What's On at UWA

Orchids are well known for their extraordinary species diversity and specialised pollination systems. Several hundred species of orchids are pollinated by the sexual deceit of male bees or wasps through mimicry of insect pheromones. Investigations into the chemical communication between orchids and (...)

The Seminar: Our group reported the first ever live birth after human uterus transplantation two years ago and this has now been followed by four additional births. Thus, absolute uterine factor infertility due to congenital/surgical absence of the uterus, or due to malformation or intrauterine (...)

The seminar series is aimed at Postgraduates in Statistics and allied fields, as well as at anyone interested in statistics. In this session we will continue with Multivariate distributions, sums and ratios of independent RVs, and finally begin Moment Generating Functions (MGFs).

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Abstract: A variety of methodologies and/or combinations of methodologies have been developed in our labs for the synthesis of a diverse range of biologically active natural products. These methodologies include biotransformations, photoisomerisations, two-metal cross-couplings, reductive and (...)

Cooperation is the foundation of human social life, but it sometimes requires individuals to choose against their individual self-interest. How then is cooperation sustained? How do we decide when instead to follow our own goals? I develop a model that builds on Bacharach’s (2006) ‘circumspect (...)

Abstract: Falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury and death globally. They are a form of vertical deceleration where each type of fall is a unique and complex event that produces an inimitable form of skeletal blunt force trauma (BFT). Understanding these unique skeletal traumas (...)

The quest for gravitational waves began with Einstein’s prediction exactly 100 years ago. The first experimental search began in 1960. From 1970 onwards the gravitational wave spectrum was mapped out theoretically. Misunderstandings and false claims of detection have created scepticism and (...)

Psychology colloquium

Tuesday 3rd May in Bayliss MCS G.33, with post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room on the 2nd floor of the main psychology bldg.)

Presenter: Prof Richard Ryan

Richard M. Ryan is a clinical (...)

The Seminar: Birth is the most dramatic change in physiological and environmental conditions throughout mammalian life. Different organ systems develop at different rates in relation to this critical time across different species and not all organs are mature at birth. Lung maturation is closely (...)

Molecular dynamics and quantum mechanical calculations are powerful scientific tools that are used to probe chemical and dynamic properties at the atomic level. They can offer useful insight into experimental outcomes and guide subsequent investigations. I will present three cases where molecular (...)

Much of the economics literature takes the environment to be a public good and hence writes out a role for the private sector as a source of supply. Yet there is ample evidence of the private sector being involved, driven both by profit and altruism. In this talk, Jeff will try to convince you of (...)

In 2004, we synthesised a porphyrin possessing four fluorenyl arms (TFP),with a remarkable high quantum yield (24%), compared to the reference TPP, demonstrating the capacity of the fluorenyl units to enhance quantum yields. Then, to exploite this efficiency, a series of Organic porphyrin (...)

The Seminar: On December 18 1995, Forbes predicted academic publisher Elsevier’s relevancy and life in the digital age to be short lived. 20-years later, the academic publishing oligopoly that Elsevier leads is thriving with an annual revenue of $25.2 billion at profit margins higher than Apple (...)

Conservation auctions have been in use in natural resource management for a little more than 10 years and Australia has been a pioneer in their design and implementation. Conservation auctions seek to efficiently distribute incentives for natural resource management to overcome market failures in (...)

The advent of new technologies has enabled important advances in understanding animal evolution, with many long-standing paradigms overturned in recent decades. However, the key to many of these advances has been the discovery of previously unknown taxa. Exploration of the deep sea and polar waters (...)

The Seminar: The functions of the human brain are predicated on the correct assembly of neural circuits during development. Failures in this process can lead to brain disorders including epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism. Over the last decade, significant improvements in DNA sequencing (...)

While there are now many sophisticated imaging techniques to study biological systems, chemical tools are needed to gain an understanding of what is happening in the cell, on a molecular level. We are interested in designing small molecule sensors to probe sub-cellular molecular species, especially (...)

Psychology Colloquium:

Tuesday 31st May 4-5pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post- talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in really bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)

Presenter: Prof Sally Andrews (U Sydney)

Sally (...)

Title: Galois and his groups

Abstract: When Galois invented groups they were very different from the structures taught and learned and loved in undergraduate courses at UWA and other modern universities. My purpose in this lecture will be to explain the differences and calibrate (...)

In many parts of the world groundwater is depleting at an alarming rate. Water regulation authorities are facing the challenge of reducing groundwater extraction by existing users. However, to take appropriate adaptation measures it is necessary to understand the distributional consequences of (...)