7th ONE-DAY POSTGRAD COURSE ON
 CURRENT  ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

 

 

 

The 2008 Postgraduate Course on Current Ecology and Evolution will be held at University of Sydney on Sunday 30th November 2008. The course is suitable for postgraduate research students or for people considering a research degree. 

PROGRAM FOR 2008: The day's program will include speakers about recent advances in many areas of ecology and evolution and about the nexus between science and politics. There will be focus groups for students to exchange views. A link is provided here to the schedule for the day, to the extent it has been arranged. The schedule has links to webpages for the staff contributing, if they have them.

A single day can hardly be a complete postgraduate education in ecology and evolution. But the idea is that if you attend 2-3 of these meetings during your PhD, you'll encounter a broader range of ideas compared to your training within a single research group.

REGISTRATION:  Cost is $22 for the ESA postgraduate course. The cost covers lunch and morning and afternoon teas. Staff donate their time free. Please register and arrange accommodation via the website for ESA2008. You can register for the postgraduate course without the conference, the conference without the postgraduate course, or both together.

VENUE: University of Sydney campus at Camperdown, Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre and Eastern Avenue Seminar Rooms 310, 311 and 312. Here is advice how to reach the campus, and here will be a location map for the building. Eastern Avenue runs off City Road. The program runs 9 am to 5 pm. After 5 pm it is only a short walk to the venue for registration and drinks for the main conference.

YOUR CONTRIBUTION IN ADVANCE: We ask you to nominate an interesting research paper and briefly explain why. Go to this link for further explanation. We need your contribution by 17th October. But why not do it straight away, while you remember?

The postgraduate course 2008 is organized by Mark Westoby (mwestoby@bio.mq.edu.au) and Adrienne Nicotra (adrienne.nicotra@anu.edu.au) with Samantha Newton (vegadmin@bio.mq.edu.au), of Dept of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, and Australian National University, Canberra.