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	Michael Garrett wins OSA student prize for best talk at ACOLS 7 Dec 2009 Michael Garrett of The University of Queensland Node of ACQAO has won the Optical Society of America prize for best student talk at ACOLS 2009. The value of the prize is USD$1250 in the form of reimbursement for costs associated with attending an OSA conference.
	Sarah Midgley awarded Georgina Sweet Fellowship 6 Aug 2009 Sarah Midgley, a postgraduate student who is currenctly undertaking a PhD in theoretical physics within the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO) at the University of Queensland, has been chosen as the 2009 winner of the Georgina Sweet Fellowship.
	Quantum Mechanical 'Hurricanes' 9 March 2009 ACQAO scientists at the University of Queensland, Dr Matt Davis and Ashton Bradley, together with their colleagues at the University of Arizona have discovered that when an ultracold gas of atoms gets cold enough, it can spontaneously spin up into what might be described as quantum mechanical twisters or hurricanes. The Queensland and Arizona researchers are reporting the results of theresearch in the journal Nature.
	Does distance make the heart grow fonder? 27 April 2008 Theorists Andrew Sykes, Matt Davis and Karen Kheruntsyan alongside Dimitri Gangardt from the University of Birmingham have generated a finite temperature phase diagram of the second-order correlation function, in a system of interacting bosons confined to move in one spatial dimension.
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