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What flies tell us about human neurodegenerative disease

Miegunyah Lecture – Professor Hugo Bellen, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA, Distinguished Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, USA. DNA damage, misshapen proteins, wonky...

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The July Lectures in Physics 2015

The popular July Lectures in Physics returns for 2015. This year we celebrate the International Year of Light. Featuring speakers from the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne and special...

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Students get a taste of the big and small of physics research

The School of Physics recently welcomed 24 secondary school students for its annual Work Experience program. In the last 20 years we have seen many of these work experience students go on to become...

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Understanding Light: from the Arab scholars of the 11th C to Maxwell and...

The 2015 July lectures in Physics are underway, and first up was Professor David Jamieson giving a history of the scientific understanding of light, focussing on a particularly brilliant 11th century...

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Nanoscale light: The surprising world of optical nanostructures

As part of the July Lectures in Physics Professor Ken Crozier from the School of Physics took lecture goers on a journey of discovery into the world of optic nanostructures. Watch the lecture in full...

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Al Gore – The Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope

[View the story “Al Gore case for hope at the University of Melbourne” on Storify]

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Prospecting with light: The search for supermassive black holes in galaxies

The third in the 2015 July Lectures in Physics comes from special guest Professor Meg Urry, from the Department of Physics at Yale University, and President of the American Astronomical Society, who...

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Distant light: Reading the signals from the oldest light in the Universe

As part of the University of Melbourne July Lectures in Physics, celebrating the International Year of Light, Professor Stuart Wyithe from the School of Physics takes us on a journey back to when the...

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Light and matter: Bending light waves for new technology

In the last of the 2015 University of Melbourne July Lectures in Physics, celebrating the International Year of Light, Professor Ann Roberts from the School of Physics, University of Melbourne,...

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Is Proof Overrated?

Monday 19 October 7:30–9:00PM The concept of scientific proof is an important one in a rational society, but what does ‘proof’ really mean and how does it inform public policy in practice?...

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