What's On at UWA

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

(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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

All welcome!

“The effect of tree belowground C allocation on the seasonal course of microbial N cycling in an European beech forest soil”

ABSTRACT: Soil microbes in temperate forest ecosystems are able to cycle several hundreds of kg of nitrogen (N) ha-1 yr-1 and are (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

The Seminar: The seminar will deal with the mechanisms used by T lymphocytes to penetrated CNS postcapillary vessels, studied using a murine model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). The focus of the talk will be the interplay between cytokines (TNF-, IFN- (...)

Magnetic domain patterns form in perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin films due to the combination of short-range attractive magnetic exchange interactions and long-range repulsive magnetic dipolar interactions. The dynamics of these patterns, and the domains within them, are described by the (...)

The Centre of Excellence for Ecohydrology is hosting a Nutrient Management Forum. With keynote speakers who are acknowledged experts in measuring, monitoring, modeling and management of nutrients in waterways, the forum is expected to attract participants from around Australia and from other (...)

Professor Laurent is an alumni of the University of Western Australia. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Respiratory Research at University College London and leads a team of scientists and physicians conducting research into basic aspects of lung inflammation and repair.