The RSNSW and Four Academies Forum 2016 - presentations

Society as a complex system: implications for science, practice and policy

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Prof Mary O’Kane AC FTSE FRSN
Chief Scientist and Engineer of NSW

Framing the issue

Dr John Finnigan FAA
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Atmospheric Research; Director, CSIRO Centre for Complex System Science

Society as a complex system: can we find a safe and just operating space for humanity? (2.6 MB)

Dr Brian Spies FTSE FRSN
Hon Sec, ATSE NSW

The science, psychology and politics of climate change (9.7 MB)

Prof Stephen Simpson AC FAA FRS FRSN
Academic Director, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney

The Charles Perkins Centre: a new model for tackling chronic disease (2.3 MB)

Dr John Williams FTSE
Emeritus Professor, Australian National University; founding member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

The Murray-Darling Basin: balancing social, economic and environmental factors (8.6 MB)

Prof Paul Griffiths FAAH FRSN
Associate Academic Director (Arts and Social Sciences), Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney

Communicating biological complexity (1.3 MB)

Prof Mikhail Prokopenko FRSN
Director, Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Sydney

Modelling complex systems and guided self-organisation (4.1 MB)

Prof Fazal Rizvi FASSA
Professor in Global Studies in Education, University of Melbourne

Realizing Australia’s diaspora advantage (0.2 MB)

Prof Joan Leach
Director, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University

Simplicity and complexity in science communication (1.7 MB)

Dr Len Fisher FRSN

Rapporteur summary

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Contents of JProcRSNSW, Vol. 149, Parts 1 & 2, 2016.

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The complete Volume 149, 2016.

Robert E. Marks,
Editorial.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 1-4, 2015.

Presidential Address:

Donald C. A. Hector,
Presidential address.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 5-16, 2016.

Refereed Papers:

William L. Griffin, Sarah E.M. Gain, David T. Adams, Vered Toledo, Norman J. Pearson and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly,
Deep-earth methane and mantle dynamics: insights from northern Israel, southern Tibet and Kamchatka,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 17-33, 2016.

Martin G. Banwell, Benoit Bolte, Joshua N. Buckler, Ee Ling Chang, Ping Lan, Ehab S. Taher, Lorenzo V. White and Anthony C. Willis,
Chemoenzymatic pathways for the synthesis of biologically active natural products,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 34-50, 2016.

Address:

Ian Castles,
The curious economist: William Stanley Jevons in Sydney,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 51-58, 2016.

Discourse:

Robert E. Marks,
William Stanley Jevons, Fellow of the Philosophical Society of N.S.W., 1856-1859,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 59-64, 2016.

RSNSW Scholarship Winner, 2015:

Charles S.P. Foster,
The evolutionary history of flowering plants,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 65-82, 2016.

PhD Thesis Abstracts:

Jessica Alcorso,
Adherence to self-management and psychological distress in women with breast cancer-related lymphoedema,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 83, 2016.

Nathan Berger,
A social psychological examination of factors shaping career and education aspirations through childhood and adolescence,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 84, 2016.

Nathan Caruana,
The cognitive and neural mechanisms of joint attention: a second person approach,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 85-86, 2016.

Samantha Katherine Dawson,
Environmental flows at work; restoring floodplain wetlands through return of historical conditions,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 87, 2016.

Samantha J. Emery,
Quantitative proteomic analyses of isolate variation and virulence in Giardia duodenalis.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 88-89, 2016.

Benjamin Farr-Wharton,
Improving labour outcomes in the creative industries: the role of creative workers' social network structure and organisational business acumen.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 90-91, 2016.

Lynnette Hicks,
Dim and dimmer: the production and diffusion of the natural sciences in Australia between the 1770s and the 2010s.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 92-93, 2016.

Catherine Hoad,
Pale Communion: whiteness, masculinity and nationhood in heavy metal scenes in Norway, South Africa and Australia.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 94, 2016.

David Karel Hutchinson,
Interhemispheric asymmetry of global warming: the role of ocean dynamics.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 95, 2016.

Bradley N. Jack,
Conscious and not-conscious processing of visual mismatch negativity.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 96, 2016.

Todd Jolly,
White matter microstructural decline and cognitive performance in older adults: the influence of cardiovascular health.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 97, 2016.

Gam Thi Hong Luong,
Achieving change in student assessment in Vietnamese teacher training institutions.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 98-99, 2016.

Brendon Murphy,
Zone of impeachment: a post-Foucauldian analysis of controlled operations law and policy,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 100, 2016.

Lucy Murtha,
The effects and mechanisms of the therapeutic hypothermia on intracranial pressure regulation following ischaemic stroke in rats,
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 101-102, 2016.

Patrick Mark Smith,
Palaeontology, taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Cambrian assemblages from the Pertaoorrta Group, Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 103, 2016.

Thi Lệ Trần,
Targeted, one-to-one instruction in whole-number arithmetic: a framework of key elements.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 104-105, 2016.

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