What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Capitalism is not monolithic. States' historical trajectories of development mean that the institutional basis for capitalist relations of production varies between them. The Varieties of Capitalism approach suggests that this variation is systematic, so that capitalist states fall within a (...)

The seminar will provide attendees with tips and advice on setting up a publication strategy to increase publication output of your research activities, ways to improve the quality of your paper(s), leading them through to publication success and answers on your individual questions regarding (...)

In this lecture, Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will discuss her book Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury 2010, co-authored by Erik M. Conway).

In Merchants of Doubt, Oreskes and Conway roll back the rug on the dark corner (...)

It is well established that children with autism often show outstanding visual search skills. To date, however, no study has tested whether these skills, usually assessed on a table-top or computer, translate to more true-to-life settings. One prominent account of autism, Baron-Cohen’s “systemiz (...)

Professor Michael A. Huston is an Adjunct Professor at the UWA School of Earth & Environment. He has been an IAS Professor-at-Large in 2008 and 2009, and this is his third visit in this capacity at UWA.

Professor Hustons research is focused on understanding the causes of observed (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

John Bamberg (UWA)

will speak on

Perp-systems of Projective Spaces

at 1pm on Tuesday 23 November in MLR2.

Abstract: Perp-systems were introduced by De Clerck, Delanote, Hamilton, and Mathon to construct new (...)

Carbon gives life to soil. It acts to sustain the soil functioning which enables soil to provide the ecosystem services which are essential for human well-being. Beyond this role there is growing interest in soil carbon because of its ability to sequester, or emit carbon, and the impact of these (...)

Some people are rich and others are poor. Some countries are rich and others are poor. Explaining the unequal global distribution of economic wealth has been a major goal of economists since the eighteenth century or earlier, yet there is still no generally accepted explanation. Are most of the (...)

Carbon and water are critical natural capital stocks. Climate-change concerns are focussing public attention on them through the development of footprinting protocols to alert consumers of the emissions of carbon and the consumption of water in the production systems of products they eat and wear (...)

Dr. Des R. Richardson (BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc, UWA) is Professor of Cancer Cell Biology at the University of Sydney and is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship. He has published over 240 articles, books and patents and is currently on the Editorial Boards of 13 international journals including (...)

Dr Jared Van Duinen is Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University. His research focuses on Puritans in the earlier decades of the seventeenth century, in particular the involvement of moderate Puritans as a coherent faction in the long-term (...)

Autism is a heterogeneous disorder defined purely in terms of observable behaviour. Yet the overwhelming majority of studies of cognition in autism are concerned only with group averages, determining whether or not there is a statistically significant difference between autistic and non-autistic (...)

School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, in collaboration with Health Information Research Unit, School of Medicine, Swansea University, Wales is proud to present this "Information Governance and Data Linkage" workshop.

This is an intensive two-day (...)

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 (...)

R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. This course will cover how the basics of R commands and how to use R for statistical analysis and graphical presentation. An understanding of basic statistics is assumed.

Alan Edwards, Professor of English at UWA and a key figure in the Tom Collins Bequest acquisitions, suggested in the early 1950s that 'it would be a very good idea if this University had a really good contemporary Australian painting. Then people would get off the boat to have a look at it when (...)

Optical, microwave and RF Interferometers have proved to be extremely powerful tools for advanced amplitude and phase measurements. They have been used in multiple state-of-the-art physics experiments, in metrology, in gravitational wave detectors and gravity gradiometers. I will discuss the (...)

A SymbioticA Art and Science symposium exploring biodiversity and art with speakers from the sciences, humanities and arts from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 November 2010 in Perth and Lake Clifton, Mandurah.

The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete (...)