April 5, 2025
The Society’s 2024 Awards for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers were presented at a ceremony held at the University of Technology Sydney on 5 March 2024.
Each of the award winners was interviewed by the renowned ABC science journalist and host of the ABC Science Show, Robyn Williams AO FRSN FAA.
On 5 April 2025, The Science Show broadcast the presentation and interview of David Sweeney, a PhD candidate in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, who was the winner of the RSNSW Jak Kelly Award for 2024.
The program notes to the 8-minute segment titled ‘Tracing the history of invisible dead stars’ observes that ‘[David Sweeney] may be one of the first in history able to trace the fate of so many ‘invisible’ dead stars, tracking their sometimes explosive paths shooting right out of our galaxy, but many others lingering in places he can now trace, promising that in ten years, their ‘graves’ with be known to astronomers – with surprising implications.
The podcast is available from the ABC Science Show website.
David Sweeney’s presentation to the Royal Society of NSW, illustrated with images and recorded offline, is also available on YouTube.
