Professor Li Baowen elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Congratulations to Professor Li Baowen on being elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his contributions to physics research and for promoting the international aspects of physics.. Professor Li is now listed as a 2013 APS Fellow, along with his citation, on the FIP website.
M-Theory and novel correspondences between 5d, 6d and 2d QFTs, and integrable systems
In Asst/Prof Meng-Chwan Tan's publication which appeared in the highest-ranking journal for theoretical high energy physics, JHEP, he furnished, using dualities in superstring theory and eleven-dimensional M-theory, a completely novel derivation of hitherto unknown correspondences between (i) omega-deformed partition functions of a certain class of 5d/6d supersymmetric quantum field theories, (ii) symmetries of quantum/elliptic-deformed generalizations of 2d meromorphic conformal field theories which themselves describe higher spin gauge theories in Anti-de Sitter three-space, and (iii) relativistic/elliptized generalizations of quantum integrable systems which themselves describe n-particle dynamics. Read more.
Guest Professor at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
Congratulations to Professor B.V.R. Chowdari on his appointment as a Guest Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics is one of the highly reputed Institutes in China on materials sciences and solid state ionics research work.
New GEM module offering in Semester 2, 2013/14
The future smart phone, enabled by nanotechnology, will not only be the communication platform for you to keep in touch with your friends, accessing to knowledge/information anywhere anytime, but also telemonitoring platform for your health and environment. Join GEM 1537, explore and experience nanotechnology with the international nanotech expert and entrepreneur Dr Lerwen Liu! Email lerwen@nano-globe.biz for more information. Read more.
Joint graphene research to boost data storage
Faster, smaller and more durable data storage for laptops, smart phones and tablet PCs, with hard disk capacity in the region of tens of terabytes instead of the present gigabytes - these will be the potential results of a new joint venture between the Graphene Research Centre (GRC) at the NUS Faculty of Science and Fuji Electric (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. Read more.
Cloak made of Telflon catch eyes in web
A research team, from Zhejiang University in China, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and National University of Singapore (Prof C. K. Ong) have discovered an alternative way to make an invisibility cloak that departs from other attempts to do so. Read more: 1 & 2.
SMP Outstanding Mentor Award 2013
Congratulations to Dr M. V. Reddy for receiving the "SMP Outstanding Mentor Award 2013" from Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore. Previous years, (2012, 2011 and 2010) he won outstanding SMP mentor award from MOE. This year all four projects won Distinction and one 3M best poster award in 19th Youth Science conference, 21st September 2013. (Event photos: 1 and 2).
