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News from the Physics Department at the University of Otago
Dunedin City, New Zealand
Joined August 2021
Physics@Otago Highlight: Big news from the Astrophysical Plasmas Group! Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Squire’s team has developed a new theory for how ions heat in turbulent, magnetised plasmas. Led by PhD student Zade Johnston with Romain Meyrand. https://t.co/EStWqmYa5u
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Physics@Otago-Highlight: Our electronic workshop plays a crucial role in the department, engineering the sophisticated technology that underpins our research laboratories. Their skill and dedication make innovation possible.
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Physics@Otago Highlight: We celebrate Mr Paul Yates, Senior Teaching Fellow, retiring after an incredible 41 years of service. Paul has guided tens of thousands of first-year students—and he may even return to teach a PHSI191 lab next year! Thank you, Paul!
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Exciting news from Physics@Otago! Assoc. Prof. Jevon Longdell’s Quantum Optics Group shows magnetic host crystals could unlock new rare-earth ion quantum technologies. Led by Dr Masaya Hiraishi—an amazing achievement! https://t.co/b8ds7XGeMM
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Physics@Otago-Highlight: Shout-out to the A-Team! Our amazing admin crew on the first floor is the engine room of the department — the hardest-working (and most fun!) team around. Thank you for everything you do.
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Big news from the Quantum Fluids Group, headed by our fearless HoD, Assoc. Prof. Ashton Bradley! Working with PhD student Nils Krause and collaborators at Paris Sorbonne, the team has observed a Jones–Robert soliton in a quantum fluid of light. https://t.co/JFmxlYHe9w
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Physics@Otago-Highlight: The year is drawing to a close, and we have so much to celebrate! Join us over the coming days as we share standout moments, inspiring people, and amazing science from across our department. Stay tuned for the highlights!
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Congratulations to Zade Johnston. In addition to submitting his PhD recently, he has just published a paper in Physical Review Letters. https://t.co/EStWqmYHV2
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Congratulations to Blair Blakie (Outstanding Researcher) and Hannah Kasenich (Best Research Paper) for their divisional awards 2024! https://t.co/iTwIAu2Ufh
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The excitations & emergence of a shear modulus in a dipolar supersolid. The result of a collaboration with the @FerlainoGroup and a summer visit by PhD student Elena Poli: Phys. Rev. A 110, 053301 (2024) - Excitations of a two-dimensional supersolid
journals.aps.org
We present a theoretical study of the excitations of the two-dimensional supersolid state of a Bose-Einstein condensate with either dipole-dipole interactions or soft-core interactions. This supers...
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Nir Navon Seminar: "Quantum Many-body Physics with Fermions in an Optical Box" https://t.co/nOMENsi4s8
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Petra Fisher, Physics BSc (Hons) student at Otago, is one of four Woolf Fisher Trust scholarship awardees for New Zealand in 2025. The prestigious scholarship will fund Petra’s doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations Petra! https://t.co/Gj0K7Lou9J
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Public Lecture: The Physics of Light in Eighty Pictures Professor Michael Berry Castle 2 Lecture Theatre, 6-7pm, Friday 16 August 2024 https://t.co/V8D6MFTdXY
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Professor Craig Rodger leads an international team of scientists working on making New Zealand’s energy infrastructure able to withstand large space weather events like Saturday’s geomagnetic storm. Find out about solar storm media coverage at https://t.co/2FH9KDiJnm
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Seminar: “Concepts of quantum machine learning” Assoc Professor Christopher Gies Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universitat Bremen Wednesday 1 May 2024 12.00pm Room 314 Science III Building https://t.co/XwkxUwPtuj
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Public Seminar: Waves in a Plasma Ocean: Wave-Particle Interactions Throughout the Solar System Associate Professor Allison Jaynes University of Iowa https://t.co/FVlr6SS4kZ
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