One year after finishing her PhD at the Australian National University and starting a job with the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Primary Industries (DPI), Jen Wurtzel shares her insights on making the transition from academia to government. This talk will be given in two parts. First, she will talk about the PhD experience and transferable... View Article
Some unique experiments using particle image velocimetry of high Reynolds number wall-bounded flows - Julio Soria (Monash University) Over the last 30 years flow visualisation has evolved from qualitative to quantitative and in many circumstances is replacing more traditional flow measurement techniques. In concert over a much longer period has been the investigation of turbulent... View Article
Patrick De Dekker (Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU). Climatic evolution in Australia spanning human occupancy over the last 55,000 years
Connecting postgraduate climate researchers. Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute Are you a University of Melbourne PhD candidate or Masters by Research student researching on the topic of climate change? About this Event This is an opportunity to eat, drink and mingle with fellow climate change researchers. The Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute’s Climate Transformations Research Cluster and the Climate &... View Article
Kale Sniderman (University of Melbourne). Title TBC (Palaeoclimate)
Melbourne launch of the new La Trobe Asia Brief. About this Event The snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas are instantly recognisable, but the critical role these mountains play in Asia’s climate, hydrology, ecology and geopolitics is mostly underplayed. Despite this importance, or perhaps because of them, there are a number of threats to the environment,... View Article
Jane Watson (University of Tasmania). The Practice of Statistics at School: What does it look like in the classroom? Delivered at Newnham (A221c, A Block) Videoconference: Cradle Coast: (CC.A119, Building A); Sandy Bay (HH325, Hytten Hall)
Tom Pagano & Deryn Griffiths (Bureau of Meteorology). How good are Bureau weather forecasts? A tour of BNOC verification results.
SSN Interdisciplinary Seminar with Dr Sophie Adams (UNSW) presenting on interdisciplinarity in discourses of climate change adaptation. About this Event Please join us for the next SSN Interdisciplinary Seminar with Dr Sophie Adams from the UNSW Environmental Humanities group. The seminar presentation will include a short panel discussion with two invited respondents from STEM and... View Article
Dr. Tim Duty (Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS)) In this tutorial, Tim will introduce basic stochastic processes via the Langevin stochastic differential equation. He will discuss its relation to the Fokker-Planck equation, focusing initially on linear (Ornstein-Ulhenbeck) processes. These are stochastic processes that exhibit linear o.d.e.’s for the time dependence of expectation... View Article