What's On at UWA

You are invited to join many of Australia's leading organisations at the year’s most important free careers event – The Big Meet.

Whether you're looking for graduate employment, a new job, vacation work, an international internship, a gap-year experience, voluntary work, travel, overseas (...)

The Seminar: Primates live in diverse social organizations that differ markedly in their sizes and composition. Primates also vary substantially in the degree to which they express sexual dimorphism in body mass and secondary sexual traits (ornaments). In this seminar I explore the evolutionary (...)

Citi are on campus this Tuesday to recruit for their 2017 graduate program.

Not studying Finance? Not a problem. You don’t need to be studying Finance to work at an investment bank. UWA Physics, Mathematics, Economics and other graduates have been hired by investment banks.

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Presenter: A/Prof Paul Dux (UQ)

A/Prof Paul E. Dux is a psychologist and neuroscientist who received his PhD from Macquarie University and then undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He is a faculty member in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland (...)

While it’s not the only type of evidence used in most investigations, trace evidence can provide invaluable information to the investigator and influence the legal process of criminal prosecutions. Join Kari as she details the chemistry behind examining physical evidence, and talks about some (...)

Ultrafast spectroscopy can provide a host of valuable information on the nature of and coupling between electronically excited states of molecules.

Experimental techniques such as femtosecond optically gated (FOG) fluorescence and broadband transient absorption (TA) can yield (...)

Team Purple Hearts was established in 2015, a group of Perth women with a passion to make a positive difference against women’s cancers. We took part in the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™, a 2-day, 60km walk to raise vital funds for the Centre for Women’s Cancer Research.

The inaugural (...)

Research has tended to focus on the top-down cognitive-biases that drive cultural evolution, with little consideration of bottom-up social interactional processes. In this talk I’ll present evidence (experimental & computational) that cognitive-biases plus social interaction are critical to (...)

Your application is a powerful marketing tool that can gain an employer's interest. This session hosted by Goldman Sachs will talk through ideas for your application that will sit you on top of the pile.

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Shell are coming on campus during March for a series of presentations. For students applying to the Shell graduate or vacation programs, these talks give you first-hand knowledge of what is important to Shell and can enhance your application and interview.

March 15 – Innovation Innovatio (...)

Joel Mackay trained as a chemist at the University of Auckland and a chemical biologist at The University of Cambridge before coming to Australia to postdoc with Glenn King at the University of Sydney. Over the course of the subsequent twenty years, he has succeeded in moving a total of about 20 (...)

The UWA Sessional Staff Association was founded by UWA sessional staff as an open and welcoming space for the discussion of issues of relevance to casual teaching staff, including professional development and recognition within the university. We are holding an introductory seminar to inform (...)

A public lecture by Christophe Lécuyer, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre Planètes, Environnement, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

Samples of tooth enamel and bone have been obtained from Egyptian human and animal mummies that cover the (...)

Dr Fausto Panizzolo is a former international postgraduate student from Italy who completed his PhD at UWA in Feb 2015 under an SSEH supervisory team led by Associate Professor Jonas Rubenson. Fausto currently holds a post-doc position at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired (...)

The Seminar: Imagine a technique that requires minimal or no sample preparation and allows you to explore the internal structure of your sample down to the micrometre scale without the need for a single cut. This can be achieved using X-ray microscopy (XRM), which, as for medical CAT scanners (...)

In this public lecture, editor of 2014 book The Art and Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders, Dr Michel Meuret shares experience and scientific knowlegde about herding animals and optimising rangeland resources. He describes the essence of the engagement he has had with (...)

[email protected] will be hosting this workshop. For bookings please email: cytometry.org.au/content/UpcomingMeetings. A one hour seminar will also be held on Tuesday 5 April. Dr Pratip Chattopadhyay is from the ImmunoTechnology Section, Vaccine Research Centre, NIH, and Thomas Ashhurst from the (...)

Join our lively discussion on International Development with Dr Michael Woolcock from The World Bank and Mrs Dibya Gurung from DeKMIS, as well as Dr Petra Tschakert (UWA), Dr Amin Mugera (UWA), and Dr Graham Brown (UWA).

Title: Mathematics and Statistics of Scuba Diving

Abstract: Scuba divers are trained to follow procedures that keep them safe while diving and afterward. Surprisingly, these safety measures are based on just a handful of simple mathematical and statistical principles, which will be (...)