World-first detector reports rare events
A team from QDM Lab has published ground-breaking results in Physical Review Letters entitled ‘Rare Events Detected with a Bulk Acoustic Wave High Frequency Gravitational Wave Antenna. The detected waves could stem from Dark Matter particles.
Cat Thomson—EFTF-IFCS 2021 Best Student Paper Prize
Congratulations to Catriona Thomson for winning the 2021 IEEE EFTF-IFCS Best Student Paper Award for “Using Precision Frequency Metrology for Dark Matter Searches”.
QDM Collaboration news
Lockheed Martin Industry Presentation: TAIPAN—A Novel Gravity Gradient Sensor, Michael Tobar
Measuring with the highest precision
UWA’s Research Impact news feature on Michael Tobar and the research in the QDM Lab.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Dark Matter?
Ben McAllister took part in a special Dark Matter edition of this ABC National Radio, Science Friction podcast.
The Governor’s visit
The Honourable Kim Beazley AC, Governor of Western Australia, was invited to visit the innovation and industry sectors at UWA that will be taking WA forward into the next Industrial revolution.
A force from nothing used to control and manipulate objects.
A collaboration between researchers from The University of Western Australia and The University of California Merced has provided a new way to measure tiny forces and use them to control objects.
Read this Scimex article and UWA media release.