Royal Society of NSW News & Events

"Molecular materials - from clean energy storage to shrinking crystals" Cameron Kepert, Professor of Chemistry & Federation Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney Wednesday 3 December 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Once thought of as little more than symmetrical arrangements of discrete m...

"The oceans and climate change" Professor Matthew England, Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mathematics, University of NSW Wednesday 5 November 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The oceans have always played a fundamental role in moderating global climate by transporting an excess o...

"Exploring the Milky Way: the past, present & future" Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths CEO Science Leader at the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Wednesday 1 October 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Dr McClure-Griffiths took us on a walk around the Milky Way revealing what we know about th...

"Roles of telomeres and telomerase in human health and disease" Dr Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herzstein Endowed Professor in Biology & Physiology, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California Wednesday 3 September 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Telomeres consist of simpl...

"Alzheimer's disease; the man, the discovery of the disease and prospects for avoidance" Dr Bruce Warren, Former Professor of Pathology, The University of NSW. Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Dr Bruce Warren M.B. B.S. D.Phil. D.Sc (Oxford) was head of the Department of Anato...

"An Australian ecological blind-spot: rabbit impact on native plants and animals" Dr Brian Cooke, Invasive Animals CRC, University of Canberra Wednesday 2 July 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Introduced wild rabbits have long been regarded as a major almost insoluble economic problem in Australia, requir...

"The Australian tsunami warning system - protecting Australia from waves of destruction" Dr Dale Dominey-Howes, Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, Risk Management Group, School of Safety Science, UNSW Wednesday 4 June 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (2004 IOT) disaster, al...

"Imaging of dying cells in the body" Professor Philip Hogg, Director of the UNSW Cancer Research Centre Wednesday 7 May 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Professor Hogg and his team have shown that some disulphide bonds have evolved to control how proteins work by breaking or forming in a precise way. He h...

Presidential address: innovation John Hardie, President of the Royal Society of NSW Wednesday 2 April 2008, 7 pmDarlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The past 12 months have seen a great deal of activity for the Royal Society: the publication of a volume on one of the Society's leading lights, Prof. Archibald Liversidge, the opportunity to reclaim ...

"Future prospect for large-scale solar thermal power technologies" Dr Keith Lovegrove, Australian National University Wednesday 5 March 2008, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The Australian National University has been working on paraboloidal-dish solar concentrators since the early 1970s. At ANU construction w...