What's On at UWA

*Applications have now closed*

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be an Arts student at UWA?

"A Day in the Life of an Arts Student" gives year 11 and 12 students the opportunity to explore the different types of Arts majors currently available at UWA.

Students will participate in a wide range of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun and very rewarding.

Note: times shown are a guide only and are subject to change. Refer to the respective event brochure/application form for detailed information.

This talk is about the importance and suggestions for building global resilience for the benefits of our next generation and us. The content is effectively addressing the four focuses summarized below,



The History of life: 5 Million years of building the DNA inventory

* Responding to the interglacial periodicity: building the world

* The stability through diversity; filling habitats

* Last ice age: tempering our genes

* Warming since last ice age: Switching on aggression



Change in the name of progress, technologies of the 1900's

* Anthropogenic emissions have triggering new carbon emission loops

* Homogenization of habitats is leading to species instabilities

* Globalization is leading to economic chaos & preventing sustainability through wealth inequality

* Drugs, sex and earphones are leading to social, mental and cultural instabilities



The challenge for the 21st Century: The consequences of simplification

* Global warming abatement requires carbon sequestration, not only emission reductions

* Biodiversity needs to be restored to ensure sustainable carbon cycles

* The movement of capital needs to constrained to benefiting productivity.

* Multiculturalism & globalization needs to be slowed to re-establish icon of life  



Moreover, where there is a will there is a way! Ten suggestions for building resilience are given at the end of the talk.

The talk is an opening address given by Prof. Jorg Imberger in the International iesp-Workshop, from which resilience as requirement for sustainable development has been discussed. The workshop is aiming to provide a contribution to tackle the earth crises and was held at Munich, Germany 28-30 March, 2012.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

*Applications have now closed*

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be an Environmental Science student at UWA?

"A Day in the Life of an Environmental Science Student" gives WA secondary students the opportunity to discover what studies in this field would be like, with a variety of workshops and demonstrations on offer throughout the day.

Places are strictly limited and bookings are essential. Applications close 21 March 2012.

Note: times shown are a guide only and are subject to change. Refer to the respective event brochure/application form for detailed information.

Mature-age entry provides flexibility for entering UWA, particularly if you don't have any previous academic results.

Anyone who is 20 or over on 1 March of the year of entry qualifies for our mature-age entry pathways.

This information session will provide guidance to mature-age students to help you choose an entry pathway that's appropriate to the course in which you want to enrol.

You can find out about what to expect from student life and we'll be happy to answer any questions you have about studying at UWA.

Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Music student at UWA?

"A Day in the Life of a Music Student" is a great opportunity for you to discover what a typical day at university is like.

The School of Music is offering WA secondary school students the chance to take part in a wide range of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun, and allow you to experience some of the classes available as a Music student.

Places are strictly limited and bookings are essential. Applications close 21 March 2012.

Note: times shown are a guide only and are subject to change. Refer to the respective event brochure/application form for detailed information.

Professor Thomas Riley will give a talk entitled "Is Clostridium difficile infection part of a zoonosis?" in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 20 April 2012 at 9:00am.

Crawley Park House (now known as Shenton House) is significant as a rare surviving Colonial house dating from 1846 and as the initial element of the fabric of the University of Western Australia Crawley Campus in 1914.

The place is historically and socially significant for its origins as a farming property purchased in 1831 and developed by Henry Sutherland, and later owned by George Shenton Jnr.

Assistant Surveyor General Captain Currie had selected the land in 1829 at the time the official party was proceeding to the site selected for the Foundation of Perth. Crawley Park is the name adopted by Sutherland in memory of his mother Maria Crawley. The name changed to Shenton House in 1963, reflecting the long association with the Shenton family.

Crawley Park House has been used by the (former) School of Mining and Engineering, Education, and since 1988 by the School of Indigenous Studies.

The Walk led by Historical Architect, Ron Bodycoat, will explore the history of the site and the house from the 1830s to 2012.

Cost: UWA Historical Society members $5, non-members $10

RSVP by Monday 16 April to Ron Bodycoat.

The focus of this IAS Masterclass will be on advances in instrumentation for biomedical optical imaging. We will see how improvements in fibre optics, wavelength-swept lasers and miniature optical components improve the resolution, acquisition speed and signal to noise ratio of single fibre endoscopy, confocal micro-endoscopy and optical coherence tomography.

We will begin with a case-study, demonstrating how these imaging technologies can be integrated into research projects in the fields of laryngology and head and neck surgery. We will then review the basic principles behind optical imaging and investigate how each component may be optimized to allow successful translation from the optics lab to the operating room. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research, and explore how to integrate endoscopic confocal imaging and optical coherence tomography into their projects. This class will be of interest to students from any discipline in the physical, biological or medical sciences who wish to understand the new opportunities in high resolution endoscopic optical imaging.

Caroline Boudoux, PhD, Ing. Jr., received a BSc in Engineering Physics from Université Laval (2001). She then pursued graduate studies in biomedical optics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She obtained a PhD (2007) for her work on spectrally encoded confocal microscopy under the joint supervision of Brett E. Bouma and Guillermo J. Tearney. She then moved to Paris to study coherent control applied to nonlinear microscopy at École Polytechnique (France) under Emmanuel Beaurepaire and Manuel Joffre before joining the Engineering Physics department of École Polytechnique of Montréal in 2007 as an assistant professor. She is a faculty member of the Biomedical Engineering Institute as well as a researcher at Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Montreal’s Mother and Child Hospital.

Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students

Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral agents. Dr Philip Matthews is Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle

A public lecture by Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College and 2012 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.

War is atrocious. In this this talk, Professor Joanna Bourke will explore the changing ways in which stories of murderous violence in wartime been told, reflecting on the terror and the trauma.

In conflicts from the First World War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the “body as spectacle” has been central to politics. She will examine the politics of wartime killing and atrocity within so-called progressive societies, unpicking the ways that “our” acts of spectacular cruelty have been narrated. Furthermore, talk of terror, which has a long and familiar history, has become confused with talk of trauma. Finally, she will explore the problems of talking about the experience of meting out state-legitimatised violence in the immediate aftermath of war.

A Service for Peace,

featuring

Readings of West Australian war poets

HAYDN's 'Nelson' Mass

performed by the UWA Winthrop Singers with an orchestra made up of members of the School of Music,

led by Winthrop Professor Paul Wright

Martyn French will give a talk on "Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome: immune restoration disease 20 years on" in the Microbiology & Immunology Seminar room, Friday, 27 April 2012 at 9:00am. Martyn French is a Clinical Immunologist at Royal Perth Hospital and a Winthrop Professor in Clinical Immunology in the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of the University of Western Australia.

His clinical and research interests over the last 30 years have focussed on primary and secondary immunodeficiency disorders, particularly HIV-induced immunodeficiency. He has made major contributions to clinical trials and HIV immunology research at a national and international level. He has been the Chair of the Immune Based Therapies Working Group and the Antiretroviral Working Group of the Australian National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and is currently a member of the International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials and the Immunology Group of that network.

He has conducted research on various aspects of HIV immunology, particularly immune reconstitution and disorders of immune reconstitution in HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. He first described immune restoration disease and has lead research studies on this problem in Australia, Asia and Africa. He also undertakes research on disorders of immune activation and antibody production caused by HIV infection and is currently a member of a NH&MRC program grant team from four Australian universities undertaking research on HIV and HCV immunopathogenesis and vaccines.

It is an inherent characteristic of humans that we want to know the reason for everything.

That “need to know”, to understand the reasons, is not confined to the physical world. It extends to decisions made by another, especially if they affect us.

Who has not, at some time, asked a child to do (or to refrain from doing) something, to be met with the spontaneous and natural human reaction, “But why?”. And who has not, perhaps in frustration caused by repeated requests for reasons, replied “Because I said so”, to then feel guilty; perhaps because you know that you are being authoritarian, have probably engendered a sense of injustice in the child (“That’s not fair!”).

A society in which decisions affecting its citizens are made, without reasons being given, is in danger of its citizens losing respect for such decisions, and causing those affected by them to believe that they have been treated unjustly.

Yet we live in a society in which not all decisions affecting its citizens (often with very serious consequences) must be accompanied by reasons given by the decision-maker.

This public lecture honours the career and contribution to public life of a very distinguished graduate of UWA, Dr John Leslie Toohey who, after graduating in Arts and Law, went on to become one of the State's outstanding legal practitioners and subsequently one of the country's eminent jurists.

The lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

In a special partnership with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, emerging artists take to the stage with their mentors to present a program of some of the best-loved music of the classical period. The Winthrop Singers will also join the ensemble in heavenly music. Lead by Paul Wright and Alan Lourens, experience the unique dynamism of this occasion.

For all members of the health care team including physicians, GPs, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists and other allied health professionals.

There will be two short movies shown, Sound of silence (story of a Pak armed force personnel) and Life in Siachen (where at the present time 135 Pak armed force personnel have been trapped for last 13 days because of an Avalanche)followed by prayers for Australian and Pakistani troops.

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Pleural Fluid Biomarkers" by Professor Jose Porcel from Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Spain. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.