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News Archive 2009

January

  • Post Doctoral Researcher/Research Assistant/Research Engineer positions for young, dynamic technology commercialization group in diagnostics are available, based at National University of Singapore. Click here for more information.

  • The registration for Physics tutorial and practical sessions (Semester 2, 2008/09) will start from 12 Jan 2009. Click here for more information.

February

  • NUS Centennial Professor Prof Sir Richard Friend has just been announced joint winner of the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for Science (Physics) for this year. The Prize in Science completes one rotation between Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics every four years. Click here for more information.

March

  • PostDoc Research Fellow position is available in Computational Statistical Physics Group. Click here for more information.

  • Congratulations to Asst/Prof RUSYDI Andrivo for winning the NUS-Young Investigator Award for FY2008. His project title: Manipulation of new quantum states by atomic control of oxide layers for novel functionality. Excellent students are welcome to join his research group.

  • Mr. Andreas Dewanto and Dr. Roland Su Jong Hea have published an article titled as "Having fun with dumpling skin: material physics made alive in the kitchen " in Institute of Physics journal, namely Physics Education. Click here for more information.

April

  • Congratulations to Assoc Prof Phil Chan who is among the Recipients of the Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2007/2008! Click here for more details.

  • Congratulations to Physics Safety Committee for receiving the NUS Annual Safety & Health Performance Award (ASHPA) in FY 2008/09. The team chaired by A/Prof Johan van der Maarel, Mr Teo Hoon Hwee (Co-chair) and Mr Wu Tong Meng Samuel (Asst Co-Chair) won the 4th consecutive Silver Award ($35,000) in the NUS Safety & Health Award Ceremony on 22 April 2009. This year there was no Gold Award in this category. The committee includes advisors Asst/Prof Yan Jie and Asst/Prof Ramanathan Mahendiran, and members Mr Wong How Kwong, Mr Choo Theam Fook, Mrs Lee Soo Mien, Mr Lim Bun Siang, Mr Ng Tong Hoe, Mrs Phua Swee Wah, Mr Tan Choon Wah and Mr Foong Chee Kong. The departmental safety committee consistently upholds a very high safety standard in our laboratories and workshop. With strong support from the management, staff and students, the group has managed to help the department bagged the annual ASPHA award since its inception. Click here for more information.

  • 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.

  • We congratulate our colleagues who have mentored the following winning school projects at the recent Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2009. Click here for more information.

June

  • 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.

July

  • Quantum machinery: Story in Science by Adrian Cho and Fluctuation Theorems: "Viewpoint in Physics". Click here for more details.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In an article on The Straits Times on 4th July 2009, it was envisioned that one day cyclists and runners may have perfect reflecting devices to keep them safe from darkness. The team of Prof Ong Chong Kim and his collaborator Dr Ma Yun-Gui of the Temasek Laboratories and theoreticians aboard have designed a retroreflector which have potential use from road safety to radar target tracking. The paper was published online in journal Nature Materials. Click here for more information.

August

  • The Online tutorial & Lab bidding (Iteration 1) will be on 7 and 11 August 2009. 12 Aug 09 is online add/drop/swap for tutorial. 13 and 14 Aug 09 are manual registration (for those who miss the online registration). Click here for more information.

  • Gentle reminder – Physics Safety Day, 13 August 2009, LT31 and Level 1 Physics Lab. Following up on Head, Prof Feng’s email, the department would like to invite you to:
    1. Very interesting safety talks at LT31 (including one on Current Safety Issues of Nanotechnology).
    2. A sumptuous buffet lunch at 12 noon in the Level 1 Physics Lab, S12 04-02, in appreciation of your unstinting support in improving our department safety. For catering purposes, we need your help to reply to Mr Teo Hoon Hwee cc Wu Tong Meng with “YES” if you are attending. A non-reply will be treated as “No”. To prevent wastage, we may have to order food sufficient only for graduate students and staff who are attending. Please note that the deadline for reply is extended to 7 August 2009. You need not reply again if you have responded to Head, Prof Feng’s email dated 25 July. Click here for more details.

  • Congratulations to the following National Day Awards 2009 recipients:
    1. The Commendation Medal (Military) Award: LTC (NS) Wee Thye Shen Andrew
    2. The Efficiency Medal Award: Ms Foo Eng Tin.
    Click here for more information.

  • Research assistant opening in single-molecule force and fluorescence lab for joint project in RCE in Mechanobiology. Successful candidate will be working on single-molecule experiments of proteins and protein-protein interactions. MS degree (or BS degree with at least one year lab experience) in experimental biophysics, biochemistry, bioengineering or related field is required. Experiences with protein/substrate surface labeling, single-molecule manipulation and/or fluorescence microscope are strongly preferred. Please send your CV and the contact information of three referees to Asst/Prof. Liu Ruchuan (phylr@nus.edu.sg) by email.

September

  • Doping graphene: Molecular tuning - Professor Feng and colleagues in Singapore and China report that the adsorption of organic molecules onto graphene could allow the electronic properties of graphene to be controlled and tuned. Their first-principles calculations show that a charge-transfers...

  • Eight NUS research projects awarded grants by A*STAR - Asst/Prof Jeroen Anton Van Kan's research project titled "Development of Novel Methods of Fabricating Metallic Nano Injection Molds for Lab-on-chip Biomedical Sample Preparation and DNA Analysis Applications" is one of the eight NUS research projects awarded grants by A*STAR ...

  • Why S'pore needs more people to study physics - A waning interest in physics here has raised questions about how this will affect Singapore's economic progress. Amresh Gunasingham speaks to former chief defence scientist Lui Pao Chuen, who is trying to turn the situation around...

  • All you wanted to know in quantum cryptography - has now been reviewed for you by Valerio Scarani of CQT and his co-authors, in a publication in Reviews of Modern Physics. Link to publication: Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1301 (2009)

November

 

 

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