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PROF RAYMOND VOLKAS



Contact Details

Organization: Physics
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/theory/
Work: 8344 5464
Mobile: 0407 311 254
Fax: 9347 4783
Room: 709
Level: 07
Building: Physics Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Theoretical particle physics Beyond the standard model, neutrinos, branes and extra dimensions, particle cosmology, particle phenomemology, early universe Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Georgia Ilia Chavchavadze State University Research
United States University of Pennsylvania Research
United States University of Arizona Research
Israel Ben-Gurion University of The Negev Research
United States Syracuse University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1982
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1987

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member University of Cambridge (Clare Hall) Honorary Life Member 01-Jan-1995

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP) 01-Aug-2002

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture (Italy) Gunnar Kallen Scholarship 01-Aug-1988
Scholarship Prize University of Melbourne Dixson Research Award 01-Jan-1982
Scholarship Prize University of Melbourne Professor Kernot Research Award 01-Jan-1982
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching 01-Jun-2001
Scholarship Ben-Gurion University Dozor Fellowship 01-Jun-2001
Medal Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Medal for Outstanding research in physics 31-Dec-1999
Scholarship University of Cambridge (Clare Hall) Visiting Fellowship 01-Jul-1994
Scholarship Australian Research Council QE11 Fellowship 01-Jan-1990

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
High energy neutrino astrophysics together with accretion flows into black holes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2002
Particle physics and cosmology of neutrinos Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
In and beyond the standard model of particle physics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Cosmology and astrophysics with neutrinos and other elementary particles Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Frontiers of Theoretical Particle Physics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Branes and unification Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
The standard model of particle physics and beyond in the era of the Large Hadron Collider Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

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Publications in 2008

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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A domain-wall-brane-localized standard model
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Particles, Strings, Cosmology, 13th International Symposium
    Conference Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
    Volume: 957
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 279-282
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • A4 Symmetry breaking scheme for understanding quark and lepton mixing angles
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ICHEP'06
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference in High Energy Physics
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 316-319
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
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  • The brane as a Higgs domain wall: ideas and issues
    Year: 2007
    Event name: The 14th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions
    Conference Publication: SUSY06
    Volume: 903
    Page numbers: 419-422
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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    URL - open access http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0612295

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Mirror Dark Matter


    Year: 2006
    Event name: Particle Physics at the year of 250th Anniversary of Moscow University
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 12th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics
    Page numbers: 130-137
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2005

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Publications in 2004

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Publications in 2003

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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Neutrinos in cosmology, with some significant digressions
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Partical Physics and Cosmology: Third Tropical Workshop on Particle Physics and Cosmology - Neutrinos, Branes, and Cosmology
    Conference Publication: AIP Conference Proceedings
    Volume: 655
    Page numbers: 220-239
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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Publications in 2002

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Conference Publications/Papers

Publications in 2001

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