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Congratulations to Prof BG Englert (Provost’s Chair recipient) and A/Prof Christian Kurtsiefer (Dean’s Chair recipient). These Chairs are for a 3-year term (from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2012), and are bestowed in recognition of their excellent academic contributions to the Faculty and international recognition in their field of research.
Congratulations to the following IPS Award Winners (ICMAT Public Talks 2009):

1. IPS President's Medal : Professor Tang Seung Mun, Vice President, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (our former NUS departmental head of Physics).
2. IPS World Scientific Medal : Professor Vlatko Vedral, National University of Singapore (for outstanding Quantum Information research).
3. IPS Omicron Nanotechnology Medal : Dr. Chen Wei, National University of Singapore (for outstanding Graphene-related devices research).
4. IPS Honorary Fellowship Medal: Professor Peter Gruenberg, Nobel Laureate, 2007, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.
Quantum machinery: Story in Science by Adrian Cho and Fluctuation Theorems: "Viewpoint in Physics". Click here for more details.
We are looking for a young person with an interest in scientific research work to join us for two years as a Laboratory Technologist in developing inkjet printing technology for organic electronics. Click here for more details.
Congratulations to Assoc Prof Phil Chan who is among the Recipients of the Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2007/2008! Click here for more details.
Graphene memory can have significant advantages over today's magnetic memory. Bits can be read 30 times faster because electrons move through graphene quickly. With graphene, bits can also shrink to 10 nanometers or even smaller thus making the memory denser. In the Technology Review published by MIT on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, the work of Dr Özyilmaz Barbaros and his team on ferroelectric RAM was publicized in the article titled “A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory - Graphene could make computer hard drives denser and speedier” by Prachi Patel.
Work on graphene has heated up quickly since five years ago as researchers realized that the material’s two-dimensionality causes it to show unusual quantum behaviours. In the recent American Physical Society meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, physicists were deliberating on how to bring this laboratory curiosity to commercialization. In the article of the meeting published on Nature News, a STM graphene image due to the recent work of Prof Andrew Wee and Dr Chen Wei of Physics department (A. WEE, NATL UNIV. SINGAPORE/H. HUANG ET AL. ACS NANO 2, 2513–2518 (2008) 390 Vol 458|26 March 2009) was published in the report. Click here for more information.

NanoCore PhD studentships in Nanotechnology available: Excellent students from all scientific and engineering, as well as biomedical disciplines are welcome to apply for PhD studentships.
Please check: http://www.nanocore.nus.edu.sg/positions.html for further details.
 

 
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