What's On at UWA

The UWA centenary celebration for the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be held in Kalgoorlie. We will have a mini-med school with various demonstrations that include suturing, plastering and painting of muscles and skeletons onto volunteers. Other exhibits include the RFDS (...)

The Indonesian government recently introduced “character building” as a central focus of school curricula. This seminar surveys the main literature on education for character building and morality, to see how the new Indonesian version of character education both borrows and departs from the (...)

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We study the problem of covering Euclidean space R^d by possibly overlapping translates of a convex body P, such that almost every point is covered exactly k times, for a fixed integer k. Such a covering of Euclidean space by translations is called a k-tiling. We will first (...)

Professor John Eikelboom who originally trained at Royal Perth Hospital, is a world leader in blood disorders and blood clotting,having co-authored over 350 research papers,including several in the most prostigious international journals. He is an expert in translational clinical research and is (...)

Art After Death

A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and other issues affecting artists after death.

Arranged and supported by The University of Western Australia Law School, The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct, and Artsource.

An artist� (...)

The Seminar: The role of early auditory processing may be to extract some elementary features from an acoustic mixture in order to organize the auditory scene. To accomplish this task, the central auditory system may rely on the fact that sensory objects are often composed of spectral edges, i.e (...)

ABSTRACT: Two critical and interrelated means of success in the workplace are maximizing one’s current performance by exploiting existing skills, and improving one’s future performance by developing ones skills. In the short-run, trade-offs often exist between learning and performance; time (...)

Aaron Schmidt is a Marvin D. Dunnette Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Michigan State University in 2003. Prior to joining the faculty at UMN in 2009, he was an assistant professor of I/O (...)

Honours presentations: Cathering Bapty; Michelle Welschbillig; Eboney Nheu-Leong; Jessica Khoo

An Inquiring Minds public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director of The UWA Oceans Institute.

The ocean is the ultimate sink for plastic pollution, impacting marine life from tiny copepods to whales. The finding of an accumulation of plastic debris floating in the NW Pacific (...)

Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision introduced in the one-day Supervising Postgraduate Students workshop. However, prior attendance at the Supervising Postgraduate Students workshop is not a pre-requisite for attendance at (...)

Join us in acknowlegement of Archbishop Riley, a key figure in the foundation of the University, the second Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia, first Warden of the UWA Convocation and co-founder of St George's College. It will be an afternoon and evening of events to mark (...)

This workshop will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the different items in the SPOT questionnaire; look at how to interpret ones report and explore strategies that could be utilised to improve these areas of teaching; discuss a range of tips and strategies to collect feedback other than the (...)

South America was the last large continental landmass to be peopled by humans, during the Late Pleistocene, initiating an occupational history of ca. 15.000 years. This presentation outlines this history from a biogeographical and demographic perspective, by selecting a few cases extending from (...)

A public lecture by Dr Jesse Ransley, Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Southampton and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.

Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ransley

The labour of Indian Ocean sailors (known by Europeans as ‘lascars’) underpinned (...)

Academic debate about the anachronism of national borders has been common for some time. The general population, however, has been less keen to embrace such ideas. This paper considers some of the academic arguments, and then offers evidence from focus groups conducted across Australia, that (...)

ABSTRACT: The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This (...)

TOPIC: Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

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Given a finite group G and a faithful irreducible FG-module V where F is a field of prime order, we can ask whether G has a regular orbit on the vectors of V. This problem is related to determining which primitive permutation groups of affine type have a base of size 2, as well (...)

The Warren Centre’s annual Innovation Lecture Series puts successful Australian innovators in the public spotlight.

Dr Alex Zelinsky, Chief Defence Scientist and head of The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), presents The Warren Centre’s 2013 Innovation Lecture (...)