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Displaying from Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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March 2011
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Tuesday 15 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Does every Cayley graph have a hamiltonian cycle?
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Dave Morris (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
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Does every Cayley graph have a hamiltonian cycle?
at 12 noon in MLR2 on Tuesday 15th of March
Abstract: It was conjectured 40 years ago (...)
15:45 - SEMINAR - Physics Seminar : Using the Information in Experimental Observations to Develop and Test Quantitative Models
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When quantitative, usually nonlinear, models of observed phenomena are developed they are typically incomplete as many unknown parameters remain. Further to use the model to forecast future behaviour, one must accurately estimate the full state of the system when predictions begin and measurements (...)
Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.
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Wednesday 16 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - **CANCELLED** Hype-omics and the Limits of Biological Reductionism
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Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Galaxy Hunters : Public Lecture by by Professor Patricia Henning, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico
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Professor Trish Henning is a Galaxy Hunter. She uses the largest radio telescope in the world to glimpse distant galaxies, which reveal the large-scale structure of the Universe. Why? Because evidence suggests that galaxies including our own Milky Way are being pulled around by the gravity of (...)
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Thursday 17 |
Should governments supplement community organisations for their increased costs? Would that reduce the benefits of outsourcing public services? Will the comparative advantages of not-for-profits relative to private sector providers be narrowed? Will smaller, local organisations be less able to pay (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - How Food Becomes Family: Evolutionary Secrets of Biodiversity in the Eukaryotic Phytoplankton : SESE and Oceans Institute Special Seminar
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t is generally understood that the marine realm provides a great abundance and diversity of foods, medicines and raw materials, but the wealth of the sea is finite and poorly mapped. As one of the most important sources of biodiversity in the ocean,phytoplankton span many kingdoms of the tree of (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - Contemporary China Center Virtual Seminar: 'From Plan to Market: From Status to Class?' : A Worldwide Universities Network videoconference
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This Virtual Seminar, brought to you by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), reviews core debates on how social classes have emerged in China since 1978 and critically discusses main factors in China's political economy and its integration in the global economy that have influenced the (...)
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Light rail for Metro Perth? : A discussion with Greens Senator Scott Ludlam.
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The UWA Greens proudly present Light rail for Metro Perth?: A discussion with Greens Senator Scott Ludlam at 5.30pm Thursday 17th March, Arts Lecture Room 5, University of Western Australia.
Scott Ludlam, Greens Senator for WA, has been working with local government, industry and (...)
Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.
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Friday 18 |
Jon Tarry’s series of prints and drawings, sculptural constructions, and video installation explore a range of geopolitical relationships that exist between Australia and the rest of the world. In dialogue with Julian Goddard, Head of Art at Curtin University, Jon will discuss some of the (...)
13:00 - CANCELLED - VISITING SPEAKER - **CANCELLED** Molecular evolution of fertility restorer genes reveal a conflict between nucleus and mitochondria throughout angiosperm evolution : ABSTRACT AVAILABLE
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled. Our apologies.
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13:00 - SEMINAR - SOTA FUJII : Molecular evolution of fertility restorer genes reveal a conflict between nucleus and mitochondria throughout angiosperm evolution
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Despite Japan's devastation, Dr Fujii wishes to proceed with his seminar as planned!
We appreciate such a gesture at this difficult time.Sota will fly home morning after seminar. We wish him strength & love in what may be a very trying time for a while to come.
We will be making a DONATION to (...)
15:00 - Colloquium - Clustering as a common principle underlying short-term memory and episodic memory
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A general conclusion arising from empirical and modelling work from the past 40 years is that people hierarchical structure information in short-term memory tasks such as serial recall and probed recall.
Current theories assume that people cluster a large sequence into smaller subsequences, and (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
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Large classes mean the lecture class is maintained, yet effective teaching requires reconsidering how learners are engaged in the lecture time. ‘Active Learning’ is a principle which aims to involve students in the learning process, so that they are not simply (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar(SEE), Mar22: : “Bring back the mouldboard plough for renovation cropping?”
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The Soil&Water Seminar at 11am on Tues, March 22nd, will be given by Dr Bill Bowden.
All welcome!
TITLE: “Bring back the mouldboard plough for renovation cropping?”
ABSTRACT: The effects of deep cultivation following years of no-till farming is being investigated in (...)
12:00 - EVENT - What Matters to Me and Why? : A conversation that explores how personal belief shapes, and is shaped by academic work in a university
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At each session, the invited academic staff guest will speak first and then there will be opporuntiy for questions and conversation. Bring your own lunch. The library cafe is nearby. This is a part of the Religion and Globalisation Initiative at UWA.
12:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Normal coverings of finite symmetric and alternating groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Daniela Bubboloni (University of Firenze)
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Normal coverings of finite symmetric and alternating groups
at 12 noon on Tuesday 22nd of March in MLR2
Abstract: In this talk we consider the (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - At the Earth's Third Pole: Impacts on Primate Diversity in China Since the Pleistocene : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: To the Arctic and Antarctic Poles has recently been added the concept of a Third Ice Pole (item in a recent Nature): the Tibetan Plateau/Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and its adjacent plateaux in China (Yungui and Qinling). This is regarded as the largest centre in the world for speciation: (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Globalisation, Empire and Opera
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Part of the Power of Music seminar series, this seminar focuses on 19th Century opera dissemination and performance practices in the British Empire.
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