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Displaying from Friday, November 23, 2012
 November 2012
Friday 23
9:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Christina Stead and literary ownership - a research symposium Website | More Information
The Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and the Chair of Australian Literature are pleased to present this research symposium.

Starting out from Sydney, Christina Stead lived and worked across Europe, England and the United States, only returning to Australia at the end of her long life (...)
Monday 26
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series: : W/Prof John Newnham presents "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity" Website | More Information
LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity" by W/Prof John Newnham, Head of School, School of Women's and Infants' Health, University of Western Australia. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

14:00 - STAFF EVENT - UWA Staff Retreat : two night residential retreat for rest,reflection and refocussing More Information
This in the fifth year of offering these end of year retreats for staff at UWA. The feedback from previous participants has been universally positive.

The format includes some reflection on poetry, time alone in silence (walking, resting, reading) and we also introduce a process for (...)

14:00 - SEMINAR - Gibbon Ecology and Distribution: Unanswered Questions : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series More Information
The Seminar: Despite the considerable knowledge we have accumulated about gibbons (Primates: Hylobatidae), which now include 17 recognized species, some of the most basic questions about their biology remain unanswered. One challenge is to explain why there is so little overlap in ranges (sympatry) (...)
Tuesday 27
13:00 - SEMINAR - Respiratory load-induced cardiorespiratory failure : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series More Information
The Seminar: Respiratory loads have long been used to stress the respiratory muscles. When these loads cause failure, however, this has been attributed to inadequate pressure generation by the respiratory muscles, especially the diaphragm. Recently, we discovered that in a rat model of load-induced (...)

13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Graphs and general preservers of zero products More Information
Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Bojan Kuzma (University of Primorska, Slovenia)

will speak on

Graphs and general preservers of zero products

at 1pm on Tuesday 27th of November in MLR2

Abstract: We survey some results in preserver problems (...)

18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Defining good outcomes for autistic people: What are "we" striving for?' : Free public lecture by Dr Liz Pellicano on defining what is a "good" intervention or outcome for individuals with autism More Information
At present, there is little consensus between policymakers, scientists, and advocacy groups as to what defines a "good" intervention or a "good" outcome for individuals with autism.

Scientists often concentrate on narrowly-defined outcomes such as changes in IQ scores (...)
Wednesday 28
8:00 - CONFERENCE - Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia Conference : An essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems. Website | More Information
Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA) meetings aim to provide an essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems. These meetings provide a critical platform to (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia. Website | More Information
A target to reduce phosphorus flows into the Gippsland Lakes in south-eastern Australia by 40% in order to improve water quality has previously been established by stakeholders. This target, like many others worldwide, has been set mostly on the basis of environmental concerns, with limited (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - �Elucidating novel mechanisms underlying obesity and type 2 diabetes� Website | More Information
Assistant Professor Vance Matthews is an NHMRC Career Development Award Fellow at the Western Australia Institute for Medical Research. Since completing his PhD in 2002, he has completed successful post-doctoral positions in Germany, Western Australia and Melbourne. The results of this work have (...)
Thursday 29
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Supervising Postgraduate Students Website | More Information
Intended Audience:

Those who are engaged in postgraduate supervision and who want to reflect upon, develop and refine their current conceptions and practice of supervision. This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures (...)
Friday 30
9:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning invite you to attend a presentation �Designing technology-enhanced university programmes and courses in the 21st Century More Information
The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning invite you to attend a presentation “Designing technology-enhanced university programmes and courses in the 21st Century” , by CATL’s Adjunct Professor Carmel McNaught, , Professor of Learning Enhancement, CLEAR - Centre for Learning (...)

 December 2012
Monday 03
8:45 - CONFERENCE - CONFERENCE: 2012 Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference : Indigenous business leaders, corporate representatives, leading academics and policy makers talk about the new opportunities for Indigenous people and communities being created by the rapidly expanding Indigenous business, enterprise and corporations sector. Website | More Information
The UWA Business School Centre for Social Impact is delighted to announce the 2nd annual Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations (IBEC) Conference to be held at UWA Business School on 3 –4 December 2012.

The theme of the 2nd IBEC Conference is Growth and New Opportunities for (...)

14:00 - SEMINAR - Sleep Disorders - an Indian Perspective : RAINE LECTURE More Information
Abstract Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by repeated collapse of the upper airway during sleep. It affects 4 - 9% of the adult population. Obesity is a major risk factor for OSA. Research and awareness of OSA is slowly but steadily on the rise and so are the co-morbid conditions (...)
Tuesday 04
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminars More Information
Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Neil Gillespie (UWA)

will speak on

Completely regular codes with large minimum distance

and

Daniel Hawtin (UWA) will speak on Elusive Codes in Hamming Graphs

at 1pm Tuesday 4th of December in MLR2

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Wade Davis public lecture Website | More Information
Presented by: The State Library of WA

Dr Wade Davis (Canada) is a best-selling author, intellectual, photographer, Explorer-in-Residence for the National Geographic as well as a noted two-time TED Talk speaker.

Described as “A rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and (...)
Wednesday 05
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Membrane Trafficking in Skeletal Disease: Lessons Learned from Brain to Bone� Website | More Information
Associate Professor Nathan Pavlos completed his PhD (Cell Biology) at the University of Western Australia in 2005. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis USA and carried out his post-doctoral training in the Department of (...)
Wednesday 12
13:00 - SEMINAR - Advanced methods in exposure assessment and epidemiology More Information
Professor Roel Vermeulen is Associate Professor at the Environmental Epidemiology Division of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor in molecular epidemiology at the University Medical Centre at the same university. His research (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - "Identification and pharmacological profiling of novel angiotensin receptor complexes� AND "Alternative Sources of Funding". Website | More Information
Elizabeth Johnstone is in the first year of her Pharmacology PhD at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Based in A/Prof Kevin Pfleger’s Molecular Endocrinology – GPCR lab, her research involves investigating the formation of angiotensin receptor complexes. Both the (...)
Thursday 13
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Amazon Web Services Workshop for Universities : Amazon Web Services is proud to present a no-charge two-day intensive workshop to give a deep introduction to implementing Amazon Web Services. More Information
Amazon Web Services is proud to present a no-charge two-day intensive workshop to give a deep introduction to implementing Amazon Web Services. This workshop is intended to provide hands on experience with best practices for building unbreakable, always available, applications on AWS and is (...)


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