What's On at UWA

Workshop Description: Teachers are being stretched in their efforts to maintain high quality teaching, often in a time or resource-poor environment, and with an increasingly diverse student cohort. Ideas on how to establish and maintain a good learning experience for students by teaching smarter (...)

“Building Cities to Promote Health: Evidence to action” Professor Jim Sallis (San Diego, USA) Professor Jim Sallis is Director of The Active Living Research Centre at San Diego State University, which has received over US$27 million in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop (...)

The vasculature of solid tumours displays an aberrant morphology characterized by dilated and fragile vessels, intensive vessel sprouting, and loss of hierarchical architecture. Due to ongoing angiogenesis, immune effector cells generated in vivo, or supplied ex vivo, are often unable to migrate (...)

Professor Lyn Beazley, Chief Scientist of Western Australia will present the 2011 George Seddon Lecture - "Achieving More whilst Using Less: towards a Viable Future".

In the past our planet seemed to provide an inexhaustible source of water, food, energy reserves and minerals; (...)

This talk by Dr Van Coufoudakis, Rector Emeritus, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, will focus on the achievements and challenges facing the Republic of Cyprus after fifty years of independence.

The current state of the “Cyprus problem” will be examined in the context of the UN (...)

Intended Audience: The Foundations of University Teaching and Learning programme is offered every semester to support staff relatively new to the University as well as staff with teaching experience who wish to refine, test out, validate or develop their present conceptions of good teaching and (...)

A/Professor Peter Richmond is a General Paediatrician & Paediatric Immunologist at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at UWA. A/Professor Richmond is also the director of the Vaccine Trials Group, a multidisciplinary research group whose aim (...)

The inaugural Vincent Fairfax Oration will be given by Dr Michael Chaney AO.

Mr Chaney is Chairman of the National Australia Bank Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Gresham Partners Holdings Limited. He is Chancellor of the University of Western Australia, a member of the JPMorgan (...)

The aim of this course is to give the participants an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to excel and spreadsheet functions, we concentrate on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and (...)

Cao Nguyen will present machine learning approaches in functional genomics including methods (i.e. hidden Markov models, Bayesian networks) to predict protein interfaces and to annotate functions for proteins from protein interaction networks. Cao’s talk includes methods to predict the key (...)

A symposium on ear and hearing research, held in conjunction with the Raine Lecture to be given by Prof De Wet Swanepoel, the Raine Visiting Professor at the Ear Sciences Centre, School of Surgery, for 2011. De Wet Swanepoel, University of Pretoria, has extensive experience in paediatric audiology (...)

I will be talking about the NPL's efforts and outlook for the next few years in determining the Boltzmann constant (k) with ~1 part-per-million uncertainty using a resonant acoustic method. This may be of particular interest to some people in Physics as there is currently a measurement of k in (...)

You are all invited to the next in the series of the DVCR Prof Robyn Owens’ Lunchtime Seminars.

Guest Speakers:

Prof. Peter Klinken – Director, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR)

Prof. Ian Small – Director, Plant Energy (...)

Keynote speakers include Professor James Ferguson from Stanford University, and Professor Jean Comaroff from the University of Chicago. Plenary speakers include Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond, Professor Alberto Gomes,and Professor Shiv Visvanathan.

The Austrian-based classical Mandelbrot Duo team up with Western Australian Indigenous performer Richard Walley for the premiere of a new work for violin, cello and didgeridoo especially commissioned for the UWA WINTERArts Festival 2011 and to coincide with NAIDOC week. This collaboration brings (...)

A free public lecture by Dr Lanru Jing, Senior Researcher, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

The creation of huge quantities of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste is the most formidable problem facing the nuclear power industry today. Achieving safe storage of (...)

In the mid-1940s, Ronald M. Berndt collected 600 crayon drawings on brown paper created by Aboriginal men living at Birrundudu, North-Central Northern Territory. This talk focuses on the origins of these images and the intentions of the artists – even at that time – to engage with a wider (...)

A/Prof Kevin Pfleger is Head of Molecular Endocrinology–GPCRs at WAIMR and Chief Scientific Officer of Dimerix Bioscience, a spin-out company from WAIMR and UWA. A/Prof Pfleger was awarded his MA and PhD from Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities respectively. He relocated to WA in October 2002 (...)

From ecstasy to devotion, sublime beauty to moral grandeur, music can convey all this, as well as its opposite – secular pieces for amusement! Rachael talks to the prominent violinist and specialist in French Baroque music, Paul Wright, about the sacred and the profane in music. This event (...)