RSNZ Waikato Branch - Talk Series

This year we are presenting a talk series entitled Facing the Future. Under this theme, invited speakers will consider topical issues in which science plays a major role, not only from the perspective of what we know, but also in terms of what we need to do and how we might do it.

Café Scientifique

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 17 August 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. Ian Shaw, Professor in Toxicology at The University of Canterbury, will talk about Oestrogen (female sex hormone)-mimicking chemicals in the food supply and the feminization of the country.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 20 July 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. “What does ultraviolet radiation have to do with climate change?”

Café Scientifique, Thursday 8 July 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. ‘Nanotechnology - opportunity or risk?' presented by Shaun Hendy, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 1 June 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton. ‘Cleaning up our Nitrate Waste’, presented by Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato.

Café Scientifique, Tuesday 27 April 2010, 7.30pm, The Bank (cnr Victoria and Hood Streets), Hamilton.  “How Science and the Media Interact”. Aimee Whitcroft from the Science Media Centre in Wellington will talk about the ways that scientists and the media interact, in a New Zealand context. She will discuss some good and bad examples and outline some initiatives to improve the communication of science by the media within New Zealand.

Tauranga Continuing Education Group

The Tauranga Continuing Education Group is one of several such groups in Waikato/Bay of Pleny affiliated to the University of Waikato, Hamilton. Each year they organize in Tauranga, a series of lectures with a wide range of topics and speakers.

Progaramme of speakers for 2010