What's On at UWA

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 (...)

A public lecture by Mary C. Gentile, Director of the ‘Giving Voice to Values’ curriculum, Babson College

Does ethics make us happy? Too often we view our ethical decisions as constraints on action - a set of “thou shalt nots”. What if we instead looked at these choices as the (...)

The aim of this course is to give the participants an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, we concentrate on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Anne Thomas (Sydney)

will speak on

Polyhedral complexes, locally compact groups and lattices

at 10:30am on Wednesday 11th of April in MLR2

***Note earlier time than usual*******

Abstract: This will (...)

A public lecture by Dr Joe Liske, staff astronomer, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany.

403 years after Galileo Galilei first pointed a telescope at the night sky European astronomers are set to build the largest optical telescope ever in the Chilean Atacama desert: with a (...)

The Centre for Social Impact (UWA), together with the Department for Communities, is delighted to present a public lecture with Dr Alex Nicholls. Dr Nicholls, one of the world’s leading thinkers in social enterprise and innovation, will share his insights on 'Social Entrepreneurship: Context and (...)

Speaker: Donna Chung, Winthrop Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, The University of Western Australia.

In the last decade there has been increasing concern by a cross section of the community about what has been termed the sexualisation and ‘pornifcation’ of children (...)

Introduction

Avizo is a full-featured 3D application that enables engineers and scientists to load datasets, interactively explore, process and analyse that data, and finally to export and communicate the results. The Avizo Fire Edition offers a broad range of software tools for (...)

In this talk, Jenni draws on more than a decade of education research and teaching in chemical engineering to focus on the central issue of improving student learning in engineering education.

Illustrating these points through a range of innovations at the 2nd year level in chemical (...)

The Seminar: In mammals, including humans, there are two types of sleep. The function of the brain activity underlying these states, called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep, is an unresolved question in biology. Natural interspecific variation in sleep can constitute a powerful (...)

In this highly interactive masterclass, participants who are relatively new to engineering education research (although they might be experienced researchers in science or engineering) will engage closely with some of the key foundational issues in this research field.

Key questions (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Tomasz Popiel (UWA)

will speak on

A class of abundant p-singular elements in finite classical groups

at 11am on Wednesday 18th of April in MLR2

Abstract: Elements with order divisible by certain primes have (...)