VIC | TAS Branch - Borland Forum

 

        

 

 

Victoria-Tasmania Branch

2024 Borland Forum

hosted by

Institute of Frontier Materials & The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment at
Deakin University

 

The Borland Forum honours the memory of Dr Doug Borland who made a significant contribution to the study and teaching of metallurgy and materials engineering during his long and distinguished career.

 

The Borland Forum showcases high calibre postgraduate students nominated by their tertiary institution. The students each make a short presentation on their materials-related research project, and the top presenter will receive the Borland Forum Award and a cash prize.

 

Monday 21st October 2024

5:00 pm – Networking and light refreshments

5:30 pm – Presentations start
 

Presenters and Titles:

Deakin University – Manesha Fernando “Value Addition to Reclaimed Carbon Fibers: A Shift Towards Sustainable Waste Management”

RMIT University – Jason Rogers “Aggregate Surface Defect Fatigue Degradation of Powder Bed Fusion Ti-6Al-4V Allo”

Monash University – Enamul Haque “When Mysterious ‘Lossless’ Electrical Energy Transport in Topological Insulators Becomes a Mirage”

University of Melbourne – Amal Jayawardena “Novel Anti-Microbial Agents vs Superbugs: Molecular Simulations Reveal Bacterial Cell Death Mechanism”

Swinburne University of Technology – Sameera Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage “Reinforcing the Future: Steel Fibres Transforming Concrete Roads”

Venue

Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2, Collins Square

Reception will direct you to the Borland Forum

For parking and travel options please see the link below.

A map of the Deakin University campus (and location of the IFM Bldg) can be found at

https://www.deakin.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1910888/Getting-to-Deakin-Downtown.pdf

 

 

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