Wednesday March 13th, 2002, SciPub
LXVII. Harlequin Inn, Sydney,
Science in the Pub presents Brain Studies: Grey Matter vs Black
Boxes when it tunes into Brain
Awareness Week to explore advances in our knowledge of the human
brain. There were almost no drugs for brain disorders 50 years ago
and there was little understanding of the diseases themselves. Since
then, aided by the development of new technologies, there have been
some giant steps in brain research. But what matters more, brain function
or brain structure? With Professor John Hodges, a neurologist from
the University of Cambridge and Dr Evian Gordon, Director of the Brain
Dynamics Centre attached to Westmead Hospital. Our switched-on comperes,
Danny Kingsley, ABC Science writer and Alf Conlon, former ABC Online
presenter, will guide the lively discussion.
Tuesday March 19th, 2002, SciPub
LXVIII, Northern Star Hotel, Newcastle.
Life, the Universe and Everything! Science in the Pub visits
the Northern Star pub in Newcastle to take a look at the Big Questions.
We have two eminent astronomers from the Anglo
Australian Observatory, Dr. Fred Watson and Professor David Malin
and the University
of Newcastle's Associate Professor John O'Connor, physicist and
science communicator. Compere ABC's Dr Paul Willis.
Friday October 25th, 2002, SciPub
LIXX, Imperial Hotel, Coonabarabran.
Science in the Pub takes a look at how astronomers conduct their quest
to understand the Universe. Modern astrophysics has a lot to tell
us about the Cosmos, and astrophysicists have many different tools
to explore it. Radio telescopes, millimetre-wave telescopes, infrared
and optical telescopes–to name but a few. But are astronomers
missing out by concentrating only on their particular bit of the electromagnetic
spectrum? Are they just 'wavelength-chauvinists'? This year's panellists
for the annual Festival
of the Stars are Michael
Burton, from the University
of New South Wales, and John
Sarkissian, operations scientist from the CSIRO Parkes
Radio Telescope. To keep it all under control will be special
guest compere Lisa
Hampshire–star presenter of the ABC's
Morning Show in the Central West and Western Plains area. Lisa will
be aided and abetted by Coonabarabran's own crooning astronomer, Fred
Watson of the Anglo Australian
Observatory.
Science
in the Pub™, © 2000. Stutchbury, R, Burton, M.
