Martin's Homepage

Martin on top of Cradle Mountain in Tasmania

Welcome

You've reached the homepage of Martin Laird. I'm actually doing Medicine at Sydney Uni now, but I first did a combined Advanced Science/Arts student at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, majoring in Physics and Spanish. You can email me at: mpl@phys.unsw.edu.au

In S1 1999 I did an Astrophysics project: if by some chance you would like to look at the thesis you can ftp it from here: Period Variation and Large Scale Survey of RR Lyrae. In S2 I did a Biophysics project on Protein Crystallisation.

I play a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, a brilliant team sport played with a frisbee (flying disc).

I've helped to set up a relatively new league in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, based around UNSW. If you're interested in coming along to this league (all welcome!) or hearing more about it then subscribe to the UltimateESL mailing list:

Here are some links to Ultimate related sites ;

The UNSW Ultimate Frisbee Club Page
The Australian Flying Disc Association (AFDA) website
This next one is a great place to start for anything Ultimate:
Dennis Hu's HUGE collection of wondrous ultimate sites
A Europe based site with info on everything

I'm also the Universities Coordinator for the AFDA. If you would like to find out anything, or tell me anything, about University Ultimate, then please email me.

The major event to happen in University Ultimate each year is the Australian University Championships. In 2000 the 3rd official AUC will be hosted in July by Flinders University. Check out the details and results at the 2000 AUC Website .

If you are interested in organising a club at your university, you should subscribe to the Australian Universities Ultimate email list:

Here are some links to other university sites:

Other University Ultimate Websites

Other stuff

One other thing I'll tell you about, I finished high school at an International School in New Mexico (in the US), called the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (or AHUWCAW for short!). If you're interested in the United World Colleges, have a look at the UWC International homepage, or if you want to know more about UWC in Australia, including how to apply, go to the UWC Australia site.

I made a number of great friends when I was there that I still keep up with. Here's a link to one of their websites:

Thinley Namgyel from Bhutan

Photos

Here are some (rather old) photos of me! I've put them on separate pages so you can load them as you desire...

Albert & me in Austria, Jan/Feb 96.
Vera & me in Hungary, Jan/Feb 96.
Me with no hair, Easter 1997.
Me at Royal National Park , just after Easter 1997.

The End

So there you have it...for now. Hardly the most impressive thing on the Web, but it's a start! One day I might put some new photos up... Martin