What's New@Physics
ARUP is pleased to announce the launch of the Arup Acoustics Bursary. It is an internation competition open to undergraduates and graduates. Applications close at midnight on Sunday 21 November 2010 (AEST). For more information and to apply, visit www.arup.com.au/acoustics.
The Department of Physics is recruiting Teaching Assistants (TAs). Candidates should have at least a good honours degree in physics or its equivalent. > Read more ... .
A new photocrosslinking methodology jointly developed by staff of Physics Department promises to add functional layers to make polymer-based organic light-emitting panels and displays even more energy efficient. This technique can be applied to many different polymers, and should make it much simpler and quicker to build prototypes of a wide range of new electronic devices. Click here for more information.
A prize launched by the NUS Department of Physics will recognise students for their excellence in experimental physics. The Department hopes that the Arthur Rajaratnam Prize will motivate more students to continue their pursuit of physics. Click here for more information about the prize.
Singapore scientists from NUS, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), NTU and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have discovered a new synthetic strategy for controlling the properties of ultra-small luminescent nanocrystals. Their findings have been published in the prestigious Nature journal on 25 February 2010.
The Journal of American Chemistry Society (JACS) recently published a quiz based on the work of Lei Shen, Shuo-Wang Yang, Man-Fai Ng, Valeri Ligatchev, Liping Zhou, and Yuanping Feng in their article entitled "Charge-Transfer-Based Mechanism for Half-Metallicity and Ferromagnetism in One-Dimensional Organometallic Sandwich Molecular Wires" in JACS Image Challenge #73. The goal of this series of challenges is to provide an interactive, enjoyable experience for all users, and particularly valuable to
advance the understanding of students in such topics. Click here to meet the challenge.
The China Immersion programme (CHIP) 2010 is open for registration now. The immersion trip will be heavily subsidized by the Faculty of Science and the Physics Department, and an affordable contribution will be paid by the students. Click here for registration form,
itinernary and poster. Please submit your forms before 23 Feb 2010.
The immersion trip will be heavily subsidized by the Faculty of Science and the Physics Department, and an affordable contribution will be paid by the students. It is open to all NUS Physics students. Application for 2010 trip is available now. Click here for more information.
Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszliskowski, Valerio Scarani and Andreas Winter from CQT, together with co-workers of the University of Gdansk (Poland), propose a new physical principle called "information causality" in a paper published in Nature. If this principle is enforced, the number of theories that can
describe our world is drastically reduced. This might explain why no phenomenon has ever been observed that would go beyond quantum physics.
Excellent students from all scientific and engineering, as well as biomedical disciplines are welcome to apply for PhD studentships. Students whom we are recruiting typically are in the top 10% of their class and have shown the ambition and ability to immerse themselves in challenging, high impact research ...