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July 27, 7.30 pm Stanley Burbury Theatre, Sandy Bay campus, UTAS

Chair: Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AM, Governor of Tasmania

Associate Professor Heather Lovell, UTAS

How we produce and consume electricity is changing: more of us have rooftop solar, there is greater opportunity to purchase household battery storage, and detailed energy data is more widely available. A growing concern of utilities and governments is that large numbers of people will opt to leave the electricity grid (i.e. centralised electricity provision), as it becomes increasingly technically feasible and cost-effective to do so. In this short talk Associate Professor Lovell will explore the nature of the changes already underway in the Australian electricity sector, and consider what past experience tells us about ‘megashifts’. She will also explore how change in an uncertain world can be effectively governed.

Associate Professor Heather Lovell is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her ARC research is about the learning that is taking place from smart grid experiments. Over the last ten years, her research at Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford universities in the UK has focused on how and why technology and policy change occurs, investigating topics ranging from low energy housing to carbon markets.

What the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Will Tell Us about the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds

The Royal Society of Tasmania invites members to attend a lecture presented by Prof John Dickey — Tuesday June 7 2016, 8 pm Royal Society Room, Customs House building, TMAG, Hobart (enter from Dunn Place).

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is the newest and most ambitious telescope built in Australia in this decade. It is the first radio telescope to use a new technology: the phased-array feed, invented and developed at the CSIRO – ATNF. The ASKAP telescope will investigate several of the big unanswered questions in astronomy.

Professor Dickey will review the goals of the project, both technical and scientific, with particular concentration on his own survey of interstellar hydrogen in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds and Stream: the Galactic ASKAP Survey (GASKAP).

Professor John Dickey worked at the NAIC (Arecibo Observatory) and the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory before taking up an assistant professor position at the University of Minnesota in 1982. He was a full Professor at Minnesota from 1989-2004, where he remains an emeritus professor. He came to the University of Tasmania in 2004, where he has been Head of Discipline in Physics, Head of the School of Maths and Physics, and since 2014 the Head of the School of Physical Sciences.