Name: Traversing the Universe
Start: 2026-05-20T18:30:00
End: 2026-05-20T21:00:00
Location: King O'Malley's

Strap yourselves as our astrophysics researchers take you on a journey of the Universe. They’ll explain how gravitational waves can create a map of the Universe and tell us how fast it’s expanding, and illuminate how machine learning is being used to shed new light on the Universe’s Magnetism.

Listening to the Universe with a galaxy-sized ear

Dr Rowina Nathan (Dr Rowina Nathan is a gravitational‑wave astrophysicist at ANU, using spacetime ripples to test our understanding of gravity and study the cosmic gravitational‑wave background. She’s also the science communicator behind @PinkAstrophysicist.)

We created the biggest-ever gravitational wave detector to make a map of the Universe. What did we find? How the heck does one build a telescope that big? Come to my talk!

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