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Displaying from Sunday, March 17, 2013
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March 2013
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Tuesday 19 |
11:00 - EVENT - Enviro Fest '13 : UWA Enviro Fest aims to empower UWA students and staff to reduce their environmental impact, and increase their appreciation of the natural environment.
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UWA Enviro Fest aims to empower UWA students and staff to reduce their environmental impact, and increase their appreciation of the natural environment.
Each year Enviro Fest provides opportunities to indulge your interest in the natural environment and learn more about sustainable (...)
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: "X-ray phase contrast imaging using conventional sources" by Dr Peter Munro
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Image contrast arises in conventional X-ray radiography due the differential absorption of X-rays throughout the sample. Many objects of interest, for example, soft biological tissue, possess weak absorption contrast. Furthermore, by definition, absorption contrast is directly correlated with the (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Bending strains in long bones: The case of the xenarthran third trochanter. : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The femur of armadillos and their fossil relatives, the glyptodonts is characterised by a large third trochanter projecting from the lateral side of the shaft. The role of this prominent structure and the muscles that attach there is unknown. This presentation looks at the variation (...)
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April 2013
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Wednesday 03 |
9:00 - CANCELLED - COURSE - Introduction to statistics : A short course using Microsoft Excel
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the presenter is no longer available to deliver this course.
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This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a (...)
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Thursday 04 |
9:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Unisuper Financial Advice : Unisuper Financial Adviser will be on campus at UWA
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Book your financial advice appointment on campus at the University of Western Australia with a Unisuper Financial Advisor.Whichever type of advice you choose, your first appointment with UniSuper Advice is complimentary. If you wish to proceed, a fixed quote will be provided at the conclusion of (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
13:00 - EVENT - Food 2050 - The UWA Institute of Agriculture 2013 Industry forum : Join us for an afternoon of discussion about arguably the biggest issue facing humanity: how to feed nine billion people in 2050 without destroying the planet.
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Building on the theme of the UWA Future Farm 2050 Project
The biggest issue facing humanity: how to feed 9 billion people in 2050 without destroying the planet.
What science and technology is needed to meet this challenge?
Time: 1:00pm – 5:15pm followed by refreshments < (...)
16:45 - STAFF EVENT - Retirement Planning & Centrelink : Presented by Unisuper and Centrelink experts
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This presentation combines the Retirement Planning seminar with an additional presentation from a Centrelink representative. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from both UniSuper and Centrelink experts on key retirement planning and Centrelink issues. Members wishing to attend the seminar must (...)
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Thursday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - HDR Supervision Series : “Supporting HDR supervision: Lessons from the field”
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This event is open to both new and more seasoned staff who would like to gain a wider perspective on the joys and challenges of supervision from an Education perspective.
Topics include: Supervising at a distance/Supervising international students; and Balancing the fine line between (...)
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Friday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Thesis as a Series of Papers : An outline of UWA rules and advantages and disadvantages of this format
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The Graduate Education Officers will outline the UWA rules on formatting your thesis as a series of papers. The advantages and disadvantages of this format will also be discussed.
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Tuesday 30 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Correlates of energy balance in wild mountain gorillas : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Cyril will present data of the first field study looking at how energy balance and foraging efficiency vary as a function of various socio-ecological factors (dominance rank, group size, reproductive state, habitat etc.) in a folivorous/herbivorous primate. Energy balance of individual (...)
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May 2013
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Friday 03 |
Special talk during Honey Week 2013
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Thursday 09 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - TACTILE IMAGES: RAPID PROTOTYPING RENDERING 3-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGING : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Advances in scanning geometries, detectors and computer vision are providing increasing detail in medical imaging, including dynamic 3-dimensional (3D) rendering allowing the user to view 3D structures of interest on a monitor. However, the interface between computer vision and (...)
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Tuesday 21 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Teaching in a virtual world, Building a virtual school on the UWA campus in Second Life : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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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 (...)
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Monday 27 |
Through the UWA Health & Rehabiliation Clinic a variety of Clinical Pilates options are now available to staff and general public!
Clinical Pilates is a form of physical exercise that focuses on posture, balance, control, strength, flexibility, and breathing. It incorporates mat and (...)
Statistical meta-analysis deals with a variety of sophisticated statistical methods to efficiently combine the results of several studies that have a common target.
In this course, we will describe the basic concepts of effect size for continuous measurements as well as qualitative attributes (...)
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June 2013
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Tuesday 04 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Quantitative MRI applications for investigating disease and monitoring the cellular uptake and biodistribution of nanoparticles and therapeutic drugs.
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MRI is an incredibly versatile imaging modality stemming from the wide range of approaches that can be applied to generate image contrast. While qualitative imaging is common in clinical MRI, increasingly quantitative methods capable of measuring molecular tissue properties are being exploited. In (...)
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Thursday 06 |
10:00 - EVENT - CMCA Seminar: Applications of magnetic resonance: From crickets to cortical dysplasias
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based techniques have revolutionized chemical characterization of materials and non-invasive in-vivo diagnostics, with pioneers garnering Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for NMR spectroscopy, and in Medicine for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This seminar will begin (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: "Preclinical MRI. An Advanced and Reliable tool for Biomedical Research. Are we there yet ?"
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Dr Daniel Procissi, visiting from Chicago's Northwestern University, will be presenting a series of preclinical MRI experiments which he has conducted in different areas ranging from neurology and oncology to hybrid modality imaging (PET-MRI).
This overview of imaging research will be discussed (...)
14:10 - EVENT - IOA Postgraduate Showcase 2013: Frontiers in Agriculture : 6 of UWA's best PhD students present their research
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Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts an annual Postgraduate Showcase where selected postgraduate students in Agriculture and related areas present their research.
The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The course is subsidised for UWA (...)
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