What's On at UWA

The interplay of electron-electron interactions and spin-orbit coupling has been the subject of much debate recently. On the one hand, spin-orbit coupling is at the heart of novel materials such as topological insulators and superconductors as well as Dirac and Weyl semimetals. On the other hand (...)

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UWA encourages its researchers to be proactive and plan early for applications to competitive grant schemes. With the move to continuous rounds of the ARC Linkage program from the 1st July, it is more important than ever to plan ahead! To help you in this regard, the UWA Research Development team (...)

The quest for gravitational waves began with Einstein’s prediction exactly 100 years ago. The first experimental search began in 1960. From 1970 onwards the gravitational wave spectrum was mapped out theoretically. Misunderstandings and false claims of detection have created scepticism and (...)

The quest for gravitational waves began with Einstein’s prediction exactly 100 years ago. The first experimental search began in 1960. From 1970 onwards the gravitational wave spectrum was mapped out theoretically. Misunderstandings and false claims of detection have created scepticism and (...)

For an optical lattice clock the atoms need to be cooled to as low a temperature as possible to increase transfer rates to the lattice. With 171-Yb we have found an effective means of cooling 171-Yb atoms to 20 micro-K by use of a newly found resonance. The resonance was first identified here (...)

X-ray Diffraction is a very useful technique for characterisation of various materials in different ways. With the recent advancement in hardware and software technology, high end X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Scattering experiments usually done on Synchrotron can be performed at lab scale even (...)

Searches for generic transient ("burst") gravitational waves identified the presence of the gravitational wave signal, GW150914, within three minutes of the data acquisition. Burst gravitational wave searches identify time-correlated transients in multiple detectors with minimal (...)

Title: Galois and his groups

Abstract: When Galois invented groups they were very different from the structures taught and learned and loved in undergraduate courses at UWA and other modern universities. My purpose in this lecture will be to explain the differences and calibrate (...)

Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.

The ten young scientists will describe their scientific discoveries in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.

One hundred early-caree (...)

Abstract: The discovery of the first gravitational waves (GW150914) from a binary black hole merger initiated the era of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. An electromagnetic signal accompanying a GW signal could significantly enhance the information that can be obtained from such events. In the (...)

The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)WA Branch invites you to share and enjoy the fellowship of the health and medical research community at our annual gala dinner to celebrate ASMR medical research week (MRW®)

Friday 10th June – 6:30pm for 7pm start Ballroom - Duxton (...)

High-energy X-ray beams have become the principal tool for radiation oncology in Australia and are used in treatment of almost half of all cancer patients. Protons and heavy ions offer an alternative with particularly appealing characteristics for the treatment of specific cancer types and in (...)

Hermann Nicolai has been a Director of the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (also known as the Albert Einstein Institute) since 1997, and is Head of the Division of Quantum Gravity and Unified Theories. Professor Nicolai is an internationally renowned expert in quantum (...)

This workshop will outline how CERI can help researchers develop entrepreneurial skills and assist them through the innovation process. CERI is a not-for-profit organisation based in Nedlands.

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has a range of training sessions coming up in July. If you are interested in learning how to apply advanced computing to solve research problems, please register for the training sessions below:

11-13 July: introductory and Intermediate Supercomputing

Over the past 20 years, focused ion bean (FIB) and SEM/FIB instrumentation has transformed scientists' ability to investigate materials to develop new sample preparation methods to become the industry standard and 'work-horse' for site-specific cross-section analysis, S/TEM sample preparation (cross (...)

If you’re an UWA’s researcher and your computational science, big data or visualisation work is limited by the computational resources, come and talk to the specialists from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre at the upcoming Pawsey Clinic. Find out how you may benefit from the Pawsey resources (...)

Abstract: I will start by providing an introduction to the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide and then examine in detail one of the spectroscopic technologies created within my research group to demonstrate an example of the benefits of the trans-disci (...)

Abstract: The talk will cover an intriguing yet powerful way of accelerating and trapping molecular hydrogen in a self-organized extremely deep potential well. In this new Lamb-Dicke regime of stimulated-Raman-scattering, hydrogen molecules inside a photonic bandgap hollow core fibre are deeply-tra (...)