When we look at the stars in the night sky we see a peaceful scene, and yet our eyes deceive us. Using modern-day telescopes we can look back billions of years and see a wild universe with violent explosions everywhere. Last year, a collision of two neutron stars was observed across the radio, visible, and gravitational wave spectrum. The recently built WA ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) and the MWA (Murchison Widefield Array) are observing fast radio bursts and massive jets arising from black holes swallowing whole stars. But wait, there is more!

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We are about to start building the world's largest radio telescope, The Square Kilometre Array. We need engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists. To attract the brightest students Curtin has created an Advanced Physics degree that combines world-class Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics. In addition, there is the Engineering-Physics double degree. The graduates will have some of the best careers either here in WA, or anywhere else in the world. So, if you love maths and physics, and don't we all, please join us!

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This year's book-prize is entitled "When Galaxies Collide", written by an eminent Australian Astrophysicist Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith. It gives me great pleasure to award this prize, which has been personally signed by Lisa, to ...

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