Michelle Simmons Physicist TEDxSydney 2012

TEDxSydney 2012

Date:
26 May 2012

Venue:
Carriageworks 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh NSW 2016

For the third year running TEDxSydney took place in and around the Bay 17 theatre space at Carriageworks. Once again we were treated to a great selection of talks and performances from some of the region’s greatest talent. This year we took our Tasty Video Bits to a new level by proactively reaching out to a selected group of creative organisations and people with an invitation to engage and contribute to TEDxSydney 2012.

 

Talks from TEDxSydney 2012

Talk

The End of ‘Green’ By Jeremy Heimans

Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, a social enterprise that mobilises millions of citizens and consumers to help solve global problems. Purpose has built global movements to...

Performance

Tim Freedman

Tim Freedman is the lead singer and songwriter of ARIA Award winning band The Whitlams. Tim has released seven albums over the last 19 years, telling a very Australian...

Performance

FourPlay & Roger Langridge

FourPlay String Quartet defy convention and stereotyping. As much a band as a string quartet, they blur the boundaries between styles and genres while maintaining their own original and...

Talk

Modern Citizenship

The role of citizen is a concept Tim Soutphommasane wants us to re-consider in the light of the Asian century ahead of us. Sharing food and holiday destinations is...

Talk

Fire & Ice

Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and has written a history of Antarctica entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica....

Performance

Katie Noonan

Katie Noonan's technical mastery and pure voice make her one of Australia's most versatile and beloved vocalists. A mother, singer, producer, songwriter, pianist and business woman, this 4 x...

Performance

Greg Sheehan Tambourine Solo

Greg Sheehan is a Rhythm Magician. His astounding musicality and passion shines brilliantly through the instruments he plays. He is firmly in the realm of Australia's great musical innovators,...

Performance

Greg Sheehan: Squeaky Toy Performance

Greg Sheehan is a Rhythm Magician. His astounding musicality and passion shines brilliantly through the instruments he plays. He is firmly in the realm of Australia's great musical innovators,...

Performance

Circle of Rhythm

The Circle of Rhythm is a collaboration between three of Australia's most respected, virtuosic and unique percussionists; Greg Sheehan, Bobby Singh and Ben Walsh, known individually and collectively through...

Performance

Circle of Rhythm & Grigoryan Brothers

The Circle of Rhythm is a collaboration between three of Australia's most respected, virtuosic and unique percussionists; Greg Sheehan, Bobby Singh and Ben Walsh, known individually and collectively through...

Talk

Our Relationship with Weeds

A lot of effort is spent trying to eradicate invasive species. Angela wants us to reconsider our relationship with weeds. She argues passionately that we should learn to tolerate...

Talk

Vision, Robotics & Bees

Mandyam Srinivasan's research focuses on the principles of visual processing, perception and cognition in simple natural systems, and on the application of these principles to machine vision and robotics.

Talk

What is a Robot? | Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Hugh Durrant-Whyte addresses what a robot is and what a robot isn't. A robot is not just a mechanical automaton. A robot perceives and a robot acts. Hugh leaves...

Performance

Sydney Children's Choir

Under the direction of Lyn Williams OAM, the Sydney Children's Choir has built a worldwide reputation for choral excellence, inspiring audiences with a distinctive Australian choral sound. The choir...

Performance

Stiff Gins with Sydney Children’s Choir

The Stiff Gins, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs, are one of Australia 's best known and most loved Indigenous music acts. These two women combine stunning harmonies and a...

Performance

Stiff Gins

The Stiff Gins, Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs, are one of Australia 's best known and most loved Indigenous music acts. These two women combine stunning harmonies and a...

Talk

Imaginary Friends

In an enlightening and persuasive talk, psychologist Evan Kidd argues that we need to start taking play more seriously. He explains how children with imaginary friends are more creative...

Talk

On Architecture | Gerard Reinmuth & Anthony Burke

Gerard Reinmuth is a director of architectural practice TERROIR, which has been featured in a number of international exhibitions and publications including AV Monographs' 20 International Emerging Architects, Phaidon's...

Talk

The Universe is Big

Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt takes us on a 15-minute tour of the Universe, explaining the thinking that led him and his colleagues to identify a hitherto unknown force: 'dark...

Talk

Quantum Computation

There is a shift coming in the very nature of computing which is being led by the likes of quantum physicist Michelle Simmons. Michelle wants you to put the...

Talk

Be Optimistic About the US & China

Geoffrey Garrett is a political scientist and has held academic appointments at Oxford, Stanford, Yale and the Wharton School. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the...

Talk

Euphemisms

In an entertaining analysis with colourful examples from the English language, Kate Burridge talks about what we'd rather NOT talk about: euphemism. Words that shield us against what's embarrassing,...

Performance

Satsuki Odamura & The Sydney Koto Ensemble

Satsuki Odamura is a koto virtuoso who moved to Australia in 1988 after gaining her Shihan (master license) from koto legends Tadao and Kazue Sawai. In 2002 she formed...

Performance

Grigoryan Brothers

Since their first acclaimed Australian national tour in 2002, the Grigoryan Brothers performances have astounded audiences world-wide. Regarded as Australia's finest classical guitar duo, their passion is to expand...

Talk

Being Silly

Sam Simmons is one of the most daring and unconventional comics in Australia if not the world. Completely original and vastly absurd, he has one foot firmly planted into...

Talk

TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Spreading

After a long career in journalism and publishing (Imagine Media, publisher of Business 2.0 magazine, and creator of the popular games website IGN), Chris Anderson became the curator of...

Talk

Share More Space | Tarsha Finney

Solar panels and bike lanes will only take us so far. Tarsha Finney shares examples of a few ways we need to radically rethink how we inhabit spaces in...

Talk

Coral Rekindling Venus

Lynette Wallworth brings together technological advances with ancient understanding, new media with the electricity of human touch. Coral Rekindling Venus, a film inspired by the Transit of Venus, is...

Talk

FourPlay String Quartet

FourPlay String Quartet defy convention and stereotyping. As much a band as a string quartet, they blur the boundaries between styles and genres while maintaining their own original and...

Talk

Luca Belgiorno-Nettis: New Democracy

In 2005, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis and a group of ex-politicians, academics and business people started a conversation about alternatives to our current adversarial political formula. Here he gives a brief outline...

Talk

Derek Williamson: Our Biggest Killers

Manager of the Museum of Human Disease at the University of NSW, Derek Williamson works every day with the things that kill us. Here, he takes us through Australia's...

Contributors from TEDxSydney 2012

Speaker

Tim Soutphommasane

Philosopher

Speaker

Tom Griffiths

Environmental Historian

Speaker

Lynette Wallworth

Installation Artist

Speaker

Jeremy Heimans

Activist & Entrepreneur

Performer

Greg Sheehan

Rhythm Magician

Performer

Roger Langridge

Cartoonist

Performer

Circle of Rhythm

Percussion Collaboration

Performer

Katie Noonan

Songstress

Performer

Tim Freedman

Singer Songwriter

Speaker

Lyn Williams

Artistic Director & Founder: Sydney Children's Choir

Performer

Stiff Gins

Indigenous Singers

Speaker

Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Robotics Engineer

Speaker

Mandyam V. Srinivasan

Engineer & Neuroscientist

Speaker

Angela Moles

Ecologist

Speaker

Kate Burridge

Linguist

Speaker

Geoffrey Garrett

Political Scientist

Speaker

Michelle Simmons

Physicist

Speaker

Brian Schmidt

Astronomer, Winemaker & Nobel laureate

Speaker

Anthony Burke

Designer & Educator

Speaker

Gerard Reinmuth

Architect & Educator

Speaker

Evan Kidd

Psychologist

Speaker

Tarsha Finney

Architectural Urbanist & Designer

Speaker

Chris Anderson

TED Curator

Performer, Speaker

Sam Simmons

Comedian

Performer

Grigoryan Brothers

Classical Guitarists