Events - Emc2
These should be interesting, available online if you cant attend.
ROYAL SOCIETY - RADIO NZ E=mc² LECTURE SERIES
May 4 - June 15.
This public lecture series is being hosted in Auckland, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Wangarei, Timaru, Nelson and Wellington. Each lecture will be broadcast on National Radio at 2.04 p.m. the Sunday following the lecture. The lectures will be available as audiostreams on the website following broadcast.
Star Birth and Death: The Crucible of Life
Dr Matt Visser, Victoria University of Wellington
Wednesday 4th May, 6.00 p.m.
Lady Fisher Theatre, Epsom Girls Grammar School, Silver Road, Auckland
Cosmology is the study of the overall history and development of our universe --- and it is one of the great successes of 20th century physics and astronomy that we can say quite a bit about what happened when, and construct a timetable for the growth and ageing of our universe. Dr Visser will try to explain key features of the big bang in clear language, and relate them to Einstein's miracle years of 1905 and 1915.
Keeping Time: The Ancients
Associate Professor Robert Hannah, Otago University
Wednesday 11th May, 7.00 p.m.
Spiers Centre, Palmerston North Boys High School, Featherston Street
The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends in part on the possession of a technology which can measure the passage of time, and of a calendar by means of which a society can organise its activities. This is as true of tiny, subsistence-level societies as it is of large, highly urbanised ones. Different interests - agricultural, religious, political, economic - produce different means of coordinating human activities and the natural passage of the days, the seasons and the year. Different technologies may emphasise one view of time over another. Robert Hannah will examine the different means which have been developed by various societies in ancient Europe. He will pay particular attention to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Italy, as the developments there influenced time-keeping theories and mechanisms down to the present day.
Galileo's Dilemma: Science and Religion
Dr John Stenhouse, Department of History, Otago University
Wednesday 18th May, 7.00 p.m.
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Queen Street, New Plymouth
Age Of The Earth: The Victorians
Dr Hamish Campbell, Geological and Nuclear Sciences/Te Papa
Wednesday 25th May, 7.00 p.m.
Cafler Suite Forum North, Rust Avenue, Whangarei
To See What Cannot Be Seen: Rutherford and The Discovery of the Atom
Professor Paul Callaghan, Victoria University of Wellington
Tuesday 31st May, 7.00 p.m.
Landing Services Building, Timaru
Einstein: Who Was He, And What Were His Ideas About The Universe?
Richard Hall, Phoenix Astronomical Society and Dr Lesley Hall, Victoria University
Wednesday 8th June, 7.00 p.m.
School of Music, 48 Nile Street, Nelson
The Mad, Mad World of Schrodinger's Cat: Why No One Understands Quantum Mechanics
Professor Tom Barnes, The University of Auckland
Wednesday 15th June, broadcast live, 7.00 p.m.
Hunter Building, Victoria University, Wellington
