Postgraduate Conference 2006

The annual Postgraduate Conference is a forum for the department's higher degree research students to present their work (to date) to their peers. In 2006 the Conference was held at the Metropole Hotel in Fitzroy on Friday the 20th of October. This was followed by dinner at Il Vicolo on Grattan Street, Carlton. Photos from the night can be viewed below.

Program

Download program here [pdf]

	Watch interviews and footage from the conference here. [3:47]

Presentations

Listed by topic area below are the individual presentations made during the conference with links for each presentation including:

biographical info about the presenter
the accompanying poster
the accompanying powerpoint slide presentations
an mp3 audio recording of the presentation

Awards

Recognition at the conference was made to the best presentations and posters within in each stream. The awards for the conferene are listed in full below. Additionally, the two presentations judged the best in each stream are available as downloadable podcasts via the ceeTV website. They are: 'Robust Water Accounting: What is it?' by Lisa Lowe, and 'Rural Electrification in Timor Leste' by Matthew Bond.

Stream A		Stream B

Session 1 - Urban Water & Water Quality		Session 2 - Buildings
Designing sustainable urban water systems - *Jill Fagan*		Design optimisation of high-rise buildings - *Bing Li*
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Continuous monitoring of fish habitats - *Dan Borg*		Sustainability indicators for office buildings - *Muhammad Mirza*
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Water quality modelling for effective water management in the coastal areas & acid sulphate soil - *Dang Phong Ngo*		Building vulnerability to intentional attacks - *Herlambang Susiswo*
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Session 2 - Environmental Modelling		Session 2 - Hydraulics, Transport, Biomedical & Geotechnical
Chemical constraints on evaporation from arid zone ephemeral lakes - *Elizabeth Irvine*		Supercavitating flow with phase change - *Shelly Sharma*
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Soil moisture data in atmospheric modelling - *Clara Draper*		Rural electrification in Timor Leste - *Matthew Bond*
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Scaling properties of passive microwave soil moisture signatures during NAFE'05 - *Rocco Panciera*		Phytocaps – methane oxidation & emissions - *Jenny Wong*
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Assimilation to improve heat flux predictions - *Robert Pipunic*		Physiological loading enhances growth factor uptake and binding in articular cartilage - *Lihai Zhang*
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Session 3 - Geotechnical & Hydrology		Session 3 - Structures
Study of the on-site soil absorption system performance - *Ruwan Jayarathne*		Quantification of construction decision - *Ming Xu*
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Supercritical water gasification of sewage sludge - *Doki Yamaguchi*		Modelling and testing of modules in full scale explosive tests in Woomera - *Emma Akiyama*
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Calibration of an irrigation demand model - *Matthew Berrisford*		Blast damage assessment of concrete panels - *Imam Zubair Syed*
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A model averaging framework for predicting ungauged streamflow - *Julian Reichl*		Glazing behaviour under blast load - *Raymond Lumantarna*
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Session 4 - Natural Resource Management		Session 4 - Structures
Robust water accounting: What is it? - *Lisa Lowe*		Moment-resisting beam-circular column connection with blind bolts and extensions - *Jack Huang Yao*
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Evaluating NRM using Bayesian networks - *David Robertson*		DTB of tall buildings under wind loads - Kien Cuong Nguyen
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Environmental flows and the water market - *Avril Horne*		Behaviour of PT anchors in early age concrete - *Massoud Sofi*
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Resilience of the dryland Goulburn - Timothy Peterson		Displacement-controlled behaviour of structures - Elisa Lumantarna
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