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In this video Professor Scott describes her theoretical research interests including the advancing of the understanding of both singularities and the global structure of space-time.

She has also been a pioneer in the analysis of astrophysical signatures in gravitational wave experiments.

China has one of the world’s fastest growing internet economies and most active cyber operations programs. Chinese penetration of Western commercial, government and defence networks encourages fears about the wholesale erosion of economic and military competitiveness. At the same time, China decries Western cyber exploitation and calls for the exclusion of American internet firms from the Chinese economy.

Cyber operations and the rhetorical reactions on both sides of the Pacific have significantly undermined trust in China’s foreign relations. The situation is not in fact as dangerous as many believe. For every type of Chinese cyber threat, there are also serious Chinese vulnerabilities as well as Western strengths, which incentivises restraint in cyber exploitation. China and other major powers can look forward to chronic and ambiguous intelligence-counterintelligence contests across their networks, even as the internet facilitates productive exchange and a degree of stability.

Jon R. Lindsay is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs. A political scientist with a background in computer science and military service, his research examines the impact of technology on global security. His publications include the co-edited China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford University Press, 2015) and articles in International Security, Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Technology and Culture, and the Journal of Cybersecurity. He is completing a book, Shifting the Fog of War: Information Technology and the Politics of Control, and working on a multi-institutional research project on deterrence theory. Professor Lindsay holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in Computer Science and BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University. He has served in the U.S. Navy with operational assignments in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

This closing public session of the National Security College's week-long program of activities is a Q&A-style event with a lively exchange of ideas and reflections on securing Australia’s future in cyberspace. Head of College Professor Rory Medcalf moderates the discussion with a panel of the world’s leading cyberspace academics, think-tank specialists and industry experts. Members of the audience engaged with:

Dr Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security, and Cooperation and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Professor Paul Cornish, Research Group Director for Defence, Security and Infrastructure at RAND Europe, Cambridge

Professor Fred Cate, Vice President for Research at Indiana University; Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

Assistant Professor Jon Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs

Mr Mike Burgess, Chief Information Security Officer, Telstra

The symposium will take participants through a stimulating morning of informal presentations and debates on research-in-progress in the international Strategy and Statecraft in Cyberspace research program lead by the ANU National Security College. Topics will include: the ontology of cyberspace; the emergence of hegemons in cyberspace; China’s precarious hold in cyberspace; governance and ambiguity in cyberspace; critical slowing down and state shift in cyber terrorism; and the emergence of balkanisation in cyberspace.

This event will be of interest primarily to researchers, but policy and industry stakeholders with an interest in the leading-edge of research might also find the event rewarding. Presentations will be given by members of the program, including:

Professor Roger Bradbury, Director, Strategy and Statecraft in Cyberspace research program, ANU National Security College

Professor Paul Cornish, Research Group Director for Defence, Security and Infrastructure at RAND Europe, Cambridge

Professor Fred Cate, Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing

Assistant Professor Jon Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs

Professor Terry Bossomaier, Strategic Professor, Computing and Information Technology, Charles Sturt University

Mr Nathan Ryan, Associate Analyst, Defence, Security and Infrastructure Programme, RAND Europe.

ANU is extremely proud of its graduates. Our alumni are outstanding ambassadors for the University both in Australia and abroad and their achievements and successes are celebrated by the ANU community.

2016 ANU Alumni of the Year, Bachelor of Arts, 1979.

The symposium will take participants through a stimulating morning of informal presentations and debates on research-in-progress in the international Strategy and Statecraft in Cyberspace research program lead by the ANU National Security College. Topics will include: the ontology of cyberspace; the emergence of hegemons in cyberspace; China’s precarious hold in cyberspace; governance and ambiguity in cyberspace; critical slowing down and state shift in cyber terrorism; and the emergence of balkanisation in cyberspace.

This event will be of interest primarily to researchers, but policy and industry stakeholders with an interest in the leading-edge of research might also find the event rewarding. Presentations will be given by members of the program, including:

Professor Roger Bradbury, Director, Strategy and Statecraft in Cyberspace research program, ANU National Security College

Professor Paul Cornish, Research Group Director for Defence, Security and Infrastructure at RAND Europe, Cambridge

Professor Fred Cate, Vice President for Research at Indiana University, Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing

Assistant Professor Jon Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs

Professor Terry Bossomaier, Strategic Professor, Computing and Information Technology, Charles Sturt University

Mr Nathan Ryan, Associate Analyst, Defence, Security and Infrastructure Programme, RAND Europe.

In this public seminar, Professor Paul Cornish reviews one important aspect of the contemporary debate concerning the governance of cyberspace and the direction it might take: state sovereignty. Like it or not, sovereignty is intrinsic to the idea of modern statehood, and therefore to the interaction of states within the international political system, of which cyberspace is one part. But a territorial, sovereignty-based approach to the governance of cyberspace is contested by the ‘multi-stakeholder approach’; the argument that as well as national governments, non-state actors, the private sector and all others with an interest in cyberspace must be allowed to play a part in ensuring that it becomes a vehicle for economic and social development around the world.

If the goal is to achieve stability in cyberspace as the foundation for a global governance framework with which cyber risks and threats can be managed and ICT opportunities exploited, then we need a permissive and imaginative adaptation of the age-old, yet still potent Westphalian principle of state sovereignty. ‘Quantum sovereignty’ permits the coexistence of these two sets of ideas about the governance of cyberspace which are otherwise irreconcilable.

Professor Paul Cornish is Research Group Director for Defence, Security and Infrastructure at RAND Europe in Cambridge. His appointments have included Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Exeter, Professor of International Security at the University of Bath and (inaugural) Carrington Professor of International Security at Chatham House. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and the London School of Economics. He then served in the British Army and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He directed the Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London and taught at the UK Defence Academy and the universities of Cambridge, Bath and Exeter.

Professor Cornish’s work covers cyber security, national strategy, arms control, the ethics of armed conflict, civil-military relations and other aspects of contemporary international security. He is a Fellow and Co-Director of Oxford University’s Global Cyber Security Capacity-Building Centre, a Principal Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University College London and a participant in UK-China Track 1.5 discussions on international cyber security and governance.

Alan Alda, actor, writer, and science advocate shares his passion for science communication in an exclusive event at ANU.

In this video, Alan and Professor Joan Leach, director of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), answer questions from a few lucky audience members.

We are really excited to welcome you to the ANU community. It's going to be an exciting year.

The 40th anniversary of the Whitlam dismissal coincides with the publication by Allen & Unwin of The Protest Years, the second volume of the official history of ASIO from 1963-1975. There are some important questions to revisit on that significant date which are addressed in this ground-breaking new book. Written with unfettered access to the official records held by ASIO, John Blaxland seeks to provide some answers to the following questions: Just what role did ASIO play in the days leading up to the dismissal? What can be said about allegations of foreign interference? To what extent was ASIO acting within its charter? The Protest Years provides an important insight into the crisis and the protest years that led to that point through the prism of one of Australia’s most secretive organisations.

Dr John Blaxland is a Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and writes about military history, intelligence, security and Asia-Pacific affairs. He is a former Director of Joint Intelligence Operations at Headquarters Joint Operations Command, the editor of East Timor Intervention and the author of The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard and Strategic Cousins.