2026 Sydney Quantum and Dark Matter Experience

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• More details about Ciaran O’Hare: Can we capture dark matter in the lab?

  Ciaran O’Hare: Can we capture dark matter in the lab?

  I will explain about how we are trying to make the invisible visible; revealing dark matter’s true nature inside laboratory experiments. I will highlight the ways quantum mechanics may both help and hinder us in this quest. Ciaran O’Hare is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He is a theoretical physicist who primarily works on developing ideas to detect dark matter in the laboratory and in space.

• More details about Georgia Nixon: Quantum physics at scale

  Georgia Nixon: Quantum physics at scale

  Quantum physics is famously strange, but most of that strangeness is described one particle at a time. What happens when you put a lot of quantum things together? I'll explain why large quantum systems are so hard to pin down, and how physicists are learning to control them well enough to simulate exotic physics - and to build a quantum computer. Georgia Nixon is a theoretical quantum physicist at the University of Sydney. She works on how large entangled quantum systems can be controlled well enough to serve as quantum computers and simulators.