News Archive • 2009
It's eat or be eaten
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Friday, December 18, 2009
The heart of a normal galaxy is a place of extreme astrophysical phenomena, where hapless stars can be devoured in a flash or fired across the universe at blinding speed.
Profit forecast to fire up landfill gas
By Karin Derkley
Friday, December 11, 2009
Accurately predicting how much gas a landfill site is likely to deliver over its lifespan is a challenge one civil engineer is working to address
Bid to keep aluminium shining
By Tim Treadgold
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Working together, researchers from across Australia and New Zealand are hoping to cut the energy needs of an industry worth billions to the nation\'s economy
Learning springs from Dr Mazzolini's box of tricks
By Robin Taylor
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Simple, tactile experiments are a popular way to learn physics, especially if your school happens to be in a developing country far from modern facilities
Quantum Physics - PhD Research at Swinburne
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Ph.D student Sven Teichmann discusses his experience as a Swinburne
Microphotonics and Optofluidics - PhD Research at Swinburne
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Ph.D student Jing Wu discusses her experience as a Swinburne student and her research into Optofluidics
Swinburne named in world's top 500 universities
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Swinburne University has been listed in the top 500 universities in the world, entering the prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong (SHJT) university rankings for the first time.Swinburne awarded $4.4 million for groundbreaking research
By Crystal Ladiges
Monday, October 26, 2009
Swinburne University of Technology has been awarded $4.4 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to fund 13 innovative, high-quality research projects.
The road to using biosolids
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Melbourne's growing stockpile of biosolids could be significantly reduced, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology.Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 12:30pm in EN406 in August and September 2009 and in BA202 in October and November 2009.
Frontiers of Science and Technology Seminars 2009
By Dr. Ingomar Kelbassa
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Laser and applications research at the RWTH University and Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology
Hip joints and jet blades cop a hot spray
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Thermal spray coatings end up in some unexpected places. On artificial hip and knee joints to help people play tennis, on tooth implants to give us extra bite and on jet turbine blades, thermal spray coatings improve fuel efficiency and extend engine lifeFrontiers of Science and Technology Seminars 2009
By Dr Paul Stevenson
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Title: On Columns of Gas-Liquid Foam
Date: 3:00PM Tuesday, 1 September
Boeing-Swinburne Venture Puts Wind Beneath Industry Wings
By David Horwood
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
A new research and development centre will give Australia's aircraft component manufacturing industry access to improved manufacturing techniques and advanced materialsSheffield Centre Slashes Machining Times
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
R&D at Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has led to a step-change in the machining capability of many of its industrial sponsors.
Hip Joints and Jet Blades Cop a Hot Spray
By David Horwood
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The uses for thermal spray coatings, which, at their thinnest, are the width of a human hair, are rapidly on the rise – everything from artificial bone coatings for replacement joints to offshore oil platforms and, potentially, water purificatio
Mite Versus Mite in Deadly Numbers Game
By Gio Braidotti
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Mathematicians are finding that equations for modelling interactions between predators and prey have a surprising array of applications in the human world, from biological control of crop pests to cancer research
Computing Sees the Light
By David Adams
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
When the (micro) chips are down, researchers turn to three dimensional photonic crystals to improve the speed and capacity of the next generation of integrated circuits.
Eleventh UNESCO Workshop on Active Learning in Optics and Photonics
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
ALOP Nepal 2009 was conducted successfully during July 12-16 2009. at the Kathmandu University, Nepal. The UNESCO physics education program is a five-day, hand-on workshop that aims to renew the physics skills and teaching approaches of teachers.
Cold Waves
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Monday, August 31, 2009
At temperatures less than a millionth of a degree above absolute zero, or about minus 273 degrees, atoms in a gas behave in the most peculiar fashion. They enter the quantum realm, becoming less like matter and more like light waves.
Swinburne Physics Postgraduate Workshop
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Swinburne is holding a Physics Postgraduate Workshop on Friday 25 September 2009. The event will showcase Swinburne\'s remarkable strengths in Physics research
Error bounds and Stokes' phenomenon in the theory of divergent expansions
By Prof. Vladimir P. Gurarii, Mathematics, Swinburne University of Technology
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Applied Maths Seminar 10
Crushed bricks lead to greener roads
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The roads we drive on will be more environmentally friendly, thanks to research undertaken by Swinburne University's Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure in partnership with VicRoads.Rabbits Detected in the Blink of a Mechanical Eye
Friday, August 7, 2009
By running rabbits through Ford's Campbellfield production plant, Swinburne University of Technology researchers are working with the car manufacturer to ...Going Nano to keep the bugs at bay!
Friday, August 7, 2009
The Advanced Manufacturing CRC (AMCRC) is supporting strategic research that will explore the ways in which nano-scale changes in surface ...Seminar - 30 July, Thursday, 4:00pm in EN715
By Professor Xiumei Mo
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Electrospun Bioactive Nanofibers as Biomimic ECMs from Structure Properties to Functions
Engineering Workshops For Year 10, 11 and 12 Students
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Build an Electronic Die
Build your own smart car
Design and Make
How to Mend A Broken Heart
Ocean's 16: Dynamical, evolutionary and molecular origins of Redfield ratio N : P = 16 in oceans.
By Dr Irakli Loladze, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Applied Maths Seminar 9
Extracts From Swinburne Magazine - Issue #6
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Issue #6 of Swinburne Magazine is now out! Click through to see the latest extracts.
Dark mysteries lure cosmic surveyors
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Milky Way's parade across Earth's night sky offers a glittering view of our home galaxy and a glimpse of the billions of galaxies in the cosmos beyond. All power to the sun and the light team
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Monday, June 1, 2009
What began decades ago as a friendship between two university students in Shanghai has led to a multi-million-dollar research project with the potential to produce next-generation solar power as affordable as fossil-fuel-derived energy.
Diabetes hope on the wings of silver cicadas
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Browsing the research posters at a scientific conference in 2002, Paul Stoddart was taken aback. Before him was an electron micrograph of a cicada wing that showed line after line of microscopic pillars arrayed on the wing\'s surface
Prize Giving Ceremony 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
The Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences hosted their annual Prize Giving Ceremony on Friday, 29 May 2009.
Click through for the rundown and photo gallery.
A handle on how life works
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
SALLY McArthur has been fascinated by the surfaces of things since her final year at high school, when she used her major art project to study chemical reactions that occur when pottery is glazed.
Researchers to create next gen discs
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Futuristic discs with a storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs could be just around the corner, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology.
Topics in Geophysics and Coastal Engineering, Seminar Series 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Title: Recent advances of wind wave models VOF/PLIC numerical simulations of wave breaking on stepped/bar profile.
Date: 4:00PM Thursday, March 26
Plastic iron breaks the mould
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Lying on a benchtop in a laboratory is a human hand. Just 15cm away is the lower jaw of a human skull. It’s not until you see white filaments curling from what would be the fleshy side of the fingers that their synthetic nature becomes apparent.Frontiers of Science and Technology Seminars 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Title: Advances in Raman spectroscopy - Defining new standards for high speed image data acquisition.
Date: 3:00PM Tuesday, 17 March
Laser metal repair ready for world power
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Low-pressure turbine blade erosion caused by condensing or wet steam is a problem facing many power stations operating similar turbines around the world.
On the surface it is a love of engineering
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
If it was not for a pottery subject in her final year of high school, Sally McArthur might never have become a biomedical engineer.
Photosynthesis comes into the light
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
In one-quadrillionth of a second a plant can take the sun’s light and transfer it to the chlorophyll molecules (which give the plant its green pigmentation) in its light-harvesting centre.
Frontiers of Science and Technology Seminars 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Title: The Electric Arc Furnace - A Recycling Giant.
Date: 3:00PM Wednesday, 18 February
Topics in Geophysics and Coastal Engineering, Seminar Series 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Title: The proposed parametrizations of air-sea momentum and heat transfer applicable from low to extreme wind speeds.
Date: 4:00PM Thursday, February 12
Swinburne Aviation Industry Seminars
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Seminars were held on 4 to 6 February 2009. A record number of attendees attended presentations from leaders in the industry including Airbus, Rolls Royce, Shell Aviation, Thales, Qantas and other sessions by industry experts in Human Factors and A
Graduation success for Indian student
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
A final year Indian student from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia has designed a vehicle to give Indian people with disabilities the opportunity to run their own businesses.
New Scholarships for current students
Friday, January 16, 2009
The Australian Federation of University Women -Victoria (AFUW - Vic) is proud to announce a number of scholarships on offer for 2009.
Swinburne named in top 500 universities worldwide
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Swinburne has earned its place among the top 500 Universities in the world, according to the 2008 Times Higher Education-QS World Wide University Rankings.