Events
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Astrophysics Seminar: Seeing Galaxy Clusters through the Cosmic Microwave Background: Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
Fri 5 Feb 10 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar Room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Naoki Itoh, Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sophia University, Japan.
All Welcome.
Colloquium: The scientific approach to teaching: Research as a basis for course design
Mon 18 Jan 10 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Rivett Theatre, Redmond Barry Building (1st floor)
Presented by Professor Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University
Colloquium: Recent Advances in Optical MEMS Technologies for Electrically-Tuneable Multi-Spectral Infrared Sensors and Arrays
Wed 13 Jan 10 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Location: Laby Theatre, David Caro building
Presented by Professor Lorenzo Faraone, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Microelectronics Research Group, The University of Western Australia
Theory Seminar: SUSY Splits, But Then Returns
Thu 7 Jan 10 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Raman Sundrum, Johns Hopkins University
All are welcome
Astrophysics Seminar: Astrophotonics: the next wave in observational cosmology
Wed 16 Dec 09 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar Room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney
Astrophysics Seminar: Axions, Inflation and the Anthropic Principle
Wed 9 Dec 09 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar Room (360)
Presented by Dr Katherine J Mack, Cambridge University
All are welcome
AIP Free Public Lecture: Quantum matter at absolute zero: Cool and fascinating
Tue 8 Dec 09 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building- No booking required
Presented by Professor Rudolf Grimm, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Enquiries: Dr Scott Wade on 9214 5839, swade@win.edu.au.
Refreshments and finger food from 17:30pm
Completion Seminar: Determining the Characteristic Mass of DLA Host Haloes from 21cm Fluctuations
Fri 4 Dec 09 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360)
Presented by Stephen Petrie
Please join us for drinks and an informal chat in the Common room after the seminar
Theory Seminar: GUT's and gauge mediation
Wed 2 Dec 09 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Professor Emilian Dudas, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
All are welcome
Completion Seminar: Radio, X-ray and Gravitational Wave Emission from Neutron Stars
Fri 27 Nov 09 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture Building
Presented by Christine Chung, Astrophysics group, School of Physics
Please join us for light refreshments and discussion in the Level 7 staffroom until 7pm. All are welcome.
Theory Web Seminar: Searching for the Origin of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC
Wed 25 Nov 09 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), School of Physics
Presented by Csaba Csaki, Cornell and KITP
The TPP group is occasionally going to replay seminars recorded at other institutions that are available for viewing on the Web. The seminar will be stopped from time-to-time to permit discussions amongst the audience members. http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/bblunch/csaki/
All welcome
Colloquium: Bioimaging and Sensing at the Nanoscale
Tue 24 Nov 09 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, David Caro Building, University of Melbourne
Presented by Fedor Jelezko, Department of Physics, Stuttgart University
CosPA 2009 Free Public Lecture: The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
Fri 20 Nov 09 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Location: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building- No booking required
Presented by Professor Sean Carroll, Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology
MARC Seminar: Micro-fabrication of diamond with ion beams
Fri 20 Nov 09 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building
Presented by Paolo Olivero from Experimental Physics Department, Centre of Excellence, “Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces” University of Torino.
Please join us after this seminar for light refreshments and discussion in the Level 7 staffroom until 7pm. All are welcome.
Free Public Lecture: Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Cosmos: Einstein's Blunder Undone
Wed 18 Nov 09 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Theatre A Elisabeth Murdoch Building - No booking required.
Presented by Prof. Robert P. Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University, 2009 Selby Fellow
Colloquium: Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology
Wed 18 Nov 09 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building * Starting time now 1pm *
Presented by Prof. Robert P. Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University, 2009 Selby Fellow
Colloquium: Variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks: theory and observations
Tue 17 Nov 09 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building
Presented by Professor Victor Flambaum
Scientia Professor, FAA, Australian Professorial Fellow
Head, Department of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics,
The University of New South Wales
Colloquium: The role of magnetic fields in the origin of planetary systems
Tue 10 Nov 09 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building
Presented by Professor Mark Wardle, Department of Physics & Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney
All are welcome.
Honours Talks
Mon 9 Nov 09 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building
2009 Honours' students discuss their Honours theses.
Francis Dillon, Experimental Particle Physics group presents: Investigations of time dependent measurements in the Bs system at Belle
and
Oscar Peterson, Optics research group presents: Analysis of synchrotron field coherence lengths.
All welcome.
Completion Seminar: Measuring Hadrons in the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
Tue 27 Oct 09 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building
Presented by Nadia Davidson, Experimental Particle Physics group, School of Physics
Completion Seminar: Applications of Adiabatic Transport in Bosonic Systems: Towards a fully analytical approach.
Tue 20 Oct 09 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Hercus Theatre, Physics Building
Presented by Masum Rab, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics group, School of Physics
Completion Seminar: Photography with a twist
Fri 16 Oct 09 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Laby Theatre Physics Building
Presented by Clare Henderson, Optics research group, School of Physics
Please join us for light refreshments and discussion in the Level 7 staffroom until 7pm. All are welcome.
Astrophysics Seminar: GIMIC: the Galaxies-Intergalactic Medium Interaction Calculation
Wed 14 Oct 09 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: Geoff Opat Seminar Room (360), Physics Building
Presented by Dr Rob Crain from the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University.
All are welcome.
GOSS
Fri 9 Oct 09 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Location: Laby Theatre, Physics Building
Presentations by Melissa Makin: The Physics of Knitting
and
Marcus Doherty: Why does NV spin-polarize?
Presentations will be followed by light refreshments and discussion in the Level 7 staffroom until 7pm. All are welcome.
Astrophysics Seminar: Milliarcsecond resolution radio "surveys" as a tool for galactic evolution studies
Fri 9 Oct 09 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 7th floor conference room, Physics Building
Presented by Adam Deller from NRAO.
All are welcome.