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SUMMARY:1345th OGM and Open Lecture. Reformulating the visualisation of climate disasters
DESCRIPTION:“Reformulating the visualisation of climate disasters”\nScientia Professor Dennis Del Favero FRSN FAHA \nProfessor of Digital Innovation andExecutive Director\, iCinema Research CentreUNSW Sydney \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, 7 October 2026\, 6.00–7.30 pm AEDTVenue:  Gallery Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, SydneyPre-meeting drinks: A cash bar will operate from 5.30 pmRegistration:  Please register before 2.00 pm on Wednesday\, 7 OctoberEntry: OGM: Members\, $20; Non-members\, $30; Students\, $0All are welcome \nPlease note the change of venue. The event will now be held in the Gallery Room of the State Library of NSW. \n \n Please click here to register for the OGM and Open Lecture  \nOGM Agenda:  The Agenda for this meeting is now available on the Meetings Page of the website. \nSummary: Climate disasters have doubled in frequency and scale since 2000 and are expected to double again by 2035. As seen in Australia 2019/2020 and in Los Angeles 2025\, climate disasters such as extreme and catastrophic wildfires are new singular events whose unforeseen and ferocious life-threatening behaviour challenge picturing. Their singularity\, such as the unpredictable creation of new weather events\, such as firestorms\, resists the patterns and repetitions that make coherent aesthetic depiction and safe engagement possible. As they pose an unprecedented threat\, we need to ask: “How do we aesthetically picture such singular events so that we can meaningfully understand and safely prepare?”  \nArtistic picturing imagines powerful engagement with known scenarios\, while technological picturing\, such as WRF-SFIRE simulations\, abstractly maps the data patterns of typical fires. On their own\, neither form of picturing can perceptually and sensorially depict the unpredictable dynamics of climate disasters and experientially engage artistic research and first response stakeholders with their uncertainty so they can safely interpret and interact. To address this gap\, recent reports outline the urgent need for a form of picturing that leverages advances in art and technology.  \nThis demands the modelling of complex processes imperceptible to human cognition\, requiring the speed and scale of AI to learn patterns and render behaviours\, integrated with the power of art to experientially engage stakeholders in compelling and dynamic scenarios. Professor Del Favero’s research addresses this problem through an aesthetic that fuses art and AI and enables the experiential picturing of unforeseen scenarios. By converting scientific simulations into dynamically evolving\, immersive aesthetic experiences\, it will allow stakeholders to generate possible ‘what if’ scenarios that rehearse unexpected threats to build anticipatory understanding and situational deliberation. This research demonstrates that an immersive visual aesthetic—where users feel proactively present in unanticipated settings as they interactively rehearse their engagement with threats in advance can provide open-ended experiences that enhance risk apprehension and response. \nDennis Del Favero is a research artist\, Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow\, Director of the iCinema Research Centre at the University of New South Wales\, Sydney\, Honorary Professor\, University of Melbourne (Australia)\, Visiting Professor\, Royal College of Art (UK)\, Editorial Board Member of Quodlibet Studio Corpi (Italy)\, and the inaugural winner of the Royal Society of NSW Award in the Creative and Performing Arts in 2025. He is the former Executive Director of the Australian Research Council | Humanities and Creative Arts and inaugural Visiting Professorial Fellow\, ZKM Centre for Art and Media (Germany). \nHis work explores the use of AI aesthetics and immersive visualisation to picture and engage with uncertain scenarios\, such as extreme fires\, to enhance preparedness and response. His AUD $31M in funding has delivered a range of cutting-edge projects\, including: iCASTS\, an immersive training system for the Australian and Chinese mine industries\, educating 30\,000 miners\, reducing injury by 65% with no fatalities; iDesign\, a 3D stage design prototyping system for Sydney Theatre Company; iFire\, a 3D immersive simulation system for the international emergency sectors\, for training 7\,000 firefighters; netARCHIVE\, a networked display system for multi-located museum collection experience for Powerhouse Museum\, Sydney; and memorySCAPE\, an intelligent memorialisation database VR system for the Australian War Memorial\, Canberra. These outputs form part of significant commercialisations of immersive visualisation technologies\, such as with Shenyang Design & Research Institute of the China Technology & Engineering Group. His work has been exhibited in over 140 major exhibitions\, including Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Smithsonian. He is represented by Galerie Schenkweitzdoerfer\, Cologne and Gallery Mais Wright\, Sydney. \n 
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/1345th-ogm-and-open-lecture/
LOCATION:Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney
CATEGORIES:2026 Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261008T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261009T170000
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SUMMARY:Royal Societies of Australia Food Security Conference: 8–9 October 2026
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n“Facing the Future” \n\nUpdate: Special registration rate for Members and Fellows of Australia’s Royal Societies \nDate: Thursday and Friday\, 8–9 October 2026Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm AEDTVenue: The Forum\, Melbourne Connect\, 700 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, VictoriaBookings: RSNSW Members and Fellows\, $250; Early-bird rate: $340.00 before 23 Sept. 2026; Full registration: $400.00.Registration: Registration through Humanitix includes attendance\, casual lunches and refreshmentsAccommodation: Special rate at the Crowne Plaza CarltonConference Flyer: Downloadable from this linkConference website:  Via this linkEnquiries: via email to the Royal Societies of AustraliaAll are welcome \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n Register nowRSNSW Members and Fellows: $150Early-bird: $340 before 23 Sept.Full registration: $400 thereafter \n Program flyerDownload here \n\n\n\n \nPurpose \nThe conference is aimed at a broad audience: food producers\, distributors\, retailers\, government agencies\, researchers\, policy makers and so on. The underlying premise of the conference is that we have to achieve a transition to many new ways of addressing food and resilience issues now\, which are consistent with Australia’s unique social and natural systems. \nBackground — the new normal \nThe economic\, social and food production systems that we have taken for granted are being increasingly disrupted. Geopolitical shocks and changing climate and weather patterns show how dramatic these disruptions can be\, with serious consequences for food security and jeopardy for the resilience of our current systems\, from farm to consumer. Continual environmental degradation will limit food production potential. Rising inequality means more people will suffer food insecurity. \nWe can be confident that the overall framework we will have in the years to come will be different from now in ways we cannot easily predict. There will continue to be international and natural influences we cannot control. We must\, therefore\, review where we are now to identify potential problems which\, if left unattended\, may decrease food security and hamper achieving resilient food systems. The RSA Food Security conference will do this. In addition\, it will examine how we develop new frameworks and delineate our preferred futures\, and how we implement them. Simply extrapolating from history will not be good enough. We cannot become captive to the past. \nAddressing the Issues  \nAt the conference\, experts from academia\, government\, industry\, peak bodies and not-for-profits working in areas including food production\, food safety and nutrition\, trade\, transport and logistics\, social inclusion\, national security and the environment will examine the issues that require attention now to bring together practical cross-sector solutions as the world around us changes. These issues include: \n1. The burden of history – reliance on food customs\, and production and farming techniques imported here by waves of migration and imposed on the different Australian circumstances – acclimatisation persists\, even though the inherited and imported ways of thinking and patterns of living we have deployed here simply do not fit this land. \n2. The changing world\, with its cascading impact of geopolitical disruptions\, technological developments\, demographic changes\, and damaging global changes to the natural world – climate change\, coastal zone damage\, soil degradation\, biodiversity loss\, and the continuing impact of diseases\, pathogens and pest plants and animals. \n3. Perverse laws and incentives affecting producers and consumers – maintaining our natural environment is fundamental to food production and resilient food systems\, but environmental law is easily overridden by other laws\, or by the way they are administered\, and there is still no general agreement on incentives and information strategies needed to support a transition to effective food security and resilient food systems. \n4. Poverty and health – poverty\, inadequate access to health care and to dietary knowledge limit capacity to take advantage of food systems\, regardless of how good they are. \nAddressing the Issues  \nAt the conference\, experts from academia\, government\, industry\, peak bodies and not-for-profits working in areas including food production\, food safety and nutrition\, trade\, transport and logistics\, social inclusion\, national security and the environment will examine the issues that require attention now to bring together practical cross-sector solutions as the world around us changes. These issues include: \n1. The burden of history – reliance on food customs\, and production and farming techniques imported here by waves of migration and imposed on the different Australian circumstances – acclimatisation persists\, even though the inherited and imported ways of thinking and patterns of living we have deployed here simply do not fit this land. \n2. The changing world\, with its cascading impact of geopolitical disruptions\, technological developments\, demographic changes\, and damaging global changes to the natural world – climate change\, coastal zone damage\, soil degradation\, biodiversity loss\, and the continuing impact of diseases\, pathogens and pest plants and animals. \n3. Perverse laws and incentives affecting producers and consumers – maintaining our natural environment is fundamental to food production and resilient food systems\, but environmental law is easily overridden by other laws\, or by the way they are administered\, and there is still no general agreement on incentives and information strategies needed to support a transition to effective food security and resilient food systems. \n4. Poverty and health – poverty\, inadequate access to health care and to dietary knowledge limit capacity to take advantage of food systems\, regardless of how good they are. \nSpeakers include:  \nProfessor Julianne Schultz – Griffith UniversityHow we see ourselves and how this affects food issues \nProfessor Andrew Campbell – Triple Helix ConsultingReviving land and sea care \nDr Mark Stafford Smith – CSIROImpacts of accelerating changes in the natural world \nProfessor Simone Warner – Agriculture Victoria ResearchBetter biosecurity efforts are critical \nProfessor Euan Ritchie – Deakin UniversityNew environmental law – does it fall short? \nHon Professor Mary Graham – University of QueenslandLand\, law and relationships \nDr Jessica Danaher – RMIT UniversityOur food plate is changing \nDr Courtney Quinn – University of Tasmania and CSIROTipping points – challenges and opportunities \nConference outcomes \nThe two-day conference program aims to generate: \n1. awareness of the changing world that provides the context for challenges to our food security and to our food systems\, while highlighting the problems we will face from trying to continue with a business-as-usual approach\, or from just making marginal changes within our existing framework\, \n2. suggestions for changes in the overall framework to transition to a brave new world within which food systems exist if the identified challenges are to be met\, and if we are to maximise value from the many more specific initiatives now underway \n3. useful inputs into the Feeding Australia: A National Food Security Strategy processes\, into the AgriFutures project Systems Thinking: how agriculture can drive national resilience and into decision-making affecting inequality issues\, the structure of the Australian economy and Australia’s international relations.
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/rsa-food-security-conference-2026/
LOCATION:The Forum\, Melbourne Connect\, 700 Swanston St\, Melbourne\, Victoria
CATEGORIES:2026 Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261015T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261015T193000
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SUMMARY:Southern Highlands Meeting: 2026-9. Evolution of Australian crocodiles
DESCRIPTION:“The latest news on the evolution of our Australian crocodiles”\n  \nDr Michael Stein\nPalaeoscientist\nArcher Palaeontology Laboratory\nUNSW Sydney \nDate: Thursday\, 15 October 2026\, 6.30–7.30 pm AEDT\nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room\nEntry: Members\, $5; Non-members\, $10 (please note: cashless payments only)\n All are welcome \nSummary: The dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago\, in the period known as K-PG\, was later followed by the evolution of the Australian-unique branch of crocodiles. In his earlier lecture to the RSNSW Southern Highlands branch in June 2026\, Dr Michael Stein intrigued his audience with data from Australian-New Zealand palaeontology which revealed the labyrinthine extent of crocodile evolution in the Southern Hemisphere following the huge extinction event. It was then that Australia’s unique branch began to make a seemingly un-crocodilian push back onto the land. Dr Stein’s latest research with new anatomical insights will be the focus of his return lecture.  \nDr Michael Stein is a palaeoscientist with the Archer Palaeontology Laboratory at the University of New South Wales. Both his PhD (2019) and current research with UNSW focus on the remarkable crocodile fauna preserved at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area\, along with crocodile paleo-communities across northern to central Australia. This research incorporates studies of locomotory evolution\, biomechanics\, geometric morphometrics and histology in pursuit of a better understanding of ecomorphological plasticity\, particularly niche diversification among predatory hunting ecologies and the capacity of lineages to reposition in trophic webs.
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/southern-highlands-meeting-2026-9/
LOCATION:RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room
CATEGORIES:2026 Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261117T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261117T200000
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SUMMARY:RSNSW Visits Program 2026-2. Australian Museum.
DESCRIPTION:Royal Society of NSW 2026-2 Visits Program\nThe Australian MuseumPartners in Discovery: Celebrating Two Centuries of Science—and looking to the Future\n \nDate: Tuesday\, 17 November 2026 from 5.30 pm AEDT Venue:  The Australian Museum\, cnr William and College Streets\, SydneyCost:  To be advisedRegistration:  Registration information to followEnquiries:  By email to RSNSW Programs \n\nThe Royal Society of NSW has built on its heritage over the last few years with a tour from ‘Padua to Cambridge’ exploring the roots of science in the Western tradition\, followed by a series of field visits to the Institutions of Science that paired with the Royal Society in the 19th century\, to provide the bedrock science on which our standing today is built. \nThe fourth and final visit in this series is to the Australian Museum for a special evening – an absolute “must be there” occasion! Our previous visits covered Botany\, Astronomy and Institutions. The Australian Museum complements these by providing the taxonomy and species description for vertebrate and invertebrate zoology\, and by becoming the reference centre for identification\, classification of fossils and their use in strata dating. Foundation activities for both disciplines. \nFor more than two centuries the Royal Society of NSW and the Australian Museum have helped shape Australian science. Both emerged from the early scientific ambitions of colonial New South Wales\, with generations of scientists contributing to both organisations through research\, publications and public engagement. Together they helped lay the foundations of scientific inquiry in Australia. \nAs Australia’s first museum prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2027\, the Museum Director and CEO\, Kim McKay\, has extended an invitation to the  Royal Society’s Visits Program to join a special preview event recognising the long and remarkable relationship between our two institutions. \nThe evening will include a preview screening of the Museum’s new Bicentenary documentary\, a panel discussion\, audience questions\, drinks and canapes. \nThis promises to be a fascinating opportunity to celebrate the shared heritage of two of Australia’s oldest scientific institutions while gaining an early insight into the Australian Museum’s Bicentenary celebrations. \nDetails to follow. Save the date: Tuesday\, 17 November 2026 from 5.30 pm
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/rsnsw-visits-program-2026-2/
LOCATION:Australian Museum
CATEGORIES:2025 Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261119T193000
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SUMMARY:Southern Highlands Meeting: 2026-10. Revolutionising Palaeontology with Neutron Imaging.
DESCRIPTION:“Revolutionising Palaeontology with Neutron Imaging”\n  \nDr Joseph Bevitt\nInstrument Group Manager and Senior Instrument Scientist\nAustralian Centre for Neutron Scattering\nANSTO \nDate: Thursday\, 19 November 2026\, 6.30–7.30 pm AEDT\nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room\nEntry: Members\, $5; Non-members\, $10 (please note: cashless payments only)\n All are welcome \nSummary: Palaeontology and evolutionary studies are dependent on the physical measurement of bone dimensions to determine relationships between organisms\, age at death\, interpret lifestyles\, predator-prey interactions and physical adaptations to a constantly changing world. These measurements demand the physical extraction of specimens from their surrounding rock\, risking damage to small and fragile bones and loss of contextual information associated with the environment at that time. For this reason\, 3D imaging using X-rays has become a critical tool for the investigation and preservation of fossilised remains\, which can now be investigated while remaining in their original matrix. \nFor many fossil localities\, the applicability of X-rays is limited due to the prevalence of minerals that are opaque to X-rays\, and therefore obscure the fossil remains. This is where neutron imaging comes in. \nThe application of neutron imaging to palaeontology has been pioneered at ANSTO. It remains a relatively new tool for palaeontology\, yet it has revolutionised the field for two reasons: a high sensitivity to hydrogen\, and greater ability to penetrate through iron-rich minerals such as pyrite. \nThis presentation draws on high-profile palaeontological studies conducted using the DINGO neutron imaging instrument at ANSTO to demonstrate not just the complementarity of neutrons with X-rays\, but the unprecedented discoveries being made. The method has become a game-changer for Australian palaeontology\, attracting specimens for study from around the globe. This talk highlights the advantage of neutrons in revealing cartilaginous soft-tissue remains\, complete internal organs\, stomach contents and entire organisms that are invisible to traditional X-ray tomography. \nThe talk will wrap up with recent\, unpublished technical developments in neutron imaging at ANSTO\, and the future direction for neutron capabilities and applications in Australia. \nDr Joseph Bevitt is a 3D imaging scientist and group manager for the Imaging and Strain Scanning Group at ANSTO’s Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering. Joseph pioneers the use of neutrons\, often in combination with synchrotron X-rays\, to digitally excavate and reveal fossils\, their exceptionally preserved soft-tissue structures\, stomach contents and environmental interactions. \nJoseph obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sydney in 2006\, weaving a career in teaching\, research policy\, administration and management before transitioning to research in 2018. Joseph is a former NSW Branch President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)\, Research Fellow of the Jilin University Dinosaur Evolution Research Centre\, recipient of the RACI Nyholm Lectureship\, AONSA Neutron Award and Powerhouse Research Fellowship Member of the IUCr Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage. \nHe actively engages the public imagination\, reaching global audiences via the media with diverse discoveries such as the partially digested remains of a dinosaur in the stomach of an ancient crocodile\, evidence of recycling of mummified animal offerings in Ancient Egypt\, the world’s oldest fossilised heart\, and the earliest evidence of fruit-eating by animals. His research has featured in Science\, Nature\, National Geographic\, The Conversation\, Catalyst\, natural history documentaries\, Australian postage stamps and coins. Aiming to bridge the gap between science and art\, his works have been exhibited in the MAAS Powerhouse Museum’s Out of Hand and The Invisible Revealed exhibitions\, the latter achieving the Museum and Galleries National Award for Research in 2022.
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/southern-highlands-meeting-2026-10/
LOCATION:RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room
CATEGORIES:2026 Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261202T180000
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SUMMARY:1346th OGM and Open Lecture. Big Ideas from Small Patients: Improving the Outcomes of Children with Cancer.
DESCRIPTION:“Big Ideas from Small Patients: Improving the Outcomes of Children with Cancer”\nProfessor Michelle Haber AM FAHMS FAA \nCo-Group Leader\, Experimental Therapeutics and Molecular Oncology Children’s Cancer Institute \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, 2 December 2026\, 6.00–7.30 pm AEDTVenue:  Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, SydneyPre-meeting drinks: A cash bar will operate from 5.30 pmRegistration:  Please register before 2.00 pm AEDT on Wednesday\, 2 December 2026.Entry: OGM: Members\, $20; Non-members\, $30; Students\, $0All are welcome \n \n Please click here to register for the OGM and Open Lecture  \nOGM Agenda:  The Agenda for this meeting will be available on the Meetings Page of the website prior to the meeting. \nSummary: Childhood cancer has seen remarkably improved survival over the past 80 years. Despite increased survival rates\, many child cancers remain refractory to current treatments. My team has identified critical genes that drive childhood cancers\, developed novel therapies that translate to the clinic\, and has developed novel diagnostics to avoid relapse and death \nProfessor Michelle Haber is Co-Group Leader\, Experimental Therapeutics and Molecular Oncology\, at Children’s Cancer Institute\, having stepped down as Executive Director\, a role she held for 25 years. She is internationally recognised for her research developing novel therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to improve outcomes for children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and neuroblastoma. She has identified and validated several molecular targets that drive the growth and development of childhood cancer\, identified promising new drugs to inhibit the action of these targets\, and combined existing and new treatments into novel therapeutic approaches that have been translated into international clinical trials. She has brought new standards of care to Australian children with cancer\, exemplified by her establishment and leadership of the ZERO Childhood Cancer national personalised medicine program\, which is enabling every Australian child with cancer to have therapy tailored to the specific genetic and biological characteristics of their individual tumour.  \n 
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/1346th-ogm-and-open-lecture/
LOCATION:Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney
CATEGORIES:2026 Events,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261231T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261231T200000
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SUMMARY:Calendar of Meetings 2026
DESCRIPTION:Events Calendar for 2026\nPlease check this page regularly\, as the Society’s event program is continually under development. \nMost recently updated: 19 July 2026 \n\nFollow the links below for meetings held by the Society in Sydney\, in Newcastle by the Hunter Branch\, in Armidale by the New England North West Branch\, in Mittagong by the Southern Highlands Branch\, and in western NSW by the Western NSW Branch. \n\n Sydney Meetings \nHunter Branch Meetings\nNew England and North West Branch Meetings\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meetings\nWestern NSW Branch Meetings\n\nSydney Meetings\n\n\n\n \n\n\nWednesday\, 11 February\, 6.30–8.00 pm AEDT\n1338th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nHow many Australians should there be?\nDr Abul Rizvi PSM FRSN (1) and Scientia Professor Richard Holden FRSN FASSA\n(1) Former Deputy Secretary\, Department of Immigration\n(2) Professor of Economics\, UNSW Sydney Business School\n\n\nFriday\, 27 February\, 5.30–10.00 pm AEDT\nRSNSW Annual Dinner and Presentation of Awards \nVenue: Strangers’ Room\, Parliament House\, 6 Macquarie Street\, Sydney \nAfter Dinner Speaker\nProfessor Tony Haymet FTSE\nAustralia’s Chief Scientist\n\n\nMonday\, 9 March\, 6.00–8.30 pm AEDT\nRSNSW Student Award and Early Career Citation Presentations 2025 \nVenue: University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)\, Michael Crouch Building (TBA) \nMs Eilish McMaster (Sydney)\, Ms Isabelle Nicolas (Macquarie)\, Mr Amir Tourani (Western Sydney)\, Mr Christopher Whyte (Sydney)\, Mr Yunlong Qiang (Sydney)\nDr Adrian Lee (Westmead Institute of Medical Research\, Sydney)\, Dr Jiayan Liao (UTS)\, Dr Brandon Munn (Sydney)\n\n\nThursday\, 12 March\, 6.30–8.00 pm AEDT\nIdeas@theHouse: March 2026 \nVenue: Government House\, Sydney (by formal invitation) and live-streaming \nNavigating Strategic Uncertainty: Space\, Cyber and National Support in a Fractured World\nLieutenant General Susan Coyle AM CSC DSM\nChief of Joint Capabilities\nAustralian Defence Force\n\n\n\nTuesday\, 24 March\, 12.30 – 2.00 pm AEST\nLunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations (March 2026) \nVenue: Union\, University and Schools Club\, 25 Bent Street\, Sydney \nHydrogen: Cost and technology challenges\nAlex Dronoff\nChair\, Hunter Hydrogen Taskforce\n\n\nWednesday\, 8 April\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1339th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nA Drone by any other name\nDr Catherine Ball (1) and Simon Masters (2)\n(1) Scientific Futurist\, Tech Influencer\, Robotics Expert\, Adjunct Professor\n(2) Deputy Director\, Future Flight\, Innovate UK\n\n\nThursday\, 9 April\, Time: 6.30–8.30 pm\nRSNSW Visits Program 2026-1 \nVenue: Sydney Observatory \n Sydney Observatory (incl. Carte du Ciel exhibition)\n\n\nWednesday\, 6 May\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1340th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Zoom Webinar \nHousehold Electricity Use and Investment\nProfessor Jeffrey Reimers FRSN FAA FRACI\nDirector\, International Centre for Quantum and Molecular Structures\, Shanghai University\nHonorary Associate\, School of Mathematical and Physical Science\, University of Technology Sydney\n\n\nTuesday\, 19 May\, 12.30 – 2.00 pm AEST\nLunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations (May 2026) \nVenue: Union\, University and Schools Club\, 25 Bent Street\, Sydney \nEnergy: Cost and enabling technologies — POSTPONED\nTim Buckley\nClean Energy Finance Corporation\n\n\nWednesday\, 10 June\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1341st OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Gallery Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nThe Circular Economy: A pathway to environmental sustainability\nProfessor Sami Kara FRSN FFCIRP FACATECH (1) and Professor Michael Hauschild (2)\n(1) School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering\, UNSW Sydney\n(2) Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering\, Technical University of Denmark\n\n\nTuesday\, 16 June\, 6.30–8.00 pm AEST\nIdeas@theHouse: June 2026 \nVenue: Government House\, Sydney (by formal invitation) and live-streaming \nCity Futures: from challenge to opportunity – by design\nLeone Lorrimer LFRAIA\nArchitect\n\n\nWednesday\, 1 July\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1342nd OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Gallery Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nThin-Film Photovoltaics — the enabling engine for next-generation tandem solar cells\nScientia Professor Xiaojing Hao FAA FTSE\nARC Laureate Fellow and\nDeputy Director\, ARC Research Hub for Photovoltaic Solar Panel Recycling and Sustainability\nSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nTuesday\, 14 July\, 12.30 – 2.00 pm AEST\nLunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations (July 2026) \nVenue: Union\, University and Schools Club\, 25 Bent Street\, Sydney \nEnergy: Cost and Enabling Technologies — RESCHEDULED\nTim Buckley\nFounder of the public interest think tank\, Climate Energy Finance\n\n\nWednesday\, 5 August\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1343rd OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nThe Cultural Value of Water and the Importance of Understanding Water Quality and Climate Change for Aboriginal People\nProfessor Bradley Moggridge FRSN FTSE\nAssociate Dean (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement)\nFaculty of Science\nUniversity of Technology Sydney\n\n\nTuesday\, 1 September\, 6.30–8.00 pm AEST\nIdeas@theHouse: September 2026 \nVenue: Government House\, Sydney (by formal invitation) and live-streaming \nThe increasing importance of sport in today’s world\nMatt Allen AM\nVice President\, Australian Olympic Committee and\nChair\, Oceanic and Offshore Committee\, World Sailing\n\n\nWednesday\, 2 September\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1344th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Michael Crouch Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nEcosystem restoration at scale\, reintroducing native species and managing threats – nearly a decade of the Wild Deserts project\nScientia Professor Richard Kingsford AO FRSN\nDirector\, Centre for Ecosystem Research\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nTuesday\, 15 September\, 12.30 – 2.00 pm AEST\nLunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations (September 2026) \nVenue: Union\, University and Schools Club\, 25 Bent Street\, Sydney \nCritical minerals: Technology and Challenges\n\n\n\nWednesday\, 7 October\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEST\n1345th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue:  Gallery/Dixson Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nReformulating the visualisation of climate disasters\nScientia Professor Dennis Del Favero FAHA\nProfessor of Digital Innovation and\nExecutive Director\, iCinema Research Centre\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nThursday\, 5 November\, 9.00 am – 5.00 pm AEDT\nRoyal Society of NSW and Learned Societies Annual Forum 2026 \nVenue: Government House\, Sydney (by formal invitation) and Live Streaming \nTopic: The Hinge of History\n\n\nWednesday\, 11 November\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEDT\n1336th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Zoom webinar \nTopic: TBA\nPresenter: TBA\n\n\nTuesday\, 17 November\, 12.30 – 2.00 pm AEST\nLunchtime series: Provocations and Inspirations (November 2026) \nVenue: Union\, University and Schools Club\, 25 Bent Street\, Sydney \nGreen fuels: Ammonia\n\n\nWednesday\, 2 December\, 6.00 – 7.30 pm AEDT\n1347th OGM and Open Lecture \nVenue: Gallery/Dixson Room\, Mitchell Building\, State Library of NSW\, Shakespeare Place\, Sydney \nTopic: TBA\nProfessor Michelle Haber AM FAA FAHMS\nDirector\, Children’s Cancer Institute\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\n\nReturn to the top of the page \nHunter Branch Meetings\n  \n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\nThursday\, 19 March\, 6.00–7.00 pm AEDT\nHunter Branch Meeting 2026-1 \nVenue: NEX\, Newcastle Exhibition and Conference Centre\, 309 King Street\, Newcastle West \nThe Faint Universe with the Legacy Survey of Space and Time\nProfessor Sarah Brough FRSN FASA\nSchool of Physics\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nThursday\, 25 June\, 6.00–7.00 pm AEST\nHunter Branch Meeting 2026-2 \nVenue: NEX\, Newcastle Exhibition and Conference Centre\, 309 King Street\, Newcastle West \nForever Chemicals\, Future Generations: What Environmental Pollution Means for Reproductive Health\nDr Jacinta Martin\nReproductive Biologist and Lecturer\nUniversity of Newcastle and\nHunter Medical Research Institute\n\n\nThursday\, 24 September\, 6.00–7.00 pm AEST\nHunter Branch Meeting 2026-3 \nVenue: NEX\, Newcastle Exhibition and Conference Centre\, 309 King Street\, Newcastle West \nHealthy Soils\, Healthy Hunter: Building a Sustainable Future\nProfessor Ravi Naidu\nLaureate Professor and Founding Director\nGlobal Centre for Environmental Remediation\nUniversity of Newcastle\n\n\n\nReturn to the top of the page \nNew England North West Branch Meetings\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\nWednesday\, 27 May\, 5.00–7.30 pm AEST\nNew England North West Branch Meeting 2026-1 \nVenue: NOVA\, 122 Faulkner Street\, Armidale NSW 2350 \nOne Health for a Changing World: Forests\, Farms and Families\nProfessor David Durrheim\nDirector of Health Protection\, Hunter New England Health\, NSW\, Australia\nand\nUNE Panellists Prof. Susan Wilson\, Assoc. Prof. Gal Winter\, and Assoc. Prof. Jacqueline Epps and Prof. Natkunam Keetheesan (Moderator)\n\n\nWednesday\, 12 Aug\, 5.00–7.30 pm AEST\nNew England North West Branch Meeting 2026-2 \nVenue: NOVA\, 122 Faulkner Street\, Armidale NSW 2350 \nPerspectives on Autism\, Neurodiversity\, and Resilience\nProfessor Vicki Bitsika\nDiscipline Convenor of Neuroscience\nUniversity of New England\nand\nPanellists: Jane Weier and Georgia Vu\n\n\n\nReturn to the top of the page \nSouthern Highlands Branch Meetings\n\n\n\n \n\n\nThursday\, 19 February\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEDT\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-1 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nThe age of RNA and how it is transforming biology and medicine\nProfessor Pall Thordarson FRSN\nDirector\, UNSW RNA Institute\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nThursday\, 19 March\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEDT\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-2 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nPFAS per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water\nAssociate Professor Ian Wright\nSchool of Science\nWestern Sydney University\n\n\nThursday\, 16 April\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEST\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-3 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nA tale of two sites: Excavating at Pella in Jordan and Zagora in Greece\nDr Paul Donnelly\nDeputy Director\nChau Chak Wing Museum\nUniversity of Sydney\n\n\nThursday\, 21 May\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEST\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-4 \nVenue: Moss Vale Services Club \nLiterary France- Susannah’s Top Ten Places to Visit\nSusannah Fullerton OAM FRSN\nLiterary Historian\n\n\nThursday\, 18 June\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEST\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-5 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nRoaming Reptiles of the Eocene\nDr Michael Stein\nPalaeoscientist\, Archer Palaeontology Laboratory\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nThursday\, 16 July\, 6.30 — 7.30 pm AEST\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-6 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nNot just a gentleman’s club: The origins and significance of the Royal Society of NSW\nDr Anne Coote\nAuthor and Historian\n\n\n\nThursday\, 20 August\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEST\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-7 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nThe weather underwater\, and why it matters\nAssociate Professor Shane Keating\nSchool of Mathematics and Statistics\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\nThursday\, 17 September\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEST\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2025-8 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington \nThe Shortest History of Everything\nProfessor Geraint Lewis FRSN FLSW\nProfessor of Astrophysics\nSchool of Physics\nUniversity of Sydney\n\n\n\nThursday\, 15 October\, 6.30 – 7.30  pm AEDT\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-9 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nThe latest news on the evolution of our Australian crocodiles\nDr Michael Stein\n \nPalaeoscientist\nArcher Palaeontology Laboratory\nUNSW Sydney\n\n\n\nThursday\, 19 November\, 6.30 – 7.30 pm AEDT\nSouthern Highlands Branch Meeting 2026-10 \nVenue: RSL Mittagong\, Carrington Room \nTopic: TBA\nDr Joseph Bevitt\nInstrument Group Manager (Neutron  Imaging)\nANSTO\n\n\n\nReturn to the top of the page \nWestern NSW Branch Meetings\n  \n  \n\n\n\n \n \n\nWednesday\, 25 March\, 12.30 – 1.30 pm AEDT\nWestern NSW Branch Meeting 2026-1 \nVenue: Live-streaming \nThe illusion of friendship: Why generative AI demands unprecedented ethical vigilance\nProfessor Zahid Islam FRSN\nAssociate Dean (Research)\nFaculty of Business\, Justice\, and Behavioural Sciences\nCharles Sturt University\n\n\nWednesday\, 29 July\, 12.30 – 1.30 pm AEST\nWestern NSW Branch Meeting 2026-2 \nVenue: Live-streaming \nTopic: TBA\nMatthew Muller\nDirector\, Cool Soil Initiative\nCharles Sturt University\n\n\nWednesday\, 30 September\,\n12.30 – 1.30 pm AEST\nWestern NSW Branch Meeting 2026-3 \nVenue: Live-streaming \nTopic: TBA\nProfessor Julian Grant\nExecutive Director\nRural Health Research Institute\nCharles Sturt University\n\n\nTo be advised\nWestern NSW Branch Meeting 2026-4 \nVenue: Live-streaming \nStaying ahead of viral threats — host interactions shape pandemic preparedness\nProfessor Jade Forwood\nProfessor of Biochemistry\nGulbali Institute\nCharles Sturt University\n\n\n\nReturn to the top of the page
URL:https://www.royalsoc.org.au/events/calendar-of-meetings-2026/
LOCATION:Various face-to-face and online venues
CATEGORIES:2026 Events,Events
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