Cosmic Heartbeats, Absent Aliens & Dark Matter Drugs: PHYSICS IN THE PUB - WA
Schedule
Tue Jul 02 2024 at 05:30 pm
UTC+08:00Location
UWA Refectory | Perth, WA
On a chilly winter night, local physicists are on hand to warm you up, with high powered lasers, and throbbing pulsars.The researchers are getting creative about sharing their work, so grab a drink and a feed at the UWA Refectory and get ready to hear all about the amazing work being done at the local institutions.
MC Phil Dooley will keep the evening moving along - no long words, or scary equations, just a lot of fun!
THE LINE UP
Ian Kemp (ICRAR/Curtin) has some bad news - he reckons we’re never going to meet any aliens. Ohhhh :-(
Fiona Panther (Forrest/UWA Physics) has a cosmic stethoscope, and studies the beating heart of the universe: pulsars.
Adelle Goodwin (Curtin) likes watching stars being destroyed by supermassive black holes. Don’t we all!
Jeremy Bourhill (UWA/EQUS/CDM) is commercialising research using quantum systems to look for dark matter. But who would buy that? The pharmaceutical industry, of course.
There a lot of things on this planet. A lot of planets around the sun. A lot of suns in this galaxy, and a lot of galaxies in the Universe. Sabine Bellstedt (ICRAR) is trying to take a picture of all of them. (She's doing a galaxy survey)
Ryan van den Berg (Curtin) has come up with much better way to teach physics - get ready to learn everything, right from scratch.
Aryan Gupta (UWA) has a pitch for Hollywood: Physics! All the stories, the characters - and he’s even got the cast sorted.
Jacob Martin (Curtin) looks for natural hydrogen using Raman lidar. To really understand Raman, he visited the birthplace of the Indian scientist.
Composer Claude Debussy was inspired by the moon to write Clair de Lune. Imagine if he had seen the other 200 or more moons in the solar system, asks Dr Phil Dooley (ANU | Phil Up On Science)
Mark Beal has written a poem that sums up the night, and all of physics.
How Much: Free thanks to our generous sponsors
Major Sponsor : Forrest Foundation
Median Sponsors:
ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)
ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM)
Minor Sponsor: Australian Institute of Physics WA Branch
Grab a chair, some friends, a drink and a bite to eat and watch the show. The action starts at 6pm, get there from 5:30pm to secure your seats.
Registration is essential to manage capacity, please register here: https://events.humanitix.com/physics-in-the-pub-wa-edition
Where is it happening?
UWA Refectory, Roll'd, Crawley WA 6009, Australia,Perth, Western Australia
