What's On at UWA

In a synergy of sound, the UWA Symphonic Chorus and Symphony Orchestra blend strengths in the renowned acoustic of Winthrop Hall. Under the direction of resident conductor Alan Lourens, experience the depths of emotion of these remarkable works. Wagner Meistersinger Overture/Hindemith Mathis der (...)

The Westerly Centre, Philip Mead (Chair of Australian Literature), and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature will hold an event to celebrate the life and work of one of the most respected and admired scholars and teachers in Australian literary studies, Bruce Bennett, who sadly (...)

The lecture will focus on the as yet unsuccessful attempts of the opposition to unite, and the determined campaign of the regime to crush the revolt by force. Dr Spyer will give background details and an assessment of both the regime and the insurgency, and will ask why it has been that unlike in (...)

Do you teach a capstone? Might you teach one soon? Are you interested in innovative approaches to teaching that facilitate student learning? Or are you a faculty executive member/learning adviser/staff developer/program director interested in curriculum development generally, and capstones in (...)

The Seminar: The lung is a remarkable organ with gas exchange and vital immune defence roles accomplished in a branching network of airways and about 200 million alveoli. It is also an extremely dynamic tissue with rapid turnover of lung cells and their surrounding matrix which may explain the (...)

The ninth Mathematics in Industry Study Group in South Africa was held at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Muizenberg, Cape Town, in January 2012. A brief review of some of the Problems considered at the meeting will be given. The talk will concentrate on the problems submitted by (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Guang Rao (UWA)

will speak on

SCVT-Graphs

at 11am on Wednesday 6th of June in MLR2.

Abstract: A graph is called self-complementary if its complement is isomorphic to itself. SCVT-graphs are the graphs that are (...)

Oliver Messiaen's ethereally stunning twentieth century masterpiece first premiered in 1941 to an audience of Messiaen's fellow prisoners of war at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Gorlitz, Germany. On this viciously cold night hundreds were offered hope, Graeme Gilling (piano), Ashley (...)

Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts an annual Postgraduate Showcase where selected postgraduate students in the area of Agriculture and related Natural Resource Management present their research findings. The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s outstanding PhD (...)

Melissa Little is a graduate of the University of Queensland having completed a PhD on the genetic basis of childhood cancer at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. She continued this work as an Endeavour Fellow and the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh before returning to the Centre (...)

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are powerful organocatalysts for a range of chemical transformations. Our studies have been underpinned by new approaches to acyl azolium intermediates and have allowed a number of novel catalytic reactions to be developed. In this presentation studies on the use of (...)

Cedric Gondro is a statistical geneticist from the University of New England with extensive experience in analyzing and publishing data from various genomic platforms. He will be running a 3-day course on genomic analysis using the programming environment R. The course will be suitable for (...)

Join us for an exclusive evening with Western Australia's award winning film Producer Nelson Woss as he shares his in-depth journey on the 'The making of Red Dog'.

Nelson will share the trials and triumphs of filming with Koko, cast and crew in WA’s wild outback before joining Dr Erica (...)

A free public forum hosted by UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Johnson.

Keynote Speakers:

The Hon Greg Combet AM, MP Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Minister for Industry and Innovation

and

Winthtop Professor Malcolm McCulloch, FAA (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Carmen Amarra (UWA)

will speak on

Symmetric graphs of diameter two

at 11am on Thursday 14th of June in Maths Lecture Room 2

**Note the change of day***



Abstract: Let G be a group. A (...)

This seminar will present examples of content on the display, discuss the technology, and how one goes about creating content. It will be of interest to those creating data most naturally represented on a spherical surface, for visualisation purposes in addition to public outreach and education.

Dr Barrero is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University. Dr Barrero was awarded a MONBUSHO (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Government of Japan) Scholarship to conduct his Master (1996-1998) and Doctoral (1998-2002) (...)

Studies from my lab have demonstrated that face recognition following rotations in the pitch and yaw axes is viewpoint dependent and that the effect of change in viewpoint in the pitch axis is qualitatively different to that in yaw (Favelle, Palmisano & Maloney, 2007; Favelle, Palmisano & (...)

The primary transcripts must then undergo extensive processing, including the maturation of 5’ and 3’ termini, RNA-editing and the splicing of many group-II-type introns (the precise number varying by species), which lie mainly within complex I subunits but also disrupt the coding-regions of (...)