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Boris Kuhlmey @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Clever dispersion engineering of metasurfaces can enhance beneficial relativistic effects that dampen unwanted oscillations of laser propelled lightsails - one less hurdle towards realistic interstellar probes... #physics #starshot journals.aps.org/prapplied/ab...

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Dr. Peter Domachuk Postgraduate Research Stipend Scholarship honours the life and work of Dr. Peter Domachuk, a physicist and researcher at the University of Sydney. Dr. Domachuk completed his undergraduate and Ph.D. studies at the University of Sydney, focusing on optofluidics.

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We have a great opportunity to research optics or photonics @sydney.edu.au #physics Two postgraduate scholarships for international or domestic students www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... Also comes with a $2000 pa research allowance. Deadline April 24th

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Dr Peter Domachuk Postgraduate Research Stipend Scholarship

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Boris Kuhlmey @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Congratulations to my PhD student Jadon Lin for this review paper on lightsails. I hope it will get many more people into this fascinating field. A lot more research needed before we achieve interstellar travel, but the more of us work on it, the sooner it'll happen! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Lightsails for Interstellar Travel: Photonics for Propulsion, Thermal Management and Stability

Lightsails are a highly promising spacecraft concept that has attracted interest in recent years due to its potential to travel at near-relativistic speeds. Such speeds, which current conventional cra...

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Boris Kuhlmey @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Delighted to see Nature Physics picking up our review of photonic lightsails for interstellar exploration www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thanks @markbuchanan.bsky.social ⚛️

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The key for interstellar travel might be light - Nature Physics

Nature Physics - The key for interstellar travel might be light

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're advertising a continuing position in the School of Physics at Sydney! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Optics & Photonics Deadline April 3rd usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... Base Salary Level B/C, $122,830 - $173,492 p.a + 17% superannuation #Physics #AcademicSky

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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Optics & Photonics

Full time, continuing position. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics Exciting opportunity to join the leading physics department in the country, with outstanding staff and student...

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Boris Kuhlmey @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Lightsails could reach other stars, but keeping them in the laser beam is tricky—oscillations can knock them off course. We've shown that by tailoring how light refracts on the sail, relativistic effects can dampen these oscillations by >95%. Congrats Jadon Lin! #physics ⚛️ doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

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Boris Kuhlmey @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Congratulations to Liam Van Ravenstein on his first conference presentation at #AIP2024 congress - great talk on Rotational relativistic damping and linear stability analysis of lightsails in front of a packed room, culmination of an outstanding honours project. #physics

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Boris Kuhlmey @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Congratulations Jadon Lin for winning first runner up for best talk at our HDR symposium, amazing achievement only 5 months into his PhD on lightsail dynamics.

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