Public Lectures

20 August 2009
Hunting for Antimatter: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
Public talk - Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? Would you shake the hand of an alien from another galaxy??
COST: Free
RSVP: Ring 9351 3472 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au with your name and number of seats required.

6 May 2009
Music and the Cosmos
It was a magic night when science and music met at Music and the Cosmos - a Sydney Science Forum event, featuring leading astronomers from the University of Sydney's School of Physics and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Brass Ensemble.

30 April 2009
The Universe from Beginning to End
Public talk - Professor Schmidt will show how astronomical data are the pieces for a puzzling picture, where 96% of the Cosmos is made up of two mysterious substances: Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
COST: Free
RSVP: Ring 9351 3472 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au with your name and number of seats required.

13 November 2008
New Horizons missions to Pluto
Public talk - Pluto - the planet that used to be. But does that matter? To the scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons mission, Pluto and its moon Charon hold unlocked secrets about ice dwarf planets, the least investigated but most common type of planet in our solar system.
COST: Free
RSVP: Ring 9351 3472 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au with your name and number of seats required.

15 May 2008, 6.30pm
Getting inside the Aurora
Public talk - Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, The University of Sydney.
Presented by Professor James Labelle, University of Sydney International Visiting Research Fellow and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA.
Come to this fully illustrated public lecture and find out what the Aurora is all about from a scientist who flies rockets loaded with scientific instruments through the ionosphere as it glows and shimmers with Auroral activity.
COST: Free, with booking.
RSVP: 9351 3383 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au with name and number of seats required.

12 February 2008, 6.30 pm
Gold, Gold, Gold for Physics
Public talk - Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, The University of Sydney.
Presented by Professor Shuyan Xu, Denison Distinguished Visitor in the School of Physics and Professor of Physics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Kings, Presidents, foreign secretaries and Nobel Prize laureates, satellite news link-ups, and 800 delegates from 85 countries. A meeting of the UN? No, it's the Physics Olympiad and the delegates are 16 year old students solving theoretical and practical physics problems, and loving it.
Light refreshments will be served at 6.15pm.
COST: Free, with booking
RSVP: 9351 3472 or outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au with name and number of seats required.

7 December 2007
Russian Politics meets Quantum Field Theory
Public talk - Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, The University of Sydney.
Presented by Professor Anatoly Shabad, Denison Distinguished Visitor in the School of Physics and Professor at the P.N.Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
What happens when a quantum field theorist enters the volatile arena of Russian politics in the 1990s? To find out, join Professor Shabad as he recounts, as both witness and participant, the fall of the Soviet empire and the subsequent Russian revolution of the nineties.

3 October 2007, 6.00 pm
Music & the Cosmos
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Macquarie Street (cnr Bridge St), Sydney
With special guest compere Robyn Williams, leading astronomers from the University of Sydney - Tim Bedding, Peter Tuthill and Geraint Lewis - will give a special lecture on the birth of the universe. They will be introduced by Imré Pallo conducting the Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra .... more
Tickets $25 adults/$18 concession includes complimentary wine courtesy of Roberts Estate Wines.
Bookings: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney or 02 8256 2222 or www.cityrecitalhall.com