Talks for 2018

Talks for 2018

Professor Nancy Sandler - Ohio University
Strain enhancement of Kondo effect in Graphene
Monday 10 December - 11:00 G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Dr Christoph Federrath - ANU
The role of turbulence, magnetic fields and feedback star formation
Tuesday 4 December - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Richard Wigmans - Texas Tech University
Calorimetric particle detection in the 21st Century (download flyer)
Thursday 29 November - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Ankit Beniwal -Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University
A global study of the extended scalar singlet model (download flyer) (download slides)
Tuesday 27 November -15:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Arunava Mukherjee - Albert Einstein Institute
Neutron stars in the era of gravitational wave astronomy
Tuesday 27 November - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Professor Alex Hamilton - University of NSW
Semiconductor holes:  More spin for your buck
Monday 26 November - 14:00 G29, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Rob Harris - University of Queensland
CSS Holographic Quantum Error Correcting Codes (download flyer)
Thursday 22 November - 14:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Dr Jacques Pienaar - International Institute of Physics - UFRN, Brazil
Time symmetry in quantum causal models
Wednesday 21 November - 15:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Professor Qaisar Shafi - University of Delaware
Quest for Unification (download flyer)
Wednesday 21 November - 14:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Michael Murphy - Swinburne University
Testing Fundamental Physics with Solar Twin Stars
Tuesday 20 November - 12:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Valentin Christiaens - Monash University
Observing the birth of planets
Tuesday 13 November - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Yang Zhang - Monash University
Calculation of Critical Temperature in Phase Transition (download flyer)
Monday 12 November - 11:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Informal Talk
Dr Hannah Middleton - University of Melbourne
LIGO noise lines and the search for continuous gravitational waves
Tuesday 30 October - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn - Northwestern University:
Understanding the Physical Limits of the World’s Best Harmonic Oscillator (download flyer)
Wednesday 24 October - 14:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Claudio Paganini - Monash University
A Walk on the Beach of the Dirac Sea - An Introduction to Causal Fermion Systems (download flyer)
Monday 22 October - 11:30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Associate Professor Andy Martin - University of Melbourne
A New Spin on Nitrogen-Vacancy Centre Research in Diamond (download flyer)
Wednesday 17 October - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Christopher J. Wood - IBM
Characterizing correlated quantum errors
Wednesday 16 October - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Dr Meridith Joyce - ANU
On the scope and fidelity of 1-D stellar evolution models
Tuesday 16 October - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Julian Adamek - Queen Mary University of London
Relativistic effects in cosmic large-scale structure
Tuesday 9 October - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Yuki Fujii - Monash University
A search for a lepton flavour violating muon to electron Conversion with a sensitivity below 10-16 in COMET (download flyer)
Monday 8 October - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Wen-Xin Tang - Chongqing University
Surface electron microscopy and its applications on two-dimensional materials
Friday 5th October - 11:00 G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Professor Warwick Bowen - University of Queensland
Quantum sensing with light: from single molecules to quantized vortices (download flyer)
Wednesday 3 October - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Dr Kimitake Hayasaki
Tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole
Tuesday 2 October - 12.00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Yi Du - University of Woollongong
Elemental 2D Materials (Xenes) beyond Graphene
Thursday 27 September - 11:00 G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Dr Srinivasan Raghunathan - University of Melbourne
Measuring masses of galaxy clusters using CMB-cluster lensing.
Thursday 20 September  - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Jacinda Ginges - University of Queensland
The atom as a laboratory for new physics searches (download flyer)
Wednesday 19 September - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Amadeo L. Vazquez de Parga - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Graphene as playground for molecules: from physisorption to catalysis
Tuesday 18 September - 11:00 G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Cancelled Dr Yuki Fujii - Monash University
A search for a lepton flavour violating muon to electron Conversion with a sensitivity below 10-16 in COMET (download flyer)
Monday 17 September - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Brendon Lovett - University of St Andrews
Quantum decoherence in coupled systems: Modelling, and implications for solar energy harvesting (download flyer)
Wednesday 12 September - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Janosch Rieger - A Galerkin-type approach to shape optimisation in the space of convex sets and its application to Electrical Impedance Tomography
Professor David Paganin - X-ray Ghost Imaging (download flyer)
Tuesday 11 September - 15:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Optical Physics Seminar
Anthony van Eysden - Montana State University
Are neutron stars turbulent?
Tuesday 11 September - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Aidan F Brooks (LIGO Lab)
A+: a medium scale upgrade to Advanced LIGO
Friday 7 September - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Andre Carvalho - Griffith University
Cat, mice and butterflies:  a tale of quantum control (download flyer)
Wednesday 5 September - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Kelvin McQueen - Chapman University
In defence of the self-location uncertainty account of probability in the many-worlds interpretation (download flyer)
Monday 20 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Seminar
Atsushi Fujimori - University of Tokyo
Soft x-ray spectroscopy of magnetic materials for spintronics
Wednesday 8 August - 11:00 G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar

Professor Karl Glazebrook - FAA (Director of the Centre of Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and a Director of the Board of Astronomy Australia Limited) and Mr Mark McAuley - (CEO of Astronomy Australia Limited)

Tuesday 7 August  - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Shane Farnsworth - Max Planck Institute
Spin Factor Geometry (download flyer)
Friday 3 August - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Shaffique Adam - National University of Singapore
On why strongly interacting Dirac fermions in two dimensions appear weakly interacting
Wednesday 1 August - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Nick Rubin - Rigetti Quantum Computing
Hybrid algorithm development at Rigetti Quantum Computing (download flyer)
Wednesday 25 July - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Mathew Pitkin - University of Glasgow
Pulsars as gravitational wave sources
Tuesday 24 July - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Anish Amarsi - Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Parameters and abundances of late-type stars based on 3D non-LTE modelling
Tuesday 12 June - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Ben Farmer - Imperial College London
Calculating p-values in Beyond-the-Standard-Model global fits (download flyer)
Wednesday 6 June - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Giorgio Busoni - The University of Melbourne
Direct Detection of Energy - suppressed operators (download flyer)
Wednesday 23 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Marco Bruni - University of Portsmouth
Weak field and full GR cosmological simulations
Tuesday 22 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Mr John Garlionis - University of Melbourne
Radiative neutrino mass and the flavor anomalies: a circumstantial case  (download flyer)
Wednesday 16 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Mr Mathias Jorgensen - Technical University of Denmark
Efficiently simulating quantum mechanical systems with memory (download flyer)
Thursday 10 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Dr Guy Cohen - Tel Aviv University
Taming the dynamical sign problem: the Inchworm algorithm (download flyer)
Wednesday 9 May - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Zachary Kemp - Propagation based phase retrieval using artificial neural networks (download flyer)
Dr Florian Schaff - Directional Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Computed Tomography (download flyer)
Tuesday 8 May - 14:30 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Imaging & Optical Physics Seminar
Sarah Leslie - University of Heidelberg
Evolution of star formation and dust properties of galaxies over cosmic time
Tuesday 8 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
CANCELLED - Amadeo L. Vazquez de Parga - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Graphene as playground for molecules: from physisorption
Tuesday 8 May - 11:00 G30, New Horizions Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Professor Raymond Volkas - The University of Melbourne
Neutrino mass models: Connections with other fundamental mysteries (download flyer)
Friday 4 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Simon J Murphy - University of Sydney
An exciting haul of planetary, binary and triple systems for pulsation timing
Tuesday 1 May - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Professor Paul Mulvaney - The University of Melbourne
Exciton Science - Shining New Light on an Old Topic (download flyer)
Thursday 26 April - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Director's Colloquium
Dr Rachael Livermore - University of Melbourne
Harnessing the Power of Gravitational Lensing
Tuesday 24 April - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Kamil Korzekwa - University of Sydney
Coherifying quantum states and channels
Wednesday 18 April - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Michelle Cluver - Swinburne University
Closing in on the Hidden universe
Tuesday 17 April - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Matthew Hillier - Monash University
Using software tools in exams for STEM (download flyer)
Wednesday 11 April - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Dimitri Veras - University of Warwick 
The growing field of post-main-sequence exoplanetary science
Tuesday 10 April - 12:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
CANCELLED - Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan - University of Manchester
Capacitive pressure and touch sensors with suspended graphene-polymer heterostructure membranes
Thursday 5 April - 11:00 G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET and MCATM Seminar
Dr Ben Baragiola - RMIT University
Driving a quantum systems with propagating Fock states of light:  non-Markovian master equations (download flyer)
Wednesday 28  March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Professor Ralf Klessen - Heidelberg University 
Star formation
Tuesday 27 March - 12:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Jennifer MacLeod - Queensland University of Technology
Molecular nanoarchitectures from on-surface reactions and assembly
Thursday 22 March - 14:00 G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Dr Stephan Rachel - University of Melbourne
Quantum Design of Topological Matter (download flyer)
Wednesday 21  March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Camille Thomson - Australian Institute of Policy and Science
Tall Poppy Science Award
Wednesday 21 March - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk FLEET Information Seminar
Professor Chris Tout - Churchill College Cambridge
Highly Magnetic White Dwarfs and other Stars
Tuesday 20 March - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Martijn van der Kamp - Monash Business School
Unconscious Bias - How we deal with others without knowing it (download flyer) ( download slides ) (download Bias Codex) (download 20 Cognitive Biases)
Thursday 14 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Blanca Biel - University of Granada
Electronic properties and SPM characterization of transition metal dichalcogenides
Wednesday 14 March - 11:00 G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Professor Stephen Godfrey - Carleton University
Topics in Bottomonium Physics (download flyer)
Tuesday 13 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Ursula Laa - Monash University
Understanding LHC searches for New Physics with Simplified Models (download flyer)
Thursday 8 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Professor Tim Duty - University of NSW
Quantum physics in one dimension and the fate of the dual Josephson effect (download flyer)
Thursday 7 March - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Elizabeth Stanway - University of Warwick
Understanding Intense Star Formation through Observations and Modelling
Tuesday 6 March - 12:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Mr Sioni Summers - Imperial College London
Track reconstruction in the Level 1 trigger of the CMS experiment at the High Luminosity LHC (download slides)
Tuesday 6 March - 15:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Andrew Garner, National University of Singapore
Quantum Precision: Unbounded memory advantage in stochastic simulation using quantum mechanics
Thursday 1 March - 15:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Quantum Information Seminar
Professor Ulrik Egede - Imperial College London
Can Beauty in particle physics reveal the secrets of the Universe? (download flyer)
Thursday 1 March - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Research Seminar
Dr Marzena Szymanska - University College London
Quantum Fluids of Light in and out of Equilibrium (download flyer)
Wednesday 28 February - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk Colloquium
Dr Jean-Francois Gonzalez (Lyon) - IAU
Self-induced dust traps: from apparent gaps to planetesimal formation
Tuesday 27 February - 13:00 Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Helen Brooks - Monash University
Modelling Multi-jets at the LHC with HEJ+Pythia (download flyer)
Thursday 15 February - 15:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Mr Ryan Urquhart - Curtin University
Measuring the mechanical power of rapidly-accreting black holes and neutron stars: jets, winds and bubbles
Friday 9 February - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Professor Shuyun Zhou - Tsinghua University
Two-dimensional materials and hetero-structures for new topological phases and tailored electronic structures (download flyer)
Tuesday 6 February - 11:00 G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Professor Laurent Bellaiche - University of Arkansas
Topological Defects in Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics (download flyer)
Monday 5 February - 11:00 G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way FLEET Research Seminar
Mr Robert Verheyen - Nijmegen University
Electroweak Radiation in Antenna Showers (download flyer) ( download slides )
Thursday 1 February - 11:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Takashi MoriyaNational Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Superluminous supernovae and their origins
Tuesday 30 January - 13:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk MOCA Seminar
Dr Pankaj Sharma - University of Adelaide 
Charged Higgs search prospects in bosonic decays at the Large Hadron Collider (download flyer)
Monday 22 January - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar
Dr Jeremy Dalseno - University of Bristol
Amplitude Analysis of D -> pi+ pi- pi+ pi- and K+ K- pi+ pi- with CLEO Data
Tuesday 8 January - 14:00 Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk HEP Seminar