Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024

May your life be happy, amazing and interesting, filled with sunshine and smiles, pleasant surprises and jokes, kindness, love and music, interesting books. With all our hearts we wish you joy, laughter, interesting impressions, wonderful dreams, wonderful unforgettable travels, good health and much more.

The time of 2023 is going away, to the past. We hear tender and sad sounds of bells, saying good bye to 2023. We hope that your life in 2024 will be full of good interesting events and meetings with lovely kind people.

The 46th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga 2024

The 46th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting will be held from Tuesday 6th – Friday 9th, February 2024 at sunny Wagga Wagga, Charles Sturt University site. The Organising Committee look forward to welcoming all participants there! Recent advances in condensed matter research from around Australia and New Zealand will be discussed at the meeting. For all information, visit the webpage: https://aip.org.au/CMM-Conference.

Congratulations on Zeb Krix’s achievement!

Zeb Krix has been awarded a Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses.

The Dean’s Award recognises high quality PhD theses produced at UNSW. The Dean’s Award goes to Zeb Krix who had submitted a thesis “Controlling interaction effects in artificial crystals” that received outstanding and excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, and, in the opinion of both examiners, is in the top 10% of PhD theses examined.

Welcome to the Gordon Godfrey 2023 Workshop

The organising committee welcomes participants of the Gordon Godfrey 2023 Workshop. The workshop will be held at the School of Physics, UNSW, on 20 - 24 November 2023. The program includes the variety of topics: Spins/pseudospins, magnetism and correlations in low dimensional systems and nanostructures; Topological physics and materials; Phase transitions, Superconductivity, Bose condensation; Correlations and active defects in solids; Approaches for neuromorphic technologies. The speakers from the Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia, Singapore, the USA, Israel and Australia will present the latest discoveries and results. Research students, postdocs, research associates are encouraged actively to participate.

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FLEET’s annual workshop, Lorne, 3 – 7 July 2023

This year FLEET’s annual workshop was held at Mantra Lorne, southwest of Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road. It was a great opportunity to gather together and share research progress. The program was concentrated around the new scientific fields of topological electronics, atomically thin materials, exciton condensates, and non-equilibrium phenomena. Jack and Zeb presented their talks and posters:

  • Jack Engdahl, Dramatic increase of viscous effects in magnetohydrodynamics in graphene (poster)

  • Zeb Krix, New kind of magnetic oscillation in artificial crystals (poster)

  • Jack Engdahl, Bandgap and exciton energy renormalization in doped TMD (talk)

The 45th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting in Wagga Wagga

The 45th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting has been held, in-person, in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Charles Sturt University site, 7 - 10 of February 2023.

Zeb Krix and Aydin Keser presented talks. Jack Engdahl’s poster on “Micromagnets dramatically enhance effects of viscous hydrodynamic flow in two-dimensional electron fluid” attracted a lot of attention. Congratulations to Jack, who became one of the winners for the best poster presentation.

The conference was a success and participants have heard and discussed recent advances in condensed matter research from around Australia and New Zealand.