The lecture is available on youtube -

Public lecture by Hans Bachor at ANU Physics

Large salaries always bring a lot of public attention. Looking at recent news article about high university VC salaries in Australia, I asked chatGPT to do a research for several developed countries and do comparison of AVERAGE VC salary and PhD scholarship. Here is the result.

The most accurate clock in Australia

After some doubts, I contacted the hotel that listed as the conference venue. Nope, they said, we are not hosting that conference. @DNeshev - this is the conference we talked about.

A question to academics, if you are invited to a conference that you have not heard before, how do you check if it's legitimate? The plenary speakers list Nobel prize winners and people that you know. All seems professional. But scam expands into this space. See comment below.

The Australian National University just announced the increase of parking fees for staff by 3 times. It is now the same as in Canberra city, but ANU doesn't have public transport options. #ANU.

Stolen from the internet. New type of coffee - anti-depresso. The key is actually not to add coffee, just pure cognac (or another similar drink of your choice).

Driving in Uber in Canberra today - the driver said he is the first Uber driver in Canberra. Practically celebrity.

To Outlook users, do you like the "New" version? So far, I found two of the features that I used constantly, are removed. Big step back.

We published a book chapter with @swaldenwebb and Yana Izdebskaya on "Tunable metasurface devices based on soft matter". You can download it for free for the next 45 days @TMOS_ARC.

RT @vynisle: @Plasmonica @ZuseInstitute @IShadrivov from Australian National University @TMOS_ARC on laser induced periodic structures. ##I….

The sports is not a common topic at home, so one day driving home my older son says - you know, there is a great soccer player, Messi - can you guess what's his first name? The only name that I immediately guessed was "Very".

TMOS Director Dragomir Neshev addresses the TMOS members. It's remarkable what the Centre achieved in the past 3 years. @TMOS_ARC @DNeshev

I clearly have gaps in educating my kids. When asked where the eggs are coming from, they said "from the shops".

Great honour to have Prof Tery Odom presenting her work at ANU. @TMOS_ARC @PhysicsANU

In former USSR, the beds were called single and '1.5 size', which attracted a lot of jokes. I just realised that single and double beds in Australia are 92 and 138cm wide. So the "double" is exactly a 1.5 size bed here 🙄.

And they are saying Australia is full of dangerous creatures. At least here we just keep a jar at home to occasionally catch and release a spider. In Florida you need a wheelie bin to catch and release intruders.

Challenge - can you live without a smartphone for a week? My phone died unexpectedly on Moreton Island, and I am tempted not to get a new one for a few weeks. Admittedly, I still have a laptop and can connect to the internet to wifi sometimes.

From TMOS activity. These days we cannot have team loose a competition. There are winner teams. And there are Foundation Teams :) @TMOS_ARC.