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Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

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 (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Due to unforseen circumstances this event has been cancelled. Our apologies.

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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 (...)

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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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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar



Daniela Bubboloni (University of Firenze)

will speak on

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 (...)

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: (...)

Part of the Power of Music seminar series, this seminar focuses on 19th Century opera dissemination and performance practices in the British Empire.

Global Health – whether invoked to describe border-crossing disease threats, or planet-wide policies and practices designed to improve health – is routinely imagined in terms of the entwining of lives and deaths everywhere. Appeals to this global health interdependency are mobilized by those (...)

Jump on your bike and join us for the the annual UWA Bike Breakfast, hosted by UWA Sports. Same place and time as usual. Make sure you build up a healthy appetite and bring along your cycling buddies too!

Intended Audience: All staff engaged in teaching at any level of experience

Workshop Description: The value of peer review/observation/reflection as a powerful tool for the enhancement of teaching has long been recognised. Teaching is, by its very nature, an activity which is not (...)