2011 Inaugural Professorial Lectures
| Professor | Lecture details |
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Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith | Biological What? What is biological anthropology and why does it matter? |
| Professor Robert Aldred Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Mathematics in Plain English: some important problems in Graph Theory readily explained (if not necessarily solved). Thursday 7th April, 5.30pm |
| Professor Ewan Fordyce Department of Geology | The remarkable history of whales and dolphins. Thursday 19th May, 5.30pm |
Professor Iain Raeburn | How the natural numbers freeze. |
| Professor Vernon Ward Department of Microbiology and Immunology | Scratching the surface of viruses. Tuesday 5th July, 5.30pm |
| Professor Gary Wilson Department of Marine Science | "Shall we lower the lifeboats? - A marine geological view of warming climates."
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| Profesor Andrew Geddis Faculty of Law | Of flags and protest: dissent, offence and the limits of free speech.
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Professor John McCall | Live donor liver transplantation: man on wire. |
Professor Judy Bennett | "Somewhere in the Pacific" : History's silences of World War Two. Wednesday 21st September, 5.30pm |
Professor David Prior | Mapping crystals to understand gold, glaciers and earthquakes. Thursday 22nd September, 5.30pm |
| Professor Murray Rae Department of Theology and Religion | Theology and the Pursuit of Truth. |
Professor Richard Walter | Challenges and Diversions in Pacific Archaeology. Wednesday 19th October, 5.30pm |
| Professor Margaret Baird Department of Microbiology and Immunology | This could be the start of something big: initiating the immune response. Thursday 3rd November 2011, 5.30pm |