History of public lectures in physics

Gravitation and inertia: How are they related? - Sargood, D.G.
Temperature: What is it? - Klein, A.G.
Electromagnetic Waves - Opat, G.I.
Particles and Waves: Can they be reconciled? - Wignall, J.W.G.

Atomic Structure: To what extent can we visualise it? - Sargood, D.G.
Bulk matter and atomic physics: How do they explain each other? - Opat, G.I.
Interference of light: How does it depend on coherence? - Klein, A.G.
Newtonian mechanics and relativity: How are they related? - Caro, D.E.

Light propagation: How is it influenced by matter? - Opat, G.I.
Temperature and thermal motion: Are they synonymous? - Sargood, D.G.
Kepler's Laws: Do astronauts obey them? - Klein, A.G.
They eye: What can it tell us about light? - Budwine, R.E.

Wave phenomena:: What have they in common? - Sargood, D.G.
Quantum effects: When are they important? - Thompson M.N.
Static electricity: How does it behave? - Klein, A.G.
Physical models: Can we trust them? - Amos, K.A.

Geometrical and Wave Optics: How are they unified? - Sargood, D.G.
Properties of matter: What is the inside story? - McKellar, B.H.J.
Electrons in solids: How do they behave? - Klein, A.G.
Iron: Why does it affect magnetic fields? - Opat, G.I.

Nuclear Radiations: How are they detected? - Sargood, D.G.
Transistors: How do they work? - Klein, A.G.
Matter waves: What waves? - Spicer, B.M.
Lasers: How do they work? - Opat, G.I.

The chemical elements: Where did they come from? - Sargood, D.G.
The sound of music: Is it physics? - Thompson, M.N.
Many body problems: What have they in common with elementary electrostatics? - Hines, K.C.
Charged particle trajectories: How are they exploited? - Opat, G.I.

Wave-Particle Duality: An impossible concept - Sargood, D.G.
Electronics and classroom demonstration - Klein, A.G.
Gravitation, Black Holes and all that - Opat, G.I.
From Red Shifts to Speed Traps: Uses of Doppler effect - Boydell, S.G.

Astronomy - Sargood, D.G.
Sound - Muirhead, E.G.
Properties of Solids - Opat, G.I.
Optical Instruments - Klein, A.G.

Atomic Nuclei: How do they behave? - Sargood, D.G.
Atoms in Solids: How well can we see them? - Spargo, A.E.C.
Electromagnetic Fields and Circuits: How are they related? - Klein, A.G.
Physical Principles applied to Biological Systems - Mason, G.C.

Fluctuations: The ultimate limits of measurement - Opat, G.I.
Matter and Antimatter - Wignall, J.W.G.
Quarks and Leptons - Tovey, S.N.
Energy Storage - Klein, A.G.

The Universe: Is it really expanding - Sargood, D.G.
Newton's "laws": Are they really? - Mason, G.C.
The earth's magnetic field: What is its origin? - Wignall, J.W.G.
X-rays and crystals: The story of a happy coincidence - Barnea, Z.

David Jamieson takes the helm in 1990.

What is so special about the speed of light? - Sargood D.G.
Why do magnetic forces depend on who measures them? - Jamieson D.N.
Image processing: Sharp prints from blurred originals, and other matters - Wood G.J.
The fractal geometry of nature: an illustrated talk - Taucher, T.C., Griffin C.J. and Bardos, D.C.

The unity of physics: Experimental demonstrations - Sargood, D.G.
Light in focus: 600 million years of progress - Jamieson, D.N.
Michael Faraday: 200 years on - Klein, A.G.
Pressure: From Archimedes to lasers - Opat, G.I.

A quark of nature: Elementary particles and the universe - Volkas, R.R. and Taylor, G.N.
Electro-optics: From electronics to photonics - Roberts, A.
The PC as a window on the cosmos - Jamieson, D.N.
Research in the School of Physics: Towards the 21st Century - Klein, A.G.

How does it work? Physics in everyday technology - Klein, A.G.
Energy for the future: The Physics of sustainablesources - Hollenberg, L.C.L.
Microscopy with protons: New ways of seeing - Jamieson, D.N.
Was Einstein right? A review of relativity experiments - Opat, G.I.

What's new in magnetism - Prof. G.I. Opat
Comet SL9 and Its Impact on Jupiter - Rachel Webster, David
Jamieson, A.G. Klein
Neutrinos, dark matter and the ultimate fate of the Universe - Dr. M.E. Sevior
Superconductors: A new industrial revolution? - Dr. D.N. Jamieson
150th anniversary of the birth of Boltzmann Time Arrow - Dr. N.E. Frankel (pictured)

Radio communications: The centenary of Marconi’s transmission - Prof. G.I. Opat
Light without heat: Luminescence in moonlight, video screen and other stories - Dr. D.N.Jamieson
Just how much matter is there in the universe? - Dr. R. Webster
The solar neutrino problem: What’s cooking in the sun? - Dr. M. Thomson

Cosmic rays: A hazard for aviation? - Dr. D. Jamieson
Neutrinos in the cosmos: How the smallest of particles can shape our entire Universe - Dr. G.N. Taylor
Lasers: From atoms to the operating theatre - Dr. A. Roberts
How things fly:  Why Boomerangs come back - Prof. G.I.Opat

Einstein and the jumbo jet: The global positioning system - Dr. D. Jamieson
The discovery of planets around other stars - Dr. R. Webster
The 50th anniversary of the invention of thetransistor - Dr. J. McCallum
The electron: The centenary of its discovery - Prof. G.I.Opat

Atoms at very, very, low temperatures: Wave behaviour and quantum superstates - Prof. G.I. Opat
The physics of the Didjeridu - Dr. L. Hollenberg
New eyes on Mars: Physics of the Pathfinder mission - Dr. D. Jamieson
Neutrinos: Cosmic messages from the Earth, the sun,the Stars, the Universe - Dr. R. Volkas

All four engines out: Volcanic ash, aircraft and electrostatics - A/Prof. D. Jamieson (pictured)
Big numbers in the universe - Dr. N. Frankel
Gravitation: The great attraction of physics - Prof. G.I.Opat
Is the solar system doomed to chaos - A/Prof. R.Webster

Theme: 50th Anniversary of the Laser

The invention of the laser: from Einstein to holograms - David Jamieson
The solid-state laser: Spanning continents and computer chips - Jeff McCallum
New light on biomolecules: The free-electron laser - Keith Nugent
Lasers in Astronomy: from guidestars to ripples in spacetime - Stuart Wyithe

Theme: 100 years of superconductivity

Absolutely no resistance: The strange discovery of superconductivity - David Jamieson
Superconductivity: How it touches your life - Cathy Foley
The superconducting Universe: breaking symmetry - Ray Volkas
Superconductivity in space: neutron stars and gravity waves - Andrew Melatos

Theme: The discovery of the Higgs Boson

Understanding the cosmos - Professor Jeremy Molilo
Big science at the frontier: Facilities for answering big questions - Associate Professor Elisabetta Barberio

Theme: The centenary of the quantum atom: Niels Bohr’s discovery of the quantum atom

The quantum atom as a new technology resource – from quantum computers to ultra-sensitive probes of the machinery of life - Professor Lloyd Hollenberg (pictured)
The discovery of the quantum atom and its applications to hold, process and transmit information - Professor David Jamieson
From Moseley's law to the molecular microscope: a century of X-ray physics, chemistry and biology - Associate Professor Harry Quiney
The Cosmological History of Hydrogen - Professor Rachel Webster

Theme: Important Applications of Physics in the 21st Century

Physics, entropy, energy and climate change - David Jamieson
The world in a grain of sand: a century of crystallography - Harry Quiney
The Australian Synchrotron and you: How an MCG-sized microscope is adding value to our lives - Andrew Peele
Physics research shapes our future: More than you might think - Hans Bachor & Patrick Helean

Theme: The International Year of Light 2015:  Near and Distant Light

Understanding Light: from the Arab scholars of the 11th C to Maxwell and Einstein - Professor David Jamieson
Nanoscale light: The surprising world of optical nanostructures - Professor Ken Crozier
Prospecting with light: The search for supermassive black holes in galaxies - Professor Meg Urry (President of the American Astronomical Society,  Department of Physics at Yale University)
Distant light: Reading the signals from the oldest light in the Universe - Professor Stuart Wyithe
Light and matter: Bending light waves for new technology - Professor Ann Roberts

Theme: “Celebrating the centenary of General Relativity:  Einstein’s most magnificent theory”

Celebrating 100 years of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity: Lost Planets, Australian Eclipses and Warped Space - Professor David Jamieson
The Discovery of Gravitational Waves: The Breakthrough by LIGO - Professor Andrew Melatos
Pulsars: Nature's naturally occurring gravitational laboratories - Professor Matthew Bailes (Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology)
Dark Matter and Gravity: Searching for missing mass in the Stawell gold mine - Professor Elisabetta Barberio (Australian National University)
Einstein’s Gravity: Black Holes, Dark Matter and Gravitational Lensing - Professor Stuart Wyithe

Theme: Entering Space on the 60th Anniversary of Sputnik: Prospects for the 21st-century

Methods for reaching extremely high speeds: what are the prospects for fast trips to the stars? - Professor David Jamieson
Humans in space: what are the human impacts of space travel and living on other planets? - Dr Katie Mack
The promise of nanosatellites: getting the University of Melbourne’s fast response telescope into space - Dr Michele Trenti
Antimatter in space: the Alpha spectrometer on the international space station and cosmological implications - Assoc Professor Martin Sevior

Theme: Looking back, looking forward: The Physics of the Future on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the July Lectures in Physics

The arrow of time: why is the future different from the past? - Professor David Jamieson
The legacy of Stephen Hawking and the prospects for the great reconciliation: can quantum physics and relativity be unified? - Dr Matthew Dolan
The rise of cosmology and particle physics: is our present understanding of the universe about to be replaced? - Assoc Prof Nicole Bell (pictured)
Quantum mechanics and biology: what are the prospects? - Dr David Simpson

Theme: Physics and the Moon: On the 50th Anniversary of the Moon landings

The double planet: The physics of the Earth-Moon system - Professor David Jamieson
Oxygen in Physics: From the Moon to the FREO2 project - A/Prof Roger Rassool
Shining a light on Solar system geology - Dr Helen Brand (Australian Synchrotron)
The physics of the Apollo Moon mission in 1969: Do astronauts obey Kepler's laws? - Prof Emeritus Anthony Klein