Science at the Shine Dome 2013
| Thursday 30 May 2013 Career and early career honorific award presentations |
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President's address Professor Suzanne Cory AC PresAA FRS President, Australian Academy of Science |
| 9.30am | Matthew Flinders Medal Lecture Presented by Professor Kenneth Freeman FAA FRS The Australian National University Dark Matter in Galaxies |
| Honorific Awards presentations | |
| 10.00am | 2013 David Craig Medal Professor Peter Lay FAA The University of Sydney Biospectroscopic Studies and Microscopic Imaging of Cells and Tissues: Understanding the Biomolecular Basis of Human Diseases and Their Treatments |
| 2013 Hannan Medal Professor Matthew Wand FAA University of Technology Sydney Regression Analysis of Streaming Data |
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| 2013 Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Professor Cheryl Praeger AM FAA University of Western Australia Symmetry: more of the same! |
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| 11.00am | Morning Tea |
| Early Career Honorific Awards presentations | |
| 11.30am | 2013 Fenner Medal Dr Ulrike Mathesius The Australian National University Plants control microbes – microbes control plants |
| 2013 Gottschalk Medal Dr Benjamin Kile Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Platelets, bleeding, and cancer therapy |
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| 2013 Anton Hales Medal Associate Professor Wouter Schellart Monash University Control of subduction zone size on plate tectonics and mantle flow |
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| Thursday 30 May 2013 Honorific and early career honorific award presentations |
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2013 Dorothy Hill Award Dr Lisa Alexander The University of New South Wales A land of droughts and flooding rain? How future greenhouse gas emissions will affect Australia's climatic extremes |
| 2013 Moran Medal Dr Aurore Delaigle University of Melbourne Introduction to functional data analysis in statistics |
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| 2013 Pawsey Medal Associate Professor Christopher Blake Swinburne University of Technology Dark energy and the accelerating Universe |
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| 1.00pm | Fellows Lunch (closed session for Fellows of the Academy) – Jaeger Room ECR Lunch – Ian Potter House Box lunches will be provided for all others. |
| 2.30pm-5.00pm | Annual General Meeting (closed session for Fellows of the Academy) Social program: ‘Exploring Australia’s energy past ‘ – National Film and Sound Archive Early-career researcher workshops(2.00 - 5.00pm) Teachers workshops (1.00 – 5.00pm) |
| 7.00pm | Annual Dinner (Pre-dinner drinks at 7.00pm, dinner at 7.30pm) Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia Presentation of Career Award Medals Dress code: Black tie/cocktail Guest Speaker: Sir David King | 'Science and policy: is there a role for scientists?' |
| 2013 awardees | |
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| Awards presentations
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Each year about 15 researchers are honoured for outstanding achievements across a lifetime of work or early in their careers. These awardees each provide a short description of the cutting-edge work that led to their recognition. This is a rare opportunity to hear from some of Australia’s most established and emerging scientists. For more information please visit our Awards page. |
| Fellows lunch | Fellows of the Academy are invited to attend an exclusive informal lunch in the Jaeger Room of the Shine Dome. This is a chance to catch up with friends and colleagues and discuss issues of importance to the Academy in an informal setting ahead of the Annual General Meeting. |
| Annual General Meeting | The Academy's Annual General meeting is a formal meeting of Fellowship. This is a closed session for Fellows only. |
| Teachers workshop | Teacher Awardees and delegates to Science at the Shine Dome will be treated to an afternoon of inspiring multi-disciplinary science, using new teaching laboratories equipped with the latest technology. The program is devised by a team of experts in pedagogy and curriculum development, with the support of the Australian Science Teachers Association and the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. |
| Early and mid-career researcher workshop | Early and mid-career researcher participants are invited to attend one of three workshops, delivered by experts and targeted to their specific needs: Grant Writing - getting your research funded Media and communicating science Successful scientific collaborations |
| Annual Black Tie Dinner
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Dine in style at the National Gallery of Australia’s beautiful Gandel Hall. The Who’s Who of Australian science attend the Academy’s Annual Dinner, at which the lifetime achievements of three outstanding scientists will be celebrated by the presentation of the Career Awards. Keynote speaker in 2013 is Sir David King, Chancellor, University of Liverpool, former Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford, and former UK Chief Scientist. |
