Forthcoming Events in 2010The Royal Society of Victoria holds monthly meetings on the second Thursday of the month which are free and open to all. Note all Lectures commence at 7.00 p.m. after the Society business meeting at the Royal Society.
2010 PROGRAM Date Speaker Topic 11 March Prof. Ralph MacNally Dimming of the Garden State: An Ecological Unravelling Biodiversity & Ecosystem Processes, Monash Sustainability Institute 8 April Dr. John Long Death, Sex and Evolution – Extraordinary Fossils Revealing Intimate Details of Sexual Behaviour in the Early Vertebrates Vice-President Research & Collections, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 13 May Dr. Robert W. Day Tasty Cows of the Sea: How Research on Abalone Helps Maintain Victoria’s Most Valuable Fishery Dept of Zoology, University of Melbourne 10 June Prof. Milton T. W. Hearn Green Chemistry: It’s Time to Get Serious ARC Special Research Centre for Green Chemistry 8 July Prof. John Handmer The Role of Science in Bushfire Policy? Deputy Head Research & Innovation, RMIT University 12 August Dr. Greg Ayers The Role of Oceans in Climate Change Director of Meteorology 9 September Prof. Geoffrey Donnan Developments in Understanding Stroke Professor of Neurology, University of Melbourne 14 October Dr. Christopher J. Walsh Cities and sick streams – a new class of environmental flow problems Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne 11 November Dr. Catherine Boisvert Evo Devo in the 21st Century: How Palaeontology and Embryology Help Us Understand Evolution Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute 9 December The Royal Society of Victoria 2010 Medal Lecture in Human Health or Medical Sciences (Human) All Lectures commence at 7.00 p.m. Venue: The Royal Society of Victoria, 9 Victoria Street, Melbourne 3000. (Tel 9663 5259) Activities 2010Burke and Wills Expedition 150th Anniversary (2010 - 2011)
The Council of the Royal Society in 2008 established an Anniversary Advisory Committee to advise it on the manner in which the 150th anniversary of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860-61 should be commemorated. The Committee is currently formulating a series of national community based events and activities projects designed to capture the imagination of the public of Australia.
Some of the proposed events include the re-enactment of the departure of Burke and Wills, the development of web based Burke and Wills "virtual track" and regional, community based commemorations along the length of the track. Commemorative coins and stamps are expected to be issued.
Details of the program can be found at http://www.burkeandwills150.info/ Past events 2009Lectures| 12 November | Monthly Lecture
Burke and Wills revisited - the 150th Anniversary | Panel of Speakers
Mr Dave Phoenix; Dr Jonathan King; Dr Frank Leahy; Dr Peter Thorne | | 8 October | Monthly Lecture
Animal, Vegetable or Miracle: what slime mould can tell us about neurodegenerative diseases | Prof Paul R. Fisher
Chair in Microbiology, La Trobe University | | 10 September | Monthly Lecture
Pedestrian Transportation Models – What we can learn from the ants! | Dr Majid Sarvi
Civil Engineering, Monash University | | 27 August | Joint Meeting with The Royal Historical Society of Victoria
100 years of the Bureau of Meteorology | Dr David Day | | 16 August | Media Launch
Plans for Burke and Wills 150th Anniversary (2010-2011) | Burke and Wills Advisory Committee members | | 13 August | Monthly Lecture
The Earth’s Natural Reactor – Options For Our Energy Future | Dr Sandra McLaren
School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne | | 9 July | Monthly Lecture
Comparative Phylogeography and Predicted Palaeodistributions of Rainforest Skins of the Wet Tropics | Dr Adnan Moussalli
Ian Potter Fellow, Museum Victoria | | 11 June | Monthly Lecture
Nuclear Energy The Perspective in 2009 | Dr Ziggy Switkowski
Aust Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation | | 14 May | Monthly Lecture
Strength Hierarchies and Earthquake Resistant Design | Dr Helen Goldsworthy
Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne | | 9 April | Monthly Lecture
The Science of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy | Prof Graham Burrows AO KCSJ
President RSV, The Melbourne Clinic | | 12 March | Monthly Lecture
Nerve Regeneration | Dr John Forsythe
Dept of Materials Engineering, Monash University |
Symposia and Activities 2009 North Central Victoria: A golden era, a changed ecosystem forever? (2-3 December 2009)
The Royal Society of Victoria (with the support of the North Central Catchment Management Authority, La Trobe University (Bendigo) the Norman Wettenhall Foundation and the Department of Primary Industry) conducted an excellent 2 day environmental science symposia with first class presentation in geology, water resource management, plant and animal impact, land use and the impact of climate change. This regional symposium was held at the La Trobe University Campus in Bendigo. Georg von Neumayer Symposium (27-30 May 2009)
Marking the 100th Anniversary of the death of Professor Georg von Neumayer, former Member, Vice President, Councillor and Honorary Life Member of the Royal Society of Victoria and acknowledging his remarkable contribution to the scientific advances in the Colony of Victoria during the 1850s and 1860s
Held in the Royal Society of Victoria Lecture Theatre, 9 Victoria Street Melbourne The Nancy Millis AC Symposium (18 April 2009)
"A legacy of impact in science and public policy; from water and environment to women in science and higher education"
Held at the Woodruff (Microbiology) Lecture Theatre Building 180, University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville Young Science Ambassadors Programme (January 2009)
The Young Science Ambassadors Programme of 2009 brought fifty-two Year 12 science students to Melbourne for a week of scientific exploration of the scientific and medical research Institutes and centres of Victoria. The highlight of the week was the South Magnetic Pole Flyover flight to Antarctica to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the discovery of the (then) location of the South Magnetic Pole.
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