Canterbury Cleans up Physics Competition Again

Published by the Communications and Development Department

 

6 December 2004

 

For the second year running University of Canterbury physics students have won the Top Team Award at the Australian National Physics Competition in Canberra.

 

The competition run by ANU is in its second year and is open to teams of third-year physics students from all universities in Australia and New Zealand.

The winning UC team consisted of Thi-Phuong-Tra Dinh, Gemma Mason, Niels Gresnigt, Giles Reid and Richard Graham.

 

As well as winning the overall prize for top team in Australasia individual prizes were collected last week by Thi-Phuong-Tra Dinh and Gemma Mason in the theoretical section, and Giles Reid, Thi-Phuong-Tra Dinh and Niels Gresnigt in the experimental section.

 

Third-year supervisor of studies in Physics and Astronomy David Wiltshire said congratulations were in order for all the students who competed for UC.

 

"We have long known anecdotally that we have one of the best physics programmes on either side of the Tasman, and the fact that our students have won this competition two years in a row now is ample proof that the University of Canterbury is the place to choose if you want to excel in physics.”

 

For further information please contact:

Maria Hand
Communications Officer
University of Canterbury

Tel: +64 3 364 2260
Fax: +64 3 364 2679
maria.hand@canterbury.ac.nz