Seminars and Colloquia

The School of Physics and Astronomy offers a series of vibrant colloquia and research seminars. These talks are delivered by invited guests from local and international institutions, as well as researchers from Monash.

All talks are held at the Clayton Campus: Getting to Monash Clayton Campus | Clayton Campus Map: Where to find the School of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquia are accessible to a more general physics audience (senior undergraduates to academics), while seminars are targeted at postgraduate students and researchers with a relevant background. All talks run for approximately 1 hour.

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Talks for 2023

Dr Lucas Fabian Hackl - University of Melbourne
Wednesday 22 November @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Madeleine McKenzie - Australian National University
Tuesday 21 November @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Tania Ahmed - Macquarie University
Tuesday 7 November @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Kathryn Ross - Curtin University
Tuesday 31 October @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Prof Geraint Lewis - University of Sydney
Friday 13 October @ 11 am Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Prof Kavan Modi - Transport for NSW and School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash 
The oases and mirages of the quantum future  Abstract
Wednesday 4 October @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
A/Prof Timothy Atherton - Tufts University
Queering computation and modeling in an agency-based computational physics course  Abstract
Wednesday 27 September @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Steve Sclafani - University of Wisconsin
Seeing the Milky Way Galaxy in high-energy neutrinos
Thursday 21 September @ 10 am Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR
Prof Cathryn Trott - Curtin University, WA
Exploring the ionization of the Universe with the SKA Observatory  Abstract Video
Wednesday 13 September @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
A/Prof Paul Lasky - Monash Astrophysics
What's next in gravitational-wave astronomy?  Abstract Video
Wednesday 30 August @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Prof Francesca Di Lodovico - King's College London
The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment  Abstract Video
Wednesday 26 July @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Prof Michael Johnston - University of Oxford
A Spectrum of Semiconductor Photodetectors: from Nanowire Terahertz Sensors to Perovskite Solar Cells  Abstract Video
Wednesday 19 July @ 11 am Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Valentina D'Orazi - University of Rome
Breaking the Exoplanet Detection Barrier: Introducing SHARK-NIR for the Large Binocular Telescope  Video
Tuesday 18 July @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Eugene Tan - ANSTO
Pulsed Energetic Electrons for Research  (PEET) at ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron
Thursday 29 June @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR
Dr Taïssa Danilovich - Monash Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy
Chemical Tracers of an Eccentric Binary Orbit  Video
Tuesday 13 June @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Minori Shikauchi - The University of Tokyo 
Theoretical Perspectives on Probing BH Pollution with Astrometric Satellite Gaia  Video
Tuesday  30 May @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Dr Amelia Liu - Physics of Imaging, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash
Small-beam diffraction measurements of glasses: decoding the speckle  Abstract Video
Wednesday 24 May @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Dr Rachel Harrison - Monash Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy
Polarimetry as a Probe of Protoplanetary Disk Properties  Video
Tuesday  23 May @ 12 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk ASTRO SEMINAR
Prof Stefan Maier - Head of School, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash
In a tight spot: what to do with light in small spaces  Abstract Video
Wednesday 10 May @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Prof Elisabetta Barberio - University of Melbourne
Direct detection of dark matter with the SABRE experiment  Abstract 
Wednesday 26 April @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Prof Philip Podsiadlowski
How stars end their lives   Abstract Video
Wednesday 12 April @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Prof Leonardo Menezes - Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Metasurfaces: a nanophotonic platform for full control of light in space and time  Abstract Video
Wednesday 22 March @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM
Floor Broekgaarden - PhD student, Harvard CfA
The new frontier of Gravitational Wave Paleontology in the Big Data Gravitational-Wave Era  Video
Wednesday 25 January @ 2 pm Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk COLLOQUIUM