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September 2013
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Wednesday 18 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - OII PhD Retreat 2013: Developing Commercialisation Skills Workshop : 18 and 19 September 2013
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This two day workshop will be structured into discrete modules along the following lines and will be presented in an interactive manner, by both UWA and external presenters:
• UWA IP Policies and Processes
• IP and IP Protection
• Assessing Commercial (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Inflow controls on the spatial distribution and composition of phytoplankton in Marina Reservoir, Singapore
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Understanding the drivers of phytoplankton composition and abundance is important for the management of water quality in reservoirs.
In the Republic of Singapore, the construction of coastal barrages in recent years has seen several low-lying estuaries converted into shallow reservoirs to secure (...)
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Thursday 19 |
When making assessments, questions such as the following are often not examined:
What is the difference between an exceptionally good piece of assessment and a poor piece of assessment?
Over and above testing, what have students learned and retained, and what should assessment offer the students? (...)
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
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Friday 20 |
12:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Archaeology Symposium : New Approaches to World Rock Art
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Mini International Rock Art Symposium
We are pleased to announce the following speakers:
Dr Sam Challis, Rock Art Research Institute, South Africa
"Rock art, interaction and creolization on the South African colonial frontier"
Dr Catherine Namono, Rock (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Economics Seminar : Collective Selling by Farmers
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Abstract: In general, it is illegal for businesses who are in competition with one another to jointly negotiate with suppliers or customers. However, in some jurisdictions, farmers are exempt from these rules and can form 'collective selling groups' to negotiate with processors.
There (...)
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Environmental outreach: Japanese non-profit organisations in China's desertifying regions
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During the last twenty years, over one hundred citizen’s voluntary organisations have travelled back and forth from Japan to desertifying areas in Northern China to plant trees. The arrival of these groups in Northern China in the 1990s coincided with increased international engagement by (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generalised quadrangles constructed from groups
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This is just a survey talk of various ways to construct all of the known finite generalised quadrangles starting with a group and a configuration of subgroups of that group. In particular, the speaker will give a summary of where one of the "retreat" problems is at.
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Monday 23 |
8:45 - WORKSHOP - Postgraduate Workshop 2013 : The Office of Industry & Innovation will be hosting this workshop for UWA research postgraduates on Monday 23 September 2013
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If you want to explore the commercialisation opportunities for your research, we can help.
Come along to the Office of Industry and Innovation’s free postgraduate full-day workshop and find out more.
The objectives of the workshop are to provide UWA postgraduate students a (...)
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Role of gene networks in asthma" by Dr Anthony Bosco, Immunology & Genomics, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 24 |
13:00 - Colloquium - To be (broad) or not to be (broad) : To be (broad) or not to be (broad): The dynamics of attentional focusing
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Focused visual attention is a mechanism by which relevant visual information is selectively prioritised for further processing. Given this vital role, focused attention is essential for the efficient visual perception of a world that is not only richly varied, but also continually changing. Great (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Chris Budhan: Jazz, education and the music business
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Chris Budhan: Jazz, education and the music business
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Wednesday 25 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics Colloquium: The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics: from arithmetic to topology and back again
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Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford) Mahler Lecturer and IAS Professor-at-Large
will speak on
The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics: from arithmetic to topology and back again.
at 11am in the Science Library Access Grid room.
I will discuss some models of (...)
The DOW owns and operates an extensive network of monitoring bores and gauging stations throughout Western Australia and also holds copious amounts of data collected on a project-by-project basis.
Each year the Department services around 3,000 water data requests through a process which is entirely (...)
The 2013 Mahler Lecture by Akshay Venkatesh, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University.
Surprisingly, there have been fundamental new discoveries about prime numbers in the last decade, most recently by Yitang Zhang a few months ago. In this lecture, Professor Venkatesh will survey (...)
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Thursday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - New regulators of physiological adult muscle growth: coordinated actions of muscle stem cells and myofibers : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Aging is accompanied by a decline in the homeostatic and regenerative capacity of all tissues and organs and it is generally associated with a decline in stem cell function. Muscle aging, in particular, is characterized by the reduction of tissue mass and function, which are (...)
13:10 - EVENT - FREE Lunchtime Concert : Visiting World Artists: Ramayana: Indonesian Dance-Drama
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Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
Featuring musicians and dancers from the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Denpasar
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Changing Values: Tourism as a dynamic force in Chinese conservation
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A public lecture Ed Jocelyn, Director of Red Rock Treks & Expeditions.
This public lecture draws on five years' personal experience in developing environmentally and culturally sensitive tourism programs in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Prefering to work with local communities (...)
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Friday 27 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Seminar : Anti-defamation Laws and Political Corruption
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Abstract: We explore the role played by libel laws in selecting the information delivered by mass media to voters. The focus is on whether such laws can reduce political corruption and increase voters' welfare. By endogenizing the response of the voters to information from the media, we clarify (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Straight-line programs with memory and applications to computational group theory
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Straight-line programs offer a method for encoding group computations in a "black box" sense, namely without using specifics of the group's representation or how the group operations are performed. We advocate that straight-line programs designed for group (...)
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