Conference discussions: Kirrily Rule (ANSTO), Julie Karel (Monash University)
FLEET supported significant international and Australian conferences in 2019, which was bookended by major, FLEET-hosted conferences at the end of 2018 (ICON2D-Mat) and beginning of 2020 (ICSCE).
With new partner organisation the MacDiarmid Institute (NZ), FLEET co-organised the Conference on Signature of Topology in Condensed Matter in Italy, working closely with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
Almost 120 researchers gathered to discuss spin and strong-electron correlations at UNSW’s biennial Gordon Godfrey Workshop, which was sponsored by FLEET and meshed with city-wide efforts to highlight Australia’s strength in physics.
In 2019 FLEET has thrown further support behind the new Melbourne Condensed Matter Community (MC2) events, jointly founded by FLEET’s Jared Cole (RMIT) with Stephan Rachel and Andrew Martin (University of Melbourne). So far, four workshops organised by FLEET members or collaborators (at Swinburne, Monash, RMIT, and the University of Melbourne) have each brought together over 50 researchers for a full day of talks by people working across theoretical, computational and experimental condensed-matter physics. In addition, monthly MC2 colloquia, which alternate between RMIT and the University of Melbourne, have featured several FLEET speakers.
