Royal Society of NSW News & Events

Royal Society of NSW News & Events
NOV
18

1249th OGM and Christmas party


"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...

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OCT
22

RSNSW & Four Academies Forum 2016

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    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...

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OCT
10

1248th OGM and public lecture

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  ...

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SEP
07

1247th OGM and public lecture

“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...

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SEP
08

2016 Dirac Lecture

  “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...

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AUG
19

1246th OGM and public lecture

 “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...

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JUL
07

1245th OGM and public lecture

  “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 ...

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FEB
26

Annual Meeting of the Four Societies 2016

  “Australian energy policy”  Professor Robert Clark AO FAA DistFRSN  Chair of Energy Strategy and Policy, UNSW Thursday 25 February 2016 Hamilton and Parkes Rooms, Level 47, MLC Centre, King and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney Professor Robert Clark has had a distinguished career, having headed a research group in experim...

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FEB
04

1240th OGM and public lecture

Note: the OGM number 1239 is not used for administrative reasons. Royal Society of New South Wales Scholarship presentations The scholarship winners with the President of the Royal Society of NSW, Dr Donald HectorL-R: Yevgeny Stadnik, Adam Dudek, Don Hector, Charles Forster Wednesday 3 February 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street...

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APR
07

1242nd OGM, AGM and public lecture

   “Royal Society of NSW – relevance in the 21st   century”   Dr Donald Hector FRSN   President Wednesday 6 April 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Donald Hector was President of the Royal Society of NSW for four years from 2012 to 2016. This is an excerpt from his ...

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MAR
03

1241st OGM and public lecture

“How to win an IgNobel Prize and other adventures in communicating science”   Dr Len Fisher  Visiting Fellow in Physics,  University of Bristol Wednesday 2 March 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney This talk in a fun and interesting way was about how scientists go about their work. In 1999, D...

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JUN
03

1244th OGM and public lecture

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“Royal” not “Philosophical” - W.B. Clarke's Inaugural Address to the Royal Society of NSW   Dr Bob Young   Associate Professor of Geoscience (ret’d),   University of Wollongong Wednesday 6 July 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Royal Society of New South Wales is 150 years old this year...

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JUN
02

1243rd OGM and public lecture

 “The curious case of the scientist in cinema: how  Indiana Jones turns out to be the bad guy!”  Professor Peter Hiscock  Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian  Archaeology, University of Sydney Wednesday 1 June 2016Union, University & Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Uplifting music and the s...

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MAY
05

Annual black-tie dinner 2016

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Annual Black-Tie Dinner, Distinguished Fellow's Lecture and presentation of the Society's 2015 awards Guest of honour: The Society's Vice-Regal Patron, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (ret'd), Governor of New South Wales The Distinguished Fellow's Lecture delivered by Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM DistFRSN Wed...

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