What's On at UWA

Excessive UV exposure can be damaging for your skin and your eyes. However, lack of time spent outdoors increases the risk of myopia. Data from the Raine, Busselton, Kidskin, Australian Twin Registry, WA liked data and the WA Eye Protection Study are helping to identify the optimal time outdoors (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium.

Talk title: Snowflakes, viruses and algorithms

Talk abstract: In this talk we will look at different objects that have one thing in common: they exhibit symmetry. Why is this relevant? How can we (...)

In 2012 the newly established Association of Critical Heritage Studies appealed for a critical turn in heritage scholarship, calling on its members to ‘critically engage with the proposition that heritage studies needs to be rebuilt from the ground up’, and that this required the ‘ruthless (...)

After decades neglecting grammar in schools, some Western educators are calling for a grammar revolution. The revolution may be happening in some unexpected places. In this paper, I discuss building interest in grammar on the island of Ranongga in the Western Province of Solomon Islands (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

This week features Chris Tonkin and Adam Pinto performing works for Piano & Electronics by late UWA lecturer Roger Smalley.

This talk draws on a small scale pilot study which focused on identifying some key themes relating to appearance, attractiveness and belonging, and which were considered important for young Asian Australian men and women. Some existing literature on appearance and belonging in Australia and other (...)

Speaker: Hui Zhou (University of Western Australia)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 17/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT

Title: On top locally-s-distance-transitive graphs

Abstract: A graph with some graph symmetry property is called "top", if it cannot be viewed as (...)

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Winthrop Singers, join us for a spectacular concert of favourite choral and organ works presented in association with Pipe Organ Plus.

Tickets: Standard $40 | Concessions $35 | Under 18's $20

The Seminar: ‘Lifestyle diseases’ related to reduced exercise and increase in calorie intake, have become a significant medical problem for primates in long-term human care. In humans, excess of all macronutrients are metabolised into fat deposits (visceral and subcutaneous) and cause (...)

Artificial intelligence is a complex area of computer science that is expected to have a impact in all areas of life. Come along to this one hour introductory session to gain some insight into how artificial intelligence is already being used, both in education and other fields.

You will (...)

Work in Australia aimed at finding prehistoric submerged archaeology is just beginning. For the NW Shelf, knowledge is increasing rapidly on its preserved drowned palaeoshorelines and palaeotidal simulations. Using the modern shelf as a reference, we rate past changes in shelf dynamics over the (...)

In the last two decades there has been an ever-increasing volume of academic work by legal and social historians, literary scholars, philosophers, social scientists, criminologists and legal practitioners that investigates the relation between law and the emotions, both in historical and (...)

Violence and discrimination against women is a global phenomenon. Throughout the world women and girls face pervasive violence and discrimination due to their gender which is commonly accepted under the banner of ‘culture’. Through my work with my foundation Project Monma I have travelled to (...)

Speaker: Seyed Hassan Alavi (Bu-Ali Sina University)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 24/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT

Title: Symmetric designs and their automorphism groups

Abstract: A symmetric design (v,k,λ) is an incidence structure consisting of a set of v (...)

West Australian Opera | Distinguished Artist Series

For the last thirty years Stuart Maunder (General Director, New Zealand Opera) has been directing musical theatre and opera in Australia.

Having directed The Merry Widow, Patience, Pearl Fishers, Tosca and Rigoletto for West (...)

Presented by Fremantle Arts Centre & UWA Music as part of offBEAT, FAC’s annual celebration of rhythm.

Interior Echo is a journey of music and spaces. Listeners are treated to a series of intimate percussion works presented in FAC’s historic cell room, galleries and studios. This (...)

Author of the celebrated book The Inner Game of Music, Barry Green (USA) was Principal Bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for 28 years and is currently active as a bass soloist, teacher, clinician and motivational speaker. The School of Music is delighted to host Barry as part of the Royal Over-Seas (...)

The workshop will provide a forum to discuss the different aspects that impact on data quality with the following aims: •To provide mine site rock engineers and seismologists with practical knowledge to ensure the highest quality data for the site •To identify problems impacting on the industry (...)

Speaker: Anurag Bishnoi (Ghent University, Belgium)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 31/03/2017 in ENCM:G04 Engineering LT2

Title: Expander Mixing Lemma in Finite Geometry

Abstract: http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~glasby/GandCSeminars.html

Underground mining continues to progress at deeper levels and industry is now extracting mineral reserves at depth that previously would have been considered unmineable. Deep mining is a very technical and challenging environment. A high level of understanding and technically sound approaches are (...)