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Displaying from Friday, September 08, 2017
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September 2017
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Friday 08 |
This event will showcase services and resources that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre can provide to UWA researchers to take their research to the next level. There will be time in the morning for existing users and potential users to have one-on-one assistance with Pawsey staff. This will be (...)
Ruby is a NAO robot, NAO is the world’s leading and most widely used humanoid robot for education, healthcare, and research. NAO is 58cm tall, autonomous, and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk and listen. Meet Ruby, see what she can do and explore the problem solving required when (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Nick Gill (University of South Wales) 16:00 Friday 08/09/2017 in Weatherburn LT
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There will be refreshments in Maths & Stats tea room at 15:40, and we will go for drinks at the UWA Tavern or the UniClub after the seminar. All are most welcome.
Speaker: Nick Gill (University of South Wales)
Title: On Cherlin's conjecture for primitive binary groups
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14:30 - SEMINAR - The phantom national? Using an �assemblage analytic� to understand national schooling reforms
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In this seminar, Dr. Glenn Savage will draw upon an emerging body of research on ‘policy assemblage’ within the fields of policy sociology, anthropology and critical geography, to consider how an assemblage analytic might help researchers better understand national schooling reforms in an era (...)
17:00 - Free Lecture Recital - UWA School of Music Presents Fridays@Five : Adam Pinto: Smalley Arranged
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Now in its third season, Fridays@Five is the ideal way to kick-start your weekend! Each session offers a unique musical experience to delight all music lovers, from young artist led concerts to informal musical drinks on the famous grassy knoll, behind the scenes workshops to lectures and (...)
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Monday 11 |
14:00 - STAFF EVENT - WORKSHOP: Design Augmented Reality Experiences Using Aurasma : Event for mLearning Month - September 2017
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Aurasma is an augmented reality platform which could potentially change the way you interact with the real world. Recent UWA TechNode surveys at UWA indicate that most students have a mobile device. Given this, Aurasma opens up opportunities in an instructional and educational manner, as the need (...)
A public lecture by Professor Han Baltussen, the Walter Watson Hughes Professor of Classics, University of Adelaide and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
In this lecture Professor Baltussen will explore the rich repertoire of grief experiences from antiquity in an (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
With Associate Professor Clarissa Ball, Discipline Chair, History of Art, UWA School of Design, Director, UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.
The recent removal of Confederate statues in the United States has resulted in extraordinary acts of violence, heightened racial tensions and death (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Early intervention for cognitive decline and dementia: targeting modifiable risk factors (Prof Sharon Naismith, University of Sydney)
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Psychology Colloquium
Tuesday 12th September 4:00-5:00pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)
Presenter: Prof Sharon Naismith (University of Sydney)< (...)
19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the Library UWA Library Speaker : No taxation without representation: Discontent in early Perth
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No one likes being taxed, but the first settlers of the Swan River Colony felt that taxation was doubly unfair. Not only had they moved to the other side of the globe to avoid such a heavy burden in the motherland, they weren’t yet making any money in their new ventures.< (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
Ruby is a NAO robot, NAO is the world’s leading and most widely used humanoid robot for education, healthcare, and research. NAO is 58cm tall, autonomous, and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk and listen. Meet Ruby, see what she can do and explore the problem solving required when (...)
The exceptional ability of young emerging artists and their passion for music will always create an extraordinary experience for concertgoers. In 2017 four outstanding orchestral and choral concerts will feature Western Australia’s finest young musicians.
Main Stage: Innovation
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Thursday 14 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Introduction to the Deep History of Sea Country project
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For most of the last 65,000 years of human
occupation, sea level has been lower than
present but we know very little about this
submerged landscape. This project links with
ongoing work in the Dampier Archipelago,
and uses cutting edge marine and aerial
survey techniques to identify potential (...)
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Friday 15 |
9:30 - SEMINAR - Scholarly Publishing Seminar for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) : Improve your writing skills and increase your chances of getting published
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This seminar for ECRs will cover:
A) Introduction to Scholarly Publishing
• Origins of publishing and changes in publishing dynamics
• Tips and tools to help you navigate the journal publishing process
B) How to get published?
(Editors panel discussion around below topics) (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Negotiating the Religious and the Secular in Indonesia: The Development of Contemporary Pesantren Leadership Auliya Ridwan
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A pesantren is a type of indigenous Islamic boarding school common across Indonesia. Traditionally, the main objectives of pesantren were to preserve religious teaching over
generations as well as to cultivate morality within their students or disciples. Pesantren, which are commonly hierarchical (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - The use of Indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation in agriculture: A case study of the Tharu in Western Nepal / PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA: A STUDY OF A NEW VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
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Indigenous knowledge is an important basis for farming and survival in many parts of the world, particularly in Indigenous communities of the developing world. Indigenous knowledge and practices have a dual role in dealing with the problems of climate change. First, they help to reduce
greenhouse (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Ghent Univ.) 16:00 Friday 15/09/2017 in Weatherburn LT
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Speaker: Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Universiteit Gent/Ghent University)
Title: Pappian unitals in Pappian projective planes
Time and place: 16:00 Friday 15/09/2017 in Weatherburn LT
Abstract: We define a class of objects in pappian projective planes by a simple algebraic formula and (...)
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Monday 18 |
Ruby is a NAO robot, NAO is the world’s leading and most widely used humanoid robot for education, healthcare, and research. NAO is 58cm tall, autonomous, and fully programmable robot that can walk, talk and listen. Meet Ruby, see what she can do and explore the problem solving required when (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
13:00 - STAFF EVENT - DEMONSTRATION: Using Blackboard Mobile Compatible Tests : Event for mLearning Month - September 2017
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Are you aware of the mobile test creation tool which is compatible with the Blackboard Learn App? If not attend this demonstration using Blackboard’s Mobile Compatible Test as a feature for students to easily complete tests and surveys using their mobile devices.
There are many great (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Resource Extraction versus Environmental Protection: oil sands and caribou in Canada : 2017 Rio Tinto Lecture
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A public lecture by Professor Vic Adamowicz, Vice Dean, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, and Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta.
This case study will illustrate some of the challenges of endangered (...)
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