What's On at UWA

To celebrate International Museums Day, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is hosting a special panel discussion on the theme ‘Museums and Memory: The link between memory, community and identity’, which focuses specifically on Indigenous art and culture. Panelists include Tracie Pushman, Lecturer (...)

2011 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING REGISTRATION STILL OPEN

Following the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria, a nation-wide alert system has been activated. The University of Western Australia, FESA and Landgate have initiated a project which will develop a novel Wildfire Early Warning System, created by integrating a state-of-the-art simulator with an (...)

The Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) present in a free public lecture by Professor Simon Driver, The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia.

Astronomers argue that the (...)

We invite you to listen and engage in a lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of ‘what matters to me and why’.

At each session an invited guest will speak and then there will be an opportunity for questions and conversation. The speaker on this (...)

Face recognition performance improves during childhood, not reaching adult levels until late adolescence. Likewise, face-sensitive brain regions to not appear fully mature until a similar age. Recognition of faces across changes in viewpoint appears particularly slow to develop, suggesting that (...)

Convict transportation was a global system that operated for approximately 300 years from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Under this system over one million convicts were subjected to forced migration, often from one side of the world to the other. As such, transportation had a major impact on the (...)

Winthrop Professor Mohammed Bennamoun from Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Western Australia will provide a brief introduction to the area of computer vision (with an emphasis on 3D). He will also talk about the related work in this field that has been done in the School (...)

Dr Michael Azariadis will outline a systematic approach for editing and refining your academic writing.

Professor Wang's talk examines the role of education policy in China through the lens of human capital and human development approaches. It makes use of China’s urban-rural education divide to analyze how policies promote or hinder students’ capability development. The analysis unfolds at three (...)

Each methodology brings us a vantage point, a place of seeing what we may otherwise have missed in the overwhelmingness of the whole. ... Each has its place. Together, the whole shall come together as jigsaw. (Smythe, 2000, p. 18)

Quantitative and qualitative research are based on (...)

Learn from and discuss with UWA's Experts: 'Tolkien's world and work' (Andrew Lynch) 'Tolkien and History' (Caroline Finander) 'Tolkien's Politics' (Rob Stuart) 'Tolkien and medieval myth and legend' (Anne Scott) 'Tolkien on the screen' (Alice Davies)

Registration: General $75 (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Michael Giudici (UWA)

will speak on

Primitive generalised quadrangles

at 12 noon Tuesday 25th of May in MLR2

Abstract: A generalised quadrangle is an incidence structure of points and lines such that the (...)

The Seminar: The L-type Ca2+ channel plays a critical role in cardiac excitation and contraction and it is the main route for calcium influx into cardiac myocytes. The function of the channel can be modified during alterations in cellular redox state. A reduced cellular state such as during acute (...)

In this lecture-performance, renowned soprano Julianne Baird, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, will discuss and perform music from the Jane Austen Songbook, reflecting from her research on what they tell us about the great English novelist’s musical tastes and the cultural milieu of (...)

The UWA Co-op Bookshop’s Book Sale runs until Tuesday May 31st

UWA Hoodies on sale from $39.95

Extra 50% off the Sale Price of all books until May 31st. Novels, non fiction, reference and selection of UQP titles available.

Co-op members also receive Member (...)

Professor Simon Brown has comprehensive specialist clinical training in Emergency Medicine (FACEM) with additional experience in the fields of anaesthesia, critical care, prehospital care, retrieval medicine, disaster medicine and health management, combined with a PhD in immunology/allergy and (...)

We gain a lot of different information from faces, even when they are unfamiliar to us. For example, we can almost instantly determine the gender or emotional expression of a face, evaluate how attractive we find it, and decide whether or not that person is looking at us.

Although most (...)

The presence of Neanderthals in Central Europe during the Weichselian glaciations (Pleistocene) was sporadic and likely resulted from migrations during warm phases only. While cold climate restricted habitation of Central Europe by Neanderthals, evidence from hundreds of human–made flint (...)

Excessive growth of cyanobacterial biomass, commonly known as cyanobacterial blooms, appear to be increasing in magnitude and frequency worldwide, thus posing an additional threat to the safety and security of water resources With the increasing global water stress, there is a need for effective (...)