What's On at UWA

The University of Western Australia is delighted to offer high school students and teachers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Australia’s only astronaut, Dr Andy Thomas, at two special student and teacher events in September.

At the students event, we are able to invite up to 20 (...)

The Observatoire de Paris has a long history of time keeping and today is one of the leading contributors to Coordinated Universal Time. A new clock on-the-block is that based on neutral mercury atoms. It is one of a new genre of atomic clocks that confines the neutral atoms in the Lamb-Dicke (...)

Laser Fusion was first proposed in the early 70s as a means for the extraction of energy from the burn of thermonuclear hydrogen fuels in the laboratory. Long-pulse (nanosecond,) time-shaped laser beams would be used for the adiabatic compression of micrograms deuterium-tritium microspheres, and (...)

In 1945, as a result of research and development carried out at Los Alamos, two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan, successfully ending the Second World War. During the feverish activity for the creation of these devices, scant attention was paid to the legacy of waste materials hastily produced (...)

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The uncertainty and risk associated with subsurface geology is an important input to business decisions in the petroleum and mining industry. Combination of various remote sensing measurements (seismic, E&M, magnetic, gravity, etc (...)

We have developed instrumentation to measure magnetic properties of a single live cell by measuring its motion in physiologic electrolyte solutions in strong magnetic fields and gradients. A highly automated and rapid process of cell image track acquisition and computer-aided tracking velocimetry (...)

The Leukaemia Foundation of WA is ‘Bringing Sunshine’ to patients and their families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders. Having lunch with friends or family is something we usually take for granted, however for people being treated for blood (...)

This is a presentation/demonstration session about how UWA has been and is continuing to use the Second Life Virtual World for a range of activities.

UWA is a finalist in the 2010 Second Life annual Linden Prize competition.

Full report of the University World News site: http:/ (...)

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) aims to observe gravitational waves of cosmic origin. These waves were first predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1916 and they may unveil the dark side of the universe, including black holes and the big bang itself (...)

The seminar will provide attendees with tips and advice on setting up a publication strategy to increase publication output of your research activities, ways to improve the quality of your paper(s), leading them through to publication success and answers on your individual questions regarding (...)

Optical, microwave and RF Interferometers have proved to be extremely powerful tools for advanced amplitude and phase measurements. They have been used in multiple state-of-the-art physics experiments, in metrology, in gravitational wave detectors and gravity gradiometers. I will discuss the (...)

I will try to describe what nonlinear sigma-models are and how they allow the study of geometry. After explaining some physical motivations for the study of these models, I will review actions and symmetries (including supersymmetry) and symmetry algebras. On the math side, I will review Riemannian (...)

Magnetic domain patterns form in perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin films due to the combination of short-range attractive magnetic exchange interactions and long-range repulsive magnetic dipolar interactions. The dynamics of these patterns, and the domains within them, are described by the (...)

When quantitative, usually nonlinear, models of observed phenomena are developed they are typically incomplete as many unknown parameters remain. Further to use the model to forecast future behaviour, one must accurately estimate the full state of the system when predictions begin and measurements (...)

Over many years of dynamic and energetic development, quantum chemistry turned into a fully mature science able to describe and model molecular systems containing even hundreds of atoms. Its capabilities are continuously growing along with the progress in computer miniaturisation and the (...)

Current condensed-matter research strives for ever declining system sizes and faster probing techniques. This goes with the impressive capability of the controlled synthesis of materials allowing for new functionalities such as the control of magnetism with electric fields and vice versa. The (...)

We are inviting all undergraduate, post graduate, and recent graduates, from Physics, Maths, atmospheric science and Ocean & Climate Science disciplines to come and find out about the exciting career opportunities available with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

There is something so immediately special about light that makes it fascinating. My daily exploitation of the weird properties of light emphasises its intrinsic strangeness and usefulness. This talk is intended to discuss and demonstrate some of these strange behaviours and to introduce you to some (...)

The rail industry is a vital and challenging industry which can offer careers to students of Engineering; Project management; Business/Commerce; Safety, Risk, OHS & Human Factors; Information technology; and spatial sciences.

The Railways Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA) is (...)

The word educate is derived from educare (Latin), meaning to draw out, to bring out potential. Educational systems, the world over, are based on thrusting knowledge onto students, instead of drawing it out of them. As a result, students become well informed on one or more subjects. Such education (...)