What's On at UWA

The Cancer Council Relay for Life at UWA is a Guild Volunteering run event. In it's inaugural year in 2010 Relay@UWA raised over $100,000 for The Cancer Council and we hope to go above and beyond that this year. The event will be held on the 15th and 16th of October. We require as many teams and event volunteers as possible; including cancer survivors and carers for this celebratory and fundraising event. Members of staff, students and community are welcome, but please note that places are limited.

Students will hear from several speakers including the President of GexCon Australia. GexCon is a leading, global consultancy in fire and explosion safety. Day one of the program will discuss the topics; explosion effects, Explosion fundamentals, structural response analysis and design, explosion risk analysis and explosion modelling.

The 2011 Ian Constable Lecture will be given by Professor Ian Frazer FAA, FRS, CEO and Research Director, Translational Research Institute.

Australians born in 2011 can expect to live to see the 22nd century, but how can we ensure that they will enjoy their 90+ years of life? Professor Frazer will examine some of the options open to each of us to ensure a long and healthy life, and propose some practical and some more controversial suggestions about how we might go about looking after our nation’s health.

The annual Ian Constable lecture is presented by the Lion's Eye Institute and the Institute of Advanced Studies to honour the work of Professor Ian Constable, one of the world’s leading ophthalmic surgeons.

Cost: Free, but Tickets essential from the Octagon Theatre Box Office. Tel: (08) 6488 2440

The 2011 Ian Constable lecture will address the topic; “Now, free, and perfect? How to live a long and healthy life in the 21st century.”

This will be presented by Professor Ian Frazer, the internationally renowned co-creator of the technology for the cervical cancer vaccine and former Australian of the Year.

This event is free, however, booking is essential. Book through the Octagon Theatre Box Office (08) 6488 2440, Mon–Fri, 12.15pm–4.15pm.

Students and staff, bring your lunch and meet the new UWA Museums Student Committee on the verandah of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Hear about the committee's plans for future events to be held in conjunction with the gallery. After lunch enjoy a tour of the gallery's current exhibition led by the student members of the committee.

Students will hear from several speakers including the President of GexCon Australia. GexCon is a leading, global consultancy in fire and explosion safety. Day one of the program will discuss topics including Ignition sources, blast mitigation and control and will include a practical session including demonstrations.

The Field Day showcases the 'Reducing Emissions from Livestock Program' focusing on the measurement and modelling of emissions on-farm. On display will be the latest technology for measuring in-field emissions, with experts to explain how it works, as well as information about emission profiles from farms with enterprise mixes which are typical of farming systems in the southwest

Recent advances in environmental monitoring and modelling have led to improved knowledge on how aquatic environments function. The Centre for Water Research at The University of Western Australia has developed a software suite, the Aquatic Real-time Management System and the Real-time Management System Online (ARMS-RMSO, http://www.rmso.com.au/), as a tool for the sustainable management of rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal seas.

  Such a tool provides an understanding of questions about important processes and their controlling factors, contributes to assessment of management needs and effectiveness and aids in direct human benefits from the aquatic environment under study. It combines the integration of a number of technologies and approaches to enable the extraction of new levels of knowledge using arrays of sensors encompassing physical, chemical and biological measurements, providing data in real time, models and continuous information display to be used for scientific research, education, management and environmental policy-related applications.

This talk will present the overall concept of the tool and its implementation in several aquatic environments to understand and assess the risks associated with flooding, local stagnant zones, pathogen source to fate and nutrient to algae cycling. Current limitations and future developments will be also presented.

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It’s been nearly two decades since the Hubble Space Telescope began giving us its awe inspiring view of the cosmos. The images it has sent back to Earth have revolutionised astrophysics and inspired people all over the globe, both in terms of scientific understanding and pure artistic beauty.

In this special talk Professor Gerhardt Meurer, Research Winthrop Professor, Extragalactic Star Formation, will present and describe some of the most spectacular images produced by Hubble, the scientific and cultural impact they possess and the people that made such an amazing project possible. Finally Professor Meurer will discuss Australia’s role in the future of astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope and its Pathfinder, ASKAP which is set to reveal portions of galaxies that can not be detected by any of the space telescopes.

This free public lecture is co-sponsored with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and is part of our joint 2011 lecture series.

Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.

In this free lunchtime concert, Brett Baker performs solo works for Trombone and Piano.

The UWA Arts Union is proud to present the inaugural Arts Union Public Policy Address, this year being presented by the US Consul General, Aleisha Woodward.

The topic on which she will be speaking is entitled "Diplomacy and Technology – Opportunities and Challenges" and will last for approximately 15 minutes, followed by a Q+A session and an opportunity to partake in some light refreshments.

The evening is free to attend and with popularity likely to be high it is advisable that you arrive with enough time to secure a seat before a prompt 6pm start.

Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.

Observe Brett Baker working with some of WA’s most talented young brass players in this public masterclass.

General Admission $10 Friend of Music $5

For tickets email [email protected] or phone 64882054 / 64887836

Social change, an understanding of impact investing and the potential it holds to mobilise capital beyond traditional government and charitable monies, is becoming critical.

Impact investors seeking a blended financial and social return are increasingly active in mobilising capital to address community needs around the world fuelling a demand for new innovative financial vehicles and products that appeal to them while garnering support from cross sectoral collaborations.

Presenter: Kylie Charlton Social Investment Fellow, The Centre for Social Impact(CSI)

Kylie holds the position of Social Investment Fellow at The Centre for Social Impact (CSI) where she is actively involved in looking at the development of a system of social finance in Australia.

RSVP: www.business.uwa.edu.au/school/eventregistration

The Centre of Excellence for Climate Change, Woodland and Forest Health brings together researchers from UWA and Murdoch University.

We invite you to participate in our Symposium: ‘Managing for Healthy Forests’ where scientists, environmental managers and community will come together to discuss current research investigating effects of climate change on our struggling woodlands and forests.

Featuring presentations from Dr Jerome Chopard and Dr Martin Bader, both Research Associates with the School of Plant Biology and Dr Leonie Valentine, adjunct lecturer with the School of Plant Biology and Ecosystem Restoration and Intervention Ecology Research Group.

Also presenting are Prof. Nicholas Coops, Dr. Geoff Stoneman and key researchers from the Western Australian State Centre of Excellence for Climate Change, Woodland and Forest Health.

The Symposium will deliver information and adaptive management options to improve and maintain the health of woodlands, forests and ecosystem services.

Presentation topics will include:

Remote sensing technologies; Eco-physiology; Forest pathology; Forest entomology; Restoration ecology; Impacts of changing forest health and fauna; Environmental sociology and policy analysis; Exchanging knowledge between science, society and policy-making.

Registration is $100 per person, or $60 for students and community groups, with 20% discount for Early Birds until 2 September 2011.

Ms Tingting Liao will give a talk on "Helicobacter pylori outer membrane vesicles: biogenesis and protein sorting" in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 21 October 2011 at 9:00am. The release of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) is conserved among Gram-negative bacteria, including many pathogens, such as Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Helicobacter pylori, etc. These vesicles are spherical, bilayered proteolipids and 20-300nm in size. Although bacterial OMVs have long been studied, the mechanisms by which Gram-negative bacteria shed OMVs and sort vesicle-targeted proteins have not been fully determined. Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterium which infects more than half of the global population. Infection is generally life-long due to the inability of the immune system to clear the bacteria from the gastric niche. Existing data have suggested that the release of H. pylori vesicles is an important mechanism of H. pylori virulence for delivery of molecules to host cells for modulation of host-pathogen interactions. This research proposal aims to study the biogenesis and protein sorting mechanism of H. pylori OMVs. Finally, the identification of signals or mechanisms of protein sorting during OMVs biogenesis could enable the engineering of H. pylori vesicles decorated with specific antigens for production and/or delivery of vaccines.

There is much talk in Australia at present about the need to increase participation in paid work and productivity, and at the same time increase Australia’s population. This conversation is partly driven by the prospect of an ageing population, and transformation in Australia’s employment base away from agriculture and manufacturing to service sector jobs. Given what we know about how Australian workers are experiencing their jobs at present, and their aspirations in terms of working hours, what can we expect of their participation patterns in the future, their ability to do more with less and increase productivity, and the prospects for increased fertility rates? What more can we expect of Australian workers. In this presentation Barbara will draw on the past five years of work-life research at the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia, to address these questions.

Professor Barbara Pocock is Director of the Centre for Work + Life at University of South Australia. She trained as an economist and has a doctorate in gender studies. She has researched work, employment and industrial relations in Australia for over thirty years with particular interests in gender, inequality and worker voice. She has authored numerous books, articles and book chapters. Her latest book, Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia was written with Helen Masterman-Smith and published by Allen & Unwin. Her next book Time Bomb: Where Is Our Working Life Taking Us? (co-authored with Natalie Skinner and Philippa Williams, will be published by UNSW Press in early 2012.

Seats are limited so please RSVP by Friday 14 October to Sarah Thoms (64883757) or [email protected]

Artist and lecturer in Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University, Gregory Pryor will talk about Sidney Nolan's, Flower panels [Paradise Garden series], c. 1968, in relation to his own attempts at articulating the Australian flora and landscape.

Meaningful encounters with artefacts in museums have always generated thinking about difference. In this context the term ‘difference’ ranges from an encounter with something unfamiliar and therefore strange to the philosophical notion of difference as singularity, that is, of difference without repetition. The two meanings overlap but the latter gives expression to a transformative state of becoming. Hence it gestures toward the affective potential of exhibits to change fixed identity thereby enabling new thought about human and nonhuman interactions. ‘Affect’ expresses the felt impact of exhibits; direct sensations prior to external, emotional responses based on re-cognition. Approaching the museum through the lens of affecting exhibits enables critical discussion around the agency of imagination and desire. Tellingly, representations of the museum in the popular imagination, particularly movies, highlight exhibits with affecting qualities and the transformation of characters through encounters with difference. Engaging with the museum and notion of alterity is not straightforward. Such a focus goes against the grain of a museology focused over the past forty years or so on interpreting exhibits as they act to form visitors as ideological subjects. This tends to limit consideration of un-common assemblages in museums by framing subject-object relations into existing formations rather than perceiving exhibits as a powerful force for affirming difference.

Dr Janice Baker’s research investigates emotion and affect in the museum context. She is interested in the gap between scholarly and popular representations of the museum and has a philosophical inclination to affirm museums as progressive, dynamic sites. The tour de force of the museum lies in encounters with the unexpected and unknowable although this seems dissipited by the current didactic preoccupation with non-objects such as projects designed to increase social participation rather than reflective musing. Previously an art curator, Janice currently teaches in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University.

Join Brett Baker, Principal Trombone of the Black Dyke Brass Band, and Perth’s own Royal Agricultural Society Brass Band of WA in this feast of music for Trombone and Brass.

Featuring the famous Grondahl Trombone Concerto, and a special version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue arranged for virtuoso Trombone and Brass, this concert will also include Gilbert Vinters seminal work for Brass Band Variations on a Ninth, and other classics.

The RASWA Brass has a proud tradition as one of the countries leading Brass Bands. It has performed locally, nationally and internationally at the highest level since 1960. The ensemble is a British style brass band of 27 brass musicians plus percussion. RASWA is directed by Dr. Alan Lourens, one of Australia’s finest Euphonium players and currently wind and brass coordinator at the University of Western Australia.

Tickets available from BOCS: http://www.bocsticketing.com.au/whats-on/340/brass-feast/

Beatrice-Joanna, newly betrothed to one man, sees another man she fancies more. She gets Deflores, the man she loathes, to sort things out, promising money. But Deflores has other ideas of payment. Meanwhile, at the lunatic asylum run by Alibius and his helper Lollio, two nobles have had themselves admitted to woo Isabella, the desirable wife of Alibius. Virginity tests, dancing fools and madmen, severed fingers, nocturnal burnings, and comedic interludes, are presented in this Jacobean Revenge Tragedy of Lust, Love, Betrayal and Murder. Playing Fri. 21 and Sat.22 Oct. and Tues, 25, Wed. 26, Thurs. 27 Oct.