Faculty of Science

Faculty of Science

2008 Research Conference

The new Faculty of Science will be holding a Research Conference for all Faculty of Science staff and postgraduate students on the 15th of July. This will be the first Faculty of Science event, bringing together Departments and Research Centres from ICS and ELS together with Statistics and CISAB to find out about the research being undertaken within the new Faculty. The aim of this conference is for us to get to know each other and learn about the diverse research undertaken within the Faculty.

The format of the day long conference will be a series of short invited talks in the morning (Mason Theatre) followed by a Poster session in the afternoon (E7B courtyard). The aim of the morning talks is to provide an overview of the major research areas of the Faculty of Science, with more details provided in the afternoon poster session where it is anticipated that student research posters representing the full range of Science Faculty research will be presented.

All staff and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend. The number of poster boards is limited to approximately 100 posters for a Faculty with approximately 500 postgraduate research students. Each research area will be invited to nominate a given number of student posters for presentation at the conference. Note that students do not need to produce a new poster specifically for this event. A poster which has already been presented at a conference (eg ICS LUCID posters) will be suitable for the Faculty Conference. A book of poster abstracts will be provided to all attendees

Conference Handbook

The 2008 research conference handbook is available here.

Time

Research Area

Presenter

9:00

Welcome

Prof. Steve Thurgate, Dean

9:10

Ecology & Evolution CORE

Prof. Mark Westoby

9:20

Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour (CORE)

A/Prof. Chris Evans

9:30

Lasers and Photonics (CORE)

Prof. Brian Orr

9:40

Climate Risk (CORE)

A/Prof. Ian Goodwin*

9:50

Geography: Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (CORE)

Prof. Robert Fagan

10:00

Academic Restructure – Impact on Research

Prof Judyth Sachs, Provost

10:10

Earth Sciences including GEMOC (CORE)

Prof. Suzanne O’Reilly

10:20

Mathematics, Centre of Australian Category Theory

Prof. Xuan Duong

10:30

Statistics

Prof. Barry Quinn

10:40

Morning Tea

 

11:00

Science Faculty Vision

Prof. Steve Thurgate, Dean

11:10

Centre for Language Technology

Prof. Robert Dale

11:20

Chiropractic

A/Prof. Henry Pollard

11:30

Information and Network System Security

Prof Vijay Varadharajan

11:40

Graduate School of Environment

A/Prof. Robert Harcourt

11:50

Electronics Engineering, Wireless Communications (CORE)

Prof. Tony Parker

12:00

Biomolecular Frontiers (CORE)

Prof. Helena Nevalainen

12:10

Physics, Astronomy and QISS (CORE)

Prof. Mark Wardle

12:30

Keynote Talk

Prof Tim Flannery

12:40

Morning Session Closes

2 pm

Keynote Speaker

Prof John Hooper

2-4 pm

Poster Session, E7B Foyer.

100 student posters

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