1. AIP Bi-Annual Postgraduate Conference
Anapana Ridge, 38 Gilchrist Road, LESMURDIE WA
http://www.anapanaridge.com/index.html
The Australian Institute of Physics exists to support professional physicists
and to promote all aspects of physics to the wider community. This conference
has been convened to allow honours and postgraduate students to present to
their peers in a non-pressured supportive environment. It is hoped that this
conference will give the attendees a greater awareness of the research
undertaken in WA and provide them with a networking opportunity.
Presentations should go for 15-20 minutes followed by approximately five
minutes of question time.
Wednesday 7th September 2011
Registration
9:30 to 10:00
Welcome morning tea 10:00 to 10:30
Session 1
10:30 to 12:30
Lunch
12:30 to 1:30
Session 2
1:30 to 3:00
Afternoon tea
3:00 to 3:30
Session 3
3:30 to 5:00
Dinner
Free time
Thursday 8th September 2011
Free time
Session 4
10:00 to 12:00
Lunch
12:00 to 1:00
Session 5
1:00 to 2:00
Pack-up and go home
Abstracts for this conference are organised alphabetically by surname

2. Welcome 10:00
Morning tea and a few words from the AIP our sponsor
Session 1 10:30 to 12:30
1) Xing-Jiang Zhu “Gravitational wave background from coalescing binary
black holes”
2) Xu Chen “Three-mode opto-acoustic parametric interaction in a coupled
optical cavity”
3) Bruce Hartley “Quantum Mechanics? No Dice!”
4) Siddartha Verma “Roberts Linkage as a very low frequency suspension and
control element in 3rd generation gravitational wave detectors”
Session 2 1:30 to 3:00
1) Crosby Chang “Excitation of spin waves in a magnetic nano-stripe array by
direct injection of microwave currents using a coplanar probe”
2) Romain Bara “Generation of 103.75 GHz CW Source with 5.10-16 Frequency
Instability Using Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillators”
3) Warrick Farr “Designing a Macroscopic Phonon Laser using Cryogenic
Sapphire Microwave Resonators”
4) Grill a Supervisor. Eric Howell, David Parlevliet Jean-Michel Le Floch and
Mario Zadnik
Session 3 3:30 to 5:00
1) Nik Radevski “Glancing angle deposition: Technique for the fabrication of
arrays of nanostructures”
2) Nick Wyatt “Study on the Effect of Substrate and Gold catalyst thickness on
Characteristics of PPECVD Grown Silicon Nanowires”
3) Lynette Howearth “Determining the Migration Pattern of an Extinct
Australian Diprotodon using Strontium Isotopes”

3. Session 4 10:00 to 12:00
1) Ilkhom Abdurakhmanov “Impact-parameter convergent close-coupling
approach to antiproton collisions with atomic hydrogen and helium”
2) Jeremy Savage “Convergent close-coupling calculations for positronmagnesium scattering”
3) Mark Zammit “Electron scattering in hot-dense plasmas”
4) Rick Hughes and Nimue Pendragon from Microanalysis Australia “Materials
characterisation with SEM and XRD”
Session 5 1:00 to 2:00
1) Shahidah Ali “Synthesis and evaluation of AAO-PHEMA nano-composite”
4) Wrap-up and feedback