Australia

For further information related to Australian events, contact the Coordinators:
Prof. Elliman Rob
Australian Inst. Of Physics Head,
Department of Electronic Materials Engineering,
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200
tel: +61 2 6125 0521 • fax: +61 2 6125 0511
Email: president@aip.org.au 
or
Prof. Jamieson David
University of Melbourne
School of Physics
Victoria 3010, Melbourne
tel: + 61 03 8344 5376 / 61 03 8344 5429 • fax: + 61 03 9347 4783
Emails: wyp2005@physics.unimelb.edu.au or dnj@physics.unimelb.edu.au

Useful links:
www.yearofphysics2005.org.au
www.einstein2005.org.au
www.aip.org.au
http://aipcongress2005.anu.edu.au
www.einstein2005.org.au/townhall.html
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight

Events:

• 16th Biennial Congress “Physics for the Nation”, from 31 January to 4 February 2005, the Australian National University of Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

• The July Lectures in Physics 2004:
  Physics before Einstein. The July lectures are a long-running series of lectures on fundamental questions in Physics. They are free and open for the Public.
  2004 Theme: Physics Before Einstein: In 1905 Albert Einstein published revolutionary ideas that changed the way we look at the world. The 100th anniversary of this miraculous year has been declared the World Year of Physics. So this year, on the 99th anniversary, we look at the world before Einstein.
  Lecture N. 1: 8:00 pm Friday July 2, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) The 19th Century world wide web: the electric telegraph and the eccentric Oliver Heaviside
  Lecture N. 2: 8:00 pm Friday July 9, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) The emergence of atoms: Brownian motion and the physics of large systems
  Lecture N. 3: 8:00 pm Friday July 16, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) Light waves in the luminiferous Aether: real stuff or 19th Century delusion?
  Lecture N.4: 8:00 pm Friday July 23, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) The ultra-violet catastrophe: the red hot emergence of quantum mechanics

• 3rd September 2004: Laser light show

• 2005 Theme:
  The July Lectures in Physics 2005: Einstein's Revolutionary Ideas Explained Dates, times, speakers and topics to be confirmed
  Lecture N. 1: 8:00 pm Friday July 1 2005, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) The light quantum: from the humble photoelectric effect to the strange world of modern physics
  Lecture N. 2: 8:00 pm Friday July 8 2005, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) Einstein's theory of Special Relativity: light, time and space
  Lecture N.3: 8:00 pm Friday July 15 2005, Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) How the mass movement of trillions of atoms changed the world
  Lecture N. 4: 8:00 pm Friday July 22 2005, Murdoch Theatre (adjacent to School of Physics) E = mc2: Energy and matter entwined

• For Schools: - Build a physics demonstration from items found around the home - A national and state version of the International Young Physicists' Tournament but for Year 10 and/or Year 11 - Competition for Year 11 students based on VCE Unit 2 Investigations for the Detailed Studies: Aerospace and Alternative Energy (Victorian based) - Team based problem solving (internet based, a la programming competitions) - Photographic competition (a la AAPT & IOP) also consider video - Roller coaster building contest (a la AAPT) - Writing and Public Speaking Competition

• On March 14th, Einstein's Bithday, the boys at Hale School (Western
  Australia) will be celebrating the day with a bang. Local Physicists
  from the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University as well
  as the Australian Institute of Physics will be coming to talk to us
  about Einstein, their research and his profound effect on our
  understanding of the world around us.
  The event is being featured in several newspapers in Western Australia.