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Research - Areas
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Radio Astronomy
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Contact: John.Dickey@utas.edu.au
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Radio astronomy is the study of objects beyond the Earth's atmosphere using the light they emit in the radio band of the electromagnetic spectrum. The School of Mathematics and Physics is unique in Australia in possessing two world class radio telescopes, one at the Mt Pleasant Observatory near Hobart and the other near Ceduna in South Australia. The major research interests of the radio astronomy group are in :
- Active galactic nuclei
- Interstellar masers
- Pulsars
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Theoretical Physics
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Contact: Peter.Jarvis@utas.edu.au
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The Theoretical Physics group carries out research work in High Energy Physics with a particular emphasis on symmetry properties of elementary particles and quantum field gauge theories.
The broad interests of the group are reflected in the range of topics supervised in recent years, ranging from quantum electrodynamics in D dimesions, theoretical and experimental work on model dynamical systems to Bell’s theorem and the foundations of quantum theory and path integral methods in quantum mech
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Optical Astronomy
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Contact: John.Greenhill@utas.edu.au
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The Optical Astronomy group has a 1 metre telescope and extensive support facilities at the Canopus Hill Observatory approximately 12 km from Hobart.
Current research in the group includes the study of gravitational microlensing events as part of the worldwide PLANET collaboration and the study of X-ray pulsars and black hole accretors.
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Biophysics
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Contact: Ian.Newman@utas.edu.au
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Research in plant biophysics was begun after the second world war under the inspiration of the versatile Professor A L McAulay. The biophysics group continued under the leadership of Dr B I H Scott and now Dr I A Newman. Its graduates include several of Australia's leading plant biophysicists.
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Cosmic Ray Astronomy
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Contact: John.Humble@utas.edu.au
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The Cosmic Ray research group in the University of Tasmania Physics Department was founded immediately after World War 2 by Dr A G (Geoff) Fenton, under
the guidance of Professor A L McAulay. The group, now led by Dr J E Humble, operates a network of surface and underground detectors as part of the world-wide effort to study cosmic-ray modulation over long time scales.
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