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Displaying from Saturday, July 23, 2011
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July 2011
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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 (...)
10:30 - EVENT - Wine Show by the Bay : The University Club celebrates the best of Australian Wine and Food in a Wine Fair like no other
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Celebrate the best of Australian wine and food at the Wine Show by the Bay where over 30 of the nation’s best loved estates will be represented in a wine fair like no other.
Enhance your experience and expand your knowledge with master classes by Clairault, Henschke and Thompson (...)
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Sunday 24 |
12:00 - EVENT - UWA Centenary Trust for Women Annual Lunch : An annual gala lunch held in Winthrop Hall and hosted for the last time by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson AM CitWA.
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Sue Murphy, one of the first female UWA engineering graduates and CEO of the Water Corporation will give us an insight into her time at university, her personal achievements and the challenges ahead.
The UWA Centenary Trust for Women (CTW) was established in 2002 by a group of UWA women (...)
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Monday 25 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Developing carbohydrate-based drugs for respiratory diseases
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After 25 years of research Prof Commbe has an international reputation on the structure and function of a class of carbohydrates: GlycosAminoGlycans (GAGs). The biological activities of GAGs indicated that they may have important roles in a number of diseases and in recent years Prof Coombe’s (...)
A public lecture by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
The lecture is based on Terry Smith’s new book which argues that, in recent (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
11:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - RNA rules! : The central role of RNA regulation in human development and cognition
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It appears that the genetic programming of humans and other complex organisms has been fundamentally misunderstood for the past 50 years, because of the assumption that most genetic information is transacted by proteins. The human genome contains about 20,000 conventional protein-coding genes (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - UWA Business School - CSI Public Lecture with Vanessa Meachen : Philanthropy in Australia
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Recent media attention has focused on the comparative lack of philanthropy from Australia's highest earners. Our wealthy non-givers have been described as "morally bankrupt" and displaying "utter greed and selfishness". Are Australia's high net worth really that bad? Why aren't (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
Amongst all the emotions, fear is the one with the highest impact upon human life. Safety is sought at all levels of societal organization: countries always have enemies to fear and fight; within each country, social groups differentiated by ethnicity, social class or other attributes have (...)
19:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Law Juris Doctor Information Session : Information evening for year 12 students, parents and graduates
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An information evening to learn more about the new Juris Doctor (JD) and entry pathways into Law. Faculty of Law Dean and Deputy Dean will talk about the reasons for the change and the advantages of the JD. Law graduate and 2011 Rhodes Scholar Jackie McArthur will speak about her experience (...)
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Thursday 28 |
Lecture title: The use of EEG-based neurofeedback of slow cortical potentials in the treatment of ADHD in children and adolescents
Professor Dr Florian Zepf is Head of the Department for Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry and Neurology at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent (...)
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 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Early Detection of Central Airway Cancer : LIWA is proud to present a seminar for the medical and scientific community
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Dr Lee is an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She is also a Senior Consultant at the National University Hospital.
Dr Lee has an active interest in lung cancer, pleural disease, obstructive airway disease, bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy (...)
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Tuesday 02 |
17:00 - EVENT - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Exploring the Politics of Collaboration: Bridging the Scholarly Divide in the Kyrgyz Manas Epic
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Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signaling its global importance. It sits alongside Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, or the (...)
17:30 - INFORMATION EVENING - UWA Business School - BHP Billiton Scholarships Information Evening : Information Evening
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Up to twelve Scholarships for Honours, Masters and PhD students at the UWA Business School are available each year, valued from $20,000 up to $153,000.
For information about the scholarships, join us and senior BHP Billiton representatives for an Information Evening. Networking and (...)
A free public lecture by Professor Lyndel V. Prott, Honorary Professor, University of Queensland.
Appreciation, accumulation, devastation? The love of beauty has inspired many great collections of works of art.
Source countries are today increasingly articulate about the (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
In order to achieve significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, Australia, along with the rest of the world, must dramatically cut emissions from power generation.
Renewable energy technologies offer the potential for very low emission electricity but are currently a relatively (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ECM Faculty Seminar Series : This seminar series will cover broader themes related to the Faculty
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Walking into Slavery with Open Eyes: The Descent of “Science”
16:30 - BOOK LAUNCH - My Men from the Archives - Book Launch : WA Book Launch of "Ali Abdul v The King" by Hanifa Deen
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You are cordially invited to the WA Book Launch of "Ali Abdul v The King" by an award-winning author Hanifa Deen. The details for the event are as follows:
Date: Wed, 3rd August 2011
Time: 4.30-5.30pm
Venue: Grevillea Room, UWA Extension, UWA Claremont Campus (corner of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Climate Change and Energy Security Policies: Are they really two sides of the same coin?
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The 2011 Reid Oration will be presented by Peter Hartley, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University.
Professor Hartley is a 2011 Professor-at-Large at the Institute of (...)
Music for Cello and Piano with Guest Artists Niall Brown, cello and Isabelle Trub, piano
Following more than ten years of concerts, it has become clear that cellist Niall Brown and pianist Isabelle Trub have created something quite special in chamber music that the press have unanimously (...)
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