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UWA staff new to using UWA's Learning Management System (WebCT) or those who would like a refresher.

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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University of Wellington)

will speak on

Matroid representation and partial fields

at 11:30am on Tuesday 8th of February in MLR2

Abstract: Partial fields are algebraic objects that (...)

The School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at UWA and Curtin University Business School are proudly offering a one day workshop that involves international experts on text mining in different application areas, such as modern e-Education, climate change communication, collaboration, as (...)

Coral reefs worldwide are under increasing pressure from climate change, acidification, habitat destruction and over-fishing. Given that reefs support some of the highest biodiversity and provide a large range of ecosystem goods and services, improved understanding of the factors controlling their (...)

I will try to describe what nonlinear sigma-models are and how they allow the study of geometry. After explaining some physical motivations for the study of these models, I will review actions and symmetries (including supersymmetry) and symmetry algebras. On the math side, I will review Riemannian (...)

PLEASE NOTE WELL: THIS SEMINAR REPLACES THE ONE SCHEDULED FOR 10TH FEB BY SAME SPEAKER: New Abstract is available from [email protected]

Psycholinguistics typically separates production and comprehension as two subtasks and two different questions to investigate. By contrast I present an account in which production and comprehension processes are integrated during acts of production and comprehension. The account uses principles (...)

Intended Audience: The Foundations of University Teaching and Learning programme is offered every semester to support staff relatively new to the University as well as staff with teaching experience who wish to refine, test out, validate or develop their present conceptions of good teaching and (...)

Dr C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Planning and Health Professions at Eastern Virginia Medical School is visiting Perth from the U.S. Dr Combs oversees a medical simulation program and is responsible for the development of EVMS's new simulation center which will open in the summer of 2011 (...)

The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. All course information, including costs and enrolment are available on our (...)

Tuesday Seminars at the School of Population health are held every week. Students and staff are given the opportunity to showcase current research activities and hear from visiting speakers.

Melting glaciers are now revealing material evidence that reinvigorates longstanding oral traditions about human history and environmental change, posing new questions for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations. In this lecture, Julie Cruikshank, Professor Emerita in the Department of (...)

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 learning materials in (...)

Intended Audience: UWA staff new to using UWA's Lecture Recording System (Lectopia) or those who would like a refresher.

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Know what Lectopia is and how to use it? Complete a Lectopia Booking form to ensure that your lectures are (...)

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The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Westerly Centre are to honour the work of Winthrop Professor Dennis Haskell with a symposium entitled 'Creative Writing and its Contexts'.

The Symposium will be opened at 5 pm on (...)

2011 UWA Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow, Alexander M. Puzrin, of the Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Zurich will present a lecture on the famous Leaning Tower of St Moritz. St. Moritz, Switzerland is a famous ski resort built on an active creeping landslide and the tower is the most (...)

Recent advances in computer animation and cognitive neuroimaging have created powerful tools to study human social interaction. This talk will concentrate on what we are now learning about the specialized brain networks that underlie ‘first impressions’ based on facial appearance, speech and (...)

Intended Audience: The Introduction to University Teaching programme is part of a comprehensive set of professional development programmes offered by the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL). The programme is specifically designed for postgraduate students who are teaching at (...)

There are four talks this week, reporting on applications of differential geometry to nonlinear problems in dynamics, interpolation, and problems of interpolating rigid body motion. Following each talk there will be a short discussion on topics of general interest. The speakers are (note that (...)

In referring to the history of ideas,"the Begriffsgeschichte“ and literary studies the paper examines the parallels between the pre-1800 urban historiography and the literary genre of early modern utopia as introduced and developed by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Johann Valentin Andreae and/or (...)