BIG

Big experiments, big challenges, big ideas — big science.


BIG: the 38th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, held at the University of Sydney in July 2015.


This book contains interviews with the amazing, inspiring speakers at the ISS2015 program:

Cosmologist and best-selling science communicator Professor Lawrence Krauss

Solar cell efficiency record holder Dr Anita Ho-Baillie

Brain mapper and nanoscientist Professor Michael Roukes

Galaxy explorer and Square Kilometre Array leader Professor Naomi McClure Griffiths

Large Hadron Collider particle physicist and dark matter hunter Dr Martin White

Quantum system controller Professor David Reilly

Sleek Geek Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

Surface Chemist (and ISS1995 alumnus) Dr Stuart Prescott

“GI Jennie” — diet and obesity guru Professor Jenni Brand-Miller

NASA Astronaut and Space Flight Engineer Professor Greg Chamitoff

Fusion Energy Physicist Associate Professor Matthew Hole