Talks for 2012

Date	Speaker	Title
28 November 2012	Dr Peter Skands, CERN	Virtual Colliders
13 November 2012	Dr Hai-Bo Yu, University of Michigan	Hunting for Dark Matter
Postponed	Dr Yuri Levin, Monash University	The quest for gravitational waves through a theorist's eyes
18 October 2012	Prof Y. Estrin, Centre for Advanced Hybrid Materials	DESIGN OF NOVEL MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES USING THE TOPOLOGICAL INTERLOCKING PRINCIPLE
4 October 2012	Dr Andrew Martin, University of Melbourne	Lattice Models: From the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Coupled Atom Cavities to Quantum Graphity.
27 September 2012	Dr Ishwaree Neupane, University of Canterbury	Understanding of the Universe and possible implications of extra dimensions of space.
20 September 2012	Prof Keith Nugent, University of Melbourne	Coherent X-ray Science and Free-Electron Lasers
30 August 2012	Dr Andreas Fouras, Monash University	Velocitomography
23 August 2012	Dr Csaba Balazs, Monash University	Higgs discovery: opening a new era of particle physics
20 August 2012	Dr Christian Ott, California Institute of Technology	Stellar Collapse, Core-Collapse Supernovae, and the Formation of Stellar-Mass Black Holes
2 August 2012	Dr Scott Findlay, Monash University	Atomic resolution imaging and materials characterisation
26 July 2012	Prof Chris Matzner, University of Toronto	Stellar Tidal Disruptions by Super-Massive Black Holes: A Laboratory for Young Disk Evolution
12 July 2012	Dr Pat Scott, McGill University	The search for particle dark matter
10 May 2012	Dr Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne	Plasmonic nanostructures as elements for metamaterials and optical antennas
26 April 2012	Prof Bernd Meyer, Monash University	Mavericks required - understanding collective decision making through diffusion modelling
19 April 2012	Dr Anne Peters, Monash University	Honesty of bright birds: a mechanistic perspective.
29 March 2012	Dr Tamara Davis, University of Queensland	Cosmological Confusion...
22 March 2012	Prof Tony Gherghetta, University of Melbourne	The Origin of Mass at the Large Hadron Collider
15 March 2012	Dr Tim Garoni, Monash University	Criticality, Combinatorics and Computing
1 March 2012	Dr Chris Savage, Stockholm University	Direct detection of dark matter: status and issues