Considered ‘The Oscars of Australian Science’, the Eureka Prizes are the premier science prizes in Australia presented annually by the Australian Museum. With only a handful of prizes awarded each year, Macquarie has three nominations for the 2013 Awards.
Professor Vijay Varadharajan, from Macquarie’s Department of Computing has been nominated for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia.
In a time when cloud computing is transforming the way we do business and live our daily lives, but security issues are posing major challenges, Varadharajan’s work has achieved novel cyber security and trust technologies that enable large scale secure cloud applications.These technologies are critically important for the advancement of industry and society in Australia.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0khmw_NXas
In the area of research, Dr Anthony Conn along with Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney, has been nominated for the University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Scientific Research.
Conn and Geraint have gathered cutting-edge imaging from over 200 hours of telescope observations to look in depth at the Andromeda Galaxy, Earth’s nearest neighbour. Their groundbreaking research revealed a completely unexpected, and mysterious, rotating plane of dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda. None of our ideas of the nature of dark matter and the evolution of galaxies predict such a coherent structure, and its discovery presents huge challenges for current cosmology.
Dr Melanie Bishop’s vision to underpin coastal management with cutting-edge science has seen her efforts rewarded with a nomination for the 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science. Bishop leads a team uncovering how coastal ecosystems operate and respond to change. The team focuses on temperate coasts – one of the most productive and important ecosystems for nutrient cycling, and also one of the most impacted by humans.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD_pqc-DO1A
The Eureka Prizes were established in 1990 to reward outstanding achievements in Australian science and science communication. Since that time they have become the country’s most comprehensive science awards and are judged by a panel of expert representatives from a variety of disciplines. In 2013, 17 prizes will be awarded to recognise excellence in the fields of scientific research and innovation, leadership and commercialisation, school science and science journalism and communication.
Winners will be announced at an Awards Dinner on 4 September at the Sydney Town Hall. More information on the Eureka Awards can be found at australianmuseum.net.au/eureka
Professor Vijay Varadharajan, from Macquarie’s Department of Computing has been nominated for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia.
In a time when cloud computing is transforming the way we do business and live our daily lives, but security issues are posing major challenges, Varadharajan’s work has achieved novel cyber security and trust technologies that enable large scale secure cloud applications.These technologies are critically important for the advancement of industry and society in Australia.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0khmw_NXas
In the area of research, Dr Anthony Conn along with Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney, has been nominated for the University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Scientific Research.
Conn and Geraint have gathered cutting-edge imaging from over 200 hours of telescope observations to look in depth at the Andromeda Galaxy, Earth’s nearest neighbour. Their groundbreaking research revealed a completely unexpected, and mysterious, rotating plane of dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda. None of our ideas of the nature of dark matter and the evolution of galaxies predict such a coherent structure, and its discovery presents huge challenges for current cosmology.
Dr Melanie Bishop’s vision to underpin coastal management with cutting-edge science has seen her efforts rewarded with a nomination for the 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science. Bishop leads a team uncovering how coastal ecosystems operate and respond to change. The team focuses on temperate coasts – one of the most productive and important ecosystems for nutrient cycling, and also one of the most impacted by humans.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD_pqc-DO1A
The Eureka Prizes were established in 1990 to reward outstanding achievements in Australian science and science communication. Since that time they have become the country’s most comprehensive science awards and are judged by a panel of expert representatives from a variety of disciplines. In 2013, 17 prizes will be awarded to recognise excellence in the fields of scientific research and innovation, leadership and commercialisation, school science and science journalism and communication.
Winners will be announced at an Awards Dinner on 4 September at the Sydney Town Hall. More information on the Eureka Awards can be found at australianmuseum.net.au/eureka
