Sep
01
2009
By David Finnigan
Clio Cresswell’s (packed out) ‘Mathematics and Sex’ talk at the Ultimo Library was a brief introduction to that fringe territory where Mathematics is being applied to the social sciences.
Is Clio Cresswell a hormonally crazy mathematician? According to Clio Cresswell: No. Image: abc.net.au
It’s an intriguing area and my interest was piqued as soon as Cresswell cited a paper entitled The Mathematics of Marital Conflict. So how does Maths connect with marital conflict?
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Jun
11
2009
Hunting for Antimatter: Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 Public Talk
When: 20 August 2009, Time: 6:30pm
Info: Why is there something instead of nothing? Quarks, muons, neutrinos, positrons… why are there so many different elementary particles?
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics gives us a deeper understanding of what happens far inside the tiniest building blocks of matter.
Dr Kevin Varvell, recently seen on Channel Nine’s Today show at the launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will give an entertaining overview of the science behind last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dr Kevin Varvell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics. After being fascinated by the subatomic world as an undergraduate in Perth, he obtained a DPhil in the subject in the UK and has since then been chasing the secrets of the fundamental building blocks of matter through experiments at CERN, Fermilab and KEK.
Cost: FREE
Contact: Lara Davis, School of Physics
Phone: 02 9351 3472
Email: outreach@physics.usyd.edu.au
Where: Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics Building
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