Colloquia 2009 at School of Physics UNSW

School Colloquia

Colloquia 2009

Date	Title	Speaker
Tue. March 10th	Atomic frequency standards and clocks: Recent developments and applications to fundamental physics	Dr Wayne Itano, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S.A.
Tue. March 17th	Nanoscale energy convertors: From molecular motors to nanothermoelectrics	Prof. Heiner Linke, University of Oregon, U.S.A.
Tue. April 7th	From the Bomb to a Global Parliament	Prof. Chris Hamer, UNSW
Fri. April 24th *	The Spin Supersolid Phase	Dr Pinaki Sengupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Mon. April 27th *	Hybrid Normal-Superconducting Systems Comprising Interacting Quantum Dots	Dr Michele Governale, Universitat Duisberg-Essen, Germany
Fri. May 1st *	Separating the Universal from the Particular in Strongly Correlated Metals	Dr Ben Powell, University of Queensland
Mon. May 4th *	Superconductivity at the dawn of the iron age: Pairing fluctuations and competing orders	Dr Ilya Eremin, MPI fur Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany
Wed. May 13th	Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis and Parkes Ammonia Observations of Massive Star Formation Regions	Dr Tracey Hill, University of Exeter, U.K.
Tue. June 2nd	Snakes in the Plane: High-mass Star Formation in Filamentary Infrared Dark Clouds	Prof. James Jackson, Boston University, U.S.A.
Tue. June 9th	Antimatter in Astrophysics	Dr Simon Ellis, University of Sydney
Tue. June 16th	Heat Stress, Humidity and Climate Change	Prof. Steven Sherwood, UNSW
Tue. June 23rd	Cooling acoustic oscillators and prospects for measuring below the quantum limit	Prof. Michael Tobar, Univ. of W.A.
Tue. July 7th	Quantum standard for electric current - development of a hybrid turnstile	Prof. Jukka Pekola, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tue. August 11th	Quantum Mechanics and the Origin of Matter	Marco Drewes, DESY Hamburg, Germany
Wed. August 25th	The Vibratory World of Termites	Dr. Ra Inta, Centre for Gravitational Physics, ANU
Tue. 8 September	Observing variations in coupling constants and fundamental mass ratios	Dr Julian Berengut, UNSW
Tue. 22 September	The Violin: some physics and some non-physics	John McLennan, UNSW
Tue. 6 October	Precision Oscillator, Clocks and Interferometers with Applications to Space, Industry and Fundamental Physics	Prof Michael Tobar, UWA
Thu. 22 October	Transport Through a Single Dopant Atom in a Nano MOSFET	Prof Sven Rogge, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Tue. 27 October	ELT: the Emperor's Large Telescope?	Dr Peter Tuthill, University of Sydney
Tue. 10 November	Precision Optical Spectroscopy in Astrophysics	Dr Michael Murphy, Swinburne University of Technology
Thu. 19 November	Quantum Structures for Infrared Detection	Dr Sarath Gunapala, NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thu. 26 November	Excitations with Fractional Charges in Solids	Prof Piter Fulde, Asia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics, Korea
Tue. 1 December	Nuclear Energy Without Radioactive Radiation	Prof Heinrich Hora, Department of Theoretical Physics, UNSW

Note: Both postgraduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend colloquia if they are interested, they are not closed to staff only.

* Indicates candidates for School's new condensed matter theory position.

Previous Years' Colloquia

For further information contact Dr. Julian Berengut or Dr. Peter Reece