Annual Parker Centre Science Day

The Parker Centre Science Day has two main purposes: 1) to extend the dialogue between the Centre’s researchers and representatives of the minerals industry companies investing in the Centre and 2) to give the Centre’s researchers and students the opportunity to showcase their research and its potential value to industry.

 

2011 Parker Centre Science Day

 

The 2011 Parker Centre Science day was held on Wednesday the 16th of November at Building 213, Rob Riley Walk, Curtin University Bentley Campus.  Highlights of this year's Science Day was:

 

• The reporting of key outputs from the Centre’s 12 Core Capability projects. These three year pre-competitive research projects were completed in June this year, and represent a $7M cash investment by the Centre.

• Presentations from 11 of our students, covering PhD, Honours and Summer Vacation projects.

 

Science Day invitation 2011 (50 KB)

 

Science Day program (24 KB)

 

Curtin University map (1381 KB)

 

2010 Parker Centre Science Day

Our theme this year was'Towards the Next Generation of Hydrometallurgy' (Next Generation Hydrometallurgy being the proposed theme for Parker Centre IV) and was held on the 17th of November 2010.

This year we conducted sessions focussing on: Alumina, Gold and Base Metals research and a session focussing on recent advances in Biohydrometallurgy. The opening presentation was 'Future directions in Uranium hydrometallurgy' a new research focus for the Parker Centre that we are successfully pursuing with our industry partners.

Science Day invitation (14 KB)

Science Day program 2010 (25 KB)

 

2009 Parker Centre Science Day

Over 100 people (including industry and government representatives, and Parker Centre staff and students) registered for the Centre's 2009 Science Day on 18th November 2009.

The 2009 Science Day will showcase the Centre's new knowledge and emerging solutions for the minerals industry’s current and future needs.

This seminar day illustrated the breadth and depth of the Centre’s work, and included:

two parallel sessions: - A session of Base Metals Market & Gold Market research presentations
- A session of Alumina Market research presentations and presentations on Centre minerals characterisation research - A session of presentations by nine of the Parker Centre students (eight PhD students, one Honours student). The day concluded with a presentation of the 2009 Parker Centre Award for Research Collaboration and the 2009 Parker Centre PhD Project Excellence Award, and subsequent talks by the project leader of the successful team and the student winner on their prize-winning research.

2008 Parker Centre Science Day

The 2008 Parker Centre Science Day: Emerging Research Outputs & Future Directions was held on 12 November 2008.

Invitation (2008) (111 KB)

Final Program 2008 (112 KB)

2007 Parker Centre Science Day

The 2007 Parker Centre Science Day was held on 14 November 2007 in the BankWest Theatre, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, WA.

2007 Science Day Media Release (123 KB)

: Showcasing Science for the Minerals Industry's Current & Future Needs

2007 Parker Centre Science Day Program (33 KB)

2006 Parker Centre Science Day

The second annual Parker Centre Science Day on 22 November 2006 turned a spotlight on the fruits of the first year’s research for the minerals industry by the new CRC. Over 60 people, including senior representatives from the minerals industry, Parker Centre Board Directors and Centre staff, heard 21 presentations in total from Centre researchers and five of the Centre’s PhD students that illustrated the breadth and depth of the Centre’s Alumina Market, Base Metals Market and Gold Market research.

2006 Science Day-media release (120 KB)

about the 2006 Parker Centre Science Day:
Showcasing the Parker Centre's Alumina, Base Metals and Gold Research

Many Great Research Stories Told at Science Day (111 KB)

2005 Parker Centre Science Day

The first annual presentation of the Parker CRC for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions’ science was held in December 2005. As many of the projects for the newly established CRC had only recently commenced at that time, the presentations predominantly focused on an overview of the research direction for the new CRC in general and an overview of the specific projects in each of the Centre’s three research Markets (Alumina, Base Metals and Gold).