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.
| If you have questions about the talks, please contact: | Associate Professor Meera Parish Administration Officer: Karen Lee karen.lee@monash.edu |
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Talks for 2019
| Dr Ken Tregonning Alternate Realities for a Physicist's Future - A Journey form the Dark Side to the Light (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 12 September - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Seminar |
| JJ Eldridge - University of Auckland A double look at electromagnetic and gravitational wave transients with BPASS and CURVEPOPS | ||
| Tuesday 10 September - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Belinda Nicholson - USQ Magnetic activity of Weak-line T Tauri starts, and hunting for planets in terrible (and not-so-terrible) places. | ||
| Friday 30 August - 3pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Simon Devitt - UTS Quantum Computing Hardware and Software development (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 22 August - 3pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Information Seminar |
| Dr Julie Karel - Monash University Using Disorder and Liquid Electrolyte Gating to Design and Control Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Materials (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 21 August - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Professor Gary Da Costa - ANU Results from the SkyMapper DR1.1 Search for Extremely Metal-Poor Stars | ||
| Tuesday 20 August - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Yunyi Yang - Swinburne University of Technology 3D graphene metamaterial platform for on-chip photonic device (download flyer) | ||
| Monday 19 August | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | FLEET Research Seminar |
| Assistant Professor Aaron J Rosengren - University of Arizona The dynamical Quest to Conquer Earth's Space Junk Problem (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 15 August - 3pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Seminar |
| Professor Mairi Sakellariadou - Kings College London Gravitational Waves: a new window into the Universe and its law (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 14 August - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
Dr Scott Findlay - Monash University Dr Tim Petersen - Monash University | ||
| Tuesday 13 August - Commencing at 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Imaging & Optical Physics Seminar |
| Alejandro Vigna Gomez - University of Birmingham & Monash University Double Neutron Star Formation: A Population Synthesis Approach | ||
| Tuesday 13 August - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Oleg Tretiakov - University of New South Wales Topological Spintronics: Skyrmions and Other Beasts (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 7 August - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Professor Giuseppe Lodata - University of Milan tba | ||
| Tuesday 6 August - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Victor Gurarie - University of Colorado, at Boulder Ultra-quantum matter (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 31 July - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| CANCELLED - Professor Mairi Sakellariadou - Kings College London Stochastic gravitational waves background and its anisotropies (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 31 July - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Associate Professor Daniel Simpson - ANU Esther Williams in the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool: Some thoughts on complexity | ||
| Tuesday 30 July - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths - ANU The Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds as Laboratories for Understanding the Evolution of Galaxies (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 24 July - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Leonardo Testi - European Southern Observatory "Fast and Furious. A new view of planet formation" | ||
| Tuesday 16 July - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
Dr Nelson Darkwah Oppong - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen and Max-Planck-Insitut fur Quantenoptik | ||
| Monday 15 July - 11am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Gases Seminar |
| Jean-Francois Gonzalez - AU Influence of grain properties on dust evolution in protoplanetary discs | ||
| Tuesday 9 July - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor John Lattanzio - Monash University 50 Years of Apollo (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 3 July - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Ashley Ruiter - ANU Type la supernova sub-classes and progenitor origin | ||
| Tuesday 25 June - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt - Queensland University Massive black holes in the smallest galaxies | ||
| Tuesday 18 June - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Rachel Webster - University of Melbourne New directions in understanding quasars (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 12 June - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Andrew Casey - Monash University Data-driven advances in stellar astrophysics | ||
| Tuesday 4 June - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Associate Professor Elena Ostrovskaya - Australian National University Bosonic condensate of exciton polaritons: a quantum system out of equilibrium (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 29 May - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Professor Martin Dyer - Sheffield GOTO: creating a new telescope for hunting gravitational wave counterparts | ||
| Tuesday 28 May - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Yoshitaka Itow - Nagoya University>Associate Professor Ken Sakashita - KEK>Associate Professor Masashi Yokoyama-Tokyo University Status and prospects of neutrino experiments with large water Cherenkov detectors in Japan (download flyer) (HyperK Slides) (t2k Slides) | ||
| Monday 27 May - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Associate Professor Masashi Otani - KEK J-PARC Muon acceleration and the muon g-2/EDM experiment at J-PARC (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 23 May - 11am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Tara Murphy - Sydney University Radio follow-up of gravitational wave events | ||
| Tuesday 21 May - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Richard Ruiz - Universite catholique de Louvain Dynamic Jet Vetoes: A new prospect for multi-lepton searches at the LHC (download flyer) | ||
| Monday 20 May - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Stephen Eikenberry - University of Florida Relativistic Jets and Magnetic Fields in V404 Cygni | ||
| Thursday 16 May - 3pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Kris Helmerson - Monash University Evolution of large-scale flow from turbulence in a two-dimensional superfluid (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 15 May - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Krystal de Napoli - Monash University Australian Indigenous Astronomy: 65,000 Years of Science | ||
| Tuesday 14 May - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Ben Sparkes - Adelaide University Towards Quantum Information Processing with Atom-Filled Hollow-Core Fibres (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 8 May - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Associate Professor James Miller-Jones - Curtain Institute A rapidly changing jet orientation from a stellar-mass black hole | ||
| Tuesday 7 May - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Chung-Lin Shan - Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory Simulations of the 3-D WIMP Velocity Distribution for Directional Dark Matter Detection Experiments (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 18 April - 11am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Dr Ursula Laa - Monash University High-dimensional data visualisation for physics applications (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 17 April - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Associate Professor Michele Trenti - University of Melbourne The SkyHopper Space Telescope: Big Science with a Tiny Telescope | ||
| Tuesday 16 April - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Philip Ilten - Birmingham University From Dark Photons to True Muonium (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 11 April - 11am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Leif Lonnblad - Lund University Quark-gluon plasmas and how to simulate them (download flyer) (slides) | ||
| Wednesday 10 April - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Tiziana Di Matteo - Carnegie Mellon University The next frontier for qasars and massive galaxies | ||
| Tuesday 2 April - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Rob Verheyen - Radboud University Event Generation and Statistical Sampling with Deep Generative Models (download flyer) (slides) | ||
| Friday 29 March - 10am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Dr Erik Gauger - Heriot-Watt University Harnessing non-equilibrium effects in bio-inspired and engineered quantum networks (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday 28 March - 1pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Seminar |
| Dr Troels Petersen - Niels Bohr Institute Recognising particles with Machine Learning (download flyer) (slides) | ||
| Wednesday 27 March - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Hossam Aly - University of Milan Misaligned Discs Around Binaries: Alignment, Warps, and Dust Traps | ||
| Tuesday 26 March - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Valentina D'Orzi - INAF High-contrast imaging observations of exoplanetary systems: current and future perspectives | ||
| Tuesday 19 March - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Lewis Dartnell - University of Leicester Astrobiology - The Hunt for Alien Life (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 13 March - 2pm | S14, 11 Rainforest Walk | Colloquium |
| Mark Krumholz - ANU The Origin of Stellar Masses | ||
| Tuesday 12 March - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Marios Karouzos - Nature Astronomy | ||
| Monday 11 March - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Andrew Cameron - ATNF/CSIRO The latest results from the HTRU-S Low Latitude Pulsar Survey: a zoo of new and exciting pulsars (download flyer) | ||
| Friday 8 March - 11am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | High Energy Astrophysics Seminar |
Christian Preuss - Monash University Michael Bardsley - Monash University | ||
| Thursday 7 March - 11am | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Matthew Baring - (RICE) Probes of Magnetar Magnetospheres using their Hard X-rays | ||
| Tuesday 5 March - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Tomas Gonzalo - Monash University Global fits on BSM models (download flyer) | ||
| Friday 1st March - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Dr Gemma Anderson (ICRAR) Curtin University Studying the explosive Universe and gravitational waves through the automation of Australian radio telescopes | ||
| Tuesday 26 February - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Daniel Burgarth - Macquarie University Dynamical Decoupling of Unbounded Operators (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday 20 February - 2pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
Dr Tomas Li - University of Canterbury Dr Mathew Dimmock - Monash University | ||
| Tuesday 19 February - 2.30pm | G29, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | Imaging & Optical Physics Seminar |
| Australian Meeting on Accelerator-Based Particle Physics This workshop will focus on future directions for the field of accelerator-based particle physics in Australia, and will also serve as a trial for a meeting format to help us keep in touch, enhance collaborations, and co-strategise in the post-CoEPP era. The program will comprise both research talks as well as more strategy oriented sessions focusing on vision and plans. (download flyer) | ||
| Commences February 18th @ 10.30am - Ends February 19th @ 6.30pm | Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk | Australian Meeting on Accelerator-Based Particle Physics |
| Professor Orsola Demarco - Macquarie University Catalysed stellar outflows | ||
| Tuesday 12 February - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Yuri Cavecchi - University of Southampton "Type I Bursts: flame spreading and burning regimes". | ||
| Tuesday 5 February - 12pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Charles Carter - University of North Carolina How inevitable is Life? Chemistry, Structural Biology, and the Origin of Biological Meaning (download flyer) | ||
| Friday 1 February - 1pm | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Astrobiology Cognition and Exo-Life (ACE) Seminar |
| Professor Andreas Heinrich - Ewha Womans University Quantum Nanoscience: Atoms on Surfaces | ||
| Thursday 31 January - 11am | G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | FLEET Research Seminar |