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ANNUAL REPORT

2006

The School of Physics

The School of Physics staff and postgraduates Photographer: David Hannah

School of Physics staff and postgraduates 2006

Photographer: Les O'Rourke

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The University of Melbourne 02Faculty of Science 03The School of PhysicsMission Statement 04Head's Report 05Growing Esteem & Future Directions 06Governance 06Executive Manager's Report 06

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

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

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

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2006

QUALITY PEOPLE

• The quality of student intake remained very high with a median ENTER score of 94.30.

• The quality of University staff is recognised through prestigious awards and the election of 11 staff as fellows of learned societies.

• Staff receive recognition for excellence in teaching through Carrick Citations and Awards.

LEARNING & TEACHING

• The Melbourne Model was adopted, providing for three year undergraduate degrees, followed by a professional or research masters degree, and the option of a PhD. Core principles for the Melbourne Model degrees were established.

• Six new Melbourne Model undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science will be offered from 2008. Graduate degrees will be phased in from 2008.

• Melbourne achieved a top ranking and the highest grant of $8.9m in the Commonwealth Learning and Teaching Performance Fund.

• Staff received an exceptional nine Carrick citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and two Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching.

• Design and development of collaborative learning spaces and multi-purpose student learning hubs is underway to enhance student experience.

RESEARCH & RESEARCH TRAINING

• Since 1996 Melbourne has ranked first or second on national research indicators of total research income, research publications, RHD student load and completions.

• Melbourne recorded the largest number of research higher degree enrolments and completions nationally with continued improvement in the completion rate.

• Assessments of all faculties and departments placed more than 90% of academic units in the top three in Australia, with around half ranked as No 1

• Seven internationally outstanding researchers were awarded Federation Fellowships at the University.

• Australia’s largest biopharmaceutical company, CSL, entered into an innovation partnership providing for 50 of its scientists to relocate to the University’s Bio21 Institute.

• The University joined an elite international group of universities teaching Veterinary Science after winning accreditation by the American Veterinary Medicine Association.

INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

• The international standing of the University as judged by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University institutional rankings continued to improve with a ranking of 78. The University was ranked No 22 in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement Study 2006.

• The University was admitted as a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Membership is based on academic excellence, research intensity, global outlook and innovation.

• International student load increased, with international student numbers exceeding 10,000 and representing 25.9 % of student load.

• The Confucius Institute was established with support from both the Victorian and Chinese governments. It is part of a global network facilitating the teaching of the Chinese language and culture.

Postera crescam laudeI shall grow in the esteem of future generations

Faculty of Science > 03

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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.

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The School of Physics >To advance the knowledge and understanding of physics for the benefit of society, science and the environment by continually achieving excellence in teaching and research. Our aim is to be one of the best Physics Schools in the world.

The School of Physics is one of the oldest and largest in Australia. It houses approximately 200 teaching & research academic staff, research staff, professional staff, postgraduate and 4th year Honours students. The School is justifiably proud of its internationally competitive and comprehensive undergraduate and research programs, particularly with the Honours, Masters and PhD programs.

The major research strengths of the department staff span a diverse range of interests including astrophysics, atom optics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, experimental particle physics, medical physics, nanotechnology and materials science, theoretical particle physics, quantum information science, X-ray and imaging optics. The breadth and depth of interests is reflected in the undergraduate teaching programs.

The School enjoys excellent international 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.

In addition, the School locally collaborates with researchers at other Australian facilities such as Anglo-Australian Telescope, APAC, Austin Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Parkes Telescope, Australian Synchrotron, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Howard Florey Institute, CSIRO as well as laboratory facilities within the University of Melbourne Schools and Departments of Biochemical & Microbiology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Medicine, Pathology and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.

The School has an outstanding record of achievement in attracting external research funding including grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian Academy of Science, Victorian Government and USA government bodies.

The School’s research activities are aligned according to 6 research groups:

Astrophysics (Astro)Experimental Particle Physics (EPP)Micro-analytical Research Centre (MARC) OpticsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics (TCMP)Theoretical Particle Physics (TPP)

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MISSION STATEMENT

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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 important problems applying known laws of physics to complex systems or in innovative new applications. The training of students to international standards is a key driver of the School’s research activities. The upcoming Research Quality Framework will focus our attention on what we have achieved and future goals.

The School continues to contribute to the design and construction of the ATLAS experiment soon to commence at CERN, to the new radio-astrophysics MWA array in Western Australia, and to various instrumentation projects at the Australian Synchrotron. The School is leading the establishment of a large computing facility for the analysis of data from CERN. Learning & Teaching – with the new Melbourne Model aims at attracting the best and brightest students from around Australia and internationally. The School is preparing for the 3-year undergraduate program followed by a 2-year MSc that promises advanced graduate coursework and projects that are not possible in the current curriculum. Knowledge Transfer – the School continues to engage the public through an outstanding outreach program, through a re-invigorated alumni and friends program, and through a new University-encouraged engagement of business and industry.

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.

Head of School, Professor Geoffrey Taylor

The School currently hosts the Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computing Computer Technology, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science and Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV). The School houses a suite of premier research laboratories and facilities including:

a clean room complex equipped with advanced instrumentation for materials fabrication, characterisation and analysis including focused ion beam microscopes, UHV AFM/STM scanning probe system, UV Ramanspectrometer, and a pulsed laser deposition system.

a particle detector development and construction facility comprising clean rooms, precision wirebonder detector development, ssembly and evaluation capabilities.

advanced X-ray, laser, microscopy and atom optics laboratories

a 5 MV Pelletron accelerator providing source of MeV ion beams in 5 beamlines used in nuclear microprobe systems

excellent library with extensive collection of journals , books and texts (mostly on-line) to service the teaching and research activities ofthe School (as well as external institutions)

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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

Geoffrey Taylor (Chair), David Jamieson, Helen Conley, Andrew Melatos, Rachel Webster, Colin Entwisle, Robert Scholten, Paul Spizziri, Russel Walsh, Shannon Orbons, Tim Dyce, Roland Syzmanski, Roland Szymanski, Chris Witte (ex officio), Marcia Damjanovitch-Napoleon (Executive Officer)

Promotions & Marketing

Ann Roberts (Chair), Geoffrey Taylor, David Jamieson, Helen Conley, Rachel Webster, Roger Rassool, Bruce McKellar, Elisabetta Barberio, Joanne Kuluveovski, Brant Gibson, Byron Villis, Cilla Gloger (Executive Officer)

Research & Industry

Ray Volkas (Chair), Geoffrey Taylor, Helen Conley, Stuart Wyithe, Chris Chantler, Les Allen, Steven Prawer, Joanne Kuluveovski, Shane Huntington, Jason Doukas, Cilla Gloger (Executive Officer)

Safety

Rob Scholten (Chair), Helen Conley, Roland Szymanski, Wayne Powrie, Paul Spizziri, Phil Lyons, Colin Entwisle, Marco La Rosa, Barbara Fairchild, Julie Warden (Executive Officer)

Policy

Geoffrey Taylor (Chair), Ray Volkas, Helen Conley, Rachel Webster, David Jamieson, Steven Prawer, Keith Nugent, Bruce McKellar, Les Allen, Jeff McCallum, Ann Roberts, Martin Sevior, Brant Gibson, Chris Witte, Andrew Martin, Kristine Philipp (Executive Officer)

School Meeting

Geoffrey Taylor (Chair), all staff, Paul Fraser (ex officio), Kristine Philipp (Executive Officer)

EXECUTIVE MANAGER'S REPORT

The Teaching and Research effort of the School has been well supported again this year by excellent professional staff. Staff were employed in two new centres, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science and QCV; Quantum Communications Victoria. We welcome Tania Smith, Rosslyn Ball, Joanne Gajewski and Stacey Watts to the school. Joanne Kuluveovski was promoted to Research & Communications Manager in recognition of her support for the School’s research effort and her additional secondment to MRIO. Cilla Gloger's skills were also acknowledged in a secondment to the USP Publications Module deployment. We were also fortunate to have Michelle Geil join us as the new PA to the Head, replacing Kristine Philipp.

Within the IT group, we farewelled the manager Will Belcher who was replaced by Tim Dyce. Peter Fuggle also left the team to take up a position outside the university.

Jude Prezens and Stephen Marshall joined Nick Nicola in the undergraduate laboratories, while Michael Gangoiti moved to IT Central Services.

Building works this year have included the refurbishment of the MARC area on Level 2, an upgrade of the Part II undergraduate laboratories, completion of the Geoff Opat Seminar Room, modification to research space in the basement and air conditioning for the server room.

An impressive area of offices and meeting space was also developed on Level 2 for the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science.

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Executive Manager, Ms Helen Conley

Academic Staff >PROFESSORS

Head of School

Geoffrey Taylor

BSc(Hons) MSc UWA, PhD Hawaii, MAIP MAPS

Research Interests: high energy particle physics, physics beyond the Standard Model, CERN laboratory, ATLAS project, supersymmetry, Higgs boson, CP violation, GRID computing, positron emission topography, medical physics

Teaching Interests: Principles and Applications of Physics

Deputy Head of School

Raymond Volkas

BSc(Hons) PhD Melb FAIP

Research Interests: beyond the standard model, neutrinos, branes and extra dimensions, particle cosmology, particle phenomenology, early universe

Teaching Interests: Quantum mechanics

Federation Fellow

Keith Nugent

BSc(Hons) Adel, PhD ANU, FAA FAIP

Research Interests: optics, synchrotron science, x-rays, coherence, quantitative phase imaging, biophysics, protein membrane imaging

Teaching Interests: n/a

Bruce McKellar

BSc(Hons), PhD Syd, DSc Melb, FAA FInstP FAIP FAPS

Research Interests: B Physics, neutrinos, CP Violation, quantum chromodynamics, early universe, particle phenomenology, general theoretical physics.

Teaching Interests: Electromagnetism, Subatomic physics, Quantum mechanics

David Jamieson

BSc(Hons), PhD Melb, FAIP, FInst, MAPS

Research Interests: quantum computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics, diamond, silicon, ion beam physics and analysis, ion implantation, microprobes, semiconductors, charge injection in semiconductors

Teaching Interests: Advanced physics, Electromagnetic & Special relativity, Further Classical & Quantum Mechanics

Steven Prawer

BSc(Hons), PhD Monash, DSc Melb, MAIP MRS

Research Interests: quantum information processing, diamond, ion implantation, micromachining, quantum optics, quantum communication, ion beam analysis, single photon sources, qubits, nanotechnology

Teaching Interests: Sensors, Condensed Matter Physics

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Rachel Webster

BSc Monash, MSc Sussex, PhD Cantab.

Research Interests: observational and theoretical cosmology, active galactic nuclei & quasars, graviational lensing, dust, galaxies, groups & clusters, low frequency radio telescopes, epoch of reionisation, galaxy formation, eResearch

Teaching Interests: Astrophysics, Special Relativity, Life in the Universe, Climate change

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS & READERS

Les Allen

BSc(Hons), MSc Port Elizabeth, PhD Sth Africa

Research Interests: atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy, electron scattering, inner-shell ionization, phase imaging

Teaching Interests: Atomic, Molecular and Solid State Physics; Scattering & Imaging

Christopher Chantler

BSc(Hons) UWA, DPhil Oxon

Research Interests: X-ray optics, synchrotron, X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, powder diffraction, radiation shielding, atomic physics & quantum electro-dynamics, condensed matter physics

Teaching Interests: Electromagnetism & Special Relativity; Thermal Physics; Quantum Optics

Lloyd Hollenberg

BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, MAIP

Research Interests: theoretical quantum computing and information, qubit system 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

Research Interests: quaternions, octonions, non-commutative geometry, chaotic maps, guage theoretic model building, particle phenomenology

Teaching Interests: Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Field Theory; General Relativity

Robert Scholten

BSc Adelaide, BSc(Hons) PhD Flinders, MAIP, MAPS

Research Interests: atom optics, quantum optics, atomic physics, laser cooling, imaging, quantum imaging, atomic coherence, lasers

Teaching Interests: Advanced Physics, Computational Physics

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Ann Roberts

BSc(Hons) PhD Syd, MAIP

Research Interests: optics, photonics, nanophotonics, imaging, microscopy, metamaterials

Teaching Interests: Biomedical Physics, Standard Physics, Optics

Martin Sevior

BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, FAIP

Research Interests: high energy physics, quarks, anti-matter, Higgs particle, Data Grid

Teaching Interests: Quantum Mechanics; Electrodynamics

Michelle Livett

BSc(Hons) PhD LaTrobe, DipEd MCAE , MAIP

Research Interests: Physics education

Teaching Interests: Biomedical Physics

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SENIOR LECTURERS

Elisabetta Barberio

MSc Bologna, PhD Siegen

Research Interests: experimental particle physics, dark matter, cosmology, ATLAS experiment, CERN laboratory, Higgs boson, structure of the universe, origin of the mass

Teaching Interests: Principles and Applications of Physics, Particle Physics

Andrew Martin

BSc(Hons) PhD Lancaster

Research Interests: theoretical condensed matter physics, Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum Hall Effect, superfluids, superconductivity

Teaching Interests: Further classical & Quantum mechanics, Thermal Physics

Andrew Melatos

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

LECTURERS

Nicole Bell

BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

Research Interests: beyond the standard model, cosmology, neutrino physics, branes and extra dimensions, particle cosmology, particle phenomenology, early universe

Teaching Interests: Quantum Mechanics, Advanced Physics, Thermal Physics

TUTOR

James Richmond

LLB(Hons) BSc(Hons) Melb

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Dr Andy Martin

RESEARCH STAFF Senior Research Fellows

Shane Huntington, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

Harry Quiney, BSc(Hons) MSc Monash, DPhil Oxon

Paul Spizzirri, BAppSc Swinburne, MSc Melb

Steven Trpkovski, BSc(Hons) PhD VUT

Centenary Fellow

Duncan Galloway, BSc(Hons) PhD Tas

Lyle Fellow

Mark Trodden, BA(Hons) MA(Hons) MSc PhD Cantab.

Australian Research Fellow

Chanh Tran, BSc(Hons) BE, PhD Melb

Australian Postdoctoral Fellows

Nicoletta Dragomir, BSc Romania PhD VUT

Adrian Flitney, BSc(Hons) Tas, PhD Adel

Paolo Olivero, MSc PhD Torino

Patrick Reichart, PhD Munich

Research Fellows

Brian Abbey, MSc College London, MA Imperial College PhD Cantab.

Eric Ampem-Lassen, DipEd BSc MPhil Ghana, PhD Melb

David Barnes, BSc PhD Melb

Markus Bischofberger, BSc PGDip PhD Zurich

Stefania Castelletto, Laurea Turin, PhD Polytechnic Turin

Alberto Cimmino, BSc Naples MSc PhD Melb

Jared Cole, BAppSc BEng (Hons) RMIT PhD Melb

Bipin Dhal, BSc MSc Utkal, MPhil PhD India

Mark Dijkstra, BSc MSc Groningen, PhD Columbia

Scott Findlay, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

Robert Foot, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

Brant Gibson, BE PhD LaTrobe

Andrew Greentree, BSc(Hons) Adel, PhD ANU

Faruque Hossain, BSc MSc Dhaka, MEngS NSW, PhD Tokyo

Archil Kobakhidze, MSc PhD Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili

Justin Kimpton, BSc(Hons) PhD Swinburne

Marco La Rosa, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

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

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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

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 Hopkins University

Principal Fellows with the title Associate Professor

KenAmos, BSc PhD Adel DSc Melb, FAIP

Zwi Barnea, BSc MSc PolytechLNY PhD Melb, MAIP

Les Bursill, BSc DipEd Melb, PhD Monash DSc Melb

Norman Frankel, BSc MIT PhD Melb

James Jury, BSc MSc PhD Tor

Fulvio Melia, BSc(Hons) Melb, PhD MIT

Edmund Muirhead, MSc PhD Melb, MAIP

Alan Spargo, BSc PhD WA, MAIP

Maxwell Thompson, MSc PhD Melb DSc FAIP

Stuart Tovey, BA Canterbury, PhD Bristol

John Wignall, BA BSc MSc Melb, PhD Cantab.

Senior Fellows

Brendan Allman, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, DipEd Monash, MBA LaTrobe

Valery Gurarie, MSc PhD Moscow

Gareth Moorhead, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb GAIP

Graeme O'Keefe, BSc PhD Melb

Salvy Russo, BSc Melb, PhD RMIT

Fellows

Igor Andrienko, MSc PhD Russia MRACI

David Bardos, BSc PhD Melb

Catherine Buchanan, BSc(Hons) PhD ANU

Vivianne Buzzi, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb PGDipMgmt MBS

Mukunda Das, MSc PhD India

Michael Drinkwater, BSc Syd PhD Cantab.

Matthias Eberspaecher, PhD JLUGieben DipPhys

Barbara Etschmann, BSc(Hons) PhD UWA

Moshi Geso, PhD California

Steven Karataglidis, BSc MSc, AssDip Music PhD Melb

Victor Kowalenko, BSc PhD Melb

Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway, BA Belgrade BSc(Hons) NSW, PhD

Victoria Millar, BSc(Hons) DipEd MSc Melb

Andrew Peele, BSc LLB PhD Melb

Andrew Rawlinson, BSc PhD Adel

Emma Ryan-Weber, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb

Grigori Tamanyan, BSc Yerevan PhD Moscow

Maurizio Toscano, BSc(Hons) PhD DipEd Melb

Meryl Waugh, BSc(Hons) Monash DipEd TTC PhD Melb

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Assoc Prof Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona

Professional Staff >ADMINISTRATION

Ms Helen Conley, BSc Deakin DipEd Monash

Executive Manager

Mr Russell Walsh, Diploma Electronics RMIT

Finance & Resources Manager

Ms Rosslyn Ball PA/Administrator – ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science

Ms Janet Carlon

Administrator - MARC/ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum ComputerTechnology

Ms Marcia Damjanovich-Napoleon, BA UWA

Finance Officer

Dr Joanna Gajewski, BSc (Hons) PhD Melb

Business and Marketing Manager – Quantum Communications Victoria

Ms Cilla Gloger, NHDip Admin Sth Africa

Administrative Officer

Ms Helga Kendy

Reception (part-time)

Ms Tania Smith, GradCert VETiS and AdvDip Arts VUT

Chief of Operations – ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science

Mrs Julie Warden

Administrative Assistant (Finance)

Ms Kristine Philipp

PA to Head & Administrator

Ms Michelle Geil

PA to Head & Administrator

Ms Stacey Watts, BA Swinburne Certificate Community Studies VUT Executive Assistant - Quantum Communications Victoria

RESEARCH, COMMUNICATIONS & TEACHING

Mr Colin Entwisle, BSc(Hons) Melb

Teaching Administrative Officer

Ms Joanne Kuluveovski, BSc(Hons) Melb

Research & Communications Manger

Ms Kamala Lekange,

Librarian

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Mr William Belcher, BElecE Melb

Manager, IT services

Mr Timothy Dyce, BSc Melb

IT Manager

Mr Peter Fuggle

Systems Network Officer

Mr Simeon Scott

IT Support Officer

Ms Kathryn Sparks

IT Support Officer

Mr Linh Vu, BComSci Melb

Web and Database Administrator

UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORIES

Mr Nick Nicola, BAppSc RMIT

Laboratory Manager

Mr Steven Damen, BSc Ballarat

Technical Officer

Dr David Hoxley, BSc (Hons) PhD Melb

2nd and 3rd Year Laboratory Coordinator

Mr Philip Lyons

Technical Officer

Mr Jude Prezens, BAppSc RMIT

Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant

Mr Stephen Marshall, BSc DipEd

Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant

TECHNICAL CENTRE

Mr Roland Szymanski, PostgradDip Vacuum Technology, Certificate Industrial Electronics

Technical Manager

Mr Eliecer Bonilla Parra, Certificate Fitter & Turner

Technical Officer

Mr Ashley French, Certificates in Mechanical Instrumentation Making, Fitter & Turner

Technical Officer

Mr Philip Gargano

Technical Officer

Mr Stephen Gregory, BAppSc(Hons), BE Melb

Technical Officer

Mr Scott Moncrieff

Technical Officer EPP

Mr Wayne Powrie, Certificates in Toolmaking, Fitter & Turner

Senior Technical Officer

Mr Sandor Szilagyi

Senior Electronics Technician

Mr Michael Zammit, Certificate Fitter & Turner

Technical Officer

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Visitors >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


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

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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


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

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

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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

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

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Postgraduate Shannon researching nanophotonics

The School of Physics is proud of its success in competitive research grants gained predominately from the Australian Research Council. The list below represents new and current research funding awarded to the University of Melbourne in 2006 only, unless indicated otherwise.

AUSINDUSTRY

Professor Steven Prawer et al

MNRF Nanostructural Analysis

$104,625

AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION

Associate Professor Chris Chantler

XERT absolute mapping of Ni XAFS and the from factor [a]- access to the Australian National Beamline Facility, Photon Factory, Japan

$6,830


Support for access to the Australian National Beamline Facility, Photon Factory, Japan

$7,027

Dr Gareth Williams

Coherent Diffractive Imaging

$10,410

Dr Justin Kimpton

The investigation of Quantum Electro-Dynamics in Hydrogen-like Titanium with an Electron-beam Ion Trap

$7,380

Dr Duncan Galloway

Transient Radiative Winds from He-rich Thermonuclear Bursts

$5,797

Dr Chanh Tran

Phase Space Tomography

$12,145

AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING

Dr Glenn Moloney

Australian Data Grid for Experimental & Theorectical High Energy Physics

$75,015

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Professor Rachel Webster et al

Australian e-Astronomy and Astrophysics

$75,015

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL

Associate Professor Les Allen

Atomic Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy

$78,030

Dr Elisabetta Barberio

Origin of Mass (DP)

$106,995

Associate Professor Chris Chantler et al

Synchrotron Developments of new techniques in X-ray interactions with Matter, Resolving major discrepancies in Quantum Physics and Chemistry (DP)

$95,827

Dr Nicoletta Dragomir

Quantitative Polarisation Phase Microscopy: A new tool for advances in structural analysis and Biophotonics (APD)

$131,058

Dr Adrian Flitney

Quantum Decoherence: A game-theoretic perspective (APD)

$75,722

Dr Shane Huntington

Nano-Engineering of Optical Fibre Fresnel Lenses (DP)

$93,636

Professor David Jamieson et al

ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology (CoE)

$830,000


Foundational National Nanotechnology infrastructure (LE)

$162,600

Professor Keith Nugent

Development in Optical Sciences (FF)

$316,222

Professor Keith Nugent et al

Advanced X-ray Optical Systems: From Innovative Idea to Intelligent Implementation (DP)

$94,316


ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science (CoE)

$1,872,718


Non-interferometric Phase Measurement of Exotic Waves (DP)

$57,433

Dr Jeffrey McCallum et al

Fundamental implantation, epitaxy and defect studies in silicon to support ultra-shallow junction formation

$55,200

Professor Bruce McKellar

Neutrino Physics: A Window on Physics Beyond the Standard Model (DP)

$85,179

Dr Andrew Martin

Dynamics of Interacting Bose Gases/Fluids in Atomic and Condensed Matter Systems (DP)

$72,828

Dr Andrew Melatos et al

International data exchange for Global Gratitational Wave Astronomy (SRI)

$28,000


The Australian Virtual Observatory (LE)

$49,755

Dr Steven Melnikoff

E-research (MAMS)

$10,000


Diamond Based Quantum Information Processing (LX)

$25,475

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Diamond based Quantum Information Processing (DP)

$148,680

Dr James Rabeau et al

Diamond Single Photon Source (DP)

$52,020

Associate Professor Ann Roberts et al

Innovation in Photonic Device Imaging: The keystone for future technologies (DP)

$170,359

Associate Professor Ann Roberts et al

Micro-characterisation of Rare-earth-doped Optical Fibres (LX)

$11,757

Associate Professor Martin Sevior et al

The Development of Data Grids For High Energy Physics (DP)

$85,000

Associate Professor Rob Scholten et al

Quantum and Classical Imaging with light and atoms (DP)

$83,232

Professor Geoffrey Taylor et al

High Precision Silicon Pixel Detectors for High Energy Physics, Synchrotron and Medical Imaging Applications (DP)

$260,100


Support for the Australian Experimental High Energy Physics Program (LE)

$365,00


Frontier Experiments in High Energy Physics (DP)

$395,319

Dr Chanh Tran

Advancing X-ray imaging into new dimensions using Interferometry and Phase-space Tomography (ARF)

$123,810

Professor Raymond Volkas

Cosmology and Astrophysics with Neutrinos and other elementary particles (DP)

$75,406

Professor Raymond Volkas et al

Frontiers of Theorectical Particle Physics (DP)

$101,900

Professor Rachel Webster

Gravitational Lensing Probes of Quasar Structure (DP)

$79,856


Formation and Evolution in the Extragalactic Universe (DP)

$236,422


Australian membership of the international Gemini Partnership (LE)

$78,855

Dr Stuart Wyithe et al

The End of the Dark Ages of the Universe (DP)

$72,628

AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON RESEARCH PROGRAM

Dr Garth Williams

Coherent Diffractive Imaging

$12,966

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

Professor David Jamieson

Outreach Support

$2,840

COLONIAL FOUNDATION LTD

Associate Max Thompson

Dr Roger Rassool

Outreach Programme

$120,000

IATIA PTY LTD

Professor Keith Nugent

Postgraduate Stipend (Meehan)

Optics Characterisation Using Quantitative Phase Imaging

$34,975

TEXAS UNIVERSITY


Fabricating novel diamond-based materials: Quantum Optics

$90,641

UNITED STATES ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE


Quantum Computing in Diamond

$85,643


Centre for Quantum Computer Technology support of the 2nd Ion Beam Program

$105,676

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

School Support



$7,500


Support fro the Australian Experimental High Energy Physics program (LE)

$25,000


Australian membership of the International Gemini Partnership (LE)

$16,250


Foundational National Nanotechnology Infrastructure (LE)

$50,000



$50,000

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CONSULTANCIES, GENERAL

Academic Staff

Other income from private consultancies, workshop & research-related conference income

$317,888

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE & TRAINING


Australian High Energy Physics Collaboration with CERN

$17,235


Critical components for Ultra-secure Communications Systems (ISL)

$300,000


Mileura Widefield Array: Low frequency demonstrator (ISL)

$100,000


Major international conference of relevance to Synchrotron development: International symposium of Radiation Physics 11 (ISL)

$35,000

Dr Shane Huntington

Ultra High Throughput Optical Probes (ISL)

$43,101

DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT


ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science

1,200,000

Dr Shane Huntington et al

Quantum Communication Victoria - Industry Development Initiative

$1,278,919

Faculty Support

Dr Duncan Galloway

Centenary Fellowship

$3,000

Dr Shane Huntington et al

Quantum Communication Victoria - Industry Development Initiative

$200,000


Foundation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure (LE)

$50,000


ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology (CoE)

$195,000


ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science (CoE)

$300,000



$50,000



$7,500


Support fro the Australian Experimental High Energy Physics program (LE)

$25,000


Australian membership of the International Gemini Partnership (LE)

$16,250

Central Support

Dr Duncan Galloway

Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars (ECRG)

$20,000

Dr Brant Gibson et al

CSIRO Collaborative Grant (JRP)

$20,000

Dr Andrew Greentree

Towards a practical, Diamond-based Quantum and Non-linear Optical Technology (MRGS)

$30,000


Foundational National Nanotechnology Infrastructure (LE)

$195,500

Associate Professor Michelle Livett

Enhancing the teaching of Tutors and Demonstrators (LTPF)

$40,305



$15,000


Gravity Waves (JRP)

$13,200



$100,000


ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science (CoE)

$220,000

Associate Professor Rob Scholten

Classical Correlation and Quantum Entaglement in Ghost-Imaging (JRP)

$3,300

Dr Harry Quiney

Theoretical studies of interactions involving molecules and intense X-ray laster fields (MRGS)

$12,000

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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

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Research Seminar Series > 23

S h o w c a s i n g t h e e x c i t i n g c u t t i n g e d g e r e s e a r c h u n d e r t a k e n b y P h y s i c s p o s t g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s a t

t h e

Geoff Opat Seminar Series

4 : 1 5 p m - F r i d a y s d u r i n g S e m e s t e r H e r c u s T h e a t r e , P h y s i c s B u i l d i n g

F e a t u r e d t h i s w e e k , 2 7 O c t o b e r 2 0 0 6 :

Ga jendran Kandasamy" Quantum Control of Qubits"

Rabecca McFadden " U l t r a - h i g h E n e r g y N e u t r i n o D e t e c t i o n f r o m

L u n a r C e r e n k o v E m i s s i o n "

P l e a s e j o i n u s f o r d r i n k s a n d a n i n f o r m a l c h a t i n t h e s t a f f r o o m a f t e r t h e p r e s e n t a t i o n

School of Physics Colloquia

Professor John Ellis, CERN

From Little Bangs to the Big Bang (Feb 7)

Professor David Blair, Director, Australian International Gravitational Research Centre, School of Physics, University of Western Australia

Phonons, Photons and Gravitons: Challenges at the Threshold of Gravitational Wave Astronomy (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)

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

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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)

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)


Basic Functional Methods in Quantum Field Theory (Mar 14)


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)

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)


Diluting Gravity with Compact Hyperbolic Extra Dimensions (Oct 16)


Modified Gravity and Cosmic Acceleration (Oct 24)

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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

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)

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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)

School-hosted Conferences > 29

Festschrift: Prof Bruce McKellar and Assoc Prof Girish Joshi

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

Postgraduates in Progress >DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Ang, Joo Chew

Quantum computing

Aruldoss, Celine Kavida

Non-interferometric characterisation of partially coherent and scattered wavefields

Atkinson, Gerard Vincent

Commissioning of the ATLAS detector systems for the large hadron collider, and development of pixel detector systems for future collier experiments

Bate, Nicholas Frazer

Quasar microimaging

Bell, Simon Christopher

An ultrabright electron source from ultracold plasma

Bourke, Jay

Investigation of X-ray absorption fine structure: Development of theoretical models to describe interactions between X-rays and solid state/atomic systems

Chung, Christine Tsung Yi

Correlating the electromagnetic and gravitational wave signals

from accreting neutron stars

Coulthurst, Andrew

The phenomenology of the physics of extra dimensions

Cole, Jared H

Theoretical and computational investigation of a type-II quantum computer

Crosby, Sean Christopher

New directions in ghost imaging

D’Alfonso, Adrian John

Depth sectioning in the scanning transmission electron microscope

Daniel, Scott Arthur

Reverberation mapping of bright quasars

Davidson, Nadia May

Search for supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector at LHC

Dalseno, Jeremy P

Using B- D* + D*- Ks to measure cos 2ϕ1

Demaria, Alison

Extensions of standard model

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Postgraduate group 2006

Lau, Deborah

Raman analysis of artists’ pigments and media

Law, Sandy Sheung Che

Studies in particle cosmology

Lydon, Jennifer M

Monte Carlo characterisation of narrow photon fields for intensity modulated radiotherapy

Martin, Andrew Vincent

Determining wave fields from intensity measurements

Mastrano, Alpha

Superfluid hydrodynamics in neutron stars

McFadden, Rebecca Angela

Advanced algorithms for the detection of the EOR signal

Melchiori, Adrian Guthrie

Star formation

Miles, Elaine Robyn

Phase imaging in a scattering medium

Morley, Anthony Keith

Studies in high energy physics with ATLAS

Orbons, Shannon Michael

Fabrication of photonic structures using ion implantation.

Peralta, Carlos A

Superfluidity in neutron stars

Rab, Masum

Dynamics of dilute gas Bose Einstein condensates

Rae, Nicholas

Absolute measurement of XAFS and atomic form factors

Sidiroglou, Fotios

Microscopic characterisation of rare earth doped optical fibres

Singh, Swati

Luminosity function of radio loud quasars

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Devitt, Simon John

Quantum algorithm development

Doukas, Jason Andrew

Higher dimensional physics

Dusza, Andrew

Physics of higher dimension

Evans, Zachary William Ede

Solid state quantum computing

Filewood, Greg

A theoretical study of the dark sector of nature

Flewett,Samuel

Experimental investigations in wavefield recovery

Fraser, Paul Raymond

A multi-channel algebraic scattering theory and predictions

Gassull, Daniel

Materials issues in quantum computing

George, Damien Peter

Higher dimensional membrane world models

Glover, Jack Leigh

Experimental and theoretical investigation of X-ray mass-attenuation coefficients

Henderson, Clare Anne

Astigmatic phase retrieval of an optical vortex

Hopf, Toby Felix

Single ion implantation for construction of a quantum computer

Kandasamy, Gajendran

Quantum computation

Kazi, Sandor I

Studies in high energy physics

Langford, Sally Victoria

Earth: A prototype extra-solar planet

Smale, Lucas Francis

Experimental tests of QED in medium Z elements

Sobott, Bryn Alexander

An innovative pixel detector for x-rays

Srbinovsky, Jhan Aleksander

Ionized bubbles at the end of cosmic reionization

Stavrias, Nikolas

Measurement of wavefunction overlap of phosporous donors in silicon

Stephens, Ashley Martyn

Fault tolerant quantum computation

Takau, Viliami Tulikihakaulahi

A measurement of the near-threshold cross section on proton

Testolin, Matthew James

Quantum computation and device modelling

Tettamanzi, Giuseppe Carlo

Nanoscale superconducting electronics

Tse, Yun Fai

Study of B-pII in the Belle experiment

Urquijo, Phillip

Measurement of the CKM elements Vcb and Vcb with inclusive semileptonic B decays at the Belle experiment

Vigelius, Matthias

Compact objects as sources and detectors of gravity waves

Villis, Byron John

A defect study of MOS devices

Wedd, Robin Heathcote

Investigation of B meson decay

Whitehead, Lachlan William

High resolution imaging using partially coherent radiation

Witte, Christopher

Atomic resolution imaging and spectroscopy

Wolfe, Brandon

Two-temperature accretion plasmas

Wong, Oiwei Ivy

Neutral Hydrogen, star formation and the galaxy evolution of the Local Universe

MASTERS DEGREE BY RESEARCH

Fairchild, Barbara Anne

Micro-machining of diamond devices

Goh, Xiao Ming

Tomographic phase imaging of biological cells

Goldby, John Paul

Chaos in open quantum systems

Islam, M Tauhidul

Analysis of scattering processes in X-ray absorption fine structure and form factors

Jones, Gareth Rhys

Development of a novel position emission tomography quantitative non-invasive arterial monitor

Kidwani, Nader Maurice

Breaking of CP and CPT symmetries

Meehan, Alaster John

Optic characterisation using quantitative phase imaging

Martini, Berin

The effect of surface reconstruction on the growth of Aluminium Nitride by Pulsed Laser Depositions

Pyke, Daniel J

Phase separation of hydrogen in amorphous silicon

Makin, Melissa

On the one-dimensional Bose gas

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Theses Passed >We congratulate the following students who completed theses.

POSTGRADUATE THESES

Cosgriff, Eireann Catherine

Theory and computations of atomic-cluster or wave functions for X-ray absorption near-edge structures

Masters by Research, 21 November 2006

Mastrano, Alpha

Superfluid instabilities and pulsar glitches

Masters by Research, 1 June 2006

Smith, Leighton John

A proof-of-principle design of a non-invasive arterial activity monitor

Masters by Research, 27 April 2006

Stenborg, Travis Nathan

Planetary lagrange point dynamics and Trojan asteroid Evolution

Masters by Research, 15 November 2006

Arhatari, Benedicta Dewi

High resolution phase contrast x-ray radiography

Doctor of Philosophy, 29 June 2006

Lay, Matthew

Defect studies of ion implanted silicon and silicon-dioxide for semiconductor devices

Doctor of Philosophy, 28 July 2006

Low, Catherine Isbell

Neutrino family symmetries and the quartification gauge group

Doctor of Philosophy, 21 November 2006

Maguire, Luke Patrick

Focussing of an atomic beam using a TEM01 mode lens

Doctor of Philosophy, 31 October 2006

Mancuso, Adrian Paul

Experimental phase retrieval using coherent x-ray diffraction

Doctor of Philosophy, 11 May 2006

McDonald, Kristian Lee

Topics in neutrino physics and five dimensional quark-lepton symmetric models

Doctor of Philosophy, 14 September 2006

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Academic and senior executive staff conferring at the 150th anniversary celebrations

Ouniewicz, Ivona

Construction and analysis of a simplified many-body neutrino model

Doctor of Philosophy, 11 May 2006

Scott, Rebecca Jayn

A precise measurement of the half-life of the Fermi beta-decay of 26m Al

Doctor of Philosophy, 22 December 2006

Waugh, Meryl

Neutral hydrogen in Fornax and Eridanus: blind basketweaving for beginners

Doctor of Philosophy, 16 March 2006

HONOURS PROJECTS

Peter Caradonna

Investigating the properties of hydrogen retardation on solid phase epitaxy rates in the presence of implanted B and As dopants in amorphous silicon

Supervisor: Dr Jeff McCallum (MARC)

Ivan Corro

Simulation of votices in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

Supervisor: Dr Andrew Martin (TCMP)

Will Davey

Electron track fitting in the ATLAS detector

Supervisor: Prof Geoff Taylor (EPP)

Rhys Davies

Localisation of fields to domain walls

Supervisor: Prof Ray Volkas ( TPP)

Anita Dow

Analytic solution for the birfurcation point of the velocity of a rotating, dipolar Bose Einstein condensate leading to vortex lattice formation

Supervisor: Dr Andy Martin (TCMP)

Amy Dowler

Survey of the neutral higgs through the Tau-Lepton channel at ATLAS

Supervisor: Dr Elisabetta Barberio (EPP)

Paul Geil

Observations of 21cm emission from quasar HII regions

Supervisor: Dr Stuart Wyithe (Astro)

Shaun Gladman

A (4) flavour symmetry scheme for quark and lepton mixing angles

Supervisor: Prof Ray Volkas (TPP)

John Haasz

Waves in stratified helium-3

Supervisor: Dr Andrew Melatos (Astro)

Anna Hayton

In search of the “red edge”

Supervisor: Dr Stuart Wyithe (Astro)

Daniel Heywood

Phase locking using electromagnetically induced transparency

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Rob Scholten (Optics)

Lenneke Jong

Quantum charge transport in counted-atom silicon devices

Supervisor: Prof David Jamieson (MARC)

Darren King

Diffractive imaging using a curved wavefront

Supervisor: Prof Keith Nugent (Optics)

Vivien Lee

Motion blurring in PET imaging

Supervisor: Dr Roger Rassool (EPP)

Clement Ng

Tag variable-based continuum suppression in b → dγSupervisor: Assoc Prof Martin Sevior (EPP)

David Peake

Fill pattern monitor at the Australian Synchrotron

Supervisor: Dr Roger Rassool (EPP)

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Anna Phan

Detection of a light top squark with ATLAS

Supervisor: Dr Elisabetta Barberio (EPP)

Sabastian Saliba

Magnetic field stability of an accreting neutron star


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 cold atoms

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Rob Scholten (Optics)

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


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


James Quach

Correlations and kinetic equations for model interacting neutrino systems

Supervisor: Prof Bruce McKellar (TPP)

Ranjan Singh

Simulation of a single proton source for use in quantum key distribution networks Supervisor:

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Lloyd Hollenberg (MARC)

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Honours group 2006

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ASTROPHYSICS

PROF RACHEL WEBSTER

The Astrophysics group has had a particularly successful year with strong recognition of its research and research training program.

Dr Stuart Wyithe was awarded the Woodward medal of the University of Melbourne for the most significant research achievements in the past year in science and engineering. This award, following the Research Award from the Dean of Science earlier in the year, was a major achievement for an early career researcher. Stuart continued his very productive studies of the ‘dark ages’ and luminous sources at the time of the Epoch of Reionisation.

Dr Andrew Melatos has built a strong group of postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows working on his models of gravitational waves from accreting neutron stars. In addition, 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.

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

At the end of 2006, the Melbourne group and its Australian collaborators were awarded an ARC LIEF grant to start the construction of the Low Frequency radio array in WA. This project was also strongly supported by NCRIS. With collaborators, MIT, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Raman Research Institute, the group is gearing up to start construction in the latter part of 2007.

The Melbourne group continued to support the Australian Virtual Observatory, with Dr Catherine Manson completing her work in late 2006.

One PhD was awarded in the group in 2006: Dr Meryl Waugh. In addition, two MSc degrees were completed: Travis Stenborg and Alpha Mastrano. Alpha achieved a very high score for his thesis and was subsequently awarded an IPRS scholarship.

The group published 23 refereed papers in 2006.

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Publications for 2006 include:

Briggs FH & Barnes D."H I 21 cm observations of the PG 1216+069 sub-damped Lyα absorber field at z = 0.00632" Astrophysical Journal 640: L127-L130 (2006)

Dijkstra M, Haiman Z & Spaans M. "Lyα radiation from collapsing protogalaxies. I. Characteristics of the emergent spectrum" Astronomical Journal 649: 14-36 (2006)

Dijkstra M, Haiman Z & Spaans M. "Lyα radiation from collapsing protogalaxies. II. Observational evidence for gas infall" Astronomical Journal 649: 37-47 (2006)

Dijkstra M & Wyithe J."Lyα constraints on very low luminosity active galactic nuclei" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 372: 1575-1584 (2006)

Gallo LC, Edwards PG, Ferrero E, Kataoka J, Lewis DR, Ellingsen SP, Misanovic Z, Welsh WF, Whiting M, Boller Th, Brinkmann W, Greenhill J & Oshlack AYKN. "The spectral energy distribution of PKS 2004-447: a compact steep-spectrum source and possible radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 370: 245-254 (2006)

Galloway D & Cumming A. "Helium-rich thermonuclear bursts and the distance to the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4—3658" Astrophysical Journal 652: 559-568 (2006)

Galloway D, Psaltis D, Muno MP & Chakrabarty D. "Eddington-limited x-ray bursts as distance indicators. II. Possible compostional effects in bursts from 4U 1636—536" Astrophysical Journal 639: 1033-1038 (2006)

Hanish DJ, Meurer GR, Ferguson HC, Zwaan MA, Heckman TM, Staveley-Smith L, Bland-Hawthorn J, Kilborn VA, Koribalski B, Putman ME, Ryan-Weber EV, Oey MS, Kennicutt Jr RC, Knezek PM, Meyer M, Smith RC, Webster R, Dopita MA, Doyle MT, Drinkwater MJ, Freeman KC & Werk J."The survey for ionization in neutral gas galaxies. II. The star formation rate density of the local universe" Astrophysical Journal 649: 150-162 (2006)

Meurer GR, Hanish DJ, Ferguson HC, Knezek PM, Kilborn VA, Putman ME, Smith RC, Koribalski B, Meyer M, Oey MS, Ryan-Weber EV, Zwaan MA, Heckman TM, Kennicutt Jr RC, Lee JC, Webster R, Bland-Hawthorn J, Dopita MA, Freeman KC, Doyle MT, Drinkwater MJ, Staveley-Smith L & Werk J. "The survey for ionization in neutral gas galaxies. I. Description and initial results." Astrophysical Journal 165: 307-337 (2006)

Payne DJB & Melatos A. "Frequency spectrum of gravitational radiation from global hydromagnetic oscillations of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star" Astrophysical Journal 641: 471-478 (2006)

Payne D & Melatos A. "Magnetic burial and the harmonic content of millisecond oscillations in thermonuclear x-ray bursts" Astrophysical Journal 652: 597-602 (2006)

Peralta CA, Melatos A, Giacobello M & Ooi A. "Gravitational radiation from nonaxisymmetric spherical couette flow in a neutron star." Astrophysical Journal 644: L53-L56 (2006)

Peralta CA, Melatos A, Giacobello M & Ooi A. "Transitions between turbulent and laminar superfluid vorticity states in the outer core of a neutron star" Astrophysical Journal 651: 1079-1091 (2006)

Wayth R & Webster R. "LENSVIEW: software for modelling resolved gravitational lens images" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 372: 1187-1207 (2006)

Whiting MT, Webster R & Francis PJ. "Multi-object spectroscopy of the field surrounding PKS 2126-158: discovery of a z = 0.66 galaxy group" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 368: 341-350 (2006)

Wong OI, Meurer GR, Bekki K, Hanish DJ, Kennicutt RC, Bland-Hawthorn J, Ryan-Weber EV, Koribalski B, Kilborn VA, Putman ME, Heiner JS, Webster R, Allen RJ, Dopita MA, Doyle MT, Drinkwater MJ, Ferguson hc, Freeman KC, Heckman TM, Hoopes C, Knezek PM, Meyer MJ, Oey MS, Seibert M, Smith RC, Staveley-Smith L, Thilker D, Werk J & Zwaan MA. "NGC922 - a new drop-through ring galaxy" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 370: 1607-1611 (2006)

Wong OI, Ryan-Weber E, Garcia-Appadoo DA, Webster R, Staveley-Smith L, Zwaan MA, Meyer MJ, Barnes D, Kilborn VA, Bhathal R, De Blok WJG, Disney MJ, Doyle MT, Drinkwater MJ, Ekers RD, Freeman KC, Gibson BK, Gurovich S, Harnett J, Henning PA, Jerjen H, Kesteven MJ, Knezek PM, Koribalski B, Mader S, Marquarding M, Michin RF, O’Brien J, Putman ME, Ryder SD, Sadler EM, Stevens J, Stewart IM, Stootman F & Waugh M. "The Northern HIPASS catalogue - data presentation, completeness and reliability measures" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 371: 1855-1864 (2006)

Wyithe J."A log-quadratic relation between the nuclear black hole masses and velocity dispersions of galaxies" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 365: 1082-1098 (2006)

Wyithe J & Loeb A. "Cosmic variance in the transparency of the intergalactic medium after reionization" Astronomical Journal 646: 696-702 (2006)

Wyithe J & Loeb A. "Suppression of dwarf galaxy formation by cosmic reionization" Nature 441: 322-324 (2006)

Wyithe J & Padmanaban T. "What does the quasar luminosity function tell us about supermassive black hole evolution?" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 372: 1681-1691 (2006)

Wyithe J & Padmanabhan T. "Properties of high-redshift quasars - I. Evolution of the supermassive black hole to halo mass ratio" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 366: 1029-1036 (2006)

O’Dowd M & Urry CM. "Host galaxy evolution in radio-loud AGN" New Astronomy Reviews 50: 789-791 (2006)

The academics of the EPP group are Elisabetta Barberio, Roger Rassool, Geoff Taylor and myself. Our activities span Experimental Particle Physics, detector development, computing grid development and Science Education outreach. The cornerstones of our research are the ATLAS and Belle experiments at CERN in Switzerland and KEK in Japan respectively. In 2006 we secured funding for the next 4 years to continue this research through a series of grants from the ARC and DEST.

ATLAS

ATLAS is an experiment designed to study Electroweak symmetry breaking in the energy regime above 100 GeV via observing proton collisions at 14 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. Substantial progress on both the construction of the LHC and the ATLAS experiment was achieved in 2006. A large fraction of the ATLAS experiment was installed in the underground cavity around the LHC collision point and succeeded in fully reconstructing cosmic ray tracks which span the entire detector. These are currently being employed for detector calibration.

The EPP group completed the installation of Patch Panel-3 signal conditioning boards in 2006. We also invested substantial effort on software tasks. These include: electron track reconstruction, electromagnetic calorimeter calibration, detector alignment and data analysis. Within the data-analysis effort, we are working in the Higgs to tau tau, Higgs to four electrons and the search for SUSY groups. Tom Atkinson also submitted his PhD thesis in this area.

Belle

Belle is a experiment at the KEK asymmetric electron-positron accelerator which provides the world highest luminosity collider used to make copious numbers of B-mesons in a clean environment. Belle has made numerous discoveries since it commenced data collection in 1999, including the observation of CP violation in B-meson decays, the first such measurement outside the neutral kaon system.

The Physics highlights of 2006 from Belle are world’s first measurement of the purely leptonic decay, B→τν and an improved analysis of the rare decay B→dγ . The B→τν decay mode is sensitive to the fundamental parameter of the Standard Model, |Vub| and to New Physics beyond the Standard Model. The new analysis of rare decay B→dγ significantly reduces the uncertainty

on its branching ratio. The result is nicely complementary to the recent measurement of Bs mixing at the CDF experiment at Fermilab.

Within the Australian group, Dr Elisabetta Barberio, from the University of Melbourne, organised a workshop on |Vxb| analyses from B-meson decays in Melbourne in February 2006. This was attended by about 20 world experts who studied the prospects for improvements in the experimental measurements and theoretical interpretation of studies sensitive to |Vub| and |Vcb|. Phillip Urquijo made presentation to the prestigious 23rd International Conference on High energy Physics. "Moments of the electron energy spectrum and partial branching fraction of /// decays at Belle". In which he presented our work to make the world’s most precise measurement of the fundamental Standard Model parameter, |Vcb|. Jeremy Dalseno also submitted his PhD thesis.

Grid Computing

When ATLAS begins operation in late 2007 it will produce roughly 15 million gigabytes of data per year, equivalent to 3 million DVDs or 1% of the total global digital information output. The Worldwide LHC Computing grid (WLCG) is a massive, distributed, international computing infrastructure designed to enable analysis of this enormous data set. It coordinates and shares processing power, data, applications and network resources from many thousands of linked computers. The EPP group has played a leading role in the development of grid in Australia and have deployed a grid infrastructure across 300 computers at 5 facilities in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. In 2006 we developed a prototype Tier 2 site which has been incorporated into the WLCG computing grid. The WLCG itself has become a real working system which processes over 50,000 jobs per day.

Instrumentation

The EPP group has been involved in the commissioning of the Australian Synchrotron through the development of extremely high speed photon detectors, the PILATUS pixel silicon detectors via collaboration with Christian Broennimann and his group from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland and PET detector developments in collaboration with the University of Wollongong and the Austin Hospital.

EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS (EPP)

ASSOC PROF MARTIN SEVIOR

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Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. "Colour reconnection in e+e- → W+W- at √s = 189-209 GeV" European Physical Journal C 45: 291-305 (2006)

Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. "Determination of αs using jet rates at LEP with the OPAL detector" European Physical Journal C 45: 547-568 (2006)

Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. "Measurement of the mass and width of the W boson" European Physical Journal C 45: 307-335 (2006)

Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. "Measurement of the running of the QED coupling in small-angle Bhabha scattering at LEP" European Physical Journal C 45: 1-21 (2006)

Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. "Measurement of the strong coupling αs from four-jet observables in e+e- annihilation" European Physical Journal C 47: 295-307 (2006)

Abbiendi G, Barberio L & Zivkovic L. 2006. "Searches for gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking topologies in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies up to √s = 209 GeV" European Physical Journal C 46: 307-341 (2006)

Abbiendi G, Moloney G & Zivkovic L. "QCD coherence and correlations of particles with restricted momenta in hadronic Z decays" Physics Letters B 638: 30-38 (2006)

Abdesselam A, Lindsay SW, Moorhead G, Taylor G & Wolter M. "The barrel modules of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 568: 642-671 (2006)

Abe K, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Study of B± → DCPK± and D*CPK± decays" Physical Review D 73 (5): 11061-11066 (2006)

Aharrouche M, Barberio L & Tayalati Y. "Energy linearity and resolution of the ATLAS electromagnetic barrel calorimeter in an electron test-beam" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 568: 601-623 (2006)

Aihara H, Dalseno JP, Dowd RT, Moloney G, Taylor G & Zontar D. "Belle SVD2 vertex detector" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 568: 269-273 (2006)

Ankowski A, Bischofberger M & Zalewska A "Characterization of ETL 9357FLA photomultiplier tubes for cryogenic temperature applications" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 556: 146-157 (2006)

Blyth S, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G,

Taylor G & Zhang ZP. "Improved measurements of color-suppressed decays B¯0 → D0π0, D0η, D0ω, D*0π0, D*0η and D*0ω " Physical Review D 74 (9): 20021-200210 (2006)

Chistov R, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G & Zhang ZP. "Observation of new states decaying into Λc+K-π+ and Λc+K0

sπ-" Physical Review Letters 97 (16): 20011-20016 (2006)

Chistov R, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G & Zhilich V. "Observation of B+ → Ξover-barocΛ+c and evidence for B0 → Ξover-bar-cΛ+c" Physical Review D 74 (11): 11051-11055 (2006)

Chukanov A, Challis RA, Kent NJM, Hyett N, Moorhead G, Poulsen C, Sevior M, Taylor G, Tovey S, Winton L & Zuccon P. "Production properties of K*(892)± vector mesons and their spin alignment as measured in the NOMAD experiment" European Physical Journal C 46: 69-79 (2006)

Denz H, Amaudruz P, Brack JT, Breitschopf J, Camerini P, Clark J, Clement H, Felawka L, Fragiacomo E, Gibson EF, Grion N, Hofman GJ, Jamieson B, Mathie EL, Meier R, Moloney G, Ottewell D, Patarakin O, Patterson JD, Pavan MM, Piano S, Raywood K, Ristinen RA, Rui R, Sevior M, Smith GR, Stahov J, Tacik R, Wagner GJ, Von Wrochem F & Yeomans DM. "π±p differential cross sections at low energies" Physics Letters B 633: 209-213 (2006)

Dragic J, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of branching fraction and direct CP asymmetry in B0 → p0π0

decays" Physical Review D 73 (11): 11051-11056 (2006)

Fang F, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Search for the hc meson in B± → hcK±" Physical Review D 74 (1): 20071-20077 (2006)

Friedl M, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Taylor G & Ziegler T. "Belle silicon vertex detector for the super B factory" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 569: 37-40 (2006)

Gabyshev N, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhang ZP. "Observation of B+ → Λc+Λc¯K+ and B0 → Λc+Λc¯K0 decays" Physical Review Letters 97 (20): 20031-20035 (2006)

Garmash A, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Evidence for large direct CP violation in B± → ρ(770)0K± from analysis of three-body charmless B± → K±π±π± decays" Physical Review Letters 96 (25): 18031-18036.

Gokhroo G, Dalseno JP, Moloney G & Zhilich V. "Observation of a near-threshold D0D¯0π0

enhancement in B → D0D¯0π0K decay" Physical Review Letters 97 (16): 20021-20025 (2006)

Ikado K, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G & Zurcher D. "Evidence of the purely leptonic decay B- →τ-V-τ" Physical Review Letters 97 (25): 18021-

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18026 (2006)

Inami K, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zupanc A. "First observation of the decay τ- → ϕK-ντ." Physics Letters B 643: 5-10 (2006)

Ishikawa A, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhang ZP. "Measurement of forward-backward asymmetry and Wilson coefficients in B → K*l+l-" Physical Review Letters 96 (25): 18011-18016 (2006)

Jen C-M, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zupanc A. "Improved measurements of branching fractions and CP partial rate asymmetries for B → ωK and B → ωπ." Physical Review D 74 (11): 11011-11016 (2006)

Krokovny P, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Measurement of the quark mixing parameter cos2ϕ1 using time-dependent Dalitz analysis of B¯0 → D[K0

s π+π-]h0" Physical Review Letters 97 (8): 18011-18016.

Kumar R, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Taylor G & Zupanc A. "Observation of B± → χc1π± and search for direct CP violation" Physical Review D 74 (5): 11031-11036 (2006)

Miyazaki Y, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Search for lepton and baryon number violating τ- decays into Λ¯π- and Λπ-." Physics Letters B 632: 51-57 (2006)

Miyazaki Y, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Search for lepton flavor violating τ- decays with a K0

s meson" Physics Letters B 639: 159-164 (2006)

Mizuk R, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Search for the θ(1540)+ pentaquark using kaon secondary interactions at Belle" Physics Letters B 632: 173-180 (2006)

Mohapatra D, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Observation of b → dγ and determination of |Vtd /Vts|" Physical Review Letters 96 (22): 16011-16015 (2006)

Nakano E, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Urquijo P & Zontar D. "Charge asymmetry of same-sign dileptons in B0 — B0 mixing" Physical Review D 73 (11): 20021-200213 (2006)

Natkaniec Z, Dalseno JP, Dowd RT, Moloney G, Taylor G & Zontar D. "Status of the Belle silicon vertex detector" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accel Spectrom Detect & Assoc Equip 560: 1-4 (2006)

Poluektov A, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of ϕ3 with a Dalitz plot analysis of B+ → D(*)K(*)+ decay" Physical Review D 73 (11): 20091-200916 (2006)

Ronga FJ, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of CP violation in B0 → D*-π+ and B0 → D- π+ decays" Physical Review D 73 (9): 20031-200317 (2006)

Schael S, Barberio L & Weiglein G. "Search for

neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP" European Physical Journal C 47: 547-587 (2006)

Schumann J, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Evidence for B → η’π improved measurements for B → η’K" Physical Review Letters 97 (6): 18021-18026 (2006)

Seidl R, Moloney G, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries in inclusive production of Hadron pairs in e+e- annihilation at Belle" Physical Review Letters 96 (23): 20021-20026 (2006)

Seuster R, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Charm hadrons from fragmentation and B decays in e+e- annihilation at √s = 10.6 GeV" Physical Review D 73 (3): 20021-200222 (2006)

Sevior M. "Considerations for nuclear power in Australia" International Journal of Environmental Studies 63 (6): 859-872 (2006)

Somov A, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Measurement of the branching fraction, polarization and CP asymmetry for B0 →p+p- decays, and determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa phase ϕ2" Physical Review Letters 96 (17): 18011-18016 (2006)

Soni N, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V."Measurement of branching fractions for B → χc1(2)K(K*) at Belle"" Physics Letters B 634: 155-164 (2006)

Taylor G. "Australia: host for a nuclear waste storage site? International Journal of Environmental Studies 63 (6): 873-881 (2006)

Ushiroda Y, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Moloney G, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zupanc A. "Time-dependent CP asymmetries in B0 → K0

sπ0γ transitions" Physical Review D 74 (11): 11041-11046 (2006)

Venugopal S, Buyya R & Winton L. "A grid service broker for scheduling e-Science applications on global data grids" Concurrency and Computation-Practice and Experience 18: 685-699 (2006)

Villa S, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhilich V. "Observation of a χ’c2 candidate in γγ → DD- production at Belle" Physical Review Letters 96 (8): 20031-20036 (2006)

Villa S, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Search for the decay B0 → γγ" Physical Review D 73 (5): 11071-11075 (2006)

Widhalm L, Barberio L, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zurcher D. "Measurement of D0 → πlν(Klν) form factors and absolute branching fractions" Physical Review Letters 97 (6): 18041-18046 (2006)

Wu C-H, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G, Urquijo P & Zhang ZP. "Study of J/Ψ → ρρ¯, ΛΛ¯ and observation of ηc → ΛΛ¯ at Belle" Physical Review Letters 97 (16): 20031-20036 (2006)

Yusa Y, Dalseno JP, Taylor G & Zhang ZP. "Search for neutrinoless decays τ → lhh and τ → lV0" Physics Letters B 640: 138-144 (2006)

Zhang LM, Dalseno JP, Sevior M, Taylor G,

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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

View of toroidal magnets in the Linear Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland

The Microanalytical Research Centre (MARC) is a member of the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. The Centre aims to position Australia as a leader in quantum computer technology, a field which will play a crucial role in the future of information technology. MARC is also a partner in the Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation (NANO) which is a Major National Research Facility. In addition to these major national consortia MARC houses an emerging international program on quantum diamond which has spun out Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) thanks to a grant from the State Government of Victoria. We also enjoy a close collaboration with Applied Physics at RMIT, the Australian National University and other research groups worldwide.

Together with Lloyd Hollenberg, his theory team and our partners in the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, we made several important breakthroughs in 2006 with the quantum computer project. We successfully produced a new class of quantum dots using a self-aligned process based on ion implantation to produce both the dots and the leads used for control. This was an important milestone because it showed our ability to fabricate, control and analyse devices based on single electrons. Our work on these devices was published in several papers in Applied Physics Letters , Nanotechnology etc. We have also continued to develop the method of implanting single atoms into silicon and one of our students (Toby Hopf) spent several months at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California installing this equipment on their ion beam system. Other students spend extended stays in laboratories in Europe and the USA where they worked on different devices containing single atoms implanted in Melbourne.

In the diamond research project we concluded a long study on the most important aspect of diamond as a promising material for microelectronic devices: the transport of electric 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 this was published in the Journal of Applied

Physics . Our work , on making micro- and nano-scale gadgets in diamond also attracted a lot of attention. This work, which uses a highly unusual method based on focused ion beams to carve complicated devices from diamond, has applications to the development of sources of single photons for secure communication systems and quantum information processing. Some of these applications were described in a major international review prepared by Andrew Greentree .

Work on the quantum computer project also kept the group in very high demand for presentations at conferences and workshops during 2006. Many of our staff and students gave talks on their work at the first International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2006 (ICONN2006) and the 17th Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, both held in Brisbane in July and December 2006. Our work also formed the topic on several public lectures given by our personnel at various places around Australia. Our personnel were also in high demand by other institutions. The end of 2006 saw several of our postdoctoral staff leave to take up permanent appointments at other Institutions and Universities in Australia: Jim Rabeau to Macquarie University, Chris Pakes to LaTrobe University and Sergey Rubanov to Bio21.

We look forward to many new upgrades to our facilities in 2007. These include a significant enhancement in our abilities to make our own devices based on our ion beam physics expertise with the arrival of a mask aligner and e-beam evaporator into our clean rooms as well as a significant development of our quantum measurement capabilities with a new cryogenic low temperature measurement system. We are grateful to the ARC for providing funds for this new equipment. We are also grateful to the School of Physics for the extensive renovation of our office space in 2006. This has created a very comfortable environment for all our staff and students.

MICRO-ANALYTICAL RESEARCH CENTRE (MARC)

ARC Centre for Quantum Computer Technology

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Prof Steven Prawer and Prof David Jamieson


Hollenberg L, Wellard C & Greentree A. "Computational modeling of donor-based quantum computer architectures in silicon" In Retih M & Schommers W (eds), Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology Volume 3. Valencia, United States: American Scientific Publishers, pp. 49-112.

Alves A, Reichart P, Siegele R, Johnston PN & Jamieson D. "Ion beam lithography using single ions" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 730-733 (2006)

Buehler TM, Chan V, Ferguson AJ, Dzurak AS, Hudson FE, Reilly DJ, Hamilton AR, Clark RG, Jamieson D, Yang C, Pakes C & Prawer S. "Controlled single electron transfer between Si:P dots" Applied Physics Letters 88 (19): 21011-21013 (2006)

Chan VC, Buehler TM, Ferguson AJ, Mccamey DR, Reilly DJ, Dzurak AS, Clark RG, Yang C & Jamieson D. "Ion implanted Si:P double dot with gate tunable interdot coupling" Journal of Applied Physics 100 (10): 61041-61043 (2006)

Cimmino A & Klein A. "Progress towards a high-precision Aharanov-Casher experiment with neutrons highlighting its topological nature" Physica B 385-386: 1392-1394 (2006)

Cole JH, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Precision characterization of two-qubit Hamiltonians via entanglement mapping" Journal of Physics A - Mathematical and General 39: 14649-14659 (2006)

Cole JH, Greentree A, Oi KL, Schirmer SG, Wellard C & Hollenberg L. "Identifying a two-state Hamiltonian in the presence of decoherence" Physical Review A 73 (6): 23331-23338 (2006)

Devitt SJ, Cole JH & Hollenberg L. "Scheme for direct measurement of a general two-qubit Hamiltonian" Physical Review A 73 (5): 23171-23175 (2006)

Devitt SJ, Fowler A & Hollenberg L. "Robustness of Shor’s algorithm" Quantum Information & Computation 6 (7): 616-629 (2006)

Dollinger G, Bergmaier A, Hauptner A, Dietzel S, Drexler GA, Greubel C, Hable V, Reichart P, Kruchen R, Cremer T & Friedl AA. "Hydrogen microscopy and analysis of DNA repair using focused high energy ion beams" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 270-277 (2006)

Dragomir N, Ampem-Lassen E, Baxter GW, Pace P, Huntington S, Farrell PM, Stevenson AJ & Roberts A. "Analysis of changes in optical fibers during arc-fusion splicing by use of quantitative phase imaging" Microscopy Research and Technique 69: 847-851 (2006)

Fardin EA, Holland AS, Ghorbani K & Reichart P. "Enhanced tunability of magnetron sputtered Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films on C-plane sapphire substrates" Applied Physics Letters 89 (2): 29011-29013 (2006)

Fletcher NH, Hollenberg L, Smith J, Tarnopolsky AZ & Wolfe J. "Vocal tract resonances and the sound of the Australian didjeridu (yidaki) II. Theory" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119 (2): 12051-12059 (2006)

Furman SA, Scholes FH, Hughes AE, Jamieson D, Macrae CM & Glenn AM. "Corrosion in artificial defects II. Chromate reactions" Corrosion Science 48: 1827-1847 (2006)

Gaebel T, Domhan M, Popa I, Wittmann C, Neumann P, Jelezko F, Rabeau J, Stavrias N, Greentree A, Prawer S, Meijer J, Twamley J, Hemmer PR & Wrachtrup J. "Room-temperature coherent coupling of single spins in diamond" Nature Physics 2: 408-413 (2006)

Gaebel T, Domhan M, Wittmann C, Popa I, Jelezko F, Rabeau J, Greentree A, Prawer S, Trajkov E, Hemmer PR & Wrachtrup J. "Photochromism in single nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond" Applied Physics B 82: 243-246 (2006)

Greentree A, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Quantum-information transport to multiple receivers" Physical Review A 73 (3): 23191-23195 (2006)

Greentree A, Olivero P, Draganski M, Trajkov E, Rabeau J, Reichart P, Gibson B, Rubanov S, Huntington S, Jamieson D & Prawer S. "Critical components for diamond-based quantum coherent devices" Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter 18: S825-S842 (2006)

Greentree A, Salzman J, Prawer S & Hollenberg L. "Quantum gate for Q switching in monolithic photonic-band-gap cavities containing two-level atoms" Physical Review A 73 (1): 38181-38186 (2006)

Greentree A, Tahan C, Cole JH & Hollenberg L. "Quantum phase transitions of light" Nature Physics 2: 856-861 (2006)

Griffith EJ, Ralph JF, Greentree A & Clark TD. "Spectroscopy of a Cooper-pair box in the Autler-Townes configuration" Physical Review B 74 (9): 45101-451011 (2006)

Gurarie V, Otsuka PH, Jamieson D & Prawer S."Crack-arresting compression layers produced by ion implantation" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 242: 421-423 (2006)

Hearne S, Trajkov E, Jamieson D, Butler JE & Prawer S. "The role of charge trapping at grain boundaries on charge transport in polycrystalline chemical vapor deposited diamond based detectors" Journal of Applied Physics 99 (11): 37031-37038 (2006)

Hollenberg L, Greentree A, Fowler A & Wellard C. "Two-dimensional architectures for donor-based quantum computing" Physical Review B 74 (4): 53111-53118 (2006)

Hudson FE, Ferguson AJ, Yang C, Jamieson D, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Coulomb blockade in a nanoscale phosphorus-in-silicon island" Microelectronic Engineering 83: 1809-1813 (2006)

Jamieson D, Chan V, Hudson FE, Andresen SE, Yang C, Hopf TF, Hearne S, Pakes C, Prawer S,

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Gauja E, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Quantum effects in ion implanted devices" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 221-225 (2006)

Kandasamy G, Wellard C & Hollenberg L. "Cross-talk compensation of hyperfine control in donor-qubit architectures" Nanotechnology 17: 4572-4580 (2006).

Klein A. "Neutron interferometry: The pioneering contributions of Samuel A. Werner" Physica B 385-386: 1356-1358 (2006)

Laird J, Jagadish C, Jamieson D & Legge G. "Scanning ion deep level transient spectroscopy: I. Theory" Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics 39: 1342-1351 (2006)

Laird J, Jagadish C, Jamieson D & Legge G. "Scanning ion deep level transient spectroscopy: II. Ion irradiated Au—Si Schottky junctions" Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics 39: 1352-1362 (2006)

McCamey DR, Huebel H, Brandt MS, Hutchison WD, McCallum J, Clark RG & Hamilton AR. "Electrically detected magnetic resonance in ion-implanted Si:P nanostructures" Applied Physics Letters 89 (18): 21151-21153 (2006)

Mitic M, Cassidy MC, Petersson KD, Starrett RP, Gauja E, Brenner R, Clark RG, Dzurak AS, Yang C & Jamieson D "Demonstration of a silicon-based quantum cellular automata cell" Applied Physics Letters 89 (1): 35031-35033.

Oi DKL, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Scalabe error correction in distributed ion trap computers" Physical Review A 74 (5): 23131-23139 (2006)

Olivero P, Rubanov S, Reichart P, Gibson B, Huntington S, Rabeau J, Greentree A, Salzman J, Moore D, Jamieson D & Prawer S. "Characterization of three-dimensional microstructures in single-crystal diamond" Diamond and Related Materials 15: 1614-1621 (2006)

Orbons SM, Van Dijk L, Bozkurt M, Johnston PN, Reichart P & Jamieson D. "Focused ion beam machined nanostructures depth profiled by macrochannelling ion beam analysis" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 747-751 (2006)

Prawer S, Rubanov S, Hearne S, Jamieson D & Kalish R. "Spatial extent of band bending in diamond due to ion impact as measured by secondary electron emission: Experiment and theory" Physical Review B 73 (15): 32021-32024 (2006)

Rabeau J, Reichart P, Tamanyan G, Jamieson D, Prawer S, Jelezko F, Gaebel T, Popa I, Domhan M & Wrachtrup J. "Implantation of labelled single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond using 15N" Applied Physics Letters 88 (2): 31131-31133 (2006)

Reichart P, Spemann D, Hauptner A, Bergmaier A, Hable V, Hertenberger R, Greubel C, Setzer A, Dollinger G, Jamieson D, Butz T & Esquinazi P. "3D-Hydrogen analysis of ferromagnetic

microstructures in proton irradiated graphite" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 286-291 (2006)

Santori C, Fattal D, Spillane SM, Florentino M, Beausoleil RG, Greentree A, Olivero P, Draganski M, Rabeau J, Reichart P, Gibson B, Rubanov S, Jamieson D & Prawer S. "Coherent population trapping in diamond N-V centers at zero magnetic field" Optics Express 14 (17): 7986-7994 (2006)

Santori C, Tamarat P, Neumann P, Wrachtrup J, Fattal D, Beausoleil RG, Rabeau J, Olivero P, Greentree A, Prawer S, Jelezko F & Hemmer P. "Coherent population trapping of single spins in diamond under optical excitation" Physical Review Letters 97 (24): 74011-74014 (2006)

Sidiroglou F, Huntington S, Roberts A, Stern R, Fletcher IR & Baxter GW. "Simultaneous multidopant investigation of rare-earth-doped optical fibers by an ion microprobe" Optics Letters 31 (22): 3258-3260 (2006)

Tamarat Ph, Gaebel T, Rabeau J, Khan M, Greentree A, Wilson H, Hollenberg L, Prawer S, Hemmer P, Jelezko F & Wrachtrup J. "Stark Shift Control of Single Optical Centers in Diamond" Physical Review Letters 97 (8): 30021-30024 (2006)

Tarnopolsky AZ, Fletcher N, Hollenberg L, Lange B, Smith J & Wolfe J. "Vocal tract resonances and the sound of the Australian didjeridu (yidaki) I. Experiment" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119 (2): 11941-119411 (2006)

Taylor ML, Franich RD, Alves A, Reichart P, Jamieson D & Johnston PN. "Ion transmission through nano-apertures" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 249: 752-755 (2006)

Trajkov E & Prawer S. "Conduction mechanisms in ion-implanted and annealed polycrystalline CVD diamond" Diamond and Related Materials 15: 1714-1719 (2006)

Wellard C, Hollenberg L & Das Sarma S. "Theory of the microwave spectroscopy of a phosphorus-donor charge qubit in silicon: Coherent control in the Si:P quantum-computor architecture" Physical Review B 74 (7): 53061-53069 (2006)

Wilson HF, Prawer S, Spizzirri P, Jamieson D, Stavrias N & Mckenzie DR. "P2 dimer implantation in silicon: A molecular dynamics study" Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B - Beam Interact with Materials and Atoms 251: 395-401 (2006)

Yin Y, Hang L, Proschek M, Mckenzie DR, Bilek MMM, Allan S, Han J, Rubanov S, Lauder RDT & Godfrey RB. "Characterisation of a large area scanning PECVD deposition system with small size RF electrodes" Thin Solid Films 515: 307-312 (2006)

Yin Y, Pan YQ, Hang L, Bilek MMM, Mckenzie D & Rubanov S. "Dielectric substrate self-bias and plasma confinement in two-dimensional

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scanning radio frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition" Vacuum 81: 441-445 (2006)

Canning J, Gibson B, Rabeau J, Mancuso A & Huntington S. "Air-clad optical fibre filament for generating broadband radiation" In Lowrey A, ORA-01403: Roberts A(eds), ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006 66-68 Melbourne, Australia: Australian Optical Society

Devitt SJ, Schirmer SG, Oi DKL, Cole J & Hollenberg L. "Subspace confinement of qubit systems. In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 1-4. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics

Evans ZWE, Cole J & Hollenberg L. "A comparison of gate characterisation methods" In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 4931-4934. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics

Gibson B & Dower P. "Fiber evanescent field power maximization via refractive index design" In ORA-01403: no data found, Lowrey A & Roberts A(eds), ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006 66-68. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Optical Society

Greentree A, Devitt SJ & Hollenberg L. "Adiabatic protocols for operator measurement based entanglement and quantum computing. In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 4741-4744. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics

Hollenberg L, Greentree A, Wellard C, Fowler AG, Devitt SJ, Cole J & Stephens AM. "Electron spin qubit transport and fault-tolerant architectures for Si:P quantum computing" In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 4961-4964. Cronulla, Australia: The Australian Institute of Physics

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

Stephens AM & Hollenberg L. "Fault tolerant quantum computation on isolated logical cells" In Dobson J & Sang R(eds), Australian Institute 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,

Devitt SJ & Cole J. "Qubit transport and fault-tolerant architectures in silicon" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 348-350. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

Hollenberg L & Wellard C. "Modelling nanoelectronic quantum control of donor qubits in silicon" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 653-656. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

Hopf TF, Yang C, Jamieson D, Tamanyan G, Andresen SE, Gauja E, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Development of single ion detection system for the implantation of donors with nanoscale precision" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 563-566. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

Jamieson D, Chan V, Andresen SE, Yang C, Hopf TF, Pakes C, Rubanov S, Hearne S, Prawer S, Gauja E, Dzurak AS & Clark RG. "Fabrication of single atom nanoscale devices by ion implantation" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 560-562. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

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. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

Tettamanzi G, Pakes C, Potenza A, Marrows CH, Prawer S & Jamieson D. "Superconducting microbridge junctions fabricated using focused ion beams" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 355-358. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

Yang C, Jamieson D, Hearne S, Hopf TF, Pakes C, Prawer S, Andresen SE, Dzurak AS, Gauja E, Hundson FE & Clark RG. "Integration of single ion implantation method in focused ion beam system for nanofabrication" In Jagadish C & Lu GQ(eds), Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 567-569. Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Press

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Following its establishment in July 2005 via a State Government of Victoria Science, Technology and Innovation grant, Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) has been operating successfully for over a year within the School of Physics. The progress of the QCV during this time has been excellent with key milestones met.

The QCV has assembled a team of expert research and engineering personnel across the fields of photonics and material science and established a business development and marketing program. During this time there have been a number of procedures put in place and internal and external relationships developed in order to ensure the effective running of the program. The QCV has an Executive Board who meet quarterly and an Industry Advisory Group (IAG) to provide valuable advice and direction to the QCV. The Executive Board and IAG draws together significant expertise and experience from industry, academia and government.

The research efforts of the QCV continue to focus on the research and development of a device capable of producing single packets of light (photons) which can be transmitted in optical fibre. Such a device will resolve the existing issues of single photon generation in current quantum communication systems. The QCV device is a diamond-based Single Photon Source module suitable for optical fibre based quantum communications.

In the later part of 2006 QCV was joined for six months by Dr James Butler, Head Gas/Surface Dynamics Section, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. Dr Butler has extensive diamond knowledge and during his time with the QCV has made substantial contributions to furthering the research and development program.

The first QCV annual report was produced for the financial year 2005/2006 and received 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 promote the School of Physics and the QCV via internal and external avenues which include competitions, conferences and media announcements.

Dr Shane Huntington was a winner of the 2006 Young Tall Poppy award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science which aims to promote awareness of Australia’s intellectual achievements. Additionally, the QCV entered the ICT Secrets of Innovation Competition, an initiative of the Federal Government. This award recognises innovation in science that will have an impact on information communication technology across the areas of commerce, health and communications. The QCV entered the Single Photon Source module as the innovation and was announced as a finalist in the security division. The winners of the awards will be announced in 2007.

The QCV out reach program continues to aim at educating and informing school teachers and students as well as the general public. The QCV participated in the University of Melbourne open day with an interactive stand at the School of Physics, which was well attended by members of the public. The first QCV newsletter was also distributed to a broad audience of more than 500 school teachers and students in early December 2006. The QCV will continue to produce and distribute the newsletter on a quarterly basis. Additionally, the QCV hosted a lunch time media forum and two media training workshops which were aimed at educating academics in how to communicate effectively with the media. The forum and workshops were well attended by staff and post graduate students from the Faculty of Science and received an overwhelmingly positive response. The QCV will again be running these workshops in 2007.

The industry engagement program continues to work towards establishing and maintaining links with related industries and forming strategic relationships with specific companies and organisations. These activities aim to inform Australian industry of the implications of quantum communications and to enable new avenues of competitive benefits for current industries in Australia, particularly Victoria.

For publications in 2006 please refer to publications list under MARC and Optics group reports.

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QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS VICTORIA (QCV)

DR SHANE HUNTINGTON, CEO

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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

and are recognised as the new standard for testing theoretical models of atomic and solid structure. Chris Chantler was successful in receiving an ARC Discovery Grant ‘Critical Tests of Quantum Electro-Dynamics (QED) in heavy atomic systems,’ to extend our leadership in fundamental tests of atomic physics. Chris was also Guest Editor of the journal Radiation Physics & Chemistry, Volume 75, Issue 11 (2006).

Rob Scholten and his students have been making excellent progress on a number of fronts. In particular, the team has made an extension of their diffractive contrast imaging methods, from the imaging of ground-state ultracold atoms to imaging of atoms in specific excited states. Imaging the excited-state atom distribution will be used to optimise photo-ionisation of cold atom samples, to generate intense electron bunches which will then be used for a new source of coherent X-rays. The imaging is also a component of our ARC DP funded research project, 'Quantum and classical imaging with light and atoms'. Laser control of the atomic quantum state is used to actively control the refractive index of the cold atoms which are being imaged. Future work will use that control to enhance or suppress the image, for example to demonstrate imaging of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) for the first time.

EIT was used as the basis for a new scheme to lock the frequency difference between two lasers to the energy separation between two hyperfine levels of an atom. The hyperfine splitting is the basis of atomic clocks as used in GPS systems and cell phone base stations. Many leading-edge experiments in atomic physics now rely on having two lasers with precisely that frequency difference, for example in producing Bose-Einstein condensates, generating slow light, demonstrating quantum qubits with atoms, and measuring atto-Tesla magnetic fields such as those produced by human brain activity.

The group is also having an impact beyond academia and a laser controller developed in the lab was commercially launched, and a new company (MOG Laboratories Pty. Ltd., ABN 42 125 895 025) established to further develop and market the design. The University is now in the late stages of licensing the IP to international laser and instrumentation companies.

Rob and Ann appointed Dr Stefania Castelletto to work with them. Stefania joined us from the Italian Institute of Metrological Research on quantum and classical two-beam imaging.

OPTICS

PROFESSOR KEITH NUGENT

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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 nanophotonic structures. In collaboration with researchers at the Australian National University and members of the MARC, we have produced patterned metallic films that resonate in the near-infrared. This research was presented at ETOPIM in Sydney in July, AOS/ACOFT, the annual SPIE meeting in San Diego in August and NFO9 in Lausanne in September. We also made advances in the application of phase microscopy to imaging complex three dimensional structures. This research was reported at a number of international and local meetings during the year. The collaboration with the Department of Physiology into applications of phase microscopy to live cell imaging continues and we have recently obtained striking images showing the birefringence of heart cells.

We were delighted that Dr Nicoleta Dragomir was successful in attracting an ARC Discovery grant and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship which she commenced in July, and Ann was awarded an Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship and a grant from the Australian Academy of Science to visit Europe in 2007. Ann’s student, Shannon Orbons, was presented a prize as one of the best three student presenters at ETOPIM and also received an SPIE scholarship to attend the annual meeting in San Diego in August. Xiao Ming Goh was awarded the CiSRA prize for best poster at the AIP Congress in Brisbane in December.

Chris Chanter and his colleagues and students continued their development of synchrotron experimental techniques and research into atomic, chemical, bioactive and condensed matter systems. Chris has had a very successful years and we were delighted that he was awarded the International JARI Enterprise Award for 'outstanding work in the radiation sciences', the nature of the research being recognised to be of a leading and challenging nature,’ at the International Symposium on Radiation Physics in Portugal. He was also co-winner of the national David Syme Rearch Award for ‘original research making an important contribution to the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Geology or Physics’ by an Australian researcher. Furthermore, Martin de Jonge was awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for the best Doctoral Thesis at the University of Melbourne in 2006, in Science or Engineering. These are all extremely prestigious awards and very notable achievements.

The most recent measurements by this team are almost two orders of magnitude more accurate and precise than all previous literature,

Keith Nugent has been almost exclusively involved in the establishment of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science. However he has had many other demands on his time, including chairing a committee developing a ten year strategic plan for synchrotron-based science in Australia and chairing the committee seeking to appoint the Science Director for the Australian Synchrotron. He has also been working with the company IATIA on taking over an ARC linkage project with the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, a project that has been relinquished by the previous commercial partner. This process will see Alaster Meehan move to a scholarship funded by this project and taking on an enrolment that also involved the Department of Optometry and Vision Science. Keith has also continued his activity as a member of the Board of Directors for IATIA Ltd, a company that continues to develop.


Abbey B, Lipp JD, Barber ZH & Rayment T. "Structure-film thickness relationship study of sputtered NiO/Ni bilayers using depth profiling and atomic force microscopy techniques" Journal of Applied Physics 99 (12): 49141-49149 (2006)

Abbey B, Lipp JD, Barber ZH & Rayment T. "Monte Carlo study of variations in the surface sensitivity of energy-resolved x-ray absorption spectra from Ni-NiO thin-film bilayers" Physical Review B 74 (24): 54081-54088 (2006)

Allman BE & Nugent K. "Phase imaging with thermal neutrons" Physica B 385-386: 1395-1401 (2006)

Arhatari BD, Peele AG, Nugent K & De Carlo F. "Quality of the reconstruction in x-ray phase contrast tomography" Review of Scientific Instruments 77 (6): 37091-37096 (2006)

Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Sgamellotti A & Quiney H. "Electron density fitting for the Coulomb problem in relativistic density-functional theory" Journal of Chemical Physics 124 (12): 41041-41048 (2006)

Belpassi L, Tarantelli F, Sgamellotti A & Quiney H. "The electronic structure of alkali aurides. A four-component Dirac—Kohn—Sham study" Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110: 4543-4554 (2006)

Castelletto S, Degiovanni IP, Schettini V & Migdall A. "Optomizing single-photon-source heralding efficiency and detection efficiency metrology at 1550 nm using periodically poled lithium niobate" Metrologia 43: S56-S60 (2006)

Chantler C. "CAMOP: Report on the 20th international conference on x-ray and inner-shell processes, 4-7 July 2005, Melbourne, Australia." Physica Scripta 73: c107-c112 (2006)

Chantler C, Kinnane MN, Su C & Kimpton J. "Characterization of Kα spectral profiles for vanadium, component redetermination for scandium, titanium, chromium, and manganese, and development of the satellite structure for Z=21 to Z=25" Physical Review A 73 (1): 25081-250816 (2006)

Curl C, Bellair CJ, Harris P, Allman E, Roberts A, Nugent K & Delbridge L. "Single cell volume measurement by Quantitative Phase Microscopy (QPM): A case study of Erythrocyte Morphology" Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 17: 193-200 (2006)

De Jonge MD, Tran C, Chantler C & Barnea Z. "Improved techniques for measuring x-ray mass attenuation coefficients" Optical Engineering 45 (4): 65011-65018 (2006)

Dhal B, Peele AG, Mcmahon PJ, De Carlo F & Nugent K. "Bending magnet source: A radiation source for X-ray phase contrast tomography" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 2004-2007 (2006)

Dragomir N, Ampem-Lassen E, Baxter GW, Pace P, Huntington S, Farrell PM, Stevenson AJ & Roberts A. "Analysis of changes in optical fibers during arc-fusion splicing by use of quantitative phase imaging" Microscopy Research and Technique 69: 847-851 (2006)

Dragomir N, Baxter GW & Roberts A. "Phase-sensitive imaging techniques applied to optical fibre characterisation" IET Optoelectronics 153 (5): 217-221 (2006)

Kimpton J, Kinnane MN & Chantler C. "Development of backgammon-type multiwire proportional counters for the detection of x rays" Review of Scientific Instruments 77 (8): 31021-31027 (2006)

Kinnane MN, Kimpton J & Chantler C. "A status report on experimental tests of QED in medium-Z systems" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 1744-1748 (2006)

Kouskousis BP, Rollinson CM, Kitcher DJ, Collins SF, Baxter GW, Wade SA, Dragomir N & Roberts A. "Quantitative investigation of the refractive-index modulation within the core of a fiber Bragg grating" Optics Express 14 (22): 10332-10338 (2006)

Kumar A, Misra D, Kadhane U, Kelkar AH, Dhal B & Tribedi LC. "L x-ray emission from fast highly charged Cu ions in collisions with gaseous targets: Saturation effect in excitation and transfer" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 1704-1706 (2006)

Maguire LP, Van Bijnen RMW, Mese E & Scholten R. "Theoretical calculation of saturated absorption spectra for multi-level atoms" Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 39: 2709-2720 (2006)

Meijer T, White JD, Smeets B, Jeppesen M & Scholten R. "Blue five-level frequency-upconversion system in rubidium" Optics Letters 31 (7): 1002-1004 (2006)

Orbons SM & Roberts A."Resonance and extraordinary transmission in annular aperture arrays" Optics Express 14 (26): 12623-12628 (2006)

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Peele AG, Quiney H, Dhal B, Mancuso A, Arhatari BD & Nugent K. "New opportunities in x-ray tomography" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 2067-2071 (2006)

Pfeifer MA, Williams G, Vartanyants IA, Harder R & Robinson IK. "Three dimensional mapping of a deformation field inside a nanocrystal" Nature 442: 63-66.

Quiney H, Peele AG, Cai Z, Paterson D & Nugent K. "Diffractive imaging of highly focused x-ray fields" Nature Physics 2: 101-200 (2006)

Rae N, Chantler C, Tran C & Barnea Z. "Accurate determination of x-ray energies using powder diffraction" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 2063-2066 (2006)

Sidiroglou F, Huntington S, Roberts A, Stern R, Fletcher IR & Baxter GW. "Simultaneous multidopant investigation of rare-earth-doped optical fibers by an ion microprobe" Optics Letters 31 (22): 3258-3260 (2006)

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 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)

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Witte C, Chantler C, Cosgriff EC & Tran C. "Atomic cluster calculation of the x-ray near-edge absorption of copper" Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 1582-1585 (2006)

De Jonge MD, Tran C, Chantler C & Barnea Z. "X-ray optics for the future: high-accuracy measurements of x-ray mass attenuation coefficients" AOS News 20 (3): 30-37 (2006)

Chantler C. "Atomic and solid state theory, experimental and application in x-ray physics: proceedings of the 20th international conference on x-ray and inner-shell processes, July 4-8 2005, Melbourne, Radiation Physics and Chemistry 75: 1431-1433 (2006)

Dragomir N, Goh XM, Baxter GW & Roberts A. "Non-destructive three-dimensional index profiling of optical fibres and photonic devices" In Lowrey A(ed), ACOFT&AOS Conference 2006 103-105. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Optical Society Australia"

Funding for CXS arrived at the beginning of 2006, although the Centre had been functioning as a collaboration from the middle of 2005. The administrative structure of the Centre has been put into place and is functioning well, with Executive Meetings held every two months; and annual meetings of the Advisory Board, Scientific Advisory Board and the Intellectual Property Sub-Committee.

CXS was officially declared open by the University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor, Professor Glynn Davis, at a ceremony on April 19; the date of the first Advisory Board Meeting.

Among the 42 Referred publications produced by CXS members, one featured as a cover article in Nature Physics. All our publications were in the fields of theoretical and condensed matter physics, optical and laser physics, biophysics, quantum chemistry, biochemistry, and radiation and matter.

CXS members were invited to speak at 25 national and international symposiums, conferences, universities and research facilities. We were host to 11 international visitors and conducted four interdisciplinary workshop of our own.

Media and commercialisation activities have commenced, with articles on CXS research appearing in Nature Physics and the La Trobe University Bulletin. A series of articles also appeared in the CXS newsletter, In Coherence, as part of our media initiative. Presentations to school and media exposure has added to the public’s awareness of CXS, and we made eight presentations to outside organizations.

CXS has broadened its funding base with members attracting over $2M in additional support.

The purchase of the Ultra Fast Laser System, used in the investigation of the nature of non-linear physical processes in laser-molecule interactions, was completed. The laser system and the XUV momchromator are housed at Swinburne University of Technology. Translation Stages and the CCD Camera package were also purchased to accompany the Ultra Fast Laser System.

The Experimental Methods Program at La Trobe University has established a new microfabrication facility including: basic labware and chemicals, water purification and convection oven, spin coater, ultrasonic bath and fume hoods, and computer controlled dual sputtering and RIE system was obtained to complement the existing Electron-Beam Lithography System.

The new Coherent Scattering Studies Laboratory, located in room D013 (basement) of the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne, is now operational.

We are pleased to welcome the following new staff to the CXS team in 2006:

Dr Brian Abbey – Theory and Modeling Program team at University of Melbourne

Dr Eugenui Balaur – Biological Science Program team at La Trobe University

Dr Chris Hall – Detector and Beamline Development Program team at Monash University

Ms Norma Hayes – Detector and Beamline Development Program team at Monash University

Dr David Parry – CSIRO Program team

Dr Mark Pfeifer – Experiential X-ray Physics Program team at La Trobe University

Dr Olena Ponomarenko – Theory and Modeling Program team at University of Melbourne

Ms Danielle Smith – Biological Science Program team at La Trobe University

Dr Priya Bhakat – Electron Microscopy and 2-D Protein Crystallography specialist

Finally, we would like to congratulate the following members for their achievements:

Prof Keith Nugent on receiving his second ARC Federation Fellowship

Assoc Prof Mike Ryan for receiving the Roche Molecular Biochemical Medal (May 2006) from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Ms Cherrine Chan for being awarded a CXS summer cadetship to work with the Biological Sciences Program Team on a CXS Summer Cadetship in 2006

Ms Claudia Leidhold, Freiburg (PhD student), for visiting the Biological Sciences Program Team on a DAAD Fellowship from October 2006 to January 2007

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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.

Research carried out within the TCMP group in 2006 can be classified into two general areas: imaging of condensed matter systems and the dynamics of dilute gas BECs. This work has resulted in eight publications in international refereed journals and ten conference contributions. Assoc Prof Les Allen delivered invited talks at the 19th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis in Sydney and at the workshop on Electron Microscopy: Fundamental Limits and New Science at Cornell University. Les Allen was also an invited lecturer at a summer school on the fundamentals of electron microscopy organized by the Kavli Institute at Cornell. Dr Andy Martin gave three invited University seminars (University of Bristol, University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham) and one contributed talk at 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 a contributed talk at the AIP 17th National Congress. Dr Scott Findlay delivered an invited talk at a congress in Chicago, Illinois on Materials Research in an Aberration Free Environment.

The group was funded by two continuing Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects worth $145,000 in 2006. The DP grants have enabled the continuing appointment of two postdoctoral research fellows in the group, namely Dr Scott Findlay and Dr Nicholas Parker.

Strong international collaborations have been a feature of the research done. Links are in place with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the SuperSTEM Facility at Daresbury, Trinity College Dublin, Nottingham University, Imperial College London, McMaster University, The University of Otago, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with the group of Nobel Prize winner Prof. W. Ketterle) and the University of Durham.


Allen L, Findlay S, Oxley MP, Witte C & Zaluzec NJ. "Channeling effects in high-angular-resolution electron spectroscopy" Physical Review B 73 (9): 41041-410411 (2006)

Allen L, Findlay S, Oxley MP, Witte C & Zaluzec NJ. "Modelling high-resolution electron microscopy based on core-loss spectroscopy" Ultramicroscopy 106: 1001-1011 (2006)

Amos K, Richter WA, Karataglidis S & Brown BA. "Proton reaction cross sections as measures of the spatial distributions of neutrons in exotic nuclei" Physical Review Letters 96 (3): 25031-25034 (2006)

Canton L, Pisent G, Amos K, Karataglidis S, Svenne JP & Van Der Knijff D."Collective-coupling analysis of spectra of mass-7 isobars: 7He, 7Li, 7Be, and 7B" Physical Review C 74 (6): 46051-46059 (2006)

Canton L, Pisent G, Svenne JP, Amos K & Karataglidis S. "Predicting narrow states in the spectrum of a nucleus beyond the proton drip line" Physical Review Letters 96 (7): 25021-25024 (2006)

Dow AJ & Foda O. "On the domain wall partition functions of level-1 affine so(n) vertex models" Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (05): 05010--05026 (2006)

Dupuis M, Karataglidis S, Bauge E, Delaroche JP & Gogny D. "Correlations in microscopic optical model for nucleon elastic scattering off doubly closed-shell nuclei" Physical Review C 73 (1): 46051-460512 (2006)

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)

Martin A, Chen F-R, Hsieh W-K, Kai J-J, Findlay S & Allen L. "Spatial incoherence in phase retrieval based on focus variation" Ultramicroscopy 106: 914-924 (2006)

THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS (TCMP)

ASSOC PROFFESSOR LES ALLEN

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Assoc Prof Les Allen with Chris Witte

Martin A, Ishizuka K, Kisielowski C & Allen L. "Phase imaging and the evolution of a gold-vacuum interface at atomic resolution" Physical Review B 74 (17): 21021-21024 (2006)

Mermod P, Blomgren J, Johansson C, Ohrn A, Osterlund M, Pomp S, Bergenwall B, Klug J, 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 MeV neutron scattering on hydrogen, deuterium, carbon, and oxygen" Physical Review C 74 (5): 40021-400223 (2006)

Parker N & Adams CS. "Response of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to a rotating elliptical trap" Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 39: 43-55 (2006)

Parker N, Van Bijnen R & Martin A. "Instabilities leading to vortex lattice information in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates" Physical Review A 73 (6): 16031-16034 (2006)

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

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Amos K, Karataglidis S, Fraser PR, Van Der Knijff D, Svenne JP, Canton L & Pisent G. "Solution of multi-channel problems using MCAS for spectra and scattering cross sections" In Bauge E(ed), Workshop proceedings 57-66. Paris, France: OECD Publications.

Dupuis M, Karataglidis S, Bauge E, Delaroche JP & Gogny D. "Microscopic inelastic scatterng calculations with second order Born approximation. Link with quantum pre-equilibrium models" In Bauge E(ed), Workshop proceedings 67-74 Paris, France: OECD Publications.

Karataglidis S. "Modern optical potentials and the role of nuclear structure" In Demetriou P, Harissopulos S & Julin R(eds), AIP Conference Proceedings 831 250-257. New York, United States: American Institute of Physics.

At the end of 2005, the TPP group and the School of Physics said a kind of farewell to Dr Girish Joshi as he entered “retirement” after about 35 years service. By late 2006, we began anticipating the impending “retirement” of Professor Bruce McKellar also. In both cases the word “retirement” is enveloped in scare quotes, because they both shall remain very active in research. Indeed, in Girish’s case the activity is not only in research but also in teaching as he continues to lecture Honours year level general relativity. To celebrate their remarkable and long careers, we organized a two-day Festschrift that was held on 29 and 30 November 2006 at the School of Physics. Attended by about 35 colleagues and former students from Australia and abroad, we enjoyed a programme of stimulating talks concentrating on theoretical particle physics but also crossing over into condensed matter physics and quantum computation. We were also fortunate to hear a fascinating public lecture by Professor Rajaraman of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi on nuclear disarmament in South Asia. The proceedings will be published by World Scientific both as a book and as a special issue of International Journal of Modern Physics A.

The first stage of life after Bruce and Girish saw the arrival of Dr Nicole Bell as a new Lecturer at the end of December 2006. Nicole is an expert on particle cosmology and astrophysics, with particular expertise in neutrino physics and dark matter. She also maintains an interest in straight particle physics. After completing her PhD in the School in 2000, she spent three years in the theoretical astrophysics group at the Fermilab accelerator laboratory near Chicago, and the last two years as a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. Along the way she picked up a number of prestigious awards, including the Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics from the Australian Institute of Physics for the best physics PhD thesis authored at an Australian university in 2000, a second prize at the Young Researchers Competition in Honor of John Archibald Wheeler in Princeton, the Alvin Tollestrup Award at Fermilab and the Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship at Case Western Reserve University. Her post-postdoctoral career has started quickly as she is already supervising a PhD student and an Honours student. We welcome her, and look forward to great achievements in the future. The second stage of life after Bruce and Girish depends on

the appointment of a third continuing academic within the group. An offer has been made, and we are awaiting the outcome.

We congratulate both Kristian McDonald and Catherine Low who completed their doctoral theses in 2006. Kristian is now a research fellow in the School, while Catherine has moved back to her native New Zealand to pursue a high school teaching career. We also welcome Dr Archil Kobakhidze, who joined the group as a research fellow in October 2006.

Research-wise, the group continues to thrive. Topics active during 2006 included orbifold symmetry breaking, brane-worlds and extra dimensions, B-physics, high-energy neutrino astrophysics, many-body neutrino physics, extensions of the Standard Model and leptogenesis.


Bardos D, Day R, Lawson N & Linacre N. "Dynamical response to fishing varies with compensatory mechanism: An abalone population model" Ecological Modelling 192: 523-542 (2006)

Bell N, Gorchtein M, Ramsey-Musolf MJ, Vogel P & Wang P. "Model independent bounds on magnetic moments of Majorana neutrinos. Physics Letters B 642: 377-383 (2006)

Bell N, Pierpaoli E & Sigurdson K."Cosmological signatures of interacting neutrinos" Physical Review D 73 (6): 35231-352317 (2006)

Choudhury SR, Cornell AS, Gaur N & Joshi G. "Signatures of new physics in dileptonic b-decays" International Journal of Modern Physics A 21 (12): 2617-2634 (2006)

Choudhury SR, Cornell AS, Joshi G & McKellar B. "Analysis of the B → K *2(→ K π)l+l- decay" Physical Review D 74 (5): 40311-40318 (2006)

Coulthurst A."Generating the baryon asymmetry of the universe in split fermion models" Physical Review D 73 (10): 35171-351710 (2006)

Coulthurst A, McDonald KL & McKellar B. "Suppressing proton decay by separating quarks and leptons" Physical Review D 74 (12): 77011-77014 (2006)

Demaria A, Low CI & Volkas R. "Neutrino masses in quartification schemes" Physical Review D 74 (3): 30051 - 300510 (2006)

THEORETICAL PARTICLE PHYSICS (TPP)

PROFESSOR RAY VOLKAS

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Doukas JA, Choudhury SR & Joshi G. "Lepton number violation via intermediate black hole processes" Modern Physics Letters A 21 (34): 2561-2568 (2006)

Flitney A & Greentree A. "Coalitions in the quantum Minority game: Classical cheats and quantum bullies" Physics Letters A 362: 132-137 (2006)

Foot R. "Generalized mirror matter models" Physics Letters B 632: 467-470 (2006)

Foot R. "Implications of the DAMA/NaI and CDMS experiments for mirror matter-type dark matter" Physical Review D 74 (2): 35141-35148 (2006)

Forrester P, Frankel N & Garoni TM. "Asymptotic form of the density profile for Gaussian and 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. "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)

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Demaria A, Low CI & Volkas R. "Erratum: Unification via intermediate symmetry breaking scales with the quartification gauge group [Phys.Rev. D 72, 075007 (2005)]" Physical Review D 73 (7): 99021. (2006)

Bell N, Cirigliano V, Ramsey-Musolf MJ, Vogel P & Wise MB. "Magnetic moments of dirac neutrinos" In Eisenstein RA, Van Hecke H, Stephenson GJ, Barnes PD & Cooper MD(eds), Particles and Nuclei 842 874-876. New York, United States: American Institute of Physics (2006)

Volkas R. "Mirror Dark Matter" In Studenikin AI(ed), Proceedings of the 12th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics 130-137. New Jersey, United States: World Scientific Publishing Co (2006)

PPSS >POSTGRADUATE PHYSICS STUDENT SOCIETY (PPSS)

DR STUART WYITHE

Within the School of Physics, postgraduate research is an integral part of all research areas. Physics postgraduates are therefore integrated into School life at all levels. For example, the crucial role played by students in the research success of the School is highlighted during the weekly postgraduate seminar series. This series serves to inform the School as a whole of individual research programs.

In addition, the seminar series offers our students valuable experience in scientific and oral presentation skills. Postgraduate students are also integrated into the day-to-day workings 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.

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 gap between undergraduate and postgraduate study. To this end the School organises a Postgraduate student research exhibition. This exhibition showcases the work of our postgraduates to interested second and third year physics students.

Each of the above activities was undertaken during 2006. As a new initiative in 2006, the School expanded the postgraduate seminar series to include a full colloquium by final year students, describing the work presented in their thesis. This final colloquium provides the opportunity for the School to celebrate the achievements of postgraduate students.

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Postgraduate Physics Students Society Ball, 2006

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 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/

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Prizes & Awards > 59

Assoc Prof Rob Scholten, Dr Elisabetta Barberio, Prof Tony Klein, Anna Phan, David Shelduko

UNDERGRADUATE

Dwight Prize

Selection Criteria: Awarded to the student achieving the highest results in First year advanced level, on recommendation by the Head

Value: $700

Recipient: Lee Ming Yeoh

E M and J F Ward Prize for Experimental Physics

Selection Criteria: Awarded to the most outstanding student in experimental physics in the final year of the BSc degree with a major in physics.

Value: $600

Recipient: Christina Magoulas

Ramm Prize in Experimental Physics

Selection Criteria: Prize is awarded to a student enrolling in either Honours or postgraduate degree by research in Experimental Physics who has demonstrated excellent research potential.

Value: $1000

Recipient: Anna Phan

T F Ryan (Roentgen) Prize

Selection Criteria: Prize is awarded to the student with the highest aggregate score in 640-151 and 640-152 Physics for Biomedical Science at First Year.

Value: $600

Recipient: Jason Juke Carabott

William Sutherland Prize

Selection Criteria: Awarded to the student achieving the highest results in Second Year Physics who is proceeding to study in Physics at the Third Year level.

Value: Book vouchers worth $200

Recipient: Paul Nathaniel Beuchat

POSTGRADUATE

The CISRA Prize in Physics

Selection Criteria: Eligible candidates must be enrolled in, or have completed in the previous 12 months, the degree of PhD in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne.

Value: $2,000 approx

Recipient: Andrew Coulthurst

Dieul-Kurzweil Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded every three years.

Selection Criteria: The Scholarship is awarded to a student who has been admitted to candidature for the degree of Master of Science in the School of Physics and is in need of financial assistance to pursue the course.

Value: $2,360.00 approx

Recipient: Xiaoming Goh

Dixson Research Scholarship in Physics

Selection Criteria: Awarded on the basis of Honours results in Physics. The holder is required to conduct research in Physics at the University at postgraduate level

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Value: $2000

Recipient: Rhys Davies

John Tyndall Scholarship Prize

Selection Criteria: Awarded to a student who is enrolled in a Masters or Doctorate degree who is conducting advanced studies or research in the School of Physics

Value: $550

Recipient: Chun-Hsu Su

Klein Prize in Experimental Physics

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.

Value: $500 approx

Recipients: Anna Phan and David Sheludko

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

Professor Bruce McKellar

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.


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.

Co-winner of the University of Melbourne's David Syme Research Prize for original scientific contribution to the industrial and commercial development of Australia.

Dr Shane Huntington

Recipient of the Tall Poppies Award for his services in science communication and promotion of telecommunications security.

Dr Stuart Wyithe

Winner of the University of Melbourne's Woodward Medal for pioneering research into the formation of the first galaxies 13 billion years ago.

Nature Mentoring Awards: Prof Rachel Webster (mid career) and [Chemistry] Prof Tom Healey (life- time)

Syme Research Award: Assoc Prof Chris Chantler

Subjects Offered >FIRST YEAR SUBJECTS

640-121/2 Physics (Advanced) A/B640-141/2 Physics A/B640-151/2 Physics Biomedical Science A/B640-161/2 Physics: Principles & Applications640-176 Solar System & Cosmos640-177 Stars & Galaxies

SECOND YEAR SUBJECTS

640-223 Quantum Mechanics & Thermal Phys (Adv)640-225 Electromagnetism & Spec Relativity (Adv)640-234 Further Classical & Quantum Mechanics640-237 Astrophysics & Optics 2640-243 Quantum Mechanics & Thermal Phys 640-245 Electromagnetism & Spec Relativity640-251 Instrumentation for Scientists640-261 Energy & Environment

THIRD YEAR SUBJECTS

640-321 Quantum Mechanics (Advanced)640-322 Thermal Physics (Advanced)640-323 Electrodynamics (Advanced)640-341 Quantum Mechanics640-342 Thermal Physics640-343 Electrodynamics640-351 Astrophysics & Optics 3640-353 Atomic, Molecular & Solid State Phys640-354 Subatomic Physics640-364 Computational Physics640-381 Principles & Applications of Sensors640-385 Modelling, Visualisation and Analysis

HONOURS

The Honours year comprises course work and research project. The content of course work may vary from year to year but typically include subjects chosen from:

Extragalaxies, Astro & CosmologyGeneral RelativityParticle Physics 1Particle Physics 2Quantum Mechanics AQuantum Mechanics BQuantum StructuresQuantum Field TheoryQuantum OpticsScattering & ImagingStatistical Mechanics

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Outreach Programs >JULY LECTURES

This very popular series of free public lectures has a long and enviable history in the school. They are aimed at giving an insight into fundamental questions in physics, and advances in current research. They are given by researchers from this school, and delivered in a format that is accessible to the interested lay person. This year’s theme was ‘Physics Unleashed’

Associate Professor Ann Roberts, School of Physics, University of Melbourne & Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett, Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne

Physics, art and art fraud (Jul 7)

Associate Professor Martin Sevior, School of Physics, University of Melbourne

Physics, energy and power (Jul 17)

Professor David Jamieson, School of Physics, University of Melbourne & Dr Andrew Jamieson, Centre for Classics & Archaeology, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne

Physics, time and archaeology (Jul 21)

Dr Graeme Pearman, CSIRO - Marine and Atmospheric Research

Physics, the environment and climate change (Jul 28)

PHYSICS GYMNASIUM

This series of monthly lectures is specifically designed to provide enrichment and encouragement for senior high-school students who are studying physics. The meetings are held monthly during the school year at 5 15 pm.

Dr Stuart Wyithe, School of Physics, University of Melbourne

Earth Shine (Mar 29)

Dr Mark Boland, Accelerator Physicist of the Australian Synchrotron

Bright Light from Heavy Electrons...an overview of the Australian Synchrotron Project (May 17)

Professor David Jamieson, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (Jul 19)

Was Einstein Right?

Associate Professor Ann Roberts, School of Physics, University of Melbourne

Optics for Art’s sake (Aug 9)

Dr Roger Rassool, School of Physics, University of Melbourne

If we could talk to the animals (Oct 18)

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Muppets in action!

PHYSICS IN SERVICE DAY

This professional development day consists of 5 sessions relevant to teachers of VCE Physics. It is designed to keep teachers aware of developments in physics, expand their horizons, and assist them in keeping up to date with the current high schools physics syllabus.

The new study design for VCE Physics has seen the inclusion of special relativity, the synchrotron and photonics to the syllabus, areas traditionally outside the experience of many teachers. The In-service provided specialist speakers in these areas along with recent PhD graduate teachers who discussed their approaches to these topics.

Professor Joe Wolfe, School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney

Introduction to relativity: a multi-level, multi-media resource

Dr Mark Boland, Accelerator Physicist, Australian Synchrotron

The Synchrotron and its uses

Sandor Kazi, VCE Physics Teacher

Sound and Wave Motion

Catherine Bellair, VCE Physics Teacher, Yavneh College

The nature of waves and “Phase Microscopy”

Dr Alex Mazzolini, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University

Teaching Photonics at VCE level

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.

During the week of August 21 – 25 a dedicated team of physics graduate students and staff took the WARP Physics and Laser Show to the western suburbs. The “Out West Tour” was located at the Altona North campus of Bayside Secondary College, and about 1500 year-5/6 students from 22 local schools were bussed in.

The show was presented in inimitable style by Roger Rassool, who was assisted by Chris Witte. Nick Nicola and Steve Mitchell did an excellent job keeping the equipment intact and working, and an enthusiastic group of graduates and senior undergraduates composed the off-stage support.

It was, as usual, a delight to see the absolutely positive response of the students to the demonstrations. It is clear to the team that we not only succeed in showing that Science can be fun, but that the students leave on a high, with a better understanding of some basic physics phenomena.

Each school was presented with a “show bag” containing, amongst other things, a collection of simple experiments for the teacher use in class, and the components of a diffraction-grating spectrometer for each student to build.

We believe that the program is achieving its aim of interesting students in Science at an early age, so as to broaden their choices as 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.

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Spinning wheel demo with Chris Witte and student

Alumni & Friends >DAVID CARO BUILDING

In December 2006, the School of Physics was renamed the David Caro building in honour of Professor David Caro (AO OBE FInstP, FAIP, FACE) whose valuable life-long contributions to national university life and the international physics community were formally acknowledged.

David Caro was made professor of experimental physics and Head of School in 1961 during the days when Physics was still located in what is now known as Old Physics. He oversaw the design and planning of the "new" physics building at its current site.

Along with Assoc Prof John Rouse, they were the first to design a variable energy cylcotron, the first of its kind in Australia. This spearheaded the research in experimental particle and nuclear physics in Australia and was instrumental in providing the country with a talented crop of highly trained experimental physicists over the next decade.

DONATIONS and SUPPORT

The School continues to acknowledge the support of the Mr Andrew Brookes of the Colonial Foundation. They have generously provided $360,000 over 3 years to expand Dr Roger Rassool's and Assoc Prof Max Thompson's Outreach activities.

The School was also pleased to announce two new postgraduate prizes: Klein Prize in Experimental Physics and the CiSRA Prize in Physics.

The Klein Prize was set up by Emeritus Professor Tony Klein (former Head of School 1987-1995), Victor and Fleur Spitzer and Naomi Kaldor.

The CiSRA Prize was supported by Canon Information Systems Research Australia by Dr Stephen Hardy and Dr Ian Gibson.

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Prof Geoffrey Taylor, Dr Roger Rassool, Assoc Prof Max Thompson and Mr Andrew Brookes, Executive Officer Colonial Foundation

Spinning wheel demo with Chris Witte and student

Profs Geoff Taylor, David Caro and Mrs Fiona Caro Dr Ian Gibson and CiSRA winner, Andrew Coulthurst

Media >Members of the School of Physics were regularly featured in the media during 2006 (excluding local university newspapers and local media releases)

MEDIA APPEARANCESDr Shane Huntington/QCV in media release Group Formed to Commercialise Quantum Cryptography, Information Week, 23 January 2006.

Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in media release MagiQ Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Qucor and the University of Melbourne form Joint Venture to Enable Next Generation Quantum Cryptography Devices, MagiQ Technologies, 23 January 2006.

Prof David Jamieson in Comment on the enrichment of uranium in Iran, SBS radio, 13 April 2006.

Dr Michelle Livett in Physics grads forsake kids (by Bernard Lane) , The Australian, 29 March 2006.

Dr Stuart Wyithe in When Dwarf Galaxies Gave Way to Giants, Harvard University, 2 May 2006.

Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in Diamonds Take a Quantum Leap to IT security, Computerworld, 5 May 2006.

Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in Diamonds Take a Quantum Leap to IT security, Networkworld, 5 May 2006.

Dr Shane Huntington/QCV in Diamonds Used Against Internet Eavesdropping, ferret.com.au, 19 May 2006.

Dr Stuart Wyithe in The Short Reign of Dwarf Galaxies, New Scientist, 17 May 2006.

Dr Stuart Wyithe in Emergence of the Galactic Heavyweights, ScienceNow, 18 May 2006.

Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Next-generation power is inevitable: physicist (by Adam Morton), The Age, 22 May 2006.

Prof Geoffrey Taylor (EPP group) in Hunt for the God Particle (by Peter Calamai), Cosmos, Issue 9, Jun 2006.

Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Plugging in to Nuclear (by Elizabeth Keenan), Time Asia, 12 June 2006.

Dr Roger Rassool in University Makes Learning a Lot of Fun, Taralgon Journal, 12-14 July 2006.

Dr Steven Melnikoff in Supercomputers: Strength in Numbers (by Cynthia Karena), The Age, 18 July 2006.

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Dr Ian Gibson and CiSRA winner, Andrew Coulthurst

Prof Tony Klein in Greenies to Fight ALP on Backflip (by Liegh Dayton), The Australian, 27 July 2006.

Dr Roger Rassool in Storage Fear on Uranium, MX (Melbourne), 27 July 2006

Prof David Jamieson in Quantum Technology (What a Wonderful World with Viarnne Mischon), 3WBC 94.1 radio, 14 August 2006.

Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Irish Energy Miracle 'A Joke' (by Peter Weekes), The Age, 20 August 2006.

Dr Stuart Wyithe in Australia's Top 10 Scientific Minds Under 45 (by Wilson da Silva), Cosmos, Issue 10, August 2006.

Prof Geoffrey Taylor (EPP group) in Bullseye (by Stephen Battersby), New Scientist, 26 August 2006.

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.

Assoc Prof Martin Sevior in Bemoaning the Dear Bowser Won't Find New Fuel Technologies (by Martin Seviour), The Australian, 2 October 2006.

Dr Andrew Greentree in A Small Step to Higher Resolution, Nature Physics, News & Views article Vol 2 October 2006 pp 657-8.

Dr Andrew Greentree in Light Does Matter, Nature Physics, News & Views article Vol 2 October 2006 pp 803.

Prof David Jamieson in Power to Make a Difference in a World Hit by Climate Change, Canberra Times, 30 October 2006.

Prof Rachel Webster in Dutch Courage (by Jenny Hogan), Nature, Vol 444, 9 November 2006.

Prof David Jamieson in Physics is Booming (Lindy Byrne Show), ABC 774 radio, 6 December 2006

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Recruiting Organisations >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

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