2007 LECTURE SERIES, SYDNEY
The venue for all meetings is, unless otherwise indicated, Conference Room 1, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney (City Road). Meetings commence at 7:00 pm and the Forum Restaurant Bar will be open from 6:30.
| Friday 28th February |
A Tale of Two Infrastructures:
the Future of Water and Energy use in our Cities The Four Societies Lecture. Professor Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney. |
| Friday 9th March |
The Royal Society of New South Wales Annual Dinner Forum Restaurant, Darlington Centre, Sydney University |
| Wednesday 2nd May |
World Heritage Inscription of Caves and Karst A/Prof. Julia James, University of Sydney |
| Wednesday 6th June |
Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Australia:
Insights from the Lockhart Review Prof. Peter Schofield, Director, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute |
| Tuesday 26th June |
Electro-mechanics of Living Cells and Cell Membranes in Intense
Electric Fields Prof. Hans Coster, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Sydney. A joint event with the Australian Institute of Physics, will be held on at the Slade Lecture Theatre, School of Physics, University of Sydney. |
| Wednesday 1st Aug |
From the Crime Scene to the Courtroom: Removing the Hollywood Hype, What is Forensics all about? Prof. Claude Roux, Director, Centre for Forensic Science, University of Technology Sydney |
| Wednesday 5th Sept |
Recent Progress in Quantum Electronics: Control of Small Electronic Circuits by Quantum rather than Classical Physics Prof. Alex Hamilton, School of Physics, University of New South Wales |
| Wednesday 3rd Oct |
The life Science Revolution: How Engineering, Cell Biology and IT Intersect Prof. Keith Williams, Co-founder of Proteome Systems, Formerly Professor of Biology at Macquarie University |
| Wednesday 7th Nov |
New Earths, Dark Energy and Giant Telescopes: The Future of Australian Astronomy Prof. Matthew Colless, Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory |