Lecture Program 2014
The Royal Society offers lectures on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. The lectures are free, open to the public and start at 7:00pm unless otherwise stated. The venue is the Society’s lecture theatre upstairs at 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title of Presentation | |
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February |
13 | Assoc Professor Paul Stoddart | A Light Touch: Optics in medicine and biology |
| Engineering & Industrial Science, Swinburne University | |||
| 27 | Dr Rosemary Lester | The Bugs Bite Back: Bacterial resistance and superbugs | |
| Chief Health Officer, Victorian Department of Health |
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March |
13 | Professor Tim Entwisle | Curing Plant Blindness and Illiteracy |
| Director & CEO, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne | |||
| 27 | Dr June Ross | Picturing Kimberley’s Past: Megafauna, Boat People and Changing Economies | |
| Adjunct Professor of Archaeology, UNE | |||
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April |
10 | Professor Rob Shepherd | J E Cummins OBE Annual Oration |
| Director, Bionics Institute, University of Melbourne | Medical Bionics: Engineering solutions for damaged nerves | ||
| 24 | Annual General Meeting | Annual General Meeting | |
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May |
8 | Professor David Macmillan | A very little brain: The Pooh Bear factor and animal behaviour. |
| Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne | |||
| 22 | Dr Stuart Mills | Bonding in the world of minerals: It’s crystal clear | |
| Senior Curator, Geosciences at Museum Victoria | |||
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June |
12 | Professor Steven Chown | Supersizing humans, downsizing Life: Why is everything getting smaller except us? |
| Head School of Biological Sciences, Monash University | |||
| 26 | Dr Jason Tye- din | Gluten, wheat & coeliac disease: dissecting the facts from the fad | |
| Head, Coeliac Research at Walter & Eliza Hall Institute | |||
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July |
10 | Q & A – Nuclear Energy | Details to be advised |
| 24 | Professor Joel Brugger | AW Howitt Annual Lecture | |
| Monash University |
Joint meeting – Geological Society of Australia (Vic) | ||
| In celebration of the International Year of Crystallography | |||
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August |
14 | Dr Andrew Prentice | Pluto’s Moons and the Birth of the Solar System |
| Monash Centre for Astrophysics | |||
| 28 | Commemoration of bicentenary of death Matthew Flinders | Details to be advised | |
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September |
11 | Professor Caryl Nowson | Stormy weather in the sunny country: Vitamin D and public health |
| Centre for Physical Activity & Nutrition Research, Deakin University | |||
| 25 | Young Scientist Research Prizes | Note earlier start time of 6:30pm | |
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October |
9 | Dr Andrew McCowan | Effects of dredging in Port Philip Bay |
| Managing Director, Water Technology | |||
| 23 | The Phillip Law Postdoctoral Award for Physical Sciences | Winner to be announced | |
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November |
13 | Professor Doug MacFarlane | Joint meeting with ATSE |
| School of Chemistry, Monash University | Towards a low carbon society: Challenges and alternate energy solutions | ||
| 27 | Very Young Scientists | Note earlier start time of 5:00pm | |
| Event celebrating RSV sponsored Science Talent Search winners | |||
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December |
11 | RSV Victoria Research Medal Lecture | Medallist to be announced |
| Human Health or Medical Sciences | |||
