Rod Quantock, Comedian, Writer and Climate Change Activist
Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,…
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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…
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 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…
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…
Emeritus Professor Ted Moore
As a pioneer in paleoceanography who has contributed to three generations of scientific ocean drilling programs, Ted Moore questions whether lessons learned from Earth's past will help us better appreciate…
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.…
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…
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…
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 David Suzuki, Chair, David Suzuki Foundation
In this last lecture tour of Australia, acclaimed environmentalist and scientist Dr David Suzuki tells the story of his passion for the planet – a passion that for several decades he has brought…
Professor Warwick J McKibbin, Executive Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Fifth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J McKibbin. Sir Leslie Melville’s legacy includes the design and establishment of…
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…
Dr Barry Green, Research Program Officer, Fusion Association Agreements, Directorate-General for Research, European Commisison
Fusion energy powers the sun and the stars, but it is yet to be tapped by man. Countries representing over half the world’s population plan to construct and operate a large experimental device,…
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