What's On at UWA

This workshop will cover aspects of using 'New Media' in large classes.

PROGRAM From novelty to normalisation (M.Pegrum, UWA Graduate School of Education); Podcasting in large classes (N.Longnecker, UWA Science Communication Program); Morning tea; Platforms for 'publishing' student work ( (...)

Dr. Matt Hipsey, Research Asst. Prof. at School of Earth and Environment (SEE), will give the talk outlined below on Weds Aug 11th at 4pm.

All welcome!

ABSTRACT: Significant hydro-climatological change in South-Eastern Australia has resulted in a dramatic reduction in flow (...)

Ralph Martins’ career in Alzheimer’s disease has spanned 25 years and resulted in over 200 publications in mid to high impact journals. He established the McCusker Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease Research. In 2004, Martins was appointed to the inaugural Chair in Ageing & Alzheimers at (...)

The Speaker: Ian obtained a BSc (hons) in anatomy in 1976 from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in neuroanatomy in 1983 from the Institute of Neurology, University of London. His postdoctoral work at the Institute of Neurology, London was concerned with the target-dependence of motoneurones (...)

The shallow waters of Geographe Bay support extensive seagrass beds that contribute large amounts of wrack (detached leaves and stems) to the local beaches, predominantly during winter. Along most of the coast, the wrack that collects on the beaches does not unduly affect the people that live close- (...)

We live in a large spiral galaxy known as the Milky Way. Living inside a galaxy in some ways helps us to understand it and in other ways makes it more difficult. We have learned a lot about what our Galaxy looks like, and we have a rudimentary idea of how it was assembled from the gas and dark (...)

Water levels of lakes and rivers fluctuate naturally in response to climatic and hydrological forcing. Human over-exploitation of water resources leads to increased annual and interannual fluctuations of water levels, at times far beyond natural amplitudes. Climate change models predict increased (...)

Dr Peter Vardy will present 'The Abrahamic Religions: exploring common ground' on Friday 13 August, 5pm in the Fox Lecture Theatre, followed by Iftar (breaking of the fast).

The need to build understanding between different religious traditions is increasingly being felt in today's (...)

The opening day of Out of the Darkness coincides with UWA Open Day. Various activities around campus will occur throughout the day, including information sessions, demonstrations, workshops, faculty events and guided tours. The Gallery will present two free public tours that day; the first at 11.00a (...)

The Speaker: Dr Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald is currently Assistant Professor, at Experimental and Regenerative Neurosciences, School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, in Perth, Australia. Dr Fitzgerald worked in postdoctoral positions for five years in leading vascular biology (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Ricky Rotheram (Melbourne)

will speak on

Cores of vertex-transitive graphs

at 1 pm Tuesday 17th August in MLR2

Abstract: A homomorphism of two graphs X and Y is a map between the vertex sets V(X) and V(Y) (...)

Metropolitan Perth sits above rocks of the Perth Sedimentary Basin. These rocks have significant moderate temperature geothermal waters at economically feasible depths associated with moderate to high natural hydraulic permeability aquifers. While not quite as attractive as regions near active (...)

Every 2 months, the WA branch of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia hosts drinks, nibbles and a seminar to show case local research being conducted in the field of human genetics. In August we are delighted to present: 'Beta-thalassaemia in South Asia: the impact of population stratification (...)

2010 SHANN MEMORIAL LECTURE - Glenn Stevens has been Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia since September 2006.

Governor Stevens is Chairman of the Reserve Bank Board. He is also Chairman of the Payments System Board, Council of Financial Regulators and Financial Markets Foundation (...)

Coalbed Methane (CBM) is naturally occurring methane gas (CH4) in coal seams. Methane was long considered a major problem in underground coal mining but now CBM is recognised as a valuable resource. Australia has vast reserves of coal-bed methane (about 8.6 to 14.3 trillion m3), and has attracted (...)

The evening includes the opportunity to speak with project leaders and other students about Honour, Masters and PhD research at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Princess Margaret Hospital and the UWA School for Paediatrics and Child Health.

The Student Project Booklet (...)

Professor Pablo Moscato is Co-Director and Founder of the Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery and Information-based Medicine of The University of Newcastle, Australia. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/cibm/

He founded the Newcastle Bioinformatics (...)

An IAS public lecture by David Ritter, Commentator, Academic and Campaigner.

The question of how big Australia should become is once again in the news. Twenty million? Thirty million? Fifty million? More?

What are the implications for our cities, suburbs, social cohesion and (...)

The importance of bioturbation in mediating biogeochemical processes in the upper centimetres of oceanic sediments provides a compelling reason for wanting to quantify in situ rates of bioturbation. Previously influential methodology has relied on the recovery of tracers from incubations with known (...)