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Displaying from Monday, March 04, 2013
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March 2013
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Monday 04 |
10:00 - EVENT - UWA Historical Society March 4th Convocation Centenary: Photo Shoot at 10am : All welcome on the steps of the old St George's Hall 500 Hay St Perth to celebrate 100 years to the day of the first meeting of UWA's Convocation.
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You are invited to join us mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the University of Western Australia’s Convocation.
The First meeting was held on March 4th 1913 in St George’s Hall, Hay St near the corner of Irwin Street. The historic façade including the portico (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
9:15 - SEMINAR - Office of Learning and Teaching Exemplary Academic Integrity Project Seminar
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Please join us for a seminar and interactive session with international academic integrity expert Dr Tricia Bertram Gallant from the University of California, San Diego about the OLT strategic commissioned project on academic integrity:
Embedding and extending exemplary academic integrity policy (...)
9:15 - VISITING SPEAKER - Office of Learning and Teaching Exemplary Academic Integrity Project Seminar
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Dr Tracey Bretag, from the University of South Australia, in 2012 led an ALTC funded project Academic integrity standards: Aligning policy and practice in Australian universities. Dr Bretag and her team will be presenting a seminar on Tuesday 5th March, with international academic integrity (...)
The scheme supports innovative, reasonably short-term projects that promote the University's education strategic objective to improve the quality of the student learning experience. Staff interested in applying for the Teaching Fellowship Scheme should attend.
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Control of fusions in fusion systems and applications
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Jiping Zhang (Peking University)
will speak on
Control of fusions in fusion systems and applications
at 1pm on Tuesday 5th of March, in MLR2
Abstract:
Fusion systems were introduced by L. Puig in early 1990's mainly for the purpose of block (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - iVEC Supercomputing : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: This presentation will introduce you to the resources and expertise iVEC can provide to support your research. iVEC is encouraging the use of supercomputing, large scale data storage and visualisation for WA researchers. This is achieved by making available facilities and expertise to (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - AAS Seminar : Themes for the Decadal Plan for the Mathematical Sciences
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The Australian Academy of Science, through its National Committee for Mathematics, has initiated the development of a Decadal Plan for the Mathematical Sciences, comprising an assessment of the current state of the mathematical sciences in Australia, a description and prioritisation of (...)
A Lecture by Director and Playwright, David Milroy.
In being commissioned to contribute to this anthology I was intrigued by the theme that had been chosen. Given the recent traumatic events caused by bushfires in the South West and other parts of Australia, it is a topical theme. While (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
Echo360 Personal Capture is software that allows you to record your voice, your presentation and yourself to produce a short video recording. Staff use this software to record lectures specifically for an online audience, or summary or other small recordings for learning purposes.
In this workshop (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Environments for the Characterisation Community - MASSIVE and the Characterisation Virtual Laboratory
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The “21st century microscope” will not be a single instrument; rather it will be an orchestration of specialised imaging technologies, data storage facilities, and specialised data processing engines. This presentation will detail two complimentary national projects that are creating an (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Seconds from Disaster - Managing Mining Organisational Risk.
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Organisational accidents are typically rare, catastrophic events that can occur within complex modern systems such as nuclear power plants, commercial aviation, petrochemical plants, aerospace, marine, rail transport and complex technological organisations such as banks and mines. It is generally (...)
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Thursday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Shall I leave or shall I stay?
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Microstratigraphic analysis of archaeological sites as a new clue to understanding the effect of the last glaciation on human behaviours in the Kimberley area, WA, Australia
Abstract
In Australian archaeology there has been much debate about people’s ability to adapt to (...)
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Friday 08 |
UWA's learning management system provides a variety of tools, features and interactions in an online environment for supporting teaching and learning experiences at UWA. Different roles have different access and capabilities for using the system, and there are two tutor roles - a grading role and a (...)
This workshop will provide an overview of what a rubric is and how to develop one. The practical hands-on workshop will allow staff to consider their current/future assessment tasks and effective ways of assessing these using rubrics.
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generalised n-gons and the Feit-Higman theorem
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Name: Jon Xu (University of Melbourne/University of Western Australia)
will speak on
Generalised n-gons and the Feit-Higman theorem
at 3pm on Friday 8th of March.
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Jacques Tits' theory of buildings played a vital role in the proof of (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
Large classes mean the lecture class is maintained, yet effective teaching requires reconsidering how learners are engaged in the lecture time. This workshop will introduce you to the theory behind Active Learning, model a range of Active Learning strategies, and give you some practical tips and (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : The Spectacular Space Shuttle Era: My story, technical and personal
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In January 1969, I arrived as a new emigrant to United States at a time of great excitement for adventurers like myself. Astronauts were about to land on the moon and there was much talk of plans for a new spaceship to be called the Space Shuttle. That plan looked surprisingly like the imaginary (...)
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director, UWA Oceans Institute.
The Arctic is the least studied of all regions of the planet, but also that which has warmed fastest to-date and which is predicted to continue to do so along the 21 st century. While the Antarctic (...)
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Thursday 14 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : a conversation with W/Prof Kadambot Siddique
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with W/Prof Kadambot H.M. Siddique)
'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA Academics. The talks explore personal stories of family, place, formative influences and how such factors continue to (...)
Commodities as an asset class have experienced somewhat of a surge in
interest over the past ten years, driven largely by an increase in demand
from newly industrialising countries, but also by investor appetite for
investment opportunities that are weakly correlated with more liquid
financial (...)
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