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Displaying from Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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February 2011
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Wednesday 23 |
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 (...)
15:00 - EVENT - Colluqium : Pre-Semester Workshop on Applications of Differential Geometry
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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 (...)
19:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - "In each town I find a triple harmony': Utopian Dimensions in Early Modern Urban Historiography" : CMEMS / PMRG Public Lecture
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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 (...)
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Thursday 24 |
Intended Audience:
New UWA teaching staff.
Orientation Description:
The Teaching and Learning Orientation aims to provide new teaching staff with an overview of teaching and learning policy and practice at UWA as well as information on campus-wide services that support teaching and (...)
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Friday 25 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - Creative Industries Business Clinic : Free Business Clinic for Creative Industries
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Businesses operating in WA’s creative industries will be able to discuss their challenges in a free 1hour session with a senior creative industries adviser.
The CIIC Biztro is an initiative of the Creative Industries Innovation Centre (CIIC), and will be available for the first time in Perth (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics Colloquium : Engaging First Year Students: The story of MATH1050
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It has been increasingly difficult to engage first year students, especially (but not only) in service units. Most first year service units are difficult to teach as students are not interested and cannot see the relevance to their chosen major field of study. This is especially true of (...)
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Monday 28 |
9:00 - COURSE - Senior Exploration Management Course : This course is ideal for exploration professionals who are in positions of senior responsibility.
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Western Mining Services (WMS) and the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) have combined to offer a senior-level exploration management course on February 28 – March 3, 2011 on the campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. The Director of the CET, Professor McCuaig, was so (...)
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March 2011
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Tuesday 01 |
10:00 - EVENT - MATHWEST IMU WORKSHOP PERTH : UWA Mathematics Symposium Celebrating the First IMU Executive Committee Australian Visit
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The University of Western Australia is proud to announce the Year of Mathematics 2011, a celebration of mathematics and the powerful role that it plays in our everyday lives.
Central to the program of events is the MathWest Workshop, where over two days, members of the International (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Cellular Maturation: Signals for Endothelial Fenestration : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar - Endothelial cells differentiate in the embryo from mesodermal cell population. Additional signals from the microenvironment are necessary to mature the endotheium into the local differentiation status, i.e. the formation of the blood-braiun barrier, sinus formation in the spleen or (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
Intended Audience:
Staff interested in applying for the Teaching Fellowship Scheme.
Programme Description:
The Teaching Fellowship Scheme was introduced in 2005 and currently offers four fellowships valued at $22,000 each year. The scheme supports innovative, reasonably short-term (...)
Workshop Description:
Done well, teaching with technology has the potential to enhance learning. Using technology appropriately in teaching means recognising the widespread use of technologies in society, and enabling our learners to become more widely proficient with technologies. These can be (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Flights of Imagination in Research: lung science from airways to asbestosis
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Lung diseases affect one in five people worldwide. They carry a high mortality and have a devastating effect on a normally active lifestyle. Australians, like most people in developed countries, are experiencing an increased incidence of many lung diseases including asthma and smoking related (...)
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Thursday 03 |
Intended Audience:
Tutors, including postgraduate students, teaching in any subject area.
Note: Business students should contact Professor Phil Hancock for subject-specific workshops.
Workshop Description:
In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for (...)
12:00 - TALK - Contributions of facial appearance to first impressions and group stereotypes : Why do people's physical qualities, e.g. facial appearance, influence impressions of their traits?
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(Time changed - now at 12noon) Leslie Zebrowitz is a social psychologist whose research concerns how and why people's physical qualities, such as facial appearance, influence impressions of their traits as well as the impact of such impressions on people’s social outcomes and psychological (...)
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Friday 04 |
The climate is changing. The interesting and important challenges this poses are not about temperature and rainfall, but rather are about fundamental psychological and social issues. From denial to mitigation behaviours, the discipline of psychology has a fundamental role to play in understanding (...)
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Sunday 06 |
17:00 - OPENING CEREMONY - PRAY 2011 - Uni Commencement : An outdoor Christian service of prayer to dedicate the year before God
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How good would it be if the Christians on campus on campus met in one place to prepare their hearts and dedicate the year ahead to God. This short outdoor service will include a time of prayer and affirmation with Holy Communion.
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Tuesday 08 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, 11am Tues8th March: : “The effect of tree belowground C allocation on the seasonal course of microbial N cycling in an European beech forest soil”
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“The effect of tree belowground C allocation on the seasonal course of microbial N cycling in an European beech forest soil”
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Soil microbes in temperate forest ecosystems are able to cycle several hundreds of kg of nitrogen (N) ha-1 yr-1 and are (...)
12:00 - WORKSHOP - AIESEC UWA presents learn how to 'Make an Impression' in the workforce with the UWA Careers Centre and Wood Recruitment : Learn how to increase your employability
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If you've ever wondered how you can make a positive and lasting impression in the workforce, then this is the workshop for you. AIESEC UWA is proud to host the 'Make an Impression' workshop with the UWA Careers Centre and Wood Recruitment. If you're lost on how to behave at a networking event or in (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The Cayley Isomorphism (CI) problem
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
will speak on
The Cayley Isomorphism (CI) problem
at 12 noon in MLR2 on Tuesday 8th of March
Abstract: In a perfect world in which all isomorphisms between graphs (...)
13:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - A drug template's hiding place in sunflower revealed : An unusual biosynthesis of small, ultra-stable cyclic peptides from bifunctional precursors
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Dr Mylne (PhD, Botany) worked at the John Innes Centre (2001-2005), using molecular genetics in Arabidopsis to study proteins that accelerate flowering in response to prolonged cold (vernalization). In 2006 he moved to the IMB in Brisbane where he holds an ARC QEII Fellowship (2008-2012) and is the (...)
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