Physics colloquium

The Physics Colloquium series hosts a range of speakers from Australia and abroad. The series explores a variety of topics and everyone is welcome to come along. The seminars are open so there is no need to register your attendance.

Previous recorded Physics Colloquia.

Contacts

Ben Roberts

b.roberts@uq.edu.au

Rossana Ruggeri

r.ruggeri@uq.edu.au

Upcoming sessions
Past sessions

Doing 21st Century Astronomy with 19th Century Technology - Interferometry with the James Webb Space Telescope

27 March 2023 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Peter Tuthill
Affiliation: University of Sydney

Space sustainability: from dark skies to envisioning a future for space launches

27 March 2023 2:00pm–3:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Dr Michele Bannister
Affiliation: University of Canterbury

Organic Electronic Devices: Bioelectronics and Biosensors

6 April 2023 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Associate Professor Soniya Yambem
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology

Towards an Exoplanets Demographics Ladder: The Emerging Picture of Planet Populations

24 March 2023 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Dr Jessie Christiansen
Affiliation: Caltech

Preparing for Low Surface Brightness Astronomy with the Rubin Observatory

23 March 2023 1:00pm–2:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Sarah Brough
Affiliation: The University of New South Wales

Quantum sensing and imaging with diamond spins

9 December 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Professor Ania Bleszynski Jayich
University of California, Santa Barbara

A brief history of low dimensional magnetism: How neutron scattering can reveal novel magnetic states in these exotic materials.

3 November 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Dr Kirrily Rule
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Powering net zero

27 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Dr Clare Giacomantonio
EY Oceania Power and Utilities, Strategy and Transactions Partner

The atom as a laboratory for new physics searches

Cancelled

20 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Dr Jacinda Ginges
University of Queensland

2D Correlated-Electron Metal-Organic Nanomaterials

13 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Agustin Schiffrin
Affiliation: Monash University

Can you measure the trajectories of photons?

6 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Tim Ralph
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Impacts! Rocks from space colliding with planets

30 September 2022 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic
Affiliation: Curtin University

Beyond Phosphine on Venus: How do we know if we have found aliens?

15 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Dr Laura McKemmish
Affiliation: University of NSW, Sydney

Perovskite Photonics: From Light Emission, Lasing to Superfluorescence

8 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Franky So
Affiliation: North Carolina University

Searching for Dark Matter Scattering, on Earth and in the Stars

31 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Nicole Bell
Affiliation: University of Melbourne

USQ's Mount Kent Observatory: Australia's newest exoplanet machine

18 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Professor Rob Wittenmyer
University of Southern Queensland

Impacts! Rocks from space colliding with planets

Cancelled

19 July 2022 2:00pm–3:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic
Curtin University

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics - complex systems and predicting global warming

4 November 2021 2:00pm–3:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Emeritus Professor Ross McKenzie and Dr Henry Nourse
University of Queensland

Radiation protection of astronauts in human missions to Mars: simulation and reality

27 May 2021 2:00pm–3:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli
University of Wollongong

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics - Black Holes!

30 October 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt and Professor Tim Ralph
University of Queensland

Bottom-up design of materials using organic building blocks

6 March 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Professor Jennifer MacLeod
Queensland University of Technology

Superfluids of light

21 February 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Professor David Snoke
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Exploring the Precision Frontier with Belle II

14 February 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Professor Markus Prim
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and KEK (high energy accelerator research organisation, Tsukuba, Japan)

Challenges in particle physics and cosmology

30 January 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

in Physics colloquium

Professor Ignatios Antoniadis
Le Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies (LPTHE), Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris (France) and Albert Einstein Centre, Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), University of Bern (Switzerland)