Physicist selected for prestigious Australian lecture tour
Published: 7 November 2014
Professor Sheila Rowan, Director of the Institute for Gravitational Research in the School of Physics and Astronomy, is currently midway through a prestigious lecture tour of Australia.
Professor Sheila Rowan, Director of the Institute for Gravitational Research in the School of Physics and Astronomy, is currently midway through a prestigious lecture tour of Australia - having been selected as the 2014 prize "Women in Physics" lecturer by the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP). With an antipodean travel schedule that even hardened rock stars would find challenging, Sheila's itinerary sees her criss-crossing the continent, presenting talks on gravitational-wave astronomy across seven states - from Tasmania to Queensland, from Western Australia to New South Wales.
"The lectures have been great fun and very rewarding", said Sheila. "I've received a warm welcome everywhere, with great questions from the audience and lots of opportunity to chat to people informally. The local media have also shown great interest in my visit, which I believe has really underlined the scientific potential of this exciting new field, as we stand on the brink of making the first direct detections of gravitational waves from the cosmos".
The AIP Women in Physics Lecture Tour celebrates the contribution of women to advances in physics, each year selecting a prize winner who has made a leading contribution to the field of physics to give a series of school presentations, public lectures and research colloquia throughout Australia.
First published: 7 November 2014
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