Greetings all,

The next meeting of our free Public Lecture Series 2010 will take place on Friday 19 March.

Title: Unveiling the Universe in Hydrogen Presented by Dr Virginia Kilborn, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Hydrogen is the most common element in the Universe, and one of the main ingredients of star formation – so to understand the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies, we need to understand the distribution and evolution of the hydrogen. This talk will outline how we use observations of hydrogen gas in nearby galaxies to determine the dynamics and evolution of these systems. Are there any galaxies we observe in hydrogen that have not formed stars yet ? (so called “Dark Galaxies”). There are several new telescopes being built in the next decade that will revolutionalise this field of research and I will outline Australia’s involvement in these observatories, in particular ASKAP, and SKA.

Venue: Swinburne University, Hawthorn Campus, EN building Room: EN313 Date: Friday 19 March Time: 6.20 pm for a 6.30 pm start Duration: 1 hour including questions

Places are limited so please RSVP to Liz Thackray via email ethackray@swin.edu.au by Wednesday 17 March.

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