Royal Society of NSW News & Events

“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...

“Semiconductor nanostructures and quantum phenomena”   Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS  Pender Chair in Nanoelectronics  University College London Dirac Lecture and Medal Presentation Professor Pepper was also presented with an Honorary Degree from UNSW after his lecture. Thursday 21 November 2013 Law Theatre, UNSW In...

“Re-thinking science education in Australian schools: development and implementation of the National Science Curriculum”   Dr Mark Butler  Department of Education and Communities Wednesday 6 November 2013 Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Dr Butler examined the development and nature of the new national senio...

“Probing the nano-world with the symmetries of light”   Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto  Department of Physics and Astronomy  ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered  Quantum Systems, Macquarie University  Winner of the RSNSW Jak Kelly Scholarship  Award for 2013 Wednesday 18 December 2013 Union, Unive...

Presentations by Royal Society of NSW scholarship winners 2014 Date: Wednesday 5 February 2014 Venue: Union University and Schools Club, 25 Bent St, Sydney John Chan (Pharmacology, University of Sydney) Jessica Stanley (Chemistry, University of Sydney) Jiangbo (Tim) Zhao (Advanced Cytometry, Macquarie University) This presentation was delivered by ...

   “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...

RSNSW/SMSA Joint Lecture Series detail from the frontispiece of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1772 Dates: see below Venue: all sessions will be held at the Mitchell Theatre, Level 1, Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts, 280 Pitt St., Sydney Time: 6 pm drinks, for 6.30-7.30 pm Cost: $15 for SMSA...

  “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...