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2040 special screening with Q&A

South

16 October 2019

Clarence Climate Action invites you to a special screening of 2040. Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on journey to explore how the future would look by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best…

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Projects in the Pub: Hobart

South

15 October 2019

Do you like to hear about interesting engineering projects and the challenges and learning outcomes from these projects? Do you like to catch up with other engineers in a more relaxed environment (than the office,…

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National Missing Persons Hackathon 2019

South

11 October 2019

What is the National Missing Persons Hackathon? The AustCyber Canberra Innovation Node has partnered with the Australian Federal Police, the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre and Trace Labs to conduct a missing person capture the flag (CTF) event (aka Hackathon) on Friday 11th…

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr Tilman Ruff AO

South

10 October 2019

Physician, academic and co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons presents a special public lecture.

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Unimportant? Six Physics Topics and Why They Matter

South

10 October 2019

Following the publication of two books, commissioned by World Scientific Publishing Company, Professor Robert Delbourgo will pick out six topics from his first book that have resonated within the physics community: Barcarolle – On stability…

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Big Cyber Trends and National Security

South

8 October 2019

Fergus Hanson is the Head of the International Cyber Policy Centre. He is the author of Internet Wars and has published widely on a range of cyber and foreign policy topics. He was a Visiting Fellow at…

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The International Research Ship Operators (IRSO) forum

South

7 October 2019 - 11 July 2019

The International Research Ship Operators (IRSO) forum is a group of research ship operators representing 49 organisations from 30 countries who manage over 100 of the world’s leading marine scientific research vessels. IRSO membership is…

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Book launch: Helping Hands

South

3 October 2019

Dedicated to those who give their time, patience, and love to others when it is needed most; Helping Hands celebrates the work of wildlife carers and the captivating critters in their care. Featuring photographs of young orphan…

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Science in the Pub: Bioethics

South

3 October 2019

Bioethics: how to save the masses without forsaking the individual #SciPubBioethics Panellists Dr Rebekah McWhirter, Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Genetics, Faculty of Law, and Menzies Institute for Medical Research, UTas Dr Lisa Eckstein,…

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The Dish Redux – from the Apollo Mission to Earth surveying

South

1 October 2019

Peter Smith Lecture 2019 – Dr. Lucia McCallum Whether we are talking about climate change, sea level rise or the exploration of natural resources, “Earth measurement” and “precise positioning” have long found their way into…

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Beer Aquatic: Where science meets seamanship

South

29 September 2019

Reflections on 20 years aboard R/V Aurora Australis, Captain Gerry O’Doherty Beer Aquatic is based on ‘Café Scientifique’ that started in the UK in the late nineties. The concept goes back to the salons of…

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Gravitational Wave Astronomy: from laser detectors to cosmic clocks

South

26 September 2019

In 2015, gravitational waves were observed for the first time from the collision of two black holes a billion light years away. Each black hole was about 30 times the mass of our Sun. Since…

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