Grants 2007
The School continued to build on research successes in recent years,being awarded 13 new ARC grants beginning in 2007, totaling $5.7M over 5 years. There were a further 8 grants awarded in collaboration with otherinstitutions totaling $6.0M over 5 years. These grants were awarded through Discovery Projects, (including 2 QEII Fellowships), LIEF and Linkage grant schemes. Details are listed below, together with 2007 new grant funding (total $1.9M).
ARC LIEF GRANTS - EQUIPMENT - INTERNATIONAL VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Prof Marcela Bilek - $750,000
Comprehensive Analysis Facility for Thin Films and Surfaces
This was one of ten grants awarded to the University in 2008, and the second largest funded.
Professor Ben Eggleton - $61,900
PicoSolve optical sampling oscilloscope PSO 101A
A/Professor Ole Bang - Department of Photonics & Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Dr Theo ten Brummelaar - Centre for High Angular Astronomy, Georgia State University
Professor Moshe Elitzer - Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Professor Craig Kletzing Ð Department of Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Professor Walfhard Moeller - Department of Physics, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany
A/Professor Jeremy OÕBrien Ð Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol
Professor Matthius Scheffler Ð Fritz Haber Institute, The Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.
The School of Physics hosted two of seven University fellowships awarded in 2008.
Dr Florian Girelli
formerly The International School of Advanced Sciences, SISSA, Trieste, Italy. Research field: Quantum reference frames in quantum gravity and quantum information theory
Dr Gregory Madsen
Formerly the Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney.
Research field: Interstellar Ionised gas and the evolution of galaxies
Grants proposed and 'received' in 2008 for work in 2009:
O'Byrne, J.W., Thompson, R,
'Just in Time' teaching in Physics
Faculty SciFER grant - $5,000
O'Byrne, J.W., Thompson, R., Tarrant, R.,
Video presentation of first year physics concept maps
Small TIES grant - $5,108
O'Byrne, J.W., Meikle, S, Robinson, J.
A new approach to teaching Medical Radiation Physics
Large TIES grant - $46,500
MD Sharma, Les Kirkup (UTS) and project team.
Australian Learning and Teaching Council - Forging New Directions in Physics Education in Australian Universities
$130 K over 2008-2009.
Wheatland, M.S. and Hudson, T.S.
Subject retention rates in physics and chemistry
Faculty SciFER grant - $2500