Royal Society of NSW Meeting Presentations—2020

This page provides access to content presented at meetings of the Royal Society of NSW in 2020, where permission to do so has been granted by the author. All content is made available under either a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution) licence or a YouTube standard licence, unless otherwise stated.

Such content includes:

• Video and audio presentations (with links to the Society’s YouTube Channel)
• Slides (in pdf format), presented at Society meetings, where these are of broad general interest.  Please note that in some cases it may have been necessary to split a slide deck into parts due to limitations imposed by the website’s content management system.

2020

	1289th OGM and Open Lecture — 9 December 2020 “Dispelling climate change myths—how ocean physics can help explain surprises in the modern-day climate record” Scientia Professor Matthew England FRSN FAA UNSW (Sydney) Climate Change Research Centre
	Hunter Branch Meeting 2020-5 — 2 December 2020 “Planetary Health—Safeguarding Health in the Anthropocene Epoch” Professor Tony Capon Monash Sustainable Development Institute
	1288th OGM and Open Lecture — 11 November 2020 “Where have all the ulcers gone — long time passing?” Emeritus Professor Adrian Lee FRSN and Professor Thomas Borody FRSN UNSW Sydney and Centre for Digestive Diseases
	Hunter Branch Meeting 2020-4 (jointly with the University of Newcastle) — 27 October 2020 “The Engaged University: Advancing Research and Innovation through Powerful Partnerships” Professor Janet Nelson Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), University of Newcastle
	1287th OGM and Open Lecture — 7 October 2020 “Where now for the study of time?” Professor Huw Price FRSN FBA FAHA Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
	Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2020-7 — 17 September 2020 “Philosophical Ethics in Schools: Plan and Paradox” Adjunct Professor Sandra Lynch Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia
	1286th OGM and Open Lecture — 2 September 2020 “The Dawn of Molecular Medicine—Gene Therapy: past, present and future” Professor John Rasko AO Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Centenary Institute, University of Sydney
	Science Week 2020: The Periodic Table — 20 August 2020 “The Periodic Table: ‘.. a medley of haphazard facts falling into line and order’ (C. P. Snow)” Emeritus Professor Brynn Hibbert AM FRSN UNSW Sydney and the Royal Society of NSW
	Science Week 2020: The COVID Curve in Context — 18 August 2020 “The COVID Curve in Context: or Back to the Future—something old and something new” Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM FRSN University of Newcastle and the Royal Society of NSW
	1285th OGM and Open Lecture — 5 August 2020 “Growing Black Tall Poppies” Professor Peter Radoll Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, University of Canberra
	Hunter Branch Meeting 2020 — 29 July 2020 “Architecture and the Cultivation of Vitality” Professor Pia Ednie-Brown School of Architecture & Built Environment, University of Newcastle
	1284th OGM and Open Lecture — 8 July 2020 “Why Art Matters in Times of Crisis” Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE FRSN Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
	Annual Dinner 2020, Distinguished Fellow’s Lecture and 199th Anniversary — 27 June 2020 “Evidence and Education in a Post-Truth, Post-COVID World” Professor Brian Schmidt AC FRS DistFRSN FAA Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University
	1283rd OGM and Open Lecture — 3 June 2020 “Drinking for three: Mother, baby and society” Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Elliott AM FRSN FAHMS University of Sydney and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (Westmead)
	Hunter Branch Meeting 2020-2 — 27 May 2020 “COVID-19 and confusion: the story of a nasty but nice viral receptor” Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM FRSN FAA University of Newcastle and the Hunter Medical Research Institute
	Ideas@theHouse — 21 May 2020 “Ten: the mapping of Colonial Australia” Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM FRSN University of Newcastle and the Royal Society of NSW
	1282nd OGM and Open Lecture — 22 April 2020 “Presidential Reflections—science stuff and the President’s random path” Emeritus Professor Ian Sloan AO FRSN President, Royal Society of NSW
	Speaking of Music … The Magic of Solo Violin — 27 February 2020 A joint Royal Society of NSW and Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts Event Dr David Hush FRSN and Anna Da Silva Chen
	1281st OGM and Open Lecture — 4 March 2020 “Soils: the least understood part of science, yet vital for all of us” Professor Robin Batterham AO Kernot Professor, University of Melbourne Slides (45): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.