Physics and Astronomy

Physics and Astronomy

News Archive

21st June 2010

  • Registrar position available at Palmerston North. Details here.

20th May 2010

  • Congratulations to Alicia Cavan on the being one of the two Physics & Astronomy 'PhD in 3' winners.
  • A Medical Physics team competed in the Postgrad Students & Supervisors quiz on Friday 7th May. Photo

13th April 2010

  • Congratulations to Louise and Juergen Meyer on the birth of their daughter, Pia.

25th March 2010

16th February 2010

  • Congratulations to Jidi Sun on submission of his MSc thesis, 'Implementation of 2-Step Intensity Modulated Arc Therapy'.
  • Congratulations to Greg Betzel on submission of his PhD thesis, 'Development of a Prototype Synthetic Diamond Detector for Radiotherapy Dosimetry'.

25th November 2009

  • Congratulations to Florentina Baluti on passing her MSc.
  • Congratulations to Alicia Cavan on getting a Medical Physics Registrar position at Christchurch Hospital.
  • Welcome to summer scholarship students Alicia Cavan and Joel Rayen. Alicia's project is 'Lung tumour modelling for radiotherapy' and Joel's is 'Investigations of the thermoluminescence properties of diamonds made by chemical vapour deposition'.

25th September 2009

7th September 2009

  • Welcome to Kurt Baier (Erskine Visitor from the University of Würzburg). He will be teaching MDPH406 Medical Imaging.

26th August 2009

Prizes won by Medical Physics students at the 26th Departmental Conference:

  • Best opening line - Robert 'I'm from MARS' Doesburg
  • Most gruesome slide - Rafidah Zainon
  • Displacing the H-R diagram as the most used slide - MARS-CT group

19th August 2009

14th August 2009

30th July 2009

  • Congratulations to Musaed Almalki on successfully defending his PhD thesis titled 'Gadolinium concentration analysis in brain phantom by x-ray fluorescence.'