESS ACCOMMODATION 13 Dr Baohua Dr Suetonia Dr Kylie of Physics SOCIAL PROGRAM 14 Jia Palmer Mason Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research / More effi cient solar cells using quantum dots. Giving people with kidney disease control of their lives. Royal Melbourne Hospital. New treatments for blood cancers. AIP MEDALS AND AWARDS 15 ASSOCIATED EVENTS 17 L’Oréal For Women in Science has grown into a global program that includes International, Regional and National Fellowships and an international network of more than 1,300 women in 106 PUBLIC LECTURE 17 countries. Each year, the national L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowship awards three early career, female scientists with AUD$25,000 for their remarkable contributions in science. Applications for the 2013 Australian & New Zealand Fellowships reopen in April, 2013. www.forwomeninscience.com CONNECT YOUR RESEARCH