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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Upcoming 2026
| Sabrina Berger-Marcelo, University of Melbourne/CMU | ||
| Tuesday 9 June 12 - 1 pm | G29, 20 Research Way | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Sundar Srinivasan, UNAM | ||
| The variability properties of nearby evolved stars survey targets | ||
| Wednesday 10 June 2 - 3 pm | G29, 20 Research Way | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Dane Kleiner, Astron | ||
| Wednesday 16 June 2 - 3 pm | G29, 20 Research Way | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Prof Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne | ||
| Optical imaging with nonlocal metasurfaces | ||
| Wednesday 17 June 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Rebecca Nealon, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University | ||
| Tuesday 23 June 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Debatri Chattopadhyay, CIERA / Northwestern | ||
| Tuesday 30 June 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Pavel Tonkaev, ANU | ||
| Wednesday 8 July 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Tomasz Rozanski, RSAA/ANU | ||
| Tuesday14 July 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Thavisha Dharmawardena, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University | ||
| Tuesday 21 July 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Uli Zuelicke, Victoria University of Wellington | ||
| Wednesday 26 August 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
Past
| Sahl Rowther, University of Leicester | ||
| The impact of stars and the star-forming environment | ||
| Tuesday 2 June 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Marek Szczepanczyk, University of Warsaw | ||
| The quest do detect exceptional gravitational-wave sources | ||
| Tuesday 19 May 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Tim Pearce, University of Warwick | ||
| Kuiper Belts around other stars | ||
| Tuesday 12 May 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Taeho Ryu, University of Colorado, Boulder | ||
| Tidal disruption events: What powers the peak luminosity? | ||
| Tuesday 5 May 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Thavisha Dharmawardena, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University | ||
| Towards a Multidimensional View of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies: Tracing Stars, Gas, and Dust from the Nearest Molecular Cloud to Our Galactic Neighbours | ||
| Tuesday 21 April 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Nic Bonne, University of Portsmouth | ||
| The Tactile Universe: Accessible astrophysics public engagement with the blind and low vision community | ||
| Wednesday 15 April 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Rostom Mbarek, Princeton | ||
| Linking Plasma Dynamics, Particle Acceleration, and Multi-Messenger Emission in Active Galactic Nuclei | ||
| Tuesday 24 March 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Matthew Baring, Rice University | ||
| Exotic Physics Manifested in Exotic Neutron Stars | ||
| Wednesday 11 March 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Manisha Shrestha, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University | ||
| Leveraging multi-messenger observations to connect massive stars to their explosive ends | ||
| Tuesday 10 March 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Mike Tobar, UWA | ||
| From the 2025 Nobel Prize to Table-Top Cosmology: Superconducting Quantum Circuits as Detectors of New Physics | ||
| Wednesday 4 March 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Taïssa Danilovich, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University | ||
| The effect of evolved star binaries on circumstellar astrochemistry and dust formation | ||
| Tuesday 24 February 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Charlie Kilpatrick, Northwestern University | ||
| Uncovering neutron star mergers, heavy elements and energetic explosions with multi-messenger astronomy | ||
| Wednesday 18 February 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Conor Ransome, University of Arizona | ||
| Interacting Transients in the Rubin Era | ||
| Tuesday 17 February 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Sergey Koposov, University of Edinburgh | ||
| What can we learn from galaxies' stellar halos? | ||
| Tuesday 10 February 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Zoe Budrikis, Senior Editor, Nature Reviews Physics | ||
| The whys and hows of scientific publishing | ||
| Friday 6 February 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Ashna Gulati, University of Sydney | ||
| From Jets to Mergers: Multiwavelength Signatures of Synchrotron Transients | ||
| Tuesday 3 February 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Falk Herwig, University of Victoria, Canada | ||
| Thursday 29 January 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Brenna Mockler, Carnegie Science | ||
| Lighting up Supermassive Black Holes | ||
| Tuesday 27 January 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Gordon Baym, University of Illinois | ||
| The Golden Age of Neutron Stars | ||
| Friday 16 January 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |