What's On at UWA

YOU can meet our UniHallers and join us for a free exclusive breakfast and a tour before heading over to UWA Open Day.

This is a great opportunity for you to discover what it’s like to live on campus at UWA. On the day you will meet our UniHall ambassadors who will take you on a tour (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.

Talk title: The Discovery of Janko's Sporadic Simple Groups. Talk abstract: In 1966, Zvonimir Janko published a paper which revolutionised finite group theory. The previous year, working as a Research Fellow at the (...)

UWA scientists are invited to meet with Dr Melanie Bagg from the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC). Melanie will share tips and advice on the best use of social media to communicate your research with the media and the communities you want to reach.

Melanie has a PhD in Medicine (...)

Deciding where and how to publish is an important step in the research process. This workshop will cover a range of factors to consider, and introduce the tools and guides that can help. Open access publishing and the UWA Research Repository are covered.

The objective of blasting is to optimise the cost-effectiveness of the excavation process through the fragmentation and displacement of rock from its in situ condition to a highly diggable muckpile. The aim of wall control is to optimise the stability of a rock wall exposed by excavation through (...)

Across the month of September, the Centre for Education Futures will be hosting a range of workshops, presentations, webinars, panels and a half-day summit that will explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education.

All mLearning Month events will be held at the (...)

This workshop will explore both just-in-time and long-term monitoring. Additionally, an understanding of slope failure mechanisms may be gained from InSAR and ground-based monitoring, LiDAR, inclinometers, geophones, piezometers etc.

Visit UWA from 5 – 9 September for UWA Research Week and imagine what is possible when we showcase UWA research and its impact on local and global communities.

With over 50 events it is a great opportunity for people to come and see the sorts of problems we are working on, the (...)

Psychology Colloquium Monday 5th September 5-6pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building.)

Title: A generalized visual sense of number

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The Australian Centre for Geomechanics is delighted to host the First Asia Pacific Slope Stability in Mining Conference in Brisbane, Australia, 6–8 September 2016.

This inaugural conference will provide a special forum for best practice and state-of-the-art technologies that are (...)

This workshop seeks to provide a theoretical and practical investigation of unstable slopes and the actions available to personnel, consultants and managers to manage unstable slopes. Underpinning all slope design is a geotechnical model for each slope. The workshop will provide an overview of (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.

Talk title: The random graph and its friends

Talk abstract: There is a countably infinite graph R (first explicitly constructed by Richard Rado) with the following remarkable property: If we choose a c (...)

UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are hosting a community based festival event to celebrate astronomy and Australian science on Saturday, 17 September 2016. The event will feature fun and engaging activities in a beautiful rural setting, at UWA (...)

Learn to make more effective use of Google, Google Scholar and Google Books to find scholarly information.

Join us for the mLEARNING SUMMIT, the main event for the mLearning Month (September 2016) hosted by the Centre for Education Futures.

The mLearning Summit will be featuring our own Professor Gilly Salmon addressing the role of mobile learning in blended education.

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If you would like to know how a postgrad qualification can shape your future career, visit our Postgrad & Honours Expo in September.

Chat to current staff and students about the courses on offer, scholarships and the application process, and attend one of the information sessions (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.

Talk title: Design of dose-escalation trials: Research spurred by a trial that went wrong

Talk abstract: In March 2006 the topic of designed experiments briefly hit the British newspaper headlines when (...)

UWA Staff are invited to join Mark Bailye (Blackboard) and Centre for Education Futures staff for this active workshop to explore how technological tools can support the UWA Policy on Assessment, and enhance good assessment and feedback practice. This session will help you get the most out of (...)

Learn to make more effective use of Google and Google Scholar to find scholarly information.

What is Open Access? An overview of OA plus an update on the latest global and local developments

Open Access publishing offers benefits to individual researchers and to the wider community, and key Australian funding agencies have mandates supporting it. If you have heard the term but (...)