Talks for 2024
2024
| Kateryna Andrych, Macquarie University | ||
| Looking for new planet-forming frontiers: circumbinary disks around evolved binary stars | ||
| Tuesday 3 December 2024 12 - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Harini Hapuarachchi, RMIT | ||
| Nitrogen-vacancy plasmonics: Plasmonic control of diamond quantum devices | ||
| Wednesday 20 November 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Emanuele Ventura, University of Melbourne | ||
| First stars: where do they form ? What is the impact on the evolution of our Universe? | ||
| Tuesday 19 November 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Courtney Crawford, University of Sydney | ||
| The Hydrogen-deficient Carbon Stars: Advances in Formation and Dust Production | ||
| Tuesday 12 November 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr May Gade Petersen, University of Sydney | ||
| Viewing the interiors of O- and B-type stars through the lens of asteroseismology | ||
| Tuesday 29 October 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Junsuk Rho, Postech Korea | ||
| Metamaterials: from invisibility cloak to future extended reality displays and smart label technology | ||
| Tuesday 10 September 10 - 11am | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Gregory White, Freie Universität Berlin | ||
| Capturing long-range temporal correlations in multi-time quantum processes | ||
| Wednesday 4 September 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Prof Stephan Rachel, University of Melbourne | ||
| Braiding of Majorana Zero Nodes in Topological Superconductors; towards fault-tolerant quantum computing | ||
| Wednesday 28 August 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Gemma Anderson, Curtin University | ||
| Capturing the earliest radio signals from gamma-ray bursts and gravitational wave events | ||
| Tuesday 27 August 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Michael Murphy, Swinburne University | ||
| Tuesday 20 August 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Jean Brodie, Swinburne University | ||
| The Origin of Ultra Diffuse Galaxies: Challenging the Galaxy Formation Paradigm | ||
| Wednesday 14 August 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Devika Kamath, Macquarie University | ||
| Cosmic Renaissance: The Last Chance for Planet Formation Around Low-Mass Dying Stars | ||
| Tuesday 13 August 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Marcus Lower, CSIRO | ||
| The irregular spin-down evolution of radio pulsars | ||
| Tuesday 30 July 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Ahmad Nemer, NYU | ||
| A deeper dive into the BPT diagrams and the origin of LINER emission with machine learning | ||
| Tuesday 23 July 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Gareth Kennedy | ||
| How to navigate the academia industry divide | ||
| Wednesday 17 July 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| A/Prof Suzie Sheehy, University of Melbourne | ||
| Medical Accelerator Research: Advanced accelerator technologies for future needs | ||
| Wednesday 10 July 2 - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Marie Van de Sande, Leiden | ||
| The outflows of AGB stars as astrochemical laboratories | ||
| Tuesday 2 July 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Shmuel Gilbaum, HUJI | ||
| Hierarchical Growth and Migration in AGN Disks: Statistical Properties of Black Hole Mergers | ||
| Tuesday 25 June 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Luis Carlos Bermudez, Macquarie University | ||
| Dust growth in the common envelope evolution | ||
| Tuesday 18 June 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Cristiano Longarini, Cambridge | ||
| The role of gravitational instability in protostellar disc evolution and planet formation | ||
| Tuesday 11 June 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Shanika Galaudage, Lagrange Laboratory | ||
Get to know GW230529: the gravitational wave from the merger of a Mass Gap Compact Object and a Neutron Star | ||
| Tuesday 28 May 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Alex Ji, University of Chicago | ||
| Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology in the Gaia Era | ||
| Tuesday 30 April @ 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Ben Pollard, University of Auckland | ||
| How and Why to Teach Physics Without Grades | ||
| Wednesday 10 April @ 2 pm - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Oleg Yazyev, Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne | ||
| In-silico discovery of novel topological materials | ||
| Thursday 21 March @ 11 am - 12 pm | G30, New Horizons | FLEET SEMINAR |
| Marc van der Sluys, Nikhef | ||
| On Common Envelopes and low-mass compact binaries | ||
| Tuesday 19 March @ 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Dr Brenna Mockler, Carnegie Observatories | ||
| Exploring galactic nuclei with tidal disruption events | ||
| Wednesday 13 March @ 2 pm - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Dr Qinghui Sun, Tsinghua University | ||
| Exploring Stellar Physics and Star-Planet Interaction through the Lens of stellar Chemical Abundance | ||
| Tuesday 12 March @ 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Brianna Zawadzki | ||
| Resolving Vertical Structures in Millimeter Debris Disk Observations with ARKS | ||
| Tuesday 5 March @ 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Assoc Prof Matteo Baggioli, Shanghai Jiao Tong University | ||
| Solids and Liquids as Yin and Yang: A Journey from Soft Matter Physics to Black Holes | ||
| Wednesday 28 February @ 2 pm - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | SCHOOL COLLOQUIUM |
| Prof James Fuller, Caltech | ||
| Drama preceding the deaths of massive stars | ||
| Tuesday 27 February @ 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Shu Ping Lau, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | ||
| Ferroelectricity in Two-Dimensional Heterobilayers | ||
| Thursday 22 February @ 11 am - 12 pm | G30, New Horizons | FLEET SEMINAR |
| Kyla Adams, UWA/OzGrav | ||
| Certain Uncertainty - Teaching quantum physics in Year 9 classrooms | ||
| Tuesday 20 February @ 12 pm - 1 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR |
| Prof Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide | ||
| Photonic glasses and fibres: Design of structure, composition, and fabrication for tailored applications | ||
| Monday 12 February @ 3pm | G30, New Horizons | IMAGING SEMINAR |
| Prof Michele Governale, Victoria University of Wellington, MacDiarmid Institute | ||
| 2D 2nd-order topological insulator flake boundary 0-energy states | ||
| Monday 5 February @ 11 am - 12 pm | G30, New Horizons | FLEET SEMINAR |
| Assistant Professor Kade Head-Marsden, Washington University | ||
| Interplay between quantum chemistry and quantum computing | ||
| Wednesday 24 January @ 2 pm - 3 pm | Room 107, 10 College Walk | QUANTUM SEMINAR |
| Dr Conor Omand, Stockholm University | ||
| Characterizing Millisecond Magnetars Using Energetic Transients | ||
| Tuesday 23 January @ 12 pm - 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 |