ResearchMatters

Experience research excellence
Monday 17 to Friday 28 August 2009
Research Matters

Participate in an exciting program of free events to discover how dedicated Monash researchers are making a positive impact on the world we live in.

Events calendar

For more information and registration details, please click on the event title.

Date/Time Title Venue
Monday 17 -
Friday 28 August
1 pm
Monash facility tours
(For: Community, Monash staff and students)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Monday
17 August
2.30 pm
Opening of the Gippsland research students poster exhibition
(For: Monash staff and students, community, industry)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Tuesday
18 August
2.30 - 4 pm
Public seminar - Innovative Education Delivery Systems
(For: Community, industry leaders, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Tuesday
18 August
5.30 pm
Public seminar - Ants and Men - the struggle to cope in a complex world
(For: Research students, community, industry and government)
Monash Conference Centre
Melbourne
Tuesday
18 August
6 - 7 pm
Public forum - Building better muscles
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
BMW Edge Theatre
Federation Square
Tuesday
18 August
5 - 7 pm
What is a Christian Response to Climate Change?
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Wednesday
19 August
11.30 am - 1.30 pm
Opening of the research students poster exhibition and three-minute thesis competition
(For: Monash students and staff, future research students)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Wednesday 19 -
Thursday 27 August
Research student poster exhibition
(For: Monash students and staff, future research students, community)
Monash University
Multiple campuses
Wednesday 19 - Friday 21 August Monash e-Research expo
(For: Monash researchers, students and staff)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Wednesday
19 August
5.30 - 7.30 pm
Monash e-Research Centre cocktail party
(Invitation only)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Wednesday
19 August
5.30 - 7 pm
Public lecture - When what is new is not: The information society in perspective
W Boyd Rayward, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois and University of New South Wales
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Caulfield campus
Thursday
20 August
9 am - 1 pm
Research orientation program
(For: New Monash academic and research staff)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Thursday
20 August
1 - 2 pm
Public lecture - Giving Registered Nurses a Greater Voice in the Workplace
(For: Community, industry leaders, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Thursday
20 August
8.30 - 9.30 am
Monash Early Career Researcher e-research breakfast
(For: Monash Early Career Researchers)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Thursday
20 August
6 - 7 pm
Public lecture - Towards two billion cars: Transforming cars, fuel and mobility
Professor Dan Sperling, University of California
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
State Library of Victoria
Melbourne
Thursday
20 August
7 pm
Public lecture - How grows the Milky Way?
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Friday
21 August
2.30 - 4 pm
Public seminar - Health and Wellbeing
(For: Community, industry leaders, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Friday
21 August
4 pm
Launch of Healthy active communities: Research stories from Monash Peninsula campus
(For: Local community, industry and government, Monash staff)
Monash University
Peninsula campus
Friday
21 August
4 - 5 pm
Public lecture - Drug discovery for protozoan parasites - the essential P's
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Parkville campus
Friday
21 August
Monash Institute of Transport Studies - 40th Anniversary Dinner
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Sunday
23 August
9 am - 5 pm
Computing in Melbourne: A historical tour
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Starting point: Caulfield campus
Monday 24, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 August Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences research degrees and scholarships information session
(For: Future research students)
Monash University
Parkville campus
Monday 24 and Thursday 27 August Honours information session - Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences
(For: Future research students)
Monash University
Parkville campus
Monday
24 August
2.30 - 5 pm
Public seminar - Sustainable Resources, Industries and Innovative Technologies
(For: Community, industry leaders, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Monday
24 August
6 - 7.30 pm
Public lecture - The American Drug Court movement: A personal journey
Judge Peggy Fulton Hora (Ret), Superior Court of California
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University Law Chambers
Melbourne
Monday
24 August
7 - 9.30 pm
Celebrating Postgraduate Research dinner
Judge Peggy Fulton Hora (Ret), Superior Court of California
(For: Community, industry leaders, Monash Gippsland campus students and staff)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Tuesday
25 August
3.30 - 5 pm
Public lecture - Price presentation effects in purchases involving trade-ins
Professor Joydeep Srivastava, University of Maryland
(For: Academics, research students, industry practitioners, community)
Monash University
Caulfield campus
Tuesday
25 August
5 - 6 pm
Building and strengthening research communities
(For: All Monash staff, students, community members, industry partners)
Monash University
Berwick campus
Wednesday
26 August
1 - 2 pm and 5 - 6 pm
Faculty of Science - Applying for postgraduate research scholarships information session
(For: Current and future higher degree by research students)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Wednesday
26 August
Research Awards
(Invitation only)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Thursday
27 August
1 - 3 pm
Public lecture - Seeking Industry Grants and Writing Applications
(For: Community, industry leaders, Monash Gippsland students and staff)
Monash University
Gippsland campus
Thursday
27 August
6.15 - 7.15 pm
Public lecture - Forecasting our future - Climate change and air quality in the 21st century: predictions and responses
Guy Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
State Library of Victoria
Melbourne
Thursday
27 August
6 - 7 pm
Public debate - Intelligent life is common in the Universe
Professor John Lattanzio, Marion Anderson and Dr Allie Ford, Monash University
(For: Community, Monash students and staff)
Monash University
Clayton campus
Thursday
27 August
4.30 - 7 pm
Research degrees and scholarships information evening
(For: Future research students)
Monash University
Caulfield campus
Thursday
27 August
6.30 pm
Monash University Medical Research Gala
(For: Monash students, staff and future students)
Monash University
Clayton campus