"Black Hole" by Julie Weekes

4th EDOARDO AMALDI CONFERENCE  ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES     Amaldi4 July 8 - 13, 2001 The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia

Public Lectures Presented by:

The University of Western Australia
&
The Gravity Discovery Centre Foundation
 

Everyone is interested in the big question about the Universe.     Gravitational wave researchers are in the forefront of the scientific quest to answer some of these big questions:   the birth of the universe, the nature of black holes, the nature of space and time itself.

On July 8th the world’s gravitational wave community will be converging on Perth for their biannual conference.  While the physicists will be discussing topics ranging from black holes and solutions of Einstein’s equations, to the performance of high power lasers, the conference will be bringing this exciting frontier of physics to the layman through 3 free public lectures
 

*     A FREE SPECIAL SCHOOL’S and PUBLIC LECTURE WILL BE HELD AT:

The Ross Lecture Theatre, Physics Department,  The University of Western Australia  on:
 Thursday  5th July 2001 at  12 noon

"Gravitational Waves:  A New Window on the Universe"

David Coward & Professor David Blair

Designed for students in years 10-12 and others interested in science.  This lecture will feature live demonstrations, dramatic images and computer simulations.

Only 200 places available:  to reserve space contact UWA Physics, Cherry Jackson:
Tel:  9380.2738     Fax:  9380.1014     e:mail:  cherry@physics.uwa.edu.au
 

*  A PAIR OF FREE EVENING PUBLIC LECTURES WILL BE HELD AT:
The Octagon Theatre, The University of Western Australia on:
Monday  9th July 2001  at 8.00 pm
No booking is required.
 

The first:

"Pulsars:   Nature’s Timekeepers"

Dr. R.N. Manchester

Dr. Manchester, from the Australia Telescope National Facility, is the world’s leading discoverer of pulsars:  the extraordinary remnants of exploding stars where time slows down and a pinhead weighs a million tonnes.  He will report on his latest exciting discoveries.
 

The second:

"Joseph Weber -A Man With a Mission"

Professor W.O. Hamilton

Professor Hamilton, (a leading gravity wave physicist from the USA), will tell the amazing story of the ex-naval Commander Joseph Weber.  It is a story of the vision and dedication of an extraordinary physicist, who first realised the possibility of lasers and who singlehandedly pioneered the basic concept of gravitational wave detectors when it was thought by most to be an impossible dream.
 
 
 
 

*(The 4th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, is named after the Italian physicist who started the world’s premiere Physics Research Centre, CERN in Geneva and who was amongst the first physicists to realise the significance of gravitational waves).
 
 
 
 
 

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT/ENQUIRIES

Ms D. Greenwood
Conference Manager
Amaldi4 Secretariat
Department of Physics
The University of Western Australia
Nedlands   WA   6907
Australia

Telephone: +61.8.9380.3909 or +61.8.9380.2736
Fax: +61.8.980.1170
Email: amaldi@physics.uwa.edu.au