"Imaging with a deft touch: the scanning helium microscope – a modern pinhole camera!" Dr Matthew Barr, School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of NewcastleJak Kelly Award winner for 2016 (award presented by Irene Kelly) Wednesday 7 December 2016 Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Inspired by the ancient...
Hosted by His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (ret’d), Governor of NSW and Patron of the Royal Society of NSW “Society as a complex system: implications for science, practice and policy” Tuesday 29 November 2016Government House, Sydney We live in an increasingly co...
Presentation of Distinguished Fellowship to Dame Marie Bashir AD, CVO, DistFRSN The President presented the certificate of Distinguished Fellowship to Dame Marie Bashir at the start of the OGM. Past President Hector read the citation. “Finding the right course for the right horse: recent evidence-based advances in ...
“From sand and rice bubbles to earthquakes and volcanoes” Professor Itai Einav, School of Engineering, University of Sydney Director of the Sydney Centre in Geomechanics and Mining Materials Wednesday 5 October 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Universe is granulat...
“Dark matter in the universe” The Dirac Lecture and award of the Dirac Medal Duffield Professor Kenneth Freeman FRS Australian National University Thursday 13 October 2016Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW The Dirac Medal is based on rules established in 1990 by the then Vice Chancellor of t...
“A source of inspiration and delight: The Mitchell Library” Richard Neville Mitchell Librarian and Director, Education & Scholarship Wednesday 7 September 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The State Library of New South Wales can trace its history back to 1826. In m...
“Celebrating the 200th birthday of Royal Botanic Gardens: a personal history of 57 years of science” Dr Barbara Briggs Honorary Research Associate Royal Botanic Gardens Wednesday 3 August 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Royal Society of New South ...
“Australian energy policy” Professor Robert Clark AO FAA DistFRSN Chair of Energy Strategy and Policy, UNSW Thursday 25 February 2016 Hamilton and Parkes Rooms, Level 47, MLC Centre, King and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney Professor Robert Clark has had a distinguished career, having headed a research group in experim...
Note: the OGM number 1239 is not used for administrative reasons. Royal Society of New South Wales Scholarship presentations The scholarship winners with the President of the Royal Society of NSW, Dr Donald HectorL-R: Yevgeny Stadnik, Adam Dudek, Don Hector, Charles Forster Wednesday 3 February 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street...
“Royal Society of NSW – relevance in the 21st century” Dr Donald Hector FRSN President Wednesday 6 April 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Donald Hector was President of the Royal Society of NSW for four years from 2012 to 2016. This is an excerpt from his ...
“How to win an IgNobel Prize and other adventures in communicating science” Dr Len Fisher Visiting Fellow in Physics, University of Bristol Wednesday 2 March 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney This talk in a fun and interesting way was about how scientists go about their work. In 1999, D...
“Royal” not “Philosophical” - W.B. Clarke's Inaugural Address to the Royal Society of NSW Dr Bob Young Associate Professor of Geoscience (ret’d), University of Wollongong Wednesday 6 July 2016Union, University and Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney The Royal Society of New South Wales is 150 years old this year...
“The curious case of the scientist in cinema: how Indiana Jones turns out to be the bad guy!” Professor Peter Hiscock Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney Wednesday 1 June 2016Union, University & Schools Club, 25 Bent Street, Sydney Uplifting music and the s...
Annual Black-Tie Dinner, Distinguished Fellow's Lecture and presentation of the Society's 2015 awards Guest of honour: The Society's Vice-Regal Patron, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (ret'd), Governor of New South Wales The Distinguished Fellow's Lecture delivered by Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM DistFRSN Wed...
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