8:00 AM

Registration Opens

The  ASC 2012 Registration desk will be open to collect your name badges

 Marble Foyer, Level 1

Exhibition Opens

Please visit our partners at the Exhibition.

 Banquet Hall, Level 1

8:00 am – 08:45am

WELCOME TEA at the ASC 2012 Exhibition

Banquet Hall, Level 1

08:45am – 08:50am

Welcome to Day 2

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

08:50am – 10:05 am

Plenary 4

“Science Communication is what I want to do, now what? -career possibilities and resources” 

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

10:05 – 10:30

Announcements & Spruikers Corner

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

10:30 am – 11:00am

MORNING TEA at the ASC 2012 Exhibition

Banquet Hall, Level 1

11:00am – 12:00pm

Concurrent Session 4A

The Consultancy Game

Corinthian Room, Ground Level

Concurrent Session 4B

Research and Papers (PhDs plus) 

Doric Room, Ground Level

Concurrent Session 4C

Professional Development – Engaging with the media on your own terms

Ionic Room, Ground Level

Concurrent Session 4D

Are computer games and apps the new frontiers for communicating science?

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Plenary 5

Deviant Standards

Ionic Room, Ground Level

12:30pm – 2:00pm

LUNCH at the ASC 2012 Exhibition

Banquet Hall, Level 1

2:00pm – 2:40pm

Plenary 6

Sophisticated Social Media Use & Science

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

2:40pm – 3:30pm

Plenary 7

New Media:  The NBN and what it means for science communicators

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

3:30pm – 4:00pm

AFTERNOON TEA at the ASC 2012 Exhibition

Banquet Hall, Level 1

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Concurrent Session 5A

Professional Development – “And yet it moves”: on the usefulness and practicality of video engagement

Grand Lodge Room, Level 1

Concurrent Session 5B

Research and Papers (PhDs plus) 

Doric Room, Ground Level

Concurrent Session 5C

The Sausage Factory

Corinthian Room, Ground Level

Concurrent Session 5D

Faraday’s Candle

Ionic Room, Level 1

ABC Cafe Scientific

A public forum – all welcome.

Ignorance is Bliss: How much science do we need to know? And why should we trust scientists?

From medicines and food, to our hobbies and workplaces, there are risks everywhere we look.  Join host Paul Willis (RiAus), Anna-Maria Arabia (FASTS), Nadia Levin (ANSTO) and Rod Lamberts (ANU/CPAS) as they take a slice of science, a sachet of ethics, and a liberal dusting of risky technology and try to work out if it’s possible to make objective, ethically unambiguous decisions about science in our lives.

Time: 1830 hrs onwards

Venue: Civic Hotel, 1^st floor, 388 Pitt St Sydney

The Genome Generation – new book event

Award winner author and journalist, Elizabeth Finkel, will be in conversation with Wilson da Silva, Editor-in-chief of Cosmos Magazine, about her recently launched book, The Genome Generation. The first 20 delegates to RSVP to president@asc.asn.au will get free entry (otherwise $10). Drinks are included. The event is in restaurant rich Glebe (a short bus or taxi ride from the Masonic Centre). See http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp?p=events/events4_htm#Elizabeth_Finkel. Call 02-9660 2333 to book if you missed a free ticket.

Time: 1800 – 2000 hrs

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe