The Thirteenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting

The forthcoming thirteenth Gaseous Electronics Meeting (GEM XIII) will be held between the 1st to the 5th of February, 2004. Flowing on from the success of the previous GEM, GEM 2004 will be held again at the luxurious Murramarang Resort on the south coast of NSW near Bateman's Bay.

The GEM program has been expanded to include the Italian - Australian Specialist Workshop on Plasma Treated Materials. As a result, GEM will be extended to last for 3.5 days. For more details about the conference, please go to the official GEM 2004 site. For further enquiries, please contact via email.

The Organizing Committee for GEM2004

Dick Morrow Morrow Corona Solutions Pty Ltd Chairman
Richard Mildren Physics, Macquarie University Secretary
Tony Murphy CSIRO, Telecommunications and Applied Physics Treasurer

Some pictures were taken from last GEM2002:

Fig.1 - Our chief investigator, Alex Samrarian and senior technician, John Piggot shared their accomodations in a luxurious garden bungalow.

Fig.2 - Alex trying his best in explaining the concept of Complex Plasma to the Australian natives.

Fig.3 - Our Ph.D. student, Felix Cheung came equal first in the best oral presentation competition in last GEM2002 conference.

Fig.4 - After enduring for half a day of oral talks, John and others decided to have an achohol party in his bungalow.

Fig.5 - A panorama shot at the beach right next to the resort.

Felix Cheung

10/09/2003