Archived News

2007

Mathematical Physics is currently being promoted as a Featured Section of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.

Professor Murray Batchelor has been appointed to the Mathematical and Information Sciences and Technology Assessment Panel for the Research Quality Framework (Minister's press release).

Professor Peter Bouwknegt will give a plenary talk at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, 25-28 Sept.

2007 is a MSI Special Year in Mathematical Physics, with a number of events being run Link.

Professor Murray Batchelor has been appointed Mathematical Physics Section Editor of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, effective from January 2007. From 2007 the journal will undergo a name change to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.

2006

Professor Peter Bouwknegt co-convened the Mathematical Physics session of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, 25-29 Sept.

Professor Peter Bouwknegt co-organised a workshop on "The Mathematics of String Theory" from 13-23 July.

Professor Murray Batchelor presented 15 lectures on "The Importance of Being Integrable" at the 2006 ICE-EM Australian Graduate School in Mathematics, 3-21 July in Brisbane.

Emeritus Professor Rodney Baxter delivered the 2006 Lars Onsager Lecture in Trondheim on May 16, after which he was presented with the Lars Onsager Medal.

2005

On Dec 7 ANU mathematical physics honours student Tim Trudgian was announced as one of the eight winners of the 2006 General Sir John Monash Awards for postgraduate research (Minister's press release). On Campus article.

Emeritus Professor Rodney Baxter has been awarded the 2006 Onsager Prize by the American Physical Society for his original and groundbreaking contributions to the field of exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, which continue to inspire profound developments in statistical physics and related fields Link.

Professor Baxter's recent verification of a longstanding conjecture for the order parameter of the chiral Potts model has featured in a Search and Discovery article in the November 2005 issue of Physics Today. Read his online letter Sorting out the Potts models in the December 2005 issue.

The ANU Educational Research Initiative in Mathematical Physics was officially launched by the Hon Gary Nairn MP on Sept 29, 2005. photos, On Campus article.

Professor Peter Bouwknegt joined us from the beginning of 2005. Peter is a world leader in string theory and related mathematics.