UNSW@ADFA Weekly News

September 15 , 2005

Message from the Rector

Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) Audit
Today Professor Adrian Lee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Quality Improvement), and Patrick Boyle, Director of the Quality System Development Group visited UNSW@ADFA to talk with students and staff about the upcoming audit of UNSW by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). As part of the audit AUQA will visit UNSW@ADFA on 19 October to talk with a number of staff. I would like to thank all of you who participated in today's sessions for your involvement.

I'm very pleased to announce that Allan Herrmann, Manager of Educational Technology Services, has been awarded a 2005 UNSW Universitas 21 Fellowship. This award is recognition of the quality work that Allan does and I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on behalf of the College.

Also we have recently been advised that past student Alun Brindle from the School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical was one of the two winners of the 2004 Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Space Engineering, sponsored by the National Committee on Space Engineering of Engineers Australia. Our congratulations to Alun on this achievement.

UNSW@ADFA to hold Alumni function in Adelaide
UNSW@ADFA will be hosting an Alumni function for UNSW including UNSW@ADFA graduates in Adelaide on the Wednesday 26 October. The event will be held at the Stamford Plaza, 150 North Terrace Adelaide commencing at 6.00pm till 8.00pm. This will be the first UNSW Alumni event to be held in Adelaide hosted by one of the faculties. The evening will be an opportunity to meet and network with past graduates in an informal setting. Invitations will be mailed out to Alumni in the Adelaide area in the near future. Alumni are asked to RSVP by no later than 14 October 2005. Point of contact for the event is: Mike Palmer-Allen, Email: m.palmer-allen@adfa.edu.au, phone: 02 6268 8760, Mob: 0404 475 539.

Professor John Baird
Rector

RESEARCH & RESEARCH TRAINING OFFICE REPORT

High Performance Bricks from Fly Ash

Dr Obada Kayali of the School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering (ACME), at the University of New South Wales at The Australian Defence Force Academy, was the recipient of the Best Paper award at the recent ‘World of Coal Ash' conference held in Lexington, Kentucky. The Barton A Thomas award is presented after the conference to the person whose oral presentation is chosen by a panel of judges to be the most outstanding of the conference. The award is sponsored by the University of Kentucky Centre for Applied Energy Research.

ABSTRACT: Bricks whose solid ingredient is 100% fly ash have been manufactured. The manufacturing process uses techniques and equipment similar to those used in clay brick factories. The bricks produced were about 28% lighter than clay bricks. The bricks manufactured from fly ash possessed compressive strength higher than 40 MPa. This exceeds some of the best of load carrying clay bricks available by more than 25% and is several times better than acceptable commercially available common clay bricks. Other important characteristics of the fly ash bricks have been evaluated. These included absorption capacity, initial rate of absorption, modulus of rupture, bond strength and durability. The values of these characteristics for fly ash bricks are excellent and have exceeded those pertaining to clay bricks. Moreover, fly ash bricks have been produced with a naturally occurring reddish colour similar to that of normal clay bricks. The new bricks and process have been patented and the new bricks have been given the name FlashBricks. This paper presents the results of testing and the advantages gained by this type of bricks over conventional clay bricks.

Professor Joseph Lai, Associate Dean (Research) would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr Kayali on this outstanding achievement. The total number of full papers presented at the Conference was in excess of 177 and the total of papers and posters were more than 255.

Research Office Move

The Research and Research Training Office has ‘upped stakes' and moved from the Administration Building . We may now be found on Level 3 in Building 21 (old Geography and Oceanography building).

(We had hoped to escape without advertising our new location, but Professor Joseph Lai, Associate Dean (Research), somehow discovered our nefarious intentions!)

Research Day Poster Competition

Students who wish to submit a poster for the Research Day Poster Competition must advise Geoff Brooks in the Research and Research Training Office (RRTO) by no later than 30 September of their intention to submit a poster. Geoff may be contacted on 02 6268 8112 or g.brooks@adfa.edu.au .

ETS have kindly offered their services in regard to the printing and laminating of posters to be entered in the competition. However, bearing in mind the advance notice which is necessary:

Students who wish to have their posters printed by ETS must provide ETS with the final pdf file of their poster no later than 7 October ; and
ETS will only print ONE poster per student and will only print posters submitted by students who have notified the RRTO of their intention to enter the poster competition.

Staff Bulletins

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UNSW@ADFA TEACHING AWARD

The UNSW@ADFA Teaching and Learning Committee (TLC) invites applications for the Teaching Award for 2005. The TLC can recommend up to three awards of $3000 each to the Rector. The award are to recognise excellence in teaching over the period of the last two years. The closing date for applications is Monday 24 October 2005. The recipient/s will be presented the award at the Prizes and Awards ceremony on Wednesday 7 December 2005.

The nominations have to come from (i) the Head of School and (ii) two academic colleagues OR two present or former students OR one academic and one student. Please feel free to contact the Presiding Member of the TLC, A/Prof Hemanshu Pota (School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, h.pota@adfa.edu.au, 6268 8197), for further information and assistance in preparing the application.

Award guidelines and nomination forms can be accessed from: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/governance/tlc/guidelines.html

Enable e-mail & Calendar services

Early in 2005 ASG's ICT Services rolled out the UNSW@ADFA e-mail system that is based on the Sun JES software that included calendar and personal address book (PAB). The recent upgrade to JES has made both calendar and PAB available to all users on the UNSW@ADFA system.

Since then ICTS has improved the functionality of Calendar to connect to your UNSW@ADFA mail account via a web browser from on-site or off-site. This web interface comes with a context-sensitive online help system that provides the necessary details on how to use all the features of the services.

Users of Microsoft Outlook 2000 or a later version will be able to access most of the JES functionality from within their Outlook mail client that includes:

Access to your UNSW@ADFA calendar
Access to your UNSW@ADFA PAB
Share your calendar with other people
Subscribe, view, and interact with, other peoples' calendars
Subscribe, view, and interact with, shared resources
Share your mail folders with other people
Subscribe, view, and interact with, other peoples' shared mail folders.

This functionality is also available within the new web interface for users of other e-mail clients or users that do not use the Microsoft Windows environment.

If you would like to have more information on how to have this functionality, please contact the ICTS Service Desk by email helpdesk@adfa.edu.au or telephone: 02 6268 8140.

The Australian Defence Force Academy Cadet's Mess presents....

'The Whitlams Live'

When:Friday 7th October, 7.30 p.m.
Where: Academy Cadets Mess
Cost: $20.00
Booking Tickets: Please call the booking hotline on 02 62688622 and make your reservations. Payment will be by cash at the door. Cadets and midshipmen will have the option of paying on their mess bills.

Any Questions?
Ticketing and payment concerns -- OCDT Ellen Ford, 12 Div: e.ford@student.adfa.edu.au or 02 62686124 Function information -- OCDT Andrew Hastie, 12 Div: a.hastie@student.adfa.edu.au or 02 62686123

PENFOLDS Grange Auction - 29 August to 7 October

RULES – lowest unique bid

The auction will be open to all ADFA Cadets, Midshipmen, military and civilian staff who ‘live or work' at ADFA. The competition is not open to persons under the age of 18 as this would constitute supply of liquor to a minor and this is prohibited by statute and Defence Instruction.

The prize is a bottle of 1999 Penfolds Grange, (hereinafter referred to as the Prize) currently worth $400.

Aim: The entrant who makes the lowest unique bid will be declared the winner. Entrants making bids are to guess the lowest unique figure in whole cents that the bottle might be sold for. More than one bid of the same value will void all bids of that value. The successful entrant will then have the option to purchase the Prize for the value of their winning bid.

Bidding: The following rules apply to bidding:

a. Each bid will cost $2.

b. Entrants are to place their written bid, their contact details and the $2 fee in the envelope provided.

c. Entrants may make more than one bid per envelope, as long as a $2 fee accompanies each bid. Therefore, a person making 5 bids will pay $10.

d. There is no limit to the number of bids that can be made by one person.

e. Bids are to be made in ‘whole cents', ie a bid of $1.37 can be made as 137c.

f. Once the bid is announced at Sportsman's Ball, the figure will be rounded to the nearest five cent mark for payment; ie 137c will be 140c.

g. Bidding is open to ADFA Military members and Civilian Staff, contractors working at ADFA, and UNSW@ADFA academic and general staff.

h. Bidding will commence 0800 h Mon, 29 Aug 05.

i. Bidding concludes NLT 1200 h Fri, 07 Oct 05.

j. Bidding will be adjudicated by SOCM. SOCM's decision on the winning bid is final and no correspondence in regards to the result will be entered into.

k. In the event that there is no valid unique bid, the Prize will be up for auction on the night of Sportsman's Ball. Bidding will commence at the reserve set by the highest invalid unique bid. The ‘contingency' auction will only be open for those who attend Sportsman's Ball.

6. Bids are to be placed in locked entry boxes located in the ACM, the Duty Desk in the Mil Building and at the ADFA Café.

7. The winner will be announced at the Academy Cadets Ball on the 8 th October 05.

8. All monies raised will go towards the 2005 Graduation Ball and Half Grad Party.

POC: OCDT Emma Nixon 02 6268 6171 e.nixon@student.adfa.edu.au

Limelight and exhibition of ceramic vessels by Sara Hogwood

8 September to 9 October

Library UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Campbell ACT

Viewing hours: Monday - Thursday 9am to 9pm

Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 1pm -5pm

Classifieds

If you have something you would like to contribute, please download and complete the submission form and email the information to newsletter@adfa.edu.au

FOR SALE

3 seater Sofa Bed. Light green and cream striped fabric. Sofa and mattress in good condition. $250.00. All reasonable offers welcome. Photo available on request. Contact: Tania Finn 02 6268 8701 or email: t.finn@adfa.edu.au

Lounge: Carved and scrolled wood and velvet 1X3 and 2X1. Beautiful claret/red velet,buttoned backs and firmly padded round arms with high wingback and coffee table carvet timber too match. All in very good order, $1000.00 ono. Photo available contact k.massey@adfa.edu.au or 02 62688963. Also various items of 1960 furniture e.g. cocktail cabinet, HMV radiogram going cheap.

Nana Mouskouri concert. Two A-grade tickets, value $245 sell for $200. Canberra Royal Theatre, 18 September 2005. Ph. 62582979

Upcoming Events

DATE	TITLE	VENUE
8 September to 9 October	'Limelight' an exhibition of ceramic vessels by Sara Hogwood	ADFA Library
16 September	School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences Seminars	P25 PEMS Sth
19 September	ADFA History Society Lecture - Dr Martin Nassua, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg	Cadets Mess Reading Room
20 September	Unisuper Seminar -"Women in Super"	LT7, ADFA
29 &30 September	Dr Reagan Moore - Data Management and Sustainability	Lecture &tutorial tba
7 October	'Whitlams' Live at ADFA	Cadets Mess
26 October	UNSW@ADFA Alumni Function	Samford Plaza, Adelaide
7 December	Degree Conferral Ceremonies & Prizes and Awards Ceremony	Adams Hall, ADFA
8 December	Graduation Parade	ADFA Parade Ground

Free Community Lectures

School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences Seminars

Friday 16 September at 11.10 am in P25, PEMS South (Buiilding 26)

Assoc. Prof. Ted Catchpole
Bayesian Statistics for Dummies

For details go to http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/pems/news/phys_disc_sem.html

ADFA History Society Lecture - 19 September

Topic: 'July 20th, 1944, the attempted coup d'etat and its significance for Germany today'
Presenter: Dr Martin Nassua, Helmut-Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg

Lt Col in the German Air Force and now serves as a Captain of the Reserve in the German Army, NBC Defence Corps. He holds a Master of Arts in History and Political Science and a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin.

It will be a unique opportunity to hear a German academic present on a very important subject in German history. Dr Nassua's presentation will touch upon military, political and social aspects of history.

Morning tea will be provided beginning at 1010h. The address and question time will follow with the function concluding at 1120h. Join us for some cheese, pastries and history.

Please RSVP to OCDT Andrew Hastie, 12 Div at: a.hastie@student.adfa.edu.au

UNISUPER SEMINAR

UniSuper members are invited to the following seminar to be held at UNSW@ADFA. David Prowse, Regional Coordinator of the UniSuper Education and Advisory Service will be presenting the seminars

To register for a seminar, please go to the website below, click on the nominated topic, select the ACT in the drop down menu, click on register.
Registration of your attendance will ensure an accurate number of handouts are available.

http://www.unisuper.com.au/education/seminars.cfm

Tuesday, 20 September 2005

12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Lecture Theatre 7

Topic: - Women in Super

Although the participation of women in the workforce has increased over the last twenty years, decisions regarding career choice, career breaks, whether to undertake part-time or casual work, and divorce, have placed women well behind men when it comes to retirement savings.

This seminar will provide information specifically for women by outlining a range of tips and strategies to help women clarify and reach their retirement savings goals. Strategies such as qualifying for the government co-contribution, salary sacrifice, and spouse contributions will be discussed, along with useful information on the advantages of UniSuper membership such as access to low cost insurance, and UniSuper products, such as the UniSuper spouse account.

Thursday, 3 November 2005
12.30 pm - 2.00 pm Lecture Theatre 3

Topic: Your benefits when you leave

Whether you're leaving your job or retiring from the workforce, you will have decisions to make about what to do with your superannuation benefits.
This seminar gives you a wealth of information on:

a.. How your final benefit will be calculated when you retire or resign
b.. Preservation laws and how much of your benefit you can access
c.. Ways to top up your benefit before you take it
d.. What you can do with your retirement or resignation benefit
e.. UniSuper's Allocated, Term Allocated and Indexed Pensions, for income in retirement
f.. Lots of practical examples showing how tax works with your lump sum or pension Browse the Seminar Website

If you missed any of the UniSuper seminars held earlier in the year in Session 1, or would like to catch up on some topics, browse the UniSuper website on seminars. UniSuper members are welcome at all venues as set by individual universities throughout Canberra. It is necessary to register your attendance.

Mavis Comer
Human Resources Officer
UNSW@ADFA
Telephone 02 6268 8726

Dr Reagan Moore - Data Management and Sustainability

Internationally regarded expert in the field of data management and sustainability, Reagan Moore, will be visiting Canberra during September. Dr Moore is widely recognised as perhaps the world's most knowledgeable figure in this rapidly developing area of interest.

Reagan Moore is Associate Director for Data Intensive Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an Adjunct Professor in the University of California San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department. He coordinates research efforts in development of massive data analysis systems, scientific data publication systems, and persistent archives. An ongoing research interest is support for information based data-intensive computing. Dr Moore is an active participant in National Science Foundation workshops on digital libraries and Knowledge Networks.

There will be two public events associated with his Canberra visit.

Data-intensive Research - Challenges and Issues

Public lecture to be held on September 29, 2005.

See http://www.apsr.edu.au/events/Data_Intensive_Research.htm

Data-intensive Research and Analysis, Preservation Environments and the Data Grid

One day tutorial to be held on September 30, 2005.

See http://www.apsr.edu.au/events/Data_intensive_research_and_analysis.htm

Enquiries: contact@apsr.edu.au

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