Physics colloquium

Speaker: Professor Ross McKenzie
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Jennifer MacLeod
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology

Speaker: Helmut Jerjen
Affiliation: The Australian National University

Abstract:
The current structure formation model of Lambda Cold Dark Matter has been successful in explaining observational results mainly from galaxy redshift surveys on large cosmological scales. That has left us wanting more from LCDM, asking deeper questions, and expecting answers. After a brief overview about the achievements in 20th century cosmology, I will introduce the phenomenon of dwarf galaxies, an optical elusive type of galaxies dominated by non-baryonic dark matter only observable in the local universe. They are natural laboratories for confirming predictions from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation on galaxy scales. However, on those scales the standard cold dark matter paradigm encounters several challenges. I review the “missing satellite problem”, explain some of the other discrepancies with near-field observations and discuss where we stand exploring the “satellite plane problem”, which we recently started to thoroughly study in the dark matter picture.

Speaker: Rossana Ruggeri
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology

Speaker: Prof. Chris Allton
Affiliation: Swansea University, UK.

Speaker: Carolyn Wood
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Simine Vazire
Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Speaker: Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Affiliation: University of New Hampshire

Speaker: Arghavan Savafi-Naini
Affiliation: University of Amsterdam

Speaker: Will Handley
Affiliation: Cambridge University

Speaker: Professor Tamara Davis
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Assistant Professor Alex Klotz
Affiliation: California State University

Dr Simon Foreman
Arizona State University (USA)

Professor Andrew Truscott
Australian National University (Canberra)

Dr David Cortie
Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

Judy-Anne Osborne: CARMA (and previously Monash)
Amelia Dickenson-Jones: St John's College Woodlawn

Professor Arnan Mitchell
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Dr Oliver Bellwood
University of Queensland

Associate Professor Tony Travouillon
Australian National University (Canberra)

Speaker: Dr Carla Verdi
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Associate Professor Erik Streed
Affiliation: Griffith University

Speaker: Dr Natalia Oreshkina
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg

Speaker: Dr Cullan Howlett
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Professor Mikael Käll
Affiliation: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Speaker: Professor Jelena Vuckovic
Affiliation: Stanford University

Speaker: Professor Igor Litvinyuk
Affiliation: Griffith University

Speaker: Dr Peter Evans
Affiliation: University of Queensland, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Speaker: Howard Wiseman
Affiliation: Griffith University

Speaker: Professor Gerard Milburn
Affiliation: University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics

Speaker: Associate Professor Duane Hamacher
Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Speaker: Dr Liz Bridge
Affiliation: Quantum Brilliance

Speaker: Associate Professor Paul Lasky
Affiliation: Monash University

Speaker: Dr Chris Baker
Affiliation: University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics

Speaker: Dr Anna Wang
Affiliation: University of NSW, Sydney

Speaker: Professor Ray Volkas
Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Speaker: Dr Ben Roberts
Affiliation: University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics

Speaker: Associate Professor Simon Friederich
Affiliation: University of Groningen

Speaker: Professor Matthew Davis
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Professor Megan O'Mara
Affiliation: Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland

Speaker: Alfred Castro Ginard
Affiliation: Leiden Observatory, Leiden University

Speaker: Dr Jacinda Ginges
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Professor Sue Coppersmith
Affiliation: University of New South Wales

Speaker: Dr Gerardo Paz Silva
Affiliation: Griffith University

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

Speaker: Dr Michele Bannister
Affiliation: University of Canterbury

Speaker: Professor Peter Tuthill
Affiliation: University of Sydney

Speaker: Dr Jessie Christiansen
Affiliation: Caltech

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

Professor Ania Bleszynski Jayich
University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr Kirrily Rule
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

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

Dr Jacinda Ginges
University of Queensland

Speaker: Professor Agustin Schiffrin
Affiliation: Monash University

Speaker: Professor Tim Ralph
Affiliation: University of Queensland

Speaker: Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic
Affiliation: Curtin University

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

Speaker: Professor Franky So
Affiliation: North Carolina University

Speaker: Professor Nicole Bell
Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Professor Rob Wittenmyer
University of Southern Queensland

Associate Professor Katarina Miljkovic
Curtin University

Emeritus Professor Ross McKenzie and Dr Henry Nourse
University of Queensland

Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli
University of Wollongong

Associate Professor Holger Baumgardt and Professor Tim Ralph
University of Queensland

Professor Jennifer MacLeod
Queensland University of Technology

Professor David Snoke
University of Pittsburgh, USA

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

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)

Professor Aidan Byrne, UQ Provost