Conferences & Presentations

A selection of slides from some recent presentations and public talks:

AIP 2024, Australian Institute of Physics Congress; Melbourne. — December 2024


Enlightening the search for dark matter (and exotic physics) with atomic phenomena, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Colloquium; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany. — November 2024

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  • This talk is part of the “Virtual Seminar on Precision Physics and Fundamental Symmetries” series and of the SFB DQ-mat colloquium series: indico.cern.ch/category/12183/


A brief history of time(keeping): atomic clocks at the precision frontier of fundamental physics, CSIRO Space & Astronomy Colloquium; CSIRO Space & Astronomy, Sydney, Australia. — June 2024


The next frontier in fundamental physics, Pint Of Science, Brisbane, 15 May 2024; Stone & Wood Brewery, Brisbane. — May 2024


Search for scalar dark matter and variation of fundamental constants with spatially separated sensors, QSNET Seminar, 5 February 2024; QSNET, University of Sussex, UK (virtully). — February 2024


Atomic phenomena in the search for GeV scale WIMPs: enlightening the search for dark matter, AIP Summer Meeting 2023; ANU, Canberra, AUS. — December 2023

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Enlightening the search for dark matter, National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip; Brisbane QLD, Australia. — August 2023

  • Public lecture
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  • See more about the National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip here


Variation of fundamental constants: Search for new physics around a supermassive black hole, Astronomy Colloquium; University of Melboure, Australia (virtually). — August 2023


Enlightening the search for dark matter (and exotic physics), Physics Colloquium, August 2023; University of Queensland, Australia. — August 2023


Atomic parity violation as a low-energy probe of electroweak theory, PhysTev meeting, Les Houches; École de physique des Houches. — June 2023

  • Lecture as part of “low-energy school” at Les Houches, 21 – 30 June, 2023, École de physique des Houches, France
Les Houches, 2023


Atomic phenomena in the search for GeV scale WIMPs: enlightening the search for dark matter, DAMOP 2023; Spokane, WA, USA. — June 2023


Hyperfine anomaly in cesium: From exotic atoms to improved searches for new physics, DAMOP 2023; Spokane, WA, USA. — June 2023


High-precision atomic structure theory: Electric dipole transition amplitudes, AIP2022: Australian Institute of Physics Congress; Adelaide, Australia. — December 2022


Search for a Variation of the Fine Structure Constant around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Centre, DSU2022: The Dark Side of the Universe; UNSW, Sydney, Australia. — December 2022


Study of electric dipole amplitudes for alkali-like atoms and implications for atomic parity violation, APV2022 - The International Workshop on Atomic Parity Violation; Tokyo Institute of Technology (online). — November 2022


Atomic Clocks: Precision time-keeping and fundamental physics, Astrophysics Seminar; University of Queensland, Australia. — July 2022


Variation of fundamental constants: Search for new physics around a supermassive black hole, UQ ASA (student society) outreach talk; University of Queensland, Australia. — April 2022


Dark matter induced atomic ionisation: Calculations of atomic ionisation cross-sections, University of Melbourne, Particle Physics Seminar; University of Melbourne, Australia. — March 2022


Search for a variation of the fine-structure constant around the supermassive Black Hole in our Galactic Centre, ASA (Astronomical Society of Australia) Annual Science Meeting; University of Melbourne, Australia (held virtually). — July 2021


Search for a variation of the fine-structure constant around the supermassive Black Hole in our Galactic Center, DAMOP; Portland Oregon (held virtually). — June 2020


Electron-interacting dark matter: prospects for liquid Xe detectors and NaI detectors, DAMOP; Portland Oregon (held virtually). — June 2020


Searching for dark matter signatures in 20 years of GPS atomic clock data, CHEP 2019, 24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics; Adelaide, Australia. — November 2019


Dark matter signatures in EDM and precision physics experiments (Invited), Frontiers in Quantum Matter Workshop: Electric Dipole Moments; ANU, Canberra. — November 2019


Searching for dark matter and exotic physics with space and ground-based atomic clocks (Invited), 7th International Colloquium on Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of GNSS; ESA (European Space Agency), ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. — September 2019


Search for dark matter and transient variations in α using fibre-linked optical atomic clocks, Rencontres de Moriond, Gravitation Session; La Thuile, Valle d’Aosta, Italy. — March 2019


Searching for dark matter and exotic physics with atomic clocks and GPS, NASA Fundamental Physics Workshop; La Jolla, CA, USA. — April 2018


Searching for dark matter with GPS and global networks of atomic clocks (Invited), New Directions in Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada. — July 2017