Max Kennedy, PhD, FIChemE, FEngNZ (Ret), FNZIC, was the Manager of Contestable Investments at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) for 12 years. This included managing the Endeavour Fund (New Zealand’s largest contestable research fund), the industry-led Partnership Fund, the Pre-Seed Acceleration Fund, and the Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund. Max also led MBIE’s COVID Innovation Acceleration Fund to support research to respond to the COVID-19pandemic.
Prior to this Max was Research and Development Strategy Manager at Meat and Wool NZ Ltd (MWNZ), directing MWNZ consortia research investment in nine companies or partnerships in the pastoral sector. Formerly he was the Chief Scientific Officer of IRL-Bio PharmLtd, a New Zealand-based fermentation contract manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients for human clinical trials under cGMP conditions.
Max has served as Director on the Boards six technology companies and was on the Fermentation Advisory Board of the anti-malaria project of OneWorld Health (a not for profit pharmaceutical company based in San Francisco, USA). Max has been Chair of SCENZ – IChemE in New Zealand and Chair of The Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers (ANZFChE).
Vote for the People's Choice Best Student Poster during the Poster Session on Wednesday between 16.30 and 17.30. The link will activate during the session and the winner decided at the end of the session.
Puketeraki Marae would like us to know the following in relation to our visit to their marae tomorrow morning:
Given the rising Covid-19 situation, it will be a bit of an attenuated pōwhiri – so no hongi and more of a ‘wave’. Also, kai will be served on separate plates for individuals.
Before entering the marae please remove your shoes, ngā mihi.
Please click the link below to register for the Techweek events in Auckland and Christchurch, as posted on the DWC LinkedIn page. We're excited to see you there!
To check for further events (other than below) please follow this link and click the New Zealand tab https://www.lightday.org/events
International Day of Light Science Fair at Papakura Museum
Come to Papakura Museum to celebrate the International Day of Light from 10 am on the 14th of May. There will be power generators, diffraction glasses, and other interactives suitable for the whole family. Come see the museum in an entirely new light using our camera obscura, or just have a chat with one of our friendly scientist volunteers, we look forward to seeing you on the 14th.
Contact: Sara Miller (Dodd-Walls Centre and Papakura Museum)
Date14/05/2022 - 14/05/2022
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Quantum Shorts and international day of light library tour (Balclutha)
Tūhura Otago Museum and the Dodd-Walls Centre are bringing our favourite hands-on, light-based science demonstrations, along with this year’s finalists in the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition to Balclutha Library to inspire the next generation of scientists AND science fiction writers. We’ll kick things off with lights, lasers, and liquid nitrogen before handing things over to our travelling physicist for an introduction to all things quantum!
Contact: Sara Miller (Tūhura Otago Museum and the Dodd-Walls Centre)
Date14/05/2022 - 14/05/2022
Location Balclutha, New Zealand
Shine Bright With Us 2022
Shine Bright With Us 2022 is on for 15 May at Otago Museum! Our annual event celebrating the UNESCO International Day of Light is back, with lasers, lenses, and luminous chemicals! Come to Atrium 1 to explore all the ways light is fun and fundamental to our lives!
Australian and New Zealand School in Ultracold Physics (ANZSUP)
The Australian and New Zealand School in Ultracold Physics (ANZSUP) is a one-week graduate summer school for students at Master level and beginning PhD students. When creating temperatures in the lab that are colder than outer space, the behaviour of matter is dominated by the laws of quantum mechanics. The ANZSUP summer school is aimed at providing graduate students with the relevant background in experiments and theory in the field of ultra-cold physics. This year’s school covered the following topics:
– Laser trapping and cooling of ultra-cold atoms
– Atom optics
– Magnetism in quantum gases
– Phase space methods and stochastic differential equations
– Quantum physics and general relativity
– Lecturers from Australasia and further afield will provide mini-courses on a given topic. In addition to lectures, we plan hands-on activities including a programming workshop in the computer language Julia.
The Ultracold Atomic Physics School will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand at the University of Otago hosted by the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies.
The lectures will be held in the Physics Department, Level 3, Science III Building, 730 Cumberland Street, Dunedin.
Accommodation
Accommodation for the 2019 ANZSUP Summer School has been booked at the Caroline Freeman Residential College for the cost of $70 per night including breakfast. The College is a 5 minute walk from the University of Otago Campus.
The fees for attending this year’s ANZUP are $300 (New Zealand dollars). A limited number of scholarship are available (see below). The fee includes lunches and supports the costs of running the school.
Dates
23 November 2018: Application deadline for scholarships 14 December 2018: Registration deadline 20 January 2019: Travel day for arriving in Dunedin. 21 January 2019: Lectures will start in the morning. 25 January 2019: Lectures will finish at noon.
Australian and New Zealand School in Ultracold Physics
21 to 25 January 2019 – Dunedin, New Zealand
The Australian and New Zealand School in Ultracold Physics (ANZSUP) is a one-week graduate summer school for students at Master level and beginning PhD students. When creating temperatures in the lab that are colder than outer space, the behaviour of matter is dominated by the laws of quantum mechanics. The ANZSUP summer school is aimed at providing graduate students with the relevant background in experiments and theory in the field of ultra-cold physics. This year’s school will cover the following topics:
Laser trapping and cooling of ultra-cold atoms
Atom optics
Magnetism in quantum gases
Phase space methods and stochastic differential equations
Quantum physics and general relativity
Lecturers from Australasia and further afield will provide mini-courses on a given topic. In addition to lectures, we plan hands-on activities including a programming workshop in the computer language Julia.
The Otago University OSA Student Chapter is hosting the 3rd annual Conference on Optics, Atoms and Laser Applications – IONS-KOALA 2010. KOALA will take place from the 29th of November to the 3rd of December.
KOALA is geared primarily towards PhD students from New Zealand and Australia working in an optics-related field. Topics include:
Look out for Lab In A Box at Polyfest 2020! The Dodd-Walls Centre has teamed up with Otago Museum to take the shipping container come science lab for a four day show from the 18th to 21st of March at the Manukau Sports Bowl for Polyfest.
This is an exciting opportunity to let experiments burst out of the universities and engage with the Māori and Pacific communities in Tamaki Herenga Waka.
Be on the lookout for lasers, volcanoes and some colourful characters.
Expect the Unexpected – online EPIC event on 24 June
Mark your calendars – an EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium) 24 hours begins on Wednesday 24 June at 1pm with our very own Industry Team Leader, Professor John Harvey, as he kicks off the event as the opening speaker. He will be followed by Simon Poole, the Chair of our Industry Advisory Board.
Themed “Expect the Unexpected”, the event features 72 photonics industry leaders from 35 countries who will give a short presentation and have time for Q & A – your chance to hear some of the best minds in the photonics field talking about their successes and challenges without leaving your sofa!
Jose Pozo, who Dodd-Walls hosted in 2019, has stepped up to the massive challenge of fueling himself with coffee for 24 hours to moderate this conference… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRBnSyio-k
This is a free event and will be streamed on YouTube. Join Jose, our members and hundreds of others from around the globe – it’s going to be EPIC!
his years Dodd-Walls Symposium will be held on the 20-22 of October. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation this years symposium will be held virtually with local hubs airing selected talks and hosting social events. We look forward to hearing everyone’s latest results and connecting virtually.
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