What's On at UWA

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 (...)

International visiting researcher, Lissa May, talks about research in Music Education.

The hydrological cycle is rapidly changing across environments due to new stresses caused by unprecedented rates of population increase, unsustainable levels of development and escalating greenhouse emissions. Over the last decade there has been acknowledgement that rising temperatures in many (...)

Some management theorists have argued “spirituality is the new black” in the work-place and in modern business. Is there a role for spirituality in the workplace and how are organisations grappling with this very private need? A Western Australian business leader considers the role of spirituali (...)

What did the first printing press look like? How did the early printers set their type? What did their type look like? We do not know how the first printers printed - we can only deduce. This illustrated lecture will show how faults and errors made by the first printers in their editions can (...)

International partners of UWA as well as past and current exchange students will be available to talk to about their Universities. Students get the chance to learn about studying abraod.

Intended Audience: Lecturing staff who want to explore alternate ways to evaluate teaching in their classroom.

Workshop Description: The workshop will built upon the scholarship of research around collecting student feedback to improve teaching. It will offer a range of tips and (...)

The North West Shelf of Australia is characterized by two types of plate boundaries: a passive Atlantic-type margin on the west and an active collisional boundary on the north. Our research is developing information which demonstrates that the stresses imposed on the plate due to the collision in (...)

The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the Young Lawyers Committee of the Law Society of Western Australia invite you to this special collaborative event, in which members of the arts and law community contemplate a range of human rights and social justice issues in the context of this exhibition (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies and the School of Music invite you to a free public lecture by Dr Richard Mills AM, composer, conductor, and Artistic Director of West Australian Opera.

Does the work of Australian composers have currency in the national debate? How do publicly funded (...)

The Soil&Water Seminar at 11am on Tues, April 5th, will be given by Willis Gwenzi, from the Soil Physics group at SEE and Plant Biology.All welcome!

------ TITLE: “Vegetation and soil controls on water redistribution on vegetated engineered cover systems associated with mine waste (...)