AIP/ACOFT 2010 will be the biggest and most diverse scientific meeting on the Australian physics calendar and will bring together leaders and key industry players from within Australia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.
This year, the 2010 Congress will incorporate another major conference – the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology – increasing the representation to delegates from this important technology sector.
The four day program will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions, catered poster sessions, workshops, special interest group seminars, a full industry trade exhibition, a free public lecture, an industry forum as well as a strong social & networking program.
The Congress theme of Living Physics reflects the richness of the field and brings a wealth of opportunities for delegates, presenters and sponsors and exhibitors to engage.
Plenary Sessions include:
- Professor Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado, USA
- Professor David Payne, University of Southampton, UK
- Dr Tim Fuller-Rowell, University of Colorado, USA – Space Weather and its Impact on Technology and Society
- Professor Mike Norman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA – Fermi Surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High Temperature Superconductivity
- Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, European Organization for Nuclear Research Geneva, Switzerland – The Large Hadron Collider LHC: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science
- Professor Bruce Allen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany, The Einstein@Home Search for New Neutron Stars
- Professor David Karoly, University of Melbourne, Australia – Lies, Damn Lies and Climate Change Sceptics: What Has Really Caused Recent Global Warming?
- Professor Jeremy Mould, University of Melbourne, Australia – Dark Matter in the Local 200 Mpc
Free Public Lecture (Wednesday 8 December 2010): Professor Bruce Allen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany - Einstein’s Legacy, and the Search for Gravitational Waves
Australian Institute of Physics Congress (AIP) sessions include:
| Plenary Sessions | Poster Displays | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| Quantum Information, Concepts & Coherence Group |
Meteorology, Oceanography, Environmental Physics & Climate Change | Complex Systems, Computational & Mathematical Physics |
| Surface & Materials | Nuclear & Particle Physics | Semiconductors |
| Theory | Soft Matter | Nanoscience |
| Education | Biophysics / Biomedical Physics | Plasma Science |
| Relativity & Gravitation | Synchrotron Science | Nano Schools |
| Condensed Matter | History of Physics | Acoustics, Music & Ultrasonics |
| Solar, Terrestrial & Space Physics | Modelling & Simulations |
35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) sessions include:
| Plenary Sessions and Poster Displays | Photonic Crystals |
| The Laserfest Symposium | Novel Devices |
| Direct Writing and Novel Gratings | Microstructured Fibres and Novel Devices |
| Fibres for Novel Applications | Silicon Photonics |
| Bragg Gratings | High Speed Signal Processing and Devices |
| Biomedical and Sensing | Nonlinear Waveguides |
| Sensors | Radio over Fibre |
| Bragg Gratings | Fibres for Novel Applications |
| Radio over Fiber | Photonic Crystals |
| Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Fibres and Waveguides | Plus Student Paper Awards and opportunity for Postdeadline Papers |
Australian Optical Society (AOS) sessions include:
| Plenary Sessions | Poster Displays | Plasmonics: Fundamentals |
| Optics and Interferometry | Plasmonics: Devices | X-Ray/XUV |
| Plasmonics: Optics | Fermi Gases | Metamaterials |
| Quantum Optics | Optical Trapping | Spectroscopy |
| Lasers | Correlations | Photonic Crystals |
| Nonlinear Optics | Fabrication | Optics in Astronomy |
| Devices and Systems | Applications of Nonlinear Optics | Diamond Photonics |
| Excitations | Sensing/Lasers | Control and Trapping of (ultra) Cold Gases |