Aug
24
7:00 pm19:00

Dark Matter in the Pub, Sydney

Sydney, don't miss the darkest night of your life, with secrets unveiled at the "Dark Matter in the Pub" event on Saturday, August 24th!

Eight remarkable local scientists sharing their research and experiences on the mysteries of dark matter.

This "dark" night promises a captivating lineup from dark matter physicists, featuring a mix of creative delights—quizzes, comedy, demos, songs, and much more!

When: 7 PM Saturday 24th August, 2024

Where: Kent St. Hotel, 349 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

How Much: Free! Thanks to generous sponsorship by:

  •  ARC Centre for Dark Matter Particle Physics

  • Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, School of Physics, ANU

  • Australian National University

But registrations are essential - ie, get a ticket, places are limited!

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MC’ed by Dr Phil Dooley of Phil Up On Science 

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Aug
23
7:00 pm19:00

Dark Matter in the Pub, Canberra

Don't miss the darkest night of your life, with secrets unveiled at the "Dark Matter in the Pub" event on Friday, August 23rd!

Eight remarkable local scientists will be sharing their research and experiences on the mysteries of dark matter.

This "dark" night promises a captivating lineup from dark matter physicists, featuring a mix of creative delights—quizzes, comedy, demos, songs, and much more!

When: 7PM Friday August 23rd, 2024

Where: Badger & Co, Kambri, ANU campus; 156-11, Joplin Lane, Kambri Precinct, ACT 0200, Australia

How Much: Free! Thanks to generous sponsorship by:

  •  ARC Centre for Dark Matter Particle Physics

  • ACT National Science Week Grant

  • Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, School of Physics, ANU

  • Australian National University

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MC’ed by Dr Phil Dooley of Phil Up On Science 
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Aug
14
6:30 pm18:30

What is Dark Matter? An evening with physicist Dr Elisabetta Barberio

Celebrate National Science Week with Merri-Bek Libraries!

Have you ever wondered what dark matter is but were too afraid to ask?

Come along to meet Dr Elisabetta Barberio, the ‘dark matter detective.’ Dr Barberio is a physicist at Melbourne University and the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. She was also part of the team at the Large Hadron Collider that discovered the Higgs Boson or ‘God Particle’ in 2012.

Dr Barberio will discuss what dark matter is and the role it might play in our universe. She will also chat about why an underground laboratory in the abandoned gold mines of Stawell is the perfect place to discover more about how our universe works.

Dr Barberio’s talk is open to all.

A National Science Week event, presented with the support of the Inspiring Victoria program.

  • Wednesday 14 Aug

  • 6:30pm - 7:30pm (AEST)

  • Brunswick Library
    Corner Sydney Road and Dawson Street, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia

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Spooktacular Space - Things That Go Bump in the Dark!
Oct
31
5:30 pm17:30

Spooktacular Space - Things That Go Bump in the Dark!

Join us for an exhilarating journey through the cosmos as we present "Spooktacular Space: Things That Go Bump in the Dark," a Public Lecture co-organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, and the Centre of Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University.

📅 Date: October 31, 2023

⏰ Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

📍 Venue: AMDC 301 | AMDC Sky Lounge, Swinburne University

Event Highlights:

  • Panel Discussion on mysterious cosmic phenomena

  • Delectable themed canapés, grazing platters and drinks

  • Dress Up for Halloween (Costumes Optional - but we would love to see them!)

  • Giveaways and a costume contest

  • Stargazing with telescopes on the terrace (if the weather permits)

  • Networking in the Sky Lounge *sort of under the stars

*This is a FREE event, registration is required for catering purposes

Open to all ages - Families are welcome!

🎙️ Meet Our MC, Sara Webb:

Dr. Webb is an Astronomer and Science communicator dedicated to exploring and sharing the cosmos. She is a cosmic detective looking for exploding stars and other mysterious events in the night sky. When she isn't researching, she is either leading the Swinburne payloads for the International Space Station or talking/writing all things space news! 

🌠 Our Panel Speakers:

Professor Matthew Bailes: Professor Matthew Bailes is the co-discoverer of Fast Radio Bursts and the founder of the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. He has been working on relativistic astrophysics for almost four decades and has a passion for public outreach and building radio astronomy instrumentation.

Yuanming Wang: Yuanming Wang is a PhD graduate of the University of Sydney and a current postdoc researcher at Swinburne University. She is working on finding rapidly changing radio signals in the sky with ASKAP telescope located in Western Australia. Her recent achievements include discovering the most luminous pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. 

Renee Key: Renee Key spends her time looking for minuscule black holes born in the very first second of the universe. Her PhD research is to detect the fastest and faintest bumps in the brightness of millions of stars; some of which may be caused by an intervening black hole bending spacetime and stellar light. If many of these mini black holes are found in the outer Milky Way, they may account for Dark Matter.

Secure your spot today and be part of an unforgettable evening of Spooktacular Space exploration! See you under the Halloween skies! 🎃

Acknowledgement & Understanding

*By registering to this event, you acknowledge and give consent that your email address will be added to the OzGrav database. In addition, you acknowledge and consent that photos will be taken on the day and your image may be used in future promotion of OzGrav events. If you do not consent, please let the photographer and event organiser know.

Code of Conduct can be found here: https://www.ozgrav.org/code-of-conduct.html

If you have any questions, please email ozgrav@swin.edu.au

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Aug
8
to 26 Aug

National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip is a travelling science show, bringing all things quantum and dark matter to a town near you!  To coincide with National Science Week, a team of scientists and science communicators will travel from Brisbane to Perth, delivering engaging presentations, hands-on activities, pub quizzes and more!

What: The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip
When: 8–26 August 2022
Where: Brisbane to Perth, via 30 cities and towns around southern Australia
Why: To inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers, and highlight the potential of quantum technologies and dark matter discovery for the future of our society

The nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe, and Australia is a key player in the quest to figure it out.  Dark matter accounts for 85% of all the matter in the Universe, but we don’t yet know what it is.  Quantum technologies are crucial in the hunt for dark matter, and they’re already used in smart phones and cars, medical imaging, manufacturing and navigation.  But today’s technologies capture only a small fraction of the potential of quantum physics.

With thanks to National Science Week grant funding from the Australian Government and Inspiring Australia, scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), which have bases in multiple states and territories, will visit community hubs along a route from Brisbane to Perth, connecting their research centres.

Visit the road trip website for more information: www.qdmroadtrip.org

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July
11
to 5 Aug

DARK MATTERS - 2023 exhibition at Science Gallery Melbourne - open call

Science Gallery Melbourne is inviting proposals for projects to be included in their 2023 exhibition ‘Dark Matters’. This open call is extended to everyone, from every level of experience and from every discipline and every culture. First Peoples, Queer, CALD, BIPOC, Neuro-diverse, Disabled People and people from the Deaf community are encouraged to apply.

 This open call invites people to propose projects, tools, scenarios, and relational experiences that enable a deeper exploration of this extraordinary experience we call life and nature and all the dark matter that flows under it, runs through it and collides with it.

 Projects have a chance to be included in the 2023 exhibition DARK MATTERS, curated in collaboration with Mónica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN and a curatorial panel of young people. The exhibition will be developed in collaboration with Arts at CERN and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics with the support of an expert panel.

The Open call closes on 5th August, 2022 11:59 PM AEST.

For more information and how to apply visit https://lnkd.in/dKyR3gMP

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Oct
30
2:00 pm14:00

Join our Dark Matter Day event

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The ARC Centre of Excellence in Dark Matter Particle Physics is inviting its members and the public to help celebrate Dark Matter Day in a live, all-ages event on Saturday 30th October - 2-4:30pm (AEDT)*.

Activities include:

  • an introduction to dark matter

  • science talks about dark matter

  • a live Q&A with dark matter scientists

  • kids art activities and a competition

  • resources for parents and educators

  • laboratory tours - including the Stawell underground laboratory

Register here to receive a link to Gather town and further instructions about access and the activities.

*the live activities will run between 2-4:30pm on the 30th but Gather town will also be accessible for attendees to explore on Sunday the 31st October.

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Aug
19
6:00 pm18:00

National Science Quiz featuring Alan Duffy

Hosted by Charlie Pickering, of ABC’s The Weekly Program, the National Science Quiz brings together six of Australia’s best scientists and science communicators as they battle it out for the honour to be the 2021 Quiz champions.

The best part, though, is that you can do more than just watch this online event. We’ve made this an interactive event that will allow you to test your scientific knowledge and reasoning and play along for a chance to win cash and prizes for the top 10 winners, with first prize: $1,000 cash!

Register here.

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Aug
18
2:00 pm14:00

National Science Week - Mid-Afternoon Masterclass: 'Lighting the Dark Universe'

"Dark Matter” is a physics term you may have heard before, but if you don’t know exactly what it is, you’re not alone - the top particle physicists in the world have exactly the same question!

In this talk, William Melbourne and Madeleine Zurowski explain how dark matter might interact with the world of physics they know and love, and how scientists might be able to try and spot it. They address the challenges of searching for such a rare signal, and the local effort to detect it that is ramping up deep underground in Victoria.

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Aug
17
7:00 pm19:00

It’s about Time — Clocks, quantum technology and the quest for a physical theory of everything

Location: The UWA Albany Function Room, The University of Western Australia Albany Campus

Prof Michael Tobar knows the importance of time. His cutting-edge research involves measuring time to improve international clock technology and precision measurements, as well as undertaking laboratory research to test the fundamental rules of physics.

Prof Tobar directs the Quantum Technology and Dark Matter Research Laboratories at The University of Western Australia. The research group are world leaders in precision and quantum measurement technologies and its application to tests of fundamental physics.

Such experiments include precision experiments to convert dark matter into light, measure quantum effects in macroscopic masses to search for a theory of quantum gravity, precision tests of the Einstein’s Equivalence Principle including experiments to see if the speed of light is in fact constant, and high frequency gravitational wave detection experiments at frequencies much higher than is currently detected world-wide. This work includes the necessary development of some of the world’s best clocks and sensors, including the ultra-precise sapphire clock and interferometer noise measurement systems.

In this lecture, Professor Tobar will give an overview of this work, including world-wide collaborations to hunt for the elusive dark matter particles, which are observed to exist in the cosmos, and indeed must exist in this lecture venue where the presentation is undertaken here and now.

As well as undertaking ground-breaking experiments in his laboratories, his research group is part of the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) collaboration, the biggest world-wide collaboration to search for axion dark matter.

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Aug
16
6:00 pm18:00

University of Melbourne Science Dean's Lecture - Is scientific exploration worth the cost?

There are many costs associated with science. From the decades spent on a single project, to ethical considerations, plus the overarching question of return on financial investment. In this National Science Week edition of our Dean’s Lecture Series, we’ve asked leading scientists to respond to the question ‘is scientific exploration worth the cost?’

Our speakers include:

  • Dr Christopher Gyngell - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics and Team Leader in Biomedical Ethics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

  • Professor Elisabetta Barberio - Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics

  • Dr Jared Field - McKenzie Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics

Speeches will be followed by a panel Q&A, moderated by Tanya Ha.

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Aug
16
to 20 Aug

The Quantum Road Trip

Eight physicists from the QDM Lab at UWA will embark on a Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip during National Science Week to visit schools and communities in the southwest of Western Australia.

With funding from National Science Week Small Grants, ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) and ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics, high school students and interested members of the public will have the opportunity to be informed and entertained in all matters dark and quantum.

The team will set off in a minibus from The University of Western Australia on Monday 16 August and present activites to students ranging from Year 7 to Year 12 over the five day trip, including a Community Fair at Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury.

The participating schools are:

  • Wagin District High School

  • Denmark Senior High School

  • Mt Barker Community College

  • Albany Senior High School

  • Newton Moore Senior High School (Community STEM Fair)

  • Nannup District High School

  • Dalyellup College

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