A seminar on innovation and commercialisation performance in the Australian defence industry will be held on 27 November 2009 at Swinburne University of Technology’s Hawthorn Campus.
The seminar is one of several being held by the Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) as an initiative of its Education Program.
It will be presented by DMTC Research Fellow Mr Gregor Ferguson at 4pm in room EN715 in the Engineering building.
Mr Ferguson is conducting research for his PhD Thesis on ‘Factors affecting innovation and commercialisation performance in the Australian defence industry’.
For 10 years he was editor of Australian Defence Magazine (ADM), Australia’s leading monthly defence and industry title, directing and expanding its coverage of defence industry policy, acquisition and innovation. In 2004, he enrolled at the University of Adelaide’s Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) to undertake a PhD in Science & Technology Commercialisation, with a specific focus on defence-related innovation and commercialisation.
Mr Ferguson is DMTC’s first Fellow under the newly established DMTC Research Fellowship Program.
Posted by DMTC on November 18th, 2009 A seminar on studies of corrosion with synchrotron x-rays will be held tomorrow at Swinburne University of Technology’s Hawthorn Campus in Melbourne at 4pm.
The seminar will be presented by Dr Alison Davenport, who is a Reader in Corrosion Science at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK in room EN101 in the Engineering building (on Thursday, 12 November 2009).
It is part of a seminar series organised by the Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) as an initiative of its Education Program.
Dr Davenport obtained a BA and PhD in Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Cambridge, and then went to Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, where she used synchrotron radiation techniques to study passive films in situ.
After a brief spell at the University of Manchester, she moved to Birmingham, where she pursues research in two main areas: the effect of microstructure on localised corrosion, with particular interest in aluminium alloys (including friction stir welding of aerospace and marine alloys), and synchrotron x-ray methods for the study of localised corrosion, including imaging (fast radiography and tomography), spectroscopy and diffraction, investigating stainless steel, aluminium and magnesium.
Posted by DMTC on November 11th, 2009 GSI 2010 will be held in New Delhi, India from April 28 to 30, 2010
Sector: All
GSI 2010 is focused on the Indian subcontinent to address the counter-terrorism challenges of the Federal and State Governments. It will facilitate the entry of international exhibitors into the Homeland Security Industry in India. More importantly, GSI will develop the environment and present business opportunities for all participating exhibitors to reach various Government agencies looking at building their Homeland Security organisations or expanding and strengthening their current infrastructures.
Further information: http://www.globalsecindia.com/
Posted by DMTC on October 14th, 2009 The Defence Services Asia Exhibition will be held in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia from April 19 to 22, 2010
Sector: All
DSA has now become one of the world’s top five defence and security exhibitions and firmly remains the Asia Pacific region’s most vital procurement hub for Defence and Security.
Fully supported by the Malaysian Ministry of Defence, Malaysian Armed Forces and Royal Malaysia Police, DSA 2010 is all set to become the most comprehensive, the biggest, the most attended making it the most successful edition in its series of 11 shows over the last two decades.
Further information: http://www.dsaexhibition.com/
Posted by DMTC on October 14th, 2009