To end Science Week 2026, Professor Alice Motion sat down with two incredible scientists, astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis and chemist Dr Haihui Joy Jiang in front of a packed-out house at the Seymour Centre for The Impact Factor: Matter of Origin. This new public event series from the Faculty of Science allows the public to learn how discoveries from the University of Sydney are shaping the world's future. I was blessed to compose an event theme for The Impact Factor.
Business Casual is a bit of absolute fluff, but fluff I'm quite proud of. In late 2025, I was invited by the University to put on background music for a research event at Parliament House in Canberra. Of course, I thought that meant it had to be new, my own, and from scratch. I prepared about 40 minutes' worth of musical content, only to arrive and be told that I'd be performing for about 2 hours all up! Argh! Everything got a repeat and an extended improv section. This was o