What's On at UWA

Writing essays in an exam situation can seem like a slightly chaotic process! This workshop will describe the range of things you can do to prepare yourself for essay exams.

Join us in the UCC clubroom for a talk on technology by one of our members. John Hodge gives us a description of how computer programs become electrical signals, from C down through assembly, binary and to logic gates.

Karlheinz Peter works as interventional cardiologist at the Alfred Hospital and as basic scientist at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He holds an ARC Future fellowship and an Honorary NHMRC fellowship. He is Professor of Medicine and Immunology at Monash University. Karlheinz worked for (...)

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be hosting an information evening for prospective students: to one of the School Leaver Pathways to the Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD), to one of the Graduate Pathways to the DMD, to the Graduate Pathway to the Doctor of Podiatric (...)

Send your suggestions to [email protected] and we'll build a workshop for popular topics. You could ask to have one of our other workshops repeated or nominate any maths, stats or general numeracy issue you have encounted so far.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

My Seminar deals with two Aurecon Projects on opposite ends of the African Continent that might appear widely divergent, but which are actually closely related within the domain of IWRM.   Nile Basin DSS:   Aurecon is the lead consultant on Pilot Studies on the development and establishment of (...)

Helen Trinca will discuss her experience of writing a boigraphy of highly-regarded Australian novelist Madeleine St John. The lecture will be held at the Webb lecture theatre on Thursday the 16th of May. This event is free and will start at 6:30pm, running for approximately an hour.

Madel (...)

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

Discusses how Laplace transforms can be used to solve differential equations. We will justify the definition of a Laplace transform and discuss a few examples before applying it to a differential equation. We will also use the Heaviside function to convert composite functions into a single function (...)

The Seminar: The Vice Chancellor has called for “a full review of pedagogic purpose and practice in 2013, with the aim of introducing new pedagogies from the beginning of 2015” this aim was subsequently approved by the Academic Board. Unfortunately the primary driver for such change is often (...)

Applied mathematicians are often accused of screwing around with the ideas pure colleagues had. In this talk I am going to prove that sometimes this accusation is true. Using a network of social interactions I will show how we can model the spread of a sexual transmitted disease in a society. While (...)

Eva-Marie Middleton: Choral Performances of the Past

The archive of recorded music available for academic study now extends back for over a century. One of the avenues of study provided by this resource is a stark portrayal of differences in performance style over that period. This (...)

Deadwood Reservoir was created in 1931 by impoundment of the Deadwood River by Deadwood Dam. It is located in west-central Idaho, USA, at approximately 1600 m above sea level, in an extremely harsh environment where winter temperatures regularly reach 30 degrees below zero. The U.S. Bureau of (...)

Danny Hatters runs a research laboratory to study how proteins misfold and interfere with cellular functions, with a particular focus on mechanisms related to neurodegenerative disease. The research combines building new tools, biosensors and methods using various aspects of protein biochemistry (...)

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be hosting an evening for university students and graduates interested in studying the Doctor of Medicine (MD)course.

Applicants who have already completed a bachelor degree or those who will complete a bachelor degree in 2013 (...)

A play rehearsal is interrupted by the arrival of a divided family who have been abandoned by their creator and are seeking an author, ‘any author’, to give them a ‘definitive artistic form’ so their stories may be staged. While the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author (...)

A step-by-step guide to finding all roots of real and complex numbers. We will cover some examples and discuss the patterns which emerge. (Note: it will be useful to have a good understanding of polar form, the complex plane, de Moivre's Theorem and the trigonometric ratios for standard 1st (...)

In celebration of the University’s centenary, UWA School of Music joins with UWA Choral society for an extravagant evening of sound. As part of the celebration, an orchestra of over 170 will perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on it’s 100th anniversary before being joined on stage by the (...)

You have successfully sat maths exams before but it's nice to know how they work at UWA. This session provides some study suggestions for the lead up to exams and explains how maths study differs from other areas. Specific tips are provided for common Level 1 MATH and STAT units before we discuss (...)