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Cather Simpson leaves the board.

Te Whai Ao Dodd-Walls Centre Board Chair Charlotte Walshe has announced that University of Auckland Professor Cather Simpson has resigned from the Centre’s Governance Board.

Exceptional alumni honoured with prestigious University award

Renowned physicist and science communicator Professor John Dudley has been recognised for his exceptional accomplishments in the University’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Awards.

A New Zealand breakthough in quantum-inspired optical computing

With fully fault‑tolerant quantum computers still years away, New Zealand researchers have built a hybrid device that could solve major problems much sooner.

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Commercialisation Icon Award

Congratulations to the Dodd-Walls Centre Associate Director Industry, Professor Cather Simpson who is the 2022 Commercialisation Icon

Our Director interviewed on Morning Report

Our Director Professor David Hutchinson interviewed on Morning Report about this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics and the field in general

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

Symposium Poster Winners 2022

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 Symposium poster competition and a big congratulations to our winners. Photo Credit: Angela Jane Photography

Dunedin Symposium 2022

The 2022 Dodd-Walls Centre symposium was a great opportunity for our community to reconnect after an isolating couple of years.

Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices

For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted