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September 2013
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Sunday 01 |
9:00 - CLOSING DATE FOR 2014 - The UWA Science Experience : Closing date for current Year 9 and 10 students applications for January 2014
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Applications CLOSE 30th November for the Science Experience 2014. Current year 9 and 10 students apply on-line at the Science Experience website. Late applications will be accepted if a place is available. To check whether a program is fully booked at any time go to www.scienceexperience.com.au/when (...)
13:00 - EVENT - SPICE PD, Regional Visits and Travelling Scientist : 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
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SPICE Events are designed to expose high school science teachers to exciting new science by increasing interaction between teachers and researchers at UWA. They provide the opportunity for teachers to engage in current research and learn new ideas for the classroom, and usually contain a range of (...)
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Thursday 05 |
12:00 - TALK - Election Information Talk : Brief electoral summaries near the Oak Lawn.
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Two voicings on climate policy and science followed by a Q&A.
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Sunday 15 |
An all strings extravaganza following the instruments from the early days of Bach and Vivaldi to the recent times of Hindemith and the gypsy music of Ravel.
The concert will feature UWAs finest young string players including Alexandra Isted, Elizabeth Moss, Ellie Walker and Verity (...)
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Wednesday 18 |
18:00 - SCREENING - UPS Screening: Carl Sagan's Cosmos : Our second FREE documentary screening of the semester
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In our third screening for the semester, the University Physics Society showcases the famous documentary Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
The event is free as always and open to all. Cheap drinks and snacks can be bought at the door.
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Thursday 26 |
The School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia, with generous support from Google, is holding a CS4HS workshop in September 26-27 at UWA. The workshop is free and aimed at helping K-12 teachers (both pre- and in- service teachers) and educators learn (...)
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October 2013
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Tuesday 01 |
Over the last twenty years tens of thousands of Australian high school and primary students have participated in this hands-on science program. Each student experiences the excitement of competition and, almost without knowing it, fills his or her mind with knowledge.
The competitive (...)
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Monday 07 |
18:00 - EVENT - GM technology - the Future in Agriculture : Find out how future GM technology is set to revolutionize grain growing
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Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA will host a free forum on genetically modified technology and its future in agriculture.
The public forum is an opportunity for city-based consumers and decision-makers to further their understanding of GM technology.
It will be (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
18:00 - SCREENING - UPS Screening: The Secret Life of Chaos (Jim Al-Khalili) : Our third FREE documentary screening of the semester
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In our third screening for the semester, the University Physics Society presents The Secret Life of Chaos, from the presenter who also presented the documentary Atom which we screened before.
The event is free as always and open to all. Cheap drinks and snacks can be bought at the door.
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Lipid Membranes of the Past and Future : Public talk with visiting Artist/Researcher Juan M. Castro (Waseda University, Tokyo)
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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 (...)
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November 2013
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Friday 01 |
9:00 - EVENT - SPICE PD, Regional Visits and Travelling Scientist : 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
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SPICE Events are designed to expose high school science teachers to exciting new science by increasing interaction between teachers and researchers at UWA. They provide the opportunity for teachers to engage in current research and learn new ideas for the classroom, and usually contain a range of (...)
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Friday 29 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Jill Scott Artists Talk: AURALROOTS : Public lecture with current SymbioticA resident
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AURALROOTS is a quasi-real interactive sculpture inspired by the behaviour of the outer hair cells and inner hair cells and auditory nerves of the cochlea. It combines tactile and augmented technologies with the strategies of scale to allow the viewer to hear biological and traditional stories (...)
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December 2013
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Sunday 01 |
9:00 - EVENT - SPICE PD, Regional Visits and Travelling Scientist : 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
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SPICE Events are designed to expose high school science teachers to exciting new science by increasing interaction between teachers and researchers at UWA. They provide the opportunity for teachers to engage in current research and learn new ideas for the classroom, and usually contain a range of (...)
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January 2014
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Tuesday 21 |
16:00 - EVENT - Confucius Forum : Everything about Confucius and China
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Speakers:
1) Professor Li Zhongshang, Minister-Counsellor for Education, Embassy of P.R China in Australia
Title: Chinese Economy and the Chinese Dream
2) Dr Liu Jingyuan, Senior Advisor, Shandong Association
Title: Did the Chinese Discover Australia?
3) Professor (...)
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February 2014
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Friday 14 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Applications of iPS Cells in Science and Art : Public talk with Dr Michael Edel
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Dr. Michael Edel is an Australian with European nationality and is currently a tenure track Group Leader funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain. He completed his Bachelor of Science with honors in Anatomy and Human Biology and Physiology, his Post-Graduate Diploma in Education and (...)
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Friday 28 |
15:45 - FREE LECTURE - Free Lecture: Reaching new heights in astronomy: The European Southern Observatory : In this lecture, Professor Tim de Zeeuw, Director General of the ESO, will describe ESO’s current suite of programs, the telescopes that make the discoveries possible and what’s on the horizon for one of the world’s premier astronomical institutions.
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world’s most productive astronomical observatory.
ESO telescopes have made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries of recent times, including the (...)
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March 2014
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Friday 07 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Rights of Rock Art: Human Entanglements with the Lives of Artefacts : Public Talk with Sven Ouzman
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Rock art is one of Archaeology’s most varied, visible and theoretically-informed artefacts. But this ‘artefact’ (Latin: arte + factum ~ ‘thing made by [human] skill’) is not simply brought into the world by human agency. Rather, rock art is both constitutive of human-ness and leads its (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
A lecture by Professor Ullrich Steiner, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Australian Academy of Science 2014 Selby Fellow.
Biological organisms have rather limited resources they can use to build the materials they are made of. Given these limitations, the range of (...)
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April 2014
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Friday 11 |
15:00 - EVENT - Evolution of Human Communities: A Primatologist�s Perspective : Public talk with Cyril Grueter
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One of the universal features of human sociality is the fact that our social networks are highly integrated: human societies exhibit several nested social layers including families, bands and communities. Several factors have been identified as creating disincentives for hostile intergroup (...)
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Saturday 26 |
From the Royal Institution of Australia and BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand
Join us on this amazing journey through space and time as comedian Rob Lloyd, and his crew of scientists, explore the scientific mysteries of Doctor Who.
Featuring original scenes from the (...)
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