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May 2011
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Wednesday 11 |
18:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - THE VALUE OF EDUCATION - Part 2 : This is the second seminar in a two-part seminar series
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Intelligence is acquired knowledge of a particular subject or subjects. But being knowledgeable in no way renders your intellect clear to think, reason and decide on matters pertaining to life. A person could be highly intelligent, yet impractical in day to day living. For example, a scientist may (...)
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Friday 27 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar with Cat Hope : DECIBEL: Walking the artistic collaborations tightrope between academy and industry
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Cat Hope is the artistic director of Decibel, a new music ensemble based in Perth, Western Australia devoted to performing works that explore the nexus of acoustic and electronic instruments. Pioneering unique electronic score formats and giving electronic music instruments a voice in the acoustic (...)
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June 2011
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Wednesday 01 |
14:00 - EVENT - SPICE- Travelling Scientist : Student talks from young UWA scientists
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The Travelling Scientist accompanies the SPICE team when they visit regional schools. The Travelling Scientist, a young PhD student, talks to students about their journey in science.
The SPICE team visits schools or district offices and offers professional development to secondary science teachers.
Biological Science, Physical Science and Earth & Environmental Science workshops at UWA are offered to secondary science teachers.
One-day teacher professional development - Bunbury
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Presentation day - Perth
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Friday 03 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Friday Seminar with Paul Thomas : Reflections on Matter
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In this talk Paul Thomas will discuss his current processes and references looking at silver and the refraction of light. The talk will look at art historical connections with Silver which was the selected substrate researched at a nano level for structural and metaphorical reasons exploring its (...)
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Friday 17 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Vision Underwater: Beauty in The Eye of The Beholder : SymbioticA Friday seminar
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At least 540 million years ago, the first vertebrates appeared and survived in shallow, marine water bathed by sunlight with a spectral composition similar to the environmental conditions of the present day. Over this time, fishes have radiated into the largest vertebrate taxa and now occupy an (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
WA Finals of the National Brain Bee will be held at UWA
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July 2011
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Friday 01 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Science isn't about why, it's about why the hell not! : SymbioticA Friday seminar with Perth Artifactory members
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The Artifactory is Perth's manifestation of the world-wide phenomenon of hackerspaces; free-form communities of "Makers" that band together to build their own robotic CNC tools, explore cutting edge DIY fabrication such as 3D printing, share electronics and crafting skills, and generally (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
A free public lecture by Dr Lanru Jing, Senior Researcher, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The creation of huge quantities of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste is the most formidable problem facing the nuclear power industry today. Achieving safe storage of (...)
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Friday 15 |
What is “value”? What is “goodness” and “badness”? What does our only scientific theory of life have to say?
The mathematical logic of game theory shows that cooperation can evolve, as does the adaptationist logic of biology. Both kinds of logic rely on the assumption of (...)
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Monday 18 |
11:15 - EVENT - Year 9 - 11 Indigenous Science, Engineering and Health Camp : A School of Indigenous Studies Camp for High School Students in Years 9 to 11
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Friday 22 |
14:00 - EVENT - Three Minute Thesis Finals : A competition to find the most engaging 3 minute presentation on a research topic
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The 10 most engaging 3 Minute Thesis presenters selected at the UWA semi-finals on 21st July, will compete for prizes and the opportunity to represent UWA at the Australia-New Zealand 3MT competition in September. Please come along to support the presenters and vote for your "People's Choice&qu (...)
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Saturday 23 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - 11th Australian Mars Exploration Conference : Australian, Russian and NASA space explorers present the latest in planetary exploration.
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Presentations over this two-day event will cover comparisons of environments for the dawn of life on Earth and comparing with the possibility of life on the red Planet, Mars.
Written submissions from teachers, scientists, engineers, social theorists, managers, writers and artists are (...)
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Thursday 28 |
A public lecture by by Joel Bernstein, Professor of Chemistry, NYU Abu Dhabi and Ben Gurion University of the Negev and 2011 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
This talk will examine the developments leading to chemical microscopist Walter McCrone’s investigations (...)
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August 2011
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Monday 01 |
9:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - De Laeter Youth Lecture : Exact date to be confirmed
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The De Laeter Youth Lecture is organized annually by the WA Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics. It is named in honour of the late Emeritus Professor John De Laeter. Not only was Professor De Laeter one of Western Australia's most noted scientists, but he also had an enormous impact on (...)
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