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Over 1,000 physicists gathered in Adelaide for the 24th Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics from 11-16 December 2022.

Media releases from the Congress:

• 16 Dec Giant machines for giant questions
• 15 Dec We need to lose our fear of the ‘nuclear’ word
• 15 Dec An unlucky star. A new comb. Nuclear jobs – call to action
• 14 Dec Boil a kettle with fusion energy. Diamonds in your phone. Mining for dark matter
• 14 Dec Fusion energy – Reactions: interviews available with Australian nuclear physicists at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide
• 13 Dec Quantum composer, fusion energy, navigation without GPS, war disrupts physics, nuclear jobs
• 12 Dec Before the Big Bang, nuclear jobs, quantum music
• 9 Dec Media alert: Nobel lasers, before the Big Bang, are we winning the quantum race, and more – Congress preview

• The biggest radio telescope
• The dark side of the universe – could Australia host a gravitational wave detector?
• Too wet for next generation telescopes

Australian researchers are in pole position to solve some of the Universe’s greatest mysteries by participating in three massive global projects.

• A call to action to train a nuclear savvy generation
• Australia will need thousands of people trained in nuclear science
• For submarines, cancer treatments, space industry, mining…

Our new submarine fleet, new cancer therapies, quantum computing, space industry and satellites, the extraction of critical minerals and monitoring the environment will all demand levels of training in nuclear science we cannot at present meet.

Fusion energy

The US fusion news is amazing. But it’s a long way from endless clean power. The researchers probably generated enough excess energy to boil a kettle.

Interviews available with Australian nuclear physicists at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide