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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)

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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 (...)

An IAS public lecture by Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger AM FAA, Director of the Centre for Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation at UWA and 2009 WA Scientist of the Year.

As the vital role of technology in modern society increases, the mathematical sciences are becoming (...)

The recently released Parliamentary Inquiry Report “Farming the Future” suggests the need to support farmers to adapt to the impact of climate change through innovation, carbon sequestration and other strategies to increase productivity of food and fibre. They have stressed the (...)

Gerard Hoyne joined the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2009 and was appointed the Associate Dean of Health Sciences. Gerard completed his BSc and PhD at The University of Western Australia and has worked extensively in academic research with stints at Imperial college, London and the (...)

The Caribbean is one of the World's biodiversity hotspots, home to thousands of miles of rich coastal habitats, providing valuable ecosystems services that contribute significantly to the region's human well-being. These ecosystems are highly vulnerable, subject to the impacts of unsustainable (...)

Statistical methods for analysing spatial data are important in many areas of science . There are many kinds of spatial data; in this project we are concerned with spatial patterns of points observed in a study region that covers all or part of the surface of a sphere. The points could represent (...)

Extractive industries were extremely important to the early Swan River Colony. Yet it was not until 60 years after settlement that a viable export timber industry was established. An archaeological investigation of the Canning Timber Concession to the east of Perth demonstrates how redundant and (...)

A screening of the award winning film Maati Maay (A Grave-keeper’s Tale) followed by a conversation with the producer, writer and director, Chitra Palekar

Maati Maay is based on a short story by Mahasweta Devi and tells the story of a beautiful young mother, trapped between her (...)

Brian Blanchflower’s paintings point to spaces outside the normal limits of vision—in their allusions to cosmology and unseen territories; their bypassing of much contemporary art discourse; and in concentrating on intense visual engagement between the viewer and the work. They are multi-layered (...)

.. coupled with dissemination of bee pathogens, jeopardizes function of natural ecosystems, reduces crop yields & causes economic loss. Novel bee pathogens will eventually reach Australia; there is an urgent need to preserve existing genetic diversity & use this diversity to breed resistant (...)

The annual Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture is a partnership arrangement between the Australian Association of Social Workers, The University of Western Australia and Department for Communities - Women’s Interests, Western Australia.

The Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture is held annually to (...)

Groups and Combinatoric Seminar

Michael Giudici (UWA)

will speak on

Point regular automorphism groups of generalised quadrangles

at 12 noon on Tuesday 25 May in MLR2

Abstract: (joint work with John Bamberg) Studying regular automorphism (...)

Australia’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions at a rate of around 26 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per year are highest among all industrialized nations. Compared to 1990 levels, greenhouse gas emissions have even increased steeply by 29 per cent. German greenhouse gas emissions, by (...)

The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) has awarded a significant grant under its Priority Projects scheme to an interdisciplinary team and reference group, led by Dr. Bronwen Ackermann (Univ. of Sydney) and Dr. Suzanne Wijsman (UWA) to design and develop a strategy to address this (...)

The 2010 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture will be given by Winthrop Professor Carmen Lawrence, Director, Centre for the Study of Social Change, School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia.

Scientific evidence indicates that climate change is the result of rising levels of (...)

In the late 1960s the WA Government was advised that there was no evidence that agricultural developments in the southwest induced increasing soil and stream salinity. To produce such evidence, the Australian Water Resources Council provided basic funding for instrumentation of 5 small catchments (...)