Talks for 2017

Talks for 2017

Professor Michael Tobar - University of Western Australia 
High Precision Low Energy Measurements for Detecting Dark Matter and Testing Fundamental Physics (download flyer)
Thursday, 14 December 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
FLEET Workshop - Victorian ARC Centres & Hubs Professional Staff Workshop
Bringing together business teams from Victorian ARC Centres & Hubs to network, learn best practices and create greater efficiencies.
Thursday, 14 December 2017 - 08:00 to 18:00 G29-G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Workshop
Dr Denis Martynov - MIT
Prospects for constraining neutron star equation of state with LIGO
Thursday, 14  December - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Associate Professor Dan Fabrychky - University of Chicago
Constraining planetary histories with new architectures: resonant chains and circumbinary orbits
Tuesday, 12 December - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Dr Dan Foreman-Mackey - Flatiron Institute, New York
How to find a transiting exoplanet: data-driven discovery in the astronomical time domain
Tuesday, 12 December - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Ik Siong Heng - University of Glasgow
Listening to the gravitational symphony behind cosmic fireworks
Monday, 11 December - 12:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Dr Vardha Bennert - California Polytechnic
The Origin of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations
Friday, 8 December - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Yoshitaka Kuno - Osaka University
Searching the Muon of Electron Conversion in a Muonic Atom - Quest for new physics (download flyer)
Wednesday, 6 December 2017 - 13:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Stephan Hafner - Heidelberg University
Heteronuclear Efimov scenario  in an ulracold Bose-Fermi mixture with large mass imbalance (download flyer)
Monday, 4 December 2017 - 13:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Fluids Seminar
Associate Professor Igor Aharonvich - University of Technology, Sydney
Quantum emitters in flatland
Monday, 4 December 2017 - 11:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk FLEET and MCATM Seminar
Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When freezing cold is not cold enough: New forms of matter near absolute zero temperature
Thursday, 30 November 2017 - 19:00 AMDC Bldg, Room 301, Swinburne University of Technology FLEET Seminar

THIS FLEET SEMINAR IS CANCELLED

Dr Nicholas Karpowicz - Max Planck Institute
Attosecond Optoelectronic Metrology
AND
Dr Martin Schultze - Max Planck Institute
Band-gap excitation dynamics at optical frequencies

Thursday, 30 November 2017 - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk FLEET Seminar
Ms Laura Henderson - University of Waterloo, Canada
Entanglement Harvesting Near a BTZ Black Hole (download flyer)
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar

THIS COLLOQUIUM IS CANCELLED

Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop - University of Queensland
Structured light and optical angular momentum (download flyer)

Wednesday, 29 November 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium

Professor Albert Polman - University of Amsterdam
The Sun Rises for Free:  The Science of Solar Energy Generation

Monday 27 November 2017 - 17:00 Lecture Theatre S4, 16 Rainforest Walk FLEET

Professor Albert Polman - University of Amsterdam
Time-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of optical metasurfaces (download flyer)

Monday 27 November 2017 - 11:00 Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk FREW Fellow Lecture
Professor George Wei-Shu Hou - National Taiwan University
Outlook on Flavour Physics and CP Violation (download flyer)
Wednesday, 22 November 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Professor Alice Quillen - University of Rochester
Astro Visco-elastodynamics:  Cracking moons and spin and obliquity evolution in tidal evolving and migrating satellite and planetary systems
Tuesday, 21st November - 12:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Dr Charles Hill - University of Melbourne
Simulation of Quantum Algorithms with Matrix Product States (download flyer)
Wednesday, 15 November 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Rosemary Mardling - Monash University
Dr Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway - Monash University
Gender equity workplace experience in the School of Physics and Astronomy (download flyer)
Wednesday, 8 November 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Equity Colloquium
Dr Dylan Saunders - Oxford University
Quantum Light, Quantum Memories and Quantum Heat Engines (download flyer)
Wednesday, 8 November 2017 - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Seminar
Dr Onno Pols - Radbound University, The Netherlands
The occurrence of electron-capture supernovae in binary systems
Tuesday, 7th November - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Jordan Nash - Monash University
Looking for ultra-rare Standard Model interactions to search for new physics (download flyer)
Wednesday, 1 November 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Dr Eric Thrane & Dr Paul Lasky - Monash University
Gravitational Waves from merging neutron stars: the dawn of a new era in astronomy (download flyer)
Wednesday, 25th October 2017 - 18:00 Lecture Theatre S2/S4, 16 Rainforest Walk Public Lecture
Dr Eric Thrane & Dr Paul Lasky - Monash University
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral (download flyer)
Tuesday, 24th October 2017 - 12:30 Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk Colloquium
Associate Professor Elizabeth Tasker - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Dangerous Worlds
Thursday, 19 October 2017 - 18:30 Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk MoCA Public Talk
FLEET Young Researchers Forum
When a picture is worth 1000 words - Shooting video on your mobile phone
Thursday, 19 October 2017 - 14:00 G29/G30 New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way Forum
Dr Tom Collett - Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth
Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lensing
Tuesday, 17 October 2017 - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Ping Koy Lam - Australian National University
A Quantum Communication Network with Bright Laser Beams (download flyer)
Wednesday, 11 October - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Dr Jean-Pierre Macquart (ICRAR)
Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts
Tuesday, 10 October - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Associate Professor Tom Stace - University of Queensland
Foliated Quantum Codes (download flyer)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Mario Beltran - Switzerland and Monash University - Exploiting the Imperfect Nature of Light
Dr Nicholas Anthony - Latrobe University - Photoelastic Ptychography for Anisotropic Imaging
(download flyer)
Tuesday, 3 October 2017 - 14:30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Imaging and Optical Physics Seminar
Dr Karl Wette - Australian National University
Continuous Gravitational Waves from Rapidly-Rotating Neutron Star
Tuesday, 26 September - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor George Wei-Shu Hou - National Taiwan University
Electroweak Baryogenesis and Alignment from Two Higgs Doubles
Thursday, 21 September 2017 - 15:00 Room 139, 19 Rainforest Walk Seminar
Ms Thao Le - UCL Computer Science, UK 
Neutralising the Dark Side of Quantum Networks (download flyer)
Wednesday, 20 September 2017 - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk QIS Seminar
Professor James Wadsley- McMaster University
Superbubbles and the limits of Supernovae on Galactic Scales
Tuesday, 19 September - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Dr Dongchen Qi- La Trobe University
Diamond Surface Functionalisation and Doping for Carbon-based Electronics
Friday, 15 September 2017 - 15:00 G30 New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way FLEET Seminar
Professor Rohini Godbole - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
TopHiggs interplay (download flyer)
Thursday, 14 September - 15:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Rohini Godbole - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Women in Mathematics and Physics (download flyer)
Wednesday, 13 September - 14:30 Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk Director's Colloquium
Dr Ivo Seitenzahl - (ADFA)
Modelling thermonuclear supernovae - explosion simulations, nucleosynthesis, observables
Tuesday, 12 September - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Associate Professor Gavin Brennan - Macquarie University
Quantum simulators for quantum field theory (download flyer)
Wednesday, 6 September - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Phil Hopkins - Caltech
Dust and Gas in the ISM: New Instabilities and Understanding
Tuesday, 5 September - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Dr Danail Obreschkow - (ICRAR) - University of Western Australia
A new Spin on Angular Momentum in Galaxies
Tuesday, 29 August - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Jennifer Hoffman - Harvard University
Imaging the Surface States of a Strongly Correlated Topological Insulator (download flyer)
Thursday, 24 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk FLEET Seminar
Professor Jennifer Hoffman - Harvard University
Topological Materials at the Nanoscale (download flyer)
Wednesday, 23 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Professor Hans-Christoph Mertins - FH Muenster University of Applied Sciences
Physics of graphene and low dimensional systems (download flyer)
Tuesday, 22 August - 14:00 G29, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Seminar
Dr Javier Mejuto - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras
Astronomy in the Classic Maya Period
Tuesday, 22 August - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Myungshik Kim - Imperial College London
Single photon operations (download flyer)
Thursday, 17 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Dr Nick Parker - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Superfluids flex their muscles: wakes, storms and tuburlence (download flyer)
Wednesday, 16 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Cold Atoms Seminar
Dr Maria Lugaro - Konkoly Observatory, Monash University
Radionuclides: from Cosmochronology to Habitability
Tuesday, 15 August - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA
Professor Alan Cornell - University of Witwatersrand
The production of additional bosons and the impact on Higgs physics at the LHC (download flyer) (download slides)
Monday, 14 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Victor Gurarie - University of Colorado
Angular momentum of BCS-BEC fermionic superfluids with multiply quantized vortices
Thursday, 10 August - 14:00 G29, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Seminar
Dr Alex Wood - Melbourne University
A new spin on quantum sensing with diamond (download flyer)
Wednesday, 9 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Stuart Sim - Queen's University, Belfast
Modelling thermonuclear supernovae: how to blow up a white dwarf start
Tuesday, 8 August - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Professor Fengqiu (Frank) Wang - Nanjing University, China
Novel photosensitive devices based on graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials
Monday, 7 August - 14:00 Room 407, Level 4, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way MCATM Seminar

Dr Kaye Morgan - Monash University
Dynamic phase contrast x-ray imaging at the Munich Compact Light Source

Dr Lincoln Turner - Monash University
Imaging quantum gases

(download flyer)

Tuesday, 1 August - 14:30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk X-Ray Optics Seminar
Dr Simon Devitt - Riken, Japan and Macquarie University, Sydney
meQuanics - The Quantum Computer Game.  How it works, what does it solve? 
Tuesday, 1 August - 11.30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Seminar
Professor Reinhard Keinburger - Technical University, Munich
Attosecond electron dynamics in gases, molecules and solids (download flyer)
Friday, 21 July - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Associate Professor Changgu Lee - Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Magnetic and physical properties of new 2D materials (download flyer)
Friday, 21 July - 11:00 Room 407, Level 4, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way MCATM Seminar
Dr Krzysztof Bolejko - University of Sydney
Emergence of spatial curvature
Tuesday, 18 July - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr Dylan Saunders - Oxford University
A room-temperature noise-free quantum memory (download flyer)
Monday, 10 July - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Seminar
Professor Di Li
An unprecedented Commensal Survey Plan for FAST
Thursday, 20 July - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Seminar
Professor Daniel Lathrop - University of Maryland
Liquid Sodium Models of the Earth's Core (download flyer)
Wednesday, 21 June - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Professor Daniel Lathrop - University of Maryland
Visualization and characterization of quantum fluid flows (download flyer)
Wednesday, 21 June - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Fluids Research Seminar
Associate Professor Stefan Ballmer - Syracuse University
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Now and in the Future (download flyer)
Monday, 19 June - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Mr Mark McAuley - AAL
Astronomy Australia Ltd Update
Tuesday, 13 June - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr George Angelou - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
Stellar Parameters in an Instant with Machine Learning
Tuesday, 6 June - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr Felix Binder - Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Using quantum mechanics to simulate complex stochastic processes
Friday, 2 June - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Dr Richard Plotkin (ICRAR) - Curtin University
Tuesday, 23 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr Carlos Kuhn - Australian National University
Non-destructive imaging system as a tool for observing modulation instability in ultra-cold atoms (download flyer)
Friday, 19 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Matter Seminar
Professor Lloyd Hollenberg - University of Melbourne
Quantum-reality bytes: from bio-probes to quantum computing (download flyer)
Wednesday, 17 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Professor Mark Krumholz - Australian National University
Fueling Star Formation Across Cosmic Time
Wednesday, 16 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr Ben Farmer - University of Stockholm
Searching for high-energy nuclear recoils using effective field theory and the Xenon 100 dark matter detector (download flyer)
Monday, 15 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Miss Alison Young - University of Exeter
Simulating observations of the first hydrostatic core
Thursday, 11 May - 13:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Mr Daniel Seuss - University of Cologne
Low-rank tensor recovery via alternating least squares
Thursday, 11 May - 13:00 Room 139 (J.L. Williams room), Level 1, 19 Rainforest Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Dr Cesar A. Rodriguez Rosario - University of Hamburg
Electrocuting Schrodinger's cat: Decoherence in quantum transport (download flyer)
Wednesday, 10 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium

Associate Professor Jeffrey Davis - Swinburne University
Non-linear optical spectroscopy for understanding complex systems

Professor David Paganin - Monash University
Deterministic Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

(download flyer)

Tuesday, 9 May - 14:30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk X-Ray Optics Seminar
Dr James Wurster - University of Exeter
The importance of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics
Tuesday, 9 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Professor Yuri Levin - Monash University
Magnetic Toys in the Sky
Tuesday, 2 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr Cesar A. Rodriguez Rosario - University of Hamburg
Thermodynamics of quantum Coherences to control transport (download flyer)
Friday, 5 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Science Seminar
Dr Amr Hassan - Swinburne University
Introduction to Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS)
Thursday, 27 April - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MoCA Seminar
Dr Marco Tomamichel - University of Technology, Sydney
Information Processing with Small Quantum Devices (download flyer)
Wednesday, 26 April - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Science Seminar
Dr Tyler Corbett - University of Melbourne
Extended Scalar Sectors, Higgs EFTs, and the study of DiHiggs Production (download flyer)
Monday, 10 April - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Associate Professor Paul Jackson - University of Adelaide
How, and where, to search for new Physics in the LHC data (download flyer)
Thursday, 6 April - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Lisa Kewley - ANU
Galaxy Formation and Evolution in 3D (download flyer)
Wednesday, 5 April - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Associate Professor Stefania Xella - University of Copenhagen
Searching for hidden particles at CERN (download flyer)
Friday, 31 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Mr Noel Dawe - University of Melbourne
Parton Shower Uncertainties in Jet Substructure Analyses with Deep Neural Networks (download flyer)
Tuesday, 28 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Saurabh Lodha - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Contact resistance, doping and carrier transport in emerging MoS2 devices (download flyer)
Wednesday, 15 March - 15:00 Room G29 & G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way MCATM Seminar

Dr Sherry Mayo - CSIRO
Time-resolved Micro-CT of dynamic systems at the Australian Synchrotron

Dr Tim Petersen - Monash University
Measurements and uses of phase and amplitude singularities in microscopic wavefields

(download flyer)

Tuesday, 14 March - 14:30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Imaging & Optical Physics Seminar
Professor Michelle Simmons - University of NSW
Quantum Computing in Silicon with Donor Electron Spins (download flyer)
Wednesday, 1 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Univ.-Professor Dr Francesca Ferlaino - University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Where there is enjoyment, there can be no loss: reflections of a quantum physicist (download flyer)
Monday, 27 February - 13:00 Room G29 & G30, 20 Research Way (New Horizons Building) Women in Science Colloquium
Dr Katherine MacArthur - Ernst Ruska Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich
Quantitative Characterisation of Catalyst Nanoparticles using STEM (download flyer)
Tuesday, 21 February - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Seminar
Professor Chris McConville - RMIT University & University of Warwick
Unusual Electronic Structure of Transparent Conducting Oxide Semiconductors (download flyer)
Friday, 17 February - 11:00 Room G29 & G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way MCATM Seminar

Dr Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway - Monash University
Measuring the effectiveness of teaching strategies in Science-based disciplines

Dr Russell Anderson - Monash University
Inspiring students towards scientific computing

Dr Timothy Petersen - Monash University
Integrating Scientific-Computing into Level 2 Physics

Dr Lincoln Turner - Monash University
The Lightboard Project

(download flyer)

Wednesday, 8 February - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Michael Schmidt - Sydney University
Unitarisation of EFT Amplitudes for Dark Matter Searches at the LHC (download flyer)
Friday, 3 February - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Wanqin Jin - Nanjing Tech University
Design and Fabrication of Graphene-based Membranes for Molecular Separation (download flyer)
Tuesday, 31 January - 11:00 The Potter Room 222, Level 2, 18 Alliance Lane MCATM Seminar
Professor Roberto Martinez - National University of Colombia
Mass problem in the Standard Model and neutrino oscillation (download flyer)
Monday, 23 January - 11:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Associate Professor Eric Pop - Standford University
Electronic, Thermal and Unconventional Applications of 2D Materials (download flyer)
Wednesday, 18 January - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MCATM Seminar