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September 2011
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Thursday 15 |
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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12:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Neural, perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in recognising other-race and other-age faces
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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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Disinfection, and the impact of bromide ion on the production of brominated disinfection by products in a Western Australian drinking water : SESE Seminar Series
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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) (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies Lecture : Miracles - The Resurrection in the 21st Century
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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 (...)
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Friday 16 |
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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 (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar:Generation and random generation: from simple groups to maximal subgroups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Tim Burness (University of Southampton)
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Generation and random generation: from simple groups to maximal subgroups
at 1pm on Friday 16th of September in MLR2
Abstract: Problems concerning the (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - DVCR Lunchtime Seminar Series : Socialising your Research
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Dear Colleagues,
You are all invited to the next in the series of the DVCR Prof Robyn Owens’ Lunchtime Seminars.
Title: Socialising your Research - publishing a paper is just the start…
Guest Speakers:
Prof Stephan Lewandowsky – Professorial Fellow, School of Psychology
A (...)
15:00 - Colloquium - Different attentional blink tasks reflect distinct information processing limitations: An individual differences approach
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To study the temporal dynamics and capacity-limits of attentional selection and encoding researchers often employ the attentional blink (AB) phenomenon: subjects’ impaired ability to report the second of two targets in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream they appear within 200-500ms (...)
15:00 - Colloquium - Different attentional blink tasks reflect distinct information processing limitations: An individual differences approach
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To study the temporal dynamics and capacity-limits of attentional selection and encoding researchers often employ the attentional blink
(AB) phenomenon: subjects’ impaired ability to report the second of two targets in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream they appear within 200-500ms (...)
Shakespeare and Song: Depictions of Shakespearean Emotions in Arias and Song Artistry!
This exciting program draws on verse by Shakespeare presented both in spoken and sung recitation to explore early modern as well as contemporary understandings of human emotion: passion, hate, joy (...)
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Monday 19 |
12:00 - EVENT - Lung Institute of WA Medical Research Seminar : The molecular pathology of the innate immune system in treated HIV infection.
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Prof French is a physician/scientist who holds the positions of Winthrop Professor of Clinical Immunology in the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UWA and Consultant Clinical Immunologist at Royal Perth Hospital and PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Perth.
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Tuesday 20 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2011 Warren Jones Oration : “The Decade Ahead – Challenges for Australian Health and Medical Research”
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The Warren Jones Oration is given annually by an esteemed speaker of international significance, to inspire us to follow in Warren Jone’s footsteps and contribute to a better world. Enrty is free, but bookings are essential, via Jacky Jarrett.
Professor Douglas Hilton PhD FAA FTSE (Dir (...)
A public lecture by William Forde Thompson, Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, NSW
Professor Bill Thompson is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the area of music psychology. Together with other researchers he has demonstrated that emotional (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - An Institute of Advanced Studies Power of Music Public Lecture
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Emotional communication in song and speech
Professor Bill Thompson is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the area of music psychology. Together with other researchers he has demonstrated that emotional communication is a multimodal process that operates similarly in both music and (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Endothelial progenitor cells in cancer: the good, the bad and the ugly"
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Dr Mellick has a research history spanning almost 20 years, working at prestigious research institutions including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, University of QLD, and the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JSCMR), Australian National University (ANU). Dr Mellick took up his current (...)
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Thursday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Dynamics of a tidally-forced stratified shear flow on the continental slope : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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The energy contained in large-scale ocean flows is dissipated in small-scale turbulent motions and these control the rate at which heat, momentum, chemicals, nutrients, and biological matter are stirred in the ocean. On the global scale, a large proportion of the mechanical energy contained in the (...)
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Friday 23 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Locally s-distance transitive graphs with a regular star normal quotient
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Alice Devillers (UWA)
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Locally s-distance transitive graphs with a regular star normal quotient
at 1pm Friday 23rd of September in MLR2
Abstract: During the study of locally s-distance transitive (...)
15:30 - Colloquium - Why Psychology should be at the heart of good public policy and what happens when it is not
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Psychology should be at the heart of good public policy – but often it is not. Many policy makers assume they know, because they are human and live in society, all they need to know about human behaviour. Or they assume that economic theory will provide all the critical insights necessary to (...)
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Monday 26 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (5APCEI) : Educational Integrity: Culture and Values
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The 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (5APCEI) will be held in Perth at The University of Western Australia between 26-28 September 2011. The conference is co-sponsored by three of Perth’s other universities; Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.
9:00 - WORKSHOP - Inaugural University of Queensland/University of Western Australia Bilateral Research Collaboration Award : CONFIGURATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL AND NON-CONVENTIONAL ‘FAMILY’ ARRANGEMENTS IN JAPAN
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This collaborative multidisciplinary workshop involves Japanese Studies scholars from both universities as
presenters, and two distinguished external scholars as discussants. The workshop’s focus is the institution of
‘family’ in modern/contemporary Japan. While the middle-class, nuclear (...)
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