2001 LECTURE SERIES
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| Tuesday 16th March |
The Annual Dinner and Awards Guest Speaker: Elizabeth McGregor, Director of the Museum of Contempory Art, Sydney The 1999 Society Awards were presented followed by an enjoyable and informative talk. Venue: Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Kirribilli |
| Wednesday 4th April |
Annual General Meeting and Presidential Address Colour and Cash: the Exquisite Minerals of the Oxidation Zone Prof. P.A. Williams |
| Wednesday 2nd May |
Waiting for the 2008 Epping to Chatswood Train A lecture by the Construction Director for the Parramatta Rail Link, Mr Michael Flynn. |
| Thursday 17th May |
Pollock Memorial Lecture Enhancing the Functionality of Materials: Recent Advances in Surface Modification Technology Professor Marcela Bilek, University of Sydney. |
| Wednesday 6th June |
How Children Learn to Speak For the June General Meeting we were pleased to have Professor Ray Cattell lecture the society on a topic that all parents and educators found most interesting. |
| Wednesday 4th July |
Wombats and Wollemis: Amazing Organisms and What they have in Common James Woodford, science writer for the Sydney Morning Herald. |
| Wednesday 1st August |
Archeology and New Perspective on the Settlement of Sydney: The Excavation and Reconstruction of the Dawes Point Battery, Sydney's Earliest Fort Mr Wayne Johnson, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. This talk will be followed by a site tour. |
| Wednesday 5th September |
Visualisation of Galaxies, Oceans and Brains Professor Bernard Pailthorpe, School of Physics, University of Sydney. |
| Wednesday 3rd October |
Excavating Pella's Bronze Age Migdol Temple: The 2001 Field Season, Dr Stephen Bourke, Sydney University |
| Wednesday 7th November |
Soft Matter, Rheology and Leonardo, Professor Roger Ian Tanner, Sydney University |