What's On at UWA

Virtually all branches of science have profited from the vast increase in computational power in recent decades. Yet, given that scientists are rarely trained as programmers, there is often a substantial barrier to harnessing this power and it is easy to lose track of results or get lost in data (...)

During the past decade, computational chemistry has had an increasingly important impact on almost all branches of chemistry as a new approach for solving chemical problems at the molecular level and in obtaining information that is not accessible by experiment (e.g. in investigations involving (...)

A public lecture by Professor Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.

Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/theisen Experimental physics explores natural phenomena from the smallest to the largest length scales, covering (...)

A Preclinical Imaging Workshop on radiopharmaceutical, MRI & optical imaging is being held in the FJ Clarke Lecture Theatre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Sunday November 3, 9 am – 3 pm.

This Workshop is aimed at workers with a strong interest in, but possibly limited (...)

3D seismic is probably the most significant dataset we have to make decisions in offshore oil and gas exploration and development. Optimising the quality, cost and delivery time of this data is a challenging problem that could unlock billions of dollars in value. Each year the industry spends US$10 (...)

Many if not all galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBH). We study their growth and evolution by tidal accretion of stars and the presence of a central gas disk, and the motion of central SMBH during and after a galaxy merger. Dynamical Friction and superelastic three-body scatterings with (...)

In 1950’s Fermi, motivated by fundamental questions of statistical mechanics, started a numerical experiment in collaboration with Pasta and Ulam to test the ergodic properties of nonlinear dynamical systems. The chosen so-called FPU system was a one dimensional chain of N nonlinear coupled (...)

Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) are widely studied as a problem in algebraic combinatorics by mathematicians, as a problem in algorithm design by computer scientists, as a model of phase transitions by mathematical physicists and as a model of polymers in dilute solution by chemists.

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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an exciting class of porous materials consisting in metal ions or clusters linked by organic molecules.Due to their variability and applications they have received great attention during the last few decades.

HKUST-1 (Cu3(BTC)2, BTC=1,3,5-benzenetricar (...)

Preceding W. L. Bragg’s deduction in 1914 [1] about the room-temperature atomic configuration of the calcite form of calcium carbonate CaCO3 (Phase I), H. E. Boeke in 1912 [2] found a reversible phase transition at around 1248 K. Since then, many experiments have been undertaken to determine the (...)

This astronomy festival of epic proportions will be an engaging celebration of Australian science. As well as optical and radio telescopes observing throughout the day and night, Astrofest will feature a myriad of interesting, engaging and exciting indoor and outdoor activities for the whole family (...)

A lecture by Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Australian Academy of Science 2014 Selby Fellow.

Biological organisms have rather limited resources they can use to build the materials they are made of. Given these limitations, the range of (...)

Knowledge about the morphology and chemical composition of heterogeneous materials on a sub-micrometer scale is crucial for the development of new material properties for highly specified applications. However, each analytical measuring technique has limitations, which may be overcome by their (...)

The rapid development of computational resources has resulted in enormous improvements in the accuracy of numerical calculations of atomic collision processes. In this talk I will concentrate on recent advances in the computational treatment of charged-particle and intense short-pulse laser (...)

A public lecture by Jeremy O’Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol.

The impact of quantum technology will be profound and far-reaching: secure communication networks for consumers, corporations and government; precision sensors for biomedical (...)

Defects are common in many materials and some were regarded as detrimental. Recently with the advent of ultra-sensitive detectors, super-resolution microscopy advanced methodologies, optical single spin magnetic resonance and advanced material synthesis and doping, some of conventional (...)

I report development of acoustic resonators that would form the heart of a 3-mode opto-acoustic parametric amplifier, and present their performance. The small resonators are designed to form an add-on element to current existing technologies in space-mining, finding water resources km underground (...)

Because conventional perpendicular recording is now reaching its useful limits, the hard drive industry is heavily invested in several alternative recording technologies. The majority of these configurations (such as heat-assisted magnetic recording, microwave-assisted magnetic recording, and bit- (...)

Molecular electronics is now considered a viable future technology base for the enhancement of existing silicon-based microelectronics. By incorporating electronically active molecular units into solid-state platforms, ‘hybrid’ systems with higher component density, lower energy demand, lower (...)

Periodically nanopatterned thin-film ferromagnets have been shown to form magnonic grating couplers [1] and magnonic crystals (MCs) [2], i.e., artificial crystals exhibiting tailored band structures for spin waves (magnons). In the GHz frequency regime, spin waves (SWs) are excited with wave (...)