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Displaying from Wednesday, October 25, 2017
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October 2017
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Wednesday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - So Far, So Good? Social Farming and Wellbeing: insights from Ireland
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A public lecture by Deirdre O’Connor, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Social Farming offers people who avail of a range of social/health services (including mental health, physical/intellectual (...)
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Thursday 26 |
16:00 - MOVED READING - Titus Andronicus (the chopped version!), by William Shakespeare : Play 4, CMEMS Moved Readings Project
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As part of the 'Moved Readings Project', the play will be read on the New Fortune stage with the help of willing students, staff, friends and family. No experience is required, as the readings will take place with script in hand! We hope to provide a dynamic learning space that creates a fun and (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : X-ray tomographic imaging for multidisciplinary research
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Imagine a technique that requires minimal or no sample preparation and allows you to explore the internal structure of your sample down to the micrometre scale without the need for a single cut. This can be achieved using X-ray microscopy (XRM), which, as for medical CAT scanners, uses the (...)
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Friday 27 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Bayliss Seminar : A Radical Approach to Enzyme Biotechnology
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14:30 - SEMINAR - ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES, SEMESTER 1, 2017 : The Flesh Eaters: Anthropology and the Pygmies of Central Africa
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The pygmies of Africa were long believed by Europeans to be imaginary, no more real than the dwarfs of Lilliput. Now and then reports by Portuguese and French sailors told of dwarfs with long monkey-like tails sighted along the West African coastline, but few believed them. In 1699 final proof of (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar 16:00 Fri 27/10/2017: Hongxue Liang
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There will be `cake' in the Mathematics and Statistics tea room at 15:40. The seminar starts at 16:00, and after 17:05 we go to the UniClub or Student Tavern for a drink.
Note the unusual location.
Speaker: Hongxue Liang (University of Western Australia)
Title: Flag-transitive (...)
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music Presents Fridays@Five : The Double Bass: James Ledger & Andrew Sinclair (WASO)
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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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Tuesday 31 |
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium:Current Controversies and Future Directions in the Treatment of Obesity (A/Prof Liz Rieger, ANU)
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Psychology Colloquium
Tuesday 31st October 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: A/Prof Elizabeth Rieger (Australian National (...)
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November 2017
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Wednesday 01 |
New insights into LGBTIQA+ sex work, “gay wedding cake” disputes, and non-binary identities.
The UWA LGBTIQA+ Working Group and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies are pleased to present a panel offering new research and experiential insights into some of the key issues within the (...)
It’s the Messiah – but not as you know it!
Based on the hugely popular musical satire Monty Python’s Life of Brian, this comic oratorio (written by Eric Idle & John DuPrez) and described as 'baroque ‘n’ roll' will feature the UWA Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Chorus of UWA (...)
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Thursday 02 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Bayliss Seminar Series : The Ouzo effect: A straightforward process for emulsification, encapsulation and more…
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14:00 - WORKSHOP - Archaeology Workshop Series 2017 : Two Topics in Palaeozoology: Resurrecting (?) MNI [minimum number of individuals] in Favour Over NISP [Number of Identified Specimens], and the Holocene Palaeozoology of Bighorn Sheep
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Palaeozoology (the study of animal remains recovered from archaeological and palaeontological sites) includes a variety of analytical techniques and addresses a variety of research topics. One body of techniques concerns quantification of animal remains, and the two commonly (...)
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Friday 03 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series, Seminar 1 2017 : Ecological guardianship and ecotourism in Yubeng Village
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Ecotourism has raised new and unexpected challenges for conservation and environmental preservation in China. This presentation gives an overview of my
doctoral research project, which will use a case-study of a Tibetan community in Yubeng Village in north-west Yunnan Province, to understand how (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Bayliss Seminar Series : Polymer/Graphene-based Nanoparticles: Synthesis via Heterogeneous Polymerization
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16:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar 16:00 Fri 03/11/2017 Weatherburn LT: Yian Xu
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Speaker: Yian Xu (University of Western Australia)
Title: Constructing a 2-arc-transitive cover for a certain hypercube
Time and place: 16:00 Friday 03/11/2017 in Weatherburn LT
Abstract: The canonical basis, which is a particular type of basis of a vector space will be introduced in (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
13:00 - PRESENTATION - Sharing your research with the world : The UWA Research Repository
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The UWA Research Repository is UWA's system for the collection of research publications; ensures publications are discoverable in Google Scholar and Trove;
enables researchers to comply with Open Access mandates; and is the location for making details of publication-related research data visible to (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - What causes asthma? Genes, infections, and therapeutic choices
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12.30pm – lunch
1.00pm – 2.00pm – presentation
William Cookson is Professor of Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London and Head of Respiratory Sciences for the College. He is Head of the Asmarley Centre for Genomic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute. He won a (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How Can an Archaeologist Contribute to Biodiversity Conservation?
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A public lecture by Professor R. Lee Lyman, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
All animals die, and many are eaten by predators. If the predators include humans, owls, or carnivores (e.g., Dingoes), skeletal (...)
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Thursday 09 |
14:10 - PUBLIC TALK - Science Communication: my journey from 3-minute thesis to Cambridge and the Naked Scientists
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Michael Wheeler, winner of the 2016 UWA Three Minute Thesis Competition, will discuss his 10-week internship experience with science podcast, The Naked Scientists, based in Cambridge, UK. Michael will share some operational insight on the industry of science communication and how it works in (...)
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Friday 10 |
16:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar 16:00 Fri 10/11/2017 Weatherburn LT: Alexander Bors (UWA and U. Salsburg)
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Speaker: Alexander Bors (University of Western Australia and University of Salzburg)
Title: Worst-case approximability of functions on finite groups by endomorphisms and affine maps
Time and place: 16:00 Friday 10/11/2017 in Weatherburn LT
Abstract: http://www.maths (...)
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