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Welcome to Physics and Astronomy

The Physics and Astronomy Department is one of the larger departments in the College of Science and has both teaching and research programmes in diverse areas such as the physics of the earth’s atmosphere, the development of the cosmos, medical physics as well as the physics of semiconductors and lasers. We want to welcome you into this wonderful world of discovery and intrigue.

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	Student Profile Alicia Caven Alicia Cavan is currently studying toward a Bachelor of Science with Honours majoring in Medical Physics. She has been the recipient of both the 2006 University of Canterbury Emerging Leadership Scholarship and the 2007 NZ Institute of Physics Prize. Alicia says she chose to study physics because she enjoys learning about the fundamental ways in which the world works. “I like the way that if you understand the concepts then you can apply them to a whole range of situations to understand why something happens. I also enjoy how there are so many different aspects to physics, from quantum mechanics to electromagnetism to medical physics.”

Student Profile

Alicia Caven

Alicia Cavan is currently studying toward a Bachelor of Science with Honours majoring in Medical Physics. She has been the recipient of both the 2006 University of Canterbury Emerging Leadership Scholarship and the 2007 NZ Institute of Physics Prize.

Alicia says she chose to study physics because she enjoys learning about the fundamental ways in which the world works. “I like the way that if you understand the concepts then you can apply them to a whole range of situations to understand why something happens. I also enjoy how there are so many different aspects to physics, from quantum mechanics to electromagnetism to medical physics.”

Contact: +64 3 364 2404, hod-secretary@phys.canterbury.ac.nz
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch
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Seminars

Seminars are held most Friday's at 11:00am in the Dept Seminar Room 701, located on level 7 of the Rutherford Building:
Medical Physics Research Group Seminars

Friday 5th February, Dr Chris Blake, Visitor from Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia on Cosmology with the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey

Friday 19th Februrary, Prof Phil Nicholson (Cornell University) on Cassini at Saturn: Rings, Atmosphere and Moons

Announcements and Events

Aurora Astronomy School 2010 - Applications are open for Year 13 and Year 12 students to apply for a place on this week-long school. The course is free, and only 20 students are accepted. For further details and an application form click here.
Applications close 5.00pm Friday 5th March. Late applications cannot be considered.

10th Torino Workshop on AGB Nucleosynthesis: from Rutherford to Beatrice Tinsley and beyond 25th-29th January 2010 (University of Canterbury)

5th Australasian Conference on General Relativity & Gravitation 16-18 December 2009 (University of Canterbury)

Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Conference (IVCNZ 2009) 23-25 Nov 2009 (Wellington)

NZIP 2009 Conference 6-8 July 2009 (UC) Resources available here