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11 March 2016
Breakfast with the Brians
Plaza Auditorium, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
22-26 March 2017
Professor
Brian Schmidt
Professor Brian Schmidt was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian National University (ANU) in January 2016. Professor Schmidt is ANU’s twelfth Vice-Chancellor. Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Schmidt was an astrophysicist at ANU’s Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming Vice-Chancellor.
Professor Schmidt received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and completed his Astronomy Master’s degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. Under his leadership, in 1998, the High-Z Supernova Search team made the startling discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the United States Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2013.