What's On at UWA

In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for facilitating discussion and running engaging, interactive classes. The workshop is aimed at those of you who are new to tutoring or looking to develop your teaching skills.

In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for facilitating discussion and running engaging, interactive classes. The workshop is aimed at those of you who are new to tutoring or looking to develop your teaching skills.

Intended Outcomes: At the conclusion of the workshop (...)

Ecstasy is an illicit recreational drug that has been linked to impaired memory function. A meta-analysis showed that ecstasy consumption impaired short-term and working memory for both verbal and visuo-spatial material, both in comparison to drug-naïve controls and poly-drug controls. The (...)

Fusion energy research is now poised to advance rapidly due to a large international investment ($18 billion) in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. ITER, with a power gain of over five, will explore the uncharted physics of burning plasmas, in which the energy liberated from the (...)

A more sustainable energy future is within our reach but the costs of deployment of energy supply technologies in general is a key barrier for rapid deployment, preventing market penetration and uptake. An analysis in terms of primary market parameters such as demand, cost functions and profit (...)

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, once the world’s largest underground Church, came from out of the catacombs. Viciously persecuted for a period of nearly half a century, one of the first initiatives of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, was to make the near (...)

The workshop helps you to understand how to increase your effectiveness and outcomes in the following key areas:

* how you deal with your supervisor * how you structure your study time * your attitude (or lack thereof!) in relation to your research * dealing with writer’ (...)

The Curtin Water Quality Research Centre (CWQRC) is a collaborative research alliance between Curtin University and Water Corporation, designed to focus on Western Australia's needs in water quality and treatment. The Centre fosters innovative research and training and advancement of knowledge and (...)

Soil and Water Seminar to be given by Dr. Henning Prommer - All welcome!

TITLE: "Incorporating isotope fractionation processes into reactive transport models: From lab to field-scale"

ABSTRACT: Quantification of natural attenuation processes at contaminated field (...)

Introduction by His Excellency Dr Daniel Woker, Ambassador of Switzerland to Australia. "An update on recent major developments in Australian-Swiss Relations and in particular on SAAN, Swiss Australian Academic Network"

"The Matter of Makira: Conquest, 'Cargo' Talk, and the gendering of Peoples in Medieval Europe and Neo-colonial Melanesia".

We are pleased to provide advanced notice to all postgraduate students about the Post Graduate Forum sponsored by the Fogarty Foundation.

The Forum will be held in the Graduate School of Education at UWA on Friday afternoon 19th November 2010. There will be a call for abstracts in (...)

12 noon for light lunch. Presentation 12.30 - 1.30pm. Register at [email protected]

The Postgradaute Teaching Internship Scheme is a competitive scheme which encourages promising doctoral students to develop teaching skills in their fields. The students undertake a programme of professional development activities whilst undertaking teaching in their discipline. The selection (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Hassan Alavi (UWA)

will speak on

Triple factorisations: geometric approach

at 1pm Tuesday 3rd of August in MLR2

Abstract:

Triple factorisations G = ABA, for proper subgroups A and B of a group G, are (...)

Now cluster computing has become the dominating and cost efficient supercomputing style. Based on my ten years research and experience in the high performance computing field, I will introduce two practical parallel algorithms we have designed for two practical computational science and engineering (...)

At the conclusion of a report on a patent litigation involving the drug Viagra, The Economist quoted one of the attorneys involved as saying, “Forget horse racing, patent litigation is the true sport of kings.” Indeed, patent cases involving drugs provide a meeting ground for issues involving (...)

The biodiversity of the deep seas of the southwest of Western Australia has not been previously studied. At the end of 2005 scientists teamed up for the ‘Voyage of Discovery’ to sample the biota at depths of 100 to 1100 m from 118 stations at 19 sites between Barrow Island and Bald Island. This (...)

Sarah completed a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Biomedical Science and Molecular Biology with Honours (1A) at Murdoch University in 2004. Sarah began her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2005, researching the possible mechanisms of disease associated with mutations of the (...)