Calendar of Meetings 2024

Wednesday,
7 February

6.30 pm AEDT

1319th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Metcalfe Theatre, State Library of NSW

Topic: Productivity: what it is, and why it matters
Emeritus Professor Roy Green FRSN
University of Technology Sydney 

Wednesday,
21 February

6.30 pm AEDT

Annual Four Societies' Lecture 2024

Venue: Metcalfe Theatre, State Library of NSW

Resilience before Readiness — "... for the want of a horseshoe nail"
Vince Di Pietro AM CSC FRSN FRAeS FAICD
Independent Consultant,
Former Aviation Fleet Commander, Royal Australian Navy, and
Former CEO, Lockheed-Martin Australia

Friday,
1 March

6.30 pm AEDT

RSNSW Annual Dinner and Presentation of Awards

Venue: Strangers' Room, Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney

After Dinner Speaker
Dr Saul Griffith FRSN

Wednesday,
6 March

6.30 pm AEDT

Ideas@theHouse: March 2023

Venue: Government House, Sydney (by formal invitation) and live-streaming

Shakespeare on politics: what can we learn?
John Bell AO OBE
Former Artistic Director, Bell Shakespeare

Wednesday,
13 March

6.30 pm AEDT

RSNSW Student Award and Early Career Citation Presentations 2023

Venue: Western Sydney University, Parramatta South  Campus

Dr Jaime Alvaraado-Montes, Ms Sasha Bailey, Mr Jayden McKinnon
Dr Jacinta Martin, Dr Ahbimanu Pandey, Dr Shoujin Wang 

Wednesday,
22 March

5.15 for 6.00 pm AEDT

Frontiers of Science Forum 2024

Venue: Concord Golf Club, 190 Majors Bay Road, Concord

Exploring major discoveries and theories in physics, mathematics, biology, and chemistry
A joint presentation of the Australian Institute of Physics, the Teachers's Guild of NSW, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and the Royal Society of NSW

Speakers: Professor John Mattick (UNSW Sydney), Dr Renee Graham (U. Newcastle),
Professor Kate Jolliffe (U. Sydney), Associate Professor Richard Garner (Macquarie)

Wednesday,
17 April

6.30 pm AEST

157th Annual General Meeting
1320th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Metcalfe Theatre, State Library of NSW

Putting the Civil Back in Civil Society
Emeritus Professor Peter Shergold AC FRSN FASSA and Professor Kristy Muir
Former Chancellor, Western Sydney University and
Chief Executive Officer, Paul Ramsey Foundation

Wednesday,
1 May

6.30 pm AEST

1321st OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Zoom Webinar

Brain Health Equity: a new frontier for healthy longevity
Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey FRSN FASSA FAHMS

Friday,
3 May

3.00 pm AEST

Joint RSNSW and State Library of NSW Special Event: May 2024

Venue: Maps Room, State Library of NSW (Mitchell Building, Shakespeare Place))

On the history of Russian conflict with Ukraine
Emer. Professor Dennis Reinhartz (1) and Emer. Professor Robert Clancy AM FRSN
(1) University of Texas, Arlington
(2) Royal Society of NSW and University of Newcastle

Wednesday,
5 June

6.30 pm AEST

1322nd OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Metcalfe Theatre, State Library of NSW

RNA and me: from the origins of life and nanomedicine to building an RNA ecosystem
Professor Pall Thordason
Director, UNSW RNA Institute
UNSW Sydney

Wednesday,
3 July

6.30 pm AEST

1323th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Zoom Webinar

Social Justice and Health Equity
Professor Sir Michael Marmot CH FRCP FFPHM FMedSci FBA
Professor of Epidemiology and Director, UCL Institute of Health
University College London

Thursday,
18 July

6.30 pm AEDT

Ideas@theHouse: July 2024

Venue: Government House, Sydney (by formal invitation) and live-streaming

W x 3 — The World Wide Web (we weaved)
Julie Inman Grant
eSafety Commissioner
Australian Government

Wednesday,
7 August

6.30 pm AEST

1324th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: TBA

Theme: Issues of Housing Supply
A panel convened by Medy Hassan OAM FRSN

Wednesday,
4 September

6.30 pm AEST

1325th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Zoom Webinar

Topic: TBA
Emeritus Professor Bruce Chapman AO FASSA

Wednesday,
2 October

6.30 pm AEDT

1326th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Metcalfe Theatre, State Library of NSW

Topic: History of the Royal Society of NSW and Book Launch
Dr Anne Coote

Thursday,
31 October

6.30 pm AEDT

Ideas@theHouse: October 2024

Venue: Government House, Sydney (by formal invitation) and live-streaming

The Big Thaw: Who governs Antarctica's Ice
Professor Tim Stephens FAAL
Professor of International Law
University of Sydney

Wednesday,
6 November

6.30 pm AEDT

1327th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Zoom webinar

Topic: TBA
Dr Abul Rizvi
Former Deputy Secretary, Department of Immigration

9.00 am – 5.00 pm,
14 November

8.30 am AEDT

Royal Society of NSW and Learned Societies Annual Forum 2024

Venue: Government House, Sydney (by formal invitation) and Live Streaming

Theme: TBA

Wednesday,
4 December

6.30 pm AEDT

1328th OGM and Open Lecture

Venue: Metcalfe Theatre, State Library of NSW

Topic: TBA
Scientia Professor Helen Christensen AO FASSA FAHMS
The Black Dog Institute, UNSW Sydney

Monday, 19 February

5.15 pm AEDT

Joint RSNSW Hunter Branch and Australian Decorative And Fine Arts Society—Newcastle Lecture

Venue: Hunter Theatre, Cameron Street, Broadmeadow NSW

Exploring the Holographic
Dr Martina Mrongovius

Thursday, 11 April

6.00 pm AEST

Hunter Branch Meeting 2024-2

Venue: The King Street Room, NEX Newcastle Exhibition and Convention Centre, Newcastle West

Conservation, Frogs, and Citizen Science
Honorary Professor Michael Mahony AM

Friday, 19 July

6.00 pm AEST

Hunter Branch Meeting 2024-3

Venue: The University Conservatorium, Laman Street, Cooks Hills, Newcastle, NSW 2302

Are you what you eat? Discovering the science of personalised nutrition
Laureate Professor Clare Collins AO
College of Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing
University of Newcastle

Thursday, 15 August

6.00 pm AEST

Hunter Branch Meeting 2023-4

Venue: The King Street Room, NEX Newcastle Exhibition and Convention Centre, Newcastle West

Topic: TBC
Presenter: TBC

Thursday, 24 October

6.00 pm AEDT

Hunter Branch Meeting 2023-5

Venue: The King Street Room, NEX Newcastle Exhibition and Convention Centre, Newcastle West

Topic: TBC
Professor Francesco Paolucci

Thursday,
15 February

6.00 pm AEDT

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-1

venue: RSL Mittagong, Carrington Room

Topic: Ten novels that changed the world
Susannah Fullerton OAM FRSN

Thursday,
21 March

6.30 pm AEDT

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-2

Venue: RSL Mittagong, Carrington Room

The antiquity of life: Oldest (3.7 billion years old) stromatolite fossils discovered in Greenland
Professor Alan Nutman
University of Wollongong

Thursday,
18 April

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-3

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Webb's wondrous window on the Universe
Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer-at-Large

Thursday,
16 May

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-4

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Latest advances in radiation therapies for cancer
Distinguished Professor Anatoly Rosenfeld
University of Wollongong

Thursday,
20 June

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-5

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Getting technological advances into the clinic — Things I wish I'd known 20 years ago!

Distinguished Professor Gordon Wallace
University of Wollongong

Thursday,
18 July

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-6

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Topic: Space Race 2.0
Dr Brad Tucker
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Australian National University

Thursday,
15 August

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2023-7

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Biodiversity, bilbies, and battling extinction
Dr Carolyn Hogg
University of Sydney

Thursday,
19 September

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-8

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Secrets of Ageing with Resilience
Scientia Professor Gordon Parker
UNSW Sydney

Thursday,
17 October

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2024-9

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Topic: TBA
Professor Michael Kassiou
University of Sydney

Thursday,
21 November

6.30 pm AEST

Southern Highlands Branch Meeting 2023-9

Venue: RSL Mittagong

Topic: TBA
Vince Di Pietro
Independent Consultant,
Former Aviation Fleet Commander, Royal Australian Navy, and
Former CEO, Lockheed-Martin Australia

Wednesday,
28 February

6.00 pm AEDT

Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-1

venue: Wagga Wagga campus (Riverina Playhouse), Charles Sturt University and live-streaming

Parasites, Australia's silent threat—
coincidence, nature's hand, or policy complacency

Professor Shookoofeh Shamsi
Professor of Veterinary Parasitology
Gulbali Institute
Charles Sturt University

Wednesday,
10 April

6.00 pm AEDT

Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-2

Venue: Port Macquarie campus (The Theatre, Building 802, Room 233/7, Major Innes Road), Charles Sturt University and live-streaming

Out of Africa Arabia: how ancient human history gave us modern lifestyle diseases
Professor Alan Cooper
Professor of Evolution and Environmental Change
Gulbali Institute
Charles Sturt University

Wednesday,
26 June

6.00 pm AEST

Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-3

Venue: Orange campus (Building 1008), Charles Sturt University and live-streaming

Onsite molecular testing methods and devices for healthcare and agriculture
Professor Muhammad Shiddiky
Rural Health Research Institute
Charles Sturt University

Wednesday,
28 August

6.00 pm AEST

Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-4

Venue: Wagga Wagga campus (Riverina Playhouse), Charles Sturt University and live-streaming

Adapting to change—invasive plants and pests take up the challenge
Professor Leslie Weston FAA
Gulbali Institute for Agriculture, Water, and Environment
Charles Sturt University

Wednesday,
23 October

6.00 pm AEDT

Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-5

Venue: Dubbo campus, Charles Sturt University and live-streaming

Topic: TBA
Professor Sarah O'Shea
Dean, Graduate Research
Charles Sturt University

Tuesday,
5 November

6.00 pm AEDT

Western NSW Branch Meeting 2024-6

Venue: Orange campus (346 Leeds Parade), Charles Sturt University and live-streaming

Rural and Regional Health
Professor Allen Ross
Executive Director
Rural Health Research Institute
Charles Sturt University, Orange