Past Colloquia
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31 May 2013: Fluctuation Theorems and the Dissipation Function: Insight for Thermodynamics:
Debra Bernhardt
Categories: Chemistry, Mathematics.
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16 May 2013: Chemical Dynamics Using Gaussian Wave Packets:
Terry Frankcombe
Categories: Chemistry.
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22 Apr 2013: Quantum Limits on Noise in Linear Amplifiers:
Professor Carlton Caves
Categories: Quantum Computing, Quantum Information.
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08 Apr 2013: Graphene and topological insulators: Teaching electrons new tricks:
Professor Michael Fuhrer
Categories: Nanotechnology.
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02 Apr 2013: Visual Guidance of Flight in Bees and Birds, and Applications to Robotics:
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan
Categories: Biology, Computer Science.
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18 Mar 2013: Quantum Control and Quantum Information Processing in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics:
Doctor Arkady Fedorov
Categories: Computer Science, Quantum Computing, Superconductors.
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05 Nov 2012: Star cluster formation and early evolution: the big picture:
Professor Richard de Grijs
Categories: Astrophysics.
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25 Oct 2012: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics and the coherent control of single quantum systems:
Gerard Milburn
(University of Queensland)
Categories: Nobel Prize, Optics, Quantum Computing, Ultracold atoms.
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15 Oct 2012: Towards the quantum internet of the mid-21st C: building quantum bits in silicon:
Professor David Jamieson
(University of Melbourne)
Categories: Computer Science, Nanotechnology, Quantum Computing, Quantum Information.
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11 Sep 2012: Fluorescent dendrimers for the detection of explosives:
Doctor Paul Shaw (University of Queensland)
Categories: Chemistry.
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03 Sep 2012: Atomtronics – Future Devices Beyond Electrons:
Prof. Kristian Helmerson (Monash University)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Quantum Optics, Ultracold atoms.
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27 Aug 2012: The Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider:
A/Prof. Elisabetta Barberio (University of Melbourne)
Categories: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Particle Physics.
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20 Aug 2012: Something Old and Something New – The UQ Physics Museum:
Professor Norman Heckenberg (UQ)
Categories: Education, History, Uncategorized.
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17 Aug 2012: Microwave Photons are Photons Too:
A/Professor Andrew Doherty (The University of Sydney)
Categories: Optics, Photonics, Quantum Optics.
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01 Aug 2012: Everyday Antimatter:
Dr James Sullivan (ANU)
Categories: Medicine, Nanotechnology, Particle Physics and tagged 10 August.
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18 Jun 2012: Drug design from nature: discovery and application of cyclic peptides:
Professor David Craik (University of Queensland, IMB)
Categories: Biology, Uncategorized and tagged 22 Jun.
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14 May 2012: Acoustics of the Voice: Registers and Resonances in Singing:
Professor Joe Wolfe (UNSW)
Categories: Film and TV, Music and Sound.
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17 Apr 2012: Physics of Protein Machines; exploring harvesting light & making a molecular motor:
Professor Paul Curmi (UNSW)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Nanotechnology.
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26 Mar 2012: Nonlinear Photon Circuits Transforming the New Information Age: Faster, Smaller and Smarter:
Professor Ben Eggleton (University of Sydney)
Categories: Lasers, Optics, Photonics, Quantum Computing, Quantum Information, Uncategorized.
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18 Mar 2012: Snakes in the Plane: Direct Imaging of Interstellar Turbulence:
Professor Bryan Gaensler (CAASTRO/University of Sydney)
Categories: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Fluids, Imaging, Space.
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12 Mar 2012: Correlations: What They Tell Us About Quantum Gases:
Dr Andrew Truscott (ANU)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Optics, Ultracold atoms.
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05 Mar 2012: Universal Physics in Ultracold Fermi Gases:
A/Professor Chris Vale (Swinburne University of Technology)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Ultracold atoms.
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21 Nov 2011: Atom Clocks and Time Dissemination:
Professor Carl Weiss (PTB Braunschweig, Germany)
Categories: Atom Clocks, Lasers, Time, Ultracold atoms.
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16 Nov 2011: Mechanisms of Transport for Solutes in the Skin and Liver:
Professor Michael Roberts (Therapeutics Research Centre, UQ, Princess Alexandra Hospital)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Imaging, Medicine, Optics.
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07 Nov 2011: Leading Clever People Through Change:
Dr Geoff Garrett AO (Queensland Chief Scientist)
Categories: Feature, Government and Policy.
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31 Oct 2011: Microscopy with High Spatial and Temporal Resolution:
A/Prof. Trevor Smith (University of Melbourne, CXS)
Categories: Biology, Imaging, Lasers, Optics.
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24 Oct 2011: Active Learning in First Year Physics at the University of Queensland:
A/Prof. Matthew Davis (University of Queensland)
Categories: Education.
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17 Oct 2011: 100 Years of Superconductivity:
A/Prof. Ben Powell (University of Queensland)
Categories: Condensed Matter, History, Nobel Prize.
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12 Oct 2011: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics:
Dr Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)
Categories: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Feature, History, Particle Physics, Space, Women in Physics.
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19 Sep 2011: Quantum Computational Matter:
A/Prof. Stephen Bartlett (University of Sydney)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Quantum Computing, Quantum Information.
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12 Sep 2011: Lawrence Bragg, Alice Springs, the Great War and Australia Post:
Professor Jenny Martin (Institute for Molecular Biology)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, History.
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06 Sep 2011: In Hot Water? Australia’s Maritime Resources in a Warm, Acidified Ocean.:
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (Global Change Institute)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Climate, Environment, Government and Policy.
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15 Aug 2011: The Demise of the Electron in Exotic Metals:
Professor Nigel Hussey (University of Bristol)
Categories: Condensed Matter.
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08 Aug 2011: From Apples to Atoms: Precision Measurement With Ultra-Cold Matter:
Dr Nick Robins (Australian National University)
Categories: Optics, Ultracold atoms.
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01 Aug 2011: The Business of Biodiversity: Decision Science for Conservation Problems:
Professor Hugh Possingham (The University of Queensland)
Categories: Biology, Environment, Government and Policy, Mathematics.
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19 Jul 2011: Pulp Fractions: Mathematics in the Movies:
Dr Marty Ross (University of Melbourne)
Categories: Film and TV, Mathematics.
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30 May 2011: Quantifying the Limited Role of Quantum Dynamics in Biomolecular Function:
Professor Ross McKenzie (University of Queensland)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Condensed Matter.
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23 May 2011: Communicating Climate Science & Countering Disinformation:
John Cook (Skeptical Science)
Categories: Climate, Government and Policy.
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16 May 2011: Discover the Square Kilometre Array: A Global Science Project in Our Backyard:
Dr. Lisa Harvey-Smith (CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science)
Categories: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Engineering, General Relativity, Space.
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09 May 2011: Sun, Power, Energy: Opportunities and Perspectives for a Solar Powered Australia:
Professor Paul Meredith (University of Queensland)
Categories: Chemistry, Climate, Condensed Matter, Energy, Government and Policy, Photonics.
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23 Apr 2011: Physics, Power and Climate Change:
Professor David Jamieson (University of Melbourne)
Categories: Climate, Energy, Government and Policy.
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04 Apr 2011: Economists, Uncertainty and Climate Change:
Professor John Quiggin (School of Economics, UQ)
Categories: Climate, Energy, Government and Policy.
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28 Mar 2011: Quantum Limits on Estimating a Classical Force:
Professor Carlton M. Caves (University of New Mexico)
Categories: General Relativity, Optics, Quantum Information.
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19 Mar 2011: 100 Candles for UQ Physics:
Professor John Mainstone (University of Queensland)
Categories: Feature, Government and Policy, History.
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05 Mar 2011: New View on Quantum Gravity and the Origin of the Universe:
Professor Bei-Lok Hu (University of Maryland)
Categories: Cosmology, General Relativity, Unified Theories.
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28 Feb 2011: The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics: Graphene and life on the Dirac Cone:
Dr Tony Wright (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart)
Categories: Astrophysics, Chemistry, Condensed Matter, History, Nanotechnology.
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17 Feb 2011: The James Webb Space Telescope:
Dr Jonathan P. Gardner (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
Categories: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Engineering, Feature, Optics, Space.
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10 Feb 2011: Gravity: An Emergent Phenomenon:
*Special Time and Venue*
Professor Thanu Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune University)
Categories: Cosmology, General Relativity.
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15 Nov 2010: Indirect Detection of Dark Matter:
Dr Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)
Categories: Astrophysics, Particle Physics.
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30 Oct 2010: Making and Measuring Nanodiamonds for Quantum and Biological Science:
A/Prof. James Rabeau (Macquarie University)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Nanotechnology.
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25 Oct 2010: Life After Transistors: Where to for Electronics Now?:
A/Prof. Adam Micolich (University of New South Wales)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Electronics, Engineering.
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18 Oct 2010: The Future of Physics Teaching:
Dr Anton Rayner (School of Mathematics and Physics, UQ)
Categories: Education.
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11 Oct 2010: Space Travel & Muscle Wasting: What can we learn from Australia’s desert frogs?:
Professor Craig Franklin (School of Biological Sciences, UQ)
Categories: Biology, Physiology, Space.
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29 Sep 2010: 50 Years of Lasers and a Brilliant Future:
Professor Hans Bachor (ANU)
Categories: Feature, Optics, Photonics.
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20 Sep 2010: Spin, Charge, and Orbital Fluctuations in Transition Metal Oxides:
A/Prof. Clemens Ulrich (ANSTO, UNSW)
Categories: Condensed Matter.
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06 Sep 2010: Surprises from Disorder and Frustration:
Prof. Robert Stamps (University of Western Australia)
Categories: Condensed Matter.
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30 Aug 2010: Imperfect Creation:
Prof. Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth College)
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Categories: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Feature.
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23 Aug 2010: The Perfect Amplifier – but only sometimes..:
Professor Tim Ralph (UQ)
Categories: Computer Science, Optics, Quantum Information.
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16 Aug 2010: Metaphor in Intellectual Investigation:
Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex (UQ, Centre for Educational Innovation and Technology)
Categories: Biology, Feature, Languages and Linguistics.
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09 Aug 2010: Turbulent Times in Quantum Physics:
A/Prof. Brian Anderson (University of Arizona)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Fluids, Optics, Ultracold atoms.
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04 Aug 2010: WIP Lecture: Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider:
WIP Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Winstanley (University of Manchester)
Categories: Astrophysics, Feature, Particle Physics, Women in Physics.
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02 Aug 2010: Atom-mediated photon-photon interactions by Cavity QED:
Dr Barak Dayan (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Categories: Optics, Quantum Information.
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19 Jul 2010: Fractality and Topology of Light’s Darkness:
Prof. Miles Padgett (University of Glasgow)
Categories: Mathematics, Optics, Photonics.
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13 Jul 2010: Single Molecule Biophysics with a Twist:
Prof. Michelle Wang (Cornell University)
Categories: Biology, Optics.
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01 Jun 2010: The Ancient Hittites. Their Archaeology and History:
Prof. Trevor Bryce (UQ)
Categories: Feature, History.
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24 May 2010: Photoactive Oxide Nanomaterials for Clean Water and Energy:
Professor Max Lu (ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, UQ)
Categories: Uncategorized.
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18 May 2010: The Solar Biofuels Consortium: Towards high efficiency microalgal biofuel systems:
A/Prof. Ben Hankamer (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Energy.
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04 May 2010: Splitting the Electron:
Prof. Andy Schofield (University of Birmingham)
Categories: Condensed Matter.
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27 Apr 2010: The Essential Nonlinearity of Musical Instruments:
Prof. Neville Fletcher (Australian National University)
Categories: Music and Sound.
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19 Apr 2010: The Scientist in the Kitchen: How Science is Changing How We Cook:
Dr Joel Gilmore (Roam Consulting)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Food Science.
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28 Mar 2010: From Physics to the UN Copenhagen Meeting:
Dr Jenny Riesz (Roam Consulting)
Categories: Energy, Feature, Government and Policy.
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24 Mar 2010: Charge Transport and Recombination in Organic Photovoltaic Devices:
A/Prof Almantas Pivrikas (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Electronics.
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19 Mar 2010: Wiring the Brain: Computational Mechanisms for the Development of Neural Connections:
Prof Geoffrey Goodhill (Queensland Brain Institute)
Categories: Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience.
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08 Mar 2010: Simulating the Evolution of Star Clusters on High-End Graphics Cards:
Dr Holger Baumgardt (University of Bonn / Queensland)
Categories: Astrophysics, Computer Science.
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01 Mar 2010: What Bohr Could Have Told Einstein If He Knew About Bell:
Dr Eric Cavalcanti (Griffith University)
Categories: Quantum Information.
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04 Dec 2009: The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Cosmology to Medicine:
Prof John Clarke (Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley & Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Categories: Condensed Matter, Medicine.
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06 Nov 2009: Big Toys – Thinking for Themselves:
Dr Ben Upcroft (University of Queensland)
Categories: Engineering, Industry.
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30 Oct 2009: 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics:
Dr Andrew Doherty (University of Queensland)
Categories: Feature, Optics.
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23 Oct 2009: Hardware and software approaches to physically robust quantum computers:
Dr Sean Barrett (Macquarie University)
Categories: Computer Science, Quantum Information.
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16 Oct 2009: Age-related changes in physicochemical properties of retinal pigment epithelium melanin:
Professor Tadeusz Sarna (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Photonics.
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25 Sep 2009: Slow Galaxy Growth within Rapidly Growing Dark Matter Halos:
Dr Michael Brown (Monash University)
Categories: Astrophysics.
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18 Sep 2009: Life, gravity and the second law of thermodynamics:
Professor Charles Lineweaver (ANU)
Categories: Astrophysics, Biology.
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11 Sep 2009: Nonlinear dynamic phase contrast microscopy for microfluidic and molecular biology applications:
Professor Cornelia Denz (Institut für Angewandte Physik and Center for Nonlinear Sciences,Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)
Categories: Biology, Industry, Medicine, Optics.
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04 Sep 2009: Universal ratios in strongly correlated materials:
Dr Ben Powell (University of Queensland)
Categories: Condensed Matter.
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28 Aug 2009: Plastic optoelectronics: why shape matters:
Professor Paul Burn (University of Queensland)
Categories: Chemistry, Electronics, Optics, Photonics.
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21 Aug 2009: Galileo’s invention of the astronomical telescope and his remarkable discoveries: moons, stars and a new planet:
Professor David Jamieson (University of Melbourne)
Categories: History.
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14 Aug 2009: Quantum information processing: where quanta meet bits:
A/Professor Kae Nemoto (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Categories: Quantum Information.