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July 2012
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Wednesday 25 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Turning Back the Cardiac Regenerative Clock: Lessons from the Neonate�
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I received my Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne in 2009, where I studied the developmental origins of cardiac hypertrophy under the supervision of Prof. Lea Delbridge and Prof. Walter Thomas. Following my Ph.D., I undertook postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, USA) (...)
17:00 - EVENT - Oxford and Rhodes Information Evening : An information evening on applying to Oxford University and the Rhodes Scholarship.
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The Oxford University Society of Western Australia Inc. invites you to an information evening on applying to Oxford University and the Rhodes Scholarship.
Join Rachel Paterson (2011 WA Rhodes Scholar), Justin Audcent (Oxford University graduate and partner at Ernst & Young) and (...)
18:15 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture 2012 : Mathematics and Women - 36 years at The University of Western Australia
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The Annual Lecture is the highlight of the year for the UWA Historical Society and Convocation and we are delighted to welcome Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger to the podium to reflect upon her years on Campus and subsequent experiences
and achievements.
Mathematician Cheryl Praeger (...)
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Thursday 26 |
8:30 - EVENT - Quiet Day for Academics and General Staff : Time to reflect, create and renew
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Set on a lovely bush block in Mundaring, the Quiet Day provides some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics and general staff with the intention of marking out some good quality thinking/reflection time.
There is no formal content to the day – no presentations or (...)
9:00 - COURSE - Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis : A Short Course using IBM SPSS
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The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about how to analyse binary or survival data.
The course is hosted by the Centre for Applied Statistics and we offer discounted rate fees to UWA Graduate Research Students.
Fee (...)
The UWA LMS (Moodle) has been successfully upgraded to Version 2.2. If you missed the demonstration last week, we are running a repeat session.
16:30 - SEMINAR - UWA Religion and Globalisation Seminar - Economics and Theology : An Overview of the new Interdisciplinary Field and its Significance
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Professor Paul Oslington will present dimensions of the renewed engagement between economics and theology. He will trace the theological influences and origins of economics, discuss religious economics as well as religion and development. The seminar will cover Adam Smith’s invisible hand (...)
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Monday 30 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Geoff Laurent presents "Stem cells and lung regeneration"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Stem cells and lung regeneration" by Professor Geoff Laurent, Director, Centre for Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, UWA. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Sexuality as a Human Right: The transformation of sex from sin, disease, identity, companionship, and recreation, to rights
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A public lecture by Dr Gilbert Herdt, Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC).
Over the past two centuries, Western civilization has witnessed a broad set of paradigm changes that characterize how and why we think about human sexuality as a social expression (...)
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August 2012
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Thursday 02 |
14:00 - PUBLIC TALK - STATISTICS SEMINAR : Bootstrap Methods for Inference with Cluster-Sample IV Models
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Microeconomic data often have within-cluster dependence. This dependence affects standard error estimation and inference in regression models, including the instrumental variables model. Standard corrections assume that the number of clusters is large, but when this is not the case, Wald (...)
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Friday 03 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music and Institute of Advanced Studies presents: Chamber! Three: Julianne Baird
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American soprano Julianne Baird returns to The University of Western Australia as IAS Professor-at-Large to perform in this special event. Baird is renowned as an early music specialist and possesses a magnificent voice. She will be joined in recital by Paul Wright (violin) and other outstanding (...)
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Monday 06 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Why Do We Get Osteoarthritis: Can We Fix Our Arthritic Cartilage?
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A public lecture by Alan Grodzinsky, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT.
It is widely accepted that Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the world, causing major health problems, pain and disability for adults young and old. Yet today, there are still no (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Prenatal glucocorticoids, placental development and neurological function : School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Fetal glucocorticoid exposure is a key mechanism proposed to underlie prenatal "programming" of adult cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders. Regulation of fetal glucocorticoid exposure is achieved by the placental and fetal glucocorticoid "barrier," which (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Algebraic properties of chromatic polynomials
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Graham Farr (Monash) will speak on Algebraic properties of chromatic polynomials
at 1pm on Tuesday 7th of August in Maths Lecture Room 2 **Note this is the new regular seminar time for this semester**
A public lecture by Associate Professor Meredith Blake, Law School, UWA.
With an ageing population and the medical technology available to prolong life, action and inaction connected with the ending of life in the clinical setting raises confronting issues for modern society. The issues (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Aug8: : "Assessing strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from wheat production: Role of grain legumes and soil liming"
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The first Soil&Water Seminar for Semester 2, 2012, will be Assoc. Prof. Louise Barton from SEE(UWA)on Weds Aug 8. All welcome!
TITLE: “Assessing strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from wheat production: Role of grain legumes and soil liming.”
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Done well, teaching with technology has the potential to enhance learning. Using technology appropriately in teaching means recognising the widespread use of technologies in society, and enabling our learners to become more widely proficient with technologies (...)
Martin Pera is Professor of Stem Cell Sciences at the University of Melbourne, the Florey Neuroscience Institute, and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research. He serves as Program Leader for Stem Cells Australia, the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative in Stem (...)
The 2012 Joseph Gentilli Lecture by Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies University of California & 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
This event has reached capacity, no more registrations can be taken.
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