What's On at UWA

UWA Health & Rehab Clinic - Running Club 13 week program working towards a 5 or 12km fun run (i.e. HBF Run for Reason - May 25th)

All levels welcome. Perfect for those returning from injury or running for the first time and needing a little extra feedback and coaching.

WHEN: Monday 3rd March - Friday 30th May

Running Sessions = Mon & Fri 6am. Plus "Fit-R" Strength & Mobility Sessions = Wed 6am & Thurs 6pm

WHERE: UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic - Parkway Entrance #4, Crawley Campus. Runs will take place around campus, along the river and into Kings Park.

COST: $12 per week (up to 4 sessions/week) for 13 weeks = $156

^Private health rebates may apply for Fit-R sessions

Adult & Over 50's Exercise Sessions combining 40min gym based strength and functional training, plus 40min swimming training (incl fitness and stroke technique).

12 WEEK SEMESTER 1 PROGRAM: Mon 3rd March - Saturday 31st May (Break 18th - 25th April)

SESSION BLOCKS: Adults [Tuesday 6pm-7.30pm &/OR Thursday 7am-8.30am] Over 50's [Monday 8am-9.30am &/OR Saturday 8.30am-10am]

COST: $18 per class = $216 for 12 week program (1 day/week) *20% discount off total price if attend 2 days ^ Private health rebate may apply for gym session

Keen to know more about Enactus UWA? Come on down to one of our information sessions, and learn how your entrepreneurial spirit can help the wider community!

We have two information sessions available:

Tuesday 4 March 2014, 1-2pm @ Social Sciences Building, room G.28, OR

Thursday 6 March 2014, 1-2pm @ Maths Building, Weatherburn Lecture Theatre

Archaeomusicology: some thoughts on the origins of music

This seminar will be dominantly grounded in the archaeology of Africa. Early music is archaeologically elusive. The first plausible musical implements only appear in the archaeological record after modern humans reached Europe, but we are certain that music existed long before this. Its origins must lie, alongside our human origins, in Africa. This seminar will therefore look at the archaeological underpinnings for the origins of music in Africa: the first symbolic thinking, ideas about the origins of complex modern language and the world’s oldest art. We will then look at the first peoples of Africa, in particular the Kalahari Bushmen and the central African Pygmies and explore the fundamental role of music in their religious practices. Extrapolating from this ethnographically informed view of music, I will then consider how archaeological evidence may provide glimpses of the nature and purpose of early music.

Let's get together to clean up and conserve our beautiful campus and its neighbouring parkland of Matilda Bay Reserve.

Only one hour of your time is needed to make a real difference and participants will be rewarded with a free breakfast at the University Club.

Wednesday 5 March, 7:30-8:30am, immediately followed by breakfast.

Participants may register as an individual or a team.

REGISTRATIONS ESSENTIAL: http://uwa.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1BNgWosZbQXOqwJ

Numbers are limited so please register early to avoid disappointment.

Microbes have been studied forever. So has turbulence. In a broad range of environments, microbes are routinely exposed to turbulence, yet physicists have ignored microbes and biologists have ignored turbulence. In this talk I will illustrate the fascinating dynamics that unfold when microbes are considered in the context of turbulent flow.

I will focus on motile microbes and will use microfluidic experiments and mathematical modeling to show how turbulence affects the swimming of microbes, un-mixes them counter to one's intuition, and shapes their competition for nutrients. In addition to representing a new class of problems in active physics, these processes are broadly important for environmental dynamics including trophic interactions and biogeochemical cycling in natural ecosystems such as oceans and lakes.

Bio blurb,

Roman Stocker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, where he heads the Environmental Microfluidics Group. Roman's research focuses on microscale biophysical processes in the environment, with a special interest in the ocean.

His group develops original microfluidic technology and image analysis techniques to understand microbes in the context of their physical (e.g., flow), chemical (e.g., nutrients) and ecological (e.g., other organisms) landscape, by directly observing microbes and making them 'come to life' for the non-microscopist. This approach has resulted in a broad range of fundamental new insights on microbial dynamics, particularly motility and chemotaxis.



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

****All Welcome****

Come along to the UWA Business School's information evening for the Master of Business Administration (MBA), where you can learn about our new MBA Full Time as well as MBA Flexible. You will have the opportunity to meet professors and current students, have all your questions answered, and even apply on the night.

You will be able to meet professors and students from 5.30pm onwards, with the formal presentation beginning at 6.00pm.

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Rock art is one of Archaeology’s most varied, visible and theoretically-informed artefacts. But this ‘artefact’ (Latin: arte + factum ~ ‘thing made by [human] skill’) is not simply brought into the world by human agency. Rather, rock art is both constitutive of human-ness and leads its own life. More than simply visually spectacular imagery, rock art embodies a complex and multi-sensorial entanglement of human-stone relationships. An emerging issue for research and curation is what our human obligations towards rock art are beyond anthropocentric notions of knowledge and conservation. I propose to probe this and related issues using ancient and modern Indigenous rock arts from northern Australia and southern Africa.

Sven Ouzman's research interests include rock art, graffiti, heritage politics, Indigenous knowledge, intellectual property issues, landscape, creolisation & cross-cultural contact, monuments, origins, and understandings of time. His research in Australia, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa has led to documenting over 2500 rock art sites- producing 234 site reports and conducting 7 excavations. Details of his publication output and curatorial work can be found at: Assoc/Prof Sven Ouzman UWA Staff Profile.

Presentations from internationally renowned speakers will explore a range of interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of patients with cardiovascular disease.

This astronomy festival of epic proportions will be an engaging celebration of Australian science. As well as optical and radio telescopes observing throughout the day and night, Astrofest will feature a myriad of interesting, engaging and exciting indoor and outdoor activities for the whole family. You can also take a look through some of WA’s biggest telescopes.

Preregister to attend at http://www.icrar.org/news/astrofest-2014 and go in the draw to win binoculars thanks to Tasco Australia!

As PhD students you have ambitions beyond your doctoral research. As supervisors and scientists you have bold plans. You probably have ambitions not just to do everyday science, but to break the paradigm. How are you going to do this? How will you get funded for novel, groundbreaking research? How will you communicate this research to a world that still thinks in the old ways? In today’s talk, these issues will be covered in an interactive format targeted particularly at PhD students. We will think about the big ideas and how you can pursue them, so come prepared to engage with an ambitious agenda.

International Women's Day 2014 will be celebrated on Tuesday 11 March.

The Vice-Chancellor, Winthrop Professor Paul Johnson will be the Guest Speaker. Professor Johnson will be speaking about the case for gender equity in higher education.

The event will take place at the University Club Banquet Hall from 2-3pm, and will be hosted by Ms Gaye McMath, Chief Operating Officer.

Afternoon tea will be provided.

Please RSVP to [email protected] by Monday 4 March to indicate your attendance and dietary requirements.

Patricia Alessi

Dost thou know thy tongue’s true tune?: Discovering the early opera ‘mezzo-soprano’ voice for today’s interpreters

The Arab world has changed dramatically in the past three years. As the Egyptian revolution celebrates its third anniversary, the Egyptian military under Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is resurrecting dictatorship under the veneer of constitutional legitimacy and on the pretense of fighting terrorism. Many of the leaders of the Tahrir Square uprising of January 2011, including some of Egypt's most prominent intellectuals, have been arrested, jailed or muzzled. Al-Sisi is set to run for president and is expected to win handily. He was recently promoted to Field Marshal, the highest rank in the Egyptian military, despite his lack of military combat. Syria is still ablaze. The horrific scenes of starving Syrians in Homs, Aleppo, and other cities and towns reflect Bashar al-Assad's determination to destroy his country in order to stay in power. The Syrian civil war is priding to neighboring countries and is threatening regional stability and security. The Geneva II talks are stalling. The lecture will examine these developments and assess the future of these two countries as well as other countries, especially in the Gulf, that are struggling with their protest movements and calls for reform.

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a Research Professor at UNM, a National Intelligence Council Associate, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since retiring from the US Government, he has been consulting with different US government entities on national security issues, particularly Islamic radicalization, terrorism, and the Arab states of the Middle East. He has published frequently on the “Arab Spring” in the Financial Times and the Inter Press News Service. At CIA, he was a senior analyst and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program and of regional analysis in the Middle East. He was awarded several senior commendation and distinguished medals for his service, including the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and the Director’s Medal. His research and publications have focused on political Islam and Muslim world engagement, Islamic radicalization and terrorism; and US policy toward the Middle East and the Muslim world. He holds a Ph.D. from the American University, Washington, D.C., in International Relations, an M.A. from Georgetown University in Political Science, and a B.A. from Saint John’s University, Minnesota, in Political Science. He is the author of numerous academic books and scholarly articles including A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World (Princeton University Press, 2009);Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society (Lexington Books, 2011; originally published in 1976 and translated into Arabic in 2006); “Intelligence Sharing and Co-operation: Opportunities and Pitfalls,” in Steve Tsang, ed., Combating Transnational Terrorism: Searching for a New Paradigm (Praeger, 2009); “Propaganda and Power in the Middle East,” Current History (December 2013). Some of Dr. Nakhleh's previous publications include: The Gulf Cooperation Council: Policies, Problems, and Prospects (Praeger, 1986); The Persian Gulf and American Policy (Praeger, 1982); and Arab-American Relations in the Persian Gulf (Washington, DC, 1975).

If you're a Year 12 student (or a parent of a Year 12 student), this session will provide information about UWA's courses, admission requirements and how to achieve your study and career goals.

UWA Prospective Students Office staff will be on hand to answer your queries following the presentation.

About the talk

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is probably Australia's finest example of collaborative research in the social sciences. Inspired by Laurie Fitzhardinge and Sir Keith Hancock, it was established at the Australian National University in the early 1960s. By 2014 it has produced nineteen volumes covering the lives of thousands of Australians, some eminent, some notorious, and some included as typifying aspects of the Australian experience. Challenged by turbulent personality clashes in its early years and financial pressures and the move to computer technology in more recent years, it has survived all it’s vicissitudes under a succession of able editors. Geoffrey Bolton was an eye-witness of its creation when a young postdoctoral fellow at ANU, later serving on the national editorial committee and as member of the Western Australian working party. He will recall some of the highlights of that experience.

About the Speaker

Professor Geoffrey Bolton is a graduate of The University of Western Australia who has held positions at a number of universities, among them professor of modern history, University of Western Australia, 1966-73, foundation professor of Australian studies, University of London, 1982-85, and chancellor of Murdoch University 2002-06, having previously served as foundation professor of history there. He has recently completed a biography of Sir Paul Hasluck.

Members Free, Non-Members $5 donation (There will be a short AGM immediately followed by the speaker)

WA 2.0 is a comprehensive set of initiatives that show how Greens policies can be implemented here in Western Australia now.

What could our state look like if we created a more resilient, connected and prosperous community that cares for our environment and for people?

Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam will deliver a presentation on how we can upgrade our state to meet the challenges and opportunities of our time.

For a preview visit http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/WA2.0

Bio:

Scott Ludlam was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand and subsequently moved to Western Australia. He was previously a film-maker, artist and graphic designer. He studied Design at Curtin University and then Policy Studies at Murdoch University.

Scott is an Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia. Elected in November 2007, he is one of ten Australian Greens in the current Parliament and is the spokesperson for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Housing, Nuclear Issues and Infrastructure and Sustainable Cities.

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

****All Welcome****

In conjunction with four WA universities, The Innovation Centre WA is hosting a series of Start-Up Exchange workshops throughout 2014. The first of these workshops “Idea to Venture” is jointly hosted by UWA’s Office of Industry and Innovation.

You will hear from Prof Tim St Pierre on his journey from developing the FerriScan technology at UWA to the formation of ASX listed Resonance Health. Resonance Health’s lead product is FerriScan, a world leading non-invasive tool for measuring liver iron concentration; the first such test to have achieved international regulatory approvals.

You will also hear from Prof Tim Mazzarol who specialises in entrepreneurship, innovation, small business management, marketing and strategy on the topic of starting new ventures.

Ideal for the undergraduate and postgraduate community thinking of starting their own business and for those who want to be more innovative in their chosen careers.

Following the presentations you are invited to stay for drinks and canapés and network with other attendees.

To register for this event or to find out about other workshops, visit the Innovation Centre WA website: www.innovation.wa.gov.au.

If you're a Year 12 student (or a parent of a Year 12 student), this session will provide information about UWA's courses, admission requirements and how to achieve your study and career goals.

UWA Prospective Students Office staff will be available to answer your queries following the presentation.