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Displaying from Friday, March 23, 2012
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March 2012
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Friday 23 |
15:00 - Colloquium: Speaker PROF GORDON BROWN (University of Warwick) - Relative rank effects in consumer behaviour and social judgement: From cognitive models to social inequality
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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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Science Communication Seminar Series : Pushing it up hill: Social psychology, climate change, and communication.
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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 (...)
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Saturday 24 |
13:30 - FREE LECTURE - Roman Archaeology Group Free Lecture : The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Two Illustrated Lectures by Winthrop Professor David Kennedy
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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.. (...)
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Monday 26 |
12:00 - EVENT - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Anna Nowak presents "Thoracic Cancer Medicine"
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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
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Being an ecologist in Western Australia: Life in a biological wonderland caught in a minefield of polarized debates
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Deep breathing and obstructive lung disease : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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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 (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - FASE lunchtime seminar : Have we forgotten why and how we do engineering?
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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 (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The 2012 Francesco Vanzetti Memorial Lecture : Dante's Purgatorio and Easter: an introduction with a reading of the First Canto
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18:05 - FREE LECTURE - Lecture on Dante : Emeritus Professor John Scott will deliver the 2012 Francesco Vanzetti Memorial Lecture on Dante's Purgatorio.
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"Dante's Purgatorio and Easter: an introduction with a reading of the First Canto"
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Wednesday 28 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The subspace lattice
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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 (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Pure Mathematics Seminar : Triangulated topological manifolds and special algebraic varieties
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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 (...)
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Semipermeable Public Lecture Series : Presented by SymbioticA & Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA
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"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 (...)
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Thursday 29 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : Daniel Masmanian (composition)
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15:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Maritime History and Archaeology
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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 (...)
16:00 - EVENT - The Prayers of Michael Leunig : Part of the Three University Lecture Series on religious and theological themes
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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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Developing an oceanographic modelling, observing, monitoring and forecasting system around southern Africa : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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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 (...)
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Friday 30 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - Lifestyle Approaches for the Prevention of Alzheimer's disease Conference
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Registration for the Lifestyle Approaches for the Prevention of Alzheimer's disease (LAPAD) Conference is now open.
LAPAD takes place on the 30th and 31st March 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Perth, Western Australia immediately following its sister conference, RASAD on 27th-29th March (...)
10:00 - EVENT - �Government�s approach to Settling Refugees in Australia� : The Centre for Muslim States and Societies invites you to attend a public lecture by Mr Jamie Fox on the Governments approach to settling Refugees in Australia
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Mr Jamie Fox is the head of the Ministerial Support Division in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, a role he has held since February 2012. Prior to taking up that role, Jamie ran the Citizenship, Settlement and Multicultural Affairs Division in the Department of Immigration and (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : The Silent Desire: Islam, Women’s Sexuality and the Politics of Patriarchy in Indonesia
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In contrast to the study of other issues surrounding women in Islam – such as women’s creation, inheritance, marriage and divorce – women’s sexuality has been given little attention. Existing studies on this issue are limited as they have only been focused on and conducted in Middle Eastern (...)
15:00 - Colloquium: Speaker Dr JEFF VANCOUVER (Ohio University) - Dynamics in Motivation and Decision Making: Some Computational Models
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Psychology is seeking a comprehensive, integrative approach to understanding motivated human behavior; that is, one that covers action, thinking, feeling, and learning. Preferably that approach would be formal (e.g., mathematical). In this presentation several computational models, all based on a (...)
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