Name: Solar Storms, Particle Power, and Data Footprints
Start: 2025-05-19T19:00:00
End: 2025-05-19T21:00:00
Location: Botany View Hotel

Science can uncover events we don't even know are occurred, such as an ancient solar storm and radiation interactions. We'll even look at something closer to home.. like your last online order! Let's unravel some forces that shape our world!

Trees are Telescopes

A/Prof. Benjamin Pope (Associate Professor, Macquarie University)

The radioactive carbon-14 in fossilised trees is an archive of cosmic radiation going back thousands of years, recording the Earth and Sun's magnetic field - and mysterious "Miyake Event" solar storms hundreds of times bigger than the biggest recent flares. These could happen again!

We Can Forget You Wholesale

Dr Clément Canonne (Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney)

Your data is collected, processed every time you order online, send a text, take an Uber or shop at Woolies. AI models are trained on it, incorporating a huge amount of information you didn't even realise you gave away, encoding things about you in a million subtle ways, forever. Can these models "forget" you?

Materials and radiation - A fascinating interaction

Dr Dhriti Bhattacharyya (Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne)

When high energy particles like fast moving neutrons or He ions hit materials, their interaction causes amazing structural changes inside the target, resulting in modification of their properties. This talk tells the fascinating story of these interactions and their importance in our lives.

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