Seminars 2025
| Marcus du Pont, Princeton | ||
| Relativistic Toroids: From Ring Explosions to Cosmic Blades in Stellar Death | ||
| Tuesday 16 December 12 -1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Jordan Moncrieff, UWA | ||
| Highly Unequal Mass Black Hole Mergers In Active Galactic Nuclei | ||
| Tuesday 2 December 12 -1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Ian Kemp, ICRAR/Curtin | ||
| The application of commercial supercomputing to next-generation radio astronomy | ||
| Tuesday 18 November 12 -1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| A/Prof Nadia Zatsepin, Swinburne University | ||
| Molecular Movies with Australian X-rays: What, Why, When | ||
| Wednesday 12 November 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Prof Dori Szecsi, Nicolaus Copernicus University | ||
Does I Zwicky 18 harbor GW progenitors? The story of a dwarf galaxy and what I learned in the past 12 years | ||
| Tuesday 11 November 12 -1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Gavin Rowell, University of Adelaide | ||
| TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) | ||
| Wednesday 5 November 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Arash Bahramian and Dr Kristen Dage, Curtin University | ||
| The First Detection of Relativistically Moving Outflows from a Globular Cluster X-Ray Binary | ||
| Tuesday 4 November 12 - 1 pm | Room G29, New Horizons, 20 Research Way | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Elizabeth Iles, University of Sydney | ||
| Do stars care about their galaxy’s bar ?— the impact of bar-like morphology on host-galaxy stellar properties | ||
| Tuesday 21 October 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Emma Carli, Swinburne University | ||
| Are neutron stars outside our galaxy any different? | ||
| Tuesday 7 October 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Martin White, University of Adelaide | ||
| What's next for particle physics? | ||
| Wednesday 1 October 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Teagan Clarke, Monash University | ||
| Introducing GW250114: the loudest gravitational-wave signal demonstrating ten years of progress in gravitational-wave astronomy | ||
| Tuesday 30 September 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Maddy Howell, Ohio State University | ||
| A Cluster Carol: Asteroseismology of Red Giants in Clusters | ||
| Tuesday 23 September 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Jaime Alvarado Montes, Macquarie University | ||
Tides in compact planetary systems: dynamics, evolution, and observational signatures | ||
| Tuesday 2 September 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Madhu Bhaskaran, RMIT | ||
| Electronic skin - sensing the world around us and within us | ||
| Wednesday 20 August 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Prof Chris Matzner, University of Toronto | ||
| Globular cluster formation and fundamental stellar masses | ||
| Tuesday 19 August 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Assistant Prof Tanmoy Laskar, University of Utah | ||
| Extreme Astrophysics with Relativistic Transients | ||
| Wednesday 6 August 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Anais Möller, Swinburne University | ||
| Fink: Harnessing the power of future surveys with AI | ||
| Tuesday 5 August 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Anette 'Peko' Hosoi, MIT | ||
| Fluid mechanics and filtration inspired by the manta ray | ||
| Wednesday 16 July 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Prof Matthew Baring, Rice University | ||
| Magnetar Mysteries under the Microscope | ||
| Tuesday 15 July 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Dhaneesh Kumar, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research | ||
| Tools for imaging and sequencing carbohydrate chains one at a time | ||
| Tuesday 8 July 11am - 12pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | QLIME SEMINAR |
| Hugh McDougall, University of Queensland | ||
| Modern statistical methods for inferring AGN masses with reverberation mapping | ||
| Tuesday 1 July 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Jade Powell, Swinburne | ||
| The Impact of Core-Collapse Supernovae on Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics | ||
| Tuesday 17 June 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Ray Volkas, University of Melbourne | ||
| The quest for physics beyond the standard model: facts, fancies and opinions | ||
| Wednesday 28 May 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Connor Bottrell, UWA | ||
| Mini mergers with major consequences in a cold dark matter universe | ||
| Tuesday 6 May 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Kathrin Grunthal, University of Bonn | ||
| Mapping the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky | ||
| Tuesday 15 April 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Katie Milsom, University of Exeter | ||
| Shadows and spiral arcs in the Protoplanetary Disc HD 139614 | ||
| Tuesday 8 April 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Charlie Hoy, University of Portsmouth | ||
| The importance of incorporating model accuracy into gravitational-wave Bayesian inference | ||
| Wednesday 19 March 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Janet Tang, ANU | ||
| Constraining star cluster formation using multiwavelength observations with JWST and HST | ||
| Tuesday 11 March 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Jayden Newstead, University of Melbourne | ||
| Revisiting neutrino- and dark matter-nucleus scattering | ||
| Wednesday 5 March 1 - 2 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Alexey Bobrick, Monash University | ||
| When Stars Interact | ||
| Tuesday 4 March 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Andris Dorozsmai, NAO | ||
| The redshift-evolving eccentricity distribution of merging binary black holes observed by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors | ||
| Tuesday 25 February 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Kerstin Volz, Philipps-University Marburg | ||
| What can Electron Microscopy contribute towards Understanding of Energy Materials? | ||
| Tuesday 18 February 12 -1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| James Freeburn, University of Swinburne | ||
| A hostless, intermediate gamma-ray burst with an unusual optical afterglow | ||
| Tuesday 11 February 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Takatoshi Ko, University of Toyko | ||
| A Dynamical Model for the Remnant of Type Iax SN 1181 and a Massive White Dwarf in its Center | ||
| Tuesday 21 January 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Sourav Chatterjee, TIFR Mumbai | ||
Dynamical Assembly of Gravitational Wave Sources: Processes, Properties, Uncertainties, and Way Forward | ||
| Tuesday 14 January 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Dr Sherry Suyu, Technical University of Munich | ||
| Strongly Lensed Supernovae: Past, Present and Future | ||
| Thursday 9 January 2025 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Charlie Sharpe, University of Oxford | ||
| Resonant Interactions Between GWs and Binary Systems | ||
| Tuesday 7 January 2025 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Tara N. Tošić, ETH Zurich, Switzerland | |
| A first-principles approach to modeling magnetism in the magnetically frustrated multiferroic hexagonal rare-earth manganites. | |
| Wednesday 17 January @ 11 am - 12 pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk |