Upcoming events

CADR-RAS Webinar: Robust coordinated autonomy through Dec-MCTS with communicated behavioural intent

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Online event

We are developing multi-robot coordination algorithms for enabling coordinated manoeuvres that are tightly-coupled, robust, interpretable, and applicable to Defence-relevant missions such as scouting and target tracking.

CADR-RAS Webinar: Adversity ‐ and Adversary ‐ Robust Adaptive Positioning Systems with Integrity

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Online event

Over the past several decades, major research advances in localization (positioning) and navigation technologies have been achieved, enabled in large part by transformative new learning techniques and the increase scale and quality of training data.

CADR-RAS Webinar: Harnessing AI: The Future of Efficient and Effective Defence Training

Date: Tue, 13 May 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Online event

We have been developing a computational framework using machine learning/ genAI to simulate operators who DECIDE on actions, COMMUNICATE critical information, and ACT in coordination with human/autonomous agents.

Guest Lecture -You will feel influence: Computers, information, and power in revolutionary times.

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Braggs Theatre

The Defence and Security Institute is proud to present this guest lecture from visiting Fullbright Scholar, Associate Professor Chris Bronk from the University of Houston.

CADR-RAS Webinar: Evaluation of Decision Techniques for Context Aware Collaborative Active Protection System

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Online event

Land based active protection systems (APS) have been demonstrated to be effective in improving the self-protection of vehicles. The concept of extending the bubble of protection beyond a single vehicle to multiple vehicles is expected to enhance the survivability of the team of vehicles.

CADR-RAS Webinar: Context Aware Mission Effect Coordination and Distributed Deconfliction

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Online event

Modern developments in Land based active protection systems (APS) have been effective in improving the self-protection of vehicles.

Quantum Frontiers and the Search for Majorana Fermions, presented by Professor Sergey Frolov

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025, 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: The Braggs lecture theatre, North Terrace campus

Professor Frolov is a distinguished experimental physicist at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on electronic transport in low-dimensional nanostructures, including nanowires and two-dimensional electron gases. Deeply involved in quantum computing, working with superconducting qubits, quantum dots, and topological states, Professor Frolov currently serves as the director of the Western Pennsylvania Quantum Information Core facility in the United States.

In 2012, while working as a postdoctoral researcher, Professor Frolov was part of a team that detected a signal suggestive of a Majorana fermion — a theoretical particle that is its own antiparticle. This finding sparked excitement in the field of quantum computing due to its potential for creating robust and ultra-fast systems. Although later research pointed to a different explanation for the signal, the idea of realising Majorana fermions continues to inspire scientific inquiry. In this talk, Prof Frolov will explore the transformative potential of Majorana physics in quantum nanoscience and discuss how emerging materials and techniques may bring us closer to practical quantum computing.

Please join us at this event, where guests can participate in a Q&A session following the talk.