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March 2013
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Sunday 31 |
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Summer Lecture 3 : Roman Britain with Guy de la Bédoyère
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On Sunday 31 March we will have the pleasure of a lecture by one of the best-known experts on Roman Britain – Guy de la Bédoyère, well known for his appearences on the popular television show Time Team. All welcome, but please RSVP as venue capacity is limited. You will be issued with a (...)
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April 2013
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Tuesday 02 |
LMS for New Users will provide participants with an introductory overview of the Moodle powered LMS (Learning Management System) used as our online learning environment here at UWA. You will need to complete this workshop before being eligible to take part in any intermediate or advanced Moodle/LMS (...)
The Humanist Society of WA is excited to invite you to a special lecture event from humanist and author Sean Faircloth on the Perth leg of his Australian book tour.
Sean Faircloth is author of the book 'Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All - And What We Can Do (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
10:00 - EVENT - Gender Research : Expression of Interest for the first “Speed Networking” session in 2013
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Expression of Interest for the first “Speed Networking” session in 2013 on
Gender Research
Greet new researchers
Engage with others and share your gender research
Network with researchers across UWA
Diversify your research collaborations
Enhance your profile in this (...)
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Thursday 04 |
Participants will explore the functionality of the Grades area (from both a staff and student perspective) and learn how to use it effectively for grade administration.
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Friday 05 |
Quiet Day for UWA Staff – Friday 5th April 2013
Set on a lovely bush block these Quiet Day provides some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics and professional staff with the intention of marking out some good quality thinking/reflection time.
There is no formal ' (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Redei-polynomials in finite geometry
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L. Redei has studied in a detailed way so-called "lacunary" polynomials over finite fields. One of the applications described is to investigate the number of values the difference quotient of a polynomial over a finite field can have. This result has a direct (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
Group work is continually being touted as a beneficial and necessary process for student learning and yet students often complain about it both from the point of view of distribution of work and fairness of assessment. How do you ensure students actually learn all that is intended and don't merely (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, The Erdos-Stone Theorem for finite geometries
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For any class of graphs, the growth function h(n) of the class is defined to be the maximum number of edges in a graph in the class on n vertices. The Erdos-Stone Theorem remarkably states that, for any class of graphs that is closed under taking subgraphs, the asymptotic (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Andrew Sutherland
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Principles for designing an effective, post-compulsory Music curriculum suitable for Western Australia.
A new post-compulsory Music course known as the West Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) Music course was recently introduced into Year 11 and 12 in Western Australian (WA) (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Are Seagrasses Drowning or Being Poisoned? Worldwide diebacks of seagrass ecosystems
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A public lecture by Ole Pedersen, University of Copengagen and 2013 IAS Professor-at-Large.
Seagrasses suffer worldwide and we are not sure why. Should we care about it? This lecture will argue that we should indeed care, as seagrasses also protect against coastal erosion, they promote (...)
18:00 - SEMINAR - ANZIAMWA seminar : Two examples of geotechnical modelling: cemented paste backfill in underground mines, and predicting beach slopes in tailings deposits.
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Disposal of mining waste is becoming one of the key issues holding up permitting of some new mines; it contributes to the ‘social licence to operate’, a term that is used to characterise the concerns and resistance to mining from communities potentially affected by the mining process.
The (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a teaching portfolio and used for PDR and promotion. You will leave this session confident and eager to make a start on your own portfolio. This workshop is a good follow-up to the 'What counts as evidence of good (...)
19:30 - EVENT - From birth to 10 years: A longitudinal study of families created using gamete donation and surrogacy : Reproductive Technology Council Special Event
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Dr Jadva will present data from a longitudinal study of families created using assisted reproduction, specifically egg donation, sperm donation and surrogacy. The children were born around the turn of the new millennium and families were visited when their child was aged 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10 years (...)
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Thursday 11 |
This session is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA, particularly those constructing teaching portfolios or teaching award submissions. This session will examine what constitutes robust evidence. This workshop is intended to provide the evidence basis for the workshop on Developing (...)
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Friday 12 |
11:00 - EVENT - A Policy Framework for Managing Cumulative Environmental Impacts of Iron Ore Mining in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia : School of Agricultural and Resource Economics seminar series
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New mining development in the central Pilbara region is expected to put considerable pressure on the environment, primarily through mine dewatering. While there are various options for managing the effects of dewatering, the challenge is to select options that are socially efficient and (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Research Seminar : Early Development and Current Performance: The Missing Channel
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We study the role of institutional development as a causal mechanism of history affecting current economic performance. Several indicators capturing different dimensions of early development in 1500 AD are used to remove the endogenous component of the variations in institutions. These (...)
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Campus Partner Talk: Light as a Medical Diagnostic Tool : Researchers discuss their current research related to the use of light as a medical diagnostic tool
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Researchers from the Optical + Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL) share their research findings related to the use of light as a medical diagnostic tool at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 12 April 2013.
OBEL is based within the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, On the number of matroids
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Matroids are combinatorial structures that generalize graphs as well as configurations of points in projective space. They consist of a finite ground set E and a set of subsets of E called B, such that B satisfies certain axioms. We consider the problem of bounding the number (...)
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Saturday 13 |
The purpose of this day is to recognise the important role sessional teachers play in the delivery of a quality student experience and to thank them for their contribution.
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