Posts by: Michael Murphy

ARC Discovery Project grant

• On 5 Nov, 2012
• By Michael Murphy

We've been awarded a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC)! Together with Jason X. Prochaska at the UCO/Lick Observatory and University of California, Santa Cruz, we've been awarded funding…

‘Varying constants’ talk at ESO@50 conference

• On 7 Sep, 2012
• By Michael Murphy

I gave an invited talk entitled "Do the constants of Nature vary throughout the Universe?" at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) conference to celebrate its 50th birthday: 'ESO@50 – the…

Eureka Prize!

• On 29 Aug, 2012
• By Michael Murphy

We were awarded the 2012 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research at a gala event last night! My long-time collaborators at the University of New South Wales – John Webb, Victor Flambaum, Julian…

Australia’s first ‘astrocomb’

• On 2 Feb, 2012
• By Michael Murphy

We've demonstrated an 'astrocomb' on an Australian telescope for the first time! An 'astrocomb' is a femtosecond laser frequency comb fired into an astronomical spectrograph. Frequency combs earned their inventors…

Nature’s laws may vary across sky!

• On 31 Oct, 2011
• By Michael Murphy

We have uncovered possible evidence for variations in one of nature's fundamental 'constants' across the sky and possibly throughout the universe. Physical Review Letters has just published our findings (2011/10/31), which combine…

World’s first ‘astrocomb’

• On 5 Sep, 2008
• By Michael Murphy

We've demonstrated the world's first 'astrocomb'! An 'astrocomb' is a femtosecond laser frequency comb fired into an astronomical spectrograph. Frequency combs earned their inventors – Ted Hänsch and John Hall –…

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