Welcome July 2006	The Group warmly welcomes Dr Jarrod Hurley, who is joining us from Monash, via the American Museum of Natural History, via Cambridge, via Monash! Jarrod works on stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and binaries.
Farewell June 2006	The Group sadly bid farewell to James Murray, who has gone off to join the private sector (fool!). We wish James all the best for his future.
Welcome April 2006	The Group welcomes Nico Aunai, a French stagier student visiting for 3 months from the University of Paris. He will be working with Sarah on grain growth.
Grants November 2005	Sarah Maddison and Chris Fluke were awarded a $10,000 Swinburne RDGS grant for a millimetre wavelength gravitational lensing observing project.
Welcome May 2005	The Group is delighted the welcome a playmate for young Sam. Max Maddison Mills was born 21 May is the happy son of proud parents Sarah Maddison and David Mills.
Welcome March 2005	The Group welcomes its second PhD student - Mr Paul Kiel. Paul will be working with James on binary evolution.
Welcome February 2005	The Group welcomes its first PhD student - Ms Annie Hughes! Annie will be working with Sarah on molecular clouds in the LMC.
Welcome February 2005	The group welcomes Adrian Malec, our latest R&D who will be working with Sarah and James on grain growth.
Welcome November 2004	The group welcomes Kirsten Joy, our latest Summer Vacation Student from ANU who will be working with Sarah over the summer.
Welcome November 2004	The group is extremely pleased to welcome young Samuel James into the world! Sam was born on November 16 and is the happy son of proud parents James Murray and Louise Hartley.
Welcome November 2004	The group welcomes Kimitake Hayasaki from Japan. Kimi has taken up a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship and will be working on accretion disks with James.
Welcome July 2004	The group welcomes two R&D students who will be working with Sarah in semester 2 - Adam Deller (again!), who will continue his work on debris disks, and Richare Moore who will be working on planetary dynamics.
Welcome July 2004	The group welcomes back Kathy Mason who is visiting the Centre to finish her PhD write-up.
Conference July 2004	Sarah attended Bioastronomy 2004 in Iceland and presented work on planetary habitability and finding planets in debris disks.
Welcome June 2004	The Group welcomes Thomas David and Sylvain Garabiol, students from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physics de Grenoble, France, who will be visiting Sarah & James for 3 months.
Welcome May 2004	The Group welcomes Dr Louise Hartley, who will be working with James for 12 weeks on winds from eccentric and warped accretion discs.
Welcome March 2004	The Group welcomes Ms Lettisia George, a third year R&D student who will be working with Sarah on the planet eating star V838 Mon.
Conference February 2004	Sarah attended the Planetary Timescales: From Stardust to Continents conference in Canberra and presented work on predicting the dust distribution in protostellar disks, as well as presenting Adam's poster on searching for unseen planets in debris disks.
Welcome February 2004	The Group welcome Daniel Price from Cambridge, who is visiting during February to work with James on adding MHD to SPH.
Grants January 2004	James was awarded an $18,000 Swinburne RGDS grant to work on winds from eccentric and warped accretion discs.
Welcome December 2003	The Group (once again!) welcomes Adam Deller, who will be staying on over the summer on a Summer Vacation Scholarship to work with Sarah on debris disks.
Congratulations! December 2003	The Group congratulates James who was married in Scotland.
Farewell December 2003	The Group is sorry to see Dr Jim Morton leave and wish him well with his future projects.
Conference November 2003	James has been invited to speak at the IAU Colloquia 194 Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond in Mexico and presented work on CVs.
Farewell November 2003	The Group is very sad to see Dr Robin Humble leave the country. Robin has been with the group on and off for the past two years working on dusty-gas disks and planets in disks, as well as all things parallel N-body+SPH. Robin is retunring to CITA.
Welcome August 2003	The Group welcomes Mr Adam Deller, a fourth year R&D student who will be working with Sarah on protoplanetary disks during semester 2.
Welcome August 2003	The Group welcomes Dr Jim Morton, who will be doing some postdoctoral research work using ZEUS to study disks. Jim's background is in fluid dynamics.
Conference July 2003	Sarah, James & Annie attended the IAU General Assembly in Sydney. Work on a variety of topics was presented at the various symposia & joint discussions on building planets with dusty-gas, adding theory to the virtual observatory, and the history of astronomy in Antarctica.
Visitor July 2003	Hans Zinnecker from Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam visited the Group and gave a talk on a HST/NICMOS search for giant planets around white dwarfs. He also chatted with Sarah & Annie about their planets in binaries project.
Visitor February 2003	The Group welcomes Dr Jean-François Gonzalez from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France, who will be visiting the group for two weeks to work with Laure & James.
Visitor February 2003	The Group welcomes Ms Laure Barriere, a visiting PD student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France (co-supervised by James). Laure will be visiting the group for four weeks and works on a two-phase dusty gas code.
Visitor January 2003	The Group welcomes Ms Kathie Manson, a visiting PhD students from ANU. Kathie will be visiting for two months from early-January to early-March. Kathie wrote her own SPH and radiative transfer codes and models CV disks.
Visitor December 2002	The Group welcomes Nilufer Can, a Department of Education Science Fellowship award winner from Upway Seconday College. Nilufer will be at Swinburne working with Sarah Maddison on some problems in Solar System dynamics for two weeks in December.
Welcome December 2002	The Group welcomes Katie Dodds-Eden, a Summer Vaction Scholar from ANU. Katie will be at Swinburne working with the Stars & Planets group for 10 weeks on circumbinary disk problems.
PhD Offer December 2002	The Group is delighted to offer a PhD position to Ms Annie Hughes, who will commence her PhD with the Group later in the year.
Grants Oct 2002	James and Sarah were awarded a $20,000 grant through the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing Expertise Program, to pursue their projects "Building Planets " with Robin Humble.
Welcome Oct 2002	Welcome to Dr James Murray, joining the Centre and the Group from the University of Leicester, UK. James is an expert on all things SPH and accretion and has taken up a position as Senior Lecturer for (at least!) the next 5 years.
Conference July 2002	Sarah attended the Bioastronomy 2002 IAU Symposium 213 on Hamilton Island and presented work on building planets with dusty-gas.
Conference June 2002	Sarah attended the Extrasolar Planets conference in Washington DC (which James also attened) and presented recent dusty disks simulations.
Conference June 2002	Robin attended the ASA Annual General Meeting in Mollymook, NSW, and presented work on building planets with dusty-gas. Annie also attended the Harely Wood Winter School in Batemans Bay, NSW.
Welcome April 2002	Welcome to Dr Robin Humble, who joins the Centre and the Group from CITA, University of Toronoto, Canada. Robin is an expert on all things SPH, N-body, parallel and HPC and has taken up an 8 month (at least!) postdoctoral position.
Welcome January 2002	Welcome to Ms Annie Hughes, who joins the Group as a part-time Research Assistant, working on problems of circumbinary disk dynamics and making synthetic near-IR maps of CB disks to compare with observations.
Grants December 2001	Sarah was awarded 35,000 CPU hours on the supercomputing time on the APAC National Facility Machine to work with Robin on the "Building Planets with Astrophysical Dusty-Gas" project.
Grants November 2001	Sarah was awarded a $20,000 grant through the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing Expertise Program, to work on the "Building Planets with Astrophysical Dusty-Gas" with Robin Humble.