Claudia Fritz, recipient of the first cotutelle degree awarded by UNSW and the Université Paris VI.

Fourteen students from the School of Physics were awarded PhD’s in 2005. They were:

Alan Blood
Biological Effects of GSM Mobile Phone Microwave Radiation: An Investigation of Gene Expression

Rolf Brenner
Single-electron Transitions for Detection of Charge Motion in the Solid State

Tamara Davis
Fundamental Aspects of the Expansion of the Universe and Cosmic Horizons

Jessica Dempsey
The View From the Ice at the Bottom of the World: Optical Astronomy in Antarctica

Claudia Fritz
La Clarinette Et Le Clarinettiste: Influence Du Conduit Vocal Sur La Production Du Son

Jacinda Ginges
Theory of Violations of Fundamental Symmetries in Atoms

Marton Hidas
A Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets with the Automated Patrol Telescope

Maja Kuzmanoski
Physical and Optical Properties of Aerosols

Rodney Marks
Antarctic Site Testing: Measurement of Optical Seeing at the South Pole

Peter Reece
High Quality Mesoporous Silicon Optical Structures

Hiroyuki Toyozumi
The Intra-Pixel Sensitivity Variation of a CCD

Tony Travouillon
Optical Turbulance on the Antarctic Plateau

Matthew Williams
Investigations Into Static Multileaf Collimator Based Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy

Clifford Yee
Point Source Compensation – A Backpropagation Method for Underwater Imaging

Claudia Fritz’s PhD was the first cotutelle degree awarded by UNSW and the Université Paris VI. In the cotutelle program, doctoral students spend time conducting their research at both a French University and at UNSW. They are jointly supervised by academics from both universities. Students are awarded degrees from both institutions.

Dr Michael Murphy, an alumnus of the School of Physics, was awarded the inaugural UNSW U Committee Award for Research Excellence in Science (for being adjudged to have produced the best PhD thesis within the Faculty of Science in 2003). Michael’s thesis was titled: “Probing Variations in the Fundamental Constants with Quasar Absorption Lines”, and was co-supervised by Professors John Webb and Victor Flambaum. Michael was awarded his prize and gave the Occasional Speech at the Faculty of Science graduation ceremony on 13 May 2005.