Astronomy talks 2009

2009 is 400 years since Galileo turned a telescope to the heavens. The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture, marks this event.

Astronomers from The School of Physics regularly give talks on their work.

Details of Talks

Professor Anne Green

7/10/2009 Evening talk to Royal Society of NSW - "SKAMP - a telescope that looks back in time"

Professor Bryan Gaensler

1/05/2009 Evening talk to Astronomy Society of NSW

18-5-209 Evening talk to Macarthur Astronomical Society

1/09/2009 Public lecture at Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney

21/09/2009 Public lecture, Monash University

20/10/2009 NICTA Big Picture Seminar, Melbourne

Dr John O'Byrne

30/01/2008 University of Sydney Foundation Program (USFP) talk - Introduction to Astronomy

6/08/2007 University of Sydney Foundation Program (USFP) talk - Light, Telescopes and Resolution

12/06/2008 "Why do Physics? Where does it really lead?" workshop in Science Teachers Workshop

25/06/2008 Stars, "Scientists in Schools" program, St Aloysius College

3/07/2008 MyScience mentors visit, Quakers Hill Public School

7/08/2008 Sutherland Astronomical Society, "Adaptive Optics and Astro-politics"

18/08/2008 Grey's Point Public School (National Science Week) "What is a planet?"

28/08/2008 St Patrick's College Strathfield Careers Information night, " Science as a Career" advisor

27/11/2008 St Aloysius College, "Scientists in Schools" program

5/2008, 10/2008 Astronomical Observing Nights, Mt Wilson

Dr Scott Croom
21/04/2009 Evening talk to Northern Sydney Astronomical Society - Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

2/05/2009 Evening talk to Macquarie Anglican Churches - Big bangs, big crunches and big rips

2/09/2009 Evening talk to Sutherland Astronomical Society - Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

Dr Helen Johnston
24/7/2009 International Science School 'Genes to Galaxies' - The private life of a proton

19/3/2009 General Studies course, NIDA, "The solar system: What is it and how it got that way"

12-13/6/2008 "Astrophysics" workshop in Science Teachers Workshop

20/5/2008 Evening talk to Northern Sydney Astronomical Society - The cosmic alchemist: the story of the formation of the elements

10/9/2008 Artarmon Public School - Planets

Professor Dick Hunstead

8/1/2009 and 22/1/2009 National Youth Science Forum

18/2/2009 Evening talk to Western Sydney Astronomical Society

Professor Tim Bedding

30/5/2009 Evening talk at Sydney Observatory

18/11/2009 Evening talk to Western Sydney Amateur Astronomy Group (WSAAG)

Professor Geraint Lewis

6/5/2009 Music and the Cosmos (University of Sydney)

2/5/2009 Cutting Edge Cosmology to Catholic HSC School Teachers

29/4/2009 How to (legally) travel faster than the speed of light (PHYSoc, University of Sydney)

A Universe made for me? The anthropic principle in Astronomy
29th September (AIP/ASA/IYA Talk) - University of Western Australia
2nd July (AIP/ASA/IYA Talk) - University of Tasmania
28th May (AIP/ASA/IYA Talk) - USA

17/6/2009 The influence of dark energy and dark matter on our universe (WSAAG)

20/6/2009 Dark Energy: Will we ever know what it is (HSC Cosmology Residential)

20/7/2009 The birth, life and death of galaxies (USyd ISS)