What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Substituted 1,3-butadiynes (diacetylenes) are able to undergo a unique polymerization reaction when assembled into the proper geometry. This reaction can take place in crystalline solids, self-assembled monolayers, liposomes, and related structures. The resulting polymers are highly conjugated and (...)

A lunch time information session/conversation about UWA Quiet Days and Retreats will be held at the UWA Club Cafe on Friday 8th July at 12pm. Please RSVP to Michael Wood by email or phone 0435 065326.

Set on a lovely bush block in Mundaring, the next UWA Quiet Day on Wednesday 20th July (...)

We are seeking volunteers for a study investigating ways to improve the health and well being of dog owners and their dogs. If you own a dog, but do not walk it very often we would like you to hear from you.

Participation in this study will involve attending a 1-2 hour discussion with (...)

Despite an ever-changing society it is through the living language of art that Indigenous Australians continue to express the meaning of culture and heritage. In an ongoing struggle to educate the wider community to the importance of connections to ‘country’ and dispel the misconceptions of a (...)

The history of Modern Europe presents a multitude of disturbing contradictions. The Old Continent has engendered the most uplifting visions of human potential and the darkest dystopias in human experience. It has laboured to produce its colossal social, cultural and artistic heritage and has (...)

The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. All course information, including costs and enrolment are available on our (...)

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 (...)

Intended Audience: UWA staff new to using UWA's Learning Management System (WebCT) or those who would like a refresher.

Workshop Description: Have you ever wanted to:

Communicate important study related events to your students? Provide a unit outline and learning materials in (...)

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 (...)

Dieter Wildenauer worked for his thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, receiving the PhD degree from the University of Munich. After that he worked as postdoctoral fellow with Gobind Khorana at MIT Cambridge, MA, USA for two years. In 1985 he became interested in Psychiatric (...)

The argument of this workshop can be simply stated: all undergraduate students in all higher education institutions should experience learning through and about research. My interest in developing students as researchers originated through explorations over the last few years into ways to enhance (...)

Participants must bring their own laptops.

Bayesian approaches to statistical modelling and analysis are being enthusiastically adopted in many disciplines. The course is structured as two mini-workshops each of two days: Introductory Bayesian analysis using WinBugs and Bayesian analysis (...)