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Displaying from Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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November 2010
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Tuesday 23 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Where the big ones are : Body size patterns in fish, birds and humans
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Professor Michael A. Huston is an Adjunct Professor at the UWA School of Earth & Environment. He has been an IAS Professor-at-Large in 2008 and 2009, and this is his third visit in this capacity at UWA.
Professor Hustons research is focused on understanding the causes of observed (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - Soil carbon and the development of international carbon footprinting protocols
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Carbon gives life to soil. It acts to sustain the soil functioning which enables soil to provide the ecosystem services which are essential for human well-being. Beyond this role there is growing interest in soil carbon because of its ability to sequester, or emit carbon, and the impact of these (...)
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Wednesday 24 |
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Earth & Environment Symposium on Sustainability : The Geography of sustainability: global patterns of success and failure
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Some people are rich and others are poor. Some countries are rich and others are poor. Explaining the unequal global distribution of economic wealth has been a major goal of economists since the eighteenth century or earlier, yet there is still no generally accepted explanation. Are most of the (...)
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - School of Earth & Environment Symposium on Sustainability : Sustainability: Reducing the production footprint of agriculture
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Carbon and water are critical natural capital stocks. Climate-change concerns are focussing public attention on them through the development of footprinting protocols to alert consumers of the emissions of carbon and the consumption of water in the production systems of products they eat and wear (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Centre for Water Research Seminar : Intrusions generated by the benthic boundary layer flux in a stratified deep alpine lake
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Intrusions generated by boundary mixing may be an important mechanism to redistribute mixed fluid away from the boundaries and into the lake interior. Much of our understating of the Benthic Boundary Layer (BBL) dynamics, and consequences of near - boundary mixing for the rest of the (...)
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Friday 26 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Dissecting Australian Biodiversity: Surprising Patterns? or Not? : The Biodiversity, Socioeconomics, and Culture of Australia
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Dissecting Australian Biodiversity: Surprising Patterns? or Not? or could we change it to...The Biodiversity, Socioeconomics, and Culture of Australia - Exceptional? or a Mirror for the Rest of the World?
As the Flattest, driest continent, with a bizarre assortment of plants and animals (...)
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Curator's Talk with John Barrett-Lennard : Getting off the boat - the impact and influence of an Australian art collection
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Alan Edwards, Professor of English at UWA and a key figure in the Tom Collins Bequest acquisitions, suggested in the early 1950s that 'it would be a very good idea if this University had a really good contemporary Australian painting. Then people would get off the boat to have a look at it when (...)
16:00 - SYMPOSIUM - unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium : Exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action
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A SymbioticA Art and Science symposium exploring biodiversity and art with speakers from the sciences, humanities and arts from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2010 in Perth and Lake Clifton, Mandurah.
The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete (...)
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Monday 29 |
0:00 - COURSE - China Study Tour : An intensive study of Chinese language in Zhejiang University and Beijing Institute of Education
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The China Study Tour 2010/2011 is an intensive nine-week course of study in Chinese language which includes eight weeks of classes and one week of independent travel. The study tour is opened to adults aged 18 and above regardless of Chinese Mandarin background (from absolute beginner to native (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Health within the West Australian prison system. Findings of the 2010 Department of Corrective Services Report. : Light lunch from 12noon with a 12.30pm start.
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In 2009, Dr Stevens was seconded to the Department of Corrective Services by the Director General of Health to undertake a review of the Prison Health Service. This Service sits within the DCS and provides clinical care to a population of around 5,000 prisoners located in 15 adult prisons and two (...)
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Tuesday 30 |
On 15 November 2010, Confucius Institute (CI) at The University of Western Australia (UWA) officially unveiled its Chinese Culture Experience Centre. Confucius Institute Headquarters in Beijing (aka Hanban) provided generous funding to support this particular project. The Centre provides a sound (...)
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December 2010
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Wednesday 01 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Towards a better understanding of the dynamics of oscillatory bottom boundary layers on a slope
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Velocity structure and mixing within oscillatory bottom boundary layers (BBLs) are important for parameterization of bottom friction in numerical models, loading on near-seabed structures, sediment transport, and mass transfer of nutrients and pollutants between water column and sediment. Despite (...)
17:30 - EVENT - Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series : "In Sickness and in Health: The Future of Medicine" by Professor Marc Noppen, Belgium
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Professor Noppen’s leadership and strategic vision for the University Hospital in Brussels and his interest in the provision of quality public healthcare will bring a European perspective on these aspects for Australian healthcare providers and underpins his lecture.
This lecture is (...)
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Monday 06 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - Molecular labeling technologies for fluorescence microscopy - 6 December
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Dr Iain Johnson, Principal Scientist, Cell Systems - Immunology Services at Life Technologies will visit the CMCA to provide a comparative overview of the major fluorescent labeling technologies - organic dyes, fluorescent proteins and quantum dot nanocrystals.
These technologies are (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
9:30 - WORKSHOP - Systems Biology Graphical Notation and SBGN-ED : Falk Schreiber hails from both Bioinformatics at Leibniz Inst Plant Research and also Institute of Computer Science at Martin Luther University, Germany. He believes his talk will be of interest to both Biologists and Medicos.
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SBGN is an ongoing international collaboration to provide standard graphical/visual representations of biochemical and cellular processes in an unambiguous way. SBGN has three types notation: process description, entity relationship, and activity flow. The standard defines a comprehensive set of (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Human Rights and Justice for All...the Global Agenda : UNAA (WA) 2010 Human Rights Day Address
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This year's United Nations Association of Australia (WA) Human Rights Day Address will be given by The Honourable Robert Hill BA LLB LLM.
The Honorable Robert Hill was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 2006, representing South Australia and was Leader of the Government in (...)
20:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Public Lecture: The search for randomness
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Persi Diaconis
Mary Sunseri Professor of Mathematics and Statistics,
Stanford University USA
Mathematician, statistician AND magician
will give a public lecture entitled
The search for randomness
on Wednesday 8th of December 2010
What (...)
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Friday 10 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Jia-Jen Lin : Current PICA resident Jia-Jen Lin will discuss her artist practice and previous residencies
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SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Jia-Jen Lin;
Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA
Jia-Jen Lin is currently an artist in residency at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) from September to December, 2010. She will be sharing her artist practice and residency (...)
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Saturday 11 |
19:00 - CONCERT - A Bohemian Christmas with Collegium Musicum : Collegium Musicum's annual Christmas concert
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Enjoy the ambience of historic Winthrop Hall melded into the magic of Christmas with Collegium Musicum Choir's evening of superb choral music. Accompanied by the recently restored UWA pipe-organ, a costumed dramatized tableau of carols from Europe with excerpts from Puccini's La Bohème, will be (...)
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Monday 13 |
8:30 - - A new milestone in cell analysis : Miltenyi Biotec MACSQuant flow cytometer available to test at CMCA
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Miltenyi Biotec will have a MACSQuant at CMCA QEII from 13th -17th December. Contact Kathy or Tracey to book a session to run your samples on the instrument.
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