Royal Society of NSW News & Events

  “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...

    “Sensing our world: From glucose sensors to     counting single molecules and cells”     Scientia Professor Justin Gooding     University of NSW     Awarded the 2017 Liversidge Medal for     chemistry. Thursday 11 May 2017Tyree Room and Balcony, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Bios...

      Guests of Honour:  His Excellency General The Honourable David  Hurley AC DSC (ret’d.), Governor of New South  Wales and Patron of the Royal Society of New South  Wales, and Mrs Hurley       Distinguished Fellow's Lecture:  “Don’t blame the unemployed”  Hon Emeritus Professor Pe...

    “The science of beer”  Dr Greg Organ  Senior Sensory Specialist  Lion Company Wednesday 5 April 2017Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Dr Organ began with a description of beer’s four ingredients – yeast, water, malt and hops – and the brewing process. To fully enjoy your beer...

   “Creative minds: Artistic and scientific  endeavour on polar expeditions 1851 to 1951”  Richard Ferguson FRGS   Executive Director, Craft Australia Wednesday 1 March 2017Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Increased specialisation of academic disciplines in the twentieth century...

  “South Australia: a nuclear State in a global   solution”   Rear Admiral, The Honourable Kevin Scarce AC   CSC RAN (ret'd.) Thursday 23 February 2017International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour This talk focused on the challenge to Australia in moving to a reliable, low-carbon and lowest-possible-cost e...

Royal Society of New South Wales Scholarship Award Winners for 2017   Yik Lung (Jeremy) Chan,   School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney   Andrew Ritchie,   School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney   Isobel Ronai,   School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney W...

"Imaging with a deft touch: the scanning helium microscope – a modern pinhole camera!" Dr Matthew Barr, School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of NewcastleJak Kelly Award winner for 2016 (award presented by Irene Kelly) Wednesday 7 December 2016 Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Inspired by the ancient...

    Hosted by His Excellency General The Honourable  David Hurley AC DSC (ret’d), Governor of NSW  and Patron of the Royal Society of NSW  “Society as a complex system: implications for  science, practice and policy” Tuesday 29 November 2016Government House, Sydney We live in an increasingly co...

Presentation of Distinguished Fellowship to Dame Marie Bashir AD, CVO, DistFRSN The President presented the certificate of Distinguished Fellowship to Dame Marie Bashir at the start of the OGM. Past President Hector read the citation.   “Finding the right course for the right horse:  recent evidence-based advances in  ...

“From sand and rice bubbles to earthquakes and volcanoes”    Professor Itai Einav, School of Engineering,  University of Sydney   Director of the Sydney Centre in Geomechanics  and Mining Materials Wednesday 5 October 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Universe is granulat...

  “Dark matter in the universe”  The Dirac Lecture and award of the Dirac Medal  Duffield Professor Kenneth Freeman FRS  Australian National University Thursday 13 October 2016Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW The Dirac Medal is based on rules established in 1990 by the then Vice Chancellor of t...

 “A source of inspiration and delight:  The Mitchell Library”  Richard Neville   Mitchell Librarian and Director, Education &  Scholarship Wednesday 7 September 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The State Library of New South Wales can trace its history back to 1826. In m...

  “Celebrating the 200th birthday of Royal  Botanic Gardens: a personal history of  57 years of science”  Dr Barbara Briggs   Honorary Research Associate  Royal Botanic Gardens Wednesday 3 August 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Royal Society of New South ...

"Recent studies on the total synthesis of natural products and related systems"  Professor Martin Banwell Research School of Chemistry Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National University Canberra Thursday 20 November 2014 Lecture Theatre 4, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney Professor Banwell is an organic c...

"Latest developments in small modular reactors" Dr Adrian (Adi) Paterson Chief Executive Officer,Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Held in conjunction with the Nuclear Engineering Panel of the Sydney Branch of Engineers Australia, the Australian Nuclear Association and the Australian Institute of Energy Date: Monday 16 February...

“The future of work” Royal Society of NSW and Four Academies Forum His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (ret'd), Vice Regal Patron of the RSNSW Tuesday 15 September 2015Government House, Sydney The Royal Society of NSW and Four Academies Forum was the inaugural collaborative event between the Society and the NSW-chapters of the...

  Guest of Honour Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO   Vice Regal Patron of the Society   and Governor of NSW Tuesday 5 May 2015Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Dame Marie Bashir was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society, was presented with the 2014 Royal Society of NSW Medal, and gave the Di...