HDR + ECR Training Workshop

Schedule: The University of Adelaide

Schedule: McCracken Country Club

3pm onwards: Bus departs for McCracken Country Club

Monday- McCracken Country Club (Victor Harbor, South Australia)

4:30pm-6pm: Down time

6pm-6:30pm: Summer Interns 3 minute research presentation (HDRs and ECRs to attend)

6:30pm-7:30pm: Summer Interns Poster presentation (HDRs and ECRs asked to engage and talk with students)

7:30pm-9:30pm: Summer Interns, HDRs and ECRs dinner (CI's have their own separate dinner)

Tuesday - McCracken Country Club

9am-10am: Director address

10am-10:30am: morning tea

10:30am-11:30am: Exciting practical team building activity

11:30am-12pm: Summer Interns program wrap up. 

12pm onwards: COMBS Annual Workshop officially launches. See official program for more information. 

Microcomb + laser comb practical session

The microcomb and laser comb practical session will be ‘hands on’ and allow attendees to operate frequency comb sources (and likely a dual-comb) as well as the instruments to measure their characteristics. Characterisation instrumentation available will include high bandwidth temporal (oscilloscopes + detectors, autocorrelator), power, frequency (RF spectrum analyser), and spectral (standard Optical Spectrum Analyser and WaveAnalyser), as well as noise (Relative Intensity Noise measurement). There will also be the opportunity to get ‘hands-on’ with fibre optic components and interconnects such as polarisation maintaining fibre, FC-APC connectors, splitters, in-line polarisers, WDM’s, and operate a cleaver/ splicer. 

Spaces are strictly limited to 24 and will be offered on a ‘first add name to spreadsheet’ basis. Indicate your interest here. You must also be registered on Clever to attend the Monday training workshop (and the COMBS Annual Workshop) to attend. 

Practical information for the event

A copy of the presentation on practical information for the event is available here.

Why come?

🌝 Connect with HDRs and ECRs in a supportive inspiring setting

🌝Learn about HDRs and ECRs research. Opportunties (including access to funding) within COMBS exist for collaboration across Themes and Nodes. 

🌝Inspire the Interns to do a PhD with COMBS

🌝Learn how to effectively communicate your research. Practice the day before the Annual Workshop

🌝Learn about entrepreneurship. How can it benefit your research and benefit your career? You will learn at the workshop!

🌝Have some fun!

Want to join us?

1. Get approval from your supervisor.
2. Anticipated cost: $440 (ECR/own room) or $220 (HDR/room share).
3. Contact Nicci and Ruth 

Want to come but have a barrier?

We want everyone to have the opportunity to attend our HDR/ECR Training Workshop and the Annual Workshop. If you have a barrier (which may include caring, family or other responsibilities, paid work/shifts you cannot miss or really anything that might mean you haven’t registered), please contact Ruth (ruth.waterman@rmit.edu.au; +61 3 9925 4476) so we can discuss. We are committed to helping you attend the workshop in 2025. As many of you have heard me say “the answer is always no if you don’t ask”, so please ask (because hopefully the answer will be yes).