What's On at UWA

As part of Teaching and Learning Month 2010, the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Support Office are pleased to host the second Teaching and Learning Research Colloquium to provide an opportunity for UWA staff to (...)

SEMINAR TITLE: "Soil properties and crop performance in salinised soils following deep drainage in the WA wheatbelt"

ABSTRACT: Deep drains are intended to lower watertables in salinised land, and to trigger changes in soil conditions that lead to increased plant productivity (...)

Nigel Laing was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Graduated PhD from Edinburgh University in 1979, did one post-doc year in Oslo in 1980, emigrated to Western Australia in 1981. From 1976 to 1987 he was a neuroembryologist working on motor neuron and muscle development. In 1987-1988 he retrained in (...)

The objective of this talk will be to provide a brief introduction to the area of computer vision (with an emphasis on 3D) and some of the related work that has been done in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia. The objective is to explore (...)

"Romanesque to Contemporary: The production of stained glass windows"

Michael Wood and Heather Deighan have been facilitating retreats with small groups of academic staff at UWA since 2008. These groups continue to meet on a regular basis, deepening trust between members and building inner resources to sustain and empower the journeys of teaching and researching. The (...)

A lunch time conversation for researchers and teachers about the retreats available at the University of Western Australia.

Michael Wood and Heather Deighan facilitate retreats with small groups of academic staff at UWA. Since 2008 these groups continue to meet on a regular basis (...)

Students entering UWA through the Mature Age Access Program are a diverse group who have had limited or no previous experience of tertiary education. Student Services was funded by the LTPF to provide a comprehensive program of academic skills and pastoral care in 2010 for MAP students.

(...)

Network models are widely used to represent relational information among interacting units and the implications of these relations. In studies of social networks recent emphasis has been placed on random graph models where the nodes usually represent individual social actors and the edges (...)

After the overwhelming success of the inaugural Business School Quiz Night in 2009, staff and students are once again invited to put their knowledge of approaches to teaching, student learning, general knowledge and skills of negotiation to the test.

Working in small teams, participants (...)

A lunch time conversation for researchers and teachers about the retreats available at the University of Western Australia.

Michael Wood and Heather Deighan facilitate retreats with small groups of academic staff at UWA. Since 2008 these groups continue to meet on a regular basis (...)

Do you want to be understood when you speak with your colleagues or students?

Speaking isn’t just about the making the right sounds, there are other factors involved. For example, where does the stress go when it's a noun or verb? What about in a sentence? Why does 'I see!' sound (...)

Postgraduates from around the world will talk about their experiences of teaching in their home countries and at UWA. Afternoon tea will follow the presentations.

All welcome

space-matter-colour concentrates on Brian Blanchflower’s intense, monochromatic paintings of the last decade, but also includes a broad selection, very largely from the artist’s collection, of works going back as far as 1970. The recent works are set in context, and his conjoining of colour (...)

To celebrate the opening of Brian Blanchflower's exhibition, Michele Theunissen and Michael Iwanoff will present a special guided tour. Michele and Michael are both practicing artists who currently teach painting in the Art Department at Curtin University of Technology. In this talk they will draw (...)

Blackboard Inc is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Blackboard Learn 9.1 is its new web-based teaching and learning platform.

Join Chris Eske, Strategic Account Executive and Ben Carmichael, Solutions Engineer from (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Alice Devillers (UWA)

will speak on

Symmetry properties of subdivision graphs, and serendipity

at 12 noon in MLR2 on Tuesday 18 May

Abstract: (Joint work with Ashraf Daneshkhah and Cheryl E. Praeger)

T (...)

Science tells us that human induced climate change is occurring and steps need to be taken to reduce global greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The imperative for doing so is predicated on the need to avoid the long-term consequences of global temperature rises. However, actions designed to mitigate (...)

The Speaker: Professor Christobel Saunders is responsible for conducting a large number of clinical research projects in cancer, and is one of the prime teachers of surgery to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the UWA. Her demonstrated commitment to teaching also extends to educating non-me (...)

The city street of nineteenth-century Britain were noisy, and street musicians were frequently accused of being major contributors to this noise. If this was the case, what part did the barrel piano makers of Bristol have in this business of noise? The paper will examine the role of, particularly (...)