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February 2012
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Monday 20 |
The course is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics. It will be spread over three days covering material ranging from means and standard deviations to simple linear regression, and basic ANOVA. Some basic categorical data analysis will be included with the emphasis (...)
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Neonatal Nutrition Symposium : Symposium for neonatal specialists on current topics of infant nutrition
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The inaugural Neonatal Nutrition Symposium of the Centre for Neonatal Research and Education, this event will feature presentations by distinguished international and local experts. Subjects will include physiology of infant feeding, allergy prevention, and use of probiotics.
14:00 - EVENT - STATISTICS SEMINAR : First Passage Times for Random Walks and Levy Processes
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Title: First Passage Times for Random Walks and Levy Processes
Abstract: The behaviour of the tail of the distribution of the first passage time over a fixed level has been known for many years, but until recently little was known about the behaviour of the probability mass function or (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
11:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: A census of cubic vertex-transitive graphs
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Gabriel Verret (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
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A census of cubic vertex-transitive graphs
at 11am Wednesday 22nd of February in MLR2
Abstract: We explain how some of our recent results have (...)
Nina V. Fedoroff received her PhD in Molecular Biology from the Rockefeller University, and has served on the faculties of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Johns Hopkins University and the Pennsylvania State University, where she was the Director of the Biotechnology Institute and the (...)
A Public Lecture by Dr Nina Fedoroff, Distinguished Professor, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology and Evan Pugh Professor, Penn State University.
The climate is warming. Water tables are falling around the world. Biodiversity is under ever-increasing pressure. The (...)
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Thursday 23 |
12:00 - TALK - Evidence for Selection in the Evolution of Human Communication Systems : Human communication systems evolve and socio-cultural processes play an important role in this process
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Human communication systems evolve and socio-cultural processes play an important role in this process. The cultural mechanisms that guide this evolution are not well understood. Using a laboratory study that is extended by computer simulations, we test three mechanisms through which human (...)
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Monday 27 |
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Molecular Basis of the Antifungal Activity of a Plant Defensin : JOINT PRESENTATION: ARC CoE PEB / UWA School of Plant Biology
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Professor Anderson's current work is focussed on defence molecules produced by plants for protection against insect pests and pathogens..
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Tuesday 28 |
15:45 - SEMINAR - Physics Seminar : Broadband and tunable optical nanoantennas for optical communications, sensing and quantum applications
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Conventional antennas, which are widely used to transmit radio and TV signals, can be used at optical frequencies as long as they are shrunk to nanometer-size dimensions. Optical nanoantennas possess plasmonic modes – collective oscillations of the metal's conduction electrons – that strongly (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Neighbour transitive codes and connections with power line communication
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Neil Gillespie (UWA)
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Neighbour transitive codes and connections with power line communication
at 11am in MLR2 on Wednesday 29th of February
Abstract: Power line communication has been proposed as (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - A World of Opportunities: Social innovation in the international and Australian cultural sector
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A Public Lecture by Vanessa Kredler, UNESCO.
This presentation will introduce the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Cairo, which is being developed under the auspices of UNESCO. The NMEC is an ambitious new museum project that will look at Egyptian civilization from (...)
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March 2012
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Thursday 01 |
12:00 - TALK - Attentional capacity limitations in face perception - processing face sets : Person Perception Seminars - Talk by Dr Markus F. Neumann, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Distracter faces are difficult to ignore. Faces that are entirely irrelevant to an ongoing task are being processed even in ‘high load’ conditions that promote distracter inhibition for non-face stimulus categories. Distracter face processing can, however, be reduced by adding a second face to (...)
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Friday 02 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Science Communication Seminar Series : Sony ExploraScience – an interactive science museum
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Behind the scenes at Tokyo's Sony ExploraScience interactive science museum - a summer of science performances, blogging, media releases and workshop planning
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Sunday 04 |
18:30 - OPENING CEREMONY - UWA Commencement Prayers : Annual service of Christian prayer to launch the new year, for staff and students.
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At this point of the year staff and students throw themselves at a semester full of things that change them, new knowledge, new relationships, new inner challenges and new questions.
This service is an opportunity to make time to orient towards what God is doing with this world and with them, and (...)
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Tuesday 06 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Metabolic regulation of insulin secretion and the impact of exercise : School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: A large body of work has been produced in the laboratory of Prof. Newsholme detailing the importance of amino acids to insulin secretion. While long-term exposure to high glucose induces oxidative stress in beta cells, conflicting results have been published regarding the impact of ROS (...)
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Professor Jane Edwards from the University of Limerick, Ireland
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Prof Jane Edwards is a world leading music therapist and will speak on parent and infant music making.
17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Unsafe Haven, Hazaras In Afghanistan : Public Lecture by Mr. Abdul Karim Hekmat on Hazaras and their treatment in Afghanistan
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Last November a 27 years old Hazara asylum seeker was about to be deported to Afghanistan. The Federal Magistrate Court put a temporary injunction against his forced removal because of ‘lack of procedural fairness.’ Now a legal challenge is underway in the High Court to determine the fate of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - America's Water Crisis and what to do about it : Trepidation and Inspiration for Western Australia
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A public lecture by Robert J Glennon, The Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.
Australia and the United States are both facing a water crisis. Recent and severe droughts, especially in Western Australia and in Texas, have (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Coprime subdegrees for primitive permutation groups and completely reducible linear groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Cheryl Praeger(UWA)
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Coprime subdegrees for primitive permutation groups and completely reducible linear groups
at 11am on Wednesday 7th of March in MLR2
Abstract. This work was (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Arab Spring, Non-Arab reactions : Public Lecture by Professor Ehud Toledano on reactions by non-Arabs to the Arab Spring
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Speaker Bio:
Ehud Toledano is a Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History, and the Director of the Graduate School of Historical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Previously, he held the role as Head of the University’s History Department. He is a leading Israeli academic specializing (...)
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