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Displaying from Monday, October 01, 2012
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October 2012
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Tuesday 02 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Iron and its influence on hepatic lipids : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are major health problems in Australia. All are characterised by an initial accumulation of lipids which, along with the contribution of confounding factors, such as iron, can lead to organ dysfunction and death. In the presence of (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics: Packing Steiner trees
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Irene Pivotto (UWA)
will speak on
Packing Steiner trees
at 1pm Tuesday 2nd of October in MLR2
Abstract: A classic theorem of Nash-Wiliams and Tutte gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to
have k (...)
This week PhD student Rahi Varsani will be presenting the Biophysics seminar.
Title: Time-evolution of chain formation in magnetic nanoparticles and its effects on transverse proton relaxation rates.
Abstract: In the 1970s, de Gennes and Pincus predicted that magnetic (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Neurodevelopmental disorders: Are our current diagnostic labels fit for purpose?
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A Public Lecture by Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford.
Many children have specific developmental difficulties affecting specific areas such as reading, language, maths, motor co-ordination, attention or social skills. A range of diagnostic (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar : A Tale of Two Metalloenzymes:
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Binuclear metallohydrolases are a functionally diverse class of metalloenzyme whose members require two closely spaced metal ions in their active site to catalyse the hydrolysis of amides and phosphate esters [1].
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are found in animals, plants and fungi (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Oct3: : "The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
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The next Soil&Water Seminar will be Prof. Matthew Tonts from SEE, at 12pm on Weds, Oct 3rd. All welcome!
Title: “The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
Abstract: In the 1930s, Canadian historian Harold Innis developed his 'staples thesis' to (...)
Extreme rainfall over the south and north-west of Western Australia and the Sydney region of NSW over the last fifty years has been modelled using a Bayesian hierarchical approach based on statistical extreme value theory. Spatial variability of the extreme rainfall distribution is modelled using a (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Growth headwinds in China and Japan: implications for the Australian economy
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An ‘Inquiring Minds’ lecture by Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, UWA Business School.
This lecture will review recent economic development in China and Japan and will examine the likelihood that either country will overcome barriers to further economic growth. It will draw (...)
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Thursday 04 |
7:30 - SEMINAR - Seminar - Professor Richard Dowell : Current audiological reseach at the University of Melbourne
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Professor Dowell is the Director of Audiological Services at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Head of the Department of Audiology & Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne, and holds the Chair in Audiology and Speech Science. Prof Dowell has also been a key scientist with the (...)
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: UWA Guitar Ensemble
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
14:00 - SEMINAR - Statistics Seminar : Infinite Divisibility II Infdiv Spotting
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My second talk will summarize research dating from about 1980 which develops criteria for identifying infinite divisibility. I will restrict attention to positive continuous laws (Type 1). These criteria identify many laws as infdiv whose status is not at all evident from the definition or Levy (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : The Australian Historic Shipwrecks Preservation Project
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The Australian Historic Shipwreck Preservation Project (AHSPP) is a collaborative national project funded by a large Australian Research Council Linkage Grant awarded in 2011. With ten state, territory and federal Partner Organisations working with three collaborating universities, this is the (...)
19:00 - LECTURE - RONALD M & CATHERINE H BERNDT BIENNIAL LECTURE 2012 : THE RIGHTS AND BLIGHTS OF THE POLITICS OF INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION
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It is clear from their voluminous scholarly output over five decades that Ronald and Catherine Berndt were
keen observers of ‘the winds of change’ that were blowing strongly across most of Aboriginal Australia
in that period. We contemporary scholars are closely watching both changes emanating (...)
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Friday 05 |
Child Care in Australia:
This presentation looks at the relationship between female labour supply and child care in Australia. We examine a variety of different questions relating to the relationship between child care availability, quality and cost of child care and women’s labour supply. We (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : The Hukou barrier: Shanghai local graduates VS graduates from other provinces
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In this presentation, I will discuss how the Chinese household registration system (the hukou system) affects graduates’ transition experiences. As a background, I start with an introduction of the Chinese household system and the resident card system in Shanghai. The resident card system was (...)
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Monday 08 |
13:10 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Commuting graphs of groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Michael Giudici (UWA)
will speak on
Commuting graphs of groups
at 1pm Tuesday 9th of October in MLR2
Abstract: The commuting graph of a group G is the graph whose vertices are the noncentral elements of G and (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
The World Muscle Society is the world’s premier Society devoted to the research, diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders
In 2012, the Society’s Annual Congress is being held in Perth, Western Australia from Tuesday the 9th to Saturday 13th October: the first time that the (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CMSS lecture on Pakistan-Us Relations : Where are they heading? Visiting Fellow from Deakin University Dr Claude Rakisits
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Bilateral relations between Pakistan and the US have never been easy at best of times. However, in recent times these have become tense and difficult. Given Pakistan’s critical role in the lead up to 2014, when the Coalition forces will be leaving Afghanistan, what sort of bilateral Pakistan-US (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Looking at Japan through Masculinity: From Salarymen to Herbivores
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A lecture by Romit Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, UWA.
This public lecture looks at the tremendous social, cultural, and economic changes Japan has undergone over the six decades since the end of World War Two, not through conventional frameworks, but through a lens of (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
Huge range of fiction, general, reference and children’s books plus gift items at bargain prices.
Co-op Members receive extra 10% discount off Sale prices.
Sale runs until Wednesday October 31st and New titles are added daily.
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