What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Dr Sylvie Robine’s team investigates the basic mechanisms that regulate cell migration and invasion both in cell cultures and in vivo using mouse models and cancer cell lines. Many pathways have been found to be deregulated in colorectal pathogenesis such as Wnt, Ras, p3 and Notch. They develop (...)

In 2009, Dr Stevens was seconded to the Department of Corrective Services by the Director General of Health to undertake a review of the Prison Health Service. This Service sits within the DCS and provides clinical care to a population of around 5,000 prisoners located in 15 adult prisons and two (...)

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?

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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Wei Jin (UWA)

will speak on

On distance, geodesic and arc transitivity of graphs

at 1pm in MLR 2 on Tuesday 30th of November

Abstract:

We compare three transitive properties of finite graphs. An s-arc (...)

Presentation 1: Ultrasound in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Biorefinery and Biofuel As concerns increase over climate change and the limitations of the global supply of oil and coal there is a move towards renewable fuel and chemical sources. Currently ethanol is being fermented (...)

The largest mitochondrial genomes are found in land plants but most of the mtDNA does not specify functional genes. In addition, extensive mtDNA organisational variation can be found within a single plant species. Our laboratory has compared the sequence, organisation and gene content of (...)

Professor Noppen’s leadership and strategic vision for the University Hospital in Brussels and his interest in the provision of quality public healthcare will bring a European perspective on these aspects for Australian healthcare providers and underpins his lecture.

This lecture is (...)

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 (...)

Each mathematics teaching context is unique, but whenever the conversation turns to undergraduate education, common themes emerge: minimum standards, engagement, service teaching, the role of small group teaching, and graduate capabilities. The talk title is borrowed from a magazine column called � (...)

Abstract: The change-point problem arises in wide variety of fields, including biomedical signal processing, speech and image processing, seismology, industry (e.g., fault detection) and financial mathematics. Multiple change-point models are also important in many biological applications and (...)

For many years it was thought that the auditory system reached maturity in the first few years of life. Although auditory detection and discrimination are not always adult-like in children, this seemed attributable to problems in dealing with task demands, rather than genuine immaturity. More (...)

SBGN is an ongoing international collaboration to provide standard graphical/visual representations of biochemical and cellular processes in an unambiguous way. SBGN has three types notation: process description, entity relationship, and activity flow. The standard defines a comprehensive set of (...)

Listed in catalogues of aristocratic, burgher and parish libraries, translated by Martin Opitz and Ben Jonson, and quoted by Cardinal Richelieu and Thomas Hobbes, the Latin novel Argenis by John Barclay ranked among the bestselling books in 17th–18th century Europe. Though officially marketed as (...)

This year's United Nations Association of Australia (WA) Human Rights Day Address will be given by The Honourable Robert Hill BA LLB LLM.

The Honorable Robert Hill was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 2006, representing South Australia and was Leader of the Government in (...)

Persi Diaconis

Mary Sunseri Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University USA

Mathematician, statistician AND magician

will give a public lecture entitled

The search for randomness

on Wednesday 8th of December 2010

What (...)

Dr Sheree Smith is an academic from the discipline of nursing who has received a number of national and international research awards. Dr Smith is currently leading research capability development through an initiative with the respiratory and critical care nurses of the European Respiratory (...)

An analysis of research and public discussions with climate change drifters and the scientifically unengaged on what they really think about science, scientists and climate change issues. While public forums and community events tend to attract highly interested, but polarised, audiences - (...)