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Historical 2008 page. The 2009 research bite page is here .

Talks are 15 min with 5 min questions, starting 11 am sharp Thursdays in the Physics Tea Room.
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HISTORICAL List of Talks from 2008

THURSDAY DATE SPEAKER TALK TITLE
April 3, 2008 Peter Tuthill The Death Star: Are we all doomed?
April 10, 2008 Stephen Bartlett Quantum Limited Measurements
Estimating a phase using recycled kittens
April 17, 2008 Greg Madsen How to Double the Size of the Galaxy
in an Afternoon
April 24, 2008 Brendon Brewer The Reverend Bayes first XI:
A Bayesian approach to Cricket
May 1, 2008 Lisa Harvey-Smith Glowing Gas Giant Guzzles Grog
May 8, 2008 Bryan Gaensler
Marcela Bilek
Report from the
Australia 2020 Summit
May 15, 2008 Serdar Kuyucak Transporters: the other half of the story
May 22, 2008 Ross McPhedran An absorbing topic
May 29, 2008 No Talk SUSI Festival
June 5, 2008 Andrew Hopkins -
June 12, 2008 Oliver Warschkow A tale of two elements
June 19, 2008 No Talk Cancellation
June 26, 2008 No Talk Cancellation
July 3, 2008 Matt Francis Does Space Expand?
July 10, 2008 No Talk Cancellation
July 17, 2008 Bruce Yabsley It's the end of the world as we know it
(and I feel fine)
July 24, 2008 No Talk Cancellation
July 31, 2008 Dick Morrow Electric Field Modification of Protein Adsorption:
Surface Plasmon Resonance and Ellipsometry
August 7, 2008 Alex Samarian Life After Death in a Complex Plasma
August 14, 2008 Mike Wheatland Chaos in the Corridor:
The School of Physics Double Pendulum
August 21, 2008 Theo ten Brummelaar Sydney ROCS!
August 28, 2008 Shami Chatterjee Snap, Crackle, Pop: The Variable Radio Universe
and the Murchison Widefield Array
September 4, 2008 Ben Eggleton Supercontinuum generation in
ultrahigh nonlinearity optical nanowires
September 11, 2008 Kevin, Bruce and Aldo LHC Opening party / panel discussion
September 18, 2008 Tim Bedding Oscillate, Oscillate, Little Star
Probing stellar interiors using asteroseismology
September 25, 2008 David Reilly Do birds have spin qubits in their brains?
October 2, 2008 Andrew Phillips Modeling the human sleep cycle
October 9, 2008 Sergey Vladimirov Self-organization in a complex plasma:
a life from dust?
October 16, 2008 No talk Cancellation
October 23, 2008 David McKenzie Eliminating Cerenkov radiation
from Scintillation Dosimetery
October 30, 2008 Cenk Kocer Evacuated Glazing; a smashing good time!
November 6, 2008 No Talk cancellation
November 13, 2008 Zdenka Kuncic Hot Space
November 20, 2008 Stephen Bosi Hunting for artefacts: Indiana Jones and the Jelly Pig
November 27, 2008 No Talk cancellation
December 4, 2008 No Talk AIP congress
December 11, 2008 Rod Cross The Gordon Wood trial: So, do you think he did it?
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