Science, beauty, childhood and the art of asking questions | Tanya Monro | TEDxAdelaide

Science and mathematics help explain everything from the expansion of our universe to the workings of the world's subatomic particles. And the wonderful thing is, if we ask the right questions, we can even broaden our understanding of beauty.

Professor Tanya Monro is Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation and an ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at the University of South Australia. Tanya was the inaugural Director of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) from 2008 to 2014 and was also the inaugural Director for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at the University of Adelaide.

Tanya obtained her PhD in physics in 1998 from The University of Sydney, for which she was awarded the Bragg Gold Medal for the best Physics PhD in Australia. In 2000, she received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in the UK. She came to the University of Adelaide in 2005 as inaugural Chair of Photonics. She has published over 500 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and raised over $140M for research. Her talk will be on the intriguing topics of beauty and science.

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I believe that science is the only which is really trying to stop us asking questions.