News and announcements
Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellowships now open
Applications are invited for the Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellowships in either a Clinical Medicine or a Medical Science department of Oxford University. Applicants should have graduated from selected universities and should either hold a medical qualification obtained in Australia or the UK or have appropriate research experience. There is no age or status limit. Applications close on 25 May 2012, with the earliest possible starting date in Oxford of 1 October 2012.
(Posted 7 February, 2012)
Corresponding Member wins Crafoord Prize
Corresponding Member of Academy, Professor Terence Tao has been jointly awarded the 2012 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics with Professor Jean Bourgain. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the prize to them for their brilliant and groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, ergodic theory, number theory, combinatorics, functional analysis and theoretical computer science.
(Posted 6 February, 2012)
Nominations for 2012 PM’s Prizes for Science now open
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science are a national tribute to excellence in science and science teaching, relying on nominations from across Australia. Nominations close on Friday 27 April 2012 at 5.00 pm.
(Posted 1 February, 2012)
Public lecture tour of Australia by pioneer epigeneticist
Professor Peter Jones from the University of Southern California will be touring Australia from 7 - 22 February under the Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship sponsored by the Academy. He will deliver public lectures exploring how the exploding science of epigenetics will transform our understanding of health and disease and Australia's role in it.
(Posted 1 February, 2012)
February public lecture on Aboriginal land management
The Academy's 2012 public lecture series, Caring for the Australian countryside: Lessons from the past and present will examine sustainable communities, mining, agriculture, culture and environment in country Australia. The series kicked off on Tuesday 7 Feburary 2012 with Adjunct Professor Bill Gammage describing Aboriginal land managment.
(Posted 30 January, 2012)
Australia Day honours
The Academy is delighted that five of its Fellows and a member of one of its National Committees have been honoured as Members in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) and one Fellow received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM). Fellows of the Academy, Professors Roderick Boswell, Lorenzo Faraone, Martin Green, Eugenie Lumbers, Mandyam Srinivasan, Rodney Tucker and Member of the National Committee for Physics, Professor Hans Bachor, received the accolade on Australia Day.
(Posted 27 January, 2012)
Postdoctoral and Invitation Fellowships in Japan 2012-13
The Australian Academy of Science, in association with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), invites applications from Australian researchers to undertake postdoctoral and invitational fellowships in Japan. Closing date is COB Friday 16 March 2012.
(Posted 23 January, 2012)
