Dr Sophie Calabretto

Honorary Associate Professor

School of Engineering

University of Leicester

Industry Fellow

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

University of Technology Sydney

Recent/forthcoming talks/events.

2024

• • NAVIGATE 2.0 Induction (MC), Defence Science and Technology Group, May 2024.

2023

• • Essential Skills for Statistical Communication Workshop (panellist), 2023 Australian Statistical Conference (ASC), December 2023.
• • Meet the Experts - Eureka Prizes (MC), Australian Museum, September 2023.
• • The First Five Years (panellist), National Youth STEM Summit, June 2023.
• • Meet the Experts – Sharks (MC), Australian Museum, March 2023.
• • Defence Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Conference (DSTEM) 2023 (MC), February 2023.
• • Diversity and Inclusivity: Women in STEM (panellist), National Youth Science Forum, January 2023.
• • 2023 NYSF Year 12 Program Opening Event (panellist), National Youth Science Forum, January 2023.

2022

• • Elevate: lifting you to the next level (panellist), Human Centred Activation Space, ATSE ACTIVATE 2022 Symposium, October 2022.
• • Eureka Stories: learn from inspiring scientists and science communicators (MC), Australian Museum, September 2022.
• • 6 Ideas That Are Changing The World (host), The Royal Institution of Australia, August 2022.
• • Higher Education Hacks, NYSF Connect Webinar Series, April 2022.
• • Let’s circulate! Healthy ageing through vascular science (moderator), ATSE STELR Shape Your Future Webinar Series, March 2022.

2021

• • Highlighting the M in STEM (panellist), Pint of Science, May 2021.

2020

• • Turbulence: the maths of fluids, and chaos in the real world, NYSF Connect Webinar Series, June 2020.
• • Fluids behaving badly, MQ Women Shaping the Future: A Gender Equity Week Symposium, March 2020.

2019

• • The development of spiral instabilities in the boundary layer on a rotating sphere, 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, US, November 2019.
• • Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium (ALCS) 2019 (MC), November 2019.
• • Some new results on the flow induced by rotating bodies, Monash Fluids Seminar Series, Monash University, September 2019.
• • Boundary layers, and spatially and temporally evolving flows: they’re tricky sometimes, Physics and Astronomy Department Colloquium, Macquarie University, September 2019.
• • Some new results on the flow induced by rotating bodies (international speaker), UK Fluids Network Boundary Layers and Complexing Rotating Flows SIG Workshop, University of Leicester, UK, June 2019.
• • When tuna schools: how questionable fish lead to questionable separation and global instabilities, School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, University of Adelaide, April 2019.
• • Global instabilities in the flow around a rotating sphere, ANZIAM2019, Nelson, NZ, February 2019.
• • A career with mathematics? (a.k.a. pretty much every career), Partners’ Day, National Youth Science Forum (Session C), January 2019.

2018

• • Boundary-layer collisions and their impact on global flow dynamics, Fluid Dynamics Seminar, Imperial College London, UK, September 2018.
• • Boundary-layer collisions and their impact on global flow dynamics, Department of Engineering Seminar, University of Leicester, UK, September 2018.
• • An experimental and computational study of the flow induced by an impulsively rotated sphere, 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 2018.
• • Ockham’s Razor – ABC Science Live On Stage for the Sydney Science Festival, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, August 2018.
• • Life vs Science, In Situ Science live podcast recording (guest and panel member) for the Sydney Science Festival, Camelot Lounge, Sydney, August 2018.
• • Curious Minds winter camp (speaker and science communication workshop presenter), The Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS), Sydney, July 2018.
• • Objective detection of rotationally coherent vortices, ANZIAM2018, Hobart, February 2018.
• • Objective detection of rotationally coherent vortices, Applied Seminar (Mathematics for Planet Earth), School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW, January 2018.
• • A career with mathematics? (a.k.a. pretty much every career), Partners’ Day, National Youth Science Forum (Session A), January 2018.

2017

• • Flow external to a rotating torus (or sphere), Fluid Mechanics Research Group Seminar, University of Melbourne.
• • STEM: Enabling Progress Workshop (panellist), University of Melbourne (in partnership with Commonwealth Bank).
• • Extraction of submesoscale eddies, Sydney Dynamics Group, University of Sydney.
• • Flow external to a rotating torus (or sphere), The interface between stability theory and turbulence in shear flows workshop, Monash University.
• • Flow external to a rotating torus (or sphere), Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Sydney.
• • My Mathematical Journey (keynote speaker and panellist), STEM Careers - Women Employment Bootcamp Series Workshop, CSIRO Lindfield.

2015

• • The unsteady flow due to an impulsively rotated sphere, IMES Seminar, ETH Zürich.

2014

• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, Provisional review seminar, Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland.
• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, ANZIAM2014, Rotorua, New Zealand.
• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, Fluids in New Zealand (FiNZ) Workshop, University of Auckland.

2013

• • The complex, unsteady flow within a fluid-filled annulus and its transition to turbulence, 14th European Turbulence Conference, Lyon, France.

2012

• • Turbulent flows, Semtex, and rainbows, Postgraduate seminar, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide.

2011

• • A squid, a barnacle and a duck walk into a bar brain: Mathematical models of neuron firing, Honours presentation, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide.