Look, a butterfly!

Shotgun Remedy are back! After months of songwriting and playing to a bunch of acoustic to electric transducers, the boys have decided its time to play to ears instead.
So drop whatever you’re doing on the 28th July and make your way to the Rocks Riverside Park for the annual Centenary Rocks Festival (bands start at […]

There once was a program from Wolfram
That I use every day for my work, and
Sometimes it works
Other times it has quirks
It’s a love-hate relationship, hey man!
Ok…so I used my fair share of poetic licence for that one. My haiku is better

Ok, so here’s the plan: We take everyone in Europe who is dying from the heat and move them down to chilly Australia. At the same time, we take everyone from Australia and move them to warm sunny Europe. I’ll take the 45 C they’re having, over the freezing temperatures we’re having, any day!

Take this fun personality quiz to find out what sort of personality you have!
Question 1 - How would you spend your ideal weekend?
a) Go out with friends and party it up!
b) Curl up with a book on the couch
c) A romantic getaway with your special someone
d) Finish wiriting that exciting paper
Question 2 - When […]

The first announcement for QCMC 2008:
Dear Colleagues,
This is the first announcement of the Ninth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC), which will be held at the University of Calgary, Canada, on August 19 to 24, 2008.
The scope of the conference will be similar to that of previous meetings in the series and […]

I’m not one to usually dote on small animals, but this puppy is the cutest thing ever!

And while were on the topic of atom lasers, am I the only one who sees the resemblence between Nine Inch Nails’ t-shirt design and the atom laser pictures from ANU?

Update: Some better pictures for comparison courtesy of Andy Ferris.

UQ physicists Murray Olsen and Simon Haine made the news today. I just came from a talk by Murray and apparently they stumbled upon this teleportation idea when they were trying to find a way to make a homodyne measurement of an atom laser. An atom laser is essentially a BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) that dribbles […]

That’s the last time I try to correct someone’s spelling. Who would have thought that micromanipualtion is actually a word? Especially if the person writing the abstract works in a field specialising in micromanipulation!
Update: Hehe…unsurpringly, it turns out that it should be micromanipulation after all. The author must misspell it every time! I do the […]

I wish I was a particle physicist….