Dr Robert Knott has been chosen to act as ANSTO's "ambassador to CSIRO", to consolidate and expand collaborative research between the two organisations.
He will be seconded to the CSIRO (based in Melbourne) for the next 6 months in order to identify opportunities that lead to (i) collaborative research projects, (ii) joint research funding, (iii) joint supervision of students, and (iv) mentoring of postdoctoral research fellows and early-career scientists.
At the NOBUGS2006 Conference held this week in Berkeley, California, it was decided that the next conference in the series will be hosted by ANSTO in Sydney in November 2008.
Around 75 attendees came to the Berkeley meeting, which featured a novel "Birds of a Feather" session on the Eclipse software led by Tony Lam.