Annual Workshop 2019

Sunday 8 December

9:30AMBus departs Melbourne CBD - Southern Cross Station bus bay 56
10:00AMBus departs Melbourne Airport
1:00PMBus departs Melbourne Airport
From 12:00noonLunch and Registration
Convention Foyer
1:20PMWelcome
Matt Davis

Conference Centre
1:30PMStaying Well Academic workshop part 1
Hugh Kearns
Convention Centre
3:00PMCoffee Break
3:30PMStaying Well Academic workshop part 2
Convention Centre
5:00PMFree Time
6:00PMPoster Session / Dinner
Convention Foyer

Monday 9 December

9:00AMWelcome
Michael Fuhrer
9:15AMMaterials Research in the Electronics Industry
Luigi Colombo, University of Texas
Convention Centre
10:00AMFLEET Training & Mentoring
Matt Davis, UQ & Dianne Ruka
Convention Centre
10:15AMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
10:30AMTheme Report: Research Theme 1, Enabling Technologies A & B, Part 1
Alex Hamilton, Xiaolin Wang, UoW & Lan Wang, RMIT
Convention Centre
11:15AMSynthesis and Atomic-Scale Characterization of Superconducting van-der-Waals Heterostructures
Bent Weber, NTU Singapore
Convention Centre
11:30AMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
11:40AMSome theoretical results for twisted bilayer graphene near magic angle
Shaffique Adam, NUS
Convention Centre
11:55AMDeterministic Switching of Ferroelectric Bubble Nanodomains
Peggy Zhang, UNSW
Convention Centre
12:10PMA room-temperature ferroelectric semimetal
Pankaj Sharma, UNSW
Convention Centre
12:25PMProbing spin physics in GaAs using quantum point contacts
Karina Hudson, UNSW
Convention Centre
12:40PMLunch
The Larder Restaurant
1:50PMTheme Report: Research Theme 1, Enabling Technologies A & B, Part 2
Alex Hamilton, Xiaolin Wang, UoW & Lan Wang, RMIT
Convention Centre
2:35PMThe non-equilibrium Green's function approach, an emerging simulation technique for novel devices
Jesse Vaitkus, RMIT
Convention Centre
2:50PMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
3:00PMTopological insulators, exciton condensates, and charge density waves
Allan MacDonald
Convention Centre
3:30PMPhase diagram in 2DEG with Spin orbit coupling
Hong Liu, UNSW/Monash
Convention Centre
3:45PMResonant photovoltaic effect in doped magnetic semiconductors
Pankaj Bhalla, CSRC/UNSW
Convention Centre
4:00PMBreakout discussions
Convention Centre
4:40PMPoster Session 2
Convention Foyer
6:40PMDinner / Trivia
Convention Centre

Tuesday 10 December

9:00AMTheme Report: Research Theme 2
Elena Ostrovskaya, ANU
Convention Centre
9:45AMThree-dimensional electron-hole superfluidity in a superlattice close to room temperature
David Nielson, University of Antwerp
Convention Centre
10:00AMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
10:10AMAntisymmetric magnetoresistance in van der Waals Fe3GeTe2/graphite/Fe3GeTe2 trilayer heterostructures
Sultan Albarakati, RMIT
Convention Centre
10:25AMTransport in thin films of MoSi2
Wafa Afzal, UoW, Weiyao Zhao, UoW
Convention Centre
10:40AMTuning the Edge States of Topological Crystalline Insulator Bismuthene via Substrate Effects
Chutian Wang, Monash
Convention Centre
10:55AMTowards a 2D Organic Topological Insulator
Dhaneesh Gopalakrishnan, Monash
Convention Centre
11:10AMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
11:20AMTutorial: Ultrafast optical techniques
Agustin Schiffrin, Monash & Jeff Davis, Swinburne
Convention Centre
12:05PMCoherent Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Materials
Jonathan Tollerud, Swinburne
Convention Centre
12:20PMQuantitative acoustic models for superfluid circuits
Matt Reeves, UQ
Convention Centre
12:35PMLunch
The Larder Restaurant
1:45PMTheme Report: Research Theme 3
Kris Helmerson, Monash
Convention Centre
2:30PMPrecision measurements of elementary excitations in a unitary Fermi gas
Sascha Hoinka, Swinburne
Convention Centre
2:45PMDynamics of impurities in quantum gases
Weizhe Liu, Monash
Convention Centre
3:00PMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer

3:15PMBreakout Sessions - Discussion
Convention Centre
3:50PMBreakout Sessions - Discussion
Convention Centre
4:25PMMindfulness / lawn bowling / beach / free time
6:15PMDinner
Seagrass Lawn (sunny) or Heritage Ballroom (rainy)

Wednesday 11 December

9:00AMThe MacDiarmid Difference: Culture change and impact in a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence
Justin Hodgkiss
Convention Centre
9:30AMQuantum transport properties at high magnetic fields and pressure-induced superconductivity in layered PtBi2
Mingliang Tian
Convention Centre
10:00AMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
10:20AMFLEET Equity & Diversity
Elena Ostrovskaya
Convention Centre
10:35AM
FLEET Outreach
Chris Vale & Dianne Ruka
Convention Centre

10:50AM
FLEET Performance Progress
Tich-Lam Nguyen
Convention Centre

11:05AMPreparing for Centre Mid-term Review 1 July 2020
Tich-Lam Nguyen
Convention Centre
11:20AMCoffee Break
Convention Foyer
11:35AMUnconscious Bias - Unplugged
Maree Burgess

Convention Centre
12:35PMGoodbye / Challenges / Awards
1:00PMLunch
The Larder Restaurant
2:00PMBuses depart for airport and Melbourne