Education and Training Events 2020

Research

Research workshops or seminars organised or co-sponsored by Exciton Science

Name of the Event Venue Event type Dates
Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy Mini-Symposium Swinburne University, Melbourne Co-Sponsored Workshop 1 February
Nano Photonics concurrent session at ICONN 2020 Brisbane Convention Centre Co-Sponsored Workshop 13 February
Inaugural Exciton Science Summer Students Mini Capstone Conference University of Melbourne Conference 26 February
90041 Exciton Science (subject in Masters of Science – Chemistry) University of Melbourne (Online) Teaching August to September
Nastaran Meftahi: A shortcut to property prediction for photovoltaic material through machine learning Online Webinar 4 September

Research – Exciton Science Seminar Series

Topic Presenter Organisation Date
Excitonic effects in halide perovskite nanocrystals Jochen Feldmann Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Germany 28 February 2020
Centre introduction and update Paul Mulvaney University of Melbourne 26 March 2020
Polariton Lasing Randy Sabatini University of Sydney 1 April 2020
Charge-carrier dynamics in lead halide perovskite thin films for photovoltaics Chris Bailey UNSW Sydney 8 April 2020
Exponential iterative coupling for low dispersity conjugated polymers Nicolau Saker Neto University of Melbourne 16 April 2020
Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells (ST-PeSCs) for BIPV Jaechoul Yu Monash University 23 April 2020
Ligand-Mediated Interaction Between Colloidal Nanoparticles Debora Monego University of Sydney 30 April 2020
Emitter Coupled Plasmonic Near-Perfect Absorbers Michael Wilms RMIT University 7 May 2020
Direct Assembly of Single Nanocrystal Arrays Heyou Zhang University of Melbourne 14 May 2020
Exponential iterative coupling for low dispersity conjugated polymers Caleb Stamper University of Sydney 21 May 2020
Role of Methylammonium Lead Bromide on Microstructure, Photophysics, and Device Performance in Triple Cation based Perovskite Solar Cells. Naresh Chandrasekeran Monash University 28 May 2020
Exciton Science Magnetic Silica Beads for COVID-19 test kits Nick Kirkwood University of Melbourne 4 June 2020
Effect of Humidity during Processing on the Perovskite Thin Films deposited by Roll-to-Roll Compatible processes Jueng-Eun Kim Monash University 11 June 2020
Facile deposition of lead iodide layers through solvent engineering for sequentially deposited perovskites Bin Li Monash University 18 June 2020
Excitonic resonances in semiconductor materials  Mike Klymenko RMIT University 25 June 2020
Nanoscale Capacitor-like Field Buildup Reveals Charge Protection in an Organic Heterojunction Kyra Schwarz University of Melbourne 3 July 2020
Revealing the Role of Methylammonium Chloride for Improving the Performance of 2D Perovskite Solar Cells Fei Zheng UNSW Sydney 9 July 2020
Spin Interactions in Organic Semiconductors: Spatially Correlated Quantum Properties in Organic Light Emitting Diodes Billy Pappas UNSW Sydney 16 July 2020
High-throughput perovskite solar cell materials discovery: Rapid Combinatorial Fabrication and Characterization Methods Adam Surmiak Monash University 23 July 2020
Attempting to Model the Internal Quantum Yield of Monomer Complexes: Energetic decay mechanisms and fluorescent properties of chromophores in the gas phase Anjay Manian RMIT University 30 July 2020
Understanding Triplet-Triplet Annihilation using Magnetic Fields and Photoluminescence Shyamal Prasad UNSW Sydney 6 August 2020
Partial delocalisation enhances the transport of charges and excitons Daniel Balzer University of Sydney 13 August 2020
2D Materials for Photodetectors Jialu Li University of Melbourne 20 August 2020
Faraday rotation and Magnetic circular dichroism of lead halide Perovskite films and single crystals Stefano Bernardi University of Sydney 27 August 2020
Anisotropy and shape quantum confinement Gangcheng Yuan Monash University 3 September 2020
New materials for photovoltaics and infrared detection James Bullock University of Melbourne 10 September 2020
Opening a can of glow-worms: Understanding the mechanism of transition metal photoredox catalysis Tim Connel RMIT University 17 September 2020
Re-evaluation of silver optical constants for plasmonics Jessica Jiang UNSW Sydney 24 September 2020
Hidden-state analysis of blinking quantum dots Roberto Munoz Monash University 1 October 2020
Breaking Plasmonic Symmetry through the Asymmetric Growth of Gold Nanorods Lesly Melendez RMIT University 8 October 2020
High quality PbS colloidal quantum dots for luminescent solar concentrators and solar cells Zhi Li Teh UNSW Sydney 15 October 2020
Classifying and Engineering Coherent Enhancements of Excitonic Light-Harvesting Stefano Tomasi University of Sydney 22 October 2020
Australia’s Hydrogen Industry: Progress and Opportunities for RD&D Patrick Hartley CSIRO 5 November 2020
Nano-optics research at TMOS Ken Crozier (TMOS) University of Melbourne 12 November 2020
Plasmonic Colour Printing via Nanoimprint Lithography Faris Shahidan University of Melbourne 19 November 2020
Logic with Molecules and Excitons Thomas McDonald UNSW Sydney 26 November 2020

Research education and training events attended by our members (externally organised)

Name of the event Date Organiser
Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Phase-1 August All India Council for Technical Education, India
Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer-Phase 1 (Online Training) August Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous), India
Computational Materials Physics online course September Ghent University; Belgium
ANSTO Powder Diffraction school October ANSTO

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship workshops or seminars organised or co-sponsored by Exciton Science

Name of the Event Presenters Workshop / Seminar dates
Establishing early collaboration for competitive advantage: Connect program workshop 1 Amanda Caples - Victorian Lead Scientist
Joseph Dodd - CSIRO
Thomas Maschmeyer - University of Sydney
Lauren Macreadie - University of Sydney
Paul Mulvaney - University of Melbourne
Timothy James - Reserve Bank of Australia
Girish Lakhwani - University of Sydney
Josh Brown - BluGlass
Andrew Hind - Agilent
Jacek Jasieniak – Monash University		 14 October
Research investment and Commercialisation Thomas Vitsounis and Adele Moynihan - Antler 29 October
Mapping the Route to Successful Entrepreneurship: Connect program workshops 2 John Lasich - Raygen
Donald Hector - Gelion Technologies Pty Ltd
Ryan Liddle - Think Different Anyday		 2 December

Entrepreneurship education and training events attended by our members (externally organised)

Name of the event Date Organiser Event type
Productive industry engagement training November University of Sydney Industry engagement training

Professional Development

Professional Development workshops or seminars organised or co-sponsored by Exciton Science

Name of the Event Presenter Dates
What the ARC expects from a Mid Term Review Liz Visher and Luisa Powell – Australian Research Council 31 January
How to submit manuscripts to highly selective journals Adam Brotchie - Monash Research Office 1 July

Professional Development education and training events attended by our members (externally organised)

Name of the event Date Organiser Event type
Leading through uncertainty April Science and Technology Australia Leadership Training
Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) June to August RMIT University Professional Development
Sydney Nano Research Leadership: What it takes to win? June to September The University of Sydney Nano Institute Leadership Training
Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2020 September Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, Germany Workshop
Animation course (Certified Adobe training course) September Lab Space Professional Development

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion workshops or seminars organised or co-sponsored by Exciton Science

Name of the Event Venue Event type Workshop / Seminar dates
Deadly Science Indigenous Outreach Program presentation UNSW Sydney Seminar presented by Corey Tutt 31 January
Early Career Women in STEMM Paper & Grant Writing Workshop University of Technology Sydney (Online) Co-Sponsored Workshop 4-6 November
Constructing Disability: How understanding the construction of disability assists people to see where ‘the problem’ is: Online Seminar presented by Campbell Message, Melbourne Disability Institute 3 December

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion education and training events attended by our members (externally organised)

Name of the event Date Organiser
Mental Health First Aid Training various University of Melbourne
Diverse by Design Webinar September Science and Technology Australia
We’re Not There Yet: Re-examining our Frameworks for Equity November CIRTL (Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) USA
Early Career Women in STEMM Paper & Grant Writing Workshop November University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Media

Media workshops or seminars organised or co-sponsored by Exciton Science

Name of the Event Presenters Workshop / Seminar dates
Communicating with influence Fiona Heseltine - Happiness Concierge 27 October
Working with the media/storytelling bootcamp Joe Milton - Australian Science Media Centre 4 November
Video made the science star Andrew Meares - 3A Institute 10 November
ARC Centre of Excellence Media Training Workshop Various 9 & 10 December

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