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February 2019
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics and Statistics colloquium : Particle modelling applied to industrial and biophysical problems
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Particle methods have capabilities that particularly suit numerical simulation of complex phenomena involved in industrial and biophysical application domains. The two core methods used in this talk are DEM (Discrete Element Method) and SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics). Coupling of these (...)
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Monday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
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A public lecture by Dr Joëlle Gergis, Lecturer, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of Melbourne.
What was Australia’s climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do (...)
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Thursday 28 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Islands of History : Recent discoveries on Yaburara country (Dampier Archipelago) - historical inscriptions from pre-colonial visitors
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Research undertaken as part of the Murujuga:
Dynamics of the Dreaming project across the Dampier
Archipelago has discovered rock art that provides
significant new evidence about historical visits before
white settlement in 1861. These assist a better
understanding of Yaburara life in the islands (...)
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March 2019
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Thursday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Law in the Shadow of Empire: Imperial Ideology and Indigenous Agency in the Roman World
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A public lecture by Dr Kimberley Czajkowski, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
The Roman Empire was “an empire of laws”. Or was it? If it was, whose laws and what would the functions of such laws be? The Roman (...)
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Monday 25 |
A public lecture by Professor Jeffrey Gordon, Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and 2019 UWA Robert and Maude Gledden Senior Visiting Fellow.
In this public lecture, Professor Gordon will (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - MindTrails: Using technology to change anxious thinking in the real world
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A public lecture by Professor Bethany Teachman Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Anxious individuals of all ages tend to interpret situations in threatening ways - a racing heart doesn't (...)
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June 2019
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Tuesday 11 |
9:00 - COURSE - A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory : A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory in collaboration with The University of Sydney will take place 11 & 12 July 2019 and 15 - 19 July 2019.
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Rasch models for measurement are used in large scale national and international assessments, not only to analyse test data after collection, but to use as criteria for design of test items and their administration. The GSE Psychometric Laboratory undertakes research and development for application (...)
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