Since it began operation in 2017, FLEET has created diverse training opportunities for its members in areas such as equity and diversity, communication, translation and technical skills. FLEET has enabled this through grants to attend conferences, training courses or visits to partner labs. It has also encouraged and provided the opportunity to present posters and seminars at FLEET workshops or …
FLEET-AIP seminar. Optimising silicon/silicon-germanium quantum dot qubits
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10 May 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Professor Susan Coppersmith, UNSW Venue: New Horizons Building, seminar room G30, Monash University Online: Zoom Silicon/silicon-germanium quantum well heterostructures are a leading materials system for hosting semiconducting quantum dot qubits. Compared to the silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor materials stack used in current classical computers, Si/SiGe has the advantage that the qubits are confined near a high-quality epitaxial Read More
Women in Physics Public Lecture. What do theoretical physicists do?
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8 May 2024
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The AIP is delighted to announce that FLEET’s Professor Susan Coppersmith FAA FAIP, a theoretical physicist at UNSW Sydney, will tour Australia this year as the AIP’s 2024 Women in Physics Lecturer. Susan with present a public lecture in Melbourne as part of her tour See details online Venue: RMIT City Campus, Building 80, Level 2, Room Read More
FLEET workshop. Staying Well in your Research Career
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21 May 2024
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
For FLEET PhD students, ECRs and mid-career researchers. This workshop by IThinkWell will give you strategies to manage your well-being and workload. Registration form is below. If you have any questions, please email FLEET’s training and outreach coordinator, Jason Major – Jason.major@monash.edu. The workshop is online and runs for 2.5 hours. Details below. Working in Read More
FLEET outreach impact
Over the years, FLEET has conducted a variety of outreach events with schools and the general public. Most of the events were evaluated using recognized pre- and post-evaluation methods to understand the impact of the event relative to our strategic goals. The methods are outlined in the reports below. This page contains the reports for all evaluated events from 2021 ...
The National Science Quiz returns for 2023
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27 Aug 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
More than trivia. The National Science Quiz is a celebration of science and aims to engage people with science and inspire the next generation of Australia’s leading scientists. Join host Charlie Pickering from ABC TV’s The Weekly, special guest team captains (meteorologist/ABC weather presenter Nate Byrne and Numeracy ambassador/ mathematician/host of Numberphile Simon Pampena) and Read More
FLEET- Monash School of Physics & Astronomy seminar. Nonreciprocal reflection and transmission in the 100 GHz to 2 THz range: experiments and theory
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31 May 2023
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Prof. Bob Camley, Distinguished Professor Dept of Physics, Director of the UCCS BioFrontiers Center, University of Colorado. Currently: Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of Newcastle, NSW In person: Monash University Clayton, School of Physics and Astronomy, 10 College Walk Building 27, Room 107. Missed the seminar. Watch it on FLEET’s YouTube Nonreciprocal behavior (eg, where reversing Read More
Forces and energy: Quantum energy
Checking out Einstein and going quantum Quantum and classical physics both have the concept of energy in common. The conservation of energy still applies in quantum physics the same way it does in classical physics. The difference is in the math used to calculate energy and work. In quantum physics it is all about probability – the energy something has ...
Forces and energy: Electricity and sustainable energy
Electrical energy Electrical energy also has many forms. For example, lightning, is a form of static electricity. You witness static electricity also when you rub a balloon against your hair. One of the most useful forms of electrical energy for humans is when it is generated from a current, which occurs when electrons flow through a circuit. It is the ...
Forces and energy: Kinetic, potential, conservation and transformation
Forms of energy The two broad forms of energy are potential and kinetic and each have different types, which we outline in more detail below. Others energy forms include sound and thermal energy. We will focus on potential and kinetic here. Light could also be considered a form of energy, but it gets interesting because is has both particle and ...
Forces and Energy: Energy and Work
What do we mean by energy? Energy is the capacity of a physical system to do work or cause a change. We will examine what this means in detail below, but to help establish students’ baseline understanding of energy get students to do Activity 1. What is energy? Why is understanding energy important? When we design and build stuff important ...
Ask the Physicists: Are the dimensions of space constant? Is today’s metre the same as tomorrow’s meter?
We got the following question on our Ask The Physicists Facebook page that really got some heads scratching at our end: Are the dimensions of space constant? Is todays metre the same as tomorrows meter? The thought was that, if everything were expanding or contracting uniformly on an absolute scale, an observer embedded within the expanding or contracting matrix would ...
International Women’s Day bias breaker: Maedehsadat Mousavi
Maedehsadat (Maede) Mousavi is a FLEET PhD student in chemical engineering and material science at the University of New South Wales. Her research investigates the synthesis and application of liquid metals and topological insulators, which are a new class of materials that are insulators on their interior, but will conduct electrical current on their edges without the loss of energy. ...
International Women’s Day: FLEET women blazing their own trail
FLEET is celebrating International Women’s Day, by profiling FLEET women at different stages of their research career. These women are forging a career path in physics, chemistry and engineering and making a strong point that there is a place in this space for women and diversity. FLEET’s Equity and Diversity Committee Chair, Prof Jeff Davis says, “FLEET has a strategic ...
Ice Ice Baby, Let it snow, let it snow….What is it?
Making snowflakes, the science of ice and freezing, and festive-like experiments that you can try at home. OK, we don’t normally get snow in Australia at Christmas, but we do like to put ice in our drinks on the hot Summer days, so why not talk about the snow and ice. Afterall, Winter is coming… But here’s the thing, we ...
Ask the Physicists: Swimming in a lightning storm
It is a dark and stormy…day. Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening. Mama Mia. And you are out swimming. OMG! Got to get out of the water and dash for the car. You are dripping wet as you dash to the car – lightning strikes the Earth everywhere. As you dash to the car, are you in greater danger from ...
What is an atom? Like us, mostly empty space it seems…
I have found two things the younger students struggle to conceptualize about an atom: Students perceive that an atom is an atom – they are all one in the same; and they struggle to conceptualize the massive amount of space between the nucleus and electrons. I offer some ways to help students visualize/conceptualize the atom more accurately The basics Atoms ...
FLEET Schools
FLEET Schools is a resource for primary and secondary teachers and students to engage with physics and chemistry, and to learn and think about the research problems FLEET is working on. That problem is our ever increasing energy requirements coming from our for rapidly increasing computation demand. Think Internet of Things, AI, driverless cars, smart phones and gaming. To solve ...
FLEET schools: Conductors, insulators and electricity
Introduction From the dawn of time we have witnessed electricity as a primal force of nature in the form of lightning. The ancient Greeks would rub amber with a cloth and get small electric shocks – the same static electricity we experience when we rub our feet along the carpet and then touch something conductive, for example a metal bench ...
Balloon Rocket
Make a rocket with just a balloon, string, straws and sticky tape. See how far and how high you can go. Learning intentions Students examine and apply Newton’s law of motion (action and reaction). For older and more advanced students they will learn about Newton’s 2nd law and the relationship between force, mass and acceleration: F=m/a. See experiment 2. Download ...
Skittles Rainbow
A little bit of colourful chemistry, a bit of art and a lesson in density and concentration gradients. Yeh, you will need a lot of skittles, but it is all for science. Download the full worksheet including worksheet tables and images. Learning Intentions Students will examine and be able to describe/understand the following: What happens when materials are mixed The ...