The Royal Society of Tasmania invites you to its June 2025 Public Lecture by guest speakers Drs Jan Herrmann and Sara Morawetz. All RST members, their guests, and the public are welcome.
Where: Geology Lecture Theatre, UTAS, Sandy Bay Campus on Sunday 1 June, 2025.
Time: 3.30pm for pre-lecture drinks, 4pm for the lecture.
Measurements are everywhere around us. People have measured things since times immemorial to help make sense of the world. Measurements can be powerful tools for driving scientific discoveries and technological innovation. Their results inform decisions in almost every sphere of human endeavour, and quantum theory tells us that the very act of measurement is changing the world.
Join metrologist Dr Jan Herrmann and artist Dr Sara Morawetz for a reflection on the history and future of measurement as we commemorate the signing of the Metre Convention (more information here) 150 years ago that established the foundations for how we take the world’s measure today – ‘for all times, for all people’.
