Annual Report 2009.pdf - School of Physics - University of Melbourne

esearch seminar seriesSpeakers and visitors affiliated with the Schoolgave the following colloquia and seminars during2008. Unless indicated elsewhere, the lectures tookplace in the Laby or Hercus Theatres.COLLOQUIA9-FebDr Troy PorterSanta Cruz Institute for ParticlePhysics, University of California, SantaCruzUSA First 6 months of the Fermi/LAT Mission10-MarProfessor Kameshwar WaliDepartment of Physics, SyracuseUniversity, USASatyendra Nath Bose (1894- 1974) and SubrahmanyanChandrasekhar (1910 – 1995)17-MarProfessor Paul MidgleyDepartment of Materials Science andMetallurgy, University of Cambridge,UK3D Nanoscale Imaging with Electron Tomography24-MarDr Martain WhiteDepartment of Physics, University ofCambridge, UKMeasuring SUSY dark matters at ATLAS31-MarProfessor Mark ErikssonDepartment of Physics, University ofWisconsin-Madison, UKSilicon artificial atoms and nanomembranes7-AprDr Peter D DrummondARC Centre for Quantum-AtomOptics and Centre for Atom Opticsand Ultrafast Spectroscopy,Swinburne University of TechnologyThe world of the ultracold has made astonishingadvances over the last decade21-AprProfessor Igor BrayDepartment of Applied Physics,Faculty of Science and Engineering,Curtain University of TechnologyRecent progress in atom collision theory28-AprProfessor Feng WangCentre for Molecular Simulation,Swinburne University of TechnologySimulating Electron Spectroscopy for BiologicalMolecules5-MayProfessor John CloseDepartment of Quantum Science, TheAustralian National UniversityBose Einstein Condensates the Atom Laser andPrecision Measurement26-MayProfessor John LoveResearch School of Physical Sciencesand Engineering, The AustralianNational UniversityOptical Fibres- Yesterday Today & Tomorrow23-JunProfessor Kenneth BaldwinDeputy Director of the ARC Centre ofExcellence for Quantum-Atom Optics,The Australian National UniversityMetastable helium: atom optics and precisionmeasurement28-JulProf Simon RingerDirector, Australian Key Centrefor Microscopy & Microanalysis,University of SydneyAtomic Clustering in Multi-Component Alloys- NewTransformation Pathways and New Property-Performance Space4-AugProfessor Andrea R GersonApplied Centre for Structural andSynchrotron Science, University ofSouth AustraliaSynchrotron micro-analytical case studies fromtoenails to dirt to steel11-AugDr Chris HallMonash Centre for SynchrotronScience, Synchrotron ComputedTomography Applied to Cell Tracking18-AugProfessor StephenBuckmanResearch Director, AustralianResearch Council Centre forAntimatter-Matter Studies,Positron Interactions with Atoms Molecules andMaterials20www.physics.unimelb.edu.au