Royal Society of NSW News & Events

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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 ...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

​Wednesday2nd February​Rev. W. B. Clarke - 19th Century Polymath and his Scientific CorrespondenceDr Ann Moyal AMTime: 7.00 pmVenue: Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre. Dr Moyal will speak on the topic of her book that was recently launched at the State Library: The Scientific Correspondence of the Rev. W B Clarke, Australia's Pioneer Geologist. ...