University of Melbourne Events Calendar

Join our panel of mathematical eco-warriors and learn how they are using the power of numbers and new models to help protect life on Earth.

To avert catastrophic climate change and preserve our biodiversity, nations, industries, communities, and individuals must swiftly deploy a wide range of tactics and technologies.

Join us on Monday 12 August for Model citizens: How mathematicians are helping the planet in the Science Gallery Theatre or online.

Our expert panellists will share how they are using the power of numbers, big data, and new models to help nurture all life on Earth.

Panel:

• Dr Douglas Brumley
• Professor Jennifer Flegg
• Associate Professor Guoqi Qian

Moderator:

• Dr Graham Phillips

The Science at Melbourne Lecture series is the premier public event series from the Faculty of Science. The event program seeks to share our knowledge and love of science with the wider community, engaging them in current research and empowering them to ask questions and act for a better world. The series runs throughout the year covering scientific research, discoveries, and theories that play exciting or unexpected roles in shaping and advancing our society.

Touch it - Solve it - Feel it - Work it!

Meet our brilliant researchers and industry partners and explore interactive displays of cutting-edge work shaping the future at this year’s Collaborate to Innovate Expo, held as part of Science Festival. Guests will walk into an experiential maze of interactive activations designed to both inform and delight. Suitable for all ages and STEM acumen, the expo will allow attendees to see firsthand the ideas that will change the future.

The Collaborate to Innovate Expo will feature installations that showcase STEM research and work from across the University of Melbourne. Held in the Science Gallery, where science, art, technology, and design come together, to engage millions of inquiring minds every year in connective, participative, and surprising ways, this one-day event is not to be missed.