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September 2011
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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)
will speak on
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 (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Lecture : The Contribution of the Roman Catholic Tradition to Biomedical Ethics
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Issues raised by bio-medical ethics touch on some of the most profound moments of joy, hope, fear, anger, sorrow, disappointment and relief in our lives. The Roman Catholic moral tradition has constantly wrestled with life issues. Are there valuable insights that this long theological tradition (...)
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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Despite many decades of close
economic and diplomatic ties between
Australia and Japan, mainstream media
coverage of that country continues
to reinforce long-standing superficial
stereotypes of a static, harmonious,
mono-cultural and inward looking
society. In reality, Japanese society
has long (...)
Speakers: Professor Vera Mackie, Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong and Associate Professor Leng Leng Thang, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore.
This public lecture will look at how, in the context of globalization (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
8:30 - STAFF EVENT - Quiet Day for staff : Take time to refocus and refresh
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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 (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Towards the cyborg; integration of robotics and the nervous system in engineering and the arts. : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Since Galvani “galvanised” his frogs in the eighteenth century there have been attempts to link living tissue with electronics. However it has been the rapid reduction in size accompanied by increases in sophistication of electronics in the twenty first century that has opened up (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Works for performer and live electronics
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Christopher Tonkin, Associate Lecturer, School of Music, UWA and a leading composer discusses some of his recent works.
We invite you to join us for this final lecture by Kevin Goss in his role as head of Future Farm Industries CRC.
This public address is a reflection on the wicked, unintended consequences that can arise from rapid economic development, the high cost of government policy inertia to deal (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
Essential Skills for a Successful Career in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Law and Education. A workshop for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
UWA's Institute of Advanced Studies and the Office of Research and Research Training invite you to participate in a (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Flt3 inhibitor treatment of myeloproliferative disease in c-Cbl RING finger mutant mice."
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Wally Langdon’s research involves studying mice with knockout and knockin mutations in the c-Cbl and Cbl-b genes. Cbl proteins are E3 ubiquitin ligases that target many signalling proteins including antigen receptors and receptor tyrosine kinases. In addition Cbl proteins function as adaptors (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR : A new hyperbolic geometry and associated group theory and combinatorics
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Abstract: Universal Hyperbolic Geometry (UHG) is a new approach to hyperbolic geometry that combines the projective Beltrami Klein model with Rational Trigonometry, to give a much simpler, completely algebraic framework for the subject. One of the major consequences is that UHG works over a general (...)
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Thursday 29 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Tadeusz Kosciuszko: Poland's National Hero in British Art and Literature
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A public lecture by Thomas McLean, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Most Australians know Kosciuszko as the name of a mountain. But Tadeusz Kosciuszko was one of the most important figures of the late eighteenth and early (...)
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Friday 30 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The concept of p-deficiency and its applications
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Anitha Thillaisundaram (Cambridge)
will speak on
The concept of p-deficiency and its applications.
at 1pm on Friday 30th September in MLR2
Abstract: We use Schlage-Puchta's concept of p-deficiency and (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Exploring elements of an effective disaster recovery process: Lessons from recent New Zealand events
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Effective recovery from disasters depends not just on the physical impacts of the event but also on how the societal environment supports the complex and protracted processes of recovery. Research highlights the importance of not only strong local government capacity, but also of a cohesive system (...)
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October 2011
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Monday 03 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Islam in Africa: from the GWOT to the Arab Spring : Free public lecture; ALL WELCOME!
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Professor Jeremy Keenan is currently a Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies.
Professor Jeremy Keenan will explain events in North Africa from 2003, the year in which the US launched its (...)
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Tuesday 04 |
Intended Audience:
Those who are, or intend to, supervise international students who want to reflect upon, develop or refresh their current conceptions and practice of supervision. Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Reproduction by donor conception: different perspectives on the donor conception process. : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar:
Approximately 10% of fertility treatment cycles in Australia use gametes (sperm or eggs) donated from a third party. In the past donors were usually anonymous, little personal or health information about them was stored and children born were seldom told the manner of their (...)
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