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Displaying from Saturday, March 09, 2013
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March 2013
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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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Identity and rock art both on and off the rocks
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In many countries, cultural and socio-political identity is shaped, manipulated, presented, and negotiated through rock art. Both on and off the rocks, pictographs and petroglyphs are powerful tools. In this talk, I present results from fieldwork in southern Africa, northern Australia, and west (...)
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Friday 15 |
In this workshop participants will investigate the LMS Communication activities: Forums, Announcements, Chat, Feedback and Choice.
11:00 - SEMINAR - The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers : SARE/ AARES seminar series
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The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture (zero tillage, mulching and crop rotation) are described, reviewed and modelled. The economics are defined broadly to include not just shortterm financial benefits and costs, but also the whole-farm management context, constraints on key (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Research Seminar : Growth and the Bright City Lights: Convergence and Divergence Across Indian Districts
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We use a new data set of district level data to estimate growth and convergence rates across the 575 Indian districts. We find that there is absolute divergence of income levels across districts. We then develop a simple extension of the standard convergence model that (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Erd�s-Ko-Rado sets in finite classical polar spaces
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Erdös-Ko-Rado sets (EKR sets) are a family of k-sets of { 1, ..., n } that pairwise intersect in at least one element and were first studied by Erdös, Ko, and Rado in 1961. There are several generalizations of EKR sets. The speaker's main interest is study of EKR sets in (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Kisspeptin, Fertility and Fatness : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Jeremy’s work represents an exciting new field of neuroendocrinology. The recent discovery of mice and humans lacking the kisspeptin receptor (Kiss1R) and their subsequent infertility has sparked scientists to explore the actions of kisspeptin. Kisspeptin is a neuropeptide and (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Alexander Jensen
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Alexander Jensen: Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology.
Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology
Western music has always been a way of expressing that what is most important to men and women. In the past (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: DMA Lecture Recital - Georg Corall: The Eloquent Hautboy
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Georg Corall: DMA Lecture-Recital
The Eloquent Hautboy
Scholars have investigated ‘music as speech’ and the ‘weapons of rhetoric’ in musical execution in order to understand the importance of text in historically-informed performance practice (HIP). This has led to (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures for the effective supervision of research students, but also addresses issues related to managing the personal relationship between supervisor and student.
This workshop (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Does phytoplankton biomass in a reservoir increase in the future?
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A water resource in the future is a great concern around the world. In 2009 the research area of "Innovative Technology and System for Sustainable Water Use" was launched by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). One of the projects is "Development of Well-Balanced Urban Water (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Unplanned Development: The hidden geometries of change in Southeast Asia
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A public lecture by Jonathan Rigg, Geography Department, Durham University.
This public lecture emerges from a puzzle: why are our explanations for the patterns of the world so often incomplete and far from universal in their application? Look across the development experience of (...)
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : “Cannibalism is bad”. Isn’t it?
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that eating people is wrong. Arens (1979) thinks it is so wrong that no-one every really did it. When we consider the historical, ethnographic and archaeological records, it is clear that people did indeed do it. Again despite Arens, who argues that since (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Shaky Ground or Firm Foundation? When women's equality depends on a business case : 2013 Grace Vaughan Lecture
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A lecture by Dr Jacquie Hutchinson, UWA Business School.
It’s 2013 and Australian women workers are still being significantly under-recognised and under-valued for their skills, knowledge and contribution to the nation’s economic and social well-being. In response to this ongoing (...)
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Friday 22 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Research Seminar : An Experimental Design for Analyzing Risky and Safe Choices in Constant-Sum Games
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ECONOMIC RESEARCH SEMINAR:
TOPIC TITLE: An Experimental Design for Analyzing Risky and Safe Choices in Constant-Sum Games
PRESENTER:
Professor Thomas E. Merz, Michigan Technological University
DATE: Friday 22 March 2013, VENUE: BUSN:Business School Case Study Room 12pm-1pm.
14:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Friends, colleagues and lovers: Japanese women’s intimate relationships outside marriage
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The average age of first marriage in Japan has steadily increased over the last century, as has the likelihood of never marrying for both women and men. In conjunction with the decline in average length of marriage – a result of greater divorce and later marriage – these patterns suggest that (...)
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