Talks Index 2011

2011 Sydney Lecture Series

Thursday 24th February	The Four Societies Lecture. Hosted by Australian Nuclear Association, Nuclear Panel of Engineers Australia, Australian Institute of Energy and The Royal Society of NSW 1188^th Ordinary General Meeting Geothermal Energy - Current State of Play and Developments Dr Stuart Mc Donnell, Chief Operating Officer for Geodynamics and Mr Stephen de Belle of Granite Power. Venue: Hamilton Room, Trade & Investment Centre, Industry & Investment NSW, Level 47, MLC Centre, 19 Martin Place, Sydney. Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm
Tuesday 22nd March	The Two Societies Meeting - Australian Institute of Physics and Royal Society of NSW. 1189^th Ordinary General Meeting Searching for Nanosecond Laser Pulses from Outer Space Dr Ragbir Bhathal Venue: Slade Lecture, Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney.
Wed 6th April	1190^th Ordinary General Meeting & 144^th AGM Belief and Science: the Belief/Knowledge Dilemma Join David Malouf and Barry Jones discuss the Belief/Knowledge Dilemma.
Fri 29th April	Dirac Lecture 2011 Beauty and truth: their intersection in mathematics and science Lord May of Oxford. Presented in conjunction with the University of New South Wales. View the 2011 Dirac Lecture
Wed 4th May	1191^st Ordinary General Meeting Heading Towards the World's Largest Telescope: The Square Kilometre Array Professor Michael Burton, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Wed 1st June	1192nd Ordinary General Meeting Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks Professor Victor Flambaum, School of Physics, University of New South Wales
Wed 6th July	1193^rd Ordinary General Meeting Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Prospects for Realising the Prometheus Myth Professor John Rasko, Centenary Institute, University of Sydney and RPA Hospital 6.30 pm at the New Law Building, University of Sydney
Wed 3rd August	1194^th Ordinary General Meeting Schizophrenia: from Neuropathology to New Treatments Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert, Macquarie Group Foundation Chair of Schizophrenia Research, NeuRA, SRI and UNSW, and Professor, School of Psychiatry, UNSW 6.00 for 6.30 pm at the New Law Seminar Room 102, New Law Building, University of Sydney
Wed 7th September	1195^th Ordinary General Meeting Distributed Small-Scale Production of Chemicals - Why and How Professor Brian Haynes, Sydney University 6.00 for 6.30 pm at the New Law Seminar Room 102, New Law Building, University of Sydney
Wed 5th October	1196^th Ordinary General Meeting Sex in the Sea: How Understanding the Weird and Bizarre Sex Lives of Fishes is the First Step to their Conservation Prof. William Gladstone, University of Technology, Sydney 6.00 for 6.30 pm at the New Law Seminar Room 102, New Law Building, University of Sydney
Wed 2nd November	1197^th Ordinary General Meeting Grid-Connected Energy Storage: the Key to Sustainable Energy? Professor Tony Vassallo, Sydney University 6.00 for 6.30 pm at the New Law Seminar Room 102, New Law Building, University of Sydney
Wed 7th December	1198^th Ordinary General Meeting Studentship Awards and Christmas Party 6.00 for 6.30 pm at St Pauls College, University of Sydney
Tue 13th December	Clarke Memorial Lecture with a cocktail reception following. 5.30 pm at Eastern Avenue Auditorium, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney. See flyer here for details: Clarke Memorial Lecture VIP Invite (PDF 380kB). Note: Cost free, but RSVP by 5th Dec required.

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