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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)

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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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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.

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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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16:00 - EVENT - Lecture : The Contribution of the Roman Catholic Tradition to Biomedical Ethics

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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Inside/Out Japan:Families Moving in Times of Socio-Cultural Change : A public lecture co-sponsored by the Institute of Advance Studies & the Discipline of Asian Studies at UWA

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18:00 - EVENT - Inside-Out Japan: Families Moving in Times of Socio-Cultural Change

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Set on a lovely bush block in the hills near Gidgegannup, the Quiet Day provides some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics with the intention of marking out some good quality thinking/reflection time.

There is no formal 'content' to the day – no presentations or (...)