USQ is proud to partner with the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium as part of the 2019 USQ Festival of Astronomy.
To register, please contact the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium directly on 07 3403 2578. Tickets are limited and there will be a $10 per person fee at the time of registration, so get in quick. Guests are requested to arrive at 3.30pm for a strict 4pm start and there will be no late entries accepted.
To register, please contact the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium directly on 07 3403 2578. Tickets are limited and there will be a $10 per person fee at the time of registration, so get in quick. Guests are requested to arrive at 3.30pm for a strict 4pm start and there will be no late entries accepted.
Two Internationally renowned speakers will be presenting at the 2019 Festival of Astronomy events.
Professor Jonti Horner
"Are we alone?"
For as long as we have gazed at the sky, people have asked "Are we alone?". Past efforts to answer that question have, unfortunately, drawn a blank, and we are still hardly any wiser than our ancient ancestors. So where will we look next? And how close are we to truly understanding our place in the cosmos? Join USQ's Professor Jonti Horner, as we take a journey through our past and future efforts to search for life beyond the Earth.
Dr Katarina Miljkovic
“Impact! The sculptor of lunar and planetary surfaces”:
When you look up in the sky and see the Moon, you’d notice some areas appear darker. These are some of the largest impact craters in the solar system. If you’d look through a small telescope, you’d see lots more smaller craters on the lunar surface. What is their origin? Why isn’t Earth like that? Are Earth and the Moon the same system? These, and other questions, will be covered along with a historical overview and grand importance of Apollo missions and the soil samples they brought back to Earth.
For enquiries, please contact Faculty.Marketing@usq.edu.au.
Professor Jonti Horner is an astronomer and astrobiologist based at the University of Southern Queensland, in Toowoomba. He first became fascinating by all things space at the age of five, when his parents accidentally recorded a segment of the British TV show 'The Sky at Night'. Just over a decade later, Jonti moved to the University of Durham, where he studied Physics and Astronomy for four years, before moving on to the University of Oxford to work on his doctorate. Research positions in Switzerland and the UK followed, before he moved to Australia in 2010 to work at the University of New South Wales. In 2013, Jonti came to USQ, where he studies the formation and evolution of the Solar system and searches for planets around other stars, as well as leading research into the best places to search for life beyond the Solar system.
Dr Katarina Miljkovic
Katarina is a senior planetary scientist with expertise in numerical and experimental impact physics. She is involved with data analysis from space missions. She leads the only Australian research group that is working on the InSight mission currently active on Mars. Katarina joined Curtin in 2015 as a research fellow. Prior to joining Curtin, Katarina was a postdoctoral research associate at MIT (2014-2015), IPGP in Paris (2012-2014), and Imperial College London (2011-2012). She graduated in Astrophysics from the University of Belgrade in Serbia in 2006, and was awarded PhD from the Open University in UK in 2010. In 2018, Katarina was awarded ARC DECRA fellowship, the Australian L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science fellowship, and she was a finalist for the WA Premier's Science Awards in the early career scientist category.