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2001 LECTURE SERIES

Click here to check the Southern Highlands Branch lecture series.

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