1165th General Monthly Meeting
Exploring the Milky Way: The Past, Present & Future
Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths
CEO Science Leader at the CSIRO Australia
Telescope National Facility (ATNF)
Date: Wednesday, 1st October, 2008
Time: 6:30 for 7:00 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road
ABSTRACT
Dr McClure-Griffiths will take us on a walk around the Milky Way revealing what we do know about the structure of the Galaxy and how gas in the Galaxy leads to its evolution. Her talk will focus on our current work on the interstellar gas and magnetic field in the Milky Way and what it is telling us about the complex interstellar ecosystem of the Milky Way. She will also discuss the world's next generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be one hundred times more powerful than any existing facility and which we hope to host in Australia. She will conclude by discussing how the SKA will revolutionise our understanding of our home galaxy.
Enquiries: Prof. P.A. Williams
email: P.Williams@uws.edu.au
or phone the Society – details on Introduction page.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths is a CEO Science Leader at the CSIRO Australia
Telescope National Facility (ATNF), where she leads a research group with the
aim of better understanding our own galaxy, the Milky Way. McClure-Griffiths has
led two major surveys of the Milky Way including the Galactic All Sky-Survey, an
on-going international project to produce an atlas of the hydrogen gas in the Milky
Way. In 2006 she was the recipient of the Prime Minister<92>s Malcolm McIntosh Prize
for Physical Scientist of the Year for her discovery of a new spiral arm in the outer
Milky Way.