March 31, 2025
Most face-to-face events and all online events conducted by the Royal Society of New South Wales are recorded and made available for subsequent viewing on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/royalsocnsw.
During March, the Society held four events, two of which generated recordings now available on YouTube.
In Sydney, on the evening of 5 March, the Society held its presentation of the 2024 Bicentennial Postgraduate Scholarships and Early Career Research Citations to seven young researchers at a ceremony held at the University of Technology Sydney chaired by the renowned science journalist, Robyn Williams AO FRSN FAA, host of the ABC Science Show. Each of the young researchers (Mr David Sweeney, Mr Muyang Li, Mr Joel Sved, Ms Linqing Tian, Dr Fei Deng, Dr Jennifer Matthews, and Dr Cynthia Turnbull) made recordings of their presentations offline, which are now available on YouTube.
Later in March, the Hunter Branch held its first meeting of the year on the evening of 20 March at the Newcastle Exhibition Centre, at which Dr Hannah Schunker, an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Information and Physical Science at the University of Newcastle, delivered a fascinating and beautifully illustrated presentation on ‘Our Magnetic Sun’. Her talk outlined the physics of the solar dynamo, focusing on the importance of this research in understanding space weather that arises from ejections of matter from the solar corona — a phenomenon that can have profound and devastating effects on satellite communication and power transmission systems on which we rely. If you were not able to attend the lecture, a recording is now available on our YouTube channel.
