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October 2011
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Tuesday 11 |
We invite you to listen and engage in a lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of ‘what matters to me and why’.
At each session an invited guest will speak about ‘what matters to me and why’ and then there will be an opportunity for questions and (...)
13:00 - FREE LECTURE - Can We Make Low Carbon Cities? : A guest speaker event with sustainability expert Peter Newman
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Join Peter Newman, one of Australia's leading sustainability experts and Curtin's Professor of Sustainability as he discusses the possibility of a low carbon city for the future.
Peter has worked extensively in the field reviving and extending Perth's rail system, serving as the (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
13:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Challenges of Publishing : A lecture by visiting Raine Prof. Karin Khan UBC
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"Challenges of Publishing in an era of Impact Factor and Open Access - a view from the BMJ group"
It’s hard to maintain hope for the future of our civilization in the face of the flood of bad news in the media. But without hope, there is no hope.
It has been estimated that over a million organizations worldwide are working to change hearts and minds, create global networks of (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �A Universal Code for RNA recognition by PUF proteins� and �RNA processing in human mitochondria�
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Muhammad Fazril Razif is a PhD student based at WAIMR. In 2007, he graduated from Murdoch University with a Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Science/Molecular Biology) and Bachelor of Forensics. He subsequently pursued an Honours degree under the supervision of Prof. Luba Kalaydjieva, in which he (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Gender Equality in Islam- A public lecture by Nina Nurmila : No RSVP required! All welcome!
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Muslim feminists argue that there are at least two factors that contribute to the women’s subordination in Muslim societies. First, patriarchal interpretations of the Qur’an which tend to subordinate women and blur the Qur’anic message of gender equality. Second, many Muslims cannot (...)
19:30 - Interactive Panel Discussion - Q&A: Adventures in Mental Health : SPAMH's Inaugural Question and Answer Panel Discussion
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Got some Questions? Want some Answers? Come join us in Mental Health Week to pick the brains of our diverse panel of experts at SPAMH's inaugural Q&A event: Adventures In Mental Health. No issue is off-limits!
Stalls from 7pm, Q&A from 7.30pm.
Light supper provided.
Dress code is smart (...)
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Thursday 13 |
Workshop Description:
Large classes mean the lecture class is maintained, yet effective teaching requires reconsidering how learners are engaged in the lecture time. ‘Active Learning’ is a principle which aims to involve students in the learning process, so that they are not simply passive (and (...)
The second concert in the series in which UWA students present the Opus 20 string quartets of Haydn
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY - SEMINAR SERIES SEMESTER 2, 2011 : The Golden Rock: The Archaeology of St Eustatius and the SECAR GIS
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Sint Eustatius, a tiny Caribbean island comprised of two volcanoes joined by a fertile plain, was mysteriously abandoned by its indigenous inhabitants c.1000 years ago. It was resettled in 1636 by enterprising merchants representing the Dutch West India Company, who were soon outnumbered by slaves (...)
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Friday 14 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: A search for marine bacterial quorum quenching compounds : Final PhD Seminar
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Ms Jamie Summerfield, postgraduate student (PhD), will give a talk on a search for marine bacterial quorum quenching compounds in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 14 October 2011 at 9:00am. Bacteria use a process called quorum sensing to communicate with each other (...)
12:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Interconnections: a constellation of influences and expressions : A. Professor Jon Tarry presents a floor talk on Recent Past: Australian paintings of the 70s and 80s
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A. Professor, Jon Tarry, will discuss the art works in Recent Past as explorations of the 70s and 80s Australian vernacular which focussed on the local, the everyday, and the 'here and now' of the times. Much of this has been replaced today by internationalism, and a desire to seek out Otherness (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The spread of a finite group
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Simon Guest (UWA)
will speak on
The spread of a finite group
at 1pm on Friday 14th of October in MLR2
Abstract: Let G be a finite group. We say that G has spread at least k if for any k distinct nontrivial (...)
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Monday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2011 Ian Constable Lecture - Now, free, and perfect? : How to live a long and healthy life in the 21st century
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The 2011 Ian Constable Lecture will be given by Professor Ian Frazer FAA, FRS, CEO and Research Director, Translational Research Institute.
Australians born in 2011 can expect to live to see the 22nd century, but how can we ensure that they will enjoy their 90+ years of life? Professor (...)
The 2011 Ian Constable lecture will address the topic; “Now, free, and perfect? How to live a long and healthy life in
the 21st century.”
This will be presented by Professor Ian Frazer, the internationally renowned co-creator of the technology for the cervical cancer vaccine and (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
13:00 - CANCELLED - EVENT - Breastmilk cells: from infant immunity to development : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
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The Seminar: Human breastmilk is the gold standard for the nutrition of the human infant at the early stages of life. In addition to its valuable nutritional components, breastmilk also contains (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Oct 18: : "Under zero-tillage, soil water content is poorly related to soil water repellency"
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The Soil&Water Seminar at 1pm on Tues, Oct. 18th will be given by Dr Margaret Roper from CSIRO, an invited speaker for Soil Science Australia (WA Branch). All welcome!
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TITLE: “Under zero-tillage, soil water content is poorly related to soil water repellency”
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Wednesday 19 |
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Embodied Knowledges: An Interdisciplinary Symposium : For CREATEC’s annual symposium, researchers across disciplines will gather to consider the influence of embodiment on their work
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For CREATEC’s annual symposium, researchers across disciplines will gather to consider the influence of embodiment on their work. Embodiment is a concept that underpins an array of research ranging from education and environmental studies, poetry and the performing arts to philosophy and (...)
Researchers and service providers involved in all aspects of child and adolescent health are invited to attend the annual Child and Adolescent Health Research Symposium at Princess Margaret Hospital (WB Macdonald Lecture Theatre) and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (Seminar Room) (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences; Chemistry Seminar : Natural Product Inspired Synthetic Organic Methodology: Purpose design and accidental discoveries of new methods (and limitations of older methods)
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In the course of undertaking a number of complex molecule total synthesis campaigns (target orientated synthesis) our group was forced by the nature of these projects to push literature methodology to its limits and purpose design new methods. In other examples synthetic methodology was developed (...)
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