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Previous NewsletterS

You can read previous AIP bulletins below.

2025

February
AGM today; Quantum Year; 2024 Recap.

March
Introducing the new President; Honorary Fellows; ARC Response; AIP Awards.

Student grants, prizes, quantum in schools and other physics news.

Science in question this election, Quantum and Marie Curie lecture tours, communicating physics to the public, and more.

Australia's sovereign research. Quantum tours. Summer meeting.

2024

2024 Women in Physics Lecturer announced, AIP awards, and Australia Day Honours.

Support for ARC Review recommendations; Women in Physics lecture series kicks off; and four quantum controls in one atom.

Maths crisis; Looking for an ECR rep; Award for Outstanding Service.

National Careers Fair; back-to-back Women in Physics lectures; ARC updates.

June
Aurora Australis; National Careers Fair; Physics in the Pub.

July
Quantum Year; Energy policy; Astro Awards.

August
Quantum Briefings; Updated Membership and Fellowship Criteria; Photo Comp; Careers Fair Success.

September
2024 AIP awards announced; Quantum Year momentum; final Women in Physics lectures.

October
Massey Medal; Quantum dots final lectures; Congress coming soon.

November
AIP Fellows announced, ‘Quantum Explained’ competition.

December
Congress today; International student caps; Quantum Briefings; Tell us what you think.

2023

AIP turns 60. AIP awards. Congress stories and more.

A voice for physics, welcome to volunteers, and prizes.

Aus subs need nuclear physicists. Academy awards and more.

May

ARC Report released, 70 years of Aus nuclear, prizes and more.

June

Shaw Prize to Matthew Bailes, Women in Physics tour kicks off, meet our new Secretary and more.

July

Gravitational waves and galactic neutrinos; nanomagnets; join the Exec.

Oppenheimer, Universities Accord, Vale Jim Piper.

ARC review welcomed, Nano-magnets tour, NSW Awards.

October

Walter Boas Medal winners, response to Science Priorities, 60th year tour.

TH Laby and Bragg medals, quantum takes PM Prizes, fast radio bursts.

December
Removal of ministerial veto; AIP-AMSI partnership; See you in Canberra.

2022

Winners of the 2021 AIP Awards, 2022 Women in Physics Lecturer, quantum computing in the news.

Singularities, successful AGM, becoming a STEM Ambassador.

Senate inquiry, AIP Congress, 11 awards open for nomination.

May

Space rocks Women in Physics lecture tour, Nobel Laureates at AIP Congress, AUS-US space collab on Earth Observation.

June

Supermassive black hole Sgr A* , defence quantum tech at AIP Congress, physicists elected as Science Academy Fellows.

July

Queen's Birthday honours, quantum processor mimics nature, Women in Physics tour heading to QLD & VIC.

First Aus fellow of top gravitational society, James Webb Space Telescope, ethical banking, National Science Week.

Uncovering dark matter, National Interest Test, new roles for AIP Exec members.

Living in 'The Matrix', ‘hearing’ Mars impacts & vale Prof Michael Brunger.

Congress program now live, Blaise Pascal Medal, 60th coming up and more.

December
Nano-magnets, new AIP Executive and AIP Awards.

2021

New hands at the helm, galactic evolution, Science Meets Parliament.

Physics in a pandemic, South Korea ties, send your science selfies.

Nanotech, patents, time travel and April physics fun.

Return to campus, Women in Physics, Science meets Parliament.

New Fellows, old lacrosse teams, how to get to Mars.

Queen’s honours, Martian safety, tales of the FLEET.

Fast radio bursts, sick children, quantum ethics.

ARC eligibility concerns, physics awards, vale Dr Ian Bassett.

Nuclear subs needs physicists, pre-prints & the ARC, a physicist makes TIME's top 100.

AIP summer meeting coming up, vale Prof Rod Jory, climate models win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

December
Gravitational waves, AIP summer meeting.

2020

AIP Annual General Meeting, Awards, Hidden Physicists, jobs.

Awards & Prize nominations open, ARC Senate Order passed.

How the AIP is managing the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, awards & prizes.

First in new series of ARC Centre talks, Extension of closing date for AIP Prizes.

Australia’s Quantum Future, Physicists Honoured, Hidden Physicist.

Black Lives Matter, gravity wave detector, Hidden Physicist in review.

The photonics economy, quantum computing, alien life.

AIP fights physics education cuts, photovoltaics, machine-learning.

The Nobel approaches, the Ig Nobels pass, Eureka Prize finalists.

PM’s Prizes, online gigs galore, new links with Korea.

December
New Chief Scientist appointed, Dirac Medal awarded, Hidden Physicist.

Earlier Newsletter Bulletins

You can read earlier newsletter bulletins prior to 2020 by clicking on the link below.

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Quantum Year National Tour

7 Jul 2025

Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney
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Talk by Chris Ferrie on Quantum Bullsh*t

9 Jul 2025 6:00 PM

Ross Lecture Theatre (Physics building: 245.G41), The University of Western Australia
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International Symposium on Teaching Einsteinian Physics

10 Jul 2025 5:00 PM

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