The Congress is pleased to confirm participation of the following AIP keynote speakers:
| Professor Bruce Allen Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany The Einstein@Home Search for New Neutron Stars |
| Dr Tim Fuller-Rowell University of Colorado, USA Space Weather and its Impact on Technology and Society |
| Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer European Organization for Nuclear Research Geneva, Switzerland The Large Hardron Collider LHC: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science |
| Professor David Karoly University of Melbourne VIC Australia Lies, Damn Lies and Climate Change Sceptics: What Has Really Caused Recent Global Warming? |
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Professor Tobias Kippenberg |
| Professor Jeremy Mould University of Melbourne VIC Australia Dark Matter in the Local 200 Mpc |
| Professor Margaret Murnane University of Colorado, USA Attosecond Light and Science at the Timescale of the Electron |
| Professor Mike Norman Argonne National Laboratory, USA Fermi Surface Reconstruction and the Origin of High Temperature Superconductivity |
| Professor David Payne University of Southhampton, UK Presentation title to be advised |
Professor Bruce Allen
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany
Bruce Allen was born in Boston in 1959. He originally planned to study Electrical Engineering, but changed majors soon after arriving at MIT, where he graduated with a BS in Physics in 1980. Allen was a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, where he received a PhD in Gravitational and Cosmology in 1984, working under the direction of Stephen Hawking, on problems related to the very early universe.
Allen was subsequently a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, Tufts University and the Observatoire de Paris – Meudon. In 1989 Allen took up a faculty position at the U of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He was promoted to full professor in 1997, around the same time that he started working on gravitational wave detection. In 2006 Allen was named a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (the Albert Einstein Institute) in Hannover, Germany. Allen is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He also directs the Einstein@Home project. Allen is married and has two children.
Dr Tim Fuller-Rowell
University of Colorado, USA
Tim Fuller-Rowell is a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also a senior scientist at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. He received his Ph.D. from University College London in Upper Atmosphere Modeling and subsequently joined the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
He returned to the UK for a few years under a Science and Engineering Research Council Advanced Fellowship before returning to Boulder. His primary interest is Space Weather in the upper atmosphere, its connection to tropospheric weather and the magnetosphere, and its response to solar disturbances.
Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer
European Organization for Nuclear Research Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer was born in 1948 in Boll/Goeppingen in Germany. Professor Heuer is an experimental particle physicist. Most of his scientific work has been related to the study of electron-positron reactions, development of experimental techniques, as well as construction and running of large detector systems. From 1984 to 1998 Prof. Heuer was a staff member at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland working for the OPAL experiment at the electronpositron storage ring LEP. He was responsible for the coordination of design and construction of the tracking jet chamber and coordinated the whole tracking system during the experiment construction phase.
During 1994-1998 he was the spokesman of OPAL collaboration. In 1998, Rolf-Dieter Heuer was appointed as a chair at the University of Hamburg. He established a group working on the preparations for experiments at an electron-positron Linear Collider which quickly became one of the leading groups in this area worldwide. From December 2004 until end of 2008 Professor Heuer was research director for particle and astroparticle physics at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. In December 2007 Professor Heuer was elected Director General of CERN. He took office in January 2009.
Professor David Karoly
University of Melbourne VIC Australia
Professor Karoly is an internationally-recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate variations due to El Ni–o-Southern Oscillation. He was heavily involved in preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007, in several different roles.
Professor Karoly was Chair of the Premier of Victoria’s Climate Change Reference Group during 2008 and 2009. He is a member of the Australian government’s High Level Coordination Group on climate change science and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Professor Karoly joined the School of Earth Sciences in May 2007 as a Federation Fellow funded by the Australian government. From 2003, he held the Williams Chair in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. During 2001-2002, he was Professor of Meteorology and Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University. From August 1995, he was Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at Monash University until it closed in June 2000.
Professor Tobias Kippenberg
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne Switzerland
A German citizen, Tobias Kippenberg studied at the University of Aachen (RWTH) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he earned a master’s degree in applied physics in 2000 and a doctorate in 2004, working with Kerry Vahala on ultra high Q optical microresonators. After a postdoctoral year at Caltech, he led his own group at the Max Planck Institute in Garching in the Division of Theodor W. Haensch. He was hired by the EPFL as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2007. He completed his Habilitation in experimental physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2009. The same year, he received the Helmholtz Prize and the Fresnel Prize for his contributions in two very different fields: cavity optomechanics and optical frequency combs using microresonators. He has more than 50 publications and given more than 60 talks at international conferences. In his free time he enjoys roadbiking in the Swiss mountains.
Professor Jeremy Mould
University of Melbourne VIC Australia
Dr Jeremy Mould was recently Director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in the U.S.A. and formerly Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of The Australian National University. He was professor of astronomy at the ANU, and prior to that, professor of astronomy at Caltech. He is an alumnus of the University of Melbourne and is currently Professorial Fellow there.
Dr Mould’s research interests are in observational cosmology and how stars and galaxies age and evolve. He is especially well known for his work with the Hubble Space Telescope on the size and age of the Universe. He received the Gruber Prize for cosmology for this work in 2009, together with colleagues, Robert Kennicutt and Wendy Freedman. In 2001 Dr Mould’s research discoveries were recognized through a Thomson ISI Australian Citation Laureate. Other awards include the Oort Professorship in 1998 from Leiden University, and together with his late colleague Marc Aaronson, the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society. Dr Mould has been a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 1998. At his election to the Academy he was cited for original work showing that the history of dwarf galaxies, previously thought to be constituted from the earliest stellar population in the Universe, was in fact complex, with substantial, even dominant, contributions from younger generations of stars.
Professor Margaret Murnane
University of Colorado, USA
Margaret Murnane is a Fellow of JILA and a faculty member in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado. She runs a joint research group with her husband, Professor Henry Kapteyn. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees from University College Cork, Ireland and her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. She remained at Berkeley for one year as a postdoctoral fellow, before joining the faculty at Washington State University in 1990. In 1996, Professor Murnane moved to the University of Michigan and in 1999 she moved to the University of Colorado.
Professor Murnane and her group use coherent beams of laser and x-ray light to capture the fastest dynamics in molecules and materials at the nanoscale. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America and the AAAS. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. She was also awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Margaret and Henry shared the 2009 Ahmed Zewail Award of the ACS and the 2010 Schawlow Prize of the APS. Professor Murnane is very interested in increasing diversity in science and engineering.
Professor Murnane’s session (Plenary Session 1) is sponsored by: Sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science
Professor Mike Norman
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Mike Norman is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and head of the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Argonne National Laboratory. He is also an adjunct Professor in the Physics Department at Northwestern University. Currently, he is a PI in the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center.
Mike became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995, received the University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award in 1999, and was on the Editorial Board of Physical Review B from 2000-2005. Mike got his PhD in Physics in 1983 at Tulane University, then did a postdoc at Argonne jointly with Northwestern. After his postdoc on electronic structure, he turned to many body theory, working on heavy fermion superconductors, and later high temperature cuprate superconductors. His recent interests besides cuprates include spin liquids, quantum criticality in heavy fermions, and the interpretation of spectroscopic data in condensed matter systems.
Professor Norman’s session (Plenary Session 4) is sponsored by: Melbourne Materials Institute
Professor David Payne
University of Southhampton, UK
Professor David N Payne, CBE, FRS, FREng, is the Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He led the team that first reported the optical fibre laser and the erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) and is credited with many other key advances in optical fibre technology over the last forty years. His career has spanned both the academic and the commercial, where his activities have led to a cluster of ten companies in the local area.
Professor Payne has won the John Tyndall Award (USA), the Rank Prize for Optics, the Japanese Computers and Communications Prize, the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal (USA), the Basic Research Award by the Eduard Rhein Foundation, and the Mountbatten Medal of the IEE. For his unique contributions to both science and engineering, in 2004 he was awarded the Kelvin medal by the combined UK Societies. In 2007 he received the IEEE Photonics Award for outstanding achievements in photonics and in 2008 he became a Millennium Prize Laureate.
**Due to unforeseen circumstances Dr Barbara Terhal (USA) is no longer able to attend the Congress.