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 2017
| Professor Michael Tobar - University of Western Australia High Precision Low Energy Measurements for Detecting Dark Matter and Testing Fundamental Physics (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday, 14 December 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| FLEET Workshop - Victorian ARC Centres & Hubs Professional Staff Workshop Bringing together business teams from Victorian ARC Centres & Hubs to network, learn best practices and create greater efficiencies. | ||
| Thursday, 14 December 2017 - 08:00 to 18:00 | G29-G30 New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | FLEET Workshop |
| Dr Denis Martynov - MIT Prospects for constraining neutron star equation of state with LIGO | ||
| Thursday, 14 December - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Associate Professor Dan Fabrychky - University of Chicago Constraining planetary histories with new architectures: resonant chains and circumbinary orbits | ||
| Tuesday, 12 December - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Dan Foreman-Mackey - Flatiron Institute, New York How to find a transiting exoplanet: data-driven discovery in the astronomical time domain | ||
| Tuesday, 12 December - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Ik Siong Heng - University of Glasgow Listening to the gravitational symphony behind cosmic fireworks | ||
| Monday, 11 December - 12:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Vardha Bennert - California Polytechnic The Origin of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations | ||
| Friday, 8 December - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Yoshitaka Kuno - Osaka University Searching the Muon of Electron Conversion in a Muonic Atom - Quest for new physics (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 6 December 2017 - 13:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
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Stephan Hafner - Heidelberg University Heteronuclear Efimov scenario in an ulracold Bose-Fermi mixture with large mass imbalance (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 4 December 2017 - 13:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Fluids Seminar |
| Associate Professor Igor Aharonvich - University of Technology, Sydney Quantum emitters in flatland | ||
| Monday, 4 December 2017 - 11:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | FLEET and MCATM Seminar |
| Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle - Massachusetts Institute of Technology When freezing cold is not cold enough: New forms of matter near absolute zero temperature | ||
| Thursday, 30 November 2017 - 19:00 | AMDC Bldg, Room 301, Swinburne University of Technology | FLEET Seminar |
THIS FLEET SEMINAR IS CANCELLED Dr Nicholas Karpowicz - Max Planck Institute | ||
| Thursday, 30 November 2017 - 11:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | FLEET Seminar |
| Ms Laura Henderson - University of Waterloo, Canada Entanglement Harvesting Near a BTZ Black Hole (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 29 November 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Information Seminar |
Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop - University of Queensland | ||
| Wednesday, 29 November 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
Professor Albert Polman - University of Amsterdam | ||
| Monday 27 November 2017 - 17:00 | Lecture Theatre S4, 16 Rainforest Walk | FLEET |
Professor Albert Polman - University of Amsterdam | ||
| Monday 27 November 2017 - 11:00 | Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk | FREW Fellow Lecture |
| Professor George Wei-Shu Hou - National Taiwan University Outlook on Flavour Physics and CP Violation (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 22 November 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Professor Alice Quillen - University of Rochester Astro Visco-elastodynamics: Cracking moons and spin and obliquity evolution in tidal evolving and migrating satellite and planetary systems | ||
| Tuesday, 21st November - 12:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Charles Hill - University of Melbourne Simulation of Quantum Algorithms with Matrix Product States (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 15 November 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Rosemary Mardling - Monash University Dr Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway - Monash University Gender equity workplace experience in the School of Physics and Astronomy (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 8 November 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Equity Colloquium |
| Dr Dylan Saunders - Oxford University Quantum Light, Quantum Memories and Quantum Heat Engines (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 8 November 2017 - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Seminar |
| Dr Onno Pols - Radbound University, The Netherlands The occurrence of electron-capture supernovae in binary systems | ||
| Tuesday, 7th November - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Jordan Nash - Monash University Looking for ultra-rare Standard Model interactions to search for new physics (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 1 November 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Dr Eric Thrane & Dr Paul Lasky - Monash University Gravitational Waves from merging neutron stars: the dawn of a new era in astronomy (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 25th October 2017 - 18:00 | Lecture Theatre S2/S4, 16 Rainforest Walk | Public Lecture |
| Dr Eric Thrane & Dr Paul Lasky - Monash University GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral (download flyer) | ||
| Tuesday, 24th October 2017 - 12:30 | Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk | Colloquium |
| Associate Professor Elizabeth Tasker - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Dangerous Worlds | ||
| Thursday, 19 October 2017 - 18:30 | Lecture Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk | MoCA Public Talk |
| FLEET Young Researchers Forum When a picture is worth 1000 words - Shooting video on your mobile phone | ||
| Thursday, 19 October 2017 - 14:00 | G29/G30 New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way | Forum |
| Dr Tom Collett - Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lensing | ||
| Tuesday, 17 October 2017 - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Ping Koy Lam - Australian National University A Quantum Communication Network with Bright Laser Beams (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 11 October - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Dr Jean-Pierre Macquart (ICRAR) Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts | ||
| Tuesday, 10 October - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Associate Professor Tom Stace - University of Queensland Foliated Quantum Codes (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 4 October 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Mario Beltran - Switzerland and Monash University - Exploiting the Imperfect Nature of Light Dr Nicholas Anthony - Latrobe University - Photoelastic Ptychography for Anisotropic Imaging (download flyer) | ||
| Tuesday, 3 October 2017 - 14:30 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Imaging and Optical Physics Seminar |
| Dr Karl Wette - Australian National University Continuous Gravitational Waves from Rapidly-Rotating Neutron Star | ||
| Tuesday, 26 September - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor George Wei-Shu Hou - National Taiwan University Electroweak Baryogenesis and Alignment from Two Higgs Doubles | ||
| Thursday, 21 September 2017 - 15:00 | Room 139, 19 Rainforest Walk | Seminar |
| Ms Thao Le - UCL Computer Science, UK Neutralising the Dark Side of Quantum Networks (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 20 September 2017 - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | QIS Seminar |
| Professor James Wadsley- McMaster University Superbubbles and the limits of Supernovae on Galactic Scales | ||
| Tuesday, 19 September - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Dongchen Qi- La Trobe University Diamond Surface Functionalisation and Doping for Carbon-based Electronics | ||
| Friday, 15 September 2017 - 15:00 | G30 New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way | FLEET Seminar |
| Professor Rohini Godbole - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore TopHiggs interplay (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday, 14 September - 15:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Rohini Godbole - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Women in Mathematics and Physics (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 13 September - 14:30 | Theatre S2, 16 Rainforest Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Dr Ivo Seitenzahl - (ADFA) Modelling thermonuclear supernovae - explosion simulations, nucleosynthesis, observables | ||
| Tuesday, 12 September - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Associate Professor Gavin Brennan - Macquarie University Quantum simulators for quantum field theory (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 6 September - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Phil Hopkins - Caltech Dust and Gas in the ISM: New Instabilities and Understanding | ||
| Tuesday, 5 September - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Dr Danail Obreschkow - (ICRAR) - University of Western Australia A new Spin on Angular Momentum in Galaxies | ||
| Tuesday, 29 August - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Jennifer Hoffman - Harvard University Imaging the Surface States of a Strongly Correlated Topological Insulator (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday, 24 August - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | FLEET Seminar |
| Professor Jennifer Hoffman - Harvard University Topological Materials at the Nanoscale (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 23 August - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Professor Hans-Christoph Mertins - FH Muenster University of Applied Sciences Physics of graphene and low dimensional systems (download flyer) | ||
| Tuesday, 22 August - 14:00 | G29, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | FLEET Seminar |
| Dr Javier Mejuto - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras Astronomy in the Classic Maya Period | ||
| Tuesday, 22 August - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Myungshik Kim - Imperial College London Single photon operations (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday, 17 August - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Dr Nick Parker - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Superfluids flex their muscles: wakes, storms and tuburlence (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 16 August - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Cold Atoms Seminar |
| Dr Maria Lugaro - Konkoly Observatory, Monash University Radionuclides: from Cosmochronology to Habitability | ||
| Tuesday, 15 August - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA |
| Professor Alan Cornell - University of Witwatersrand The production of additional bosons and the impact on Higgs physics at the LHC (download flyer) (download slides) | ||
| Monday, 14 August - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Victor Gurarie - University of Colorado Angular momentum of BCS-BEC fermionic superfluids with multiply quantized vortices | ||
| Thursday, 10 August - 14:00 | G29, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | FLEET Seminar |
| Dr Alex Wood - Melbourne University A new spin on quantum sensing with diamond (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 9 August - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Stuart Sim - Queen's University, Belfast Modelling thermonuclear supernovae: how to blow up a white dwarf start | ||
| Tuesday, 8 August - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Professor Fengqiu (Frank) Wang - Nanjing University, China Novel photosensitive devices based on graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid materials | ||
| Monday, 7 August - 14:00 | Room 407, Level 4, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | MCATM Seminar |
Dr Kaye Morgan - Monash University Dr Lincoln Turner - Monash University | ||
| Tuesday, 1 August - 14:30 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | X-Ray Optics Seminar |
| Dr Simon Devitt - Riken, Japan and Macquarie University, Sydney meQuanics - The Quantum Computer Game. How it works, what does it solve? | ||
| Tuesday, 1 August - 11.30 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Seminar |
| Professor Reinhard Keinburger - Technical University, Munich Attosecond electron dynamics in gases, molecules and solids (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 21 July - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Associate Professor Changgu Lee - Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea Magnetic and physical properties of new 2D materials (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 21 July - 11:00 | Room 407, Level 4, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | MCATM Seminar |
| Dr Krzysztof Bolejko - University of Sydney Emergence of spatial curvature | ||
| Tuesday, 18 July - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr Dylan Saunders - Oxford University A room-temperature noise-free quantum memory (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 10 July - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Seminar |
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Professor Di Li An unprecedented Commensal Survey Plan for FAST | ||
| Thursday, 20 July - 11:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Seminar |
| Professor Daniel Lathrop - University of Maryland Liquid Sodium Models of the Earth's Core (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 21 June - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Professor Daniel Lathrop - University of Maryland Visualization and characterization of quantum fluid flows (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 21 June - 11:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Fluids Research Seminar |
| Associate Professor Stefan Ballmer - Syracuse University Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Now and in the Future (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 19 June - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Mr Mark McAuley - AAL Astronomy Australia Ltd Update | ||
| Tuesday, 13 June - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr George Angelou - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Stellar Parameters in an Instant with Machine Learning | ||
| Tuesday, 6 June - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr Felix Binder - Nanyang Technological University - Singapore Using quantum mechanics to simulate complex stochastic processes | ||
| Friday, 2 June - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Information Seminar |
| Dr Richard Plotkin (ICRAR) - Curtin University | ||
| Tuesday, 23 May - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr Carlos Kuhn - Australian National University Non-destructive imaging system as a tool for observing modulation instability in ultra-cold atoms (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 19 May - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Matter Seminar |
| Professor Lloyd Hollenberg - University of Melbourne Quantum-reality bytes: from bio-probes to quantum computing (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 17 May - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Professor Mark Krumholz - Australian National University Fueling Star Formation Across Cosmic Time | ||
| Wednesday, 16 May - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr Ben Farmer - University of Stockholm Searching for high-energy nuclear recoils using effective field theory and the Xenon 100 dark matter detector (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 15 May - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Miss Alison Young - University of Exeter Simulating observations of the first hydrostatic core | ||
| Thursday, 11 May - 13:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Mr Daniel Seuss - University of Cologne Low-rank tensor recovery via alternating least squares | ||
| Thursday, 11 May - 13:00 | Room 139 (J.L. Williams room), Level 1, 19 Rainforest Walk | Quantum Information Seminar |
| Dr Cesar A. Rodriguez Rosario - University of Hamburg Electrocuting Schrodinger's cat: Decoherence in quantum transport (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 10 May - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
Associate Professor Jeffrey Davis - Swinburne University Professor David Paganin - Monash University | ||
| Tuesday, 9 May - 14:30 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | X-Ray Optics Seminar |
| Dr James Wurster - University of Exeter The importance of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics | ||
| Tuesday, 9 May - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Professor Yuri Levin - Monash University Magnetic Toys in the Sky | ||
| Tuesday, 2 May - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr Cesar A. Rodriguez Rosario - University of Hamburg Thermodynamics of quantum Coherences to control transport (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 5 May - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Information Science Seminar |
| Dr Amr Hassan - Swinburne University Introduction to Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) | ||
| Thursday, 27 April - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MoCA Seminar |
| Dr Marco Tomamichel - University of Technology, Sydney Information Processing with Small Quantum Devices (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 26 April - 12:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Quantum Information Science Seminar |
| Dr Tyler Corbett - University of Melbourne Extended Scalar Sectors, Higgs EFTs, and the study of DiHiggs Production (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 10 April - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Associate Professor Paul Jackson - University of Adelaide How, and where, to search for new Physics in the LHC data (download flyer) | ||
| Thursday, 6 April - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Lisa Kewley - ANU Galaxy Formation and Evolution in 3D (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 5 April - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Associate Professor Stefania Xella - University of Copenhagen Searching for hidden particles at CERN (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 31 March - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Mr Noel Dawe - University of Melbourne Parton Shower Uncertainties in Jet Substructure Analyses with Deep Neural Networks (download flyer) | ||
| Tuesday, 28 March - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Saurabh Lodha - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Contact resistance, doping and carrier transport in emerging MoS2 devices (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 15 March - 15:00 | Room G29 & G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | MCATM Seminar |
Dr Sherry Mayo - CSIRO Dr Tim Petersen - Monash University | ||
| Tuesday, 14 March - 14:30 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Imaging & Optical Physics Seminar |
| Professor Michelle Simmons - University of NSW Quantum Computing in Silicon with Donor Electron Spins (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 1 March - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Director's Colloquium |
| Univ.-Professor Dr Francesca Ferlaino - University of Innsbruck (Austria) Where there is enjoyment, there can be no loss: reflections of a quantum physicist (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 27 February - 13:00 | Room G29 & G30, 20 Research Way (New Horizons Building) | Women in Science Colloquium |
| Dr Katherine MacArthur - Ernst Ruska Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich Quantitative Characterisation of Catalyst Nanoparticles using STEM (download flyer) | ||
| Tuesday, 21 February - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Seminar |
| Professor Chris McConville - RMIT University & University of Warwick Unusual Electronic Structure of Transparent Conducting Oxide Semiconductors (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 17 February - 11:00 | Room G29 & G30, New Horizons Centre, 20 Research Way | MCATM Seminar |
Dr Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway - Monash University Dr Russell Anderson - Monash University Dr Timothy Petersen - Monash University Dr Lincoln Turner - Monash University | ||
| Wednesday, 8 February - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | Colloquium |
| Dr Michael Schmidt - Sydney University Unitarisation of EFT Amplitudes for Dark Matter Searches at the LHC (download flyer) | ||
| Friday, 3 February - 14:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Professor Wanqin Jin - Nanjing Tech University Design and Fabrication of Graphene-based Membranes for Molecular Separation (download flyer) | ||
| Tuesday, 31 January - 11:00 | The Potter Room 222, Level 2, 18 Alliance Lane | MCATM Seminar |
| Professor Roberto Martinez - National University of Colombia Mass problem in the Standard Model and neutrino oscillation (download flyer) | ||
| Monday, 23 January - 11:00 | Room 110, Level 1, 10 College Walk | HEP Seminar |
| Associate Professor Eric Pop - Standford University Electronic, Thermal and Unconventional Applications of 2D Materials (download flyer) | ||
| Wednesday, 18 January - 11:00 | Room 107, Level 1, 10 College Walk | MCATM Seminar |