From Rob Robinson, President of the Australian Institute of Physics
It’s that time again! National Science Week officially kicks off on Saturday and will run through to 18 August, with almost 800 events being held across Australia. This special bulletin brings you the physics highlights from National Science Week.
Elisabetta Barberio will be bringing physics to the public and school students in with AIP Women in Physics lectures being held in Adelaide, Launceston and Hobart. This is your chance to find out the real story behind the headlines: where does mass come from, and what can the Higgs Boson, the subatomic particle found by the Large Hadron Collider last year, tell us about this question.
For those of you in South Australia, at 5pm tomorrow (Friday 9 August) the AIP’s Tanya Monro is the guest speaker at the South Australian National Science Week launch. And Grace Portolesi, the South Australian Minister for Science and Information Economy, will present the AIP SA Branch Excellence in Physics Teaching award. I look forward to letting you know who the recipient is in my next bulletin.
Follow the links below to find out more about the selected events, and look for the AIP logo to see the events that the AIP is involved with.
You can view the full Science Week program at http://www.scienceweek.net.au, and you will also find plenty of great events after the 18 August too.
Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
AIP President
NOTES:
- If you have trouble reading the bulletin in this format, it’s also online at www.aip.org.au. You can also read it and RSS it on my blog here and on LinkedIn.
- Replies to this email go to Niall Byrne, Science in Public, whose team compiles and manages the bulletin on my behalf, and also handles corrections, updates and bounces. If you have news or other information for our next bulletin, due at the end of August, email Margie on margie@scienceinpublic.com.au by Friday 23 August.
In this bulletin:
Submissions to the bulletin and journal
Contributions and contact details
National Science Week events
National
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| CollisionJune 25 2013 – August 17 2013 | The Collision competition is back, we want YOU to imagine what New Physics will look like.Free |
ACT
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| Memes, blogs and videos: how social media has transformed the way we communicate scienceAugust 9 2013Finkel Lecture Theatre, Canberra, ACT | Spend an evening with some of the world’s top social media science communicators as they discuss and give you tips on how to present science and engage with an always-changing– and growing audience.Free, Schools event |
| Shopping Centre Science – Westfield BelconnenAugust 9 2013Westfield Shopping Centre Belconnen, Belconnen, ACT | Astonishing science at the shops! See science demonstrations with liquid nitrogen, rockets and extraordinary experiments with ordinary items – you can even try them at home – or get hands-on as you create and build with the Gravity Gizmo Challenge and other activities. Great family fun.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free |
| The Big Science ShowOffAugust 16 2013Tuggeranong Hyperdome, Centre Court, Tuggeranong, ACT | Awesome science at Tuggeranong Hyperdome. Shows at 4, 5, 6 and 7pm.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| Brian Cox – An Evening of Scientific PhenomenaAugust 17 2013Royal Theatre, Canberra, ACT | Live events conducted by Professor Brian Cox are a wonderment of an entirely new genre – his experiments, audience interactivity, stunning visuals and totally engaging manner leaves audiences enraptured, engaged, informed and occasionally besotted by him.Wheelchair access |
| Shopping Centre Science – Canberra CentreAugust 18 2013Canberra Centre, Canberra, ACT | Astonishing science at the shops! See science demonstrations with liquid nitrogen, rockets and extraordinary experiments with ordinary items – you can even try them at home – or get hands-on as you create and build with the Gravity Gizmo Challenge and other activities. Great family fun.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free |
New South Wales
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| Physics is FunAugust 9 2013 – August 16 2013Luna Park Sydney, Sydney, NSW | Fun excursions conducted by Physics is Fun at Luna Park in Sydney.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Schools event |
| The Indigenous Science Experience @ the Redfern Community CentreAugust 10 2013 – August 13 2013Redfern Community Centre, Redfern, NSW | Macquarie University’s National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP) presents four days of science related seminars, community days and activities sharing knowledge, skills, ideas and enthusiasm. The program looks at Indigenous contributions to science and science education.Free, Schools event |
| Wagga Wagga – dLab Projection PresentationAugust 13 2013Wagga Wagga City Council, Wagga Wagga , NSW | dLux will be bringing Cindi Drennan, an Australian multimedia artist, to Wagga Wagga to deliver workshops to young people in the dLab program the science of large scale projection where they will create their own architectural projection for the Council Chambers.Free |
| Brian Cox – An Evening of Scientific Phenomena BOOKED OUTAugust 15 2013 – August 16 2013Capitol Theatre, Sydney, NSW | Live events conducted by Professor Brian Cox are a wonderment of an entirely new genre – his experiments, audience interactivity, stunning visuals and totally engaging manner leaves audiences enraptured, engaged, informed and occasionally besotted by him.Wheelchair access |
| EV Prize – Racing for Science EngagementAugust 18 2013Newcastle Kart Raceway, Cameron Park, NSW | Racing for Science Engagement, the 2013 EV Prize, is Australia’s largest electric bike grand prix where teams design and build an electric bike to compete in a 1 hour race. It’s fun, exciting, sustainable, cleantech, transport options of the future.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free |
| Australian Museum Science Festival 2013: Primary School WeekAugust 20 2013 – August 22 2013Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW | At the Australian Museum Science Festival primary students attend activities that showcase a range of sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, maths, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, through an engaged learning experience.Wheelchair access |
Northern Territory
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| Celebrating ScienceAugust 16 2013Gray Primary School, Gray, NT | This will be a week of celebrating science through engagement with science experiments and scientists, culminating with a 2-hour extravaganza.Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
Queensland
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BrisScience – Scientist in the kitchen: How science is changing how we cook
August 12 2013The Edge, South Brisbane, QLD |
Dr Joel Gilmore will discuss the science AND demonstrate the methods behind cutting edge cuisine: from cooking the perfect steak in a rice cooker to how a whiskey sour is like a pavlova to the latest developments in molecular gastronomy (such as coffee caviar and green tea ravioli)!Family friendly, Schools event |
| Brian Cox – An Evening of Scientific Phenomena BOOKED OUTAugust 20 2013Concert Hall, South Bank, Brisbane, QLD | Live events conducted by Professor Brian Cox are a wonderment of an entirely new genre – his experiments, audience interactivity, stunning visuals and totally engaging manner leaves audiences enraptured, engaged, informed and occasionally besotted by him.Wheelchair access |
South Australia
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| National Science Week Launch in SAAugust 9 2013Goyder Pavilion Mezzanine, Adelaide Showground, Wayville, SA |
The launch of National Science Week in SA is always a festive occasion and this year we have the AIP’s Prof Tanya Monro as our fabulous keynote guest speaker.Also, the AIP SA Branch will be announcing the winner of their Excellence in Physics Teaching award at the National Science Week opening, to be presented by South Australian Minister for Science and Information Economy, the Hon. Grace Portolesi.Wheelchair access, Free |
| Big questions, Big facilities: behind the discovery of massAugust 13 2013The Science Exchange, Adelaide, SA |
What is mass? Where does it come from? In July 2012, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle. Is this the evidence for the elusive Higgs boson? Join Professor Elisabetta Barberio, the AIP’s 2013 Women in Physics lecturer, as she discusses this important discovery.Wheelchair access, Free |
| Hands-On Science Mania!August 17 and 18 2013; three shows each dayEducation Development Centre, Hindmarsh, SA | Hands-on science experiments for young people age 7 to 14. There’ll be lasers, test tubes, chemistry, physics, microscopes and more!Family friendly, Wheelchair access |
Tasmania
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| CSIRO Education Open DayAugust 17 2013CSIRO Education, Mt Nelson, TAS | Come along and see our spectacular science show and challenge yourself and your family with our science based activities and infamous corridor machines!Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| Big Question, Big Facilities: the Discovery of the Origin of Mass?August 20 2013Rory Spence Lecture Theatre, UTAS School of Architecture & Design, Inveresk, TAS |
AIP Women in Physics lecturer, Professor Elisabetta Barberio from the University of Melbourne will describe and discuss the last year’s announcement of Higgs boson discovery in the context of its implications for our quest to understand the origin of mass.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| CSIRO Spectacular Science Show at Kingston LINCAugust 20 2013Kingston LINC, Kingston, TAS | CSIRO Education presents the Spectacular Science Show – a mind-expanding exploration into the world of science. This event is a chance for you to get hands-on and explore some exciting experiments about energy and forces, and you’ll get to take home your very own creation.Family friendly, Free |
| Big Question, Big Facilities: the Discovery of the Origin of Mass?August 21 2013Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Sandy Bay, TAS |
AIP Women in Physics lecturer, Professor Elisabetta Barberio from the University of Melbourne will describe and discuss the last year’s announcement of Higgs boson discovery in the context of its implications for our quest to understand the origin of mass.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| Physics – A New DiscoveryAugust 22 2013Elizabeth College, HOBART, TAS |
Elisabetta Barberio, Professor of Physics at Melbourne University, and internationally recognised particle physicist will be presenting a 2013 Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Women in Physics lecture at Elizabeth College.Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
Victoria
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| The Search for ET and What it Means For UsAugust 10 2013 – August 25 2013St Paul’s Cathedral , Melbourne, VIC | Faith, evidence and extraterrestrial life.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free |
| The Melbourne Observatory and The Great Melbourne Telescope: Dr Richard GillespieAugust 10 2013Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield, VIC | Dr Gillespie will discuss his current research on the history of The Melbourne Observatory, one of Australia’s major scientific research institutions in the 19th century and home of the Great Melbourne Telescope (1868), which is currently undergoing restoration.Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| Laneway Learning: Kitchen CosmologyAugust 13 2013The Little Mule, Melbourne, VIC | If reality TV has taught us anything, it’s that cooking food gives life meaning. But can it explain the entire universe? In this class we will use food and cooking as a simple metaphor for the history of the universe: and what a delicious history it is!Family friendly |
| Super Science Spectacular and Maths Madness Problem Solving ChallengeAugust 14 2013Monash University, Churchill, VIC | Teams of Year 8/9 students from secondary schools across the region are invited to do battle over a series of mind-twisting, brain-bending maths and science problems.Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| Brian Cox – An Evening of Scientific Phenomena BOOKED OUTAugust 14 2013Hamer Hall, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC | Live events conducted by Professor Brian Cox are a wonderment of an entirely new genre – his experiments, audience interactivity, stunning visuals and totally engaging manner leaves audiences enraptured, engaged, informed and occasionally besotted by him.Wheelchair access, Schools event |
| The State of the Universe III: The Trilogy EditionAugust 16 2013ATC Building, Room ATC101, Hawthorn, VIC | Do you like a good trilogy? Assoc. Prof. Chris Fluke does, so to celebrate National Science Week, he will be hosting his third annual review of the State of the Universe. You can expect an evening of audience interaction and some unexpected insights into the last 12 months of progress in astronomy.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| ‘It’s Not Circus, it’s Science’August 17 2013Bendigo Discovery Science and Technology Centre, Bendigo, VIC | A show complete with acrobatics, clowning, physics and neuroscience. Teacup Tumble will show you science as you’ve never seen it before.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
Western Australia
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| Brian Cox – An Evening of Scientific Phenomena BOOKED OUTAugust 10 2013Riverside Theatre, Perth , WA | These LIVE shows presented by Professor Brian Cox are a wonderment of an entirely new genre – his experiments, audience interactivity, stunning visuals and totally engaging manner leaves audiences enraptured, engaged, informed and occasionally besotted by him.Schools event |
| Science Talk ShowAugust 10 2013North Perth Bowls Club, Woodville Reserve, North Perth, WA | Come down for a wondrous night jam-packed with insight & intrigue, audience polls & quizzical lols. Four guest-scientist interviews, house band, talks & demos and BBQ run by local science-art enthusiasts. The most playful pop science forum you’ll ever see.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free, Schools event |
| Curtin University @ WA National Science Week Launch 2013August 10 2013Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA | Come along to the Western Australian National Science Week Launch and try some hands-on science with the Curtin University Science and Engineering Outreach Team.Family friendly, Wheelchair access, Free |
| Science RoadshowAugust 12 2013 – August 16 2013Greenwood College , Greenwood, WA | Greenwood College teachers and students will visit local primary schools. The theme is Science it’s Everywhere. There will be demonstrations of how chemistry, physics, biology and technology are part of our everyday life.Free, Schools event |
| Josh Richards – Mars Needs Guitars!August 12, 14 and 15 2013Scitech Discovery Centre, Lotterywest Science Theatre, West Perth, WA | Comedian, physicist & former soldier Josh Richards is determined to become the first man on Mars, but he needs a team of 3 equally determined souls to join him. With his distinctively warped comedic style, Josh invites you to join him in a show that blends science, comedy and rock music.Wheelchair access |
Submissions to the bulletin and journal
My next bulletin will be sent out in late August 2013, and will cover events in September and beyond. I welcome contributions about activities, conferences and announcements by Thursday 25 August 2012. Please send your submissions to Margie Beilharz on margie@scienceinpublic.com.au or call (03) 9398 1416.
You can also submit your physics events directly to the AIP Events Calendar—they will be approved and publicly accessible in just a couple of days, and will also be included in the next month’s bulletin.
For more information on physics events go to the AIP Events Calendar.
If you know of anyone who would like to receive these updates, please feel free to forward this to them.
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Dr Rob Robinson
President of the Australian Institute of Physics
Phone: +61 (2) 9717-9204
Email: aip_president@aip.org.au
Contributions and contact details
Please get in contact if you have any queries about physics in Australia:
- Rob Robinson, AIP President aip_president@aip.org.au
- the AIP website for more information is www.aip.org.au (note this is a new site – don’t get stuck in the old one at aip.org.au)
- membership enquiries to the Secretariat aip@aip.org.au
- ideas for articles for Australian Physics to the Chair of the Editorial Board and Acting Editor Brian James, on b.james@physics.usyd.edu.au, or the editorial board, which is listed in your latest copy of the magazine
- contributions to the bulletin (e.g. activities, conferences and announcements) to Margie Beilharz from Science in Public on margie@scienceinpublic.com.au or call (03) 9398 1416, by the 23rd of the month prior
- the AIP Events Calendar to check what’s on, and also to submit your own physics-related events (any queries to Margie, as above)
- to receive these bulletins, please email Margie, as above (you don’t need to be a member of the institute).