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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.


April

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


2024


February

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


March

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


April

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


May

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


        February

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


        March

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


        April

        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.


        August

        Oppenheimer, Universities Accord, Vale Jim Piper.


        September

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


        October

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


        November

        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

        February

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


        March

        Singularities, successful AGM, becoming a STEM Ambassador.


        April

        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.


        August

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


        September

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


        October

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


        November

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


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

        2021


        February

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


        March

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


        April

        Nanotech, patents, time travel and April physics fun.


        May

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


        June

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


        July

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


        August

        Fast radio bursts, sick children, quantum ethics.


        September

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


        October

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


        November

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


        December
        Gravitational waves, AIP summer meeting.

        2020


        February

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


        March

        Awards & Prize nominations open, ARC Senate Order passed.


        April

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


        May

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


        June

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


        July

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


        August

        The photonics economy, quantum computing, alien life.


        September

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


        October

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


        November

        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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