Meetings programme

Schedule of upcoming meetings

The Society's meetings are open to Fellows, guests and members of the public.
Entry is free, but fellows and guests are reminded that if they wish to partake of refreshments before the meeting, there is a $4.00 charge to cover this.

Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month, March to November inclusive. Meeting commence at 6.30 pm and are preceded by wine and nibbles at 6.00 pm. 

An invited lecture is normally arranged for each meeting. For ordinary meetings, the reading of papers and the presentation of exhibits of scientific interest.  

These meetings are usually held in the Society's Rooms. Meetings are occasionally organised jointly with other kindred societies and may be held elsewhere. Occasional Symposia on topical issues are also organised by the Society.

March 14th 2019
Presentation by the 2018 Verco Medallist, Mike Lee

From Ebola to the Cambrian Explosion: Bayesian, Insights into Macroevolution

Scientists trying to understand the fossil record of life on earth are working on data very similar to epidemiologists working on Ebola outbreaks happening in real time.   Both systems involve trying to infer evolutionary dynamics from sparse samples of diverse clades preserved across time.  This talk cover Bayesian methods originally developed for understanding disease outbreaks, and how they are very relevant to palaeontologists working on everything from the Cambrian Explosion to bird evolution.

April:Jayakumar Bose (plant scientist)
May – Zoe Double-Day (marine ecology)
June – John Long (Ralph Tate Memorial Lecture, palaeontology))

Topics to be advised.