What's On at UWA

Adam Wigley: Music and literacy: Things to know and tell

The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours, Masters and Doctor level. The focus and topic of presentations represents a flexible and attractive mix of conference-style papers, lecture-recitals and more informal sessions. The series makes a significant contribution to the musical and academic output of the School, as well as to the sense of community shared by staff and students alike.

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.

Admissions Centre and Prospective Students Office staff will be available to answer questions following the presentation.

The three-dimensional hydrodynamic Estuary, Lake and Coastal Ocean Model (ELCOM) coupled with the ecological Computational Aquatic Ecosystem DYnamics Model (CAEDYM) was applied to Urayama Reservoir in order to examine the effect of an inflow bypass on the water quality in the reservoir. The bypass system functions by intaking water from upstream of the reservoir and transferring it to the reservoir selective withdrawal tower in order to avoid turbid-water withdrawal. The model was calibrated using data measured in 2009. Simulated results of water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, nutrients and four groups of phytoplankton (cyanobacteria, diatoms, chlorophytes and cryptophytes) were in good agreement with field measurements. Some bypass operational scenarios and model parameter test scenarios were performed.

The results showed that the bypass operation altered the nutrient load and in-reservoir concentrations as well as the heat budget, which changed the water temperature, dissolved oxygen and other water quality parameters, including chlorophyll a (Chla) concentration in the reservoir.

Detailed examination of the growth of phytoplankton revealed that cyanobacteria were most affected by the bypass operation because of the interaction between the change of hydrological conditions and the buoyancy control of cells. The results suggested that the operation of the bypass system was useful in decreasing inflow nutrient loads as well as decreasing the transport of the algal biomass from upstream to the dam wall, which generally helped to decrease the magnitude of algal biomass near the offtake region of the reservoir.

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

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A public lecture by Marion Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required. Register online: http://2050food2-eorg.eventbrite.com.au/#

Greater efficiency may for some people be an obvious goal for providing food security for an increasing human population but what are the implications for animal welfare? Will greater agricultural efficiency inevitably lead to lower standards of welfare? This lecture will ask whether there is really a conflict between human well-being and animal welfare and argue that good animal welfare can provide the basis of healthy safe food for humans, benefits for the environment and productive commercial farming.

Join us for the upcoming CURATINGforum event on Wednesday 4 September 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

In this forum, panellists Katherine Wilkinson (curator for HERE&NOW13) and Kate Campbell-Pope (artist and mentor) will be joined by visiting speaker Amanda Cachia for an informative discussion on curatorial practice.

Cachia will discuss recently curated exhibitions at the intersection of contemporary art and disability, including Medusa’s Mirror: Fears, Spells & Other Transfixed Positions (2011) and What Can a Body Do? (2012), both held in the USA.

Cachia offers an opportunity to re-think aspects of access and discursive programming in conjunction with disability-themed exhibitions.

RSVP essential to [email protected] / 6488 3707 by 3 September 5pm.

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/publicprogram/curatingforum/cf-2013-s3/_nocache

PUBLIC PROGRAM This CURATINGforum event is part of the public program of events accompanying the exhibitions 'HERE&NOW13' and 'Abstracting the Collection' at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Two voicings on climate policy and science followed by a Q&A.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

The UWA Institute of Agriculture, Future Farm 2050 invites you to attend the 2013 Field Day on 6 September 2013.

PROGRAM

12.00pm: Registration with tea and coffee provided at Avery’s shed

12.30 - 12.40pm: Welcome and program overview, W/Prof Graeme Martin, The University of Western Australia

12.40 - 1.10pm: Is ‘more efficient’ food production in conflict with animal welfare? - Prof Marian Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford

1.20 - 1.40pm: CFI, farmers’ options and barriers to participation, Assist/Prof Marit Kragt, The University of Western Australia

1.40 - 2.00pm Maintaining our share of the lamb meat pie Dr Kelly Manton-Pearce, Research Fellow, Murdoch University, Yealering Farmer and Nuffield Scholar

2.00 - 2.30pm; Tea and coffee break 2.30 - 4.30pm: Bus to demonstration sites 1) Station 1 - Avery’s Paddock - ‘Soils’: W/ Professor Andrew Whiteley, The University of Western Australia

2) Station 2 - Enrich- Antimethanogenic Shrubs: Prof Phil Vercoe, The University of Western Australia; and Dr Dean Revell, CSIRO.

3) Station 3 - House and Water Management: W/Prof Keith Smettem, The University of Western Australia; and Assoc/Prof Patrick Beale, The University of Western Australia

Approximately 4.30pm: Closing reception at Avery’s.

Full program available online http://www.ioa.uwa.edu.au/field-day-2013

Justice French’s lecture is one of many special events organised in 2013 to mark UWA’s centenary and is part of the UWA Gives Back program, in which University staff and students visit regional WA to acknowledge the important role played by the people of WA in UWA’s history.

Justice French AC, CitWA, is the first Chief Justice from WA. He graduated from UWA in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Physics then stayed at the University, earning a Bachelor of Laws in 1971. He was President of the University’s Liberal Club and also treasurer of the UWA Student Guild.

His lecture, 'John Forrest - A Founding Father of the Nation, A Favourite Son of the State', is part of the UWA Faculty of Law’s centenary celebrations in the Peel region.

The Faculty invites members of the legal profession, teachers, students and members of the public to attend the lecture. The evening’s program also includes Winthrop Professor Peter Handford of the UWA Law School, who will speak on the History of the Law School from 1928 to the Juris Doctor.

Join UWA final year woodwind students Faye Saunders, Nicholas Schurmann and Samuel Cohen-Cooke and recent graduate Belinda Callaway as they share with you a variety of solo Australian works followed by a Beethoven Trio for good measure!

Admission is free, bookings are essential as there is limited space.

Presentation Synopsis

Christine Morrow was born in Kalgoorlie, studied French at UWA and taught French in various schools in WA before going to France to study just before the outbreak of World War II. In June 1940, she managed to escape from the occupied north of France. She completed her doctorate at the Université de Toulouse in 1941 and returned to Australia, via London, in 1942. She taught in the French Department at UWA from 1947 until her retirement in 1969, returning only once to France, in 1954. The story of her escape from beautiful Agon on the Normandy coast in newly occupied France to Manciet and then to Toulouse in the unoccupied zone is not one of high drama and Resistance heroics, but of quiet determination and courage. It is also the story of a uniquely complex and demanding post-graduate experience and of a present day international academic collaboration. It gives us an insight into an Australian’s love affair with France, an experience which radically changed and enriched her life.

About the Speaker

Born in Queensland, Dr Robin Adamson studied French at the University of Queensland and then in Paris before coming to work in the French Department at UWA. It was here that she met Christine Morrow. After 33 years in Scotland where she was head of languages at the University of Dundee, she returned with her husband to WA in 2001. She is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow in European Languages and Studies where her research centres mainly on the French language. (Anyone who knew Christine Morrow, Dorothy Clarke, or Frank & Connie Jones please contact the speaker Robin Adamson on, [email protected]).

Members: Free, Non Members $5 donation

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. PLEASE CONTACT CONCERTS - 6488 7836 SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

This multidisciplinary aged care seminar will provide an insight into the problems faced in managing chronic diseases in the increasing aged population. Presentations will investigate opportunities for working better together, to meet the health care needs of older people in Western Australia.

An all strings extravaganza following the instruments from the early days of Bach and Vivaldi to the recent times of Hindemith and the gypsy music of Ravel.

The concert will feature UWAs finest young string players including Alexandra Isted, Elizabeth Moss, Ellie Walker and Verity Brockmann as they perform these cherished works in anticipation of their graduation year recitals.

Admission is free, bookings required due to limited space.

The Westerly Centre and UWA Publishing will host a poetry reading by visiting poet, Rose Lucas, from her latest book, Even in the Dark.

In this, her first book of poetry, Lucas distills years of writing into an impressive debut. Even in the Dark contains delicate poems of the lives of women and the exquisite beauty contained in the act of observation.

Organizations need to know how to motivate and engage their employees in a healthy fashion (i.e., preserving or enhancing their well-being). A large number of organizations send their managers to leadership training, even though we know surprisingly little about its impact on employee motivation, performance, and well-being. We developed the Motivational Leadership Training Program, based on existing and popular training programs, to examine the mediational role of work motivation in the relationship between leadership training and changes in employee performance and well-being. Grounded in the theory of full-range leadership and self-determination theory, the program was tested through a quasi-experimental design including pre/post-tests to evaluate its impact on subordinate motivation, performance, and well-being. Preliminary results showed little improvement in leadership style and in employee motivation following training, though some moderators were found. However, it is clear from longitudinal multilevel path modeling that the leadership style adopted by managers had a strong influence on their employees’ work motivation.

Stephen Benfall: The Music of John Exton: An investigation into the factors that shaped his compositions in the years 1972 - 1979.

Naomi Smout: Reflections on performing 20th cenury Argentine Piano music

Understanding the drivers of phytoplankton composition and abundance is important for the management of water quality in reservoirs. In the Republic of Singapore, the construction of coastal barrages in recent years has seen several low-lying estuaries converted into shallow reservoirs to secure water supply. However, research on these types of systems has been limited to date.

Marina Reservoir became operational in 2008 following the completed construction of a barrage that separates the former Marina Estuary from the Singapore Strait. Subsequent to a two year adjustment phase during which saline water from the former estuary was flushed from the reservoir, the nutrient concentrations in this shallow reservoir stabilised and the downstream waters became dominated by nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria.

However, in the upstream regions of the reservoir, which are more influenced by inflow waters, the phytoplankton composition is dominated by green algae and diatoms. The CWR field team surveyed Marina reservoir in February 2012, which was a period of low inflow. Results from these measurements will be presented to demonstrate the relationship between inflows and short-term changes in phytoplankton composition and abundance.

In particular, by using fluorescent spectral data and principal component analysis (PCA) to measure phytoplankton composition at fine spatial scales, it will be shown that the distributions of different phytoplankton assemblages in the reservoir are closely related to transitions between inflow waters and reservoir waters.

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

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Afterschool classes (Wednesday 4 - 5.30pm)and Weekend (Saturday)classes available for young learners between 6 - 12 years old. Registration is OPEN now.