Learning with the Fang

You may be aware that I have a new role at the University of Adelaide that allows me to spend some time in the world class Centre of Expertise in Photonics, led by Professor Tanya Monro. You may not be be aware that the Centre is expanding and that there are up to seven new [...]

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What was the catalyst for my decision to begin the second half of my career at the University of Adelaide?
THIS Podcast which led to a meeting with Professor Tanya Monro - Chair of Photonics and as of yesterday Federation Fellow!
UPDATE: The Photonics team was on ABC Catalyst, 4:30 video HERE.
Some of you would know that [...]

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Dr Paul Dalby and I will be running a Web2.0 bootcamp in Adelaide on Friday December 14th, 2007.  If you have been to one of my talks and are interested in finding out more and getting started then come along.  Details from Paul’s e/maiul
Following your interest in the Web 2.0 training sessions, Mike Seyfang and [...]

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Prof. Peter Cullen recently delivered the Schultz oration. Listening to the podcast of that talk really got me thinking:

I should think before launching into ‘those mongrels upstream are wasting our water’ conversations that seem to pop up quite frequently (maybe we should think about taking the high ground of fixing issues in our own [...]

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Saturday night was the launch of Chris Finnen’s twin DVD ‘Building musical bridges between cultures’ & ‘Singing gallery live sessions’.

As Chris noted during his performance - it was more like playing at home with the lounge full of friends. McLaren Vale’s singing gallery was chok-a-block with tables of people sharing food and wine.  The sound [...]

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