Keynote lecture
The invisible universe: how space is singing in radio waves and why you should listen
From cataclysmic bursts of energy from the cores of long-dead stars, to the tenuous webs of gas connecting the first galaxies, there is an invisible universe that we can see not in light, but in radio waves.
Join Associate Professor Joanne Dawson on a tour of space with a difference, where we will look at the big, the small, the powerful and the faint of the radio universe, and learn about the incredible machines we are building to observe it.
Associate Professor Joanne Dawson
Associate Professor Jo Dawson is a radio astronomer working at Macquarie University and CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility. She did her undergraduate degree in astrophysics at University College London, her PhD in Nagoya University (Japan), and worked as a researcher at the University of Tasmania and CSIRO before coming to Macquarie in 2014.
She uses radio telescopes in Australia and the world to map the ultra-diffuse clouds of gas and dust between the stars, including enormous "superbubbles" hundreds of lightyears across, blown by the dying explosions of the most massive stars.
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