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Events for the public
 August 2011
Saturday 06
9:30 - SEMINAR - Stay on Your Feet Seminar & UWA Clinic Open Day More Information
Presentation from Stay on Your Feet WA on the 9 steps that you can take to reduce your falls risk. 1 in 4 people over 60 will fall each year which can lead to injury and significant physical limitation. Being active and independent is a key to being able to enjoy our lives at any age. Come along to learn the steps to staying on your feet at any age! Following the seminar the UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic will be holding an open day where you can ask staff about all aspects of exercise and how it can work for you.

19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Spanish Fire : A performance of one of the great Spanish compositions in a stunning arrangement for castanets and piano. Website | More Information
Danzas Espanolas is one of Enrique Granados’ supreme achievements for keyboard.

Now there’s a rare opportunity to listen to, and watch, as two masters of their art – Deanna Blacher (castanets) & Cameron Roberts (piano) – take you into the uniquely thrilling and passionate sound and mood world of one of the great Spanish masterpieces.

SPANISH FIRE is a very rare opportunity to experience artistry at the highest level, music that will inflame the imagination and set the pulse racing.

Tickets cost $33 early bird (before 30 June), $39 full price / $35 concession

For bookings phone (08) 9444 9818 or (08) 0275 3946
Sunday 07
15:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Concert: Artistry! 4 - Old Cello/New Cello Festival Concert Website | More Information
In association with Tura New Music this concert can only be described as an extravaganza of music.

Bringing together international and national cellists, music for one to twelve cellos will saturate the senses in their exquisite sound.

Featuring guest artists Niall Brown, Geoff Gartner and Jon Tooby, along with UWA staff, students and recent graduates, the cello’s vast range of performance possibilities will be fully explored.

Tickets available from BOCS (www.bocsticketing.com.au / 9484 1133)
Monday 08
16:00 - WORKSHOP - School of Music: Old Cello / New Cello - Cello Masterclass Website | More Information
Selected UWA cello students will perform and work with cellist Niall Brown in this public masterclass.

Niall Browns talent was recognised early on by Yehudi Menuhin. Brown has performed as soloist with the Camerata Bern, Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Ensemble, and partnered such artists as Yehudi Menuhin, Gary Karr, Alberto Lysy and Janos Starker to name a few.
Tuesday 09
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Constructing Music in the Head: The Baroque Partimento Tradition and the Link to Keyboard Improvisation Website | More Information
In this Power of Music Seminar, Stewart Smith, Coordinator Classical Music, WAAPA, ECU discusses exciting historical musicology research entitled Constructing Music in the Head: The Baroque Partimento Tradition and the Link to Keyboard Improvisation.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - How to stack oranges in three dimensions, 24 dimensions, and beyond Website | More Information
A free public lecture by by Akshay Venkatesh, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University and 2011 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

How can we pack balls as tightly as possible?

In other words: to squeeze as many balls as possible into a limited space, what’s the best way of arranging the balls? It’s not hard to guess what the answer should be - but it’s very hard to be sure that it really is the answer!

In this lecture Professor Venkatesh will tell the interesting story of this problem, going back to the astronomer Kepler, and ending almost four hundred years later with Thomas Hales.

He will then talk about stacking 24 dimensional oranges: what this means, how it relates to the Voyager spacecraft, and the many things we don’t know beyond this.

19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Friends of the Library talk: Family life in the goldfields 1895-onwards More Information
Histories of the goldfields often focus on company histories or mining work ignoring or marginalising the lived experiences of women, children and domestic concerns. This talk will focus on the way in which families coped with the isolation, unfamiliar culture and vast distances forging through hardship rich and sustained close knit communities. Migrant families and the experiences of communities during the war will also be discussed.

About the Speaker

Dr Criena Fitzgerald is an Honorary research Fellow UWA. She has published two monographs, Kissing Can be Dangerous: The public health campaign against tuberculosis in Western Australia, A Press in Isolation: The history of UWA Press and several articles. She is editing her postdoctoral work on the history of silicosis in Western Australia and is co-editor with Lenore Layman of ‘110 Degrees in the Waterbag’ A history of Life work and Leisure in the Northern Fields’ to be published by with WA Museum Press. She is currently working for the NLA as an oral historian on the Forgotten Australians’ Project and for the NFAW researching a website on Kalgoorlie/Boulder women. Her research interests are Oral History, Occupational History, Medical History and women’s history.

Parking is available in Myer Street and Park Way, accessible from Fairway

Members: Free Non Members: $5 donation

19:45 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : Family life in the goldfields 1895-onwards More Information
This talk will focus on the way in which families coped with the isolation, unfamiliar culture and vast distances forging through hardship rich and sustained closed knit communities. Experiences of communities during the war will also be discussed
Wednesday 10
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Theory of removing energy from tidal streams – with a focus on the UK More Information
Tidal stream energy, which involves placing tidal turbines in locations with large tidal currents, is receiving significant attention as a potential renewable energy source in the United Kingdom. Recent estimates suggest that tidal stream energy could supply between 5-10% of the UK’s current electricity demand.

In this talk we begin with a short discussion of where tidal currents are large around the world and why. We then discuss the theory of tidal stream energy. First a simple analytical model for a row of tidal turbines (i.e. a fence) is presented, which provides an estimate of the efficiency of a tidal turbine in terms of the energy it removes from a tidal current. The model also highlights several distinctions between wind turbines and tidal turbines.

Second we discuss how much energy can be removed by a fence of tidal turbines deployed within a tidal strait, oscillating bay and close to the tip of a coastal headland. These particular sites represent the variety of actual locations around the UK with fast moving tidal streams.

To finish, the likely prospect of tidal stream energy in Australia is discussed.

   ****All Welcome****

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Women in Science Website | More Information
Speaker: Eleanor Dodson, Professor Emeritus, York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK and 2011 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

Highly cited scientist, Professor Eleanor Dodson, will discuss the role of women and science from her perspective as a scientist and mother of four.

This public lecture is free, but please reserve a seat by visiting http://www.trybooking.com/8269.

This public lecture is presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and Scitech as part of The International Year of Chemistry.
Thursday 11
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Free Lunchtime Concert Website | More Information
Dominic Perissinotto (organ) Sarah-Janet Brittenden (mezzo soprano) Clare Tunney (cello)

An assortment of old favourites for organ, voice and cello.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Randomness in number theory More Information
Public lecture by the 2011 Mahler Lecturer

Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)

will speak on

Randomness in number theory

Abstract: By way of concrete examples we discuss the dichotomy that in number theory the basic phenomena are either very structured or if not then they are random.The models for randomness for different problems can be quite unexpected, and understanding and establishing the randomness is often the key issue. Conversely the fact that certain number-theoretic quantities behave randomly is a powerful source for the construction of much sought-after pseudo-random objects.

About the speaker: Professor Peter Sarnak grew up in South Africa and moved to the US to study at Stanford University, where he obtained his PhD in mathematics in 1980. After appointments at the Courant Institute, New York, and Stanford, he moved to Princeton in 1991 where he has been ever since. Currently he is both the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and Professor at the the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2002, he was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the USA and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Peter Sarnak is a major figure in modern analytic number theory, with research interests also in analysis and mathematical physics. He has received many awards for his research including the Polya prize in 1998, the Ostrowski prize in 2001, the Conant prize in 2003 and the Cole prize in 2005. He has had 43 PhD students to date, including several who have become major figures in number theory themselves.

The Mahler lectures are a biennial activity organised by the Australian Mathematical Society with the assistance of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.

20:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Composition Concert More Information
The UWA Music Students' Society presents a concert of works composed and performed by UWA music students.

FREE for MSS members / $10 for non-members (available at the door)
Friday 12
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Great Southern, Great Science Symposium Website | More Information
The Western Australia Chief Scientist, Professor Lyn Beazley, and the University of Western Australia's Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management are hosting a symposium in Albany to showcase the excellent science taking place in the Great Southern region.

'Great Southern, Great Science' will include presentations on nationally significant work that impacts on the Great Southern, and local research and development by scientists and professionals in the Great Southern.

Tickets will be available from the Albany Entertainment Centre box office - 9844 5005.

Standard $39.50 and Students $20.00

Registration includes morning and afternoon teas and lunch.

15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar with Art Oriente Objet : Informal open seminar with visiting French artists Benoit Mangin and Marion Laval-Jeantet Website | More Information
The duo Art Object Oriented (Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoit Mangin) aim to use an interdisciplinary approach to expand the amazing ability of art to communicate non-verbally. Through anthropological, environmental or biotechnological experiments, they try to understand the limits of their own conscience. Whether with the traditions of pygmy Bwiti, meditative experiences or horse blood injection, they try to overcome their understanding of the world and to transmit a newly acquired wide-angle vision.

The artistic partnership of Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoit Mangin began in Paris in 1991. The duo, that calls itself Art oriente objet, places ecology, defined as the scientific interrogation of the conditions of our existence, at the center of its artistic preoccupations. From the beginning their output has included installation, performance, video, and photography dealing with the various themes around Life. This approach is inclusive enough to have led their work into the domains of biology, behavioral sciences (their work in psychology and ethology introduced a strong animal presence), ecology, and ethnology leading to poetic and surprising art that is both visionary and political.

Art oriente objet’s ecological concerns resulted in art which seems to have strong links to a craftwork tradition in which recycling and reusing are important. Their use of recycled materials confers upon their art an aspect of masterly tinkering. In fact, their notions of recycling also extend to already established ideas that they defined as ready-thoughts from the very beginning of their collaboration. Their work relating to biotechnology has earned them a place within the BioArt movement (Jens Hauser, Le Lieu Unique, 2003) and they are often counted among the artists at the frontier between art and science. In addition, they can be considered as social observer artists or as anthropologist artists who promote experimentation on systems that they formally analyze. Furthermore, Marion Laval-Jeantet faces these issues head on as a professional practitioner of ethnology and psychology. Their modus operandi is to gain life experiences from a direct immersion in a “field of experience” upon which they base the creation of a transmittable Vision and an “active object.”

In their quest to promote art that resists systems which limit artists only to the role of creators of artworks, Art oriente objet have, from the start, partook in activities of research, teaching, and activism on a parallel track to their artwork production. They have also organized art exhibitions, notably the Worldwatchers [4] project, which focuses on the theme of art and the environment and which has taken place on an international level in both the northern and southern hemispheres for over ten years (in Benin, Cameroon, France, Norway, etc.)
Sunday 14
0:00 - EXHIBITION - Recent Past: Australian painting of the 70s and 80s : Recent Past is a vibrant selection from the University's Art Collection. Website | More Information
Recent Past: Australian painting of the 70s and 80s, is an engaging exhibition of art from a period of profound change in Australian painting and culture. The exhibition traces a modern history of painting through the work of 36 artists, over half of whom worked in Western Australia. Abstraction, representation, politics and local history, the life of the mind and spirit, the stuff of paint and colour – all were vigorously explored by these artists. The exhibition features works by Sydney Ball, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Carol Rudyard and Sydney Nolan. This is a bold statement about art, the artist and the notions that interest them.

10:00 - EVENT - 2011 Open Day : Experience what's on offer at UWA Website | More Information
UWA opens up the whole campus to the public.

Come and find out about the courses on offer, valuable research, community programs, and facilities...all mixed with a day full of lots of fun activities for everyone!
Monday 15
8:00 - EVENT - Art Under the Microscope : A showcase of the surprising physical beauty of world class pathology diagnostics and research in WA More Information
"Art Under the Microscope" will showcase the surprising physical beauty of world class pathology testing and research in WA and is an opportunity to see the majesty and wonder of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
Tuesday 16
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Factors affecting the performance wellness of jazz pianists in practice and performance Website | More Information
Graham Wood, Head of Music, WAAPA, ECU presents an a significant performing arts medicine investigation entitled 'Factors affecting the performance wellness of jazz pianists in practice and performance.'

17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Probing the warped side of the Universe: A future Astronomy for Western Australia Website | More Information
Over the next decade or so, extremely large, ground-based telescopes will be built to probe the furthest reaches of the universe - back to the earliest times in its evolution, and through its most energetic events. These instruments will span the optical and radio bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and the audio band of the gravitational wave spectrum. WA is on the verge of hosting two of these three telescopes – the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope and the LIGO-Australia gravitational wave telescope. In this talk we will explain how a gravitational wave telescope works and illuminate the exciting physics, astrophysics and cosmology that can be done with a global array of such telescopes.

Professor McClelland, a former graduate of the University of Western Australia, is currently Head of the Department of Quantum Science and Director of the Centre for Gravitational Physics at The Australian National University.

Professor Blair is Director of the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre at the University of Western Australia.

To register please visit http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1808452129

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