The 48th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga 2026

The 48th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting in conjunction with the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Condensed Matter Physics will be held 9-13 February 2026 at the Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW.

The Organising Committee looks forward to welcoming all participants especially students and early career researchers. Recent advances in condensed matter and materials research will be discussed at the meeting. For all information, visit the webpage: https://www.australianphysics.au/CMM-Conference

AIP Summer Meeting, December 2025

The Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Summer Meeting will be held on 1 – 5 December 2025 at the University of Wollongong, Australia. The meeting is targeted at professional scientists, academics, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students.

The 2025 meeting has a strong focus to celebrate Australia’s contribution to Quantum Physics, Quantum Technology and Quantum Computing. For more details follow the link.

Welcome to the 2025 Gordon Godfrey Workshop, UNSW, Sydney

The organising committee welcomes participants of the 2025 Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Spins, Topology and Strong Electron Correlations. The workshop will be held at the School of Physics, UNSW, on 24 - 28 November 2025. The program includes the following topics: Quantum technologies, Spins/pseudospins, Magnetism and correlations in low dimensional systems and nanostructures, Topological physics, Phase transitions, Superconductivity, Bose condensation, Correlations and active defects in solids. The speakers from the Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, the USA, Korea, Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium, France, Hong Kong and Australia will present and discuss the latest discoveries and results. Research students, postdocs, research associates are encouraged actively to participate.

The new Honours research projects are proposed

The new research projects are proposed for Honours degree students at the School of Physics, UNSW in 2025. The title of the first research project is “A new method of axion-like dark matter detection”. The aim of the project is to develop the theory for a novel promising method of dark matter detection. The method is based on optic fibers. To some extent the idea of the method  is similar to the LIGO detection of gravitational waves.

The title of the second research project is "Excitons in Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers in strong electric and magnetic fields." TMD excitons are similar to two-dimensional  hydrogen atoms. This is a very hot topic of research because of possible applications.  There are recent intriguing experimental results on behaviour of excitons in strong electric fields.  The aim of the project is to develop the theory of TMD excitons in strong fields.

Jack Engdahl attended the CMQM 2024 Conference in Scotland

Jack Engdahl presented a talk “Driving Viscous Hydrodynamics in Bulk Electron Flow in Graphene Using Micromagnets” at the Conference on The Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials (CMQM 2024). The meeting covers a wide range of topics and emerging fields, ranging from solid state and materials physics to many-body effects and quantum simulation. The conference was held in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK from July 2 – 5, 2024.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024

May your life be happy, amazing and interesting, filled with sunshine and smiles, pleasant surprises and jokes, kindness, love and music, interesting books. With all our hearts we wish you joy, laughter, interesting impressions, wonderful dreams, wonderful unforgettable travels, good health and much more.

The time of 2023 is going away, to the past. We hear tender and sad sounds of bells, saying good bye to 2023. We hope that your life in 2024 will be full of good interesting events and meetings with lovely kind people.