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Positions Vacant
Professional Officer
Salary Level 8: A$84,533 - A$95,244 per year pro rata (plus 17% employer superannuation and leave loading)The School of Physics has an immediate opening for a part-time Professional Officer (26.25 hours per week). The applicant will work in one of Australia's strongest Condensed Matter Physics departments, with outstanding experimental facilities.
Further Information including essential criteria and application procedure.
Senior Research Associate
Salary Level C: A$103,153 - A$118,344 per year (plus 9% employer superannuation and leave loading) A position is available to work on the research program entitled "From dark matter to atomic physics" supported by the Australian Research Council in 2012-2013. The main duties of this position include theoretical research work, performing analytical and numerical calculations, participating in research discussions and contributing new ideas, writing research papers and assisting in supervision of research students. Further Information
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Astrophysics
Salary Level A/B: A$75,612 - A$100,119 per year (plus 17% employer superannuation and leave loading). Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate within the Department of Astrophysics at the University of New South Wales, to undertake research on the formation of molecular clouds and the nature of the dark gas in the interstellar medium, using data obtained primarily with millimetre-wave telescopes. This is a fixed term, full time (35 hours per week) position for 2 years, with the possibility of extension to a 3rd year. Further Information
"How to make a Big Bang: a cosmic journey", by A. Flambaum and V. Flambaum is a popular science book presented as a science fiction story. One of the authors, Victor Flambaum, is also a theoretical Physics Professor from the School of Physics at UNSW.
Reviewers say:
"There is plenty to like in this knockabout, surreal satire and it repays a second reading...Read
"How to Make a Big Bang" for its scintillating concepts and wonderfully - imagined scenes."
Dr. Nigel Seel, ScienceFiction.com
"A cosmic journey in print better than Star Wars, Star Trek and Babylon 5 that
will
send the reader wanting more and hoping the authors will continue the journey."
Fran Lewis: reviewer
Available at the UNSW bookshop and major book outlets
Casual Laboratory Demonstrators - First Year Physics Teaching Laboratory
The School of Physics invites expressions of interest from enthusiastic, suitably qualified people to work as demonstrators in First Year Physics laboratory classes. Enquire from Jan 3rd 2012.
Top-Up PhD Scholarship in Astrophysics
School of Physics, University of New South Wales
A top-up scholarship, valued at A$5,000 per annum for 3-years, is available for international and Australian PhD students enrolled at UNSW to work with Professor Michael Burton on an ARC-funded Discovery Project entitled “Dark Gas and the Formation of Molecular Clouds”. Further Information
Ph.D. openings in Nanoelectronics for 2012 (pdf flyer)
The Nanoelectronics group (Micolich) is looking to recruit Ph.D. students for 2012. Projects offered will be on the electronic properties of devices based on semiconductor nanowires. Full details of the groups research can be found at http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/nanoelectronics/
Visit UNSW
High achieving final year undergraduate students interested in a PhD at UNSW can get free flights to Sydney and accommodation to come and visit the School of Physics, and meet staff and students. Applications to visit UNSW are now open, and should be placed well before 15 October - see here for details.
New courses at the School of Physics
PHYS1160 Introductory Astronomy - a new, online only, first year course in astronomy. Suitable as an elective or as a General Studies subject for non-science students. Further information
PHYS1211 Energy and Environmental Physics - an introduction to the physics of energy use and the environment. Suitable as an elective course in first year or as a General Studies subject for non-science students. Further information
Also see the First Year Physics website for contact details
Ph.D. openings in Quantum Nanoelectronics for 2010/11 (pdf flyer) The Quantum Electronic Devices Group (Hamilton/Micolich) is looking to recruit Ph.D. students for 2010/11. Projects offered will be in the area of the spin properties of hole-based nanodevices. Full details of the groups research can be found at http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/QED |
