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Displaying from Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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October 2012
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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.
12:00 - SEMINAR - School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar : Water Oxidation Catalysts Inspired by Photosynthesis
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Our group is interested in developing highly active water oxidation catalysts for incorporation into (photo)-electrochemical water splitting devices. Inspired by the only water oxidation catalyst known to be active in vivo, the Mn4Ca1O5 cluster found in Photosystem II (PSII), we initially imbedded (...)
Professor Gail Risbridger is an NH&MRC Research Fellow, career academic and researcher who has > 20 years experience in Prostate Cancer research and Men’s Health. She graduated from, and taught at Monash University, until becoming a founding member of the Monash Institute of Medical (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : The seasonal hydrodynamic habitat of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret, Israel)
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Physical processes in lakes are the result of a large number of different mechanisms occurring over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales affecting ecosystem function in a variety of ways. Hence, a deep understanding of the lake hydrodynamics and its variability is essential in understanding (...)
A public lecture by Robyn Eckersley, Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne.
Who should take responsibility for climate change? ‘Weather of mass destruction’ is no less catastrophic a risk than ‘weapons of mass destruction’ or terrorism, but it has not produced (...)
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Thursday 11 |
12:00 - EVENT - Arts Broadening Units Information Session : For students studying the Bachelors of Commerce, Design and Science
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Come along and find out about the interesting and diverse range of Arts broadening units you can study as part of your degree.
You can learn a language (there are nine to choose from), gain an understanding of the politics of the Asian region, enhance your creative writing, revel in your (...)
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: Highlights of Graduating Students
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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 : Spatial Point Process in Field Robotics
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Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) refers to the techniques used by autonomous robots to build a map within an unknown environment while at the same time keeping track of their current locations. This problem requires an appropriate mathematical representation of the vehicle's (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Hydrodynamics and sand transport on perched beaches in Western Australia : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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Beach morphology is the result of complex interactions between sand transport, mean sea level, wind, surface gravity waves, and currents, all of which act over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Interactions with rocky landforms add another level of complexity to the mechanisms of beach (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Tool-stone selection and resourcing strategies in the Weld Range, Murchison region, WA
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The Weld Range presents an ideal landscape in which to examine the varied importance and use of
abundant and diverse stone resources. This seminar will describe my proposed Masters research on this
topic. Heritage consultancy data collected by Wajarri Traditional Owners and Eureka Archaeological
Res (...)
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music & ARC Centre for the History of Emotions presents: 2012 Callaway Lecture: Richard Egarr
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The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar. Over the last two decades, a host of distinguished speakers have taken the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the (...)
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Friday 12 |
9:30 - WORKSHOP - Assessment: Learning's Destination or Journey* : *Please note date change
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Assessment has always been a practice that is central to all teaching institutions. It happens, often, so instinctively that little thought goes into whether it is as good as it could be.
Questions such as the following are often not examined:
What is the difference between an (...)
Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and why (with Aviva Freilich)
When: Friday 20 October 2012, 12pm-1.30pm
Where: Science Library – 3rd Floor Seminar Room
'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA Academics. The talks (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Research Seminar : Looking after the grandkids: who cares and does it really matter?
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We propose that the recent rise in the fertility rate observed in developed countries is the beginning of a broad-based increase in fertility towards above-replacement levels. Environmental shocks that reduced fertility over the past 150 years changed the composition of fertility-related traits (...)
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Monday 15 |
Dr. Susan Peters is a postdoctoral research associate at the Epidemiology Group of the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Her research activities focus on exposure assessment methods to apply in (occupational) cancer epidemiology.
A Public Lecture by Professor J. Hyam Rubinstein, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne.
The Poincare conjecture was one of the most celebrated questions in mathematics. It was amongst the seven millennium problems of the Clay Institute, for which a prize of (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Newborn Respiratory System: Programmed to Respond to Variability? : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Promotion of lung volume recruitment in atelectatic lung and maintenance of existing recruited lung are vital goals of contemporary ventilatory support. In the mature lung, the recruitment of terminal airspaces are governed by power-law distributions, arising from avalanches (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics: Finite meta-primitive permutation groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Cai Heng Li (UWA)
will speak on
Finite meta-primitive permutation groups
at 1pm Tuesday 16th of October in MLR2
Abstract: A transitive permutation group is called meta-primitive if its any imprimitive (...)
A public lecture by Dr Scott Draper, Centre of Offshore Foundation Systems and UWA Oceans Institute.
Western Australia is bordered by substantial resources of marine energy - waves generated from storms in the Southern and Indian Oceans provide significant energy flux to the South of the (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
7:00 - EVENT - Breakfast by the Bay with Fiona Wood : Burns research 10 years on; what has been achieved?
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In October 2002, Professor Fiona Wood led a Royal Perth
Hospital team treating 28 people injured in the Bali
bombings. The scale of burns injuries was previously unseen
by the hospital, and the exceptional situation required
individuals, governments and the private sector to work
together closely (...)
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