Roy Glauber - 2005 Nobel prize-winner in Physics.

UQ Professor of Theoretical Physics, Peter Drummond, gave the keynote introductory address for a festive symposium honouring the 2005 Nobel prize-winner in Physics, Roy Glauber of Harvard University, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

The international symposium took place in Germany's Erlangen University, in May 2006, and included many leading  scientists from around the world, including Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, New Zealand and the USA. Professor Glauber was also awarded an honorary PhD.

The University of Queensland and the ARC Center of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics have had a long association with Glauber's pioneering research into quantum optics. Professor Drummond presented a paper outlining the progress at UQ in computational physics and coherence theory, extending Glauber's ideas to the new science of atom lasers.

This field has many applications to communications, optical clocks, precision measurements, ultra-sensitive detectors and fundamental tests of quantum theory.