2006

ANNUAL REPORT

The School of Physics

The School of Physics staff and postgraduates School of Physics staff and postgraduates 2006 Photographer: Les O'Rourke Photographer: David Hannah The University of Melbourne 02 Faculty of Science 03 The School of Physics Mission Statement 04 Head's Report 05 Growing Esteem & Future Directions 06 Governance 06 Executive Manager's Report 06

Academic Staff 07 Research Only Staff 10 Honorary Staff 11 Professional Staff 12 Visitors 14 Research Funding 17

Contents 2006 01

Research Seminar Series 23 School hosted Conferences 29 Postgraduates in Progress 30 Theses Passed 33 Group Reports & Publications Astrophysics 36 Experimental Particle Physics 38 Micro-analytical Research Centre 42 Quantum Communications Victoria 46 Optics 48 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent Xray Science 51 Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 53 Theoretical Particle Physics 55

Postgraduate Physics Student Society 57 Prizes & Awards 59 Subjects Offered 61 Outreach Programs 62 Alumni & Friends 64 Media 65 Recruiting Organisations 67 More Information 68

www.ph.unimelb.edu.au Postera crescam laude I shall grow in the esteem of future generations

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The University of Melbourne > 02

HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2006 • Melbourne recorded the largest number of QUALITY PEOPLE research higher degree enrolments and completions nationally with continued improvement in the • The quality of student intake remained very high completion rate. with a median ENTER score of 94.30. • Assessments of all faculties and departments • The quality of University staff is recognised through placed more than 90% of academic units in the top prestigious awards and the election of 11 staff as three in Australia, with around half ranked as No 1 fellows of learned societies. • Seven internationally outstanding researchers • Staff receive recognition for excellence in teaching were awarded Federation Fellowships at the through Carrick Citations and Awards. University. • Australia’s largest biopharmaceutical company, LEARNING & TEACHING CSL, entered into an innovation partnership providing for 50 of its scientists to relocate to the • The Melbourne Model was adopted, providing University’s Bio21 Institute. for three year undergraduate degrees, followed by a professional or research masters degree, and the • The University joined an elite international group option of a PhD. Core principles for the Melbourne of universities teaching Veterinary Science after Model degrees were established. winning accreditation by the American Veterinary Medicine Association. • Six new Melbourne Model undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT Music and Science will be offered from 2008. Graduate degrees will be phased in from 2008. • The international standing of the University • Melbourne achieved a top ranking and the highest as judged by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University grant of $8.9m in the Commonwealth Learning and institutional rankings continued to improve with Teaching Performance Fund. a ranking of 78. The University was ranked No 22 in the world by the Times Higher Education • Staff received an exceptional nine Carrick citations Supplement Study 2006. for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and two Carrick Awards for Australian University • The University was admitted as a member of the Teaching. Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Membership is based on academic excellence, research intensity, • Design and development of collaborative learning global outlook and innovation. spaces and multi-purpose student learning hubs is underway to enhance student experience. • International student load increased, with international student numbers exceeding 10,000 RESEARCH & RESEARCH TRAINING and representing 25.9 % of student load. • The Confucius Institute was established with • Since 1996 Melbourne has ranked first or second support from both the Victorian and Chinese on national research indicators of total research governments. It is part of a global network facilitating income, research publications, RHD student load the teaching of the Chinese language and culture. and completions. find uni image bank photo of logo or UM grounds

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Science is an international discipline which thrives on collaboration that brings together people from all over the world. Science at Melbourne is an enriching experience for staff and students from local, national or international backgrounds.

For over 100 years, the health sciences, science and engineering at Melbourne have made an exceptional and significant contribution to our reputation as a leading Australian research organisation. Today, we are consistently ranked among the top universities in the world for science:

• No 1 in Australia for Biomedicine (7th in the world)

• No 1 in Australia for Engineering & Technology (16th in the world, ahead of Harvard, UCLA, and Princeton)

• No 2 in Australia for Science (27th in the world, all sciences)

Science, engineering and technology teaching staff are among the most internationally recognised in Australia. This is demonstrated by the uninterrupted success in the Australian Government ‘Federation Fellow’ program. The research grants awarded by this program, rank among the most prestigious in Australia and reward scientific excellence. Currently, the University of Melbourne has 12 ‘Federation Fellows’ across different branches of science, engineering and technology. The School of Physics > 04

MISSION STATEMENT To advance the knowledge and understanding In addition, the School locally collaborates with of physics for the benefit of society, science researchers at other Australian facilities such and the environment by continually achieving as Anglo-Australian Telescope, APAC, Austin excellence in teaching and research. Our aim Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, is to be one of the best Physics Schools in the Parkes Telescope, Australian Synchrotron, world. Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Howard Florey Institute, CSIRO as well as laboratory facilities within the University of Melbourne Schools and The School of Physics is one of the oldest and Departments of Biochemical & Microbiology, largest in Australia. It houses approximately 200 Chemistry, Computer Science, Medicine, teaching & research academic staff, research Pathology and Chemical & Biomolecular staff, professional staff, postgraduate and 4th Engineering. year Honours students. The School is justifiably proud of its internationally competitive and comprehensive undergraduate and research The School has an outstanding record of programs, particularly with the Honours, achievement in attracting external research Masters and PhD programs. funding including grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian Academy of Science, Victorian Government and USA The major research strengths of the department government bodies. staff span a diverse range of interests including astrophysics, atom optics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, experimental particle physics, The School’s research activities are aligned medical physics, nanotechnology and materials according to 6 research groups: science, theoretical particle physics, quantum information science, X-ray and imaging optics. Astrophysics (Astro) The breadth and depth of interests is reflected in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP) the undergraduate teaching programs. Micro-analytical Research Centre (MARC) Optics Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (TCMP) The School enjoys excellent international Theoretical Particle Physics (TPP) reputation in research with its collaborators in CERN (Switzerland), KEK (Japan), Advanced Photon Source (USA), Argonne Lab (USA), Hubble Telescope (USA), NASA, NIST, National Oakridge Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, and many top universities in Europe, North America and Asia. HEAD'S REPORT

Guided by the University of Melbourne’s strategy of Growing Esteem, our staff and students continue to contribute strongly in each of the three important elements of the University’s strategic directions:

Research – Researchers operate at the highest levels internationally. Areas of research from key fundamental questions in astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, through to Head of School, Professor Geoffrey Taylor important problems applying known laws of physics to complex systems or in innovative The School currently hosts the Melbourne new applications. The training of students to node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for international standards is a key driver of the Quantum Computing Computer Technology, School’s research activities. The upcoming the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X- Research Quality Framework will focus our ray Science and Quantum Communications attention on what we have achieved and future Victoria (QCV). The School houses a suite of goals. 05 premier research laboratories and facilities including: The School continues to contribute to the design and construction of the ATLAS experiment soon to commence at CERN, to the new radio- • a clean room complex equipped with astrophysics MWA array in Western Australia, advanced instrumentation for materials and to various instrumentation projects at the fabrication, characterisation and analysis Australian Synchrotron. The School is leading including focused ion beam microscopes, the establishment of a large computing UHV AFM/STM scanning probe system, facility for the analysis of data from CERN. UV Ramanspectrometer, and a pulsed laser deposition system. Learning & Teaching – with the new • a particle detector development and Melbourne Model aims at attracting the best construction facility comprising clean rooms, and brightest students from around Australia precision wirebonder detector development, and internationally. The School is preparing for ssembly and evaluation capabilities. the 3-year undergraduate program followed by a 2-year MSc that promises advanced • advanced X-ray, laser, microscopy and graduate coursework and projects that atom optics laboratories are not possible in the current curriculum.

• a 5 MV Pelletron accelerator providing source of MeV ion beams in 5 beamlines used Knowledge Transfer – the School continues in nuclear microprobe systems to engage the public through an outstanding outreach program, through a re-invigorated alumni and friends program, and through a • excellent library with extensive collection new University-encouraged engagement of of journals , books and texts (mostly on-line) business and industry. to service the teaching and research activities ofthe School (as well as external institutions) The work of an academic department takes many forms but teaching and research are at its heart. In the pages of this report you will find a snap-shot of our research and teaching activities in 2006. In doing so, we celebrate the achievements of our students, including those who have won academic prizes and those who have completed degrees. The report also celebrates the achievements of our staff, including the papers they have published and the research grants they have been awarded. We celebrate the diversity of our staff and students, their interests and backgrounds. We are passionate in our commitment to highest standards in teaching and research in physics.

SCHOOL GOVERNANCE The School continues to be well served by the following Committee Structure and membership.

Academic Programs Jeff McCallum (Chair), Andrew Melatos, Lloyd Hollenberg, Ray Volkas, Helen Conley Andy Martin, Ann Roberts, David Jamieson, Elisabetta Barberio, Michelle Livett, Adrew Greentree, Nikolas Stavias, Sandy Law, Colin Entwisle (Executive Officer)

Finance & Facilities Executive Manager, Ms Helen Conley Geoffrey Taylor (Chair), David Jamieson, Helen Conley, Andrew Melatos, Rachel Webster, Colin Entwisle, Robert Scholten, 06 Paul Spizziri, Russel Walsh, Shannon Orbons, Tim Dyce, Roland Syzmanski, Roland EXECUTIVE MANAGER'S REPORT Szymanski, Chris Witte (ex officio), Marcia Damjanovitch-Napoleon (Executive Officer) The Teaching and Research effort of the School has been well supported again this year Promotions & Marketing by excellent professional staff. Staff were employed in two new centres, the ARC Centre Ann Roberts (Chair), Geoffrey Taylor, David of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science and Jamieson, Helen Conley, Rachel Webster, Roger QCV; Quantum Communications Victoria. We Rassool, Bruce McKellar, Elisabetta Barberio, welcome Tania Smith, Rosslyn Ball, Joanne Joanne Kuluveovski, Brant Gibson, Byron Villis, Gajewski and Stacey Watts to the school. Cilla Gloger (Executive Officer) Joanne Kuluveovski was promoted to Research & Communications Manager in recognition Research & Industry of her support for the School’s research effort Ray Volkas (Chair), Geoffrey Taylor, Helen Conley, and her additional secondment to MRIO. Stuart Wyithe, Chris Chantler, Les Allen, Steven Cilla Gloger's skills were also acknowledged Prawer, Joanne Kuluveovski, Shane Huntington, in a secondment to the USP Publications Jason Doukas, Cilla Gloger (Executive Officer) Module deployment. We were also fortunate to have Michelle Geil join us as the new PA to the Head, replacing Kristine Philipp. Safety Within the IT group, we farewelled the Rob Scholten (Chair), Helen Conley, Roland manager Will Belcher who was replaced by Szymanski, Wayne Powrie, Paul Spizziri, Phil Tim Dyce. Peter Fuggle also left the team to Lyons, Colin Entwisle, Marco La Rosa, Barbara take up a position outside the university. Fairchild, Julie Warden (Executive Officer) Jude Prezens and Stephen Marshall joined Nick Nicola in the undergraduate laboratories, while Policy Michael Gangoiti moved to IT Central Services. Geoffrey Taylor (Chair), Ray Volkas, Helen Conley, Rachel Webster, David Jamieson, Steven Prawer, Building works this year have included the Keith Nugent, Bruce McKellar, Les Allen, Jeff refurbishment of the MARC area on Level 2, an McCallum, Ann Roberts, Martin Sevior, Brant upgrade of the Part II undergraduate laboratories, Gibson, Chris Witte, Andrew Martin, Kristine completion of the Geoff Opat Seminar Room, Philipp (Executive Officer) modification to research space in the basement and air conditioning for the server room.

School Meeting An impressive area of offices and meeting space Geoffrey Taylor (Chair), all staff, Paul Fraser (ex was also developed on Level 2 for the new officio), Kristine Philipp (Executive Officer) ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science. find uni image bank photo of Helen Quin, and the physics Professors in academic garb

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PROFESSORS

Head of School Bruce McKellar BSc(Hons), PhD Syd, DSc Melb, FAA FInstP FAIP Geoffrey Taylor FAPS BSc(Hons) MSc UWA, PhD Hawaii, MAIP MAPS Research Interests: B Physics, neutrinos, CP Violation, quantum chromodynamics, early Research Interests: high energy particle physics, universe, particle phenomenology, general physics beyond the Standard Model, CERN theoretical physics. laboratory, ATLAS project, supersymmetry, Higgs boson, CP violation, GRID computing, Teaching Interests: Electromagnetism, Subatomic positron emission topography, medical physics physics, Quantum mechanics Teaching Interests: Principles and Applications of Physics David Jamieson BSc(Hons), PhD Melb, FAIP, FInst, MAPS Deputy Head of School Research Interests: quantum computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics, diamond, Raymond Volkas silicon, ion beam physics and analysis, ion implantation, microprobes, semiconductors, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb FAIP charge injection in semiconductors Research Interests: beyond the standard model, Teaching Interests: Advanced physics, neutrinos, branes and extra dimensions, particle Electromagnetic & Special relativity, Further cosmology, particle phenomenology, early Classical & Quantum Mechanics universe Teaching Interests: Quantum mechanics Steven Prawer BSc(Hons), PhD Monash, DSc Melb, MAIP MRS Federation Fellow Research Interests: quantum information processing, diamond, ion implantation, Keith Nugent micromachining, quantum optics, quantum communication, ion beam analysis, single photon BSc(Hons) Adel, PhD ANU, FAA FAIP sources, qubits, nanotechnology Research Interests: optics, synchrotron science, Teaching Interests: Sensors, Condensed Matter x-rays, coherence, quantitative phase imaging, Physics biophysics, protein membrane imaging Teaching Interests: n/a Robert Scholten BSc Adelaide, BSc(Hons) PhD Flinders, MAIP, Rachel Webster MAPS BSc Monash, MSc Sussex, PhD Cantab. Research Interests: atom optics, quantum optics, atomic physics, laser cooling, imaging, quantum Research Interests: observational and theoretical imaging, atomic coherence, lasers cosmology, active galactic nuclei & quasars, graviational lensing, dust, galaxies, groups & Teaching Interests: Advanced Physics, clusters, low frequency radio telescopes, epoch Computational Physics of reionisation, galaxy formation, eResearch Teaching Interests: Astrophysics, Special Relativity, Life in the Universe, Climate change

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS & READERS ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS Les Allen Ann Roberts BSc(Hons), MSc Port Elizabeth, PhD Sth Africa BSc(Hons) PhD Syd, MAIP Research Interests: atomic resolution imaging Research Interests: optics, photonics, and spectroscopy, electron scattering, inner-shell nanophotonics, imaging, microscopy, ionization, phase imaging metamaterials Teaching Interests: Atomic, Molecular and Solid Teaching Interests: Biomedical Physics, Standard State Physics; Scattering & Imaging Physics, Optics

08 Christopher Chantler Martin Sevior BSc(Hons) UWA, DPhil Oxon BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, FAIP Research Interests: X-ray optics, synchrotron, X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, powder Research Interests: high energy physics, quarks, diffraction, radiation shielding, atomic physics anti-matter, Higgs particle, Data Grid & quantum electro-dynamics, condensed matter physics Teaching Interests: Quantum Mechanics; Electrodynamics Teaching Interests: Electromagnetism & Special Relativity; Thermal Physics; Quantum Optics

Lloyd Hollenberg Michelle Livett BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, MAIP BSc(Hons) PhD LaTrobe, DipEd MCAE , MAIP Research Interests: theoretical quantum Research Interests: Physics education computing and information, qubit system Teaching Interests: Biomedical Physics modelling and control, algorithm, single electron transistor, decoherence of gate operations, quantum error correction Teaching Interests: Advanced Physics; Stars & Galaxies

Girish Joshi BSc Agra, MSc Allahabad, PhD Delhi Prof Keith Nugent and Assoc Prof Les Allen Research Interests: quaternions, octonions, non-commutative geometry, chaotic maps, guage theoretic model building, particle phenomenology Teaching Interests: Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Field Theory; General Relativity SENIOR LECTURERS LECTURERS Elisabetta Barberio MSc Bologna, PhD Siegen Nicole Bell Research Interests: experimental particle physics, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb dark matter, cosmology, ATLAS experiment, CERN laboratory, Higgs boson, structure of the Research Interests: beyond the standard model, universe, origin of the mass cosmology, neutrino physics, branes and extra dimensions, particle cosmology, particle Teaching Interests: Principles and Applications phenomenology, early universe of Physics, Particle Physics Teaching Interests: Quantum Mechanics, Advanced Physics, Thermal Physics Andrew Martin BSc(Hons) PhD Lancaster Research Interests: theoretical condensed matter physics, Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum TUTOR Hall Effect, superfluids, superconductivity James Richmond Teaching Interests: Further classical & Quantum mechanics, Thermal Physics LLB(Hons) BSc(Hons) Melb

Andrew Melatos 09 BSc(Hons) PhD Syd Research Interests: neutron stars, gravitational waves, plasma physics, superfluids Teaching Interests: Electrodynamics, Statistical Mechanics

Jeffrey McCallum BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Research Interests: epitaxy and defect studies in silicon, semi-conductor physics disorder defects and amorphisation, open volume defects, ion implantation, solid phase epitaxial growth, shallow junctions, new materials science Teaching Interests: Advanced Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Thermal Physics

Roger Rassool BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Research Interests: particle and nuclear physics, nuclear particle photons, industrial applications of physics, instrumentation, silicon detectors, medical physics Teaching Interests: Advanced Physics, Standard Physics, Instruments for Scientists, Energy & Environment

Stuart Wyithe BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Research Interests: astrophysics, cosmology, first stars, reionization, black holes, gravitational lensing, the early universe, eclipsing binaries, quasars Teaching Interests: Extragalactic astrophysics & Cosmology; Stars & Galaxies Dr Andy Martin RESEARCH STAFF Research Fellows Brian Abbey, MSc College London, MA Senior Research Fellows Imperial College PhD Cantab. Shane Huntington, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Eric Ampem-Lassen, DipEd BSc MPhil Ghana, PhD Melb Harry Quiney, BSc(Hons) MSc Monash, DPhil Oxon David Barnes, BSc PhD Melb Paul Spizzirri, BAppSc Swinburne, MSc Melb Markus Bischofberger, BSc PGDip PhD Zurich Steven Trpkovski, BSc(Hons) PhD VUT Stefania Castelletto, Laurea Turin, PhD Polytechnic Turin Alberto Cimmino, BSc Naples MSc PhD Centenary Fellow Melb Duncan Galloway, BSc(Hons) PhD Tas Jared Cole, BAppSc BEng (Hons) RMIT PhD Melb Bipin Dhal, BSc MSc Utkal, MPhil PhD India Mark Dijkstra, BSc MSc Groningen, PhD Lyle Fellow Columbia Mark Trodden, BA(Hons) MA(Hons) MSc PhD Scott Findlay, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Cantab. Robert Foot, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Australian Research Fellow Brant Gibson, BE PhD LaTrobe 10 Chanh Tran, BSc(Hons) BE, PhD Melb Andrew Greentree, BSc(Hons) Adel, PhD ANU Faruque Hossain, BSc MSc Dhaka, MEngS NSW, PhD Tokyo Australian Postdoctoral Fellows Archil Kobakhidze, MSc PhD Tbilisi Ivane Nicoletta Dragomir, BSc Romania PhD VUT Javakhishvili Adrian Flitney, BSc(Hons) Tas, PhD Adel Justin Kimpton, BSc(Hons) PhD Swinburne Paolo Olivero, MSc PhD Torino Marco La Rosa, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Patrick Reichart, PhD Munich Adrian Mancuso, BSc(Hons) Melb Katherine Manson, BSc PhD ANU Glenn Moloney, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

Matthew O’Dowd, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Christopher Pakes, BSc(Hons) PhD Birmingham Nicholas Parker, MSci PhD Durham James Rabeau, BSc Waterloo PhD Heriot- Watt Sergey Rubanov, MSc Russia, PhD NSW

David Simpson, BSc (Hons) VUT Randall Wayth, BSc BE PGDip PhD Melb Cameron Wellard, BSc PhD Melb Garth Williams, BSc Akron, MS PhD Illinois Hugh Wilson, BSc(Hons) PhD Syd

Jared Winton, BSc Melb Lyle Winton, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Changyi Yang, BSc Nanjing, MSc Shanghai Inst App Phys, PhD Lund Rotha Yu, BSc(Hons) PhD Monash HONORARY STAFF

Professors Emeritus Herbert Bolotin, BSc CUNY MSc PhD Indiana DSc, FAIP David Caro, DSc(Hons) MSc LLB(Hons) Tas, PhD Birm OBE AE FACE FAIP Anthony George Klein, AM BEE PhD DSc Melb FAA HonFAIP Colin Arnold Ramm, MSc UWA PhD Birm, FlnstP FAIP

Assoc Prof Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona Professorial Fellows Allan Clark, BSc Tas, DPhil Oxon, University of Geneva Peter Hannaford, BSc PhD Melb. FAIP Alan Jackson Jeremy Mould, BSc(Hons) Melb, PhD ANU, University of Arizona Colin Norman, BE Melb, DPhil Oxon, John 11 Hopkins University

Fellows Principal Fellows with the title Associate Igor Andrienko, MSc PhD Russia MRACI Professor David Bardos, BSc PhD Melb KenAmos, BSc PhD Adel DSc Melb, FAIP Catherine Buchanan, BSc(Hons) PhD ANU Zwi Barnea, BSc MSc PolytechLNY PhD Melb, MAIP Vivianne Buzzi, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb PGDipMgmt MBS Les Bursill, BSc DipEd Melb, PhD Monash DSc Melb Mukunda Das, MSc PhD India Norman Frankel, BSc MIT PhD Melb Michael Drinkwater, BSc Syd PhD Cantab. James Jury, BSc MSc PhD Tor Matthias Eberspaecher, PhD JLUGieben DipPhys Fulvio Melia, BSc(Hons) Melb, PhD MIT Barbara Etschmann, BSc(Hons) PhD UWA Edmund Muirhead, MSc PhD Melb, MAIP Moshi Geso, PhD California Alan Spargo, BSc PhD WA, MAIP Steven Karataglidis, BSc MSc, AssDip Music Maxwell Thompson, MSc PhD Melb DSc FAIP PhD Melb Stuart Tovey, BA Canterbury, PhD Bristol Victor Kowalenko, BSc PhD Melb John Wignall, BA BSc MSc Melb, PhD Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway, BA Belgrade Cantab. BSc(Hons) NSW, PhD Senior Fellows Victoria Millar, BSc(Hons) DipEd MSc Melb Brendan Allman, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, DipEd Andrew Peele, BSc LLB PhD Melb Monash, MBA LaTrobe Andrew Rawlinson, BSc PhD Adel Valery Gurarie, MSc PhD Moscow Emma Ryan-Weber, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Gareth Moorhead, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb GAIP Grigori Tamanyan, BSc Yerevan PhD Moscow Graeme O'Keefe, BSc PhD Melb Maurizio Toscano, BSc(Hons) PhD DipEd Melb Salvy Russo, BSc Melb, PhD RMIT Meryl Waugh, BSc(Hons) Monash DipEd TTC PhD Melb “It’s a Beautiful Day”, oil-on-linen painting by artist Vivienne Shark LeWitt shown in a previously held art exhibition at University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art.

Professional Staff > 12

Ms Tania Smith, GradCert VETiS and ADMINISTRATION AdvDip Arts VUT Chief of Operations – ARC Centre of Excellence Ms Helen Conley, BSc Deakin DipEd Monash for Coherent X-Ray Science Executive Manager Mrs Julie Warden Mr Russell Walsh, Diploma Electronics RMIT Administrative Assistant (Finance) Finance & Resources Manager Ms Kristine Philipp Ms Rosslyn Ball PA to Head & Administrator

PA/Administrator – ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science Ms Michelle Geil PA to Head & Administrator Ms Janet Carlon Administrator - MARC/ARC Centre of Excellence for Ms Stacey Watts, BA Swinburne Quantum ComputerTechnology Certificate Community Studies VUT

Executive Assistant - Quantum Communications Ms Marcia Damjanovich-Napoleon, BA UWA Victoria Finance Officer

Dr Joanna Gajewski, BSc (Hons) PhD Melb RESEARCH, COMMUNICATIONS & Business and Marketing Manager – Quantum TEACHING Communications Victoria Mr Colin Entwisle, BSc(Hons) Melb Ms Cilla Gloger, NHDip Admin Sth Africa Teaching Administrative Officer Administrative Officer Ms Joanne Kuluveovski, BSc(Hons) Melb Ms Helga Kendy Research & Communications Manger Reception (part-time) Ms Kamala Lekange, Librarian INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TECHNICAL CENTRE Mr William Belcher, BElecE Melb Mr Roland Szymanski, PostgradDip Manager, IT services Vacuum Technology, Certificate Industrial Electronics Technical Manager Mr Timothy Dyce, BSc Melb IT Manager Mr Eliecer Bonilla Parra, Certificate Fitter & Turner Mr Peter Fuggle Technical Officer Systems Network Officer Mr Ashley French, Certificates in Mechanical Instrumentation Making, Mr Simeon Scott Fitter & Turner IT Support Officer Technical Officer

Ms Kathryn Sparks Mr Philip Gargano IT Support Officer Technical Officer 13 Mr Linh Vu, BComSci Melb Mr Stephen Gregory, BAppSc(Hons), BE Web and Database Administrator Melb Technical Officer

Mr Scott Moncrieff UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORIES Technical Officer EPP Mr Nick Nicola, BAppSc RMIT Laboratory Manager Mr Wayne Powrie, Certificates in Toolmaking, Fitter & Turner

Mr Steven Damen, BSc Ballarat Senior Technical Officer Technical Officer Mr Sandor Szilagyi

Dr David Hoxley, BSc (Hons) PhD Melb Senior Electronics Technician 2nd and 3rd Year Laboratory Coordinator Mr Michael Zammit, Certificate Fitter & Turner Mr Philip Lyons Technical Officer Technical Officer

Mr Jude Prezens, BAppSc RMIT Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant

Mr Stephen Marshall, BSc DipEd Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant NASA astronaut, Colonel Pamela Melroy, visits the School of Physics Visitors > 14

The School of Physics encourages international exchanges and visitors to the department, including academics of international standing in their field of study.

Mr Tim Alberts, BSc Netherlands MSc candidate, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Mr Andrew Alves, BSc RMIT PhD candidate, School of Applied Science, RMIT, Australia

Mr Michael Beljaars, BSc Netherlands MSc candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Dr David Belton, BSc(Hons) JCU PhD Melb CSIRO Exploration and Mining, School of Geosciences, Monash University, Australia

Mr Adam Boag PhD candidate, School of Applied Science, RMIT, Australia

Dr Michael Brown, BSc(Hons) MSc PhD Melb Research Associate, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA

Dr James E Butler Head, Gas/Surface Dynamics Section, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC

Professor Sudhendu Choudhury, BSc MSc PhD Dehli Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi Mr Eliel Cohen PhD candidate, Pierre et Marie Currie, France

Professor Sankar Das Sarma Distinguished University Professor & Director of Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, USA

Mr De Vos van Steenwijk, BSc Netherlands MSc candidate, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Mr Martin Draganski PhD candidate, School of Applied Science, RMIT, Australia

Ms Stefanie Elbracht, BSc Germany MSc candidate, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Professor Eliezer Finkman, BSc MSc DSc Israel Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 15

Professor Herbert Fried, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA

Dr Stefano Frixione, BSc PhD Italy INFN,Genova, Italy

Mr Peter Ha, BSc Singapore PhD candidate, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr Fedor Jelezko School of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany and Quantum Communication Victoria Fellow

Mr Thomas Judd, BSc(Hons) MSc Nottingham PhD candidate, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Professor Rafi Kalish, MSc PhD Israel Institute of Solid State Physics, Technion, Israel

Professor Yong Kim, BSc MSc PhD Korea Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences, Cheju National University, Republic of Korea

Dr Weihua Liu, BEG MEG China PhD Monash CSIRO Exploration and Mining, School of Geosciences, Monash University, Australia

Miss Bridget Murphy, BSc(Hons) Monash PhD candidate, Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University, Australia Dr Mark Oxley, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb Condensed Matter Physics Division, Oakridge National Laboratory, United States

Professor Stephen Pennycook, BA MA PhD Cantab. Condensed Matter Physics Division, Oakridge National Laboratory, United States

Mr Andrew Rabeau, BSc Canada McMaster University, Canada

Ms Mitra Safavi PhD candidate, Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wollongong

Professor Vassilios Sarafis, BSc(Hons) London University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

Professor Peter Schattschneider, BSc PhD Vienna Vienna University of Technology

16 Professor Reuben Shuker, PhD USA Ben Gurion University, Israel

Dr Olaf Skjaeraasen Institute of theoretical astrophysics, Norway

Dr Jason Smith, BA(Hons) DPhil Oxon. Department of Materials, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Professor Kaushal Srivastava Bhagalpur University, India

Professor Gerard Stephenson Jr, BSc PhD Massachusetts Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

Dr Charles Tahan Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ms Ong-on Topon, BSc Thailand PhD candidate, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Mr Rick van Bijnen, BSc The Netherlands PhD candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Postgraduate Shannon researching nanophotonics

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Research Funding > 17

The School of Physics is proud of its success Dr Gareth Williams in competitive research grants gained predominately from the Australian Research Coherent Diffractive Imaging Council. The list below represents new and current research funding awarded to the $10,410 University of Melbourne in 2006 only, unless indicated otherwise. Dr Justin Kimpton

The investigation of Quantum Electro-Dynamics in Hydrogen-like Titanium with an Electron-beam Ion AUSINDUSTRY Trap $7,380 Professor Steven Prawer et al

MNRF Nanostructural Analysis Dr Duncan Galloway $104,625 Transient Radiative Winds from He-rich Thermonuclear Bursts AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION $5,797

Associate Professor Chris Chantler Dr Chanh Tran XERT absolute mapping of Ni XAFS and the from factor [a]- access to the Australian National Phase Space Tomography Beamline Facility, Photon Factory, Japan $12,145 $6,830

AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING Associate Professor Chris Chantler Dr Glenn Moloney Support for access to the Australian National Beamline Facility, Photon Factory, Japan Australian Data Grid for Experimental &Theorectical High Energy Physics $7,027 $75,015 Professor Rachel Webster et al Professor Keith Nugent et al Australian e-Astronomy and Astrophysics Advanced X-ray Optical Systems: From Innovative Idea to Intelligent Implementation $75,015 (DP) $94,316 AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL Professor Keith Nugent et al Associate Professor Les Allen ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Atomic Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy Science (CoE) $78,030 $1,872,718

Dr Elisabetta Barberio Professor Keith Nugent et al Origin of Mass (DP) Non-interferometric Phase Measurement of $106,995 Exotic Waves (DP) $57,433 Associate Professor Chris Chantler et al Dr Jeffrey McCallum et al Synchrotron Developments of new techniques in X-ray interactions with Matter, Resolving Fundamental implantation, epitaxy and defect major discrepancies in Quantum Physics and studies in silicon to support ultra-shallow Chemistry (DP) junction formation $95,827 $55,200 18

Dr Nicoletta Dragomir Professor Bruce McKellar Quantitative Polarisation Phase Microscopy: A Neutrino Physics: A Window on Physics Beyond new tool for advances in structural analysis and the Standard Model (DP) Biophotonics (APD) $85,179 $131,058 Dr Andrew Martin Dr Adrian Flitney Dynamics of Interacting Bose Gases/Fluids in Quantum Decoherence: A game-theoretic Atomic and Condensed Matter Systems (DP) perspective (APD) $72,828 $75,722 Dr Andrew Melatos et al Dr Shane Huntington International data exchange for Global Nano-Engineering of Optical Fibre Fresnel Gratitational Wave Astronomy (SRI) Lenses (DP) $28,000 $93,636 Dr Andrew Melatos et al Professor David Jamieson et al The Australian Virtual Observatory (LE) ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer $49,755 Technology (CoE) $830,000 Dr Steven Melnikoff E-research (MAMS) Professor David Jamieson et al $10,000 Foundational National Nanotechnology infrastructure (LE) $162,600 Professor Steven Prawer et al Diamond Based Quantum Information Processing (LX) Professor Keith Nugent $25,475 Development in Optical Sciences (FF) $316,222 Professor Steven Prawer et al Professor Raymond Volkas Diamond based Quantum Information Cosmology and Astrophysics with Neutrinos Processing (DP) and other elementary particles (DP) $148,680 $75,406

Professor Raymond Volkas et al Dr James Rabeau et al Frontiers of Theorectical Particle Physics (DP) Diamond Single Photon Source (DP) $101,900 $52,020

Professor Rachel Webster Associate Professor Ann Roberts et al Gravitational Lensing Probes of Quasar Structure Innovation in Photonic Device Imaging: The (DP) keystone for future technologies (DP) $79,856 $170,359

Professor Rachel Webster et al Associate Professor Ann Roberts et al Formation and Evolution in the Extragalactic Micro-characterisation of Rare-earth-doped Universe (DP) Optical Fibres (LX) $236,422 $11,757

Professor Rachel Webster et al 19 Associate Professor Martin Sevior et al Australian membership of the international The Development of Data Grids For High Energy Gemini Partnership (LE) Physics (DP) $78,855 $85,000 Dr Stuart Wyithe et al Associate Professor Rob Scholten et al The End of the Dark Ages of the Universe (DP) Quantum and Classical Imaging with light and $72,628 atoms (DP) $83,232 AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON RESEARCH PROGRAM Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al Dr Garth Williams High Precision Silicon Pixel Detectors for High Energy Physics, Synchrotron and Medical Coherent Diffractive Imaging Imaging Applications (DP) $12,966 $260,100

Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS Support for the Australian Experimental High Professor David Jamieson Energy Physics Program (LE) Outreach Support $365,00 $2,840

Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al Frontier Experiments in High Energy Physics COLONIAL FOUNDATION LTD (DP) Associate Max Thompson $395,319 Dr Roger Rassool Outreach Programme Dr Chanh Tran $120,000 Advancing X-ray imaging into new dimensions using Interferometry and Phase-space Tomography (ARF) $123,810 CONSULTANCIES, GENERAL IATIA PTY LTD Academic Staff Professor Keith Nugent Other income from private consultancies, Postgraduate Stipend (Meehan) workshop & research-related conference income Optics Characterisation Using Quantitative Phase Imaging $317,888 $34,975

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE & TRAINING TEXAS UNIVERSITY Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al Professor Steven Prawer et al Australian High Energy Physics Collaboration with CERN Fabricating novel diamond-based materials: Quantum Optics $17,235 $90,641

Professor Steven Prawer et al Critical components for Ultra-secure UNITED STATES ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE Communications Systems (ISL) Professor Steven Prawer et al $300,000 Quantum Computing in Diamond $85,643 20 Professor Rachel Webster Mileura Widefield Array: Low frequency demonstrator (ISL) Professor David Jamieson et al $100,000 Centre for Quantum Computer Technology support of the 2nd Ion Beam Program $105,676 Associate Professor Chris Chantler Major international conference of relevance to Synchrotron development: International symposium of Radiation Physics 11 (ISL) UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE $35,000 School Support Dr Andrew Melatos et al Dr Shane Huntington The Australian Virtual Observatory (LE) Ultra High Throughput Optical Probes (ISL) $7,500 $43,101 Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al Support fro the Australian Experimental High DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL Energy Physics program (LE) DEVELOPMENT $25,000 Professor Keith Nugent et al ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Professor Rachel Webster et al Science Australian membership of the International 1,200,000 Gemini Partnership (LE) $16,250 Dr Shane Huntington et al Quantum Communication Victoria - Industry Professor David Jamieson et al Development Initiative Foundational National Nanotechnology $1,278,919 Infrastructure (LE) $50,000

Professor Keith Nugent et al Development in Optical Sciences (FF) $50,000 Faculty Support Dr Brant Gibson et al Dr Duncan Galloway CSIRO Collaborative Grant (JRP) Centenary Fellowship $20,000 $3,000 Dr Andrew Greentree Dr Shane Huntington et al Towards a practical, Diamond-based Quantum and Non-linear Optical Technology (MRGS) Quantum Communication Victoria - Industry Development Initiative $30,000 $200,000 Professor David Jamieson et al Professor David Jamieson et al Foundational National Nanotechnology Infrastructure (LE) Foundation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure (LE) $195,500 $50,000 Associate Professor Michelle Livett Professor David Jamieson et al Enhancing the teaching of Tutors and Demonstrators (LTPF) ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology (CoE) $40,305 21 $195,000 Dr Andrew Melatos et al Professor Keith Nugent et al The Australian Virtual Observatory (LE) ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray $15,000 Science (CoE) $300,000 Dr Andrew Melatos et al Gravity Waves (JRP) Professor Keith Nugent et al $13,200 Development in Optical Sciences (FF) $50,000 Professor Keith Nugent et al Development in Optical Sciences (FF) Dr Andrew Melatos et al $100,000 The Australian Virtual Observatory (LE) $7,500 Professor Keith Nugent et al ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al Science (CoE) Support fro the Australian Experimental High $220,000 Energy Physics program (LE) $25,000 Associate Professor Rob Scholten Classical Correlation and Quantum Entaglement Professor Rachel Webster et al in Ghost-Imaging (JRP) Australian membership of the International $3,300 Gemini Partnership (LE) $16,250 Dr Harry Quiney Theoretical studies of interactions involving Central Support molecules and intense X-ray laster fields (MRGS) Dr Duncan Galloway $12,000 Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars (ECRG) $20,000 GLOSSARY APD Australian Postdoctoral Fellow ARF Australian Research Fellow CoE Centre of Excellence DP Discovery Project ECRG Early Career Research Grant FF Federation Fellow ISL International Science Linkages JRP Joint Research Project LE Linkages, Infrastructure, Equipment & Facilities LTPF Learning Teaching Performance Fund MNRF Major National Research Facility MRGS Melbourne Research Grants Scheme SRI Special Research Initiative

22 Showcasing the exciting cutting edge research undertaken by Physics postgraduate students at t h e Geoff Opat Seminar Series

4:15pm - Fridays during Semester Hercus Theatre, Physics Building

Featured this week, 27 October 2006: Research Seminar Series Gajendran> Kandasamy 23 "Quantum Control of Qubits"

School of Physics Colloquia Professor John Ellis, CERN Rabecca McFadden From Little Bangs to the Big Bang (Feb 7) "Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detection from Lunar Cerenkov Emission"

Professor David Blair, Director, Australian International Gravitational Research Centre, School of Physics, University of Western Australia Please join us for drinks and an informal chat in Phonons, Photons and Gravitons: Challenges at the Threshold of Gravitationalthe staff Waveroom Astronomy after the presentation (Feb 15)

Dr Fedor Jelezko, School of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany and QCV Fellow Spin-spin and light-spin coupling of single defects in diamond (Mar 1)

Dr Kron Tomas, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia Applications of medical physics in diagnostics and radiotherapy: radiation as the good guy (Mar 8)

Dr Jeff McCallum, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Some Hydrogen Effects in Silicon Processing (Mar 15)

Professor Tanya Munro, Director, Centre of Expertise in Photonics, School of Chemistry & Physics, University of Adelaide, Australia Fundamentals and applications of soft glass microstructured optical fibres (Mar 22)

Professor Naftali Auerbach, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel Tests of Time Reversal Symmetry In Nuclei (Mar 29)

Professor Stephen Hyde, Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University Spatial networks and cellular patterns: from low dimensional geometry and topology to materials structure (Mar 5)

Professor Matt Visser, School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Analogue spacetimes (Mar 12)

Professor Mukunda Das, Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE, The Australian National University, Canberra High Temperature Superconductivity: Two Decades after Bednorz and Müller (Mar 26)

Associate Professor Tony Gherghetta, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA The Quest for New Dimensions at the TeV Scale (May 1)

Associate Professor Ann Roberts, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Nanophotonic metamaterials (May 10)

Associate Professor Martin Sevior, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Nuclear Power revisited (May 17)

24 Dr Csaba Balasz, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA Supersymmetric origin of matter (May 26)

Dr Dejan Stojkovic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Black holes and extra dimensions (Jun 9)

Professor Henry Smith, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Nanotechnology: where is it headed? How to get there? (Jun 28)

Professor Jeremy Mould, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, USA Making the Most of the Great Observatories (Jul 26)

Professor Geoffrey Taylor, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Dawn of an Era of Discovery in Particle Physics? High Energy Physics and the Large Hadron Collider (Aug 2)

Dr Barry Green, Scientific Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Research, Directorate J - Energy, Fusion Association Agreements, Brussels Fusion Energy and the ITER Project, the Next Step to a Sustainable Future (Aug 9)

Professor Fulvio Melia, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA An Update on the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Centre (Aug 16)

Dr Chi-Chang Kao, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, 11973 USA Resonant Magnetic X-ray Scattering and Magnetic Materials Research (Aug 22)

Professor Deb Kane, AIP 2006 Women in Physics lecturer, Physics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers (Aug 23)

Professor Brian Schmidt, School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, ANU, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia Gamma Ray Bursts: The largest Bangs in the Universe since the Big One (Aug 30)

Professor Martijn de Sterke, Theoretical Physics and Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia Frontiers in photonic crystal fibre research (Sep 6)

Professor Charles A Whitten Jr, University of California, USA The Search for a new form of matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), using the Solenoidal tracker at RHIC (STAR) Detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) (Sep 13)

Dr James McCaw, Post Doctoral Fellow, Vaccine and Immunisation Group, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and how it is helping to inform Australia’s influenza pandemic preparedness plan (Oct 4)

25 Dr Andrew Dzurak, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney Silicon Qubits and Nanoelectronics (Oct 11)

Dr Mark Trodden, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, New York, USA Gravitational Approaches to Cosmic Acceleration (Oct 18)

Professor Karl Glazebrook, Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology The WiggleZ survey: dark energy and cosmic sound on the AAT (Oct 25)

Dr James Butler, Head, Gas/Surface Dynamics Section, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC Diamonds from Thin Air (Nov 1)

Professor Steven Prawer, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, School of Physics, University of Melbourne The Diamond Quantum Computer (Nov 8)

Dr Stefano Frixione, INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy Monte Carlos: recent progress and perspectives (Nov 15)

Professor Thomas Browder, Physics Department, Unviersity of Hawaii, Honolulu Nuclear Power for Future Energy Generation in Australia (Nov 28)

Professor Sir Chris Llewelyn-Smith, EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. The Path to Fusion Power (Dec 1)

Seminars - Theory

Professor Peter Schattschneider, Vienna University of Technology How Physics Inspires Science Fiction (Feb 28)

Professor Herbert Fried, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA Astrophysical Implications of Charged Tachyons (Mar 7)

Professor Herbert Fried, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA Basic Functional Methods in Quantum Field Theory (Mar 14)

Professor Herbert Fried, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA A New Approach to the Estimation of N-Point Functions in Gauge QFT (Mar 21)

Dr Stewart Wright, Theory Group, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Bound States in Euclidean Theories - Practical Limits (Mar 24) 26

Professor Matt Visser, School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Gravastars - How useful are they? (Apr 11)

Professor Mukunda Das, Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE, The Australian National University, Canberra Facts and Fantasies in Mesoscopic Electron Transport (Apr 27)

Dr Jay Hubisz, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA Little Higgs Models: An Alternative to Supersymmetry at the LHC? (May 16)

Professor Ross McKenzie, Department of Physics, University of Queensland Quantum coherence of electronic excitations in biomolecules (Aug 8)

Dr Mark Trodden, Physics Department, Syracuse University and Lyle Fellow, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Connecting Cosmology and Fundamental Physics (Oct 9)

Professor Gerald Dunne, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut Effective Actions in Radial Backgrounds (Oct 13)

Dr Mark Trodden, Physics Department, Syracuse University and Lyle Fellow, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Diluting Gravity with Compact Hyperbolic Extra Dimensions (Oct 16)

Dr Mark Trodden, Physics Department, Syracuse University and Lyle Fellow, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Modified Gravity and Cosmic Acceleration (Oct 24) Seminars - Optics Professor Timothy Roach, Dept of Physics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA Modelling gravitational distortion in atom optics experiments (May 2)

Dr Lincoln Turner, Fulbright Fellow, NIST, Gaithersburg Maryland USA Atoms, molecules and how to be both at the same time (May 18)

Seminars - Astrophysics

Dr Regner Trampedach, RSAA, Mt Stromlo Observatory, The Australian National University 3D Convection in Stellar Surface Layers (Feb 22)

Dr Emma Ryan-Weber, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Uk Gas-rich galaxies in a gas-rich cosmic web (Mar 1)

Professor Ron Ekers, Federation Fellow, Australia Telescope National Facility 27 Detecting Ultra High Energy Neutrinos using Lunar Cherenkov Emission at Radio Wavelengths (May 25)

Dr Michael Brown, Princeton University The Assembly of Red Galaxies (Jul 19)

Dr Chris Fluke, Swinburne University Future Directions in Astronomy Visualisation (Aug 30)

Dr Colin Lonsdale, Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mileura Widefield Array (Sep 21)

Seminars – Experimental Particle Physics Emmanuel Tsesmelis, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Switzerland Physics at the LHC (Oct 16)

Seminars – MARC/CQCT Professor Sir Michael Pepper, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Interaction Effects in Electron Transport in One-Dimensional Quantum Wires (Jun 30)

Dr Thomas Schenkel, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Progress in spin qubit development (Jun 30) Seminars - ARC Centre for Coherent Xray Science Dr David Paterson, Center of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science Microspectroscopy: A Versatile X-ray Microprobe. A tale of applications from mineral exploration via forensics to sub-cellular imaging for bio-medical research (Oct 6)

Dr Mark Tobin, Center of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science Infrared Microspectroscopy at the Australian Synchrotron (Sep 1)

Dr Chris Glover, Center of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS): One of the first five beamlines to be operational at the Australian Synchrotron (Nov 3)

Dr Nigel Kirby, Center of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science SAXS and the Synchrotron (Dec 8)

28 Festschrift: Prof Bruce McKellar and Assoc Prof Girish Joshi School-hosted Conferences > 29

23rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (11 - 15 December 2006) The University of Melbourne, saw a delegation of over 300 physicists take part in the 23rd Texas Symposium on relativistic astrophysics, cosmology, gravitation and high energy astrophysical phenomena (http://www.texas06.com). Hosted by the School of Physics' astro team, Dr Andrew Melatos and Professor Rachel Webster were chairs of the symposium organising committee.

Festscrift for Assoc Prof Girish Joshi and Prof Bruce McKellar (29 - 30 November 2006) The School of Physics honoured retirees Assoc Professor Girish Joshi and Professor Bruce McKellar's contributions to the School and Physics community in a 2 day festschrift, organised by Professor Ray Volkas. Featuring special guest lectures and short talks in the area of theoretical particle physics and cosmology, over 80 colleagues, students and alumni were in attendance.

NUPP Summer School (2 - 6 February 2006) Hosted by the AIP Nuclear and Particle Physics group (NUPP) and organised by Professor Bruce McKellar, a summer school was held at the School of Physics, featuring guest lectures from Professors Burce Barrett (Arizona), Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Laboratory), John Ellis (CERN) and Roland Crocker (Adelaide). The topics covered inlcuded nuclear structure, hadronic physics, Linear Hadron Collider physics and particle astrophysics.

20th International Conference on Xray and Inner Shell Processes (4 - 8 July 2005) The School of Physics, University of Melbourne saw a delegation of over 400 physicists take part in the 20th International Conference on Xray and Inner Shell Processes held in July 2005. Associate Professor Chris Chantler (Chair) and Dr Harry Quiney (Secretary) were involved in the Organising Committee.

Festschrift: Prof Bruce McKellar and Assoc Prof Girish Joshi Postgraduate group 2006 Postgraduates in Progress > 30

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY from accreting neutron stars Coulthurst, Andrew Ang, Joo Chew The phenomenology of the physics of extra Quantum computing dimensions

Aruldoss, Celine Kavida Cole, Jared H Non-interferometric characterisation of partially Theoretical and computational investigation of coherent and scattered wavefields a type-II quantum computer

Atkinson, Gerard Vincent Crosby, Sean Christopher Commissioning of the ATLAS detector systems New directions in ghost imaging for the large hadron collider, and development of pixel detector systems for future collier experiments D’Alfonso, Adrian John

Depth sectioning in the scanning transmission Bate, Nicholas Frazer electron microscope Quasar microimaging Daniel, Scott Arthur Bell, Simon Christopher Reverberation mapping of bright quasars An ultrabright electron source from ultracold plasma Davidson, Nadia May

Bourke, Jay Search for supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector at LHC Investigation of X-ray absorption fine structure: Development of theoretical models to describe interactions between X-rays and solid state/ Dalseno, Jeremy P atomic systems Using B- D* + D*- Ks to measure cos 2ϕ1

Chung, Christine Tsung Yi Demaria, Alison Correlating the electromagnetic and gravitational wave signals Extensions of standard model Devitt, Simon John Lau, Deborah Quantum algorithm development Raman analysis of artists’ pigments and media

Doukas, Jason Andrew Law, Sandy Sheung Che Higher dimensional physics Studies in particle cosmology

Dusza, Andrew Lydon, Jennifer M Physics of higher dimension Monte Carlo characterisation of narrow photon fields for intensity modulated radiotherapy

Evans, Zachary William Ede Solid state quantum computing Martin, Andrew Vincent Determining wave fields from intensity measurements Filewood, Greg A theoretical study of the dark sector of nature Mastrano, Alpha Superfluid hydrodynamics in neutron stars Flewett,Samuel Experimental investigations in wavefield recovery McFadden, Rebecca Angela Advanced algorithms for the detection of the EOR signal 31 Fraser, Paul Raymond A multi-channel algebraic scattering theory and predictions Melchiori, Adrian Guthrie Star formation Gassull, Daniel Materials issues in quantum computing Miles, Elaine Robyn Phase imaging in a scattering medium George, Damien Peter Higher dimensional membrane world models Morley, Anthony Keith Studies in high energy physics with ATLAS Glover, Jack Leigh Experimental and theoretical investigation of X- Orbons, Shannon Michael ray mass-attenuation coefficients Fabrication of photonic structures using ion implantation. Henderson, Clare Anne Astigmatic phase retrieval of an optical vortex Peralta, Carlos A Superfluidity in neutron stars Hopf, Toby Felix Single ion implantation for construction of a Rab, Masum quantum computer Dynamics of dilute gas Bose Einstein condensates Kandasamy, Gajendran Quantum computation Rae, Nicholas Absolute measurement of XAFS and atomic form factors Kazi, Sandor I Studies in high energy physics Sidiroglou, Fotios Microscopic characterisation of rare earth Langford, Sally Victoria doped optical fibres Earth: A prototype extra-solar planet Singh, Swati Luminosity function of radio loud quasars Smale, Lucas Francis Witte, Christopher Experimental tests of QED in medium Z Atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy elements

Wolfe, Brandon Sobott, Bryn Alexander Two-temperature accretion plasmas An innovative pixel detector for x-rays

Wong, Oiwei Ivy Srbinovsky, Jhan Aleksander Neutral Hydrogen, star formation and the galaxy Ionized bubbles at the end of cosmic evolution of the Local Universe reionization

Stavrias, Nikolas MASTERS DEGREE BY RESEARCH Measurement of wavefunction overlap of phosporous donors in silicon Fairchild, Barbara Anne Micro-machining of diamond devices Stephens, Ashley Martyn

Fault tolerant quantum computation Goh, Xiao Ming Tomographic phase imaging of biological cells Takau, Viliami Tulikihakaulahi A measurement of the near-threshold cross 32 section on proton Goldby, John Paul Chaos in open quantum systems Testolin, Matthew James Quantum computation and device modelling Islam, M Tauhidul Analysis of scattering processes in X-ray absorption fine structure and form factors Tettamanzi, Giuseppe Carlo

Nanoscale superconducting electronics Jones, Gareth Rhys Development of a novel position emission Tse, Yun Fai tomography quantitative non-invasive arterial Study of B-pII in the Belle experiment monitor

Urquijo, Phillip Kidwani, Nader Maurice Measurement of the CKM elements Vcb and Breaking of CP and CPT symmetries Vcb with inclusive semileptonic B decays at the Belle experiment Meehan, Alaster John Optic characterisation using quantitative phase Vigelius, Matthias imaging Compact objects as sources and detectors of gravity waves Martini, Berin The effect of surface reconstruction on the Villis, Byron John growth of Aluminium Nitride by Pulsed Laser A defect study of MOS devices Depositions

Wedd, Robin Heathcote Pyke, Daniel J Investigation of B meson decay Phase separation of hydrogen in amorphous silicon

Whitehead, Lachlan William Makin, Melissa High resolution imaging using partially coherent radiation On the one-dimensional Bose gas Academic and senior executive staff conferring at the 150th anniversary celebrations

Theses Passed > 33

We congratulate the following students who completed theses.

POSTGRADUATE THESES Cosgriff, Eireann Catherine Lay, Matthew Theory and computations of atomic-cluster or Defect studies of ion implanted silicon and wave functions for X-ray absorption near-edge silicon-dioxide for semiconductor devices structures Masters by Research, 21 November 2006 Doctor of Philosophy, 28 July 2006

Mastrano, Alpha Low, Catherine Isbell Superfluid instabilities and pulsar glitches Neutrino family symmetries and the quartification gauge group Masters by Research, 1 June 2006 Doctor of Philosophy, 21 November 2006

Smith, Leighton John Maguire, Luke Patrick A proof-of-principle design of a non-invasive arterial activity monitor Focussing of an atomic beam using a TEM01 mode lens Masters by Research, 27 April 2006 Doctor of Philosophy, 31 October 2006

Stenborg, Travis Nathan Mancuso, Adrian Paul Planetary lagrange point dynamics and Trojan asteroid Evolution Experimental phase retrieval using coherent x- ray diffraction Masters by Research, 15 November 2006 Doctor of Philosophy, 11 May 2006

Arhatari, Benedicta Dewi McDonald, Kristian Lee High resolution phase contrast x-ray radiography Topics in neutrino physics and five dimensional quark-lepton symmetric models Doctor of Philosophy, 29 June 2006 Doctor of Philosophy, 14 September 2006 Ouniewicz, Ivona Construction and analysis of a simplified many- Paul Geil body neutrino model Observations of 21cm emission from quasar HII Doctor of Philosophy, 11 May 2006 regions Supervisor: Dr Stuart Wyithe (Astro) Scott, Rebecca Jayn A precise measurement of the half-life of the Shaun Gladman Fermi beta-decay of 26m Al A (4) flavour symmetry scheme for quark and Doctor of Philosophy, 22 December 2006 lepton mixing angles Supervisor: Prof Ray Volkas (TPP) Waugh, Meryl Neutral hydrogen in Fornax and Eridanus: blind John Haasz basketweaving for beginners Waves in stratified helium-3 Doctor of Philosophy, 16 March 2006 Supervisor: Dr Andrew Melatos (Astro)

Anna Hayton HONOURS PROJECTS In search of the “red edge” Peter Caradonna Supervisor: Dr Stuart Wyithe (Astro) Investigating the properties of hydrogen 34 retardation on solid phase epitaxy rates in the Daniel Heywood presence of implanted B and As dopants in amorphous silicon Phase locking using electromagnetically induced transparency Supervisor: Dr Jeff McCallum (MARC) Supervisor: Assoc Prof Rob Scholten (Optics)

Ivan Corro Lenneke Jong Simulation of votices in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates Quantum charge transport in counted-atom silicon devices Supervisor: Dr Andrew Martin (TCMP) Supervisor: Prof David Jamieson (MARC)

Will Davey Darren King Electron track fitting in the ATLAS detector Diffractive imaging using a curved wavefront Supervisor: Prof Geoff Taylor (EPP) Supervisor: Prof Keith Nugent (Optics)

Rhys Davies Vivien Lee Localisation of fields to domain walls Motion blurring in PET imaging Supervisor: Prof Ray Volkas ( TPP) Supervisor: Dr Roger Rassool (EPP)

Anita Dow Clement Ng Analytic solution for the birfurcation point of the velocity of a rotating, dipolar Bose Einstein Tag variable-based continuum suppression in condensate leading to vortex lattice formation b → dγ Supervisor: Dr Andy Martin (TCMP) Supervisor: Assoc Prof Martin Sevior (EPP)

Amy Dowler David Peake Survey of the neutral higgs through the Tau- Fill pattern monitor at the Australian Lepton channel at ATLAS Synchrotron Supervisor: Dr Elisabetta Barberio (EPP) Supervisor: Dr Roger Rassool (EPP) Anna Phan James Quach Detection of a light top squark with ATLAS Correlations and kinetic equations for model interacting neutrino systems Supervisor: Dr Elisabetta Barberio (EPP) Supervisor: Prof Bruce McKellar (TPP)

Sabastian Saliba Magnetic field stability of an accreting Ranjan Singh neutron star Simulation of a single proton source for use in quantum key distribution networks Supervisor: Supervisor: Dr Andrew Melatos (Astro) Supervisor: Assoc Prof Lloyd Hollenberg (MARC) Suzanne Sheehy Lepton flavour violating decay τ→µγ in ATLAS at the LHC Supervisor: Prof Geoff Taylor (EPP)

David Sheludko Diffraction-contrast imaging of excited-state Honours group 2006 cold atoms Supervisor: Assoc Prof Rob Scholten (Optics)

35 Chun-Hsu Su Cavity enhancement of diamond-based single- proton sources Supervisor: Assoc Prof Lloyd Hollenberg (TPP)

Angela Torrance Iterative reconstruction of fluctuation microscopy data Supervisor: Prof Keith Nugent (Optics)

Cornelius (Anthony) van Eysden Spin up of a Stratified Superfluid with applications to Neutron Stars Supervisor: Dr Andrew Melatos (Astro)

Lila Warszawski Atomic resolution imaging using energy- loss electrons in conventional transmission electron Supervisor: Assoc Prof Les Allen (TCMP)

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA Ivan Corro Simulation of votices in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates Supervisor: Dr Andy Martin(TCMP)

John Haasz Waves in stratified helium-3 Supervisor: Dr Andrew Melatos (Astro) use festschrift3 photo in photolibrary or uni photo of Girish and Bruce (see JK)

Prototype of MIRA Widefield Array (low frequency radio telescope) in Boolardy, WA

Group Reports & Publications > 36

ASTROPHYSICS

PROF RACHEL WEBSTER At the end of 2006, the Melbourne group and its Australian collaborators were awarded an ARC LIEF grant to start the construction of the find use the MIRA galaxy photo - orLow Rachel Frequency Webster/ radio array in WA. This project The AstrophysicsStuart photo group see has JK?? had a particularly successful year with strong recognition of its was also strongly supported by NCRIS. With research and research training program. collaborators, MIT, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Raman Research Institute, Dr Stuart Wyithe was awarded the Woodward the group is gearing up to start construction in medal of the University of Melbourne for the the latter part of 2007. most significant research achievements in the past year in science and engineering. This The Melbourne group continued to support the award, following the Research Award from the Australian Virtual Observatory, with Dr Catherine Dean of Science earlier in the year, was a major Manson completing her work in late 2006. achievement for an early career researcher. One PhD was awarded in the group in 2006: Dr Stuart continued his very productive studies of Meryl Waugh. In addition, two MSc degrees the ‘dark ages’ and luminous sources at the time were completed: Travis Stenborg and Alpha of the Epoch of Reionisation. Mastrano. Alpha achieved a very high score for Dr Andrew Melatos has built a strong group his thesis and was subsequently awarded an of postgraduate students and postdoctoral IPRS scholarship. fellows working on his models of gravitational The group published 23 refereed papers in waves from accreting neutron stars. In addition, 2006. this group is becoming deeply involved with both Australian and international efforts to compute templates for the detection of the first gravitational wave signatures in LIGO data. Andrew chaired the SOC and LOC for the Texas Symposium in December at Melbourne University. This was an enormous task and resulted in a highly successful conference, which bought great credit to the School of Physics. Professor Rachel Webster continued her work on the microlensing of lensed quasars, with the successful completion of Gemini observations of about ten systems. This data is being analysed and modeled to determine the sizes of the quasar emission regions. Professor Webster was winner of the inaugural Nature mid-career award for creative mentoring in science. Publications for 2006 include: Peralta CA, Melatos A, Giacobello M & Ooi A. "Gravitational radiation from nonaxisymmetric spherical couette flow in a neutron star." Briggs FH & Barnes D."H I 21 cm observations of Astrophysical Journal 644: L53-L56 (2006) the PG 1216+069 sub-damped Lyα absorber field at z = 0.00632" Astrophysical Journal 640: Peralta CA, Melatos A, Giacobello M & Ooi A. L127-L130 (2006) "Transitions between turbulent and laminar superfluid vorticity states in the outer core of Dijkstra M, Haiman Z & Spaans M. "Lyα radiation a neutron star" Astrophysical Journal 651: from collapsing protogalaxies. I. Characteristics 1079-1091 (2006) of the emergent spectrum" Astronomical Journal 649: 14-36 (2006) Wayth R & Webster R. "LENSVIEW: software for modelling resolved gravitational lens images" Dijkstra M, Haiman Z & Spaans M. "Lyα radiation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical from collapsing protogalaxies. II. Observational Society 372: 1187-1207 (2006) evidence for gas infall" Astronomical Journal 649: 37-47 (2006) Whiting MT, Webster R & Francis PJ. "Multi- object spectroscopy of the field surrounding PKS Dijkstra M & Wyithe J."Lyα constraints on very 2126-158: discovery of a z = 0.66 galaxy group" low luminosity active galactic nuclei" Monthly Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Society 368: 341-350 (2006) 372: 1575-1584 (2006) Wong OI, Meurer GR, Bekki K, Hanish DJ, Gallo LC, Edwards PG, Ferrero E, Kataoka J, Lewis Kennicutt RC, Bland-Hawthorn J, Ryan-Weber DR, Ellingsen SP, Misanovic Z, Welsh WF, Whiting EV, Koribalski B, Kilborn VA, Putman ME, Heiner M, Boller Th, Brinkmann W, Greenhill J & Oshlack JS, Webster R, Allen RJ, Dopita MA, Doyle MT, AYKN. "The spectral energy distribution of PKS Drinkwater MJ, Ferguson hc, Freeman KC, 2004-447: a compact steep-spectrum source and Heckman TM, Hoopes C, Knezek PM, Meyer MJ, possible radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy." Oey MS, Seibert M, Smith RC, Staveley-Smith L, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Thilker D, Werk J & Zwaan MA. "NGC922 - a new 37 Society 370: 245-254 (2006) drop-through ring galaxy" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 370: 1607- Galloway D & Cumming A. "Helium-rich 1611 (2006) thermonuclear bursts and the distance to the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX Wong OI, Ryan-Weber E, Garcia-Appadoo DA, J1808.4—3658" Astrophysical Journal 652: Webster R, Staveley-Smith L, Zwaan MA, Meyer 559-568 (2006) MJ, Barnes D, Kilborn VA, Bhathal R, De Blok WJG, Disney MJ, Doyle MT, Drinkwater MJ, Galloway D, Psaltis D, Muno MP & Chakrabarty Ekers RD, Freeman KC, Gibson BK, Gurovich S, D. "Eddington-limited x-ray bursts as distance Harnett J, Henning PA, Jerjen H, Kesteven MJ, indicators. II. Possible compostional effects in Knezek PM, Koribalski B, Mader S, Marquarding bursts from 4U 1636—536" Astrophysical M, Michin RF, O’Brien J, Putman ME, Ryder SD, Journal 639: 1033-1038 (2006) Sadler EM, Stevens J, Stewart IM, Stootman F Hanish DJ, Meurer GR, Ferguson HC, Zwaan MA, & Waugh M. "The Northern HIPASS catalogue Heckman TM, Staveley-Smith L, Bland-Hawthorn - data presentation, completeness and reliability J, Kilborn VA, Koribalski B, Putman ME, Ryan- measures" Monthly Notices of the Royal Weber EV, Oey MS, Kennicutt Jr RC, Knezek PM, Astronomical Society 371: 1855-1864 (2006) Meyer M, Smith RC, Webster R, Dopita MA, Doyle Wyithe J."A log-quadratic relation between MT, Drinkwater MJ, Freeman KC & Werk J."The the nuclear black hole masses and velocity survey for ionization in neutral gas galaxies. dispersions of galaxies" Monthly Notices of II. The star formation rate density of the local the Royal Astronomical Society 365: 1082- universe" Astrophysical Journal 649: 150-162 1098 (2006) (2006) Wyithe J & Loeb A. "Cosmic variance in the Meurer GR, Hanish DJ, Ferguson HC, Knezek PM, transparency of the intergalactic medium after Kilborn VA, Putman ME, Smith RC, Koribalski B, reionization" Astronomical Journal 646: 696- Meyer M, Oey MS, Ryan-Weber EV, Zwaan MA, 702 (2006) Heckman TM, Kennicutt Jr RC, Lee JC, Webster R, Bland-Hawthorn J, Dopita MA, Freeman KC, Wyithe J & Loeb A. "Suppression of dwarf galaxy Doyle MT, Drinkwater MJ, Staveley-Smith L & formation by cosmic reionization" Nature 441: Werk J. "The survey for ionization in neutral 322-324 (2006) gas galaxies. I. Description and initial results." Astrophysical Journal 165: 307-337 (2006) Wyithe J & PadmanabanT. "What does the quasar luminosity function tell us about supermassive Payne DJB & Melatos A. "Frequency spectrum of black hole evolution?" Monthly Notices of the gravitational radiation from global hydromagnetic Royal Astronomical Society 372: 1681-1691 oscillations of a magnetically confined mountain (2006) on an accreting neutron star" Astrophysical Journal 641: 471-478 (2006) Wyithe J & Padmanabhan T. "Properties of high-redshift quasars - I. Evolution of the Payne D & Melatos A. "Magnetic burial and the supermassive black hole to halo mass ratio" harmonic content of millisecond oscillations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical in thermonuclear x-ray bursts" Astrophysical Society 366: 1029-1036 (2006) Journal 652: 597-602 (2006) O’Dowd M & Urry CM. "Host galaxy evolution in radio-loud AGN" New Astronomy Reviews 50: 789-791 (2006) EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS (EPP) ASSOC PROF MARTIN SEVIOR

The academics of the EPP group are Elisabetta on its branching ratio. The result is nicely Barberio, Roger Rassool, Geoff Taylor and complementary to the recent measurement of myself. Our activities span Experimental Particle Bs mixing at the CDF experiment at Fermilab. Physics, detector development, computing grid development and Science Education outreach. The cornerstones of our research are the ATLAS Within the Australian group, Dr Elisabetta and Belle experiments at CERN in Switzerland Barberio, from the University of Melbourne, and KEK in Japan respectively. In 2006 we organised a workshop on |Vxb| analyses from secured funding for the next 4 years to continue B-meson decays in Melbourne in February 2006. this research through a series of grants from the This was attended by about 20 world experts ARC and DEST. who studied the prospects for improvements in the experimental measurements and theoretical 38 ATLAS interpretation of studies sensitive to |Vub| and |Vcb|. Phillip Urquijo made presentation to the ATLAS is an experiment designed to study prestigious 23rd International Conference on Electroweak symmetry breaking in the energy High energy Physics. "Moments of the electron regime above 100 GeV via observing proton energy spectrum and partial branching fraction collisions at 14 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider of /// decays at Belle". In which he presented (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. Substantial progress our work to make the world’s most precise on both the construction of the LHC and the measurement of the fundamental Standard ATLAS experiment was achieved in 2006. A large Model parameter, |Vcb|. Jeremy Dalseno also fraction of the ATLAS experiment was installed in submitted his PhD thesis. the underground cavity around the LHC collision point and succeeded in fully reconstructing Grid Computing cosmic ray tracks which span the entire detector. When ATLAS begins operation in late 2007 it These are currently being employed for detector will produce roughly 15 million gigabytes of calibration. data per year, equivalent to 3 million DVDs or The EPP group completed the installation of 1% of the total global digital information output. Patch Panel-3 signal conditioning boards in The Worldwide LHC Computing grid (WLCG) is 2006. We also invested substantial effort on a massive, distributed, international computing software tasks. These include: electron track infrastructure designed to enable analysis of reconstruction, electromagnetic calorimeter this enormous data set. It coordinates and calibration, detector alignment and data analysis. shares processing power, data, applications Within the data-analysis effort, we are working and network resources from many thousands in the Higgs to tau tau, Higgs to four electrons of linked computers. The EPP group has played and the search for SUSY groups. Tom Atkinson a leading role in the development of grid in also submitted his PhD thesis in this area. Australia and have deployed a grid infrastructure across 300 computers at 5 facilities in Sydney, Belle Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. In 2006 we developed a prototype Tier 2 site which has been Belle is a experiment at the KEK asymmetric incorporated into the WLCG computing grid. The electron-positron accelerator which provides WLCG itself has become a real working system the world highest luminosity collider used to which processes over 50,000 jobs per day. make copious numbers of B-mesons in a clean environment. Belle has made numerous Instrumentation discoveries since it commenced data collection in 1999, including the observation of CP violation The EPP group has been involved in the in B-meson decays, the first such measurement commissioning of the Australian Synchrotron outside the neutral kaon system. through the development of extremely high speed photon detectors, the PILATUS pixel The Physics highlights of 2006 from Belle are silicon detectors via collaboration with Christian world’s first measurement of the purely leptonic Broennimann and his group from the Paul decay, B→τν and an improved analysis of the rare Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland and PET decay B→dγ . The B→τν decay mode is sensitive detector developments in collaboration with to the fundamental parameter of the Standard the University of Wollongong and the Austin Model, |Vub| and to New Physics beyond the Hospital. Standard Model. The new analysis of rare decay B→dγ significantly reduces the uncertainty Publications for 2006 include: Taylor G & Zhang ZP. "Improved measurements of color-suppressed decays B¯0 → D0π0, D0η, D0ω, D*0π0, D*0η and D*0ω " Physical Review Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. "Colour D 74 (9): 20021-200210 (2006) reconnection in e+e- → W+W- at √s = 189-209 GeV" European Physical Journal C 45: 291- Chistov R, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G & Zhang ZP. "Observation of 305 (2006) - + + 0 - new states decaying into Λc+K π and Λc K sπ " Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. Physical Review Letters 97 (16): 20011-20016 "Determination of αs using jet rates at LEP (2006) with the OPAL detector" European Physical Journal C 45: 547-568 (2006) Chistov R, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G & Zhilich V. "Observation of B+ → Ξover-barocΛ+c Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. and evidence for B0 → Ξover-bar-cΛ+c" Physical "Measurement of the mass and width of the Review D 74 (11): 11051-11055 (2006) W boson" European Physical Journal C 45: 307-335 (2006) Chukanov A, Challis RA, Kent NJM, Hyett N, Moorhead G, Poulsen C, Sevior M, Taylor G, Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. Tovey S, Winton L & Zuccon P. "Production "Measurement of the running of the QED properties of K*(892)± vector mesons and their coupling in small-angle Bhabha scattering at spin alignment as measured in the NOMAD LEP" European Physical Journal C 45: 1-21 experiment" European Physical Journal C (2006) 46: 69-79 (2006) Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. Denz H, Amaudruz P, Brack JT, Breitschopf J, "Measurement of the strong coupling αs from Camerini P, Clark J, Clement H, Felawka L, four-jet observables in e+e- annihilation" Fragiacomo E, Gibson EF, Grion N, Hofman GJ, 39 European Physical Journal C 47: 295-307 Jamieson B, Mathie EL, Meier R, Moloney G, (2006) Ottewell D, Patarakin O, Patterson JD, Pavan MM, Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. 2006. Piano S, Raywood K, Ristinen RA, Rui R, Sevior M, Smith GR, Stahov J, Tacik R, Wagner GJ, Von "Searches for gauge-mediated supersymmetry ± breaking topologies in e+e- collisions at centre- Wrochem F & Yeomans DM. "π p differential of-mass energies up to √s = 209 GeV" European cross sections at low energies" Physics Letters Physical Journal C 46: 307-341 (2006) B 633: 209-213 (2006) Abbiendi G, Moloney G & Zivkovic L. "QCD Dragic J, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of branching coherence and correlations of particles with 0 0 0 restricted momenta in hadronic Z decays" fraction and direct CP asymmetry in B → p π Physics Letters B 638: 30-38 (2006) decays" Physical Review D 73 (11): 11051- 11056 (2006) Abdesselam A, Lindsay SW, Moorhead G, Taylor G & Wolter M. "The barrel modules of the ATLAS Fang F, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Search for the hc meson in B± → semiconductor tracker" Nuclear Instruments ± & Methods in Physics Research Section hcK " Physical Review D 74 (1): 20071-20077 A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip (2006) 568: 642-671 (2006) Friedl M, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Taylor G & Abe K, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor Ziegler T. "Belle silicon vertex detector for the G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Study of B± → DCPK± super B factory" Nuclear Instruments & and D*CPK± decays" Physical Review D 73 Methods in Physics Research Section A (5): 11061-11066 (2006) - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 569: 37-40 (2006) Aharrouche M, Barberio L & Tayalati Y. "Energy linearity and resolution of the ATLAS Gabyshev N, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhang ZP. "Observation electromagnetic barrel calorimeter in an + + + 0 + 0 electron test-beam" Nuclear Instruments & of B → Λc Λc¯K and B → Λc Λc¯K decays" Methods in Physics Research Section A Physical Review Letters 97 (20): 20031-20035 - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip (2006) 568: 601-623 (2006) Garmash A, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Aihara H, Dalseno JP, Dowd RT, Moloney G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Evidence for large direct CP violation in B± → ρ(770)0K± from analysis Taylor G & Zontar D. "Belle SVD2 vertex ± ± ± ± detector" Nuclear Instruments & Methods of three-body charmless B → K π π decays" in Physics Research Section A - Accel Physical Review Letters 96 (25): 18031- Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 568: 269- 18036. 273 (2006) Gokhroo G, Dalseno JP, Moloney G & Zhilich V. "Observation of a near-threshold D0D¯0π0 Ankowski A, Bischofberger M & Zalewska A 0 0 0 "Characterization of ETL 9357FLA photomultiplier enhancement in B → D D¯ π K decay" Physical tubes for cryogenic temperature applications" Review Letters 97 (16): 20021-20025 (2006) Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Ikado K, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G & Zurcher Research Section A - Accel Spectrom D. "Evidence of the purely leptonic decay B- →τ- Detect & Assoc Equip 556: 146-157 (2006) V-τ" Physical Review Letters 97 (25): 18021- Blyth S, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, 18026 (2006) neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP" European Physical Journal C 47: 547-587 (2006) Inami K, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zupanc A. "First observation of Schumann J, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney the decay τ- → ϕK-ντ." Physics Letters B 643: G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. 5-10 (2006) "Evidence for B → η’π improved measurements for B → η’K" Physical Review Letters 97 (6): Ishikawa A, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, 18021-18026 (2006) Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhang ZP. "Measurement of forward-backward asymmetry and Wilson Seidl R, Moloney G, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor coefficients in B → K*l+l-" Physical Review G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of Letters 96 (25): 18011-18016 (2006) azimuthal asymmetries in inclusive production of Hadron pairs in e+e- annihilation at Belle" Jen C-M, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Physical Review Letters 96 (23): 20021-20026 Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zupanc A. "Improved (2006) measurements of branching fractions and CP partial rate asymmetries for B → ωK and B → Seuster R, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, ωπ." Physical Review D 74 (11): 11011-11016 Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Charm hadrons from (2006) fragmentation and B decays in e+e- annihilation at √s = 10.6 GeV" Physical Review D 73 (3): Krokovny P, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Urquijo P 20021-200222 (2006) & Zhilich V. "Measurement of the quark mixing parameter cos2ϕ1 using time-dependent Dalitz Sevior M. "Considerations for nuclear power 0 0 + - 0 analysis of B¯ → D[K s π π ]h " Physical in Australia" International Journal of Review Letters 97 (8): 18011-18016. Environmental Studies 63 (6): 859-872 (2006) Kumar R, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Taylor G & Somov A, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo ± ± Zupanc A. "Observation of B → χc1π and P & Zhilich V. "Measurement of the branching search for direct CP violation" Physical Review fraction, polarization and CP asymmetry for B0 → p+p- decays, and determination of the Cabibbo- D 74 (5): 11031-11036 (2006) 40 Kobayashi-Maskawa phase ϕ2" Physical Review Miyazaki Y, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney Letters 96 (17): 18011-18016 (2006) G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Search for lepton and baryon number violating Soni N, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor τ- decays into Λ¯π- and Λπ-." Physics Letters B G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V."Measurement of 632: 51-57 (2006) branching fractions for B → χc1(2)K(K*) at Belle"" Physics Letters B 634: 155-164 (2006) Miyazaki Y, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Search for lepton flavor Taylor G. "Australia: host for a nuclear waste - 0 violating τ decays with a K s meson" Physics storage site? International Journal of Letters B 639: 159-164 (2006) Environmental Studies 63 (6): 873-881 (2006) Mizuk R, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Ushiroda Y, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zupanc A. "Time- 0 0 0 "Search for the θ(1540)+ pentaquark using dependent CP asymmetries in B → K sπ γ kaon secondary interactions at Belle" Physics transitions" Physical Review D 74 (11): 11041- Letters B 632: 173-180 (2006) 11046 (2006) Mohapatra D, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Venugopal S, Buyya R & Winton L. "A grid service Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Observation of broker for scheduling e-Science applications b → dγ and determination of |Vtd /Vts|" Physical on global data grids" Concurrency and Review Letters 96 (22): 16011-16015 (2006) Computation-Practice and Experience 18: 685-699 (2006) Nakano E, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Urquijo P & Zontar D. "Charge asymmetry of Villa S, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor 0 0 same-sign dileptons in B — B mixing" G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Observation of a χ’c2 Physical Review D 73 (11): 20021-200213 candidate in γγ → DD- production at Belle" (2006) Physical Review Letters 96 (8): 20031-20036 (2006) Natkaniec Z, Dalseno JP, Dowd RT, Moloney G, Taylor G & Zontar D. "Status of the Belle silicon Villa S, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor vertex detector" Nuclear Instruments & G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Search for the decay Methods in Physics Research Section A B0 → γγ" Physical Review D 73 (5): 11071-11075 - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip (2006) 560: 1-4 (2006) Widhalm L, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Poluektov A, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of ϕ3 with of D0 → πlν(Klν) form factors and absolute a Dalitz plot analysis of B+ → D(*)K(*)+ decay" branching fractions" Physical Review Letters Physical Review D 73 (11): 20091-200916 97 (6): 18041-18046 (2006) (2006) Wu C-H, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo Ronga FJ, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, P & Zhang ZP. "Study of J/Ψ → ρρ¯, ΛΛ¯ and Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of CP observation of ηc → ΛΛ¯ at Belle" Physical violation in B0 → D*-π+ and B0 → D- π+ decays" Review Letters 97 (16): 20031-20036 (2006) Physical Review D 73 (9): 20031-200317 Yusa Y, Dalseno JP, Taylor G & Zhang ZP. "Search (2006) for neutrinoless decays τ → lhh and τ → lV0" Schael S, Barberio L & Weiglein G. "Search for Physics Letters B 640: 138-144 (2006) Zhang LM, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Improved constraints on D0 - D¯0 mixing in D0 → K+π- decays from the Belle detector" Physical Review Letters 96 (15): 18011-18016 (2006) Tovey S. "Antimatter: a short history" Australian Physics 43 (5): 160-166 (2006) Yao W-M, Barberio L & Zhu R-Y. "Review of Particle Physics" Journal of Physics G - Nuclear and Particle Physics 33: 1 (2006)

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View of toroidal magnets in the Linear Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland MICRO-ANALYTICAL RESEARCH CENTRE (MARC) ARC Centre for Quantum Computer Technology

PROFESSOR DAVID JAMIESON

Prof Steven Prawer and Prof David Jamieson

The Microanalytical Research Centre (MARC) is Physics . Our work , on making micro- and a member of the Australian Research Centre of nano-scale gadgets in diamond also attracted a Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. lot of attention. This work, which uses a highly The Centre aims to position Australia as a unusual method based on focused ion beams leader in quantum computer technology, a to carve complicated devices from diamond, field which will play a crucial role in the future has applications to the development of sources of information technology. MARC is also a of single photons for secure communication partner in the Nanostructural Analysis Network systems and quantum information processing. 42 Organisation (NANO) which is a Major National Some of these applications were described in a Research Facility. In addition to these major major international review prepared by Andrew national consortia MARC houses an emerging Greentree . international program on quantum diamond which has spun out Quantum Communications Work on the quantum computer project also kept Victoria (QCV) thanks to a grant from the State the group in very high demand for presentations Government of Victoria. We also enjoy a close at conferences and workshops during 2006. collaboration with Applied Physics at RMIT, Many of our staff and students gave talks on the Australian National University and other their work at the first International Conference research groups worldwide. on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2006 (ICONN2006) and the 17th Biennial Congress Together with Lloyd Hollenberg, his theory team of the Australian Institute of Physics, both held and our partners in the Centre for Quantum in Brisbane in July and December 2006. Our Computer Technology, we made several work also formed the topic on several public important breakthroughs in 2006 with the lectures given by our personnel at various places quantum computer project. We successfully around Australia. Our personnel were also in produced a new class of quantum dots using a high demand by other institutions. The end of self-aligned process based on ion implantation 2006 saw several of our postdoctoral staff leave to produce both the dots and the leads used to take up permanent appointments at other for control. This was an important milestone Institutions and Universities in Australia: Jim because it showed our ability to fabricate, control Rabeau to Macquarie University, Chris Pakes and analyse devices based on single electrons. to LaTrobe University and Sergey Rubanov to Our work on these devices was published in Bio21. several papers in Applied Physics Letters , Nanotechnology etc. We have also continued We look forward to many new upgrades to our to develop the method of implanting single facilities in 2007. These include a significant atoms into silicon and one of our students (Toby enhancement in our abilities to make our Hopf) spent several months at the Lawrence own devices based on our ion beam physics Berkeley Laboratory in California installing this expertise with the arrival of a mask aligner and equipment on their ion beam system. Other e-beam evaporator into our clean rooms as well students spend extended stays in laboratories as a significant development of our quantum in Europe and the USA where they worked measurement capabilities with a new cryogenic on different devices containing single atoms low temperature measurement system. We are implanted in Melbourne. grateful to the ARC for providing funds for this new equipment. We are also grateful to the In the diamond research project we concluded School of Physics for the extensive renovation a long study on the most important aspect of our office space in 2006. This has created a of diamond as a promising material for very comfortable environment for all our staff microelectronic devices: the transport of electric and students. charge. Using our nuclear microprobe to scan synthetic diamonds at high temperature, we were able to obtain detailed images of charge transport through this very complex material. These images allowed us to formulate a universal theory for charge transport and View of toroidal magnets in the Linear Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland this was published in the Journal of Applied Publications for 2006 include: Fletcher NH, Hollenberg L, Smith J, Tarnopolsky AZ & Wolfe J. "Vocal tract resonances and the sound of the Australian didjeridu (yidaki) II. Hollenberg L, Wellard C & Greentree A. Theory" Journal of the Acoustical Society "Computational modeling of donor-based of America 119 (2): 12051-12059 (2006) quantum computer architectures in silicon" In Furman SA, Scholes FH, Hughes AE, Jamieson D, Retih M & Schommers W (eds), Handbook Macrae CM & Glenn AM. "Corrosion in artificial of Theoretical and Computational defects II. Chromate reactions" Corrosion Nanotechnology Volume 3. Valencia, United Science 48: 1827-1847 (2006) States: American Scientific Publishers, pp. 49- 112. Gaebel T, Domhan M, Popa I, Wittmann C, Neumann P, Jelezko F, Rabeau J, Stavrias N, Alves A, Reichart P, Siegele R, Johnston PN & Greentree A, Prawer S, Meijer J, Twamley J, Jamieson D. "Ion beam lithography using single Hemmer PR & Wrachtrup J. "Room-temperature ions" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in coherent coupling of single spins in diamond" Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact Nature Physics 2: 408-413 (2006) with Materials and Atoms 249: 730-733 (2006) Gaebel T, Domhan M, Wittmann C, Popa I, Jelezko F, Rabeau J, Greentree A, Prawer S, Trajkov E, Buehler TM, Chan V, Ferguson AJ, Dzurak AS, Hemmer PR & Wrachtrup J. "Photochromism Hudson FE, Reilly DJ, Hamilton AR, Clark RG, in single nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond" Jamieson D, Yang C, Pakes C & Prawer S. Applied Physics B 82: 243-246 (2006) "Controlled single electron transfer between Si:P dots" Applied Physics Letters 88 (19): 21011- Greentree A, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. 21013 (2006) "Quantum-information transport to multiple receivers" Physical Review A 73 (3): 23191- Chan VC, Buehler TM, Ferguson AJ, Mccamey 23195 (2006) DR, Reilly DJ, Dzurak AS, Clark RG, Yang C & Jamieson D. "Ion implanted Si:P double dot Greentree A, Olivero P, Draganski M, Trajkov with gate tunable interdot coupling" Journal of E, Rabeau J, Reichart P, Gibson B, Rubanov S, 43 Applied Physics 100 (10): 61041-61043 (2006) Huntington S, Jamieson D & Prawer S. "Critical components for diamond-based quantum Cimmino A & Klein A. "Progress towards a high- coherent devices" Journal of Physics - precision Aharanov-Casher experiment with Condensed Matter 18: S825-S842 (2006) neutrons highlighting its topological nature" Physica B 385-386: 1392-1394 (2006) Greentree A, Salzman J, Prawer S & Hollenberg L. "Quantum gate for Q switching in monolithic Cole JH, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Precision photonic-band-gap cavities containing two-level characterization of two-qubit Hamiltonians via atoms" Physical Review A 73 (1): 38181-38186 entanglement mapping" Journal of Physics A (2006) - Mathematical and General 39: 14649-14659 (2006) Greentree A, Tahan C, Cole JH & Hollenberg L. "Quantum phase transitions of light" Nature Cole JH, Greentree A, Oi KL, Schirmer SG, Physics 2: 856-861 (2006) Wellard C & Hollenberg L. "Identifying a two-state Hamiltonian in the presence of decoherence" Griffith EJ, Ralph JF, Greentree A & Clark TD. Physical Review A 73 (6): 23331-23338 (2006) "Spectroscopy of a Cooper-pair box in the Autler- Townes configuration" Physical Review B 74 Devitt SJ, Cole JH & Hollenberg L. "Scheme (9): 45101-451011 (2006) for direct measurement of a general two-qubit Hamiltonian" Physical Review A 73 (5): 23171- Gurarie V, Otsuka PH, Jamieson D & Prawer 23175 (2006) S."Crack-arresting compression layers produced by ion implantation" Nuclear Instruments & Devitt SJ, Fowler A & Hollenberg L. "Robustness Methods in Physics Research Section B of Shor’s algorithm" Quantum Information & - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms Computation 6 (7): 616-629 (2006) 242: 421-423 (2006) Dollinger G, Bergmaier A, Hauptner A, Dietzel Hearne S, Trajkov E, Jamieson D, Butler JE & S, Drexler GA, Greubel C, Hable V, Reichart P, Prawer S. "The role of charge trapping at grain Kruchen R, Cremer T & Friedl AA. "Hydrogen boundaries on charge transport in polycrystalline microscopy and analysis of DNA repair using chemical vapor deposited diamond based focused high energy ion beams" Nuclear detectors" Journal of Applied Physics 99 Instruments & Methods in Physics (11): 37031-37038 (2006) Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 270-277 (2006) Hollenberg L, Greentree A, Fowler A & Wellard C. "Two-dimensional architectures for donor- Dragomir N, Ampem-Lassen E, Baxter GW, Pace based quantum computing" Physical Review P, Huntington S, Farrell PM, Stevenson AJ & B 74 (4): 53111-53118 (2006) Roberts A. "Analysis of changes in optical fibers during arc-fusion splicing by use of quantitative Hudson FE, Ferguson AJ, Yang C, Jamieson phase imaging" Microscopy Research and D, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Coulomb blockade Technique 69: 847-851 (2006) in a nanoscale phosphorus-in-silicon island" Microelectronic Engineering 83: 1809-1813 Fardin EA, Holland AS, Ghorbani K & Reichart (2006) P. "Enhanced tunability of magnetron sputtered Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films on C-plane sapphire Jamieson D, Chan V, Hudson FE, Andresen SE, substrates" Applied Physics Letters 89 (2): Yang C, Hopf TF, Hearne S, Pakes C, Prawer S, 29011-29013 (2006) Gauja E, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Quantum effects microstructures in proton irradiated graphite" in ion implanted devices" Nuclear Instruments Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics & Methods in Physics Research Section B Research Section B - Beam Interact with - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms Materials and Atoms 249: 286-291 (2006) 249: 221-225 (2006) Santori C, Fattal D, Spillane SM, Florentino M, Kandasamy G, Wellard C & Hollenberg L. "Cross- Beausoleil RG, Greentree A, Olivero P, Draganski talk compensation of hyperfine control in donor- M, Rabeau J, Reichart P, Gibson B, Rubanov S, qubit architectures" Nanotechnology 17: 4572- Jamieson D & Prawer S. "Coherent population 4580 (2006). trapping in diamond N-V centers at zero Klein A. "Neutron interferometry: The pioneering magnetic field" Optics Express 14 (17): 7986- contributions of Samuel A. Werner" Physica B 7994 (2006) 385-386: 1356-1358 (2006) Santori C, Tamarat P, Neumann P, Wrachtrup J, Laird J, Jagadish C, Jamieson D & Legge G. Fattal D, Beausoleil RG, Rabeau J, Olivero P, "Scanning ion deep level transient spectroscopy: Greentree A, Prawer S, Jelezko F & Hemmer P. I. Theory" Journal of Physics D - Applied "Coherent population trapping of single spins Physics 39: 1342-1351 (2006) in diamond under optical excitation" Physical Review Letters 97 (24): 74011-74014 (2006) Laird J, Jagadish C, Jamieson D & Legge G. "Scanning ion deep level transient spectroscopy: Sidiroglou F, Huntington S, Roberts A, Stern II. Ion irradiated Au—Si Schottky junctions" R, Fletcher IR & Baxter GW. "Simultaneous Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics 39: multidopant investigation of rare-earth-doped 1352-1362 (2006) optical fibers by an ion microprobe" Optics Letters 31 (22): 3258-3260 (2006) McCamey DR, Huebel H, Brandt MS, Hutchison WD, McCallum J, Clark RG & Hamilton AR. Tamarat Ph, Gaebel T, Rabeau J, Khan M, "Electrically detected magnetic resonance in Greentree A, Wilson H, Hollenberg L, Prawer S, ion-implanted Si:P nanostructures" Applied Hemmer P, Jelezko F & Wrachtrup J. "Stark Shift Physics Letters 89 (18): 21151-21153 (2006) Control of Single Optical Centers in Diamond" 44 Physical Review Letters 97 (8): 30021-30024 Mitic M, Cassidy MC, Petersson KD, Starrett RP, (2006) Gauja E, Brenner R, Clark RG, Dzurak AS, Yang C & Jamieson D "Demonstration of a silicon- Tarnopolsky AZ, Fletcher N, Hollenberg L, Lange based quantum cellular automata cell" Applied B, Smith J & Wolfe J. "Vocal tract resonances Physics Letters 89 (1): 35031-35033. and the sound of the Australian didjeridu (yidaki) I. Experiment" Journal of the Acoustical Oi DKL, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Scalabe error Society of America 119 (2): 11941-119411 correction in distributed ion trap computers" (2006) Physical Review A 74 (5): 23131-23139 (2006) Taylor ML, Franich RD, Alves A, Reichart P, Olivero P, Rubanov S, Reichart P, Gibson Jamieson D & Johnston PN. "Ion transmission B, Huntington S, Rabeau J, Greentree A, through nano-apertures" Nuclear Instruments Salzman J, Moore D, Jamieson D & Prawer & Methods in Physics Research Section B S. "Characterization of three-dimensional - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms microstructures in single-crystal diamond" 249: 752-755 (2006) Diamond and Related Materials 15: 1614- 1621 (2006) Trajkov E & Prawer S. "Conduction mechanisms in ion-implanted and annealed polycrystalline Orbons SM, Van Dijk L, Bozkurt M, Johnston CVD diamond" Diamond and Related PN, Reichart P & Jamieson D. "Focused ion Materials 15: 1714-1719 (2006) beam machined nanostructures depth profiled by macrochannelling ion beam analysis" Wellard C, Hollenberg L & Das Sarma S. "Theory Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics of the microwave spectroscopy of a phosphorus- Research Section B - Beam Interact with donor charge qubit in silicon: Coherent control Materials and Atoms 249: 747-751 (2006) in the Si:P quantum-computor architecture" Physical Review B 74 (7): 53061-53069 (2006) Prawer S, Rubanov S, Hearne S, Jamieson D & Kalish R. "Spatial extent of band bending in Wilson HF, Prawer S, Spizzirri P, Jamieson diamond due to ion impact as measured by D, Stavrias N & Mckenzie DR. "P2 dimer secondary electron emission: Experiment and implantation in silicon: A molecular dynamics theory" Physical Review B 73 (15): 32021- study" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in 32024 (2006) Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 251: 395-401 Rabeau J, Reichart P, Tamanyan G, Jamieson D, (2006) Prawer S, Jelezko F, Gaebel T, Popa I, Domhan M & Wrachtrup J. "Implantation of labelled single Yin Y, Hang L, Proschek M, Mckenzie DR, Bilek nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond using 15N" MMM, Allan S, Han J, Rubanov S, Lauder RDT Applied Physics Letters 88 (2): 31131-31133 & Godfrey RB. "Characterisation of a large area (2006) scanning PECVD deposition system with small size RF electrodes" Thin Solid Films 515: 307- Reichart P, Spemann D, Hauptner A, Bergmaier 312 (2006) A, Hable V, Hertenberger R, Greubel C, Setzer A, Dollinger G, Jamieson D, Butz T & Esquinazi Yin Y, Pan YQ, Hang L, Bilek MMM, Mckenzie P. "3D-Hydrogen analysis of ferromagnetic D & Rubanov S. "Dielectric substrate self-bias and plasma confinement in two-dimensional scanning radio frequency plasma-enhanced Devitt SJ & Cole J. "Qubit transport and fault- chemical vapour deposition" Vacuum 81: 441- tolerant architectures in silicon" In Jagadish 445 (2006) C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience Canning J, Gibson B, Rabeau J, Mancuso A & and Nanotechnology 348-350. Melbourne, Huntington S. "Air-clad optical fibre filament Australia: IEEE Press for generating broadband radiation" In Lowrey A, ORA-01403: Roberts A(eds), ACOFT&AOS Hollenberg L & Wellard C. "Modelling Conference 2006 66-68 Melbourne, Australia: nanoelectronic quantum control of donor Australian Optical Society qubits in silicon" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Devitt SJ, Schirmer SG, Oi DKL, Cole J & Conference on Nanoscience and Hollenberg L. "Subspace confinement of qubit Nanotechnology 653-656. Melbourne, systems. In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Australia: IEEE Press Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 1-4. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Hopf TF, Yang C, Jamieson D, Tamanyan G, Institute of Physics Andresen SE, Gauja E, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Development of single ion detection Evans ZWE, Cole J & Hollenberg L. "A system for the implantation of donors comparison of gate characterisation methods" In with nanoscale precision" In Jagadish C Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience 4931-4934. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian and Nanotechnology 563-566. Melbourne, Institute of Physics Australia: IEEE Press Gibson B & Dower P. "Fiber evanescent field Jamieson D, Chan V, Andresen SE, Yang C, Hopf power maximization via refractive index design" TF, Pakes C, Rubanov S, Hearne S, Prawer S, Gauja In ORA-01403: no data found, Lowrey A & E, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Fabrication of single Roberts A(eds), ACOFT&AOS Conference atom nanoscale devices by ion implantation" 2006 66-68. Melbourne, Australia: Australian In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of 45 Optical Society the 2006 International Conference on Greentree A, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Adiabatic Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 560-562. protocols for operator measurement based Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press entanglement and quantum computing. In Orbons SM, Freeman D, Luther-Davies B, Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute Gibson B, Huntington S, Jamieson D & Roberts of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 A. "Nanoscale annular array metamaterials" 4741-4744. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings Institute of Physics of the 2006 International Conference on Hollenberg L, Greentree A, Wellard C, Fowler AG, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 355-358. Devitt SJ, Cole J & Stephens AM. "Electron spin Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press qubit transport and fault-tolerant architectures Tettamanzi G, Pakes C, Potenza A, Marrows for Si:P quantum computing" In Dobson J & CH, Prawer S & Jamieson D. "Superconducting Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics microbridge junctions fabricated using focused 17th National Congress 2006 4961-4964. ion beams" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute Proceedings of the 2006 International of Physics Conference on Nanoscience and Sidiroglou F, Stern R, Fletcher IR, Huntington Nanotechnology 355-358. Melbourne, S, Baxter GW & Roberts A. "Investigation of Australia: IEEE Press dopant profiles in erbium doped optical fibres Yang C, Jamieson D, Hearne S, Hopf TF, Pakes by ion microprobe and fluorescence confocal C, Prawer S, Andresen SE, Dzurak AS, Gauja microscopy" In Roberts A, Lowery A & ORA- E, Hundson FE & Clark RG. "Integration of 01403: no data found(eds), ACOFT&AOS single ion implantation method in focused ion Conference 2006 97-99. Melbourne, Australia: beam system for nanofabrication" In Jagadish Australian Optical Society C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 Stephens AM & Hollenberg L. "Fault tolerant International Conference on Nanoscience quantum computation on isolated logical cells" and Nanotechnology 567-569. Melbourne, In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute Australia: IEEE Press of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 4901-4904. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics Draganski MA, Olivero P, Rubanov S, Spizzirri P, Johnston PN, Jamieson D & Prawer S. "Creation and characterization of buried microstructures in diamond by ion implantation" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 324-327. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press Hollenberg L, Greentree A, Wellard C, Fowler A, QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS VICTORIA (QCV) DR SHANE HUNTINGTON, CEO

Following its establishment in July 2005 Dr Shane Huntington was a winner of the 2006 via a State Government of Victoria Science, Young Tall Poppy award from the Australian Technology and Innovation grant, Quantum Institute of Policy and Science which aims to Communications Victoria (QCV) has been promote awareness of Australia’s intellectual operating successfully for over a year within achievements. Additionally, the QCV entered the School of Physics. The progress of the QCV the ICT Secrets of Innovation Competition, during this time has been excellent with key an initiative of the Federal Government. milestones met. This award recognises innovation in science that will have an impact on information The QCV has assembled a team of expert communication technology across the areas research and engineering personnel across of commerce, health and communications. The 46 the fields of photonics and material science QCV entered the Single Photon Source module and established a business development and as the innovation and was announced as a marketing program. During this time there have finalist in the security division. The winners of been a number of procedures put in place and the awards will be announced in 2007. internal and external relationships developed in order to ensure the effective running of the The QCV out reach program continues to aim program. The QCV has an Executive Board at educating and informing school teachers and who meet quarterly and an Industry Advisory students as well as the general public. The QCV Group (IAG) to provide valuable advice and participated in the University of Melbourne direction to the QCV. The Executive Board open day with an interactive stand at the and IAG draws together significant expertise School of Physics, which was well attended by and experience from industry, academia and members of the public. The first QCV newsletter government. was also distributed to a broad audience of more than 500 school teachers and students The research efforts of the QCV continue to in early December 2006. The QCV will continue focus on the research and development of a to produce and distribute the newsletter on a device capable of producing single packets quarterly basis. Additionally, the QCV hosted of light (photons) which can be transmitted a lunch time media forum and two media in optical fibre. Such a device will resolve the training workshops which were aimed at existing issues of single photon generation in educating academics in how to communicate current quantum communication systems. The effectively with the media. The forum and QCV device is a diamond-based Single Photon workshops were well attended by staff and post Source module suitable for optical fibre based graduate students from the Faculty of Science quantum communications. and received an overwhelmingly positive In the later part of 2006 QCV was joined for response. The QCV will again be running these six months by Dr James Butler, Head Gas/ workshops in 2007. Surface Dynamics Section, Chemistry Division, The industry engagement program continues Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. to work towards establishing and maintaining Dr Butler has extensive diamond knowledge links with related industries and forming and during his time with the QCV has made strategic relationships with specific companies substantial contributions to furthering the and organisations. These activities aim to research and development program. inform Australian industry of the implications of quantum communications and to enable The first QCV annual report was produced new avenues of competitive benefits for current for the financial year 2005/2006 and received industries in Australia, particularly Victoria. an overwhelmingly positive response to the quality and content. Furthermore, through out the year the QCV has carried out various promotional activities, and continued to For publications in 2006 please refer to promote the School of Physics and the QCV publications list under MARC and Optics group via internal and external avenues which reports. include competitions, conferences and media announcements. 47

Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) Team

From left (front row): Dr Brant Gibson, Dr Joanna Gajewski, Mr Chun-Hsu, Dr Eric Ampem-Lassen, Ms Jess Molnar, Mr Daniel Drumm & Mr Marcus Doherty.

Back row: Dr Shane Huntington, Dr Faruque Hossain, Prof. Lloyd Hollenberg, Prof. Steven Prawer, Mr David Simpson, Dr Steve Trpkovski & Ms Stacey Watts OPTICS PROFESSOR KEITH NUGENT

The group has had a very successful year with many developments and recognition of group members.

Ann Roberts and her colleagues have been concentrating on producing novel metallic and are recognised as the new standard for nanophotonic structures. In collaboration with testing theoretical models of atomic and solid researchers at the Australian National University structure. Chris Chantler was successful in and members of the MARC, we have produced receiving an ARC Discovery Grant ‘Critical Tests patterned metallic films that resonate in the of Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED) in heavy near-infrared. This research was presented at atomic systems,’ to extend our leadership in ETOPIM in Sydney in July, AOS/ACOFT, the fundamental tests of atomic physics. Chris was annual SPIE meeting in San Diego in August and also Guest Editor of the journal Radiation NFO9 in Lausanne in September. We also made Physics & Chemistry, Volume 75, Issue 11 advances in the application of phase microscopy (2006). to imaging complex three dimensional structures. This research was reported at a Rob Scholten and his students have been making 48 number of international and local meetings excellent progress on a number of fronts. In during the year. The collaboration with the particular, the team has made an extension of Department of Physiology into applications of their diffractive contrast imaging methods, from phase microscopy to live cell imaging continues the imaging of ground-state ultracold atoms and we have recently obtained striking images to imaging of atoms in specific excited states. showing the birefringence of heart cells. Imaging the excited-state atom distribution will be used to optimise photo-ionisation of cold We were delighted that Dr Nicoleta Dragomir atom samples, to generate intense electron was successful in attracting an ARC Discovery bunches which will then be used for a new grant and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship source of coherent X-rays. The imaging is also which she commenced in July, and Ann was a component of our ARC DP funded research awarded an Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas project, 'Quantum and classical imaging with 21 Fellowship and a grant from the Australian light and atoms'. Laser control of the atomic Academy of Science to visit Europe in 2007. Ann’s quantum state is used to actively control the student, Shannon Orbons, was presented a prize refractive index of the cold atoms which are as one of the best three student presenters at being imaged. Future work will use that control ETOPIM and also received an SPIE scholarship to enhance or suppress the image, for example to attend the annual meeting in San Diego in to demonstrate imaging of electromagnetically August. Xiao Ming Goh was awarded the CiSRA induced transparency (EIT) for the first time. prize for best poster at the AIP Congress in Brisbane in December. EIT was used as the basis for a new scheme to lock the frequency difference between two lasers Chris Chanter and his colleagues and students to the energy separation between two hyperfine continued their development of synchrotron levels of an atom. The hyperfine splitting is the experimental techniques and research into basis of atomic clocks as used in GPS systems atomic, chemical, bioactive and condensed and cell phone base stations. Many leading- matter systems. Chris has had a very successful edge experiments in atomic physics now rely on years and we were delighted that he was having two lasers with precisely that frequency awarded the International JARI Enterprise Award difference, for example in producing Bose- for 'outstanding work in the radiation sciences', Einstein condensates, generating slow light, the nature of the research being recognised to demonstrating quantum qubits with atoms, and be of a leading and challenging nature,’ at the measuring atto-Tesla magnetic fields such as International Symposium on Radiation Physics those produced by human brain activity. in Portugal. He was also co-winner of the national David Syme Rearch Award for ‘original research The group is also having an impact beyond making an important contribution to the fields academia and a laser controller developed in of Biology, Chemistry, Geology or Physics’ by the lab was commercially launched, and a new an Australian researcher. Furthermore, Martin company (MOG Laboratories Pty. Ltd., ABN 42 de Jonge was awarded the Chancellor’s Prize 125 895 025) established to further develop and for the best Doctoral Thesis at the University of market the design. The University is now in the Melbourne in 2006, in Science or Engineering. late stages of licensing the IP to international These are all extremely prestigious awards and laser and instrumentation companies. very notable achievements. Rob and Ann appointed Dr Stefania Castelletto The most recent measurements by this team to work with them. Stefania joined us from the are almost two orders of magnitude more Italian Institute of Metrological Research on accurate and precise than all previous literature, quantum and classical two-beam imaging. Chantler C, Kinnane MN, Su C & Kimpton J. "Characterization of Kα spectral profiles for Keith Nugent has been almost exclusively vanadium, component redetermination for involved in the establishment of the ARC Centre scandium, titanium, chromium, and manganese, of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science. and development of the satellite structure for However he has had many other demands Z=21 to Z=25" Physical Review A 73 (1): 25081- on his time, including chairing a committee 250816 (2006) developing a ten year strategic plan for synchrotron-based science in Australia and Curl C, Bellair CJ, Harris P, Allman E, Roberts chairing the committee seeking to appoint the A, Nugent K & Delbridge L. "Single cell volume Science Director for the Australian Synchrotron. measurement by Quantitative Phase Microscopy (QPM): A case study of Erythrocyte Morphology" He has also been working with the company Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 17: IATIA on taking over an ARC linkage project 193-200 (2006) with the Department of Optometry and Vision De Jonge MD, Tran C, Chantler C & Barnea Z. Sciences, a project that has been relinquished "Improved techniques for measuring x-ray mass by the previous commercial partner. This attenuation coefficients" Optical Engineering process will see Alaster Meehan move to a 45 (4): 65011-65018 (2006) scholarship funded by this project and taking on an enrolment that also involved the Department Dhal B, Peele AG, Mcmahon PJ, De Carlo F & of Optometry and Vision Science. Keith has Nugent K. "Bending magnet source: A radiation also continued his activity as a member of the source for X-ray phase contrast tomography" Board of Directors for IATIA Ltd, a company that Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 2004- continues to develop. 2007 (2006) Dragomir N, Ampem-Lassen E, Baxter GW, Pace P, Huntington S, Farrell PM, Stevenson AJ & Roberts A. "Analysis of changes in optical fibers Publications for 2006 include: during arc-fusion splicing by use of quantitative 49 phase imaging" Microscopy Research and Technique 69: 847-851 (2006) Abbey B, Lipp JD, Barber ZH & Rayment T. Dragomir N, Baxter GW & Roberts A. "Phase- "Structure-film thickness relationship study of sensitive imaging techniques applied to optical sputtered NiO/Ni bilayers using depth profiling fibre characterisation" IET Optoelectronics and atomic force microscopy techniques" 153 (5): 217-221 (2006) Journal of Applied Physics 99 (12): 49141- 49149 (2006) Kimpton J, Kinnane MN & Chantler C. "Development of backgammon-type multiwire Abbey B, Lipp JD, Barber ZH & Rayment T. proportional counters for the detection of x rays" "Monte Carlo study of variations in the surface Review of Scientific Instruments 77 (8): sensitivity of energy-resolved x-ray absorption 31021-31027 (2006) spectra from Ni-NiO thin-film bilayers" Physical Review B 74 (24): 54081-54088 (2006) Kinnane MN, Kimpton J & Chantler C. "A status report on experimental tests of QED in medium- Allman BE & Nugent K. "Phase imaging with Z systems" Radiation Physics and Chemistry thermal neutrons" Physica B 385-386: 1395- 75: 1744-1748 (2006) 1401 (2006) Kouskousis BP, Rollinson CM, Kitcher DJ, Collins Arhatari BD, Peele AG, Nugent K & De Carlo F. SF, Baxter GW, Wade SA, Dragomir N & Roberts "Quality of the reconstruction in x-ray phase A. "Quantitative investigation of the refractive- contrast tomography" Review of Scientific index modulation within the core of a fiber Instruments 77 (6): 37091-37096 (2006) Bragg grating" Optics Express 14 (22): 10332- Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Sgamellotti A & Quiney 10338 (2006) H. "Electron density fitting for the Coulomb Kumar A, Misra D, Kadhane U, Kelkar AH, Dhal B problem in relativistic density-functional theory" & Tribedi LC. "L x-ray emission from fast highly Journal of Chemical Physics 124 (12): 41041- charged Cu ions in collisions with gaseous 41048 (2006) targets: Saturation effect in excitation and Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Sgamellotti A & Quiney transfer" Radiation Physics and Chemistry H. "The electronic structure of alkali aurides. 75: 1704-1706 (2006) A four-component Dirac—Kohn—Sham study" Maguire LP, Van Bijnen RMW, Mese E & Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110: 4543- Scholten R. "Theoretical calculation of saturated 4554 (2006) absorption spectra for multi-level atoms" Castelletto S, Degiovanni IP, Schettini V & Migdall Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular A. "Optomizing single-photon-source heralding and Optical Physics 39: 2709-2720 (2006) efficiency and detection efficiency metrology Meijer T, White JD, Smeets B, Jeppesen M at 1550 nm using periodically poled lithium & Scholten R. "Blue five-level frequency- niobate" Metrologia 43: S56-S60 (2006) upconversion system in rubidium" Optics Chantler C. "CAMOP: Report on the 20th Letters 31 (7): 1002-1004 (2006) international conference on x-ray and inner-shell Orbons SM & Roberts A."Resonance and processes, 4-7 July 2005, Melbourne, Australia." extraordinary transmission in annular aperture Physica Scripta 73: c107-c112 (2006) arrays" Optics Express 14 (26): 12623-12628 (2006) Peele AG, Quiney H, Dhal B, Mancuso A, Witte C, Chantler C, Cosgriff EC & Tran C. Arhatari BD & Nugent K. "New opportunities "Atomic cluster calculation of the x-ray near- in x-ray tomography" Radiation Physics and edge absorption of copper" Radiation Physics Chemistry 75: 2067-2071 (2006) and Chemistry 75: 1582-1585 (2006) Pfeifer MA, Williams G, Vartanyants IA, Harder R De Jonge MD, Tran C, Chantler C & Barnea & Robinson IK. "Three dimensional mapping of Z. "X-ray optics for the future: high-accuracy a deformation field inside a nanocrystal" Nature measurements of x-ray mass attenuation 442: 63-66. coefficients" AOS News 20 (3): 30-37 (2006) Quiney H, Peele AG, Cai Z, Paterson D & Nugent Chantler C. "Atomic and solid state theory, K. "Diffractive imaging of highly focused x-ray experimental and application in x-ray physics: fields" Nature Physics 2: 101-200 (2006) proceedings of the 20th international conference Rae N, Chantler C, Tran C & Barnea Z. "Accurate on x-ray and inner-shell processes, July 4- determination of x-ray energies using powder 8 2005, Melbourne, Radiation Physics and diffraction" Radiation Physics and Chemistry Chemistry 75: 1431-1433 (2006) 75: 2063-2066 (2006) Dragomir N, Goh XM, Baxter GW & Roberts Sidiroglou F, Huntington S, Roberts A, Stern A. "Non-destructive three-dimensional index R, Fletcher IR & Baxter GW. "Simultaneous profiling of optical fibres and photonic devices" multidopant investigation of rare-earth-doped In Lowrey A(ed), ACOFT&AOS Conference optical fibers by an ion microprobe" Optics 20 06 103-105. Melbourne, Australia: Letters 31 (22): 3258-3260 (2006) Australian Optical Society Australia" Orbons SM, Freeman D, Luther-Davies B, Gibson B, Huntington S, Jamieson D & Roberts A. "Nanoscale annular array metamaterials" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 355-358 50 Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press Sidiroglou F, Stern R, Fletcher IR, Huntington S, Baxter GW & Roberts A. "Investigation of dopant profiles in erbium doped optical fibres by ion microprobe and fluorescence confocal microscopy" In Roberts A, Lowery A & ORA-01403: no data found(eds), ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006 97-99. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Optical Society Dragomir N, Goh XM, Baxter G & Roberts A. "Micro-tomographic reconstruction for arbitrary refractive index profiling of optical fibers" In Drapela TJ & Williams PA(eds), Technical Digest: SOFM 2006 1055 119-122 Washington DC, United States: Optical Society of America Smale LF, Chantler C, De Jonge MD, Barnea Z & Tran C. "Analysis of x-ray absorption fine structure using absolute x-ray mass attenuation coefficients: Application to molybdenum" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 1559-1563 (2006) Thornton J, Arhatari BD, Peele AG & Nugent K. "Optimising visibility for the neutron radiography of titanium and nickel gas turbine components" Physica B 385-386: 917-920 (2006) Tran C, Mancuso A, Dhal B, Nugent K, Peele AG, Cai Z & Paterson D. "Phase-space reconstruction of focused x-ray fields" Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision 23 (7): 1779-1786 (2006) Tran C & Nugent K. "Recovering the complete coherence function of a generalized Schell model field" Optics Letters 31 (22): 3226-3227 (2006) Williams G, Pfeifer MA, Vartanyants IA & Robinson IK. "Internal structure in small Au crystals resolved by three-dimensional inversion of coherent x-ray diffraction" Physical Review B 73 (9): 41121- 41128 (2006) Williams G, Quiney H, Dhal B, Tran C, Nugent K, Peele AG, Paterson D & De Jonge MD. "Fresnel coherent diffractive imaging" Physical Review Letters 97 (2): 55061-55064 (2006) ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent Xray Science PROFESSOR KEITH NUGENT

Funding for CXS arrived at the beginning of The new Coherent Scattering Studies Laboratory, 2006, although the Centre had been functioning located in room D013 (basement) of the School as a collaboration from the middle of 2005. of Physics at the University of Melbourne, is The administrative structure of the Centre has now operational. been put into place and is functioning well, with We are pleased to welcome the following new Executive Meetings held every two months; staff to the CXS team in 2006: and annual meetings of the Advisory Board, Scientific Advisory Board and the Intellectual Property Sub-Committee. • Dr Brian Abbey – Theory and Modeling Program team at University of Melbourne CXS was officially declared open by the University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor, Professor Glynn Davis, at a ceremony on April • Dr Eugenui Balaur – Biological Science 19; the date of the first Advisory Board Meeting. Program team at La Trobe University 51 Among the 42 Referred publications produced by CXS members, one featured as a cover article • Dr Chris Hall – Detector and Beamline in Nature Physics. All our publications were in Development Program team at Monash the fields of theoretical and condensed matter University physics, optical and laser physics, biophysics, quantum chemistry, biochemistry, and radiation • Ms Norma Hayes – Detector and Beamline and matter. Development Program team at Monash University CXS members were invited to speak at 25 national and international symposiums, • Dr David Parry – CSIRO Program team conferences, universities and research facilities. We were host to 11 international visitors and • Dr Mark Pfeifer – Experiential X-ray conducted four interdisciplinary workshop of Physics Program team at La Trobe University our own. Media and commercialisation activities have • Dr Olena Ponomarenko – Theory and commenced, with articles on CXS research Modeling Program team at University of appearing in Nature Physics and the La Trobe Melbourne University Bulletin. A series of articles also appeared in the CXS newsletter, In Coherence, • Ms Danielle Smith – Biological Science as part of our media initiative. Presentations to Program team at La Trobe University school and media exposure has added to the public’s awareness of CXS, and we made eight • Dr Priya Bhakat – Electron Microscopy presentations to outside organizations. and 2-D Protein Crystallography specialist CXS has broadened its funding base with members attracting over $2M in additional support. Finally, we would like to congratulate the following members for their achievements: The purchase of the Ultra Fast Laser System, used in the investigation of the nature of non- • Prof Keith Nugent on receiving his second linear physical processes in laser-molecule ARC Federation Fellowship interactions, was completed. The laser system and the XUV momchromator are housed at Swinburne University of Technology. Translation • Assoc Prof Mike Ryan for receiving Stages and the CCD Camera package were also the Roche Molecular Biochemical Medal purchased to accompany the Ultra Fast Laser (May 2006) from the Australian Society for System. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The Experimental Methods Program at La • Ms Cherrine Chan for being awarded Trobe University has established a new a CXS summer cadetship to work with the microfabrication facility including: basic labware Biological Sciences Program Team on a CXS and chemicals, water purification and convection Summer Cadetship in 2006 oven, spin coater, ultrasonic bath and fume hoods, and computer controlled dual sputtering • Ms Claudia Leidhold, Freiburg (PhD and RIE system was obtained to complement student), for visiting the Biological Sciences the existing Electron-Beam Lithography System. Program Team on a DAAD Fellowship from October 2006 to January 2007 For publications produced from the University of Melbourne Physics staff, please refer to the Optics group report. For publications produced by all ARC nodes and participating partner institutions, please refer to www.coecxs.org.

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Professors Geoff Taylor, Glyn Davis (Vice-Chancellor), Keith Nugent, Michael Barber (Swinburne), Leann Tilley (Monash University), Margaret Clayton (ARC) at the opening launch of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent Xray Science at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, April 2006. Assoc Prof Les Allen with Chris Witte

THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS (TCMP) ASSOC PROFFESSOR LES ALLEN

Research carried out within the TCMP group in 2006 can be classified into two general areas: imaging of condensed matter systems Allen L, Findlay S, Oxley MP, Witte C & Zaluzec and the dynamics of dilute gas BECs. This NJ. "Modelling high-resolution electron work has resulted in eight publications in microscopy based on core-loss spectroscopy" international refereed journals and ten Ultramicroscopy 106: 1001-1011 (2006) conference contributions. Assoc Prof Les Allen delivered invited talks at the 19th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Amos K, Richter WA, Karataglidis S & Brown Microanalysis in Sydney and at the workshop BA. "Proton reaction cross sections as measures 53 on Electron Microscopy: Fundamental Limits of the spatial distributions of neutrons in exotic and New Science at Cornell University. nuclei" Physical Review Letters 96 (3): 25031- 25034 (2006) Les Allen was also an invited lecturer at a summer school on the fundamentals of electron microscopy organized by the Kavli Institute Canton L, Pisent G, Amos K, Karataglidis S, at Cornell. Dr Andy Martin gave three invited Svenne JP & Van Der Knijff D."Collective- University seminars (University of Bristol, coupling analysis of spectra of mass-7 isobars: University of Birmingham and the University 7He, 7Li, 7Be, and 7B" Physical Review C 74 of Nottingham) and one contributed talk at (6): 46051-46059 (2006) the AIP 17th National Congress. In addition Dr Nick Parker presented the groups work at an invited seminar at the ANU as well as giving Canton L, Pisent G, Svenne JP, Amos K & a contributed talk at the AIP 17th National Karataglidis S. "Predicting narrow states in the Congress. Dr Scott Findlay delivered an invited spectrum of a nucleus beyond the proton drip talk at a congress in Chicago, Illinois on Materials line" Physical Review Letters 96 (7): 25021- Research in an Aberration Free Environment. 25024 (2006) The group was funded by two continuing Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects worth $145,000 in 2006. The DP grants Dow AJ & Foda O. "On the domain wall partition have enabled the continuing appointment of functions of level-1 affine so(n) vertex models" two postdoctoral research fellows in the group, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory namely Dr Scott Findlay and Dr Nicholas Parker. and Experiment (05): 05010--05026 (2006) Strong international collaborations have been a feature of the research done. Links are in place Dupuis M, Karataglidis S, Bauge E, Delaroche JP with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the & Gogny D. "Correlations in microscopic optical SuperSTEM Facility at Daresbury, Trinity College model for nucleon elastic scattering off doubly Dublin, Nottingham University, Imperial College closed-shell nuclei" Physical Review C 73 (1): London, McMaster University, The University of 46051-460512 (2006) Otago, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with the group of Nobel Prize winner Prof. W. Ketterle) and the University of Durham. Kim Y, Amos K & Karataglidis S. "Properties of effective interactions and the excitation of 6¯ states in 28Si" Nuclear Physics A 779: 82-98 (2006)

Publications for 2006 include: Martin A, Chen F-R, Hsieh W-K, Kai J-J, Findlay S Allen L, Findlay S, Oxley MP, Witte C & Zaluzec & Allen L. "Spatial incoherence in phase retrieval NJ. "Channeling effects in high-angular- based on focus variation" Ultramicroscopy resolution electron spectroscopy" Physical 106: 914-924 (2006) Review B 73 (9): 41041-410411 (2006) Conference Proceedings 831 258-262. New York, United States: American Institute of Physics. Martin A, Ishizuka K, Kisielowski C & Allen L. "Phase imaging and the evolution of a gold- vacuum interface at atomic resolution" Physical Amos K, Karataglidis S, Fraser PR, Van Der Knijff Review B 74 (17): 21021-21024 (2006) D, Svenne JP, Canton L & Pisent G. "Solution of multi-channel problems using MCAS for spectra and scattering cross sections" In Mermod P, Blomgren J, Johansson C, Ohrn A, Bauge E(ed), Workshop proceedings 57- Osterlund M, Pomp S, Bergenwall B, Klug J, 66. Paris, France: OECD Publications. Nilsson L, Olsson N, Tippawan U, Nadel-Turonski P, Jonsson O, Prokofiev A, Renberg P-U, Maeda Y, Sakai H, Tamii A, Amos K, Crespo R & Moro A. "95 Dupuis M, Karataglidis S, Bauge E, Delaroche MeV neutron scattering on hydrogen, deuterium, JP & Gogny D. "Microscopic inelastic carbon, and oxygen" Physical Review C 74 (5): scatterng calculations with second order 40021-400223 (2006) Born approximation. Link with quantum pre-equilibrium models" In Bauge E(ed), Workshop proceedings 67-74 Paris, France: Parker N & Adams CS. "Response of an atomic OECD Publications. Bose-Einstein condensate to a rotating elliptical trap" Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 39: 43-55 (2006) Karataglidis S. "Modern optical potentials and the role of nuclear structure" In Demetriou Parker N, Van Bijnen R & Martin A. "Instabilities P, Harissopulos S & Julin R(eds), AIP leading to vortex lattice information in rotating Conference Proceedings 831 250-257. Bose-Einstein condensates" Physical Review A New York, United States: American Institute of 73 (6): 16031-16034 (2006) Physics. 54

Svenne SP, Amos K, Karataglidis S, Van Der Knijff D, Canton L & Pisent G. "Low-energy neutron-12C analyzing powers: Results from a multichannel algebraic scattering theory" Physical Review C 73 (2): 76011-76013 (2006)

Van Benthem K, Lupini AR, Oxley M, Findlay S, Allen L & Pennycook SJ. "Three-dimensional ADF imaging of individual atoms by through- focal series scanning transmission electron microscopy." Ultramicroscopy 106: 1062-1068 (2006)

Allen L, Oxley MP & Ishizuka K. "Electron microscope Cs correction using iterative wave- function reconstruction" Microscopy and Analysis 20 (4): 15-17 (2006)

Martin A, Van Bijnen R, Dow AJ, Parker N & O’Dell DHJ. "Instabilities leading to vortex lattice formation in rotating bose-einstein condensates" In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006. WC00911-WC00914. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics.

Parker N, Martin A, Cornish SL & Adams CS. "Collisions between bright solitary waves of three-dimensional bose-einstein condensates" In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 1191- 1194. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics.

Amos K, Fraser PR, Karataglidis S, Van Der Knijff D, Svenne JP, Canton L & Pisent G. "Low energy nuclear scattering and sub-threshold spectra from a multi-channel algebraic scattering theory" In Demetriou P, Harissopulos S & Julin R(eds), AIP THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS (TPP) PROFESSOR RAY VOLKAS

At the end of 2005, the TPP group and the School of Physics said a kind of farewell to Dr the appointment of a third continuing academic Girish Joshi as he entered “retirement” after within the group. An offer has been made, and about 35 years service. By late 2006, we began we are awaiting the outcome. anticipating the impending “retirement” of We congratulate both Kristian McDonald and Professor Bruce McKellar also. In both cases Catherine Low who completed their doctoral the word “retirement” is enveloped in scare theses in 2006. Kristian is now a research fellow quotes, because they both shall remain very in the School, while Catherine has moved back active in research. Indeed, in Girish’s case to her native New Zealand to pursue a high the activity is not only in research but also in school teaching career. We also welcome Dr teaching as he continues to lecture Honours Archil Kobakhidze, who joined the group as a 55 year level general relativity. To celebrate their research fellow in October 2006. remarkable and long careers, we organized a two-day Festschrift that was held on 29 and Research-wise, the group continues to thrive. 30 November 2006 at the School of Physics. Topics active during 2006 included orbifold Attended by about 35 colleagues and former symmetry breaking, brane-worlds and extra students from Australia and abroad, we enjoyed dimensions, B-physics, high-energy neutrino a programme of stimulating talks concentrating astrophysics, many-body neutrino physics, on theoretical particle physics but also crossing extensions of the Standard Model and over into condensed matter physics and leptogenesis. quantum computation. We were also fortunate Publications for 2006 include: to hear a fascinating public lecture by Professor Rajaraman of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Bardos D, Day R, Lawson N & Linacre N. New Delhi on nuclear disarmament in South "Dynamical response to fishing varies with Asia. The proceedings will be published by compensatory mechanism: An abalone World Scientific both as a book and as a special population model" Ecological Modelling 192: issue of International Journal of Modern Physics 523-542 (2006) A. Bell N, Gorchtein M, Ramsey-Musolf MJ, Vogel The first stage of life after Bruce and Girish saw P & Wang P. "Model independent bounds on the arrival of Dr Nicole Bell as a new Lecturer at magnetic moments of Majorana neutrinos. the end of December 2006. Nicole is an expert Physics Letters B 642: 377-383 (2006) on particle cosmology and astrophysics, with particular expertise in neutrino physics and Bell N, Pierpaoli E & Sigurdson K."Cosmological dark matter. She also maintains an interest in signatures of interacting neutrinos" Physical straight particle physics. After completing her Review D 73 (6): 35231-352317 (2006) PhD in the School in 2000, she spent three years Choudhury SR, Cornell AS, Gaur N & Joshi in the theoretical astrophysics group at the G. "Signatures of new physics in dileptonic b- Fermilab accelerator laboratory near Chicago, decays" International Journal of Modern and the last two years as a Sherman Fairchild Physics A 21 (12): 2617-2634 (2006) Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. Along the way she picked up a number of prestigious awards, Choudhury SR, Cornell AS, Joshi G & McKellar including the Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in B. "Analysis of the B → K *2(→ K π)l+l- decay" Physics from the Australian Institute of Physics Physical Review D 74 (5): 40311-40318 (2006) for the best physics PhD thesis authored at an Coulthurst A."Generating the baryon asymmetry Australian university in 2000, a second prize at of the universe in split fermion models" Physical the Young Researchers Competition in Honor of Review D 73 (10): 35171-351710 (2006) John Archibald Wheeler in Princeton, the Alvin Tollestrup Award at Fermilab and the Michelson Coulthurst A, McDonald KL & McKellar B. Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship at Case Western "Suppressing proton decay by separating quarks Reserve University. Her post-postdoctoral and leptons" Physical Review D 74 (12): 77011- career has started quickly as she is already 77014 (2006) supervising a PhD student and an Honours Demaria A, Low CI & Volkas R. "Neutrino masses student. We welcome her, and look forward to in quartification schemes" Physical Review D great achievements in the future. The second 74 (3): 30051 - 300510 (2006) stage of life after Bruce and Girish depends on Doukas JA, Choudhury SR & Joshi G. "Lepton Demaria A, Low CI & Volkas R. "Erratum: number violation via intermediate black hole Unification via intermediate symmetry breaking processes" Modern Physics Letters A 21 (34): scales with the quartification gauge group [Phys. 2561-2568 (2006) Rev. D 72, 075007 (2005)]" Physical Review D 73 (7): 99021. (2006) Flitney A & Greentree A. "Coalitions in the quantum Minority game: Classical cheats and Bell N, Cirigliano V, Ramsey-Musolf MJ, Vogel P & quantum bullies" Physics Letters A 362: 132- Wise MB. "Magnetic moments of dirac neutrinos" 137 (2006) In Eisenstein RA, Van Hecke H, Stephenson GJ, Barnes PD & Cooper MD(eds), Particles and Foot R. "Generalized mirror matter models" Nuclei 842 874-876. New York, United States: Physics Letters B 632: 467-470 (2006) American Institute of Physics (2006) Foot R. "Implications of the DAMA/NaI and CDMS Volkas R. "Mirror Dark Matter" In Studenikin experiments for mirror matter-type dark matter" AI(ed), Proceedings of the 12th Lomonosov Physical Review D 74 (2): 35141-35148 (2006) Conference on Elementary Particle Physics Forrester P, Frankel N & Garoni TM. "Asymptotic 130-137. New Jersey, United States: World form of the density profile for Gaussian and Scientific Publishing Co (2006) Laguerre random matrix ensembles with orthogonal and symplectic symmetry" Journal of Mathematical Physics 47 (2): 33011-330126. Forrester P, Frankel N & Makin MI. "Analytic solutions of the one-dimensional finite-coupling delta-function Bose gas" Physical Review A 74 (4): 36141-361420 (2006) Friedland A, Mckellar B & Okuniewicz I. 56 "Construction and analysis of a simplified many- body neutrino model" Physical Review D 73 (9): 30021-300220 (2006) Gailis R & Frankel N. "Short wavelength analysis of the evolution of perturbations in a two- component cosmological fluid" Journal of Mathematical Physics 47 (6): 25061-250627 (2006) Gailis RM & Frankel N. "Two-component cosmological fluids with gravitational instabilities" Journal of Mathematical Physics 47 (6): 25051-250525 (2006) He X, Keum Y & Volkas R. "A4 flavour symmetry breaking scheme for understanding quark and neutrino mixing angles" Journal of High Energy Physics 4: 391-3918 (2006) Ignatiev A. "X rays test the Pauli exclusion principle" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 2090-2096 (2006) Ignatiev A & Kuzmin VA. "Neutrino statistics and non-standard commutation relations" Physics Letters A 359: 26-30 (2006) Ignatiev A & Mckellar B. "Possible new interactions of neutrino and the KATRIN experiment" Physics Letters B 633: 89-92 (2006) McDonald KL & McKellar B. "Orbifold reduction of the quark-lepton symmetric model" Physical Review D 74 (5): 60051-60058 (2006) McDonald KL & McKellar B. "Systematic study of leptonic mixing in a class of SUH(2) models." Physical Review D 73 (7): 30041-300412 (2006) Wintle B & Bardos D. "Modeling species-habitat relationships with spatially autocorrelated observation data" Ecological Applications 16 (5): 1945-1958 (2006) Postgraduate Physics Students Society Ball, 2006

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POSTGRADUATE PHYSICS STUDENT SOCIETY (PPSS) The School organises a focus day for senior postgraduate students to assist with the transition out of postgraduate study. The School also recognises the importance of bridging the DR STUART WYITHE gap between undergraduate and postgraduate Within the School of Physics, postgraduate study. To this end the School organises a research is an integral part of all research areas. Postgraduate student research exhibition. Physics postgraduates are therefore integrated This exhibition showcases the work of our into School life at all levels. For example, the postgraduates to interested second and third crucial role played by students in the research year physics students. success of the School is highlighted during the weekly postgraduate seminar series. This series serves to inform the School as a whole of Each of the above activities was undertaken individual research programs. during 2006. As a new initiative in 2006, the School expanded the postgraduate seminar series to include a full colloquium by final In addition, the seminar series offers our year students, describing the work presented students valuable experience in scientific and in their thesis. This final colloquium provides oral presentation skills. Postgraduate students the opportunity for the School to celebrate the are also integrated into the day-to-day workings achievements of postgraduate students. of the School through representatives on each of the Schools committees. Postgraduate student participation on School committees is coordinated by the Postgraduate student society, and aims to ensure that postgraduate student needs are met at all levels.

The School aims to assist postgraduates with the skills they will need to successfully complete their degree and to move forward in the future. To prepare postgraduate students to make the most of their time within the department, the School conducts an induction day, where the roles and perceptions of students and supervisors alike, as well as the requirements of postgraduate study are discussed. ANDREW MARTIN (PPSS President 2006)

The Postgraduate Physics Student Society (PPSS) is an association of which each postgraduate degree student is automatically a member. It is affiliated with the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, which formally provides funding for the range of activities the PPSS undertakes, though the School of Physics significantly supports the PPSS both financially and logistically. The purposes of the PPSS are to enhance the academic and professional life of its members, encourage social interaction of students within the School, to co-ordinate representation of School of Physics Postgraduate students on School committees and to represent School of Physics Postgraduate Students to the Science Faculty and University. Additionally, the PPSS creates leadership positions for its members, enhancing skills prior to entering formal employment. In 2006, these goals were achieved by running numerous social events, including a BBQ, a trivia night, pool competition and a soiree. A large number of postgraduate students in physics 58 participated in these events, making them a great success. On the more formal side, student attendance at the various School committee meetings was high, indicating the enthusiasm of postgraduate students to participate in the running of School and the business of the University that affects the School. In 2007 the PPSS aims to continue fulfilling these duties, and with the enthusiastic group of volunteers in office bearer roles and on committees, the coming years should be quite productive.

For more information, visit the PPSS website at http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/pgss/

PPSS President, Andy Martin Assoc Prof Rob Scholten, Dr Elisabetta Barberio, Prof Tony Klein, Anna Phan, David Shelduko

Prizes & Awards > 59

UNDERGRADUATE William Sutherland Prize Dwight Prize Selection Criteria: Awarded to the student achieving Selection Criteria: Awarded to the student the highest results in Second Year Physics who is achieving the highest results in First year proceeding to study in Physics at the Third Year level. advanced level, on recommendation by the Value: Book vouchers worth $200 Head Recipient: Paul Nathaniel Beuchat Value: $700 Recipient: Lee Ming Yeoh POSTGRADUATE E M and J F Ward Prize for Experimental The CISRA Prize in Physics Physics Selection Criteria: Eligible candidates must be Selection Criteria: Awarded to the most enrolled in, or have completed in the previous 12 outstanding student in experimental physics in months, the degree of PhD in the School of Physics at the final year of the BSc degree with a major in the University of Melbourne. physics. Value: $2,000 approx Value: $600 Recipient: Andrew Coulthurst Recipient: Christina Magoulas

Dieul-Kurzweil Scholarship Ramm Prize in Experimental Physics This scholarship is awarded every three years. Selection Criteria: Prize is awarded to a student enrolling in either Honours or postgraduate Selection Criteria: The Scholarship is awarded to degree by research in Experimental Physics who a student who has been admitted to candidature has demonstrated excellent research potential. for the degree of Master of Science in the School of Physics and is in need of financial assistance to Value: $1000 pursue the course. Recipient: Anna Phan Value: $2,360.00 approx Recipient: Xiaoming Goh T F Ryan (Roentgen) Prize

Selection Criteria: Prize is awarded to the student Dixson Research Scholarship in Physics with the highest aggregate score in 640-151 and 640-152 Physics for Biomedical Science at First Selection Criteria: Awarded on the basis of Honours Year. results in Physics. The holder is required to conduct research in Physics at the University at postgraduate Value: $600 level Recipient: Jason Juke Carabott Co-winner of the University of Melbourne's Value: $2000 David Syme Research Prize for original Recipient: Rhys Davies scientific contribution to the industrial and commercial development of Australia.

John Tyndall Scholarship Prize Dr Shane Huntington Selection Criteria: Awarded to a student who is enrolled in a Masters or Doctorate degree who is Recipient of the Tall Poppies Award for his conducting advanced studies or research in the services in science communication and promotion School of Physics of telecommunications security. Value: $550 Dr Stuart Wyithe Recipient: Chun-Hsu Su Winner of the University of Melbourne's Woodward Medal for pioneering research into Klein Prize in Experimental Physics the formation of the first galaxies 13 billion years ago. Selection Criteria: Awarded to a student who has completed fourth year Honours (or equivalent) in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne, and who is currently enrolled in the degree of Masters of Science (by Research) or PhD in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. Syme Research Award: Assoc Prof Chris Chantler Value: $500 approx Recipients: Anna Phan and David Sheludko 60 Professor Kernot Research Scholarship in Physics Selection Criteria: Awarded on recommendation of the Head on the basis of Honours results. Holders are required to conduct research in Physics at postgraduate level. Value: $2,525 Recipient: Anna Phan

STAFF Nature Mentoring Awards: Prof Rachel Webster (mid career) and [Chemistry] Prof Tom Healey (life- Professor Bruce McKellar time) Recipient of the biennial Massey Medal for his contributions to physics by an Australian physicist, awarded jointly by the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) and the Institute of Physics (IoP) UK.

Professor Rachel Webster Winner of the inaugural Nature Mentoring Award (mid-career category) for her services to mentoring early career science researchers ($10,000).

Professor Keith Nugent (IATIA Pty Ltd) Winner of the inaugural Victorian ATS Patron's Award for technology with most export potential.

Assoc Professor Chris Chantler Recipient of the Journal of Applied Radiation & Isotopes's Enterprise Award for outstanding work in the radiation sciences. Subjects Offered > 61

FIRST YEAR SUBJECTS HONOURS 640-121/2 Physics (Advanced) A/B The Honours year comprises course work and 640-141/2 Physics A/B research project. The content of course work 640-151/2 Physics Biomedical Science A/B may vary from year to year but typically include subjects chosen from: 640-161/2 Physics: Principles & Applications 640-176 Solar System & Cosmos Extragalaxies, Astro & Cosmology 640-177 Stars & Galaxies General Relativity Particle Physics 1 SECOND YEAR SUBJECTS Particle Physics 2 Quantum Mechanics A 640-223 Quantum Mechanics & Thermal Phys (Adv) Quantum Mechanics B 640-225 Electromagnetism & Spec Relativity (Adv) Quantum Structures 640-234 Further Classical & Quantum Mechanics Quantum Field Theory 640-237 Astrophysics & Optics 2 Quantum Optics 640-243 Quantum Mechanics & Thermal Phys Scattering & Imaging 640-245 Electromagnetism & Spec Relativity Statistical Mechanics 640-251 Instrumentation for Scientists 640-261 Energy & Environment

THIRD YEAR SUBJECTS 640-321 Quantum Mechanics (Advanced) 640-322 Thermal Physics (Advanced) 640-323 Electrodynamics (Advanced) 640-341 Quantum Mechanics 640-342 Thermal Physics 640-343 Electrodynamics 640-351 Astrophysics & Optics 3 640-353 Atomic, Molecular & Solid State Phys 640-354 Subatomic Physics 640-364 Computational Physics 640-381 Principles & Applications of Sensors 640-385 Modelling, Visualisation and Analysis Muppets in action!

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JULY LECTURES PHYSICS GYMNASIUM This very popular series of free public lectures This series of monthly lectures is specifically has a long and enviable history in the school. designed to provide enrichment and They are aimed at giving an insight into encouragement for senior high-school students fundamental questions in physics, and advances who are studying physics. The meetings are in current research. They are given by researchers held monthly during the school year at 5 15 pm. from this school, and delivered in a format that is accessible to the interested lay person. This year’s theme was ‘Physics Unleashed’ Dr Stuart Wyithe, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Ann Roberts, School of Earth Shine (Mar 29) Physics, University of Melbourne & Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett, Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Dr Mark Boland, Accelerator Physicist of the Melbourne Australian Synchrotron Physics, art and art fraud (Jul 7) Bright Light from Heavy Electrons...an overview of the Australian Synchrotron Project (May 17)

Associate Professor Martin Sevior, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Professor David Jamieson, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (Jul 19) Physics, energy and power (Jul 17) Was Einstein Right?

Professor David Jamieson, School of Physics, University of Melbourne & Dr Andrew Jamieson, Associate Professor Ann Roberts, School of Centre for Classics & Archaeology, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Historical Studies, University of Melbourne Optics for Art’s sake (Aug 9) Physics, time and archaeology (Jul 21) Dr Roger Rassool, School of Physics, University Dr Graeme Pearman, CSIRO - Marine and of Melbourne Atmospheric Research If we could talk to the animals (Oct 18) Physics, the environment and climate change (Jul 28) PHYSICS IN SERVICE DAY During the week of August 21 – 25 a dedicated team of physics graduate students and staff took This professional development day consists of the WARP Physics and Laser Show to the western 5 sessions relevant to teachers of VCE Physics. suburbs. The “Out West Tour” was located at It is designed to keep teachers aware of the Altona North campus of Bayside Secondary developments in physics, expand their horizons, College, and about 1500 year-5/6 students from and assist them in keeping up to date with the 22 local schools were bussed in. current high schools physics syllabus.

The show was presented in inimitable style by The new study design for VCE Physics has seen Roger Rassool, who was assisted by Chris Witte. the inclusion of special relativity, the synchrotron Nick Nicola and Steve Mitchell did an excellent and photonics to the syllabus, areas traditionally job keeping the equipment intact and working, outside the experience of many teachers. The and an enthusiastic group of graduates and In-service provided specialist speakers in these senior undergraduates composed the off-stage areas along with recent PhD graduate teachers support. who discussed their approaches to these topics.

Professor Joe Wolfe, School of Physics, The It was, as usual, a delight to see the absolutely University of New South Wales, Sydney positive response of the students to the demonstrations. It is clear to the team that we Introduction to relativity: a multi-level, multi- not only succeed in showing that Science can be media resource fun, but that the students leave on a high, with a better understanding of some basic physics phenomena. Dr Mark Boland, Accelerator Physicist, Australian Synchrotron 63 The Synchrotron and its uses Each school was presented with a “show bag” containing, amongst other things, a collection of simple experiments for the teacher use in class, Sandor Kazi, VCE Physics Teacher and the components of a diffraction-grating spectrometer for each student to build. Sound and Wave Motion

We believe that the program is achieving its Catherine Bellair, VCE Physics Teacher, Yavneh aim of interesting students in Science at an College early age, so as to broaden their choices as The nature of waves and “Phase Microscopy” they progress through the school system. The program continues to be supported through the Colonial Foundation. In total, over 5000 students have taken part in such activities for 2006. Dr Alex Mazzolini, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University Teaching Photonics at VCE level Spinning wheel demo with Chris Witte and student

Dr Catherine Low, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Interactions of light and matter

Nick Nicola, Undergraduate Laboratory Manager, School of Physics, University of Melbourne Lecture Demos: A practical viewpoint

MUPPETS MUPPETS stands for Melbourne University Physics Promotion, Education &Teaching Services From July 10-14, 2006 the WARP team hit Traralgon, entertaining hundreds of Grade 5/6 children within a 100km radius. We set up at the St Paul’s Campus of Lavalla Catholic College on Grey St, using their fabulous auditorium. Prof Geoffrey Taylor, Dr Roger Rassool, Assoc Prof Max Thompson and Mr Andrew Brookes, Executive Officer Colonial Foundation

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DAVID CARO BUILDING DONATIONS and SUPPORT In December 2006, the School of Physics was The School continues to acknowledge the renamed the David Caro building in honour of support of the Mr Andrew Brookes of the Professor David Caro (AO OBE FInstP, FAIP, FACE) Colonial Foundation. They have generously whose valuable life-long contributions to national provided $360,000 over 3 years to expand Dr university life and the international physics Roger Rassool's and Assoc Prof Max Thompson's community were formally acknowledged. Outreach activities. David Caro was made professor of experimental The School was also pleased to announce physics and Head of School in 1961 during the two new postgraduate prizes: Klein Prize in days when Physics was still located in what Experimental Physics and the CiSRA Prize in is now known as Old Physics. He oversaw Physics. the design and planning of the "new" physics Spinning wheel demo with Chris Witte and student building at its current site. The Klein Prize was set up by Emeritus Professor Tony Klein (former Head of School 1987-1995), Along with Assoc Prof John Rouse, they were Victor and Fleur Spitzer and Naomi Kaldor. the first to design a variable energy cylcotron, the first of its kind in Australia. This spearheaded The CiSRA Prize was supported by Canon the research in experimental particle and nuclear Information Systems Research Australia by Dr physics in Australia and was instrumental in Stephen Hardy and Dr Ian Gibson. providing the country with a talented crop of highly trained experimental physicists over the next decade.

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Members of the School of Physics were regularly Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in Diamonds Take a featured in the media during 2006 (excluding Quantum Leap to IT security, Networkworld, local university newspapers and local media 5 May 2006. releases)

Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in Diamonds Used Against Internet Eavesdropping, ferret.com. MEDIA APPEARANCES au, 19 May 2006. Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in media release Group Formed to Commercialise Quantum Dr Stuart Wyithe in The Short Reign of Dwarf Cryptography, Information Week, 23 January Galaxies, New Scientist, 17 May 2006. 2006.

Dr Stuart Wyithe in Emergence of the Galactic Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in media release Heavyweights, ScienceNow, 18 May 2006. MagiQ Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Qucor and the University of Melbourne form Joint Venture to Enable Next Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Next-generation Generation Quantum Cryptography power is inevitable: physicist (by Adam Devices, MagiQ Technologies, 23 January 2006. Morton), The Age, 22 May 2006.

Prof David Jamieson in Comment on the Prof Geoffrey Taylor (EPP group) in Hunt for the enrichment of uranium in Iran, SBS radio, God Particle (by Peter Calamai), Cosmos, 13 April 2006. Issue 9, Jun 2006.

Dr Michelle Livett in Physics grads forsake kids (by Bernard Lane) , The Australian, 29 Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Plugging in to March 2006. Nuclear (by Elizabeth Keenan), Time Asia, 12 June 2006.

Dr Stuart Wyithe in When Dwarf Galaxies Gave Way to Giants, Harvard University, 2 Dr Roger Rassool in University Makes May 2006. Learning a Lot of Fun, Taralgon Journal, 12-14 July 2006.

Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in Diamonds Take a Quantum Leap to IT security, Computerworld, Dr Steven Melnikoff in Supercomputers: 5 May 2006. Strength in Numbers (by Cynthia Karena), The Age, 18 July 2006.

Dr Ian Gibson and CiSRA winner, Andrew Coulthurst Prof Tony Klein in Greenies to Fight ALP on Dr Andrew Greentree in A Small Step to Backflip (by Liegh Dayton), The Australian, Higher Resolution, Nature Physics, News & 27 July 2006. Views article Vol 2 October 2006 pp 657-8.

Dr Roger Rassool in Storage Fear on Dr Andrew Greentree in Light Does Matter, Uranium, MX (Melbourne), 27 July 2006 Nature Physics, News & Views article Vol 2 October 2006 pp 803.

Prof David Jamieson in Quantum Technology (What a Wonderful World with Viarnne Mischon), 3WBC 94.1 radio, 14 August 2006. Prof David Jamieson in Power to Make a Difference in a World Hit by Climate Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Irish Energy Change, Canberra Times, 30 October 2006. Miracle 'A Joke' (by Peter Weekes), The Age, 20 August 2006. Prof Rachel Webster in Dutch Courage (by Jenny Hogan), Nature, Vol 444, 9 November Dr Stuart Wyithe in Australia's Top 10 2006. Scientific Minds Under 45 (by Wilson da Silva), Cosmos, Issue 10, August 2006. Prof David Jamieson in Physics is Booming (Lindy Byrne Show), ABC 774 radio, 6 Prof Geoffrey Taylor (EPP group) in Bullseye December 2006 (by Stephen Battersby), New Scientist, 26 August 2006. 66

Prof David Jamieson in The Boom in Physics, ABC radio Newcastle, 1 September 2006.

Prof David Jamieson in Quantum Leap in Physics Prospects (by Brendan O'Keefe), The Australian, 7 September 2006.

Dr Roger Rassool in Fuel Cells , Scope - Channel 10 TV, 9 October 2006

Prof Geoffrey Taylor in Voyage to the Heart of the Matter (by Lisa Macnamara), The Australian, 18 October 2006

Prof Rachel Webster in Scholarship Growth Trails Fee Hikes (by Lisa Macnamara), The Australian, 25 October 2006.

Prof Ray Volkas in Discovery of the Neutrino, ABC 774 radio, October 2006

Prof Geoffrey Taylor in World's Largest Scientific Grid Sustains a Million Jobs per Month, CERN press release, 25 September 2006.

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In addition to the many universities and schools that hire our graduates as lecturers, postdoctoral fellows and teachers, other organisations that have recruited our graduates include:

Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Austin Hospital Australian Synchrotron Australian Government Australian Strategic Policy Institute Bureau of Meteorology Boston Consulting Group Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Department of Human Services Department of Education, Science and Technology (DEST) Department of Finance Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) Ernst & Young GBC Scientific Equipment Google Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine Intel KPMG LEK Consulting Macquarie Bank Momentum Funds Management Portland House Group Note Printing Australia Victorian Government Walter Hall & Eliza Institute More information >

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Publication title: The School of Physics, Annual Report 2006 Authorised by: Professor Geoffrey Taylor Published by: The School of Physics, September 2007 Copyright: The University of Melbourne Photography: David Hannah, Jim Rule, Michael Silver, Les O'Rourke

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