What's On at UWA

The Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing is hosting a Seminar presented by Professor Alan Rosen, Research Psychiatrist, Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle.

Over many years, psychiatric professionals have dominated the lives (...)

Iran’s nuclear programme has been a cause of concern for the international community. US and Israel are convinced that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Iran claims that it has no intention to produce nuclear weapons and its nuclear activities are to sustain a peaceful nuclear power programme (...)

The problematic term Anthropocene denotes the current interval where human activity is affecting global climate, but when did it start - during the Industrial Revolution or much earlier with the global spread of agriculture? If the Anthropocene began with agriculture, what happens to the Holocene? (...)

Internal solitary waves are large-amplitude internal waves usually characterized in a two-layer fluid as a hump-shaped disturbance whose structure does not change as it propagates at speeds faster than the long-wave speed. They are manifest at an atmospheric inversion as Australia’s Morning Glory (...)

Models of judgement and decision-making suggest that the relative ranked positions of options within a context influences judgement and choice. I will summarise evidence for the relative rank principle in a number of different social and applied contexts, ranging from actual product choice through (...)

I present an overview of some results from Australian national surveys of public beliefs about climate change, and other studies of some of the social processes underlying the public's understanding of climate change. I argue for the general views that beliefs about climate change are socially and (...)

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3rd Session. Two illustrated lectures by Winthrop Professor David Kennedy. Saturday 24 March, 1:30pm. Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia.

Program:

1:30pm - Lecture - Fall: Economic, Social, Environmental.. (...)

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Thoracic Cancer Medicine" by Professor Anna Nowak from School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation

A public lecture by Professor Richard Hobbs, 2011 WA Scientist of the Year.

Professor Hobbs studies the patterns and processes of life - species and how they interact, ecosystems and how they work - and how humans intersect with and affect these species and ecosystems. Working as an (...)

The Seminar: Deep inspiration (DI) produces a pronounced bronchodilator response in healthy humans but this response is impaired in obstructive lung diseases including both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). How stretch of bronchi causes bronchodilation is still unclear (...)

In the last half-century, engineering education has been predominantly focused on engineering science. In this talk Winthrop Professor James Trevelyan shall discuss important dimensions of engineering practice that seem to have been forgotten, not only within education but also within the (...)

"Dante's Purgatorio and Easter: an introduction with a reading of the First Canto"

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Phill Schultz (UWA)

will speak on

The subspace lattice

at 11am on Wed 28th of March in MLR2

Abstract: I describe algebraically, combinatorially and anatomically the lattice of subspaces of a finite dimensional (...)

Abstract: A simplicial complex K gives rise to a Stanley-Reisner ring A and a projective scheme X inside some projective space. The scheme X “looks like” K as it is the union, over all faces F in K, of linear subspaces of dimension dim F. These intersect as in K. If K is a combinatorial (...)

"Artists in the Labs" Speaker: Jill Scott

The artists-in-labs program, based in Zurich Switzerland started as a pilot project in 2003 to place artists into Swiss scientific research environments. The program examines current debates and discourses that can help art and science (...)

What is meant by 'maritime' archaeology and history? What materials might someone conducting this line of research consider? 'Maritime' in this sense points to research and analysis conducted on material culture with a view from sea to land. The Philippines is an archipelago of over 7000 islands (...)

Associate Professor Tony Hughes-d’Aeth lectures in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on Australian literature and film. The lecture on Michael Leunig derives from an essay commissioned for a forthcoming collection of essays on Australian (...)

In this seminar, various aspects of the unique major western and eastern boundary current systems along the east and west coasts of southern Africa (Agulhas and Benguela Current Systems) around southern Africa will be discussed in the light of new oceanographic developments in Cape Town in the (...)