Events
Phys Gym: Quantum reality – its uncertainty is not what it used to be
Wed 22 Oct 08 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: Laby Theatre, School of Physics
Presented by Professor Lloyd Hollenberg
Theory Seminar:
Wed 22 Oct 08 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: What can we learn from Spontaneous Lorentz Violation?
Presented by Professor J.L. Chkareuli, E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, I. Chavchavadze State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Colloquium: High Tc Superconductivity: The mystery we are ever after
Tue 21 Oct 08 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, University of Melbourne
Colloquium: Read-out of Phosphorus Donor Spin States
Tue 14 Oct 08 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, University of Melbourne
Presented by Professor Martin Brandt, Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München, Germany
Theory Seminar: The Upside of Minimal Left-Right SUSY Seesaw In Deflected Anomaly Mediation
Wed 8 Oct 08 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Astrophysics Seminar: The Expanded Very Large Array
Tue 7 Oct 08 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Physics Podium, Room 2.11, School of Physics
Colloquium: Determining local atomic structures using focussed electron beams
Tue 7 Oct 08 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, University of Melbourne
Presented by Associate Professor Joanne Etheridge, Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University
GOSS
Fri 26 Sep 08 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Christine Chung “The cross-correlation search for periodic gravitational waves” and Lachlan Whitehead “Coherent Diffractive Imaging - The Next Phase” Please join us for drinks and an informal chat in the staff room after the presentation
Colloquium: Quantum Diamond
Wed 24 Sep 08 1:00pm - 12:00pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Jörg Wrachtrup, Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Workshop: Future Directions in Atomic and Condensed Matter Research and Applications
Mon 22 Sep 08 9:00am - Tue 23 Sep 08 5:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
All are welcome to this international forum (no registration fees, light tea provided). For RSVP, catering and publishing abstract purposes, please email to Dr Justin Kimpton (jkimpton@unimelb.edu.au) by Monday 8th September 08.
Astrophysics Seminar: Temperatures in the interstellar media in high redshift galaxies
Fri 19 Sep 08 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Bob Carswell, Institute of Physics, University of Cambridge
Public Lecture: High hanging fruit worth the risk-seeing the atoms in human membrane proteins
Thu 18 Sep 08 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Laby Theatre, School of Physics
Presented by the David Blow Professor of Biophysics, Prof So Iwata of Imperial College (hosted by the ARC Centre for CXS)
General: Cultural Collection Treasures - Physics Museum on Display
Thu 18 Sep 08 10:00am - Sun 21 Sep 08 4:00pm
Location: Physics Museum, 2nd fl Laby foyer
Free guided tours of the Physics Museum are available as a part of the Cultural Collection Treasures event.
General: Physics Research Open Day and BBQ
Wed 17 Sep 08 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Hercus/Laby Theatre foyer and Physics Courtyard, University of Melbourne
Thinking about doing the new Masters of Science in Physics? Want to learn more about the School's research activities? Then come along to the research group poster display exhibition. Our staff and students will be on hand to answer your questions. There will also be a BBQ hosted by this year's Honours students for 3rd years.
Workshop: Facilitating X-ray Biophotonics - physicists and biologists working together
Wed 17 Sep 08 9:00am - Fri 19 Sep 08 5:00pm
Location: Bio 21, 30 Flemington Rd Parkville
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science is running its 2008 annual workshop focussing on high resolution imaging of biological samples using synchrotron, high harmonic generation laser and X-ray free electron laser sources.
Classic GOSS: An inhomogeneous alternative to dark energy
Fri 12 Sep 08 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Krzysztof Bolejko
Astrophysics Seminar: The complex and puzzling phenomenology of thermonuclear X-ray bursts
Wed 10 Sep 08 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Dr Duncan Galloway, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
All Welcome
Coloquium: An industry update on global nuclear power and the opportunities for Australia
Tue 9 Sep 08 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, University of Melbourne
Presented by Dr Selena Ng - Nuclear Business Development Manager, AREVA
Completion seminar: Neutrino Models and Leptogenesis
Fri 5 Sep 08 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Sandy Law
Please join use for a toast and drinks in the staff room after the seminar
Astrophysics seminar: Does omega Centauri have tidal tails?
Fri 5 Sep 08 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Gary Da Costa, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University
All Welcome
Completion seminar: UHE Neutrino Detection using the Lunar Cherenkov Technique
Fri 29 Aug 08 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Rebecca McFadden
Please join us for a toast and drinks in the staff room after the seminar.
Theory Seminar: Implications of the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation signal for mirror matter dark matter
Wed 27 Aug 08 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Dr Robert Foot, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
All are welcome
GOSS
Fri 22 Aug 08 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Gaoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Melissa Makin
“Photon behaviour in arrays of coupled cavities containing single two level atoms”
and
Anthony van Eysden
“Gravitational Radiation from Pulsar Glitches”
Please join us for drinks and an informal chat in the staff room after the presentations
Information Session: New Master of Science, PGDip and Honours in 2009
Wed 20 Aug 08 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, University of Melbourne
All 3rd year students (and others) who would like to take the Masters in Physics or Postgraduate Diploma or Honours in 2009 should try to attend. Other students who are looking ahead are more than welcome.