Events

Recollections and tributes will be delivered by members of his family, friends and colleagues.

Venue: Engineering Lecture Theatre 439, University of Auckland, 20 Symonds St, Auckland 1010

Starting time: 10:00am NZ time

Parking: Covered parking will be available at the Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Rd, and at other city park parking locations nearby. Some street parking may be available on Princes St, Wakefield St or Waterloo Quadrant.

Sponsors: The NZ Mathematics Research Institute (Inc.) and the University of Auckland.

Please ensure to register by 26 November.

In lieu of gifts and flowers, contributions can be made in Vaughan’s memory to:

• Save the Bay (https://savesfbay.org/get-involved/ways-to-give)

• The Vaughan and Martha Jones Graduate Student Support Fund in the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (https://give.berkeley.edu/#FW5986000)

• The New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute (https://www.nzmri.org). Donations can be made by check, bank transfer or credit card. Please contact Mathematics Professor Marston Conder, NZMRI treasurer, for details. Email: m.conder@auckland.ac.nz

• Mathematics Department, Vanderbilt University. All funds received in memory of Vaughan will be used to support mathematics graduate students and postdocs. Please indicate a donation is in memory of Vaughan Jones. (https://admin.app.vanderbilt.edu/olga/pub/landing?appealCode=C15MN)

More info

Join Our Land and Water National Science Challenge for the second of their summer webinar series.

Speakers

• Ton Snelder, director of Land Water People and member of the Land Use Suitability programme team, will share a map built from his research that illustrates current catchment total nitrogen excess (in kg/hectare) compared to regulatory limits
• Richard McDowell, chief scientist of Our Land and Water, will share new evidence on the high effectiveness of on-farm mitigations over 20 years, and how far mitigations can get us over the next 15 years.
• Roger Young, group manager for freshwater sciences at the Cawthron Institute, will share a progress update on the Register of Land Management Actions programme's work to compile information on all mitigations being undertaken within a catchment.

MON 7 DEC, 6.30PM - 8.30PM
TE AO MĀRAMA, SOUTH ATRIUM OR LIVESTREAMED VIA THIS PAGE 
FREE (BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL TO ATTEND IN PERSON)

MUSEUM GALLERIES CLOSE AT 5PM. TUITUI MUSEUM BISTRO & CAFÉ AND SOUTHERN DOORS WILL REMAIN OPEN.

Background

Fuluhi ki tua ke kitia mitaki a mua
Look to the past to clearly see the way forward

The Ngā Kākano wānanga series has been slowly growing within the Museum, enriching it with deep cultural knowledge and value that is specific to Māori and Pasifika over the past three years. It is a moment in time where indigenous knowledge is brought to the fore and valued, countering the dominant colonial knowledge of things.

The series has been filled with national and international Māori and Pasifika speakers of great renown and deep cultural mana, for example Kumu Aulií Mitchell from Hawaii, Reuben Taipari and Heeni Hoterene, Precious Clark, Lady Dowager Tuna Fielakepa nee Tonga, Lisa Taouma and Damon Salesa to name a few. The Museum is developing a reputation for providing a space specifically for its whānau and wider audiences to be enlightened with seeds of great Māori and Pasifika knowledge and experiences, to be given access to these speakers and share in a safe space to ask questions.

Kaupapa

E kore au e ngaro, he kākano i ruia mai i Rangiātea.
I will never be lost for the seed was sown in Rangiātea.

The Ngā Kakano wānanga series takes its name from this whakataukī. Ngā Kākano provides an opportunity for our whānau and wider audiences to attend special events held at Tāmaki Paenga Hira and learn from respected Māori and Pasifika leaders and experts who share their unique experience, perspectives, expertise and insights - laying seeds of knowledge at Tāmaki Paenga Hira, in Tāmaki Herenga Waka, Aotearoa and indeed across Te Moana nui a Kiwa.
 

2020

We have endured a year of difficult and unprecedented change, where the well-being of our people and environment continues to be tested. The Museum is ideally placed to strengthen and uplift our unique identities, values, knowledge systems and experiences through our taonga, people and special place at Tāmaki Paenga Hira - building our individual and collective resilience so that our current generation can continue to adapt and evolve through this challenging time for our future generations. The wisdom of our indigenous knowledge systems is becoming more widely recognised, especially here in Aotearoa where museum experts, scientists and scholars are working closely with our community kaitiaki and knowledge holders on shared solutions for the well-being of our people and environment.

This has meant an opportunity to take Ngā Kākano to a deeper level, with two special events annually – museum based thought and enlightenment from our unique perspectives in Aotearoa and the Pacific. We also have a newly transformed space that embodies the inextricable interconnection between the Māori and Pacific dimensions at Tāmaki Paenga Hira, and the above whakataukī, uplifting the mana of Ngā Kākano and the vā of our speakers and audiences. Thus, in this new space we will bring to an end 2020 and re-invigorate a new 2021 with this special Ngā Kākano talk continuing the conversation on de-colonising and indigenising museums from leading changemakers to imagine possible futures.

More info

NOTE: This event starts earlier than our usual seminars, at 3.30pm.

Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding has spent her career investigating how care for mothers and babies can be improved to improve lifelong health and wellbeing. She will describe examples of some of these research areas, including the importance of early nutrition, protective effects of antenatal corticosteroids before preterm birth, and management of high and low glucose levels in newborns. She will also provide some insights about how these advances came about, and the challenges and privileges of a career in academic medicine.

World leading neonatologist Distinguished Professor Harding obtained her medical degree at The University of Auckland. She then trained in fetal physiology on a Rhodes Scholarship, completing her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. After specialist training as a Paediatrician in New Zealand, she completed her FRACP in neonatology. Her postdoctoral training was as a Fogarty Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco.

Professor Harding was appointed to the faculty of The University of Auckland in 1989 and was appointed Professor of Neonatology in 1997. She was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) for The University of Auckland from 2008-2015, and is a member of the LiFePATH research group of the University’s Liggins Institute.

Professor Harding’s research activities include clinical as well as basic physiological studies. Her main interests concern the interaction of nutrients and growth factors in the regulation of growth before and after birth, perinatal glucose regulation and the long-term consequences of treatments given around the time of birth.

To find out more about ABI news and events, subscribe to our newsletter: www.auckland.ac.nz/supportabi

More info

Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences Talk

The Otago Institute is pleased to announce the date and speakers for the 2020 edition of our annual lecture Inside the Nobel. In this event, six speakers will have six minutes each to speak about the importance of this year's Nobel prizes. The 2020 speakers are:

Martin Phillipps – Singer/songwriter, The Chills Dr Sarah Diermeier – Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago Professor Jorg Frauendiener – Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago Robyn Maree Pickens – Art writer, poet, curator, and text-based practitioner Dr Sungyong Lee – National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago Professor Ronald Peeters – Department of Economics, University of Otago

We are excited about the different backgrounds and specialties of our speakers and can't wait to hear what they have to say about the 2020 Nobel Prizes.

5.30pm, Thursday 10 December
Hutton Theatre
Free admission

More info

• Pollution impacts and reduction, including eutrophication and plastics
• Sustainable management and ecosystem health
• Climate change and ocean acidification
• Fisheries and aquaculture management, economics and restoration
• Marine conservation and protected areas
• Increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding of marine biodiversity.

Join Our Land and Water National Science Challenge for the third in their summer webinar series.

Speakers

• Jim Sinner, senior scientist in the coastal and freshwater group at Cawthron Institute and co-leader of the New Models for Collective Responsibility programme, will talk us through a four-step process for developing farm plans that are integrated across catchments, to meet sub-catchment objectives
• Kati Doehring, of the Register for Land Management Actions programme, will share the results of farmer interviews describing what motivates and hinders stakeholders to record and report land management actions

• Pollution impacts and reduction, including eutrophication and plastics
• Sustainable management and ecosystem health
• Climate change and ocean acidification
• Fisheries and aquaculture management, economics and restoration
• Marine conservation and protected areas
• Increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding of marine biodiversity.

• Pollution impacts and reduction, including eutrophication and plastics
• Sustainable management and ecosystem health
• Climate change and ocean acidification
• Fisheries and aquaculture management, economics and restoration
• Marine conservation and protected areas
• Increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding of marine biodiversity.

Join Our Land and Water National Science Challenge for the last session in their summer webinar series.  

Speakers

• Susan Goodfellow, director of Leftfield Innovation and case study lead in the Next Generation Systems research programme, will tell us how Leftfield Innovation is bringing together farmers, science and business to provide food that meets customer expectations for taste, health and environment.
• Sam Lang, manager of Quorum Sense and co-lead of our Regenerative Agriculture report, will discuss how he sees the regenerative farmer collective supporting each other to make change
• Research spotlight: Te Taru White of the Pohewa Pae Tawhiti programme on how this research will help land managers communicate their vision for land use change.