PUBLIC LECTURE: It's about Time: the Quest for a Physical Theory of Everything

Speaker: Australian Laureate Fellow, Winthrop Professor Michael Tobar, Physics, The University of Western Australia.

Michael Tobar knows the importance of time. His cutting edge research involves measuring time to improve international clock technology as well as undertaking space research to test the fundamental rules of physics. In this presentation Professor Tobar will give an over view of this work along with his research with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) mission on board the International space Station. This project will send the first ever laser-cooled atomic clock in space and will usher in a new era of precision timing in space. The Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space has the potential to revolutionise global positioning systems, navigation, geodesy and precision tests of physics such as Einstein’s theories of relativity and fundamental constants.

This lecture is an Inspiring Australia initiative presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Western Australia and Scitech.

This public lecture is free but please reserve a seat by visiting http://www.trybooking.com/24149.

Early registration is suggested.