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 October 2013
Tuesday 29
17:00 - CANCELLED - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir - CANCELLED Website | More Information
This event has been cancelled. Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir
Wednesday 30
16:00 - SEMINAR - How to prevent depression in later life. : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series. Website | More Information
Depression is a common and disabling disorder that affects people of all ages. The causes of depression are not well understood, but consistent information about risk factors is available.

These include familial predisposition, certain lifestyle choices, clinical morbidities and exposure to various forms of stress. Stepped care programs have succeeded in reducing the prevalence of depression in people with depressive disorders, as well as the incidence of depression in people with subthreshold depressive symptoms. However, despite their established efficacy, they have not been adopted widely into clinical practice because of policy and financial constraints. Recent epidemiological evidence indicates that a more systematic approach to the management of risk factors might be a practical and effective strategy to reduce the prevalence of depression in the community, but trial data are not yet available.

This presentation will discuss the methods that underpin the development of risk models for depression and how these can be used in clinical practice to decrease the prevalence of depression in the community.

Bio,

OPA is the Professor and Winthrop Chair of Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia, Director of Research of the Western Australian Centre for Health & Ageing, and Consultant geriatric psychiatrist at the Royal Perth Hospital. He completed his undergraduate and specialist medical training at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and his research postgraduate training (PhD) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, in London. He moved to Australia in 1998.

His recent research has focused on the identification and modification of risk factors associated with depression and cognitive decline in later life, supported mostly by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He has over 400 publications and an h-index of 52.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Lipid Membranes of the Past and Future : Public talk with visiting Artist/Researcher Juan M. Castro (Waseda University, Tokyo) Website | More Information
Life in all its diversity, as we know it today, could not have developed without an organic membrane. All living cells are surrounded by this outer wall or soft boundary. This talk presents an artistic and multidisciplinary perspective on the organic membrane and its potential as a media of expression. This talk is primarily focused on the description of two transdisciplinary artworks within the fields of microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and media art. The first project, Heliotropika (2011), is an installation that creates an interface between humans and cyanobacteria. The themes related to the conception and development of this project include: the photosynthetic membrane, the visualization of organic processes in real-time, and the potential interfacing with living cells.

The second work, Fat between two worlds (2013), is a project that explores the biophysics of cholesterol and phospholipids to create microstructures that minutely resemble living cells. This part of the paper includes subjects such as the versatile nature of lipids, the artificial membrane, and the interaction between biological molecules (lipids, DNA, sugar).

Together with interactive installations, Juan M. Castro has been working in real-time visualization of organic information and the creation of hybrid architectures with bio-materials. Born in Bogota, Colombia, he is currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. In 2008 he founded “Biodynamic geometries” as a unit for experimental creative projects. Since its inception it has developed an exhibition program of biomedia art installations. As a postdoctoral research fellow, he is investigating the impact of “synthetic ecosystems” and “interkingdom communication” upon artistic practice in the laboratory for molecular cell network—department of electrical engineering and biology— at Waseda University.

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Quest for Unification Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.

Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/theisen Experimental physics explores natural phenomena from the smallest to the largest length scales, covering the world of subatomic particles at one end of the scale and the evolution of the cosmos at the other. Theoretical physics brings order to the wealth of experimental data. The aim is to explain the observed phenomena as following from as few `laws of nature’ as possible. This naturally requires trying to describe apparently disparate phenomena by the same physical theory, a process call `unification’. Examples include the work of Maxwell, who unified electricity, magnetism and optics, and Einstein, who unified space and time. After a brief tour through the milestones of unification since Newton, Professor Theisen will concentrate on the present status, which is contained in the two so-called standard models, the standard model of cosmology and the standard model of elementary particle physics. He will then provide a brief introduction to string theory.

19:00 - PERFORMANCE - Callaway Series : Ethnomusicology Concert More Information
Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.
Thursday 31
9:00 - EXHIBITION - Take me to the River - past, present and future Website | More Information
From almost the first moment of colonisation in 1829, the question of how to best harness and make use of Perth's riverfront setting has taxed the minds of its citizens and administrators. To develop or not to develop, to reclaim or not to reclaim, to retain the broad green doorstep created in stages between the 1880s and 1950s or turn it into a thriving cosmopolitan hub at the water's edge - for 180 years the cycle of view and counterview has ebbed and flowed almost as regularly as the tide.

The Australian Urban Design Research Centre - The University of Western Australia's urban design think tank - brings together a selection of the myriad foreshore-shaping plans conceived, developed or discarded between 1833 and 2013.

The Take me to the River exhibition, at Level 2, 1002 Hay Street, Perth, runs until 15 November. It is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm, and 9am-5pm 2-3 November as part of Open House Perth.

12:00 - Community Plant Sale - Friends of the Ground Community plant sale : On Thursday 31st and November 1st at the Taxonomic Garden - Greenhouse 5 Website | More Information
Friends of the Ground Community Plant Sale

On Thursday 31st October and Friday 1st November from 12 - 2pm

Most plants will be under $5 with plenty of herbs ,exotics and some natives. Also plants are suitable for indoor pot plants. Cash only.

Please support the Friends of the Ground. Funds are going towards renovating the Taxonomic Garden.

13:10 - EVENT - FREE Lunchtime Concert : UWA School of Music Prize Winner's Concert Website | More Information
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Carbonate Deposits in Roman Aqueducts : a Data Source for Archaeology, Palaeoclimate and Archaeoseismology Website | More Information
A public lecture by Cees Passchier, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany.

Carbonate deposits in aqueducts are a new high-resolution data source for palaeoclimate, spring hydrology and earthquake occurrence.

Ancient aqueducts are also a promising archive for archaeoseismic studies. An aqueduct channel that served the Roman city of Ephesos in western Turkey was dislocated by an earthquake that probably occurred in 178 CE, after the original channel had functioned for less than 35 years. The fault responsible for the displacement may still constitute a seismic and tsunami hazard for the Turkish west coast. These observations imply that lamination in carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts can be used for relative dating of aqueduct construction and maintenance and to obtain data on external factors that influenced the aqueducts, such as palaeoclimate and natural hazards. As many aqueducts of nearly identical channel geometry are present in different climate zones and with different source water characteristics, these data hold high promises as seasonally resolved archives of hydrology and climate, and of earthquakes.

Cost: Free, RSVP required http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/passchier

 November 2013
Friday 01
11:00 - EXHIBITION - Music Dance Landscape Image Website | More Information
Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking encountered during his travels in southern and eastern Africa.

Travelling to South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, and Uganda, he took camera, sound recorder, and notebook, to capture his impressions of music and dance in pictures, films, audio recordings, and diaries. The exhibition provides opportunities to see and hear rare musical instruments, and to watch lively dances on video.

14:00 - SYMPOSIUM - The Longevity Dividend Symposium : Health, ageing, creative expression and cultural engagement in later life. Website | More Information
The Longevity Dividend is a symposium on a variety of issues related to health and ageing, including the potential for and benefits of creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.

Presented by the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) and the UWA Cultural Precinct, it is held on Friday 1 November 2013 from 2-4:30pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA.

REGISTRATION: This event is FREE to attend. However, RSVP/Registration is essential. Register for this event directly online or contact the gallery ([email protected] / 6488 3707): http://ldsymposium-uwacal.eventbrite.com.au

MORE INFORMATION: visit the symposium for full program, and information on speakers. http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/stanhopewell/ldsymposium/_nocache

CAMPUS PARTNER: The symposium is run as part of the public program of events accompanying the current exhibition Stan Hopewell: God is Love and is made possible by the generosity of the exhibition campus partner: the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA). Visit http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/community/campus-partner/_nocache
Monday 04
9:30 - EVENT - Over 50's Swim & Gym Program : 50+ Swim and Gym More Information
The UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic along with UWA Uniswim invite you to join our launch of a gym and swim program for over 50's.

The program will include a 40min gym session working on strength, function and balance. Plus a 40min swimming session working on cardiovascular fitness and stroke technique.

The program will be catered to the abilities and skills of individual participants.

Time: Monday 9.30am - 11am [9.30 -10.10am Gym and 10.15 - 11am Swim] When: November 4th - December 16th

Cost: $126 for 7 week block

Location: School of Sport Science, Exercise & Health (Uniswim and UWA Health & Rehabilitation Clinic - Parkway Entrance #4)

PLACES ARE STRICTLY LIMITED!!! SO GET IN QUICK!!

12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Cell therapies for lung cancers and mesotheliomas Website | More Information
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Cell therapies for lung cancers and mesotheliomas" by Dr Sam Janes. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
Wednesday 06
16:00 - EVENT - A microscope-in-a-needle: New technologies to image disease : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series. Website | More Information
Optical coherence tomography is a recently developed imaging technology, capable of high resolution in vivo imaging of tissue. It is analogous to ultrasound, but uses near infrared light instead of sound waves.

It is used clinically in ophthalmology, and is rapidly gaining importance in other diseases. Our lab has developed a family of highly miniaturized imaging probes, sufficiently small that they may be encased in a medical needle and inserted into the body – a ‘microscope-in-a-needle’.

Our smallest probes have been encased within a 30-gauge needle, with an outer diameter of 310 microns. This opens the possibility of using high resolution optical imaging for many different diseases. In this talk, I will describe our work in developing these highly miniaturized needle probes, and our early results in lung imaging and breast cancer.

Biography:

After receiving his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia, A/Prof. McLaughlin worked for several years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, developing new medical imaging techniques using MRI and X-ray angiography.

He then spent several years in the medical imaging industry, working both for start-up companies, and as a Product Manager with Siemens Medical Solutions, specializing in PET and SPECT imaging.

He has been responsible for the development of several new FDA-approved medical products. In 2007, he returned to Australia, and is currently an Associate Professor with the Optical + Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, University of Western Australia, where he has focused on research into new imaging technologies using optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy for both cancer and pulmonary imaging. In 2012, he received the National Breast Cancer Foundation Patron’s Award for Innovation and Vision in Research.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - **CANCELLED** Cultural Heritage Keepers: digital technology and musical instrument repatriation Website | More Information
A public lecture by Jennifer C. Post, ethnomusicologist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UWA

**Unfortunately this event has been cancelled**
Friday 08
15:00 - PRESENTATION - Striving for 5 year Survival with Glioblastoma : Neuro-Oncology Tumour Collaborative Presentation More Information
Dr Lindy Jeffree was inspired to specialise in surgery of brain tumours by working with Prof Andrew Kaye at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Dr Charlie Teo in Sydney. Her research experience includes glioma research at the University of Sydney, an MSc in electrophysiology at the University of Montreal and a B Med Sci year in the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Currently she works full time at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where she collaborates with the multidisciplinary neuro-oncology team, and with translational scientists working on glioma and on metastatic brain tumours. Dr Jeffree is also a Scientific Advisory Committee member of the NHMRC Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology.

17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Science Cafe : Science on Trial: The L'Aquila Earthquake. Should scientists be jailed for manslaughter? More Information
In the early morning of 6 April 2009, the town of L’Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy experienced a Magnitude 6.3 earthquake. In the aftermath of the event, 309 people were killed, 1,600 were injured and thousands were made homeless. Six days before the earthquake and after several days of tremors in the region, six scientists and a government official, all members of a major risks committee, met to discuss the possibility of a major earthquake happening. All seven officials were later convicted of manslaughter. The prosecutors said the officials gave falsely reassuring statements and inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory information before the quake. The defence maintained there was no accurate way to predict the earthquake. The press called it a miscommunication of science. Join the UWA Science Communication group for an evening of discussion and debate about the case. Our panel of experts will explore the following topics:

• Associate Professor Geoff Batt, School of Earth and Environment - Can the risk and severity of an earthquake be predicted? • Professor Nancy Longnecker, Science Communication Program - How do we communicate the risks and the science? • Assistant Professor Kate Offer, Law School - What are the legal implications of the case, and could the same thing happen in Australia? This is a FREE event. Food and drinks will be available for purchase on the evening.
Sunday 10
14:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Driving Force: Food, Evolution and the Future Website | More Information
This lecture by Professor Michael Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, is a part of the 2013 ‘Celebrating Oceans Initiatives’ co-sponsored by the UWA Oceans Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, the WA Museum and the Maritime Museum.

This lecture will look at how food, particularly marine lipids, have played a determining role in the way that creatures developed on earth, and will discuss how nutrition is shaping life in the future. It points to the links between poor nutrition and modern degenerative diseases.
Tuesday 12
13:00 - Colloquium - Delusions, Positive Illusions and Jumps to Conclusions: Understanding Departures from Rational Belief More Information
Rational belief formation involves holding beliefs with the firmness that the evidence warrants. Unfortunately, humans are known to fall short of this ideal, being prone to various forms of “misbelief”. Such deviations from rational belief range from “healthy” (yet potentially destructive) forms, such as “positive illusions” about one’s prowess and prospects, to the bizarre delusions common in certain psychiatric and neurological disorders. According to the dominant psychiatric conception (e.g., the DSM), delusions are fixed beliefs that are under-responsive to relevant evidence. I will argue that whereas many cases of misbelief fit this definition (e.g., sexual overperception, positive illusions, anosognosia), delusions do not. I will present evidence that delusion-prone individuals are actually overly responsive to current evidence. Biography Ryan McKay is a senior lecturer in psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include cognitive neuropsychiatry, evolutionary psychology and behavioural economics. He was educated at UWA (B.Sc. Hons) and Macquarie University (MClinPsych, PhD), and has held research posts in Boston (Tufts University), Belfast (Queen’s University), Zürich (University of Zürich) and Oxford (University of Oxford).

19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : Life on the Eastern Goldfields in the 1890s - Exploring some traditional images and perspectives More Information
About the talk

We are familiar with the traditional, often romanticised images and stories of prospectors, diggers up and down on their luck, rushes into the wilderness, mining mates, camp life and lonely deaths in the bush. 'The rush to be rich' lured a multitude of people to the fields - travellers and observers, itinerants and settlers, builders and speculators. This period and place has been fertile ground for the proliferation of myths and legends. Some myths have passed comfortably into history. Do we see different things and things differently when we re-took at the historical evidence from the perspective of the 21st century?

This talk will explore that question, re-examining the representations of 1890s travellers, such as Albert Calvert and Walter Hodgson, Catharine Bond and May Vivienne, as well as some iconic photographic images and personal writings. It tells a (somewhat) different history of the 1890s fields.

About the Speaker

Dr Lenore Layman is a Murdoch University historian who researches widely in Western Australian history. She has recently published 110° in the Waterbag. A History of Life, Work and Leisure in Leonora, Gwalia and the Northern Goldfields; and Powering Perth. A History of the East Perth Power Station and the Electrification of Perth. She is the historian member of the team which has produced the Australian Asbestos Network website on the health disaster of asbestos use in Australia. Lenore has published numerous articles on aspects of Western Australia's industrial, labour and health history, and is currently assisting the National Party of Australia (WA) with the writing of the party's centenary history (1913-2003).

Members Free, Non-Members $5 donation

For further information contact 6488 2354 or email [email protected]

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