What's On at UWA

** Correct Date - Thursday 8th September, 2011**

Intended Audience: This workshop is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA.

Workshop Description: Effective teaching is a central aspect of an academic career at UWA. This workshop will focus on the criteria and (...)

An informal opportunity to talk over lunch about the background, purpose and details of Quiet Days for staff.

Set on a lovely bush block in the hills near Gidgegannup, Quiet Days provide some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics with the intention of marking out some (...)

Almost 1 in 20 Australians will be diagnosed with a malignant melanoma. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to find out how scientists and clinicians are waging war on melanoma and using new treatments to halt the rising tide of fatal melanoma cases. World expert, Professor Grant McArthur is (...)

Tell Timai, a Tell site in the eastern Nile Delta, comprises the remains of the ancient city of Thmuis. First established in the 5th century BC, Thmuis developed into an important administrative centre, first for the Ptolemaic and then later for the Roman rulers of Egypt. In 2007 a team from the (...)

The circulation driven by wave breaking, tides and winds within a fringing coral reef system (Ningaloo Reef) in Western Australia was investigated using field observations and numerical modeling of a section of reef at Sandy Bay. The observed circulation followed a consistent pattern, with cross-re (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

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Max Neunhöffer (University of St Andrews)

"Algorithmic Generalisations of Small Cancellation Theory"

Friday 9th September (2011), 1pm, MLR2

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Extraversion is a personality trait describing a broad tendency towards sociability, activity, boldness, and positive affect. Many biologically-oriented personality theorists have suggested that a reactive reward system underlies many of the key features of extraversion (e.g., Depue & Collins (...)

The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 catapulted the world into a new era of interstate and global relations. The lexicon of terrorism and counter-terrorism entered the vocabulary of policymakers, analysts and ordinary citizens. The subsequent years and continuing militant (...)

Nikolai Demidenkos passionate pianism is in demand worldwide. Russian born and trained, Demidenko has steadily built an international career of the highest calibre, playing concertos with many of Europes greatest orchestras and conductors, and playing a landmark series of recitals in Londons (...)

Person Perception Seminar Series, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Victoria Rogers, School of Music, UWA, these seminars are presented by the School’s honours-level students.

The expression of the mtDNA in plants is complex, particularly at the post-transcriptional level; RNA processing events which contribute to organellar genome expression include hundreds of RNA-editing events and the splicing of numerous group-II-type introns which lie within many protein-coding (...)

Hugh completed a PhD at the Baker Heart Research Institute and CSIRO’s Division of Human Nutrition in the field of lipoprotein metabolism. He subsequently spent eleven years at the University of Washington, Seattle, in the Department of Bioengineering, initially as a research fellow and finally (...)

A public lecture by Professor Mary Orr, Professor of French, University of Southampton, UK.

The website of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences offers a rare glimpse of Sarah’s exquisite drawings and her life devoted to natural science:

‘Sarah Bowdich (1791-1856) (...)

A three day event bringing together early modern theatre historians to discuss and perform 'old emotions on the New Fortune stage'. It includes a free performance of Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV, directed by Dr Rob Conkie (La Trobe), at 2pm on Friday 16th September on the New Fortune stage.

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It is well-established that people are better able to recognise faces of their own ethnicity than of an unfamiliar ethnicity. This is often known as the other-race effect (ORE). A similar effect has been found for age where we are better able to recognise individuals from our own age group than (...)

Chlorination for the disinfection of drinking water has been heralded as one of the most significant public health advances in human history due to the reduction of waterborne disease. However, one unintended effect of disinfection is that the disinfectant can react with natural organic matter (NOM) (...)

A public lecture by Father Gerald O’Collins, SJ, AC, Emeritus Dean of Theology, Gregorian University of Rome.

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, bible scholars, novelists, philosophers, scientists, and theologians have continued to probe the story of the resurrection (...)

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 (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Tim Burness (University of Southampton)

will speak on

Generation and random generation: from simple groups to maximal subgroups

at 1pm on Friday 16th of September in MLR2

Abstract: Problems concerning the (...)