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This workshop aims to assist participants to:

Develop a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a supervisor in relation to the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures;

Increase awareness of a range of approaches to postgraduate (...)

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 (...)

The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. Some basic categorical data analysis will be included with the emphasis (...)

There is a gap between emissions reduction targets and timeframes which science tells us are required to deal with climate change and those which are proposed in legislation or treaties. As the International Alliance of Research Universities states, the conclusion from both the Intergovernmental (...)

Personality models provides description and predictions of humans based on the consistency of their emotional and behavioral responses, which are labeled as traits. Once a trait label is assigned, variations in responses are assumed to represent measurement error. This widely accepted view is (...)

Patrick Humbert is currently head of the The Cell Cycle and Cancer Genetics Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. His research is focused on understanding how maintenance of the tissue architecture and the polarity of cells within a tissue regulate cell number and behavior. In particular (...)

SymbioticA Tour: As part of the UWA Winter Arts Festival, SymbioticA Director Oron Catts will discuss past and present SymbioticA resident research projects. A tour around the School of Anatomy and Human Biology will also be included. This will take part during our regular Friday Seminar time: 3:30 (...)

After presenting a fiction entitled "The Story of the King and the Mathematician", composed in a form for a play, I will introduce two puzzles and their graph theoretical models. One of these two puzzles has applications in chemistry, and I will generalize it in various ways to be used (...)

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 (...)

Have you ever wanted to:

Know what Lectopia is and how to use it?

Complete a Lectopia Booking form to ensure that your lectures are recorded?

Manage your Lectopia recordings and upload additional media via the Staff tool?

Record your lectures at your (...)

Peter Visscher is head of the Queensland Statistical Genetics laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. He is a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council, honorary professor at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience, University of (...)

This workshop will introduce you to the theory behind Active Learning, model a range of Active Learning strategies, and give you some practical tips and techniques to help you develop appropriate Active Learning activities for your lectures. Studies clearly show that in ‘traditional’ lectures (...)

Studies clearly show that in ‘traditional’ lectures, students attention declines rapidly after 15 minutes. Thus, while students retain 70% of the first ten minutes of a lecture, they only retain 20% of the last ten minutes. ‘Active Learning’ aims to involve students in the learning process (...)

The Cooperative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) program, Institute of Advanced Studies, and Office of Industry and Innovation invite you to a public panel discussion of the challenges encountered in the commercial development of technologies originally developed in institutions of (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Mehdi Behzad, Sharif University, Tehran

will speak on

Several open problems in graph theory

at 2pm Friday 16th July in MLR2

(**Note the different time to usual***)

The speaker is also giving a (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Alan Sokal (New York University and University College, London)

will speak on

Some wonderful conjectures (but almost no theorems) at the boundary between analysis, combinatorics and probability

at 12 noon on Tuesday 20 (...)

Nick Gill (Bristol)

will continue his series of lectures on growth in groups and graphs

at the following times

Wednesday 21/7 at 11am

Friday 23/7 at 11am

and Tuesday 27/7 at 1pm

All seminars will be held in MLR2

I: (...)

It has become a familiar refrain that completing the sequence of the human genome promises increased capacity to diagnose and treat disease and in so doing substantially improve the quality of life for millions (if not billions) of people. The vision includes the development of high quality tests (...)

The Western Australian Government is currently preparing legislative reforms for the management of water resources. In November 2009, the Department of Water released a document entitled Discussion Paper: Water Resources Management Options, and the community is now awaiting draft legislation. A (...)

This year's Reid Oration will be given by Mr Peter Allen, Deputy Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

The challenges facing Australia have changed significantly since the Federation was created in 1901. Increasingly, the national government is using its dominant role in (...)