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Professor Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers" - Paul Erdos The prime numbers are a fascinating blend of both structure…
Emeritus Professor Ian Ferguson , Forest & Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne
The sustainability of the Ash forests of Victoria is contentious for a number of reasons, not least because of the pressures of population and economic growth, and climate change on their diverse uses.…
Professor Reinhard Genzel, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Evidence has been accumulating for several decades that many galaxies harbor central mass concentrations that may be in the form of black holes with masses between a few million to a few billion time…
Professor Timothy C. Beers, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, Michigan State University
Human beings are, by nature, curious about their beginnings. Often, such questions of "how we came to be" are confined to the origins of modern society, or the development of human beings as a species.…
Professor Daniel G. Nocera, Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The supply of secure, clean, sustainable energy is arguably the most important scientific and technical challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Rising living standards of a growing world population…
Dr Guy Pearse, Environmental Advocate & Author
In this lecture Dr Guy Pearse will spoke about the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources - coal especially, asking how has this distorted our national…
Dr Alan Stern, Principal investigator, New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, NASA
New Horizons is the first scientific investigation to obtain a close look at Pluto and its moon Charon. Scientists hope to find answers to basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior…
Andaleeb Akhand, Amanda Alford, Hae-Young (Connie) Chong, Kirill Talanine, Tamie Balaga, Thomas Conyers, Contestants in the 2008 Lions Oratory Competition
The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU…
Dr Jim Fanson, Kepler Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion
Dr Fanson speaks about the Kepler project, NASA's first mission capable of discovering Earth-size planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Scheduled for launch in early 2009, Kepler seeks to answer…
Graham Dennis, Amrita Prasad, Maurits Evers, Guy Micklethwait, Lachlan Rogers, ANU Physics PhD students
As part of National Science Week, the ANU College of Science recently pitted 5 Physics PhD students against each other in a competition to showcase their presentation skills, passion and ability to…
Professor Joseph Silk FRS, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford
Professor Silk discusses how our understanding of cosmology has evolved in recent years from the old Big Bang cosmology of the Einstein era. Observations have shown us that the universe is mostly dark.…
Moderated by Professor Will Steffen, Director, ANU Fenner School of Enfionment and Society; Convener, ANU Institute for Environment
Will emissions trading harm or benefit the economy? Can emissions trading get Australia to a low emissions future? What is the right way toward an effective post-Kyoto international scheme? This…
Associate Professor Janette Lindesay, Professor Robert Dunbar, Professor Malcolm McCulloch
Leading expert scientists from ANU and Stanford University presented critiques of the ABC televised program from the previous evening entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. The forum was then opened…
Dr Andrew Glikson, Department of Earth and Marine Science and Planetary Science Institute, ANU
Throughout Earth’s history, mass extinctions of species were closely related to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere and the oceans. These variations were controlled by heat from the…
Clive Hamilton, Executive Director, Australia Institute
2007 may be the year in which climate change has hit the headlines and the environment has become the political issue, but how much do we know really know about the backroom deals, lobbying and power…
Jim Erickson, Dan Johnston and Terry Z. Martin, The MRO Team
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was launched in 2005 to search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. While other Mars missions have shown that…
Vanessa Woods, Writer, researcher, freelance journalist
Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed…
Professor Edward PJ van den Heuvel, Professor of Astronomy, University of Amsterdam
The Earth is hit each day by the bright flash of gamma rays lasting from a fraction of a second to several minutes. These bursts originate in distant galaxies as stars collapse and form black holes.…
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Juilius Sumner Miller Fellow, University of Sydney
Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently…
Professor David J Stevenson
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago with its initial condition greatly affected by the trauma of giant impacts. In this lecture, Professor David Stevenson discusses how this trauma affects the similarities…
Dr Kristen Pammer, School of Psychology, ANU College of Science
There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way. The brain is probably the most complex thing on earth, and yet we know very little about how…
Professor Richard Arculus, Head of Department Earth & Marine Sciences, ANU College of Science
The way the sea floor is mapped has been revolutionised in the last decade by high resolution, multi-beam sonar systems,…
Professor Penny Sackett , Director, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories, ANU College of Science
In the centuries-old quest to refine human understanding of the universe in which we live, the…
Professor Suzanne Cory, Director, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
In this lecture, Professor Cory will give a personal perspective on her career, covering how she came to become a molecular biologist and how her fascination with chromosomes led her into cancer research…
Professor Jenny Graves, Group Leader, Comparative Genomics Research, School of Biological Sciences, ANU College of Science
In humans and other mammals, females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. The Y chromosome is male determining because…
Dr Tim Wetherell , Science Communicator, ANU College of Science
Science and art might sound like vastly different disciplines, but Dr Tim Wetherell from ANU believes they are both…
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