Matthew Flinders Lecture and New Fellows seminar
Wednesday, 6 May 2009

9.30am	Welcome Professor Kurt Lambeck FAA President, Australian Academy of Science
9.35am	Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture Professor Bruce McKellar FAA The importance of being almost symmetric
SESSION 1
Chairs: Professor Peter Hall FAA, Professor Graham Farquhar FAA
10.10am	Professor Marilyn Ball FAA Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University Atmospheric CO2 enhances frost damage in a warming world
10.25am	Professor John Carter FAA Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle Modelling in geotechnics – is too much analysis barely enough?
10.40am	TEA
11.30	Professor Frank Caruso FAA Centre for Nano Science and Nanotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne Nanoengineered materials for biomedicine applications
11.45	Professor Andy Choo FAA Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Ensuring the proper inheritance of our genetic wealth
12.00	Professor Warrick Couch FAA Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne ‘Nature versus nurture’ on a cosmic scale
12.15	Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte FAA School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney The robots are coming!
12.30	Professor Charles Mackay FAA Immunology and Inflammation Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research The rational migration of leukocytes in health and disease
12.45	LUNCH
SESSION 3
2.15pm	Professor Paul Mulvaney FAA Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne Not all that’s gold does glitter
2.30pm	Professor Robert Parton FAA Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane Studying the cell surface: From molecular cell biology to a potential therapeutic vehicle
2.45pm	Professor George Paxinos FAA Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney Brain, behaviour and evolution
3.00pm	Dr Michael Raupach FAA CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Canberra Human influences on the carbon and water cycles of the Earth system
3.15pm	TEA
SESSION 4
3.45pm	Professor Leigh Simmons FAA Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth Sperm competition and sexual selection
4.00pm	Professor Xu Jia Wang FAA Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra Optimal transportation and light reflection
4.15pm	Professor Peter Waterhouse FAA School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney Gene silencing
4.30pm	Professor Raymond Withers FAA Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra Local crystal chemical flexibility – structure and function in the crystalline solid state
4.45pm	Close
5.00– 6.30pm	Drinks served in Jaeger room for 50th anniversary of the opening of the dome
6.30pm	ECR and teacher’s informal dinner at Ian Potter House