From 1984 to the Modern Discipline Anthony W. Thomas 125 th Anniversary of Physics Symposium University of Adelaide : September 1 st 2012
Physics 1984 Page 2
Rodney Crewther Page 3
Bragg Centenary Departmental Photo - 1986 Page 4
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Physics and Mathematical Physics – May 1988 Page 6
Two New Professors Jesper Munch Paul Davies Page 7
Not all work... Page 8
More play – Town vs Gown 1994 AWT with Rob Lucas (Minister of Education) Page 9
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Official NITP Opening Page 12
Japan-Australia Workshop 1995 Page 13
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Senator Amanda Vanstone: ARC launch of new SRCs Page 15
CSSM • Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter formed as an ARC Special Research Centre in 1997 Tony Williams Derek Leinweber • To understand the quark structure of matter from protons and neutrons to atomic nuclei and neutron stars (pulsars) • This has made Adelaide a major international player in subatomic physics - hundreds of scientists from around the world came here to work with our staff and students (and still do!) Ramona Adorjan Sharon Johnson Page 16
Archeometry John Prescott, Nigel Spooner and colleagues Page 17
Cangaroo Ambassador of Japan & Prof. Kifune at the opening Page 18
Adelaide-Tokyo University Workshop 2002 Photo taken by Abraham Chian Page 19
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The Discipline Now Possibly the strongest research programs Physics has ever had − Overall ranking in last ERA was 5 − Over $4M in Category 1 grants in 2012 − Total research income $6.2M in 2012 − $34M in external funding for “The Braggs” Page 21
Optics and Photonics Page 22
Optics & Photonics Research at UA IN THE BEGINNING (1990): Jesper Munch appointed to Chair of Experimental Physics, and starts Optics & Photonics group. 1991/2: Murray Hamilton and Peter Veitch join Optics & Photonics group Initial research included • high speed all-optical switches using II-VI MQWs (with CMTEK/DSTO) • holographic correction of low-cost primary mirrors for telescopes • phase conjugation using stimulated Brillouin scattering • coherent laser radar (with DSTO) • ultra-stable Nd;YAG lasers for gravitational wave interferometry • computer-controlled optical elements using spatial light modulators • fundamental spectroscopy for nonlinear processes Industrial collaborations with DSTO, Australian Holographics, Tenix, Norseld, BAE Systems, SOLA Page 23 _________________________________________________________________________________
Early PhDs Page 24 _________________________________________________________________________________
More recent research includes Development of high power Nd:YAG lasers for gravitational wave interferometry (GWI) 10 W Nd:YAG laser 100 W Nd:YAG laser for advanced GWI for Japanese TAMA300 GWI Page 25
The world’s highest-brightness high power cryogenic laser: Page 26 _________________________________________________________________________________
Facilities for Photonics & Sensing Research @ IPAS, UoA Beginning of fibre research @UoA in 2005. Some highlights: Page 27
Research with applications in Defence, Medicine, Environment, Food/Wine Applied research driving fundamental Corrosion discoveries…. monitoring Detecting viruses & cancer Nanoparticles in biomarkers glass for single photon devices New classes of lasers Dip sensors for measurement in-vivo Page 28
IPAS Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing As of 31 August 2012 The Braggs Building Headquarters for IPAS Due for completion 28 February 2013 Page 29
Development of ultra-sensitive Hartmann-type wavefront sensors - this sensor has been chosen for use in the (US) Advanced LIGO GWI - and for the (French/Italian) Advanced Virgo GWI An ARC LIEF project funds development of Hartmann sensors for aLIGO and Australian membership of the aLIGO project. LIGO Hanford Observatory Page 30 _________________________________________________________________________________
High Energy Astrophysics Page 31
HESS gamma-ray observatory, Namibia ICECUBE neutrino detector, South Pole ICECUBE Page 32
Pierre Auger Observatory Page 33
Atmospheric and Space Physics Page 34
Atmospheric Physics : Recent Highlights The development and application of radars to study the • structure and dynamics of the atmosphere and ionosphere from the ground to geospace. – SuperDarn Over-the-Horizon radar – Meteor wind radars – Boundary Layer and Stratospheric wind profiling radars • The development and application of optical techniques, including lidar, to study the thermal structure and dynamics of the middle and upper atmosphere. Atmospheric Radar Systems (ATRAD): spin-off company • selling radars to national and international customers. Collaboration with French colleagues on super pressure • balloon studies of waves in the Antarctic lower stratosphere and their role in the destruction of ozone. Page 35
Darwin: Radar Sydney Airport: Studies of Tropical ATRAD Wind Profiler Storms and Wave Generation Lidar Studies of Davis Base, temperature to 80 km Antarctica Page 36 50 MHz Wind Profiling Radar Buckland Park
ATRAD Distribution Page 37
Subatomic Physics Page 38
A Very Brief History of Subatomic Physics • 1995: Won national competition to host a National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NITP) • 1997: Awarded ARC Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM) • 2009: CSSM re-invented as C 2 SSM (Adelaide University’s Research Centre for Complex Systems and the Structure of Matter) • 2011: Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) • Currently more than 40 staff and post-graduate students including experimental Page 39 participation in ATLAS
A few achievements since 1997 Students: • − 78 Graduate students 1997+ − 54 Honours students − 46 undergraduates involved in research projects • Workshops: − 35 Workshops and Conferences 1997+ − Including QNP 2000; Symmetries in Subatomic Physics; Light-cone 2005; Pacific Spin 2011; Lattice 2012 and ICHEP (in Melbourne) 2012 • Approx. 370 journal articles with more than 11,000 citations • Currently: approximately $1.7M per annum in Category 1 grants Page 40
ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale The University of Adelaide The University of Melbourne The University of Sydney Monash University Page 41
Physics at the LHC corresponds Observed in Astronomy to conditions around here Particle Physics Page 42 42
ATLAS Cavern ARC CoE for Particle Page 43 Physics at the Tera-Scale
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This is a wonderfully challenging and exciting time for subatomic physics The likely discovery of the Higgs boson constitutes the most exciting development in particle physics in almost 30 years We know enough to realize just how much there must still be to learn Through the CoEPP and CSSM Adelaide is ideally placed to play a major role in this field in the coming decade and beyond Page 45
Summary Together these research programs represent a remarkable effort to explore Nature at its deepest levels while simultaneously contributing to the defense of our nation and the health of local industry. The University and the people of South Australia can be very proud indeed of the Discipline of Physics at the University of Adelaide. Page 46
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I would like to extend my personal thanks to all the speakers and attendees but particularly to Bruce Dawson and Gavin Rowell who put so much effort into the organisation of this celebration Page 48
Additional Material Page 49
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The New Millenium : A Period at Jefferson Lab Page 56
C 2 SSM 2012 Page 57
Fundamental Test of Non-Perturbative QCD • Strangeness contribution is a vacuum polarization effect, analogous to Lamb shift in QED • It is a fundamental test of QCD at long distances where the force is really strong Page 58
A unique case : theory 10 times more accurate than data Experimental program took three major laboratories 20 years! CSSM – JLab calculation − culmination of 12 years work! Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) Page 59
Origin of the Mass of Nuclear Matter Interplay between numerical studies in lattice QCD and modelling with Dyson-Schwinger equations Lattice data from CSSM: Leinweber, Williams et al. Page 60
Report a very accurate pulsar mass much larger than seen before : 1.97 ± 0.04 solar mass Claim it rules out hyperons (particles with strange quarks) J1614-2230 Page 61
Just 3 years before * .... • Guichon et al., Nucl. Phys. A814 (2008) 66 - result of an on-going collaboration between CSSM & CEA France with Jirina Stone (Oxford) Page 62
Staff and students of the Adelaide Node of CoEPP Page 63
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