What's On at UWA

Workshop Description:

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 (...)

Mark was awarded his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Children’s Medical Research Institute in Westmead characterising the first mouse model for the congenital muscle disease nemaline myopathy. From there, Mark shifted focus on the study of neurological disorders from muscle to the brain by joining the (...)

Intended Audience: Those who are engaged in postgraduate supervision and who want to reflect upon, develop and refine their current conceptions and practice of supervision. This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures for the (...)

Over many years of dynamic and energetic development, quantum chemistry turned into a fully mature science able to describe and model molecular systems containing even hundreds of atoms. Its capabilities are continuously growing along with the progress in computer miniaturisation and the (...)

The Pearl River Estuary is a sub-tropical estuary and the second largest in China based on discharge volume from the Pearl River. Processes in the estuary vary spatially and temporally (wet vs dry season). In the wet season, the SW monsoon windspush the Pearl River estuarine plume into Hong Kong (...)

The University of Western Australia provides a range of geographic resources from analog paper maps to state-of-the-art digital Geographic Information System (GIS) data. Recently the Science library has provided a new home for the University's map collection and has been instrumental in negotiating (...)

Nearly every day I turn left when I reach Vincent St to get home. One day I formed an intention while at work to buy sunscreen from the Chemist on my way home, which required me to turn right at Vincent St instead. Later that day I found myself at home without sunscreen. Failure to substitute (...)

The purpose of the day is: - To recognise the important role sessional teachers play in the delivery of a quality student experience and to thank them for their contribution. - To provide an opportunity to join and develop a supportive community of sessional teachers at UWA - To provide tangible (...)

Join Perth-based artist and writer Dr Christopher Crouch, and local indigenous artist and Bibbullmun elder Toogarr Morrison, for a thought-provoking discussion about some of the political and creative issues surrounding the representation of landscape in Australian art.

Registrations for the 2011 DCM BlueLake Portfolio Competition are now OPEN!

The DCM BlueLake Portfolio Competition offers you the unique and exhilarating opportunity to experience the life of an equities trader for eight weeks from March 28, competing against Australian undergraduate (...)

UWA Business School is pleased to host a Welcome to Country for our commencing international students.

Lunch will be provided for a $2 coin donation. All proceeds to the Be Kids ‘Uhuru’ SIFE project.

RSVP (essential): www.business.uwa.edu.au/school/eventregistration

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Phill Shultz (UWA) will speak on

A duality for mixed abelian groups

at 12 noon on Tuesday 29th of March in MLR2

Abstract: An abelian group is mixed if it contains non-zero elements of finite and of infinite order, and (...)