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15 May 2012
The Accelerating Universe and The Hunt for Dark Energy
In 1998, two international teams raced to determine the fate of the Universe. Was it expanding or contracting? They found that it wasn't just expanding but that the expansion was accelerating. It was a startling discovery suggesting that an unknow...
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Seminar/Forum12 Jun 2012
Graduate Engineering and IT Expo
The Melbourne School of Engineering is Australia's top engineering school, and a world leader in engineering and IT. We are ranked number 1 in Australia and 25 globally for Engineering and Technology according to the Times Higher Education World ...
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Fair/Expo24 Jul 2012
24 – 25 Jul 1:00PM–3:00PM
The Amazing Spaghetti Machine Contest
Be amazed as teams of year 10 students from around Victoria present their "spaghetti machines" the term for an overly complicated chainreaction machine used to perform a simple task. This year's task is to take a portrait photo! Vote for your fa...
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Exhibition13 Nov 2012
Reacting to Climate Change – Mitigation and Adaptation using Membrane Technology
There is clear scientific evidence that emissions of carbon dioxide are leading to changes in our climate. This presentation will discuss how the Australian population is already adapting to this paradigm shift in climate, with desalination plants...
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Free Public Lecture23 Nov 2012
Polymer films with holes and other stories
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department Seminar. Presented by Dr Easan Sivaniah, University of Cambridge, Biological and Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. The Sivaniah research g...
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Seminar/Forum03 Dec 2012
Nanostructured Material Fabrication via Continuous Assembly of Polymers (CAP)
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Departmental Seminar. Presented by Ms Stefanie Guntari, PhD Student, Polymer Science Group. All visitors welcome! Nanoscale polymeric films and interfaces are integral to a wide range of advanced materials an...
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Seminar/Forum04 Dec 2012
Electrokinetic circuit analysis
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Departmental Seminar. Presented by Mr Christian Biscombe, PhD Student, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. All visitors welcome! The miniaturisation of traditional diagnostic and laboratory processes onto sm...
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Seminar/ForumManipulating Free Volume Properties at the Nanoscale Using the Layer-by-Layer Approach
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Departmental Seminar. Presented by Dr John Quinn, University of New South Wales. The layerbylayer technique is a versatile approach for preparing nanoscale coatings with precisely defined thickness and chemic...
12 Dec 2012
Surface modification of particulate materials via an RF inductively coupled rotating barrel reactor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department Seminar. Presented by Dr Karyn Jarvis, Research Associate at The Mawson Institute, University of South Australia. Surface modification via plasma polymerization is a wellestablished method with a num...
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Seminar/Forum20 Dec 2012
Surface Acoustic Wave Microfluidics: Novel Phenomena and Applications for Biotechnology
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Departmental Seminar. Presented by Prof Leslie Yeo, Professor and Australian Research Fellow, Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, RMIT University. Surface acous...
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Seminar/Forum23 Jan 2013
Separating gold from silicates by tailored hydrometallurgical process
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Departmental Seminar. Presented by Mrs Sima Mohammadnejad, PhD Student, Geopolymer Group. All visitors welcome! Many investigations have been undertaken on the pregrobbing capacity of carbonaceous materials a...
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Seminar/Forum12 Feb 2013
Synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles and inorganic-nanocellulose hybrids
The ability to control structure and functionality at all length scales has developed tremendously in the last decades. It is clear that optimal design of nanostructured materials requires integration of various approaches to synthesize, functiona...
25 Feb 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Anterior cruciate ligament injury mechanism during impact load
Hossein Mokhtarzadeh (PhD student in Biomechanics) will be presenting the first seminar in our new Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series. Landing is an inevitable physical activity in many sports such as basketball, soccer, and gymnastics. Upon l...
08 Mar 2013
Novel Separation Mechanism for CO2 Capture – “Molecular Trapdoor” Effect
This presentation will cover work on novel “trapdoor” molecular sieves. Conventional molecular sieves separate gases based on size – small ones have access and large ones are kept out. A novel molecular trapdoor mechanism has been developed which ...
11 Mar 2013
Ultrasonics as a new platform technology in dairy processing
The dairy industry relies on ultrafiltration (UF) for the concentration of whey. Downstream, this concentrated whey is usually evaporated and spray dried to produce whey protein concentrate (WPC) powders. However, this WPC powder production is oft...
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Realistic spiking models of octopus cell circuits of the mammalian auditory brainstem
Octopus cells are named after their unique shape, with dendrites oriented in one direction. They receive input from a large number of Auditory Nerve Fibers (>60) representing a broad frequency band. The talk covers three topics relating to the com...
12 Mar 2013
The Relevance of Irrelevant Research – from Ideal Elastic Liquids to Sustainability and Minerals
The presentation illustrates how fundamental research in viscoelastic fluid mechanics has led to the development of technology for waste minimization in the minerals industry. The time scale from conception to application exceeded thirty years!! I...
18 Mar 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Requirements for the Robust Operant Conditioning of Neural Firing Rates
Operant conditioning experiments have shown that changes in the firing rates of individual neurons in the motor cortex of monkeys can be elicited. In these experiments, the firing rates of the neurons were measured using an implanted electrode, an...
19 Mar 2013
Microstructural and durability properties of alkali activated slag/fly ash geopolymer
Alkali activated binders using slag and fly ash provide a new material in the concrete and construction industry. Made mainly from byproducts or wastes from industries, alkali activated binders have the possibility to provide a sustainable solutio...
25 Mar 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Validating MEG/EEG finite element head models using a controlled rabbit experiment
In focal epilepsy, it is essential to accurately determine the location of the seizure focus for each patient. Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) based source localisation is a promising noninvasive method to determine t...
26 Mar 2013
Invitation to a discussion – can we increase our external funding without sacrificing quality?
The University of Melbourne sits at the top of the research tree in this country and has an enviable worldwide position. The Dean of Engineering and our DVC Research, however, have suggested that it is going to be really tough (perhaps impossible...
08 Apr 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Extreme exercise and the right ventricle of the heart
Exercise renders a disproportionate load on the cardiac ventricles. Animal and human studies are concordant in demonstrating that right ventricle load (wall stress, work and oxygen demand), which is considerably less than for the left ventricle a...
09 Apr 2013
Enzyme mimics: new materials with huge potential
Currently enzymes are being explored for a variety of applications. In fact, enzymes are already well established in common technologies, for example; active ingredients in detergents, food additives, and in paper and pulp processing. Recently, e...
15 Apr 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Biomaterials with Therapeutic Effects in Anti-cancer and Anti-bacterial Biomedical Applications
This talk will highlight two applications of nondrug, nanostructured biomaterials in two different therapeutic arenas – cancer and infection. The first example will discuss the use of nanometer structured selenium as a promising material for impla...
18 Apr 2013
Chemical Engineering: Changing Landscape and Emerging Paradigms
Dr Mashelkar will present a special seminar covering the changing landscape of chemical engineering and the emerging paradigms in this discipline. Dr Mashelkar is the chairman/chancellor of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, and Pr...
23 Apr 2013
The mechanical characterisation of nanostructured biomaterials
Soft nanostructured planar and colloidal hydrogel systems are promising for biomedical applications due to their precise engineering, low cytotoxicity, and tuneable hydration and rigidity. Increasingly, research is focusing on the influence of adv...
29 Apr 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: The stellate microcircuit of the cochlear nucleus - design and optimisation of a biophysically-realistic neural network model
Biophysicallyrealistic neural network (BNN) models require quality design and optimisation methods in order to best advance understanding of complex neural processing. This talk presents a novel BNN model of the cochlear nucleus stellate microcir...
07 May 2013
Three Films Good, Four Films Bad! An Introduction to Foam Rheology
Since the work of Plateau (1873) and Kelvin (1887), it has been well known that films in a static foam meet threefold (and never fourfold) along junctions, now known as Plateau borders. The fourfold state is energetically unstable and will lead t...
21 May 2013
Aspen Technology presentation
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software for process optimisation across key industries, such as energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, oil and gas, and refining. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement...
28 May 2013
From Technology to Sight - looking into the future of the bionic eye
The story of the bionic eye has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Following the announcement of Australia’s first successful bionic eye implants last year, testing of an early prototype device continues with three patients in ...
6:30–8:00PM
Focus on Engineering
Do you love creating solutions to problems and want to make a difference to the world? Come along to find out how to study Engineering at Melbourne. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent graduates about what it is like to study eng...
04 Jun 2013
Assembly of Therapeutic Carriers for Sustained Delivery of Neurotrophins to the Cochlear
Gradual degeneration of auditory neurons following sensorineural hearing loss is normally caused by depleted supply of neurotrophins as a result of the death of cochlear hair cells responsible for secreting the signalling proteins. Animal studies ...
18 Jun 2013
Inhibitors of Amyloid Fibril Formation
Amyloid fibrils are misfolded fibrillar protein aggregates that are responsible for many incurable diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. An obvious means to combat the onset of such diseases is to develop inhibitors that prevent the self assembly ...
30 Jul 2013
Facile Production of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Difficult to Deliver Therapeutics: Hydrophobic Drugs, Peptides and siRNA
Several classes of therapeutics are nanoparticle formulations of hydrophobic drugs and present unique opportunities for treatment of solid tumor cancers, for delivery of drugs by aerosol administration, and as a route to novel vaccine adjuvants. T...