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Written by Jason Twamley
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Monday, 07 September 2009 00:01 |
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Currently QSciTech at MQ has 10 PhD students, some of which do a predominantly theory project, and some of which do a predominantly experimental project. Macquarie University has a very attractive international and national scholarship scheme called the Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships . This pays for the PhD fees and gives students a yearly stipend. For 2010 we have a number of possible PhD projects to choose from. If you wish to know more information please email the individual supervisor for more information/skype discussion. Read on to see what possible PhD projects are on offer in QSciTech for 2010...
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ANECDOTA, OR A PRIVATE HISTORY OF THE EARLY MODERN PHYSICS |
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Written by Daniel Terno
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Friday, 14 August 2009 05:41 |
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My book review of A. Z. Capri, Quips, quotes and quanta (World Scientific, 2007) appears in the August issue of Int J Q Info. I had a lot of fun reading this book, so here is my review:
Reading this book was like meeting an old friend. I was in high school when a battered copy of a Russian book ``Physicists joking" got into my hands. It contained a lot of amusing stories from Journal of the Irreproducible Results, festschrifts on the occasion of various Niels Bohr's birthdays and assorted Soviet publications. In a slim volume Anton Capri weaved some of these and many other anecdotes into a coherent history of the early modern physics, starting at the late ninetieth century and going to the late thirties, with some of the personal stories taking his protagonists through the years of WWII and thereafter.
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Second Asher Peres School |
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Written by Dante
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Friday, 15 May 2009 02:22 |
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Quantum sciences team at Macquarie is organizing the second Asher Peres International Physics School. The school introduces senior undergrads and junior postgrads to the current research at the interface of quantum theory and information, with each school [now it is the second, so we have a tradition!] focusing on some of its aspects. The lectures are given by Macquarie hosts and the leading international scientists. Keeping with Asher's dictum "Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space; they occur in a laboratory", the lecturers and their subjects represent both theory and experiment.
This year the title is The edge: twixt quantum & classical phenomena. It covers a wealth of topics:
- Quantum-classical transition and decoherence
- Quantum mechanics, the art of quantum nanoscopic mechanical systems: vibrating beams, membranes etc
- Quantum dynamics and quantum noise in biological systems
- Thermodynamics: from nano to macro
- Manipulating of single molecules and single defects in diamonds
- Introduction to quantum information and quantum open systems
The school is held over five days, November 30 - December 4, 2009, in the historic environs at Chowder Bay on Sydney Harbor, and yes, December =summer in Australia. To register, go to http://web.mac.com/quests/PeresSchool2009/Welcome.html
Asher Peres and his group. August 2003, Perimeter Institute. |
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