What's On at UWA

The resolution of the human visual system is limited and humans sample visual information from their world in discrete snapshots, by successively moving the eyes. One well known finding is that people are slow to move their eyes back to a location they have looked at just previously. This “inhibit (...)

Professor Greg Whyte is one of British sport's foremost research scientists and internationally renowned for his work on the heart of athletes and performance enhancement and has worked as consultant physiologist to a large number of Olympic and professional sports. Prior to his appointment at (...)

The Speaker: Professor Arun Dharmarajan is a Winthrop Professor and Associate Dean (South Asia Research Initiatives) and has the responsibility of teaching and research in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology. As Associate Dean for South Asia Research Initiative, Professor Dharmarajan’s (...)

A low maintenance long-term operational Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillator has been implemented at 11.2 GHz using an ultra-low-vibration cryostat and pulse-tube cryocooler. The performance of the oscillator is explained in terms of temperature and frequency stability. The phase noise and the frequency (...)

The Oppenheimer Siddur (prayer book) in the Oxford Bodleian Library stands out among extant dated and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts from all regions that have been classified as user-produced. Made in 1471 in Germany by an Ashkenazi scribe for his family, this small book is remarkable for the (...)

Depending on the place where you live, you may consider the same thing (water in a reservoir) from two different perspective. If you live along the shore of a lake, in a developed nation, you will likely be interested in understanding the lake inner dynamics. On the other hand, if you live (...)

William completed his undergraduate biomedical science degree at UWA before joining the Laing laboratory at WAIMR as an honours student, investigating the characteristics of actin (ACTA1) mutations in a cohort of Japanese nemaline myopathy patients. Staying on in the Laing laboratory for his PhD (...)

Professor Altman explores the fascinating recent debacle in global credit markets by analysing… • How the world built up the credit bubble which began to burst in June 2007? • What has happened between that date and today? • The outlook on credit markets, corporate defaults and (...)

The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about regression, ANOVA and logistic regression. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from simple linear regression and ANOVA to intermediate topics in regression and ANOVA, finishing (...)

Shallow flows are ubiquitous and are the norm rather than the exception, and may be defined as predominantly horizontal flows constrained in the vertical by the shallow nature of the receiving water domain. Flows in wide rivers, in bays, estuaries and coastal waters, in shallow lakes or in the (...)

Assistant Professor Vance Matthews obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2001 in which he identified critical genes involved in the regulation of antibody and cytokine production. He then focussed his research on developing a greater understanding of the role of gp130 ligands (...)

Intended Audience: UWA staff new to using UWA's Learning Management System (WebCT) or those who would like a refresher.

Workshop Description:

Have you ever wanted to: Communicate important study related events to your students?

Provide a unit outline and (...)

This free workshop is being run as part of an ALTC project, Thresholds in Biology, with the aim of providing a forum for discussion of undergraduate biology teaching.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for a discussion of difficult content or troublesome knowledge and (...)

Diabetes Fits sports camp aims to promote safe physical activity for individuals with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes through education and hands-on learning.

The camp, held at the School on the Crawley campus, teaches individuals with diabetes how to minimise blood sugar (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Jeroen Schillewaert (University of Canterbury, NZ)

will speak on

Infinite Veronesean Caps

at 12 noon in MLR 2 on Tuesday 13 April.

Abstract: Veronesean varieties are fundamental objects in geometry, be it (...)

The Speaker: Rachel Sherrard is a graduate from Sheffield University UK; where she completed her MB ChB in 1987 including a BSc and PhD in developmental neurobiology: She then migrated to Australia working in Brisbane for 4 years in paediatrics. She returned to research in 1993 to use information (...)

The presentation draws on my ongoing research into changing styles of performance practice as evidenced on sound recordings. First it provides a brief overview of the major issues and current state of the literature. Then it introduces methods of analysis and the kinds of problems, questions and (...)

In the southwest of Western Australia, the large scale replacement of native perennial vegetation with agriculture based on winter growing annual species has lead to a significant change in the surface albedo and roughness. This has resulted in a diurnally averaged shortwave radiative forcing of (...)

Abstract: Potential leaching of metal pollutants in soils is an important issue in environmental risk assessment. The studies investigated the influence of soil solution processes on metal mobilization, especially when plants are involved and when the amount and the composition of the irrigation (...)