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	News and Events

Welcome to the News and Events page for the School of Physical Sciences. Please follow the links below for the latest School news and more information about current and upcoming activities.

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	Researchers put Queensland on the map 21 April 2008 Researchers from the University of Queensland, in partnership with Queensland Museum, are driving an exciting project designed to generate a new conception of Queensland’s cultural and environmental history.			Rapid Transit in Groups - Finding you way around BS(1,p) presented by Dr. Murray Elder Friday 16th May at 4pm Parnell Room 222 - Refreshments served at 5pm - All welcome This talk is about groups – fundamental mathematical objects that are used in all kinds of places. The problem I am interested in is how to write group elements in the shortest possible way for different groups. Recent work of Miasnikov, Roman’kov, Ushakov and Vershik proved that for so-called free metabelian groups, the problem is NP-hard, meaning just as hard as a load of other hard problems. My talk will consider another type of metabelian group, for which I can solve the problem of finding shortest words in polynomial time. I will explain the groups geometrically, and give an algorithm to compute shortest words.
	Female astrophysicist helps unlock the secrets of the Universe 11 April 2008 What do exploding stars, gender equality and Ultimate Frisbee have in common? Usually not much, unless you are Dr Tamara Davis.			ALGEBRA AND COMBINATORICS SEMINAR Tuesday 29 April 2008, 3pm in Room 67-641 Anne Street, UQ An Introduction to Balanced Sequential Arrays on the Square Grid
	UQ signs clean coal research agreement with German university 18 February 2008 The University of Queensland has established a milestone Cooperation Agreement with the RWTH Aachen University in the area of coalbed methane research and technologies.			BrisScience Brisbane's monthly series of talks on science and technology. The talks are free and open to all. Date: Monday 2 June Speaker: Professor Joe Wolfe Topic: The acoustics of musical wind instruments - and of musicians Check the website for upcoming talk topics and dates. Questions? Contact Joel (0411 267 044 or joel@BrisScience.org) or visit www.BrisScience.org
	UQ Mathematics Alumnus wins the 2008 ANZIAM Medal 12 February 2008 Alumnus Professor Jim Hill has been awarded the 2008 ANZIAM medal for outstanding achievements in Applied Mathematics and service to ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics).			AMSI 2008 Australian Graduate Theme Program in Mathematical Sciences The AMSI 2008 Australian Graduate Theme Program in Mathematical Sciences is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations through the Collaboration And Structural Reform Fund (CASR). This year, two advanced courses are being offered on the theme of Statistics for Resource Management and Environmental Science. These courses will run for two weeks from 7 to 18 July 2008. Visit the website on how to apply.
	UQ Physics Professor named Moyal Medallist for 2007 07 November 2007 Professor Peter Drummond from UQ's School of Physical Sciences has been awarded the Moyal Medal for 2007.

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