Colloquia 2012 at School of Physics UNSW

School Colloquia

Colloquia 2012

Date	Title	Speaker
3-4pm Mon 23 January	Embedding Astronomical Computer Models into Principled Statistical Analyses	Prof. David van Dyk, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
3-4pm Tue 31 January	Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Variation of Fundamental Constants	Prof. Vladimir Dmitriev, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and Novosibirsk State University, Russia
3-4pm Thu 9 February	Interacting topological insulators out of equilibrium	Prof. Dimitrie Culcer, University of Science and Technology of China, China
3-4pm Tue 14 February	Fractal vision: using retinal implants to restore vision to the blind	Prof. Richard P. Taylor, University of Oregon, USA
3-4pm Wed 15 February	The smallest particles and the largest scales - neutrino mass constraints from cosmology	Dr. Signe Riemer-Sorenson, University of Queensland
3-4pm Tue 28 February	Multidimensional Spectroscopy for Revealing Femtosecond Dynamics in Complex Condensed Matter Systems	Dr. Jeff A. Davis, Swinburne University of Technology
3-4pm Tue 6 March	Ge/SiGe multi quantum wells: towards a Si-based quantum cascade laser	Prof. Giovanni Capellini, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
3-4pm Thu 8 March	RNA Design and abusing dynamics simulations	Prof. Andrew Torda, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Germany
3-4pm Fri 27 July	Engineering Research for Economic Growth	Prof. Michael J. Kelly, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, Cambridge University
3-4pm Thu 7 August	Has the Higgs Boson been discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider?	Dr. Antonio Limosani, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
4-5pm Tue 14 August	Modern Nuclear Structure Theory for Astrophysics	Prof. Hans Feldmeier, Theoretical Physics, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany
3-4pm Tue 28 August	Acoustics of the Voice: Registers and Resonances in Singing	Prof. Joe Wolfe, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
3-4pm Tue 25 September	Testing Astronomical Orientations in Aboriginal Archaeological Sites	Dr. Duane Hamacher, Nura Gili Institute, University of New South Wales
3-4pm Tue 2 October	Search for the Electron EDM	Prof. Ed Hinds, Centre for Cold Matter, Imperial College London
3-4pm Thu 1 November	The visit of Paul Dirac to UNSW in 1975: Recollections	Emeritus Prof. Heinrich Hora, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
3-4pm Tue 20 November	Spin and Charge Transport in Reduced Dimensions: An Experimental Approach	Dr Justin Wells, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
3-4pm Wed 21 November	Development of Physics Education, Research & Outreach Practices in Nepal	Suresh Bhattarai, Department of Physics, St. Xavier's College, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal
UPCOMING COLLOQUIA APPEAR BELOW
3-4pm Tue 4 December	Nanoscale Insights into Ion-Beam Cancer Therapy: Multiscale Approach	Prof. Andrey Solov'yov, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3-4pm Thur 13 December	Advancements in Astrometry: From Brown Dwarfs to Giant Exoplanet Analogs	Dr. Jacqueline Faherty, Universidad de Chile, Cerro Calan, Chile

Note: Postgraduate and undergraduate students are most welcome to attend colloquia.

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