“The decarbonisation of industry” Professor Paul Fennell Professor of Clean Energy Imperial College London The evening began with the AGM, at which there was an election of Council members Wednesday 4 April 2018Union, University & Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney In order to meet the IPCC recommendation for an 80% c...
“The Enlightenment has failed” Scientia Professor George Paxinos AO School of Medical Sciences, UNSW This event’s unique format featured an optional buffet dinner followed by the sophistry and live music. Thursday 5 April 2018 Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney Scientia Professor George Paxino...
“Precision healthcare – the coming revolution in medicine” Professor Leslie Burnett Chief Medical Officer of Genome One Garvan Institute of Medical Research Wednesday 7 March 2018Union, University & Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Medicine has entered a period of major transformation. Advances in DNA sequencing have led ...
Paul Brunton OAM Emeritus Curator State Library of NSW Thursday 1 March 2018Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney The penal colony of New South Wales was a child of the Enlightenment. It was founded on the belief in personal improvement and progress. It was not a dumping ground for convict...
Kim McKay AO Director and CEO The Australian Museum Monday 5 February 2018Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney This was the third in a series of lectures on the theme “Is the Enlightenment dead?” being co-hosted by the Royal Society of NSW and the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts. Ki...
Royal Society of NSW Scholarship Award Winners for 2018 Grace Causer, Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong Yu-wei Lin, Advanced Drug Delivery Group, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney Cara Van Der Wal, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Wednesday 7 February 2018Union, U...
“How to store light: an optical memory based on sound waves” Moritz Merklein Department of Physics University of Sydney Jak Kelly Award winner for 2017 Wednesday 6 December 2017 Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Jak Kelly Award was created in honour of Professor Jak...
“Women artists: barriers and frustrations” Pamela Griffith Artist, designer, master printer and author Wednesday 1 November 2017Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Pamela Griffith shared some of the joys and challenges she has encountered as a female artist. Her talk was illustrated by ima...
“The freedom to use your own intelligence: the Enlightenment and the growth of the Australian nation” Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM FRSN School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy University of Newcastle Monday 6 November 2017Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts,...
“Is it possible to predict the behaviour of closed physical systems? From the solar systems to a quantum computer” Professor Boris Altshuler Department of Physics Columbia University New York Monday 6 November 2017 Ritchie Theatre, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW The Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physic...
“The science of social networks” Professor Pip Pattison AO FASSA FRSN Deputy Vice Chancellor University of Sydney Wednesday 4 October 2017Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney We are social animals and what we think, feel and do is affected by the social networks in which we live work and play. In her...
"Multisensory music: listening by ear and eye?" Dr Helen Mitchell Sydney Conservatorium of Music University of Sydney Wednesday 6 September 2017 Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Listening is regarded as the most fundamental way to engage with music performance but this is c...
"Applied remote sensing applications for Australian agricultural and horticultural industries" Associate Professor Andrew Robson, University of New England Associate Professor Andrew Robson receiving the Poggendorff Medal from HisExcellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (ret'd.), Governor of NSW Tuesday 29 August 2017 Mitchell Theatre,...
Lecture 1: “Samuel Pepys, His Library and the Enlightenment” Susannah Fullerton Author, lecturer and literary tour leader susannahfullerton.com.au Monday 4 September 2017Mitchell Theatre, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St., Sydney This series of five talks, co-hoste...
Four RSNSW Lunchtme Science Talks as part of Science Week University of Sydney Business School CBD campus, Level 17, Stockland Building, 133 Castlereagh St. Free admission Talk 1 “Smoking and lung cancer: How are we doing?” Professor John Murray School of Mathematics and Statistics University of NSW https://...
National Science Week event, jointly sponsored by the Royal Society of NSW and the University of New England Wednesday 16 August 2017, 2–4pm UNE Future campus, 211 Church Street, Parramatta Contact: Charles Greenaway UNE, email: porjectexodusii "at" gmail.com, phone: 0466 601 647 A short meeting on educational psychology, connectivi...
“The future of rationality in a post-truth world” Hosted by His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (ret’d.), Governor of NSW and Patron of the Royal Society of NSW Wednesday, 29 November 2017, 9am–4.30pmGovernment House, Sydney This year’s Forum discussed the implications of the rise of a ‘post-truth’ approach to shaping public o...
“Self-driving cars: will they help?” Professor Ann Williamson Director Transport and Road Safety Research Centre School of Aviation, UNSW Sydney Wednesday 2 August 2017 Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Autonomous vehicles and driver-assist technologies are seen as ...
“Quantum computers: how and why” Andrea Morello Professor of Quantum Engineering UNSW Sydney Wednesday 5 July 2017Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The talk certainly lived up to its promise of giving an excellent insight into a subject that, for most of the audience, would be fa...
“Are you smarter than a slime mould?” Madeleine Beekman Professor of Behavioural Ecology University of Sydney Wednesday 7 June 2017Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Professor Madeleine Beekman presented her investigations on the slime mould, a unicellular organism with no brain o...
