May 2012
2 posts
AGM
Hi all, so on the 17th of May (yes that was a while ago and yes I am slow in getting this out), the Students of Advanced Maths and Science Society (that’s us) held our Annual General Meeting, with the main intent of electing our new executive committee. Apropos, I would like to introduce your new elected members:
President: Andrew Wong
Vice President: Eden Tanner (nominated in absence)
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September 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
Farewell!
To our scientific friends!
Thank you all for coming to our events and supporting the society in any means possible. It is an appropriate time now to wish you all a fond farewell, from your delectable Arc Delegate, Laura Baker, the terrific Treasurer, Laura Brown, and your humble Creative Director, me, Andrew Wong.
We will be leaving the country very soon, where we will be over in North America...
Rectangles →
Okay, a little late on the scene but if you’ve not heard of UNSW Rectangles, you have been deprived of a massive tool that would have made timetabling a lot easier.
To the uninitiated, Rectangles allows you to generate all possible timetables based off subject code inputs for a given semester. You can then view all prospective timetables according to a parameter that suits your lifestyle-...
Exams
This is your fellow scienteer Andrew chiming in to tell you that staying up to study is a BAD idea. This is not helped by the fact this entry is posted at 1AM.
SAMS wishes you all the best in the upcoming exam period. Let it be known these are not exams written by spawns from Stygian hell. Take comfort in the fact that at the end of it all, consumption of a beverage containing modest amounts of...
May 2011
6 posts
Get together this Tuesday.
Just a reminder to everyone who is interested in the collective UNSW science societies’ meet and greet this Tuesday, please RSVP your intent to attend on Facebook so we know how much food we need to cater.
To those unfamiliar with the event, science societies at UNSW have fused minds and organised a meet and greet between students and academics this coming Tuesday afternoon-evening at the...
The Biggest UNSW Science Get-together →
From the Facebook site:
UNSW science societies SAMS, SMSSOC, MATHSOC, Optometry, PSYCHSOC, GEOSOC and SOCS have come together to host the (1st!) and largest gathering of scientifically (and awesomely) minded folk that UNSW has seen to date.
Join your mates and friendly academics to eat, drink, and be merry down at the Club Bar in the Roundhouse.
Free Foods will be provided (With Vego!) and...
NHMRC Funding
Just wanted to post a message to thank everyone who signed the iPetition. No cuts have been made to NHMRC funding, and is maintained at $850m. This is excellent news for those who are thinking of working in the medical research field.
Guide to iLectures
If for whatever reason iLectures do not have a download link, you can still download them.
Quick and Easy Guide:
In the iLecture page, there is a ‘Subscribe to this Podcast’ link. Follow it.
You will be taken to a page with a URL. Copy and paste that URL into a new tab/window.
The page that opens has .mp3 links to all your lectures. Correlate the podcast post to the one you...
Second Bake Sale
SAMS is having another bake sale tomorrow, as part of the UNSW Flea Markets initiative. Come down to the Roundhouse area between 11 and 5 to pick up some delicious goods made using the love and time of your favourite scientists.
Goods starting from 50 cents!
April 2011
4 posts
Medical Funding in Australia
For those who are unaware, the Australian government is thinking of slashing $400m from the NHMRC in this coming budget. The NHMRC is, of course, the principal medical sciences funding agency for Australian scientists. The $400m cut is to be distributed over a period of 3-4 years, and will impact the direction of medical science research dramatically. There are stories of laboratories nation-wide...
March 2011
6 posts
Camp Scores
Future Scientists,
We hope you all had a blast at the Advanced Science camp, because we all sure did. We want to extend a heart congratulations to Team #11. You guys topped the list, and blitzed the others, at 170 Points! The rest are as follows:
Second Place: Team #3, with 146 points
Third Place: Team #10, with 138 points
Honourable Mention: Team #6, with 136 points.
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Team #15: 132...
Adv. Sci. Camp
Off to camp! WOOOOO!
AGM and Trivia Night Details
Hi future scientists!
Hope your first week at uni is going well, and everything you expected it to be. Remember, there are many, many weeks to go, and we’re just getting started.
We just wanted to let you guys know our AGM is going to be held at 6PM, the 9th of March (That’s the coming Wednesday) at G05 in the Dalton Building.
For all of you who don’t know where the Dalton is, it is next to...
February 2011
4 posts
End of O-week and What's Up Ahead
Hello future scientists!
We hope you guys had a good time at O-week, either to get a taster of what university life has to offer, or if you’ve been here before, to meet up with people you haven’t seen all summer. For those who turned up to our demonstration on Wednesday, we want to thank you for coming– we had the biggest crowd yet. We hope you all got a chance to eat some liquid nitrogen ice...
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Two things us Advanced Scientists love are science, and liquid nitrogen. Combining the two, and you get something worthy of a demonstration at the ASSSoc demonstration this Wednesday morning at the Quad (10AM).
We’re going to make some ice cream with the help of liquid nitrogen, and we’re going to make an excess, which is why we want you guys there to help us eat it all up! But before we...
O Week
This is it, guys– O-week is here, and we want you to join us!
If you’ve already experienced Advanced Science as a first, second or third year student, have heard of us, and would like to join or help us, we’re always looking for volunteers to look after the stall. Just send us an email (ASSSoc@gmail.com) and let us know you’re willing to help out, and on which days you’re available.
But to...