Priyank Kumar – new 2021 DECRA fellow
Congratulations to Priyank Kumar who received a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2021 round 1 announced today. With a success rate of only 17 percent, Dr Kumar’s project “A predictive, ab initio design of enhanced plasmonic photocatalysts” was among the 200 awarded in this round. By utilising state-of-the-art ab initio computations, Dr Kumar will design an efficient plasmonic …
More than just great science: Matt Davis at the Centre Launch
FLEET will deliver much more than excellent science for Australian society. We are training some of the next generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. We will help them develop not only technical research skills, but also transferable skills that will be useful to them no matter what their eventual career direction. For example, we have ensured that our research groups …
FLEET’s challenge and legacy
The challenge of finding a sustainable path to continuing the IT revolution is critical, and time is running out. I can tell you today with reasonable certainty that Moore’s Law will be declared dead within the seven-year operation of the Centre–perhaps even before our mid-term review! Computer chips will cease to gain in efficiency, and yet our demand for computation …
The case for FLEET: 8% of global electricity now consumed by computing
The information technology revolution has improved our lives, and we want it to continue. For example, our smartphone has become one of the most important devices of our everyday life: we use it to access up-to-date weather predictions, to plot the best route through traffic, and to watch the new series of House of Cards. And we expect it be …
Launching low energy electronics: FLEET Launch 12 June
Our insatiable appetite for computing means ITC already consumes 5–8% of global electricity, and is doubling each decade. Unless that ever-growing demand for computing can continue to be met with efficiency gains, the information revolution will slow down from power hunger. At the launch of a new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence the audience heard that efficiency gains in current, …
Launch of FLEET Centre of Excellence to tackle hidden energy costs of computing
Official launch: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies 12 June 2018, 11 AM New Horizons Building, Monash University, Clayton We have an insatiable appetite for computing. But our ongoing need for computation is burning more than 5 percent of global electricity. And that figure is expected to double each decade. A new Australian Research Council …
The innovative science behind FLEET: Jared Cole at the Centre Launch
When using an electronic device to watch tv, listen to music, model the weather or any other task that requires information to be processes, there are millions and millions of binary calculations going on in the background. There are zeros and ones being flipped, added, multiplied and divided at incredible speeds. The fact that a microprocessor can perform these calculations …
Wolfgang Ketterle visit to Melbourne: resources for media
Media release LINK Event flyer for public talk Poster for school lunch Images Ketterle speaking to schoolkids at Monash University MIT: Images of Wolfgang Ketterle and Bose-Einstein condensates