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October 2013
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Tuesday 15 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Representation of spectral contrast in auditory cortex : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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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 (...)
13:00 - EVENT - When to Learn and When to Perform : What factors influence individuals’ decisions regarding the allocation of resources to developing skills vs. exploiting existing skills.
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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 (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - When to learn and when to perform? : Colloquium
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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 (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Honours presentations
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Honours presentations:
Cathering Bapty; Michelle Welschbillig; Eboney Nheu-Leong; Jessica Khoo
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Plastic Pollution in the Global Ocean : Where has all the Plastic Gone?
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
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 (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA Centenary Celebration of Archbishop Riley : Afternoon and evening of events to mark Archbishop Riley's vital contribution to the founding of UWA and St George's College.
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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 (...)
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Thursday 17 |
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 (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Some Key Issues in South American Archaeology:Colonization, Discontinuities, and Linguistic Replacements
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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 (...)
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Friday 18 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Are we Postnational yet? : Seminar - Anthropology & Sociology
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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 (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Economics Seminar : Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes
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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 (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - CANCELLED SEMINAR - Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes : CANCELLED EVENT - ECONOMIC SEMINAR
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TOPIC: Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation:
An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Regular orbits of Sym(n) and Alt(n) on irreducible representations
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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 (...)
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Monday 21 |
17:45 - LECTURE - The Warren Centre Innovation Lecture 2013 : Dr Alex Zelinsky Chief Defence Scientist, DSTO presents: Think Big and Make It Happen!
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why? : A conversation with Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
'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 (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - What is Stereo Vision good for? : Our knowledge about the location and shape of real objects
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The natural world provides a rich and varied array of depth information – numerous cues that are commonly divided into monocular and binocular categories. Our experience with two-dimensional representations of depth in paintings, 2D movies and computer simulations is so vivid that the additional (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Anthropology Seminar : Atikamekw postcolonial territoriality: A complex co--existence and entanglement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous regimes of values
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The
Atikamekw
are
an
Algonquian
group,
now
living
in
three
communities
in
the
Upper
St-
Maurice
region
(Québec,
Canada)
and
number
around
6,000
people.
While
they
have
been
“invited”,
all
through
the
colonial
period,
to
gradually
exclude
themselves
from
Nitaskinan,
their
ancestral
lands,
they (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Balancing the Role of Government and the Market - the Challenge of Formulating Public Policy 'In Public' : 2013 Reid Oration
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The 2013 Reid Oration will be presented by Paul McLeod, Associate Professor of Economics, UWA and Adjunct Professor with the Australian and New Zealand School of Government.
This lecture will discuss how policy formulation is potentially fragmented and losing its ability to distinguish (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
Dr. Frank's laboratory research, conducted in the Transplantation Research Center of Children's Hospital Boston and the Department of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, focuses on the physiological and pathological roles of the human P-glycoprotein family of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) (...)
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