What's On at UWA

Open to students from any UWA faculty the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Art Writing Prize offers the winner a $500 cash prize and the chance to have their winning entry published on the gallery website. To enter students must write an essay on an art work, an artist or an exhibition which has been (...)

CMCA@Physics has recently installed the latest PANalytical Empyrean X-Ray Diffraction system, which is available to all researchers.

This talk will cover the hardware and software modules available with the installed system. Various application capabilities are possible - such as thin (...)

A public lecture by Neil MacGregor, OM, Director of the British Museum.

Presented by The Western Australian Museum in association with The University of Western Australia.

The great cities of the world are global cities where citizens engage with the history, traditions and (...)

Primarily on continuum mechanics problems that  arise out of  industrial contexts  where the objectives are clear cut,  and the results are usually of limited general interest.

Sometimes, however, the investigations lead to results that are both unexpected and of much broader and (...)

Sonia graduated with an Honours degree in Biomedical Science from Murdoch University in 2009. She is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Population Health with the University of Western Australia. Here PhD project is “Breast cancer and pesticides exposure in Australia and Yemen”. Her (...)

Since her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1974, Penelope Thwaites has established an international reputation as a soloist, broadcaster and recording artist. She has performed concertos with leading orchestras throughout Europe, America and Australia.

Her many recordings of Percy (...)

The 2011 Fay Gale lecture will be given by Denise Doiron, Associate Professor, Australian School of Business, UNSW.

After a decade of stable even slightly improving income inequality, Australia suffered a sharp widening of its income distribution in the late 2000’s. Although this U-turn (...)

** Date Confirmation 27-10-11 **

Intended Audience: This session is for all teaching staff who have an interest in designing better or alternate assessment items.

Workshop Description: Assessment is, indeed has always been, a practice that is central to all teaching (...)

UWA Wind and Brass students present chamber works in this free lunchtime concert.

Acidic waters have been found across a large part of the Australian landscape and include acidic wetlands, creeks and rivers, groundwater and pit lakes. The acidity is a key control on contaminant and nutrient discharge, biodiversity and potential end uses, however our understanding of, and ability (...)

As the Commonwealth Heads of Governments deliberate the Eminent Persons’ findings, The Hon. Michael Kirby, a member of the Eminent Persons Group, will share his insights into a number of issues, including the Charter of Commonwealth Values, the proposed Commissioner on Democracy, Rule of Law and (...)

Presented by the UWA Music Students' Society, the final concert in this series will showcase solo performances of UWA Music students performing a wide range of repertoire on a rage of instruments and voice.

A/Prof Ros Francis is a Nuclear Medicine Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine / WA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Service at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and has an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Molecular Imaging, UWA (School of Medicine and Pharmacology). A/Prof (...)

The World Wide Web is the largest and most complex engineered environment that has enormous impacts on human society. Web Science addresses changes and accommodations necessary to maintain a pro-human web with positive societal benefits. This talk will elaborate on the range of research projects (...)

The world's leading authority on MS research, he'd be embarrassed to be called Mr MS, but this would certainly befit the Professor of Neurology and HOD Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge and Editor of Brain. Prof Alastair Compston Lecture is Visiting Professor at Royal Perth Hospital, he is an (...)

Dr. Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia will be presenting a lecture on “Islamic Art in Western Art Museums: A Century of Displays and Interpretation” in loving memory of Dr. Joan Trevelyan. The lecture will discuss the history of displays of Islamic art (...)

Dr Helen Mayberg is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine and holds the Dorothy C Fuqua Chair of Psychiatric Neuroimaging and Therapeutics.

Dr Mayberg’s laboratory has systematically examined depression pathophysiology in both psychiatric (...)

The Seminar: The current world wide accepted consensus criteria for neuropathological staging of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD & PD) have been developed in his Anatomy lab in Germany (Braak stages). In the seminar, Estifanos will briefly introduce these staging systems and (...)

Luba Kalaydjieva obtained her medical degree at the Higher Medical Institute in Sofia, and a PhD in biochemical genetics at the Moscow Institute of Pediatrics. Her career in Bulgaria has been devoted to setting up and developing services and research in the field of human and medical genetics. She (...)

Significant challenges remain in the remediation of low-permeability porous media (e.g. clays, silts) contaminated with dissolved and sorbed organic contaminants, with current remediation technologies, such as in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO), often being ineffective. Recent laboratory-scale (...)