FLEET members gathered in Surfer’s Paradise Queensland recently for the Centre’s final meeting. The FLEET Legacy Workshop celebrated seven years of transformative innovation, capacity building, and future STEM leaders development. Presentations by Governance Chairs, Centre leaders and early-career researchers covered research highlights across the Centre, as well as innovations in STEM equity, skills development, and outreach.
Some impressive stats over the life of the Centre include 109 PhD & Masters students and 117 postdocs having gone through the Centre, 2 spin-offs, 10 patents, 616 publications, and a total of 72,000 students, teachers and the public reached via science outreach programs. See more at FLEET.org.au/impact
Highlights included:
- Australia’s role in the quantum future by Kavan Modi (Quantum for NSW)
- The case for an Australian semiconductor industry, by by FLEET advisor and industry liaison Steve Duvall (formerly Chief Technology Officer, Silanna)
- The new Quantum Technologies Future Science platform at CSIRO by former FLEET CI Chris Vale
- Keynote talks by PI Ian Spielman (Joint Quantum Institute), Sarah Harmer (Flinders) and AI Bent Weber (Nanyang University Technology Singapore)
- A panel of FLEET alumni sharing how their time at FLEET have shaped their professional development and impacted their subsequent careers in industry and national labs
- Talks covering Centre innovation ‘outside the lab’, in spheres of equity, training, and outreach
- 22 accompanying family and children, including three children in childcare at the on-site creche
- 23 scientific talks including theme highlights over the life of the Centre, 13 out of 16 research highlights were presented by students and ECRs
- Poster presentations spotlighting 40 early career researchers’ science.
See the scientific program. Presentations and images will be shared with members via private link. Images below are by Murray Rix.
