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Women in Physics

Lecture Tour 2025

The AIP Women in Physics (WIP) Lecture Tour celebrates the contribution of women to advances in physics. This annual award recognises a woman who has made a significant contribution in a field of physics.  

See the Women in Physics Lecturer page for information on nominations, closing dates and previous WIP lecturers. Do you have a question about the 2024 Women in Physics Lecture tour dates and venues? Please email WIP@aip.org.au for info. 

Announcing the 2025 Women in Physics Lecturers

The AIP is delighted to announce that Dr Sol H. Jacobsen (NTNU) and Dr Danielle Holmes (UNSW Sydney) will tour Australia this year as the AIP’s joint 2025 Women in Physics Lecturers. We look forward to joining with this year's lecturers in celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, and to inform and inspire the next generation.

Tour dates and locations of Dr Sol Jacobsen’s and Dr Danielle Holmes’ lecture series will be announced soon.

Dr Sol Jacobsen - Combining superconductivity and magnetism for the future of computing

Dr Jacobsen, Group Leader at QuSpin Centre for Quantum Spintronics, investigates ways to combine materials that are superconductive and magnetic (two properties that are usually at odds with each other) as a route to reducing energy loss in computing.

Born in Bergen, Norway, Sol moved to a small village in the Highlands of Scotland aged 9. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the the University of York, U.K., she undertook PhD studies at the  University of Tasmania, Australia, under the guidance of Peter Jarvis. Bringing with her a Tasmanian partner, she then returned to Europe, where she now leads her own research group at the  Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Dr Danielle Holmes - Harnessing quantum physics with single atoms in silicon chips to solve the unsolvable

Dr Holmes, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at UNSW Sydney, manipulates individual atoms in silicon chips to build “qubits” (quantum computing’s version of binary digits) to create scalable quantum computers.

She received her undergraduate qualifications from the University of Cambridge, before exploring the technologies used to build quantum computers during her PhD studies at the University of Melbourne. Now at the University of New South Wales, Danielle is a passionate science outreach communicator, sharing her love for quantum physics well beyond the laboratory, even performing at the Sydney Comedy Festival!




Upcoming events

Dates and locations for the 2025 lecture tour will be announced soon. To be kept informed of upcoming events, join our mailing list.

Past dates:

17 Oct 2024 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Sydney | Prof Susan Coppersmith

8 Oct 2024 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Brisbane | Prof Susan Coppersmith

24 Sept 2024 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Canberra | Prof Susan Coppersmith

27 Aug 2024 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Perth | Prof Susan Coppersmith

22 Aug 2024 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Newcastle | Prof Susan Coppersmith

14 Aug 2024 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Adelaide, Claire Corani Melorial Lecture and Award Ceremony | Prof Susan Coppersmith

12 Aug 2024  - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Wollongong | Prof Susan Coppersmith

9 May 2024 -  From grains of sand to quantum computers: Girls in Physics Breakfast and Livestream | Prof Susan Coppersmith

25 Oct 2023 -  Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Dr Karen Livesey

12 Oct 2023 - Public Lecture | Women in Physics National Lecture Tour | Dr Karen Livesey

22 Sep 2023 - Public Lecture - Women in Physics - Magnetic Nanoparticles for the 21st Century

14 Sep 2023 - Public Lecture: Magnetic nanoparticles – new materials to address biomedical and technological problems

13 Sep 2023 - Women in Physics National Lecture Tour - "Magnetic Nanoparticles for the 21st Century"

11 Sep 2023 - Public Lecture: Nano-magnets for biomedicine

11 Sep 2023 - ANU Director's Colloquium - Analytic theories for magnetic skyrmions

6 Sep 2023 - Claire Corani Memorial Public Lecture - Women in Physics Lecture Tour

21 July  Girls in Physics Breakfast – Nano-Magnets: New Materials to Address Biomedical and Technological Problems (Breakfast event for women and girls in physics)

20 July, 7PM | RMIT University | Nano-magnets: new materials to address biomedical and technological problems (Public Lecture)

28 June, 7PM  | University of Western Australia |  Nano-magnets: new materials to address biomedical and technological problems (Public Lecture)

28 June , 12PM | Curtin University | Magnetic Nanoparticles for the 21st Century Lecture (Technical seminar + Lunch)


Lecture tour news

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  • 20 May 2022 4:00 PM | Anonymous

    A/Prof Katarina Miljkovic will be giving free talks open to the public at the following NSW and ACT venues:

    Click on the events for more details and to register.

    She will also be giving at talk at the follow event but it is only open for physicists at the Australian National University:

  • 2 May 2022 12:00 PM | Anonymous

    The 2022 Women in Physics Lectureship tour kicks off at the end of May and runs through to September.

    Planetary scientist Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic from Curtin University will be giving a lecture series entitled ‘Impacts! Rocks from space colliding with planets’.

    The Women in Physics Lectureship is awarded annually to recognise and publicise significant contributions by a woman to advancing a field of physics and to inspire future physicists.

    A/Prof Miljkovic will be giving her lecture to schools, academics, and the general public.

    Catch a speak peek of what she’ll be talking about in Impact: Beyond the Night Sky (2020), a short documentary written and directed by Kath Dooley. This immerse, 360, virtual-reality documentary was a finalist in the best experimental film category at the 2022 Atom Awards

    The currently confirmed dates for the lecture tour are:

    • NSW: 30 May – 1 Jun
    • ACT: 2 – 3 Jun
    • QLD: 18 – 20 Jul
    • VIC: 27 – 28 Jul
    • TAS: 8 – 10 Aug
    • SA: 6 – 8 Sep
    • WA: 22 Sep

    Further tour dates in WA are TBA. Watch out on social media and in next month’s newsletter for venues and times.

    “When imagining the space in our Solar System, many people think of a dark silent void but the space around us is not empty; it is filled with particles, with dust, and with rocks – some very small and some large.  The history of our Universe is a history of impacts when things collide.” – A/Prof Katarina Miljkovic in Impact: Beyond the Night Sky (2020).

    Photo credit: TAKE2STEM.

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