Prof Michael Morgan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Michael works in the School of Physics at Monash University as an Associate Professor

 

 

Michael’s research areas of interest are:

 

Dr Morgan's current research interests encompass multifarious aspects of theoretical physics, including: topological defects, particle cosmology, geometric phases in physics, inverse problems, X-ray phase contrast imaging and nanodynamics.

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Electrodynamics
• Scattering Theory
• Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
• Cosmology
• Mathematical and Computational Physics
• Image Processing and Visualisation

Keywords

Theoretical physics

Qualifications

SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1982

Publications

Book Chapters

Grant, J.R., Morgan, M.J., Davies, J.R., Wells, P., 1997, X-Ray diffraction tomography: Application to imaging heterogeneous systems, in Non-invasive Monitoring of Multiphase Flows, Elselvier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 213-245.

Journal Articles

Eastwood, S.A., Bishop, A.I., Petersen, T., Paganin, D., Morgan, M.J., 2012, Phase measurement using an optical vortex lattice produced with a three-beam interferometer, Optics Express [P], vol 20, issue 13, Optical Society of America, Washington USA, pp. 13947-13957.

Yu, R., Morgan, M., Paganin, D., 2011, Lorentz-electron vector tomography using two and three orthogonal tilt series, Physical Review A [P], vol 83, issue 2, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 1-9.

Meier, E., Biedron, S., LeBlanc, G., Morgan, M., 2011, Development of a novel optimization tool for electron linacs inspired by artificial intelligence techniques in video games, Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment [P], vol 632, issue 1, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 1-6.

Ruben, G., Morgan, M., Paganin, D., 2010, Texture control in a pseudospin Bose-Einstein condensate, Physical Review Letters [P], vol 105, issue 22, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 220402-1-220402-4.

Meier, E., Biedron, S.G., LeBlanc, G., Morgan, M.J., Wu, J., 2009, Development of a combined feed forward-feedback system for an electron Linac, Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment [P], vol 609, Elsevier BV, The Netherlands, pp. 79-88.

Meier, E., Biedron, S.G., LeBlanc, G., Morgan, M.J., Wu, J., 2009, Electron beam energy and bunch length feed forward control studies using an artificial neural network at the Linac coherent light source, Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment [P], vol 610, Elsevier, The Netherlands, pp. 629-635.

Tang, W., Jesson, D., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Usher, B.F., 2009, Ga droplet morphology on GaAs(001) studied by Lloyd's mirror photoemission electron microscopy, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter [P], vol 21, Institute of Physics Publishing, UK, pp. 314022-1-314022-5.

Kitchen, M.J., Lewis, R., Morgan, M.J., Wallace, M.J., Siew, M.L., Siu, K.K.W., Habib, A., Fouras, A., Yagi, N., Uesugi, K., Hooper, S.B., 2008, Dynamic measures of regional lung air volume using phase contrast x-ray imaging, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol 53, issue 21, Institute of Physics Publishing, UK, pp. 6065-6077.

Yu, R.P., Paganin, D.M., Morgan, M.J., 2008, Inferring generalized time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau equations from modulus and gauge-field information, Physical Review B, vol 77, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 134512-1-134512-10.

Ruben, G., Paganin, D.M., Morgan, M.J., 2008, Vortex-lattice formation and melting in a nonrotating Bose-Einstein condensate, Physical Review A, vol 78, issue 1, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 013631-1-013631-9.

Hooper, S.B., Kitchen, M.J., Wallace, M.J., Yagi, N., Uesugi, K., Morgan, M.J., Hall, C.J., Siu, K.K.W., Williams, I.M., Siew, M.L., Irvine, S.C., Pavlov, K.M., Lewis, R., 2007, Imaging lung aeration and lung liquid clearance at birth, The FASEB Journal, vol 21, issue 12, Federation of American Society of Experimental Biologists, USA, pp. 3329-3337.

Jesson, D.E., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Usher, B.F., 2007, Imaging surface topography using Lloyd's Mirror in Photoemission Electron Microscopy, Physical Review Letters, vol 99, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 016103-1-016103-4.

Kennedy, S.M., Jesson, D.E., Morgan, M.J., Smith, A.E., Barker, P.F., 2006, Phase sensitivity of slow electrons to interactions with weak potentials, Physical Review A, vol 74, issue 4, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 044701-1-044701-4.

Lade, S.J., Paganin, D.M., Morgan, M.J., 2005, 3-D Vector tomography of Doppler-transformed fields by filtered- backprojection, Optics Communications, vol 253, issue 4-Jun, Elsevier, Netherland, pp. 382-391.

Lewis, R.A., Yagi, N., Kitchen, M.J., Morgan, M.J., Paganin, D., Siu, K.K.W., Pavlov, K.M., Williams, I.M., Uesugi, K., Wallace, M.J., Hall, C.J., Whitley, J., Hooper, S.B., 2005, Dynamic imaging of the lungs using X-ray phase contrast, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol 50, issue 21, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol UK, pp. 5031-5040.

Lade, S.J., Paganin, D.M., Morgan, M.J., 2005, Electron tomography of electromagnetic fields, potentials and sources, Optics Communications, vol 253, issue 4-Jun, Elsevier, Netherland, pp. 392-400.

Yu, R.P., Paganin, D.M., Morgan, M.J., 2005, Inferring nonlinear parabolic field equations from modulus data, Physics Letters A, vol 341, issue 1-Apr, Elsevier, Netherland, pp. 156-163.

Yu, R.P., Paganin, D.M., Morgan, M.J., 2005, Inferring the time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau equation from modulus data, Physical Review E, vol 72, issue 5, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 056711-1-056711-13.

Vine, D.J., Jesson, D.E., Morgan, M.J., Shchukin, V.A., Bimberg, D., 2005, Shape transitions of metastable surface nanostructures, Physical Review B, vol 72, issue 24, American Physical Society, USA, pp. 241304-1-241304-4.

Pavlov, K.M., Gureyev, T.E., Paganin, D.M., Nesterets, Y.I., Kitchen, M.J., Siu, K.K.W., Gillam, J., Uesugi, K., Yagi, N., Morgan, M.J., Lewis, R.A., 2005, Unification of analyser-based and propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol 548, Elsevier, Netherland, pp. 163-168.

Pavlov, K.M., Punegov, V.I., Kirste, L., Herres, N., Takeda, Y., Tabuchi, M., Morgan, M.J., Mudie, S.T., Hester, J., 2004, Application of Statistical X-ray Diffraction Theory for Study of Multilayer Systems, Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol 68, issue 4, Allterton Press Inc., Russian Federation, pp. 650-654.

Mudie, S.T., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Hester, J., Tabuchi, M., Takeda, Y., 2004, Collection of reciprocal space maps using imaging plates at the Australian National Beamline Facility at the Photon Factory, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, vol 11, Blackwell Munksgaard, Copenhagen Denmark, pp. 406-413.

Pavlov, K.M., Gureyev, T.E., Paganin, D.M., Nesterets, Y., Morgan, M.J., Lewis, R.A., 2004, Linear systems with slowly varying transfer functions and their application to x-ray phase-contrast imaging, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol 37, issue 19, Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 2746-2750.

Kirby, B., Davis, J.R., Grant, J.A., Morgan, M.J., 2003, Extracting material parameters from x-ray attenuation: a CT feasibility study using kilovoltage synchrotron x-rays incident upon low atomic number absorbers, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol 48, issue 20, Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 3389-3409.

Mudie, S.T., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Tabuchi, M., Takeda, Y., Hester, J., 2003, High-resolution X-ray diffractometry investigation of interface layers in GaN/AIN structures grown on sapphire substrates, Surface Review and Letters, vol 10, issue 2 & 3, World Scientific Pubishing Company, Singapore, pp. 513-517.

Tan, Y.E., Paganin, D.M., Yu, R.P., Morgan, M.J., 2003, Wave-function reconstruction of complex fields obeying nonlinear parabolic equations, Physical Review E, vol 68, issue 6, The American Physical Society, College Park USA, pp. 066602-1-066602-9.

Thatcher, M.J., Morgan, M.J., 2002, Birefringent electroweak defects, International Journal of Modern Physics A, vol 17, issue 14, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, pp. 1953-1964.

Yu, R.P., Morgan, M.J., 2002, Vortices in a rotating dark matter condensate, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol 19, issue 17, Institute of Physics Publishing, UK, pp. L157-L166.

Pavlov, K., Kewish, C.M., Davis, J.R., Morgan, M.J., 2001, A variant on the geometrical optics approximation in diffraction enhanced tomography, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol 34, issue 10A, Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 168-172.

Kewish, C.M., Davis, J.R., Nikulin, A.Y., Benci, A., Pavlov, K., Morgan, M.J., Hester, J., 2001, Implementation of an analyser crystal method for x-ray diffraction tomography, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol 34, issue 7, Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 1059-1064.

Yu, R., Adam, N., Thatcher, M.J., Morgan, M.J., 2001, Numerical study of the stability of of U(1)xU(1)xZ2 Dirichlet defects, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol 18, issue 23, Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. L163-L169.

Pavlov, K., Kewish, C.M., Davis, J.R., Morgan, M.J., 2001, Simple method for estimating linear attenuation coefficients from x-ray diffraction tomography data, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol 72, issue 3, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY USA, pp. 1918-1920.

Pavlov, K.M., Kewish, C.M., Davis, J.R., Morgan, M.J., 2000, A New Theoretical Approach to X-ray Diffraction Tomography, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys, vol 33, IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol England, pp. 1596-1605.

Thatcher, M.J., Morgan, M.J., 2000, Frame Dragging in the Spacetime of a Superconducting Cosmic String, Physical Review D, vol 62, The American Physical Society, College Park MD USA, pp. 103514-1-103514-8.

Morgan, M.J., Osborne, C.F., Tirkel, A.Z., 2000, Geometric Phase of a Twisted Waveguide, Sing. J. Phys, vol 16 no 1, Institute of Physics, Singapore, pp. 81-87.

Thatcher, M.J., Morgan, M.J., 1999, Stability of String Defects in Models of Non-Abelian Symmetry Breaking, Physical Review D, vol 59, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 065017-1-065017-13.

Thatcher, M.J., Morgan, M.J., 1998, Superconducting Cosmic Strings with Exotic Spacetime, Physical Review D, vol 58, The American Physical Society, USA, pp. 0435051-0435059.

Ho, V.B., Morgan, M.J., 1997, A geometrical quantum phase in Newtonian gravity, Physics Letters A, vol 234, Elselvier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 86-90.

Cashion, J.D., Jinks, D., Jakovidis, G., Brown, J.L., Ganakas, G., Morgan, M.J., 1997, Arrangment of gold clusters in YBCO: Au, Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics, vol 8, Chapman & Hall, UK, pp. 39-42.

Kirby, B.J., Davis, J.R., Grant, J.R., Morgan, M.J., 1997, Monochromatic microtomographic imaging of osteoporotic bone, Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol 42, IOP Publishing, UK, pp. 1375-1385.

Thatcher, M.J., Morgan, M.J., 1997, Vortex scattering in the Abelian Higgs model, Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol 14, IOP Publishing, UK, pp. 3161-3175.

Conference Proceedings

Kitchen, M.J., Lewis, R., Hooper, S.B., Wallace, M.J., Siu, K.K.W., Williams, I.M., Irvine, S., Morgan, M.J., Paganin, D.M., Pavlov, K.M., Yagi, N., Uesugi, K., 2007, Dynamic studies of lung fluid clearance with phase contrast imaging, Ninth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation, 28/05/2006 to 02/06/2006, American Institute of Physics, USA, pp. 1903-1907.

Mudie, S.T., Pavlov, K.M., Morgan, M.J., Takeda, Y., Tabuchi, M., Hester, J., 2002, Analysis of GaN/AIN Buffer layers grown on sapphire substrates via statistical diffraction theory, 2002 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices Proceedings, 11/12/2002 to13/12/2002, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Piscataway USA, pp. 111-116.

Wells, P., Kirby, B.J., Davis, J.R., Grant, J.R., Morgan, M.J., Midgley, S., 1997, Analytical computed tomography, Proc. Permit '97 Conference, Adelaide, SA 8-11 September 1997, Australasian Radiation Protection Society, Adelaide SA Australia, p. 18A-4.

Other

Morgan, M.J., 1997, One picture is worth a thousand words: Teaching scientific visualisation, Reflecting on University Teaching: Academic's stories, Australian Government Publishing Service, Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Electron Tomography of Fields, Potentials and Sources..

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Paganin, D (Associate), Petersen, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

HOLOGRAPHIC VACUUM ENERGY.

Supervisors:

Balazs, C (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Is Dark Matter Superfluid Light?.

Supervisors:

Balazs, C (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Supersymmetric phenomenology.

Supervisors:

Balazs, C (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The application of Bayesian inference methods to parameter inference and model selection problems in weak scale supersymmetry.

Supervisors:

Balazs, C (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Vector Tomography and the Effects of Noise.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Paganin, D (Associate), Petersen, T (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Chandra, S.

Program of Study:

Circulant theory of the Radon transform. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Svalbe, I (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Student:

Kewish, C.

Program of Study:

ASPECTS OF X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND REFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Wells, P (Associate).

Student:

Kingston, A.

Program of Study:

Extension and application of finite discrete radon projection theory. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Svalbe, I (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Student:

Kitchen, M.

Program of Study:

Phase contrast X-ray imaging of the lung. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Lewis, R (Associate).

Student:

Meier, E.

Program of Study:

Optimisation of linear accelerator performance for single-pass free-electron laser operation. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Le Blanc, G (Associate).

Student:

Midgley, S.

Program of Study:

QUANTITATIVE X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Svalbe, I (Associate).

Student:

Mudie, S.

Program of Study:

CHARACTERISATION OF GROUP III NITRIDES USING HARD X-RAY SYNCHROTRON RADIATION. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Wells, P (Joint-Co).

Student:

Ruben, G.

Program of Study:

Vortex and texture defects in radiation and matter wavefields. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Paganin, D (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Student:

Siu, K.

Program of Study:

APPLICATIONS OF A NOVEL X-RAY PHASE RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUE. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Nikulin, A (Main), Morgan, M (Associate).

Student:

Thatcher, M.

Program of Study:

TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS IN CONDENSED MATTER AND COSMOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Svalbe, I (Associate).

Student:

Yu, R.

Program of Study:

NUMERICAL SUMULATIONS OF TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS IN R2+1, R3+1 AND R4+1 SPACETIME. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Morgan, M (Main), Svalbe, I (Associate).