I am a graduate student in the physics at Harvard University.
My undergraduate degree was obtained from UQ in 1999, during which I was awarded the university medal for outstanding scholarship.
I have worked in laboratories searching for gravitational waves, exploring the physics of matter at ultra low temperatures, I am currently working on Climate Simulations.
I have been involved in the UQ Science in Action Program and the UQ physics student club demonstration team – demonstrating exciting areas of physics to school and university students and the general public. I have shown five year olds how to suck water through a straw quicker than their teachers and “tamed” 3000000V lightning generated by a Tesla Coil. I taught mechanics to premed students and poured liquid nitrogen down the front of my body. I have experience at “physics for the non-physicist” while still being a practicing, published physicist in one of the premier science environments.
My contact details
joe.andersen@gmail.com
ph +1 857 234 1285
aim dojojo joe
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
Physicists Use Soap Bubbles to Study Black Holes
People use them to get cars, dishes and clothes clean. Children blow them for fun. And now, a University of Mississippi physicist thinks soap bubbles can help scientists better understand the properties of black holes.
Read more at www.physorg.com/news664...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Latest PhysicsWeb Summaries
Latest PhysicsWeb Summaries
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Physics World
Sleeping giant (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/1
It is right that the US should increase its investment in particle
physics
Antarctica calling (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/2
Physicists are playing a valuable role in understanding our last great
wilderness
Top papers (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/3
In a special readers' poll Robert P Crease seeks your nominations for
the most interesting paper of all time
Antarctica unravelled (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/4
After more than a century of polar exploration, recent satellite
measurements are painting an altogether new picture of Antarctica.
Andrew Shepherd explains how physics is helping researchers understand
the critical transformations taking place in the world's largest ice
sheet
WMAP data put cosmic inflation to the test (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/5
Measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background open
up a new window on the universe when it was just 10^-35 s old, explains
Gary Hinshaw
Mobilizing magnetic resonance (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/6
Nuclear magnetic resonance traditionally requires large magnets that
make the technology immobile and expensive. Boyd Goodson describes how
efforts are being made to develop portable devices that will extend the
reach of this powerful imaging technique.
Sensing the extreme (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/7
From volcano vents to the surfaces of distant planets, silicon-carbide
sensors are poised to take us into environments where we have never
measured directly before, as Alton Horsfall and Nick Wright explain
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Reviews
Cosmology gets precise (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/review/19/5/1
The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology Joseph
Silk 2006 Oxford University Press 256pp £18.99/$29.95hb
Plotting the life of Descartes (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/review/19/5/2
Descartes: The Life of René Descartes and Its Place in His Times A C
Grayling Free Press 2005 352pp £20.00hb
Shelf life: Simon Singh (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/review/19/5/3
Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV producer specializing in
science and mathematics
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Try phySpy - Wiley-VCH's new international physics portal. Featuring THE
search engine for physicists. Based on the principle of neuronal
networks, phySpy.com searches for and filters out just the information
you need." (link: www.phySpy.com)
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Physics World
Sleeping giant (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/1
It is right that the US should increase its investment in particle
physics
Antarctica calling (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/2
Physicists are playing a valuable role in understanding our last great
wilderness
Top papers (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/3
In a special readers' poll Robert P Crease seeks your nominations for
the most interesting paper of all time
Antarctica unravelled (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/4
After more than a century of polar exploration, recent satellite
measurements are painting an altogether new picture of Antarctica.
Andrew Shepherd explains how physics is helping researchers understand
the critical transformations taking place in the world's largest ice
sheet
WMAP data put cosmic inflation to the test (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/5
Measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background open
up a new window on the universe when it was just 10^-35 s old, explains
Gary Hinshaw
Mobilizing magnetic resonance (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/6
Nuclear magnetic resonance traditionally requires large magnets that
make the technology immobile and expensive. Boyd Goodson describes how
efforts are being made to develop portable devices that will extend the
reach of this powerful imaging technique.
Sensing the extreme (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/19/5/7
From volcano vents to the surfaces of distant planets, silicon-carbide
sensors are poised to take us into environments where we have never
measured directly before, as Alton Horsfall and Nick Wright explain
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Reviews
Cosmology gets precise (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/review/19/5/1
The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology Joseph
Silk 2006 Oxford University Press 256pp £18.99/$29.95hb
Plotting the life of Descartes (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/review/19/5/2
Descartes: The Life of René Descartes and Its Place in His Times A C
Grayling Free Press 2005 352pp £20.00hb
Shelf life: Simon Singh (May 3)
http://physicsweb.org/article/review/19/5/3
Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV producer specializing in
science and mathematics
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Monday, May 08, 2006
Latest PhysicsWeb Summaries
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Veneto Nanotech Launches the 2nd Edition of Nanochallenge Enter your
nanotechnology business plan to Nanochallenge 2006 and you could win the
grand prize of Euro 300,000. The competition seeks commercially viable
business plans for innovative start-ups to produce and commercialize
products and services in the nanotechnology industry. Find out more at
http://www.nanochallenge.com/nc/files/index.cfm?id_rst=259
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News
No WIMPS -- only superWIMPS (Apr 25)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/11
It will be difficult for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which comes
online next year, to detect "WIMPS" -- the leading dark-matter candidate
particles -- say physicists in the US. However, the collider, which will
be the world's most powerful particle accelerator, might be able to
detect a new class of particles called "SuperWIMPS" -- the decay
products of WIMPS. The detection of dark matter particles would
represent a major breakthrough in both particle physics and cosmology
(Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 151802).
US told to invest in particle physics (Apr 26)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/12
America must boost its investment in particle physics if it is to stay
at the forefront of the discipline. That is the conclusion of a National
Academy of Sciences panel charged with recommending priorities for US
particle physics over the next 15 years. The panel believes that the
"intellectual centre of gravity" within the field is moving abroad and
that, as things stand, within a few years most American experimental
particle physicists will be working at facilities overseas.
Nuclear waste should be buried (Apr 27)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/13
After three years of deliberation, a government-commissioned inquiry has
concluded that the UK should bury its nuclear waste deep underground.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) laid out its
solution to the decades-old waste problem in a press conference held
today. But it told reporters that because it will take many years to
dispose of the waste in this way, the construction of a permanent
repository must be complemented by a robust system of interim storage.
Insects inspire artificial eyes (Apr 27)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/14
Scientists in the US have made the first artificial eye using 3D polymer
structures. The eye, which is made from individual "ommatidia" -- or
single lenses -- arranged in a dome shape, is similar in structure to an
insect's compound eye. It was developed by Luke Lee and colleagues at
the University of California at Berkeley. Each ommatidium consists of a
refractive polymer microlens, a light-guiding polymer cone, and a
waveguide that together collect and direct light into an optoelectronics
detector that can recognize images. If perfected, such eyes could be
used in medicine, environmental monitoring, industry and the military
(Science 321 557).
New light on giant tilts (Apr 28)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/15
A new theory has been proposed to explain how the giant planets --
Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus -- became tilted. The tilts of these planets
are fixed, whereas the tilts of the smaller Earth-like planets --
Mercury, Mars and Venus -- have changed with time. The new theory, which
has been developed by Adrian Brunini at the National University of La
Plata in Argentina, says that the tilts were fixed by the way the
planets interacted gravitationally as they moved from being close
together to the positions they occupy today (Nature 440 1163). If
correct, the theory would solve one of the biggest mysteries in our
solar system.
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Veneto Nanotech Launches the 2nd Edition of Nanochallenge Enter your
nanotechnology business plan to Nanochallenge 2006 and you could win the
grand prize of Euro 300,000. The competition seeks commercially viable
business plans for innovative start-ups to produce and commercialize
products and services in the nanotechnology industry. Find out more at
http://www.nanochallenge.com/nc/files/index.cfm?id_rst=259
----------------------------------------------------------------------
News
No WIMPS -- only superWIMPS (Apr 25)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/11
It will be difficult for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which comes
online next year, to detect "WIMPS" -- the leading dark-matter candidate
particles -- say physicists in the US. However, the collider, which will
be the world's most powerful particle accelerator, might be able to
detect a new class of particles called "SuperWIMPS" -- the decay
products of WIMPS. The detection of dark matter particles would
represent a major breakthrough in both particle physics and cosmology
(Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 151802).
US told to invest in particle physics (Apr 26)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/12
America must boost its investment in particle physics if it is to stay
at the forefront of the discipline. That is the conclusion of a National
Academy of Sciences panel charged with recommending priorities for US
particle physics over the next 15 years. The panel believes that the
"intellectual centre of gravity" within the field is moving abroad and
that, as things stand, within a few years most American experimental
particle physicists will be working at facilities overseas.
Nuclear waste should be buried (Apr 27)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/13
After three years of deliberation, a government-commissioned inquiry has
concluded that the UK should bury its nuclear waste deep underground.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) laid out its
solution to the decades-old waste problem in a press conference held
today. But it told reporters that because it will take many years to
dispose of the waste in this way, the construction of a permanent
repository must be complemented by a robust system of interim storage.
Insects inspire artificial eyes (Apr 27)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/14
Scientists in the US have made the first artificial eye using 3D polymer
structures. The eye, which is made from individual "ommatidia" -- or
single lenses -- arranged in a dome shape, is similar in structure to an
insect's compound eye. It was developed by Luke Lee and colleagues at
the University of California at Berkeley. Each ommatidium consists of a
refractive polymer microlens, a light-guiding polymer cone, and a
waveguide that together collect and direct light into an optoelectronics
detector that can recognize images. If perfected, such eyes could be
used in medicine, environmental monitoring, industry and the military
(Science 321 557).
New light on giant tilts (Apr 28)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/4/15
A new theory has been proposed to explain how the giant planets --
Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus -- became tilted. The tilts of these planets
are fixed, whereas the tilts of the smaller Earth-like planets --
Mercury, Mars and Venus -- have changed with time. The new theory, which
has been developed by Adrian Brunini at the National University of La
Plata in Argentina, says that the tilts were fixed by the way the
planets interacted gravitationally as they moved from being close
together to the positions they occupy today (Nature 440 1163). If
correct, the theory would solve one of the biggest mysteries in our
solar system.
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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Staggering atoms sober up in physics detox cell
Using an entirely new technology, a research team from Umeå University in Sweden has succeeded in controlling and converting energy from the random movement of atoms. “You could say that we have found a detox cell where drunken atoms can sober up,” says physicist Peder Sjölund. The findings are being published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Read more at www.physorg.com/news659...
Physics: Thinking Back and Forward
"Physicists Contemplate Their Impact over the Last 75 Years as Their Science Expands into Diverse Frontiers
May 3, 2006--As the American Institute of Physics (AIP) celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, physicists think about how much their science has evolved and how far it has expanded into new territory. Several busy physicists have taken the time to step back from their work to reflect upon events that have transpired since that occasion in 1931 when AIP first set up shop in New York City."
In the past 75 years, breakthroughs in physics have led to life-saving medical imaging, ubiquitous computers, inexpensive worldwide telecommunications, and an ever-deepening knowledge of matter, the Earth and the universe," says Marc H. Brodsky, AIP's Executive Director and CEO.
What have been the most important events in physics during this relatively short period of time? AIP senior historian and physicist Spencer Weart suggests two discoveries which took place in the early 20th century that have had tremendous influence on how we not only see and understand our world, but also how we live in it.Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity, he says, have laid down the "new physics" of our age. "
Read more at www.aip.org/isns/report...
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Scientific breakthrough a step toward quantum computing
"Light is the solution. It's also the problem. That's the paradox HP Labs' Quantum Information Processing Group is beginning to unravel with its research into optical quantum computing. The group has been investigating ways to use photons, or light particles, for information processing, rather than the electrons used in digital electronic computers today. Their work holds promise for someday developing faster, more powerful and more secure computer networks."
The HP Team includes Bill Munroe and Kae Nemoto - who were both working at UQ when I was a student there. It's always great to see people I know in the news.
The HP Team includes Bill Munroe and Kae Nemoto - who were both working at UQ when I was a student there. It's always great to see people I know in the news.
Read more at www.physorg.com/news953...
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