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 general physics audience (undergraduates to academics); 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: | Physics Dr Kavan Modi Monash Profile Contact Details | Astronomy & Astrophysics Dr Rosemary Mardling Monash Profile Contact Details |
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(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 |
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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 Moriya - National 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 |