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Dr Paul Stoddart wins Victoria Fellowship award. This evening at a gala event in Government House, Dr Paul Stoddart of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy was amonst the six winners of a prestigious Victoria Fellowship. Our hearty congratulations go to Dr Stoddart who won an award for his work in laser-based technology. The prize includes a travel grant of $18,000 to further the winner's research and is intended to benefit scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers.

Dr Cameron Jones presented the paper From Biosensors to Product Design Engineering: Molecular Computing and Digital Encryption at the 17th IMACS World Congress - Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation in Paris, France held from July 11-15, 2005.

Dr Cameron Jones and Dr Paul Stoddart will be presenting a lecture on Nanotechnology as part of the Cutting Edge Lecture Series (CELS) at 6.00 PM, Wednesday 8^th June 2005, at the Croft Institute, Croft Alley, Melbourne.
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Swinburne student Mr Soumitra Joshi has been awarded first prize in the 2004 Integrating Projects competition.
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Swinburne student, Roberto Calati, takes up the first Nanotechnology Victoria Industry Studentship for the Industry-Based Learning component of his double degree (Bachelor of Electronic Engineering / Bachelor of Applied Science (Research and Development)).
More information about student opportunities at NanoVic can be found here.

Swinburne University will be presenting some of its nanotechnology research as well as hosting a number of forums at Austech 2005, Australia's premier manufacturing technology exhibition, to be held from 10-13 May 2005 in the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. This expo is running under the banner of National Manufacturing Week, which combines several exhibitions under the one roof. For more information or registration details, see http://www.amtil.com.au/.

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Dr Paul Stoddart has been awarded a DART grant from Diabetes Australia - Victoria, to continue research on the implatable glucose sensor being developed at the Centre for Imaging and Applied Optics.

Dr Paul Stoddart and the team at the Centre for Imaging and Applied Optics have entered into an agreement with BioPharmica Limited to develop a SERS based fibre optic probe to be used in biosensors for diagnostic testing and drug development. The agreement was announced to the Australian Stock Exchange this morning. For more information about the SERS fibres, see the August 2004 'Research in Focus'. The press release of the announcement can be found here.

Nanotechnology Victoria announces the first NanoVic Prizes for Innovation in Nanotechnologies. Information about the prizes on offer can be found here or on the Nanovic website.

Prof. Dan Nicolau is chairing the conference on Biomedical Applications of Micro- and Nanoengineering II (12th - 15th December 2004) at the University of New South Wales.

Prof. Min Gu is chairing the VIII International Conference on Optics Within Life Sciences (28th November - 1st December 2004) in Melbourne, Australia.

The State Library received grant funding to assemble a panel of composers to discuss the role of science in music composition as part of National Science Week. The main focus of this will be the work of Cameron Jones. The title of the keynote address by Cameron Jones is 'Nanotechnology and Molecular Scale Music Composition' National Science Week, Experimedia, State Library of Victoria.

Cameron Jones interviewed by 3RRR radio as part of the Einstein A Go-Go show.

Paul Stoddart and Daniel White present the papers 'A Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate of Biological Origin' and 'Fibre-optic SERS Sensors with Well-Defined Nanoscale Structures' at the ICORS 2004 conference held at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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