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Meeting Notice - 153rd AGM and 1282nd OGM

Royal Society of NSW

153rd Annual General Meeting
1282nd Ordinary General Meeting

Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 6.00pm 
Venue: Zoom Webinar (Connection link to be provided by email)

Special Note: In line with evolving advice from Commonwealth and State health authorities regarding COVID-19, the Society has suspended face-to-face meetings for the indefinite future. All future events, including formal Society meetings and the events program, will be conducted via video streaming.

Update (1 April 2020):  The balloting process for the Council Elections will commence on 3 April 2020.  

Annual General Meeting

Business of the Annual General Meeting

The formal business of the Annual General Meeting will be conducted using an electronic ballot. In this, Members and Fellows (who are financial for 2020) will receive an email from the Society's Returning Officer, via the electronic balloting company, Election Buddy.  This email will include a unique ballot link that provides a random, secret access key for each voter. Voter anonymity is assured by ballot settings which ensure that voter choices cannot be linked to any voter.

Since there is a candidate standing for election as Vice-President and the Honorary Librarian, it may be necessary to hold two ballots:

  • A first ballot, running between 3–10 April, to conduct the procedural business of the AGM, together with an election for the Vice-Presidents, comprising:
    • Confirmation of the minutes of the 152nd Annual General Meeting
    • Confirmation that the Annual Report of Council and the Financial Statements for 2019 be received
    • Confirmation of the proposed Auditors for 2020
    • Election of three (3) Vice-Presidents, from a field of five (5) nominees.
  • A second ballot, running between 13–20 April, may be needed to conduct an election for:
    • The Honorary Librarian, from a field of two (2) nominees.

The Agenda and Minutes of the previous AGM are available on the Meetings page of this website.  The Annual Report from Council and the Financial Statements for 2019 are available on the Governance page.

The Annual General Meeting will be held on 22 April by Zoom webinar, at which the results of the ballots will be announced. Members will be provided in advance with a Zoom webinar link through which to join the AGM/OGM webinar. The Ordinary General Meeting will commence immediately following the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting. 

Election of Members of Council and Office-Bearers (2020–21)

Listed below are the nominations for the 2020–21 Council received by the Society's Secretariat by the close of business on Thursday, 12 March 2020.

For those office-bearer roles where there are more nominees than available positions, an election is required. In these cases, nominees have been invited to provide an optional statement outlining how their expertise and experience fits them for these roles and will benefit the Society.

The statements may be accessed by either:

POSITION NOMINEE PROPOSER SECONDER
President Ian Sloan Donald Hector Brynn Hibbert
Vice-President (3 positions) Robert Clancy John Hardie Bruce Ramage
  John Hardie Robert Clancy Brynn Hibbert
  Brynn Hibbert John Hardie Bruce Ramage
  Susan Pond Ian Sloan Donald Hector
  Judith Wheeldon Eric Aslaksen Richard Wilmott
Honorary Secretary (General) Bruce Ramage Robert Clancy Brynn Hibbert
Honorary Secretary (Editorial)      
Honorary Librarian Ragbir Bhathal Brynn Hibbert Robert Clancy
  John Hardie Robert Clancy Brynn Hibbert
Honorary Treasurer Richard Wilmott Bruce Ramage Judith Wheeldon
Honorary Webmaster Lindsay Botten Bruce Ramage Stuart Midgley
Councillors (10 positions) Ian Bryce John Hardie Judith Wheeldon
  Robert Clancy John Hardie Bruce Ramage
  Virginia Judge Richard Wilmott Ragbir Bhathal
  Stuart Midgley Susan Pond Stephen Hill
  Bruce Milthorpe Bruce Ramage Brynn Hibbert
  Nyrie Palmer Stuart Midgley Donald Hector
  Robert Whittaker Donald Hector Brynn Hibbert

Ordinary General Meeting 

The 1282nd Ordinary General Meeting will follow the Annual General Meeting and includes a live, video-streamed Open Lecture.  

“Presidential reflections—science stuff and the President’s random path”
Emeritus Professor Ian Sloan AO FAA FRSN, President, Royal Society of NSW

The Agenda for this meeting and Minutes of the previous OGM can be found on the Meetings page of this website.

The President will sketch his seemingly erratic research career—from atomic physics to mathematics to astrophysics—using the metaphor of the random walk, and touching lightly on science and history along the way. Turning back two centuries, he will describe the Society’s significant early involvement in astronomy through its first President, Sir Thomas Brisbane GCB GCH FRS FRSE.

Emeritus Professor Ian Sloan received a PhD in atomic physics from University College London. After a short (and unpromising) year in industry, he joined the University of New South Wales, and is there still. His research career, covering many areas of physics and computational mathematics, has received a number of awards, including the Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a former President of the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).

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