Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Parramatta

2023

Program Sydney Science Festival 2023

Research Symposium 2023

Name: Research Symposium
Start: 2023-08-13T23:30:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-14T08:00:00.000Z
Location: Ultimo

Ended 14 Aug 2023

Free

Ultimo

This hybrid one-day event features talks, presentations, conversations and creative work on inter-disciplinary aspects of our earthly and non-earthly atmospheres.

Program

9.00am
Registration

9.30am
Welcome and Opening
Opening remarks by Dr Deborah Lawler-Dormer and Professor Juan Salazar.

9.45am
Finding Connections: Memory, and Storytelling within the Sensorial Realm
Gamilaraay, Waliwan and Biripi experimental new media artist r e a will explore how the Western application of astronomy and Indigenous Knowledges coalesce or diverge in the night sky.

Moderated by Dr Deborah Lawler-Dormer

10.35am
Space and Future Atmospheres
Prominent scientists will discuss in a conversation about climate models, Mars and planetary atmospheres, artificial atmospheres, Earth’s future atmosphere, and the need to decarbonise the economy.

Panellists: Professor David Karoly, internationally acclaimed Australian atmospheric scientist and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Dr Priscilla Nowajewski Chilean planetary scientist and President of the Mars Society (Chile) and Dr Devika Kamath, a senior lecturer in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Macquarie University.

Moderated by Professor Juan Salazar

11.25am
Break

11.45am
Opening Access to Space
In this online conversation astrophysicist Dr Erika Nesvold co-founder of The JustSpace Alliance discusses her passion for a more inclusive and ethical future in space, and to harness visions of tomorrow for a more just and equitable world today. In this talk she also talks about her work as an astrophysics engineer behind Universe Sandbox, an all-in-one astrophysics simulator, artistic medium, educational software and video game. The conversation will include stories about Making New Worlds, the successful podcast series Erika produced and hosted.