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Nuclear Science and Engineering; Member, Neutron
Scattering Specialist Committee, Australian Institute of
Nuclear Science and Engineering; Member, Advisory
Committee, School of Chemistry, University of Syd-
ney; Member, Australian Academy of Science/Royal
Society Exchange Program Committee; Vice-president,
Australian Neutron Beam Users Committee; Member,
CSIRO, Chemicals and Plastics Sector Advisory Com-
mittee; Member, International Review Committee,
KEK-JAERI, Japan; Member, International Advisory
Panel, Faculty of Science, National University of Singa-
pore; Member, Scientific Program Committee,
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry,
World Chemistry Congress; President, RACI; Mem-
ber, Editorial Boards, Advances in Physics, Current
Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, Journal of
Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Phys-
ics; Assessor, ARC grant applications.
Dr S. B. WILD, Consulting Editor, Tetrahedron: Asym-
metry; Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Main Group
Chemistry; Assessor, ARC grant applications.
Dr R. L. WITHERS, Member, Organising Committee,
Crystal XXI, 21st Meeting of the Society of Crystallog-
raphers in Australia; Member, Program Committee,
MicrOZcopy 2000, 16th Australian Conference on
Electron Microscopy; Consultant, Electron Diffraction
Commission, International Union of Crystallography;
Member, Aperiodic Commission, International Union
of Crystallography; External examiner, Institute of
Condensed Matter Chemistry, CNRS, Bordeaux,
France (PhD thesis defence)
Research School of Earth Sciences
Prof D.H. GREEN, member, Board of Management,
Australian National Seismic Imaging Resource (AN-
SIR); chair, Greenhouse Science Advisory Committee
in the Department of the Environment and Heritage;
member, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
Prof B.L.N. KENNETT, member, National Commit-
tee on Solid Earth Sciences, and chair, the
Subcommittee on Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s
Interior; chair, Academy Committees for Postdoctoral
Opportunities in Japan and exchange arrangements
with N.E. Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan); repre-
sents the Academy of Sciences on the National
Committee for support of International Conferences in
Australia; Deputy Director, Australian National Seis-
mic Imaging Resource (ANSIR), a Major National
Research Facility operated as a joint venture by the Aus-
tralian Geological Survey Organisation and the
Australian National University; continued to provide
support to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Trea-
ty (CTBT) Organisation in Vienna; member, review
team, International Data Centre for the CTBT; Presi-
dent, International Association for Seismology and the
Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI); in that position
is a member of the Executive Committee of the Interna-
tional Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
Prof K. LAMBECK, Chair, Antarctic Science Advisory
Committee; member, AUSLIG Geodesy Reference
Group; member, AUSAID Technical Advisory Group;
member, Pangea Resources International Science Re-
view Board; Vice President (until May) and currently
Foreign Secretary, Australian Academy of Science and
member of its Council; member, EPILOG steering
committee (climate and environment during the Last
Glacial Maximum), of the BALTEEM working group
(Palaeoenvironment and Palaeoclimate of the Baltic
during the Last Interglacial); associate member, Canadi-
an Institute for Advanced Research; member, Stage 3
Working Group concerned with climate and environ-
ment of Europe during oxygen isotope stage 3;
cooperative research projects with scientists in Italy,
France, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Swit-
zerland and the United States.
Dr F.E.M. LILLEY, member, Geomagnetism and Aer-
onomy Subcommittee; worked with Dr C.E. Barton
and Dr H. McCreadie of AGSO to organise the Fourth
Australian Geomagnetic Workshop, held at the AGSO
buildings, Canberra.
Dr I.S. WILLIAMS, continued his longstanding collab-
oration with Australian Scientific Instruments (now a
proprietary limited subsidiary of A
NU
T
ECH
 Pty Ltd) in
the manufacture and marketing of SHRIMP ion micro-
probes; visited the National Institute of Polar Research,
Tokyo, with Mr J. Hyder, ASI, to set up procedures for
stable isotope analysis using the new NIPR SHRIMP II.
The Ion Microprobe subgroup continues to maintain a
close working relationship with Australian Geological
Survey Organization (AGSO) geochronologists, shar-
ing expertise, standards, time, costs and maintenance
responsibilities for the SHRIMP I and II ion micro-
probes. This year the two groups combined in the
sampling and characterisation of a new zircon standard
for SHRIMP analysis, to be known as Temora.
The portable instrument facility of ANSIR is housed at
RSES and equipment is available via a competitive pro-
posal scheme. In 2000 instrumentation has been
provided to: Monash University for broadband studies
in Victoria; a consortium of CSIRO Exploration and
Mining and BHP Coal for studies of seismicity in the
Appin Coal Field, NSW; RSES for the Western Aus-
tralian Craton experiment; The Institute of Geological
and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand in association with
RSES for work in the Transantarctic mountains.
Research School of Information 
Sciences and Engineering
Computer Sciences Laboratory
Dr Peter BARTLETT, Editor, Machine Learning; Ac-
tion Editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research; Assoc

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