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August 2015
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Wednesday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Biofilms: The slimy world that beneficial and harmful bacteria live in
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A public lecture by Sarah Codd, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Montana State University and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.
This presentation will cover the range of places where biofilms are found naturally in the environment, where they can be beneficially (...)
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Monday 31 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Chaos and Randomness: the global climate, technological development and a career in science
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A public lecture by Joseph Seymour, co-Director of the Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Montana State University.
The way in which a teacher leads students is reflected by their own experiences and scientific understanding. Professor Seymour will discuss how his own journey into a life in (...)
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September 2015
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Monday 07 |
Whatever your idea of impossible might be, visit UWA 7 - 11 September for Research Week and discover the possibilities when we showcase UWA Research and its contribution to local and global communities. With over 40 events, there is sure to be something that ignites your interest.
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18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A Good Night's Sleep: Sleep disorders and the shape of your face : A UWA Research Week Event
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A public lecture by Professor Peter Eastwood, Centre for Sleep Science, and Associate Professor Ajmal Mian, Machine Intelligence Group, UWA.
In this lecture Professor Eastwood will discuss the causes of sleep apnoea and its current treatments. He will then talk about the causes of sleep (...)
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Thursday 10 |
9:00 - EVENT - 3MT competition : Competitors are challenged to explain their research in an engaging way in 3 minutes.
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Semi-finals from 9.15 - 12.00.
Finals from 3-5pm.
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Coastal Science - Reflections on the past and present and ideas for the future : A UWA Research Week Event
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The 2015 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture by Bruce Thom AM FTSE FIAG, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney.
This lecture will offer some personal examples of where coastal science has been of use, where it has been ignored, and where it could be of value in the (...)
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Saturday 12 |
13:00 - EVENT - The Story of Lustre: Shedding light on how a community-based exhibition evolved : A UWA Research Week Event
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A presentation by exhibition curators Maya Shioji and Bart Pigram, Nyamba Buru Yawuru (Broome) and the WA Museum, with an introduction by Dr Sven Ouzman, Centre for Rock Art Management, UWA.
'Lustre' is a story told from the inside to an outside world. As such, its curation has been (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
17:00 - EVENT - The History of the Faculty of Agriculture: The rise and fall of a university icon : An informal UWA Historical Society event
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UWAHS Members and friends are invited to this short presentation by E/Prof David Lindsay on the history of the Faculty of Agriculture at UWA. This is an opportunity to meet others interested in the history of the University and its Faculty of Agriculture.
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Wednesday 16 |
An On the Edge lecture by Dr Clarke Jones, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.
With the arrest rate of young terrorist offenders likely to increase in the near term, Australian courts are faced with the difficult (...)
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Monday 21 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - No-take Marine Reserves Provide Benefits to Biodiversity, Science and Education : Can they also optimise yield for fisheries in data poor situations?
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A public lecture by Tim Langlois and Jordan Goetze, UWA Oceans Institute
No-take marine reserves have been recognised to provide benefits to biodiversity conservation, science, education and tourism. They have also been suggested as a tool for fisheries management where data is limited (...)
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Thursday 24 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - What Colour Are Your Eyes? : A 2015 International Year of Light Lecture
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A public lecture by Professor David Mackey, Managing Director of the Lions Eye Institute and Director, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at UWA.
It seems like the simplest question in the world and it is one of the fundamental ways in which we define appearance. But did you (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
17:00 - EVENT - Presentation by Dr Huang Qinguo, Chinese Consul General in Perth : A presentation in commemoration of the end of WWII in Asia
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A presentation in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII in Asia
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Blurring Boundaries � the role of the artist in social history, responsibility and ethical choices
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A public lecture by Mayu Kanamori, 2015 IAS Artist-in-Residence.
Mayu Kanamori's most recent work 'Yasukichi Murakami: Through a Distant Lens' is a theatre work about the life of historical photographer Yasukichi Murakami and the modern day search of his missing photographs.
Wh (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Criminalising dissent: Social movements and the erosion of protest rights
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A public lecture by Greg Martin, Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
This lecture will consider how criminologists have engaged in debates about human rights largely by looking at state crimes perpetrated by repressive (...)
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October 2015
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Monday 05 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting : An illustrated Arabic manuscript from the early 14th century
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A public lecture by Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Art, The University of Western Australia.
The subject of this lecture is the so-called London Qazvini, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of an encyclopaedia of (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
A public lecture by Vicki Hansen, McKnight Presidential Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.
Earth's so-called Archean Era, which ended 2.5 billion years ago, marks a time during which the Earth was a completely (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
A public lecture by Paul Baird, Professeur Classe Exceptionnelle, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Laboratoire de Mathematiques de Bretagne Atlantique
This question is the last of J. A. Wheeler's four puzzles that challenge our conception of the world. We have a profound sense that (...)
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Thursday 08 |
A public lecture by Hugh Durrant-Whyte, ARC Federation Fellow, the University of Sydney.
Digital disruption - data analytics, computing, automation and robotics - is transforming the world we live in, challenging and destroying conventional business models, but in the digital wake (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - How Do You Restore Seagrass Meadows? : A Guide to Seagrass Restoration
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A public lecture by John Statton and Gary Kendrick, UWA Oceans Institute.
At The University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute, and in collaboration with industry partners and international experts, we are developing large scale restoration techniques that can be used to both (...)
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Friday 16 |
Flaneur: A literary and theoretical urban figure who walks and experiences the city.
The idea of flanerie, or what Balzac once described as 'the gastronomy of the eye', is experiencing a revival. The idea of strolling, no longer by a lone male of a certain class, but by one observing (...)
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