SPECIAL
ICTP EVENT on
Tuesday, 12 June, at 17:00
in the Main Lecture Hall,
Leonardo Building
Australia:
The
Time
Traveller's Guide with Dr
Richard Smith, ABC, Australia
Buckle up for a rocky ride down
the Road of
Time with this new television documentary made by the renowned
Australian
journalist Richard Smith for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Of all continents on Earth,
none preserve
the story of the formation of our planet and the evolution of life
quite like
Australia. Nowhere else can you simply jump in a car and travel back
through
the entire history of the world. 'Australia: The Time Traveller's
Guide' takes
you on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the
emergence of
the world we know today. Over four
one-hour episodes, we meet titanic dinosaurs and
giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing
mountains
and exploding asteroids.
Dr Richard Smith will introduce
his
experience in preparing this documentary and screen one of the
episodes.
Dr Richard Smith
began his professional career as a marine biologist in the wilds of
North
Queensland. Richard has since become a specialist in the one-hour
television
documentary. His latest production is Rumble in the Jungle, a journey into the
deepest, darkest Amazon jungle in search of a long lost meteor crater
with a
team of Brazilian scientists. His previous films include Black Holes, 50 Million Years under the Sea, Silent Sentinels and On Jupiter.
You are all invited to join.