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Physics Colloquium: Discovery of a New class of Radio Galaxies

Jan 13, 2023
03.00 PM - 06.00 PM
DKF, Department of Physics, Universiti Malaya

Dear all,

The Department of Physics, faculty of Science invites you to the following Colloquium:

Title: Discovery of a New Class of Radio Galaxies

Speaker: Melanie Johnston-Hollitt from the Curtin Institute for Computation, and the Australian Space Data Analysis Facility

Date: Friday January 13th 2023, 3:00 pm

Location: DKF, Department of Physics

About the Speaker: Melanie Johnston-Hollitt is an Australian astrophysicist and professor. She has worked on the design, construction, and international governance of several radio telescopes including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA). She was the director of the Murchison Widefield Array until December 2020 and is a professor at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy at Curtin University and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. Since August 2020, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt is the director of the Curtin Institute for Computation.

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