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August 2012
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Tuesday 21 |
The 2012 Blakers Mathematics Competition is now open.
Eligible candidates are all undergraduates in first, second and third years
at a WA university.
Entries must be received by Friday, September 28, 2012. They may be mailed or
given to Dr Greg Gamble, School of Mathematics (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Compositions of n and an application to the covering number of the symmetric groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Pablo Spiga (University of Milano-Bicocca)
will speak on
Compositions of n and an application to the covering number of the symmetric groups
at 1pm in MLR2 on Tuesday 21st of August
Abstract: Given a positive (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - EVENT - SIFE Information Session : Find out more about SIFE UWA and our latest projects
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SIFE is a global network of university teams competing in over 40 countries, creating change in the lives of others through the positive power of business.
Being the 2012 National Australian Champions, SIFE UWA will be travelling to Washington D.C in September to represent Australia (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Are Three Squares Impossible?
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
BIll Smyth (McMaster University/Kings College London/UWA)
will speak on
Are Three Squares Impossible?
at 1pm Tuesday 28th of August in MLR2.
Abstract: This talk describes work done over the last 30 years or so (...)
13:00 - BARBEQUE - Free BBQ with ACYA : 1pm Tuesday 28 August, Matilda Bay (look for our banner)
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Join us for a free welcome BBQ during common lunch hour - meet new friends, catch up with old ones and chat about burning Australia-China issues!
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Wednesday 29 |
Green chemistry is about developing processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and use of chemical products.
The presentation will track the development of green chemistry, as a drive towards getting the planet onto a (...)
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Thursday 30 |
14:00 - SEMINAR - Modelling spatial and temporal movements of tourists : Statistics Seminar
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Tourist movement is a complex process. It can be modelled from a number of different perspectives; for example, Tourism, Geography, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Psychology. This talk aims to discuss a sound methodology, using Markov and Semi-Markov processes to model the spatial (...)
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September 2012
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Thursday 06 |
14:00 - SEMINAR - Infinite Divisibility I - The Elements : STATISTICS SEMINAR
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Among other things, in recent years I have investigated infinite divisibility properties of some new probability laws: generalized Planck, Lambert, and generalized stable. Although infinite divisibility is now important in physics and quantitative finance, it has dropped out of the undergraduate (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
17:30 - SCREENING - UPS Screening Night : A free screening of Feynman's lectures and "ATOM"
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As part of a tradition at the University Physics Screening, fortnightly screenings of various Science Fiction Movies, documentaries and famous recorded lectures will continue screening weekly all through this semester.
This week's screening features a recorded lecture "Fun To (...)
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October 2012
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Tuesday 02 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics: Packing Steiner trees
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Irene Pivotto (UWA)
will speak on
Packing Steiner trees
at 1pm Tuesday 2nd of October in MLR2
Abstract: A classic theorem of Nash-Wiliams and Tutte gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to
have k (...)
17:30 - SCREENING - UPS Screening Night : A free screening of Donnie Darko
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As part of a tradition at the University Physics Screening, fortnightly screenings of various Science Fiction Movies, documentaries and famous recorded lectures will continue screening weekly all through this semester.
This week's screening features the famous cult-hit movie classic (...)
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Monday 08 |
13:10 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Commuting graphs of groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Michael Giudici (UWA)
will speak on
Commuting graphs of groups
at 1pm Tuesday 9th of October in MLR2
Abstract: The commuting graph of a group G is the graph whose vertices are the noncentral elements of G and (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
16:00 - WORKSHOP - Business Awareness Workshop : Start to make your idea a reality in this interactive workshop for young people aged 15-21
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You might have a great idea, but are you ready for the business world?
Whether you are working on a specific project or have a bunch of ideas that might be a future business or product, this workshop will help you get started!
Our presenter, Jane Garrett is an entrepreneur (...)
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Monday 15 |
A Public Lecture by Professor J. Hyam Rubinstein, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne.
The Poincare conjecture was one of the most celebrated questions in mathematics. It was amongst the seven millennium problems of the Clay Institute, for which a prize of (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics: Finite meta-primitive permutation groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Cai Heng Li (UWA)
will speak on
Finite meta-primitive permutation groups
at 1pm Tuesday 16th of October in MLR2
Abstract: A transitive permutation group is called meta-primitive if its any imprimitive (...)
17:30 - SCREENING - UPS Screening Night : A free screening of Alien
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As part of a tradition at the University Physics Screening, fortnightly screenings of various Science Fiction Movies, documentaries and famous recorded lectures will continue screening weekly all through this semester.
This week's screening features the sci-fi classic 'Alien'
F (...)
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Thursday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Sliding Doors in Academe: Idiosyncrasies of autobiography and controversy in psychometrics
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***NOW RESCHEDULED TO 18 OCTOBER***
“Individual(s) ….embrace a new paradigm for all sorts of reasons ... . Some of these … lie outside the sphere of science entirely. Others depend upon idiosyncrasies of autobiography….” (Kuhn, 1970, p.l52). I will highlight some “idiosyncrasi (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Clifford theory and Hecke algebras
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Arun Ram (University of Melbourne)
will speak on
Clifford theory and Hecke algebras
at 1pm on Tuesday the 23rd of October in MLR2
Abstract: The usual Clifford theory describes the irreducible
representations (...)
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November 2012
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Saturday 03 |
9:30 - Competition - WA Junior Mathematics Olympiad (WAJO) : An annual competition open to Year 8-9 students
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UWA, with the Western Australia Mathematical Olympiads Committee, will be hosting the WA Junior Mathematics Olympiad again in 2012, for all bright Year 9 and exceptional Year 8 students. The confirmed date for the 2012 competition is Saturday 3 November 2012.
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Monday 05 |
8:00 - WORKSHOP - WAIMOS Science Meeting : The Western Australian Integrated Marine Observing System - Science Meeting. For any enquiries and registration contact Agi Gedeon, Manager WAIMOS on [email protected] or x2022.
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The Western Australian Integrated Marine Observing System - Annual Science Meeting will present the collaborative and cross-disciplinary uptake of freely accessible coastal and open ocean datastreams. Marine scientists, modellers and engineers, oceanographers and biologists will find this meeting (...)
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