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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.
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