What's On at UWA

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

The Seminar: A summary of activities completed during the presenter’s 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Fellowship (ALTC) and proposed activities of a 2011 ALTC Project Grant will be provided. The presentation will demonstrate a combination of technologies (including the Moodle software (...)

Practitioner Su Hart, is a member of the Afro/Celt music group, Baka Beyond. Her own music is inspired by the music of the pygmy Baka people from the rain forests of Cameroon. In her talk she will discuss her own initiation into the Baka womens' magical singing called "Yelli" (forest (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Wei Jin (UWA)

will speak on

s-geodesic transitive graphs

at 11am on Wednesday 4th of April in MLR2.

Abstract: In a finite graph Gamma, a geodesic from a vertex u to a vertex v is one of the shortest paths from (...)

The Soil&Water seminar on Weds, April 4th at 12pm will be given by Emeritus Professor Alan Robson, as an invited speaker for Soil Science Australia. All welcome!

TITLE: "Developments in Australian Aid for International Agricultural Research"

Abstract: In the (...)

Marc Schenker is a Professor of Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He is the Founding Director of the Migration and Health Research Center (MAHRC) and Agricultural Health and Safety Center at UC, Davis. He is also a physician and (...)