SCIENCE AT THE SHINE DOME canberra 5 - 7 may 2004

Friday 7 May
Symposium: A celebration of Australian science
Opening address
Dr Jim Peacock
President, Australian Academy of Science
Welcoming address
Professor John White
Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
The computational and statistical science of intelligent systems
Professor Peter Bartlett
Division of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Quantum feedback control – from the playground to the laboratory
Associate Professor Howard Wiseman
Senior Research Fellow, School of Science, Griffith University
Energetic ions and fine structure in the synthesis of new materials
Professor Marcela Bilek
Head, Applied and Plasma Physics, School of Physics, University of Sydney
Use of protein three-dimensional structural data in functional genomics
Dr Bostjan Kobe
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland
Combating parasites using novel technologies
Associate Professor Una Ryan
Lecturer (Biochemistry), School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University
A story of blood
Dr Joel Mackay
Senior Lecturer, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney
The universe from beginning to end
Professor Brian Schmidt
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Australian National University
The biosynthesis of the plant hormone gibberellin
Dr Chris Helliwell
Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Plant Industry
Closing remarks
Dr Jim Peacock
President, Australian Academy of Science