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 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Monday November 30, 2015 |
Professor Ralf Klessen University of Heidelberg | Star Formation |
| Wednesday October 21, 2015 | Emeritus Professor Kip Thorne, Californian Institute of Technology | The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime : From Computer Simulations to Advanced LIGO's Observations |
| Thursday October 15, 2015 | Dr Stefan Prestel, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Simulating Particle Colliders |
| Thursday September 17, 2015 | Prof Gerhard Birkl, Technische Universität Darmstadt | Quantum Physics with Ultra-Cold Atoms: from Bose-Einstein Condensation to Quantum Simulation |
| Thursday August 13, 2015 | Associate Prof Nick Robins, Australian National University | Precision measurement with Bose-condensed atoms |
| Friday July 31, 2015 | Prof Jörg Schmiedmayer, Vienna University of Technology | Does an isolated many body quantum system relax? |
| Thursday July 30, 2015 | Dr Robert Sewell, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona | Generation of a macroscopic spin singlet in a cold atomic ensemble |
| Thursday July 9, 2015 | Associate Prof Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado Boulder | Topological states of quantum matter |
| Friday July 3, 2015 | Vlad Negnevitsky, ETH Zurich | Squeezing Schrödinger's cat: motional state preparation in trapped ions using dissipation |
| Thursday June 25, 2015 | Katie Auchettl, Monash University / Harvard University | Life after death: the X-ray and gamma-ray emission from the remnants of stars |
| Thursday June 4, 2015 | Dr John Debs, Australian National University | Teaching Students to 'Think Like a Physicist' |
| Tuesday June 2, 2015 | Prof Shardha Jogee, University of Texas at Austin | Assembly of Massive Galaxies: Emerging Insights and Outstanding Challenges |
| Thursday May 21, 2015 | Dr Paul Jackson, University of Adelaide | #RestartLHC: Colliding Protons in 2015 |
| Thursday May 14, 2015 | Dr Meera Parish, Monash University | Fermions in Flatland |
| Thursday May 7, 2015 | Dr Michelle Dunstone, Monash University | Proteins: Nanotechnology that evolved billions of years ago |
| Thursday April 30, 2015 | Dr Charles Bamber, National Research Center, Canada | Mapping a photon in flight |
| Thursday April 23, 2015 | Prof Andrew Hopkins, Australian Astronomical Observatory | Strategies to address gender equity in astronomy research institutes |
| Thursday April 16, 2015 | Dr Jesper Levinson, Monash University | Strongly interacting quantum particles under confinement: An essentially exact approach |
| Thursday April 9, 2015 | Dr Ilya Mandel, University of Birmingham | Adventures in Astrostatistics |
| Wednesday April 8, 2015 | Prof Ed Hinds, Imperial College | Probing physics at TeV by measuring aeV |
| Thursday April 2, 2015 | Dr Eric Thrane, Monash University | Searching for gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO |
| Friday March 20, 2015 | Prof Volker Bromm, University of Texas | Stars and Galaxies at the Dawn of Time |
| Thursday March 19, 2015 | Dr Nick Menicucci, University of Sydney | Gigantic quantum computers made of laser light |
| Thursday March 12, 2015 | Dr Nadia Zatsepin, Arizona State University | Serial femtosecond protein crystallography using X-ray free electron lasers |
| Thursday March 5, 2015 | Ms Jacinta den Besten, Univertsity of Melbourne | The Current State of Girls Undertaking Physics |
| Thursday February 19, 2015 | Prof Anna Frebel, MIT | Hunting the first generations of stars and galaxies |