Report on the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Materials Processing (APCMP)

2015 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Wei Gao
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Materials Processing ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
The University

The 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Materials Processing (APCMP) was successfully held from the 6th to 9th July 2014, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The aim of this conference was to provide an opportunity for researchers and industrial practitioners from around the world to interchange information on the latest development and applications in materials science and technologies. This is an important international conference hosted by the University of Auckland, which also recognised the contributions of materials research by the University of Auckland.

Sustainability in Photography Can Change the World

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Rowena H. Scott
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
World Environment

Photography plays important, but undervalued and misunderstood, roles in how modern urban humans relate to nature and how nature is mediated to us, forming our perceptions and national identity. Typically landscape photography depicts nature aesthetically as sublime, picturesque and beautiful. Photographs have been powerful raising awareness of sustainability and communicating political messages. The chapter reviews the influence of two great Australian wilderness photographers, Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, as well as Edith Cowan University's (ECU) Photography for Environmental Sustainability Competition. In conjunction with World Environment Day, the university invited students to submit photographs that showcase the principles and practices of environmental sustainability. This chapter describes the history, purposes and impact of photography and the competition. Starting as an engagement partnership between the environment coordinator, academics and the Perth Centre for Photography, it is now an international competition across Australia and New Zealand, not exclusive to photography students, hosted by Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS).

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Transmission Electron Microscopy for Materials Science at the EMAT Lab of the University of Antwerp

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Guzzinati ◽  
Thomas Altantzis ◽  
Maria Batuk ◽  
Annick De Backer ◽  
Gunnar Lumbeeck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Electron Tomography ◽  
High Resolution Imaging ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
The World ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
The University

The rapid progress in materials science that enables the design of materials down to the nanoscale also demands characterization techniques able to analyze the materials down to the same scale, such as transmission electron microscopy. As Belgium’s foremost electron microscopy group, among the largest in the world, EMAT is continuously contributing to the development of TEM techniques, such as high-resolution imaging, diffraction, electron tomography, and spectroscopies, with an emphasis on quantification and reproducibility, as well as employing TEM methodology at the highest level to solve real-world materials science problems. The lab’s recent contributions are presented here together with specific case studies in order to highlight the usefulness of TEM to the advancement of materials science.

Daniel Frank Walls FRSNZ. 13 September 1942 — 12 May 1999

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Sir Peter Knight ◽  
Gerard J. Milburn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantum Optics ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Major Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Dan Walls, a pioneer of quantum optics and especially the study of non-classical light, died in Auckland on 12 May 1999 after a battle with cancer, at the age of 57 years. Dan Walls completed a PhD with Roy Glauber at Harvard in 1969 and joined the University of Waikato in 1972. Together with his colleague Crispin Gardiner, during the next 25 years he established a major research centre for theoretical quantum optics in New Zealand and built active and productive collaborations with groups throughout the world.

Attic Vases in Australia and New Zealand

1951 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 178-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Trendall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The World ◽  
Greek Vases ◽  
The University

A growing interest in the study of archaeology has led in recent years to very substantial developments in the several collections of antiquities in Australia and New Zealand. Pottery has perhaps made the greatest contribution to this expansion, and the total amount of available material here has reached a point at which definitive publication in the Corpus Vasorum has become well worth while. Provision for this has already been made, but in the meantime it seemed to me that some account of the Attic vases in this part of the world might be of service and interest to scholars, since our collections by reason of their remoteness are not well known, although they contain several distinguished pieces, including a few which have been lost to sight for some time. For the sake of brevity, and because they are likely to be of wider interest, I confine myself here to Attic black-figure, red-figure and white-ground.The main Australian collection of Greek vases is housed in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney. The nucleus of this collection was acquired, some 90 years ago, by Sir Charles Nicholson, Chancellor of Sydney University from 1854 to 1862, during his travels in Italy and was catalogued by Miss Louisa Macdonald in 1898. Considerable additions have since been made by gift or purchase, as may be seen from a comparison between the vases listed by Miss Macdonald and those mentioned in the second edition of the Handbook to the Nicholson Museum, published fifty years later.

scholarly journals Preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 1192 (1) ◽  
pp. 011001
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Publication Committee ◽  
The World ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Scientific Platform ◽  
International Advisory

Published by IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. The International Conference on Biotechnology Engineering held its 6th Edition on the 22nd and 23rd June 2021. With the theme ‘Nurturing Innovation for Sustainable Future’, the conference revolved around scientifically rigor findings that emphasize the elements of sustainability and innovation. ICBioE 2021 serves as a scientific platform for academic and industry researchers, entrepreneurs, and technologists to convene from around the world, and exchange their latest scientific findings in the field of Materials and Chemical Engineering. In addition, three keynote speeches by distinguished Professors from Malaysia and Singapore, as well as from a successful university spin-off entrepreneur, were delivered during this event. List of Proceedings Editors, Publication Committee, International Advisory Board, National Advisory Board, Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

scholarly journals A computerised identification key for 30 genera of plant parasitic nematodes

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
N.L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Parasitic Nematodes ◽  
Plant Parasitic Nematodes ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Characters ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Plant Parasitic

A computerbased key for identifying plant parasitic nematodes of temperate agriculture in New Zealand and around the world is described It uses the Lucid software developed at the University of Queensland and includes images of major diagnostic features The key is multiaccess rather than dichotomous so may be entered at any point allowing for the most obvious characters of a specimen to be scored first and thereby immediately reduce the number of likely taxa Both qualitative and quantitative characters are used The key requires that the specimen can be viewed microscopically but examples of most morphological terms are illustrated so the nonspecialist should be able to make use of the key

A New Zealand Industry perspective on the Fifth International Conference and Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management

1997 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 655
Author(s):  
Daryl Sykes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Issues

This short article provides an overview of the Conference from the perspective of an observer from the New Zealand fishing industry. Fishers were well represented at this Conference. Of special interest to them were the vast contrasts in lobster fisheries management throughout the world, the apparent resilience of lobster populations and the similarities in management issues throughout the world. The Conference emphasized the need for scientists and fishers to work together, and for industry to have an informed and interactive role in managing and choosing research directions for lobster resources.

Bioscience enterprise: Postgraduate education at Cambridge and Auckland

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Allan ◽  
Joerg Kistler ◽  
Chris Lowe ◽  
Wendell Dunn ◽  
Claire McGowan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Leading universities around the world are addressing the demand for science-business-skilled professionals with a variety of novel programmes. The University of Cambridge (the United Kingdom) and University of Auckland (New Zealand) have each developed a Master's in Bioscience Enterprise programme providing specialist business and legal skills relevant to employment in the bio-economy. The biotechnology contexts in which these programmes were developed are significantly different and are reflected in the internship choices, thesis topics and postgraduate employment opportunities. In each case, industry feedback has been excellent to date as evidenced by the increasing engagements of companies in these programmes.

Up Close: Materials Science in Spain—Its Dynamic Growth

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
C. Ortiz ◽  
D. Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Materials Processing ◽  
American Continent ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Material Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Growth ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The year 1992 is very special for Spain: 500 years have passed since the discovery of the American continent. That discovery helped make Spain the most powerful country in the world in the 16th century. In time, though, Spain lost its influence to England, and materials processing played a surprising role in this transfer. It has been shown that one of the main reasons Spain's “Invincible Armada” was defeated by the English Navy was that the Spanish ships used faulty cannon balls. The balls were of such poor quality that, once fired, they disintegrated before they could damage enemy warships. Faulty material technology—low compactness or degree of sintering—caused the disintegration.As we approach the 21st century, the Spanish scientific community has reached a high level of expertise in materials science. A decade ago, Spain's R&D activities were poorly funded and research was carried out without the necessary infrastructure. In 1986, the government established a national R&D strategy which included a dedicated Program for New Materials. In addition, the Regional Communities (Autonomias) have reinforced these nationally planned and funded R&D activities. And as a member of the European Community (EC), Spain has also begun integration into European R&D. After three years, Spanish scientists are already achieving success in the Brite/Euram Program at a level comparable to more scientifically and technologically advanced countries. Figure 1 shows the Spanish government's total R&D budget in materials science from 1985 to 1991, and additions from the EC since 1989. Clearly, financial support for materials science has increased dramatically in the last few years.

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