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Dear alumni and friends
Welcome to the April edition of eSydney.
This month we will host a Hong Kong Golf Night and a Sydney Ideas International Lecture in Beijing; I do hope you can join us.
I also encourage you to advise us of your views about SAM (your Sydney Alumni Magazine) by entering our survey – and go in the draw to win an i-Pad!
Nominations for the 2011 Alumni Awards are closing soon. The Awards are a great way to recognise the extraordinary difference our alumni make in Australia and around the world. I encourage you to visit the website and nominate before Friday 29 April 2011.
With kind regards
Tracey Beck | Director, Alumni and Events Office |
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| Reconciliation week |
Reconciliation is a time to focus on building relationships for change between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and the University of Sydney will host a range of events between 27 May and 3 June. Find out more. |
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| Sydney Annual: bright minds inspired by generosity. |
Every day bright minds at the University of Sydney are inspired by the generosity of our alumni and friends. | | | |
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| Information Age to be faster, smarter, greener thanks to CUDOS |
While developing ways to increase internet speeds by a thousand or more times, Australian scientists found the same technology can be used to make objects invisible, to detect hundreds of distant galaxies, and to operate on someone on the other side of the world.
The scientists behind these science-fiction-sounding developments are from CUDOS, headquartered at the University of Sydney and about to enter its second phase after receiving $23.8 million in funding from the Federal Government to set up a centre of excellence.
The new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) was launched on Wednesday 6 April, by Senator Kim Carr, Federal Minister for Science.
CUDOS technology is based on metamaterials, artificially engineered materials not found in nature which can control light at the nanoscale. Centre Director, Professor Ben Eggleton says it is a revolutionary step from old energy-intensive copper wire communication systems.
"We're developing new metamaterials with optical properties to control light, and engineering them into miniature photonic processors," he said. |
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