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JAN
21

2009 Sydney Lecture Series

​Wednesday25 February​The Four Societies Lecture. Hosted by Australian Nuclear Association, Nuclear Panel of Engineers Australia, Australian Institute of Energy and The Royal Society of NSWAn Industry Update on Global Nuclear Power and the Opportunities for AustraliaDr Selena Ng, Areva NC, AustraliaThis meeting will also be our 1168th Ordinary Gene...

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JAN
18

2010 Sydney Lecture Series

​Wednesday17th February​The Four Societies Lecture. Hosted by Australian Nuclear Association, Nuclear Panel of Engineers Australia, Australian Institute of Energy and The Royal Society of NSW 1178th Ordinary General MeetingAn Industry Update on Global Nuclear Power and the Opportunities for Australia Dr Selena Ng, Areva NC, Australia Venue: Enginee...

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JAN
24

2011 Sydney Lecture Series

​Thursday24th February​The Four Societies Lecture. Hosted by Australian Nuclear Association, Nuclear Panel of Engineers Australia, Australian Institute of Energy and The Royal Society of NSW 1188th Ordinary General MeetingGeothermal Energy - Current State of Play and Developments Dr Stuart Mc Donnell, Chief Operating Officer for Geodynamics and Mr ...

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JAN
23

2012 Sydney Lecture Series

Meetings are held at various venues in Sydney (be sure to check the web-site a few days before the event for final venue details). Unless indicated, booking is not necessary. All welcome. Entry is free for RSNSW members. There is a charge of $7 for non-members. Meetings usually commence at 6:00 pm for 6:30pm. ​Wednesday5 December 2012​1206th Ordina...

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JAN
31

2013 Sydney Lecture Series

Meetings are held at various venues in Sydney (be sure to check the web-site a few days before the event for final venue details). Unless indicated, booking is not necessary. All welcome. Meetings usually commence at 6:00 pm for 6:30pm. Entry is $5 for RSNSW members and there is a charge of $10 for non-members to cover venue hire and a welcome drin...

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JAN
31

2014 Sydney Lecture Series

Meetings are held at various venues in Sydney (be sure to check the web-site a few days before the event for final venue details). Unless indicated, booking is not necessary. All welcome. Meetings usually commence at 6:00 pm for 6:30pm. Entry is $5 for members of the Society and $20 for non-members to cover venue hire and a welcome drink. We often ...

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DEC
31

History Week 2008

Science House, 157 Gloucester Street

Dr Graeme Pearman (left) with Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen at the Global Warming Symposium.

Her Excellency awards the Walter Burfitt Prize to Professor Matthew Colless

Professor Gavin Brown, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney and winner of the Society's Medal for 2007, with Her Excellency

A Vote of Thanks to Her Excellency was offered by A/Professor Bill Sewell

Dr David Branagan with Office Manager Irene Kelly

Her Excellency with Clarke Medal recipient Professor Suzanne O'Reilly

A light-hearted moment during the presentation of the Edgeworth David Medal to Dr Stuart Wyithe (second from left) with the Governor, the President and the reader of the citations, Professor Pete Williams

The President, Mr John Hardie (left) with the Governor and Award recipients: (l-r) Professor Gavin Brown, Dr Stuart Wyithe, Professor Suzanne O'Reilly, HE Professor Marie Bashir, Professor Matthew Colless

The Royal Society of New South Wales presents "Science then and now - What 100 years have done for Science" The Royal Society returns to Science House for History Week. Come and hear the lecture, come and see this magnificent building in The Rocks. Saturday 6 September, 2-4 pm, Science House, 157 Gloucester Street (corner of Essex and Gloucester St...

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DEC
04

The 2008 Liversidge Lecture

"Molecular materials - from clean energy storage to shrinking crystals" Cameron Kepert, Professor of Chemistry & Federation Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney Wednesday 3 December 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Once thought of as little more than symmetrical arrangements of discrete m...

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NOV
06

1166th General Monthly Meeting


"The oceans and climate change" Professor Matthew England, Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mathematics, University of NSW Wednesday 5 November 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The oceans have always played a fundamental role in moderating global climate by transporting an excess o...

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OCT
02

1165th General Monthly Meeting


"Exploring the Milky Way: the past, present & future" Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths CEO Science Leader at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Wednesday 1 October 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Dr McClure-Griffiths took us on a walk around the Milky Way revealing what we know about th...

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SEP
04

1164th General Monthly Meeting


"Roles of telomeres and telomerase in human health and disease" Dr Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herzstein Endowed Professor in Biology & Physiology, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California Wednesday 3 September 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Telomeres consist of simpl...

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AUG
07

1163rd General Monthly Meeting

"Alzheimer's disease; the man, the discovery of the disease and prospects for avoidance" Dr Bruce Warren, Former Professor of Pathology, The University of NSW. Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Dr Bruce Warren M.B. B.S. D.Phil. D.Sc (Oxford) was head of the Department of Anato...

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JUL
03

1162nd General Monthly Meeting

"An Australian ecological blind-spot: rabbit impact on native plants and animals" Dr Brian Cooke, Invasive Animals CRC, University of Canberra Wednesday 2 July 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Introduced wild rabbits have long been regarded as a major almost insoluble economic problem in Australia, requir...

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JUN
05

1161st General Monthly Meeting

"The Australian tsunami warning system - protecting Australia from waves of destruction" Dr Dale Dominey-Howes, Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, Risk Management Group, School of Safety Science, UNSW Wednesday 4 June 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (2004 IOT) disaster, al...

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MAY
08

1160th General Monthly Meeting

"Imaging of dying cells in the body" Professor Philip Hogg, Director of the UNSW Cancer Research Centre Wednesday 7 May 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Professor Hogg and his team have shown that some disulphide bonds have evolved to control how proteins work by breaking or forming in a precise way. He h...

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APR
03

Annual General Meeting 2008

Presidential address: innovation John Hardie, President of the Royal Society of NSW Wednesday 2 April 2008, 7 pmDarlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The past 12 months have seen a great deal of activity for the Royal Society: the publication of a volume on one of the Society's leading lights, Prof. Archibald Liversidge, the opportunity to reclaim ...

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MAR
06

The Four Societies Meeting 2008


"Future prospect for large-scale solar thermal power technologies" Dr Keith Lovegrove, Australian National University Wednesday 5 March 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The Australian National University has been working on paraboloidal-dish solar concentrators since the early 1970s. At ANU construction w...

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JAN
26

Sydney Meetings - 2007

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SEP
03

1174th Ordinary General Meeting

"Weird animal genomes and sex" Professor Jenny Graves, Head, Comparative Genomics Research Group, Australian National University Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics Professorial Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne Wednesday 2 September 2009 at 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney Wh...

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JAN
01

Sydney Meetings - 2006

The venue for all meetings was, unless otherwise indicated, Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney (City Road). Meetings commenced at 7 pm. ​Wednesday22nd February​"A cradle-to-grave concept for Australia's uranium" The Four Societies Meeting Dr Clarence Hardy, Secretary ANA, Vice-President Pacific Nuclear Council.​Friday10...

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