A magazine article first piqued Leonie Einfalt’s interest in dark matter. As a secondary student in Austria, the article inspired her to write her final project on the mysterious substance.
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After attending a public lecture on dark matter by Professor Elisabetta Barberio at the University of Melbourne in 2016, I became fascinated by this area of scientific research. My interest was initially sparked by the site of the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory, located deep within the subterranean depths of an active gold mine in Western Victoria, almost directly underneath my childhood home.
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Teachers, students and members of the public from around the world will get a sneak peek at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) in a livestream event.
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Taiwanese artist Su Wenchi’s Sensing Dark Matter VR experience that merged art and physics was a resounding success.
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A fridge that reaches temperatures 300 times cooler than outer space is due to be installed in the CELLAR facility in the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) by mid-2025.
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Professor Nicole Bell is the outgoing President of the Australian Institute of Physics, and the leader of the Theory Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics.
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Centre researcher Theresa Fruth is about to set sail on the trip of a lifetime to Antarctica as part of the Homeward Bound leadership program for women and non-binary people in STEMM.
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Research Director at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNF), Italy, Dr Catalina Curceanu is visiting the Dark Matter Centre as the recipient of the Lyle Fellowship. She discusses her visit, the collaboration it has fostered and why she loves Australia.
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Researchers have travelled deep underground to examine how cosmic rays influence the phase noise and performance of timekeeping technology.
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Centre members from across Australia and internationally attended the 2024 Annual Workshop in Wollongong.
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The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory has reveived a Victorian Government Enabling Tourism Grant to explore the feasibility of establishing a state-of-the-art Science Outreach Centre in Stawell.
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Elisabetta Barberio, Paul Jackson and Lindsey Bignell will lead research projects that received ARC LIEF funding, announced on November 6.
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To celebrate Dark Matter Day on October 31, our Centre researchers explain their role in the global search to undersand dark matter.
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In the lead up to Dark Matter Day, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM) will join forces with CERN Laboratory in Geneva and European Southern Observatory (ESO) Supernova in Germany to give educators the tools to teach their students about dark matter.
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Enjoy vieiwing the highlights of the 2024 National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip.. The photographs were captured by road trippers as they crossed the country, from Queensland, through the Northern Territory, via remote communities, and finishing in Western Australia.
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This year’s science outreach event “Dark Matter in the Pub” was a joint event between the Centre’s Australian National University and The University of Sydney nodes. It took place on two consecutive evenings during National Science Week in August..
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Professor Michael Tobar of The University of Western Australia has been awarded the Harrie Massey Medal and Prize.
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A world leader in underground laboratory development was among international guests and Australian dark matter scientists who toured the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory on Wednesday.
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EQUS and CDM held another highly successful National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip in 2024, visiting the Northern Territory and Indigenous schools and communities for the first time.
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Centre members Robert James of The University of Melbourne and Theresa Fruth of The University of Sydney are part of an experiment that has set the tightest limits yet on the properties of dark matter.
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