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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/Forum16 May 2012
11:00AM–12:00PM
Smartphone - The Centrepiece of mHealth Reality
The capabilities of Smartphone platforms will play major roles in driving the practicality of mHealth applications, which are expected to impact prevention and treatment methods in diverse medical fields. This talk opens the concept of Mobile Heal...
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Seminar/Forum30 May 2012
Neural Network Model of Auditory Perception
In this seminar, PhD student, Nina Saeedi will report on her research project which creates a physiologicallyinspired neural network model of auditory perception and evaluates its performance in perceiving different aspects of sound. In this netwo...
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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/Expo14 Jun 2012
7:00–8:00PM
Managing water: a system engineering point of view
The Royal Society of Victoria presents this lecture by Professor Iven Mareels, Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering.
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Free Public Lecture21 Jun 2012
Polarization of fibre optics
In this seminar, Professor Yan will review different perspectives of polarization in fibre optics, including the polarization division multiplexing, polarizationrelated degrading effects and their mitigations, polarization based fibre sensor and b...
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Seminar/Forum26 Jun 2012
The future of coal and gas in Australia
This seminar in our Energy Futures Series will examine one of the major challenges of our time. Energy analysts and commentators envisage coal and gas playing major, if not dominant, roles in supplying an energy hungry world for many decades. Au...
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Free Public Lecture05 Jul 2012
Medical bionics: how far can we and should we go?
How far would you go to be better than you are? Medical bionics have improved dramatically over the last 60 years and will eventually be able outperform functional limbs and organs. This will give us an opportunity for physical and mental enhance...
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Free Public Lecture16 Jul 2012
Few-Mode Optical Fibres
The everincreasing demand for bandwidth in longdistance singlemode optical fibre transmission systems has seen the development and mass application of wavelength division multiplexing in recent years. To further increase the capacity of a single f...
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Seminar/Forum18 Jul 2012
Building a Smart Water Grid for the Indus River Basin: Challenges & Opportunities of Cyber Physical Systems
Dr Abubakr Muhammad invites you to learn about the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) work in mathematical modeling, sensing, information processing and control that aims to realize efficient management of hundreds and thousands of ne...
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Seminar/Forum25 Jul 2012
Stem Cell Translation: Tools & Therapies
The NeuroEngineering Laboratory Seminar Series continues with a talk by Associate Professor Jeremy Crook on Stem Cell Translation: Tools & Therapies.
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Seminar/Forum24 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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Exhibition01 Aug 2012
Intermittent Control: a Computational Theory of Human Control Systems
Professor Peter Gawthrop, visiting researcher to National ICT Australia (NICTA) in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering will be presenting a seminar as part of the NeuroEngineering Laboratory seminar series, titled "Intermittent C...
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Professor Peter Gawthrop, Visiting Researcher, NICTA
Seminar/ForumConvergence of Stochastic Consensus Algorithms over Switching Noisy Networks
Associate Professor Minyi Huang will be presenting a seminar as part of the Control and Signal Processing Lab seminar series in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Associate Professor Huang's work considers consensus problems w...
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Seminar/Forum08 Aug 2012
Discussion on Transforming Tools of Emerging and Converging Technologies for Societal Benefit
This Control and Signal Processing Laboratory breadth series talk aims to promote discussion and look at 'the bigger picture' of research in the international context. Students are especially encouraged to attend as the discussion may give perspec...
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Seminar/Forum13 Aug 2012
Theoretical and Experimental Study on High Spectral Efficiency CO-OFDM Systems
Xi Chen, PhD student in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering will present a seminar as part of the Photonics & Electronics Lab seminar series, titled "Theoretical and Experimental Study on High Spectral Efficiency COOFDM Systems"....
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Seminar/Forum15 Aug 2012
System Identification in Neural Circuitry. How big is the problem, how do you make it feasible?
Every aspect of modern science relies upon creating representations of things. And when we do, we pick the signals that interest us and the behavior that interests us. From that, we determine how to interpret the way input is converted into output...
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Seminar/ForumResource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks
In this seminar, Athipat Limmanee will first give a brief summary of transmission power allocation policies in various types of cognitive radio networks when the QoS of the delaysensitive primary link is protected by primary outage constraint (POC...
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Seminar/Forum22 Aug 2012
High-frequency neuronal oscillations and the role of intrinsic neuronal properties
Neurons in the brain engage in collective oscillations in a range of frequencies that span several orders of magnitude. In particular, gamma and highgamma oscillations (40100 Hz and above) have been associated with neuronal activation in several b...
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Seminar/ForumControl and Signal Processing Lab Seminar - Acceleration of Distributed Optimisation Methods
In this talk we consider the settings where an optimisation problem is to be solved distributedly. Particularly, we address the problem of choosing the parameters of the algorithm in a way to achieve the best convergence properties. Initially, we ...
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Seminar/Forum31 Aug 2012
Spilt coffee, cold waveguides and hot gratings
It’s often said some of the best ideas come from spilt (or thrown) coffee. In this talk Professor Canning will show you how contemplation over spilt coffee (at least high quality grade!) has helped to open up a new area of photonics that potential...
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Seminar/Forum11 Sep 2012
Overview of Research Activities in the NeuroEngineering Laboratory
NeuroEngineering is about using scientific methods to understand and model the nervous system, and to use this knowledge to engineer systems that interact with, augment, or mimic nervous system functionality. This seminar will provide an overview ...
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Seminar/Forum19 Sep 2012
Control and Signal Processing Lab Seminar
What has Instrumental Variable (IV) methods for system identification to offer? Instrumental Variable methods can consistently identify plant models of systems operating in open or closedloop while relying on simple linear (regression) algorithms....
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Seminar/Forum10 Oct 2012
Control and Signal Processing Lab Seminar Series - Wednesday 10th of October
Dr. Alireza Farhadi, Research Fellow, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, The University of Melbourne will present Performance, Information Pattern TradeOffs and Computational Complexity Analysis of a Consensus Based Distributed Opti...
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Seminar/Forum24 Oct 2012
Techniques for the processing and analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging phase data
The NeuroEngineering Laboratory Seminar Series continues with a PhD Completion Seminar by Amanda Ng. Magnetic Resonance Imaging phase data contains information about the magnetic properties and chemical composition of tissue and demonstrates nove...
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Training/Workshop25 Oct 2012
11:00AM–4:00PM
Endeavour Design Expo
The Endeavour Design Expo is a public exhibition of capstone projects done by students in the Melbourne School of Engineering. Over 120 projects from all branches of engineering will be on display.
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Fair/Expo29 Oct 2012
Experimental demonstration of high-speed full-duplex reconfigurable free-space card-to-card optical interconnects
This seminar is a conference practice talk for the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP2012). The interconnect bandwidth requirement in datacenters and highperformance computing has increased considerably over the last decade and con...
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Seminar/ForumEnergy Consumption of Next-Generation Optical-Wireless Converged Networks
This seminar is a conference practice talk for the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP2012). The energy consumption of the Internet is recently being identified as one of the main potential contributors for global energy consumption...
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Seminar/Forum30 Oct 2012
Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society Annual Symposium
The Institute for a BroadbandEnabled Society (IBES) Annual Symposium provides an opportunity to experience how IBES research is driving the development and understanding of innovative technologies and applications that underpin a broadbandenabled ...
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Symposium21 Nov 2012
Control and Signal Processing Lab Fortnightly Seminar Series
Certified System Identification Towards ProbabilityFree Results: System identification is the science of constructing models from data. A model is never an exact description of reality, and it is desirable that the identified model comes accompani...
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Seminar/Forum05 Dec 2012
Control and Signal Lab Seminar - Some Topics on Mean Field Game Theory
This talk focuses on Mean Field Game (MFG) theory with applications to consensus, leaderfollower and majorminor agent systems. The MFG methodology addresses a class of dynamic games with a large number of minor agents in which each agent interacts...
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Seminar/Forum10 Dec 2012
Impact of Local Storages on Power Performance of PONs
The next Photonics & Electronics Lab Seminar will be presented by RHD student, Sandu Abeyrickrama. This seminar is a conference practice talk for the Photonics Global Conference. IImplications of implementing a local storage within Passive Optica...
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Seminar/Forum12 Dec 2012
Brain Networks and Epilepsy
The Melbourne School of Engineering presents a special NeuroEngineering Laboratory Seminar, with a guest speaker from the University of Exeter, UK, Professor John Terry. Professor Terry is an excellent speaker and his work is of the highest quali...
29 Jan 2013
NeuroEngineering Lab Seminar - Prof. Steven Schiff
The NeuroEngineering Laboratory Seminars recommence for 2013 with a guest speaker from Pennsylvania State University, Prof. Steven Schiff. This promises to be an excellent seminar so anyone interested is encouraged to attend. Title: Adventures in...
08 Feb 2013
Optical parametric node devices for energy efficient networks
This presentation is part of the Photonics & Electronics Research Lab Seminar series. The talk will discuss the unique features and applications of the optical parametric processes in highly nonlinear fibers that suit the realization of node funct...
11 Feb 2013
Associative Capacitive Networks based on Nanoscale Complementary Resistive Switches
This presentation is part of the Photonics & Electronics Research Lab Seminar series. The seminar will be presented by Dept of EEE Research Fellow, Omid Kavehei titled 'Associative Capacitive Networks based on Nanoscale Complementary Resistive Swi...
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...
11 Mar 2013
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Control and Signal Processing Lab Seminar
Attitude estimation is a core problem in many robotic systems that perform automated or semi automated navigation. The configuration space of the attitude motion is naturally modelled on the Lie group of special orthogonal matrices SO(3). Many cur...
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...
18 Jun 2013
Robots, gals, and engineering the future
Is there a place for females in engineering? How many people does it take to break the world record for the largest group robot dance? 2012 Young Australian of the Year, Marita Cheng will share experiences from her journey so far, including start...