SCIENCE AT THE SHINE DOME canberra 1 – 3 May 2002
Early-career researchers program
The Australian Academy of Science offered a special program for early-career researchers, outlined below, in conjunction with Science at the Shine Dome. Those who attended:
- learnt about the latest research across a range of science disciplines,
- met and exchange ideas with renowned scientists, science teachers and other early-career researchers; and
- participated in a seminar on media and communication, writing grant proposals and commercialisation of research and also heard about international collaboration.
The CSIRO, CRCs, universities and research institutions were invited to send representatives.
| Wednesday 1 May New Fellows seminar |
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| 9.30am-4.00pm | New Fellows seminar 17 new Academy Fellows presented 10-minute talks about their research. |
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| 6.00-8.30pm | Informal dinner Short presentations were made by young researchers. |
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| Thursday 2 May Awards and admission of new Fellows |
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| 10.00am-1.00pm | Awards presentation Admission of Fellows, the Flinders Lecture and presentations by awardees. |
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| 2.00-5.00pm | Career Development Workshop Presentations were made on three themes – media and communication, writing grant proposals and commercialisation of research. |
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| 7.00 for 7.30pm | AGM dinner Early-career researchers were seated amongst Fellows and teachers. The after dinner speaker was The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP, Minister for Education, Science and Training. |
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| Friday 3 May Annual symposium Transition to sustainability |
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| 8.30am-3.40pm | Public symposium: Transition to sustainability This symposium covered the social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability. |
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