9 events Coming up
19 Mar 2012
Human Variome Project Seminar - The Accelerated Gene Identification Program - joys and pitfalls of using new genetic technologies to find genes
The AGIP Program was established at MCRI in 2008, with the aim of using new genetic technologies to identify genes for rare disorders and returning these results to families, taking advantage of the considerable clinical resources of the VCGS. To ...
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Seminar/Forum28 Mar 2012
NICTA Big Picture Seminar - Australia's Future in Science and Technology
Australia's Future in Science & Technology Mathematics, Engineering and Science provide the enabling skills and knowledge that underpin every aspect of modern life. They help us understand the natural world and enable us torespond as humans to th...
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Free Public Lecture08 May 2012
ICT for Life Science Forum - Reverse Engineering the Immune System
Our understanding of the immune response owes a great debt to the extraordinary clonal selection theory developed by Melbourne scientist Macfarlane Burnet 50 years ago. In this lecture Professor Hodgkin will present the key historical advances tha...
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Seminar/Forum20 Sep 2012
Disruptions and Dividends: A Fast Broadband Australia
Within the next few years, fast broadband will be available to Australians everywhere. Many metropolitan Australians have already experienced some of broadband's potential disruptions and dividends. What are the implications for information, educa...
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Free Public Lecture25 Oct 2012
The science of conserving Gija art
This lecture will offer a unique insight into the art and science of Indigenous cultural materials conservation and the culture of the Gija people. In March 2011, floods destroyed the Warmun Community and seriously damaged the significant Warmun ...
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Free Public Lecture02 Nov 2012
Re-seeing the future: How technology may restore vision
This FREE public event will look at how technology is being used to solve one of the biggest health problems facing our society today. Come along to ask questions of worldleading researchers and experts in vision loss.
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Seminar/Forum10 Apr 2013
Making a Smarter Planet Real
The world around us is increasingly full of devices, data and sensor signals. In theory, applying computer science, mathematics and modelling to all that data should enable us to run our physical systems and societies more efficiently and effect...
28 May 2013
From Technology to Sight - looking into the future of the bionic eye
The story of the bionic eye has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Following the announcement of Australia’s first successful bionic eye implants last year, testing of an early prototype device continues with three patients in ...
06 Jun 2013
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education
The fouryear college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with studentloan debt surpassing the US$1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people in the U.S. are beginni...