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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 (...)

Borut obtained his Doctorate in 2003 from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany, having investigated the role of intracellular transforming growth factor beta family signalling in epithelial development. He then dedicated himself to the study of mouse models of human disease and (...)

John Stanton is Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and Julie Dowling is a West Australian indigenous artist. The two share a strong interest in the history of ethnographic photography in Australia, and together they will reflect on that history in relation to Maynard’s photographic (...)

We will discuss fascinating connections between discrete differential geometry, theory of integrable quantum systems, Yang-Baxter equation and quantum groups.

We will consider geometric consistency relations between angles on 3-dimensional circular quadrilateral lattices -- lattices (...)

From the 'caddis man' to greenhouse gases: on the natural history of fresh waters.

How healthy are freshwater ecosystems? Find out how clever caddis are on the case with Professor Alan Hildrew School of Biological Sciences, University of London. Thursday 15 April, 5.30pm at UWA (...)

Have text books and journals taken over your bedside table?

Then take back the power of the written word - join the Science Communication Book Club and pick up a book guilt-free!

The feature book for our next meeting is Manthropology by Peter McAllister.

Drawing (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Cheryl Praeger

will speak on

Serendipity, involutions and regular semisimple matrices

at 12noon in MLR2 on Tuesday April 20.

Abstract: (joint work with Akos Seress)

Key to studying finite simple (...)

I will summarize the recent advances in (i) precision noise measurements, (ii) low-phase noise oscillators and (iii) extraction of spectrally pure microwave signals from optical sources. The progress achieved in those fields over the past 10 years was largely associated with the development of (...)

Languages as a subject of study have a long and chequered history in education, especially in English language societies. The responses to questions such as who could or should study a foreign language, which languages should be studied and how languages should be learnt have been varied and (...)

Tropical lakes have typically received far less attention in the literature relative to lakes in other regions. Marina Reservoir is a newly established freshwater system in the heart of the central business district of Singapore. Receiving water from approximately one-sixth of the island, the (...)

Dr Darius Lane obtained his Doctorate in Biochemistry from Monash University in Melbourne in 2008, where he investigated the role of ascorbate in stimulating cellular iron uptake, and the contribution of ascorbate-driven transplasma membrane electron transfer reactions to this process. This work (...)

Apicoplasts are indispensable but their exact function remains uncertain. To understand more about the apicoplast we assembled a predicted organelle proteome.

Hannah Rachel Bell's 35 years' friendship with the Ngarinyin, Worora and Wunambal people of the remote Kimberley gives her an insider's view of rock images (art) and the extraordinary embedded knowledge of modern science evident in the caves and shelters of the region. Participants will be taken (...)

NOTIFICATION THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE VOLCANO

A key process implicated in the onset and maintenance of depression and anxiety is repetitive thought, whether in the form of ruminative thoughts about the self, about mood, past losses and about current problems, or in the form of worry about future threats. Importantly, there is evidence that (...)

UWA Student Exchange Fair Tuesday 27th April GUILD VILLAGE COURTYARD 11.45AM - 2.00PM

Get all of the info you need to know about going on exchange… plus the chance to meet UWA's International Partners, UWA students who have been on exchange and International Exchange Students (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Simon Guest (UWA) will speak on

Proportions of elements of certain orders in classical groups

at 12 noon Tuesday 27 April in MLR2

Abstract: (joint work with Cheryl, and Tomasz Popiel)

Let G be a finite group (...)

Speaker: David Khang is a Vancouver-based artist whose art practice is informed by educational meanderings. He received his BSc (Honours in Physiology & Psychology, 1987) and DDS (1991), both from the University of Toronto, studied theology (M Div) at the Vancouver School of Theology, before (...)