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NOV
02

1148th General Monthly Meeting

"The cervical cancer vaccine" Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Queensland and Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, and 2006 Australian of the Year Wednesday 1 November 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT About 25% of cancers are initiated by inf...

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OCT
05

1147th General Monthly Meeting

"Pandemics, bird flu and the globalisation of fear" Professor Peter Curson, Macquarie University Wednesday 4 October 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Currently, the world is experiencing two defining events - a panzootic or global outbreak of bird flu, and a pandemic of human reaction and panic. H5N1 is s...

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SEP
07

1146th General Monthly Meeting

"The frontier of measurement: leading-edge standards for length and time" Dr Bruce Warrington, Head, Time and Frequency Group, National Measurement Institute, Lindfield, Sydney Wednesday 6 September 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Metrology, the science of measurement, is a dynamic field of research. Adv...

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AUG
03

1145th General Monthly Meeting

"The overshadowed centenary - the discovery of the pinch effect in 1905" A/Prof. Brian James, School of Physics, Sydney University. Wednesday 2 August 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Attempts to harness the enormous nuclear energy available from fusing hydrogen into helium have gone on for half a century...

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JUL
06

1144th General Monthly Meeting

Asian honey bees: biology, conservation and human interactions A/Prof. Ben Oldroyd, School of Biological Sciences, Sydney University. Wednesday 5 July 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research. But in the last 15 years, teams in ...

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JUN
08

1143rd General Monthly Meeting

"Global evolution of ocean basins" A/Professor Dietmar Müller Geosciences, University of Sydney Wednesday 7 June 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT The large-scale patterns of mantle convection are mainly dependent on the history of subduction. Hence some of the primary constraints on subduction models are ...

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MAY
04

1142nd General Monthly Meeting

"The genetics behind our drinking water turning toxic" Professor Brett Neilan, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of NSW Wednesday 3 May 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Professor Brett Neilan was a member of the team who won the Royal Societies of Australia 2004 Eurek...

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APR
06

1141st General Monthly Meeting

"Cold fusion, the alchemist's dream?" Annual General Meeting & Presidential Address by Professor Jak Kelly, President of the Society Wednesday 5 April 2006, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT A brief history of cold fusion and where it fits into conventional physics will be given, leading up to the most recen...

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MAR
18

Pollock Lecture 2006

"Can the physicists' description of reality be considered complete?" Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Josephson, Cambridge University Friday 17 March 2006, 6.30 pm Eastern Avenue Auditorium, Sydney University The Pollock Lecture is jointly organised about every three years by the Royal Society of NSW and the University of Sydney. It is given in memor...

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FEB
23

Four Societies Meeting 2006

"A cradle-to-grave concept for Australia's uranium" The February meeting of the Royal Society of NSW was the annual meeting of the four Societies: The Royal Society of New South Wales, The Australian Institute of Energy, Australian Nuclear Association and Engineers Australia (NUC Engineering Panel). Speaker: Dr Clarence Hardy, Secretary ANA, Vice-P...

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NOV
03

1140th General Monthly Meeting

"The role of DNA studies in the story of human evolution" Dr Sheila van Holst Pellekaan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of NSW Wednesday 2 November 2005, 6 pm for 6.30 Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT In the unfolding story of human evolution, DNA studies have pr...

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OCT
06

1139th General Monthly Meeting


"TB: controlling the old scourge" Professor Warwick Britton, Head, Mycobacterial Research GroupCentenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Sydney Wednesday 5 October 2005, 6 pm for 6.30 Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT Nine million people contract tuberculosis every year and two million die. Over 9...

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SEP
08

The 2005 Clarke Memorial Lecture & 1138th General Monthly Meeting

"The quickening: beginning of animal life on Earth" Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich, Monash University Wednesday 7 September 2005, 6 pm for 6.30 Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney ABSTRACT Four places in the world have yielded a most spectacular record of animal life prior to the time when shells and skeletons appeared - all...

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AUG
04

1137th General Monthly Meeting

"Tails of dingoes: their past and their future" Dr Alan Wilton, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of NSW Wednesday 3 August 2005, 6.30 for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road ABSTRACT When dingoes arrived in Australia 5,000 years ago they were the domestic dog of the day. Only a limited number of related...

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JUL
07

1136th General Monthly Meeting

"Why did the vertebrate brain become lateralised?" Lesley Rogers, Professor of Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour, University of New England Wednesday 6 July 2005, 7 pm for 7.30 Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, City Road, University of Sydney ABSTRACT Until recently it had been thought that specialization of the hemispheres to carry out differe...

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JUN
02

1135th General Monthly Meeting

"Bactrian camels in antiquity" Dan Potts, Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern ArchaeologyCurator of the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney Wednesday 1 June 2005, 6 pm for 7 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, Sydney University ABSTRACT If the Silk Road may be described as 'the bridge between Eastern and Western cultures', then ...

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MAY
05

1134th General Monthly Meeting

"Biocosmology: a new science" Dr Charley Lineweaver, Senior FellowPlanetary Science Institute, Australian National University Wednesday 4 May 2005, 7 pm (bar open from 6 pm) Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, Sydney University, City Road ABSTRACT ​ As we learn more about the origin and evolution of the universe and about the prerequisites for th...

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APR
07

AGM & 1133rd General Monthly Meeting


"A hundred years after Einstein's extraordinary year" Ms Karina Kelly, President of the Society Wednesday 6 April 2005Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney, City Road ABSTRACT It's been a hundred years since Einstein's extraordinary year known as his Annus Mirabilis. In 1905, he published four remarkable papers and finished his...

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FEB
24

The Four Societies Meeting 2005

"Geothermal energy in Australia" Australian Institute of Energy Australian Nuclear Association Engineers Australia (NUC Engineering Panel) The Royal Society of New South Wales The meeting was hosted by Engineers Australia and the speaker was Dr Doone Wyborn. Wednesday 23 February 2005, 6 pm Harricks Auditorium, Eagle House, 118 Alfred Street, Milso...

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FEB
03

1132nd General Monthly Meeting


"Rev. W. B. Clarke - 19th century polymath and his scientific correspondence" Dr Ann Moyal AM Wednesday 2 February 2005, 6.30 pm Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre. ABSTRACT The Rev William Branwhite Clarke, Australia's pioneer geologist, Anglican clergyman, scientific savant and pioneer, was one of the key figures of Australian nineteenth-centur...

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