Talks Index 2009

The Royal Society of New South Wales - Southern Highlands Branch

Date	Speaker	Topic
19 Nov 2009	Dr Peter Donaldson	Sir Joseph Hooker, the third man in the story of evolution (Jupe Productions’ television documentaries)
15 Oct 2009	Dr Ken McCracken	The Sun goes on strike
5 Sep 2009	A live early music multimedia event by Andrew Byrne Flyer (text) poster	Harmonious Revolutions - Galileo and The Music of the Spheres
20 Aug 2009	Dr Peter Slezak	Re-trying Galileo
16 Jul 2009	Professor Brynn Hibbert	Crooks, cranks, charlatans scientific scams and how to avoid them
18 Jun 2009	Professor Stephen Allnutt	Deviant sexual behaviour
21 May 2009	Dr Tom Rich	Mammals in the age of the dinosaurs
16 Apr 2009	Dr Ray Binns	Mining the deep ocean floor, a new frontier
19 Mar 2009	Professor Ross Bradstock	Managing bushfire risk in a changing world
19 Feb 2009	Professor Robert Carter	Testing the hypothesis of dangerous man-made global warming (lecture based on this paper or see here). This lecture generated some controversy: Letter from David Tranter Reply from Bob Carter Letter from Bob Thomas For the position of the Royal Society (London) on climate, see http://royalsociety.org/climatechange/

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