Time (AWST)	Presenter	Title	Domain	Institution	Session	Bio
08:30-09:00	Conference Registration
09:00-09:10	Mark Stickells	Opening and Intro to Pawsey				Pawsey Chief Executive Officer
09:10-09:20	Ugo Varetto	Unleash the Power of Your Research by Visualisation				Pawsey Chief Technical Officer
09:20-09:30	Dr. Yathu Sivarajah	Pawsey Visusalisation Services				Leading the visualisation at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. His duties include helping researchers to develop workflows to visualise large scientific data using the Pawsey remote visualisation infrastructure, training researchers on various visualisation related topics, and design, implement and maintain various visualisation systems and services at Pawsey. PhD in Geophysics from UWA, specialising in visualisation, human-data interactions and human-machine interactions.
09:30-09:50	Dr. Maja Divjak	The Power of Visualisation: Using 3D Animation to Explain CAR-T Cell Therapy	Biomedical Animation	Peter MacCallum Cancer Research Centre	Competition	Dr Maja Divjak is the inaugural Biomedical Animator at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, where she is creating animations about cellular and molecular mechanisms relevant to cancer and cancer treatment, using scientifically accurate structures. Maja completed her PhD in molecular Biology at Monash University before moving into scientific sales. A chance meeting with world-renowned Biomedical Animator Dr Drew Berry at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute opened the doors to the wonderful world of science animation. Maja then pursued the dream of becoming a Biomedical Animator, studying Multimedia at Swinburne and 3D animation at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. She was then awarded a coveted fellowship with Dr Berry where she learnt the foundations of her current practice. Following this she became resident Science Animator at the Gene Technology Access Centre before joining Peter Mac as an award-winning Biomedical Animator. In addition to their role in education, Maja looks for ways her animations can achieve a wider audience in various aesthetic forms.
09:50-10:10	Dr. Jiabin Liang	Automated Processing and Visualisation of Dual-Energy CT Images for Rock Property Analysis Using Python and ParaView	Energy	CSIRO	Competition	Jiabin Liang is a data scientist and geoscientist at CSIRO Energy, where he combines his expertise in both machine learning and geoscience in developing the cutting-edge artificial intelligence and software solutions for underground resource exploration and characterisation. Jiabin Liang obtained his PhD in Exploration Geophysics from Curtin University. He has worked in both industry and research environments within the mining and energy sectors. His notable projects include multi-mineral segmentation from micro-CT images using convolutional neural networks (CNN), multi-modal machine learning for lithology prediction from HyLogger data, and mineral composition estimation with machine learning from pulsed neutron spectroscopy log.
10:10-10:30	Dr. Sean Lam	Visualising Climate Change Projections for Western Australia	Climate	Department of Water and Environmental Regulation	Competition	Dr Sean Lam is the Principal Climate Modeller for Climate Science Initiative at the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER). He an experienced chartered professional engineer and environmental scientist specialising in climate change, modelling, sustainability and air quality. He has proven expertise in managing and guiding climate initiatives, providing technical advice to executive and board members. He is adept at translating complex scientific information into actionable insights for policymaking and stakeholder engagement. He is also highly skilled in project management, quality assurance, and cross-functional collaboration. Dr. Omer Mughal is an accomplished atmospheric scientist with a PhD from Curtin University, specializing in wind validation and modelling using coherent Doppler lidar data. Since completing the PhD in 2016, Dr Mughal has been actively involved in a diverse range of climate and atmospheric science projects, demonstrating a remarkable ability to develop and execute rigorous large-scale data science initiatives. Dr Mughal is currently involved in the production of future climate projections for Western Australia utilizing PAWSEY supercomputing facility. With expertise in Python, Linux, and HPC systems, Dr Mughal has contributed significantly to climate and atmospheric science projects worldwide. Notable among Dr Mughal's projects is developing a Digital Urban Climate Twin for Singapore, integrating various computational models, including those related to environmental factors, land surface properties, industrial processes, traffic dynamics, building energy, and both regional- and micro-scale climate models.
10:30-11:00	Morning Tea
11:00-11:20	Proff. Michelle Spencer	Visualising New Materials for Modern Technologies	Chemistry	RMIT University	Competition	Michelle Spencer is a Professor of Chemistry at RMIT University and leads the Computational Materials Chemistry group, developing new materials for electronic devices, sensors and batteries. She is also Deputy Director of the STEM Centre for Digital Innovation, former Associate Dean of Applied Chemistry & Environmental Science, and a Centenary Fellow of the RACI. She has published over 130 refereed publications and has received numerous awards for her research and teaching. She is a Research Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies and has been awarded grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), the Australian Government and Industry.
11:20-11:40	Kevin Tran	Electromechanical Response of Group-IV Monochalcogenides	Chemistry	RMIT University	Competition	Kevin Tran is a PhD student at RMIT University in Melbourne who is currently studying in Applied Chemistry. His research involves investigating novel nanomaterials that can produce mechanical strain under the application of external stimuli, specifically the injection of electric charge. The methods employed in his works are primarily computational approaches, utilising Density Functional Theory calculations to calculate various structural and electronic properties of atomistic systems. His presentation will show how group-IV monochalcogenides react under electrical charge with two animations and the process to creating them.
11:40-12:00	Shree Lakshmi Ramesh Babu	Exploring Systemic Risks through 3D Visualisation Using VTK	Network	Curtin University and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre	Talk
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:20	Kevin Liu	3D Visualisation of Direct Numerical Simulation of Bushfire Analogue	Engineering	Monash University	Competition	Kevin Liu is a PhD researcher at Monash University under the Laboratory for Turbulence Research in Aerospace & Combustion (LTRAC). His work is on the development of Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) algorithms and techniques on the modelling and prediction of bushfire dynamics. His research is primarily conducted on the HPC resources granted by the NCMAS scheme, leveraging the most powerful supercomputers located in Australia.
13:20-14:20	Dr. Uwe Wossner	Virtual and Augmented Reality in Real Applications	Visualisation	HLRS: High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart	Keynote	Since 2004, Uwe Woessner is heading the visualization department at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). He received his PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 2009. Since 1996 he is working in the Collaborative Research Center "Rapid Prototyping" established at the University of Stuttgart in the field of VR based virtual and augmented prototyping. He is guest professor and guest lecturer at TU-Vienna, Austria and at HSR, Rapperswil, Switzerland. He is also Co-founder of VirCinity GmbH. He received international Awards such as the 2003 HPC Challenge and 2006 HPC Bandwidth Challenge. His current research interests include collaborative virtual environments for scientific visualization, Augmented Reality, 3D user interfaces and interaction techniques for computational steering, Interaction with BIM in VR and AR. He is in the committee of several VR and 3D User Interface related conferences such as IEEE VR, IEEE Vis, EuroVR, GI VRAR, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing.
14:20-15:20	Dr. Kuo-Song Wang and Dr. Joran Collier	CARTA - Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy	Astrophysics	ASIAA and AusSRC / Curtin University	Workshop	Dr Kuo-Song Wang (ASIAA) Role: ALMA support scientist at ASIAA, CARTA project scientist Bio: I have been serving as the ALMA support support scientist at ASIAA and the CARTA project scientist since 2017. My research interests are star formation, astrochemistry, and radio astronomy. Dr Jordan Collier (AusSRC / Curtin) Role: AusSRC Senior Project Scientist Bio: I am the Senior Project Scientist of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Regional Centre (AusSRC), where I lead a team of support scientists facilitating and contributing to science projects from the SKA and its precursor telescopes. I’ve been a CARTA Science Team member since 2020, and my research interests are in extragalactic radio astronomy, including odd radio circles, the evolution of young and distant radio sources, large/deep radio surveys, and data processing techniques.
15:20-15:45	Afternoon Tea
15:45-16:05	Dr. Marcin Glowacki	iDaVIE-v and Streaming Large Astronomy Datasets over VR	Astronomy	Curtin University	Competition	Marcin Glowacki is a Research Fellow at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy node of ICRAR. He studies the star-forming gas in galaxies observed by radio telescopes in Australia and abroad, and in mock galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations, to better understand how galaxies evolve. He also investigates 'fast radio bursts' - intense bursts of radio energy coming from distant galaxies occurring on millisecond timescales, with mysterious origins. As the Chair of the WALLABY Data Visualisation working group, Marcin has been exploring ways to represent large radio astronomy datasets in VR and 3D to aid data analysis.
16:05-16:25	Sajay Sunny Mathew	Visualising the Origin of Stars in 3D	Astrophysics	Australian National University	Competition	Sajay is a PhD student at the Australian National University. Sajay studies star formation through numerical simulations, making use of high-performance computing.
16:25-17:00	Vis Lab Demo / Tours
17:00-18:00	Vis Showcase	Time for attendees to see live demos and network
18:00-19:00	Sundowner