What's On at UWA

This symposium is open to all clinical and academic researchers and will be an opportunity to hear from some of the world’s experts in Melanoma clinical and academic research. With the 7th Annual International Melanoma Congress being held in Sydney this year, we have been fortunate to lure (...)

The Seminar: To date, a number of potentially clinically relevant cellular transplantation approaches have been used in animal models of incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI), with varying degrees of success and at least some functional improvements. The research conducted in the Eileen Bond Spinal (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Brendan Douglas (UWA Physics)

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Automorphism properties of Adinkra graphs

at 1pm on Tuesday 9th of November in MLR2.

Abstract: Adinkras are a class of highly symmetric graphs arising from studies (...)

MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Professor Yuying Li, University of Waterloo

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Flash Crash, Market Impact, and Optimal Execution

at 3pm, 9 November 2010 in Engineering Lecture Theatre G11 – ENGG11 . Abstract:

The U.S. market Flash Crash (...)

Ross Bathgate is the leader of the Neuropeptides division at the Florey Neuroscience Institutes in Melbourne. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellow and an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the (...)

Our Generation is a powerfully provocative film that clearly outlines the undeniably devastating effects of the NT intervention, as told by the Galiwin’ku people in the remote far north east Arnhem Land, NT.

It looks at Australia’s ongoing policies of paternalism and assimilation (...)

SKMRC - Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Research Centre

If you are concerned about melanoma this is a valuable opportunity to hear a talk by Professor John Thompson, a world leader in the subject and the Director of the Melanoma Institute of Australia, one of the world’s largest melanoma (...)

Fossil eggshell has widely been regarded as being 'devoid' of DNA, however Charlotte Oskam from the Ancient DNA Laboratory at Murdoch University, with the help of microscopy techniques at CMCA, has isolated fossil avian DNA from eggshells. Charlotte will discuss insights into extinction processes (...)

Recent studies have shown that coral reefs rely heavily on the delivery of offshore particulate matter to sustain their high productivity. Off North West Australia, the Leeuwin Current, an anomalous eastern boundary current flows adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, Australia’s longest fringing reef. Using (...)

This talk will:

•Examine the development of China’s economy since the Cultural Revolution, and look at where environmental / green issues sit amongst other priorities, and what is likely to happen in future. •Consider China’s needs and internal expertise, identifying gaps and (...)

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in perhaps the swiftest and largest response by the oceanographic community in history to a single incident. An ocean observing system was created on the fly from many disparate parts. Happenstance and my research history gave me a (...)

Accurate perception of others' eye gaze direction is central to social interaction. Gaze signals a person's focus of attention, provides information about the person's cognitive and emotional state, and is used to establish joint attention or exercise social control. These aspects of gaze (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Sukru Yalcinkaya (UWA)

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Generation of classical groups by good elements

at 1pm on Tuesday 16th of November in MLR2

Abstract: Let G be a classical group and V be the underlying vector space of (...)

Following the enormous advances in the understanding of health and disease that marked the closing decades of the 20th century and continue unabated today, our capacity to deal with scientific (and social) complexity may determine the future of the medical sciences and, perhaps, our species through (...)

In our laboratory we use quantitative shotgun proteomics to examine the biochemical basis of environmental stress in a variety of biological systems. These include: wide ranging temperature stress in rice cell cultures; cold stress in rice varieties of differing thermotolerance; and drought stress (...)

Historically water resource management has been concerned with water supply, sometimes waste water disposal and in some instances with flood control; in brief the domain of the civil and sanitary engineer. Then in the 1960's, water resource managers and planners had to include the concept of "e (...)

Dr Kaylene Simpson is Head of the Functional Genomics Facility at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The group encompasses the Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics (VCFG) which enables whole genome screening using a short hairpin RNA interference (shRNA) approach or a high throughput small (...)

Presented by Dr Jane Hawkes, University of York. Dr Hawkes is visiting UWA to attend the Australian Early Medieval Association Conference, "Courage and Cowardice". http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/histart/hawkes.html

This symposium will explore the subject of courage and cowardice in the early medieval world, c.300-1100, across a range of disciplines.

Shortage in rainfall and declining groundwater levels have initiated the search for new water management strategies to secure our water future. Among various options, managed aquifer recharge (MAR) has emerged as a promising opportunity that could provide up to 20 per cent of Perth’s future water (...)