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April 2012
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Thursday 26 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Masterclass: Endoscopic optical imaging technologies : Integrating endoscopic confocal and OCT imaging technologies into biomedical research
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The focus of this IAS Masterclass will be on advances in instrumentation for biomedical optical imaging. We will see how improvements in fibre optics, wavelength-swept lasers and miniature optical components improve the resolution, acquisition speed and signal to noise ratio of single fibre (...)
12:00 - TALK - SPEAKER Chiara Fiorentini "Perceiving facial expressions. Insights from normal population and autism" : Talk by Dr Chiara Fiorentini
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We are incredibly fluent in perceiving emotions from facial expressions and this ability plays an important role in our everyday social interactions. However, the exact cognitive mechanisms underlying this ability are still unclear. In my talk, I will focus on a few studies in which I have (...)
Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students
14:00 - SEMINAR - Sustainable Aquaculture : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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Worldwide fisheries production, from capture fisheries, has leveled off at a little less than 100 million tonnes annually, whilst aquaculture production still continues to expand rapidly. In Australia, the annual rate of growth in aquaculture production has increased at more than 10% per year since (...)
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Moral Pragmatism:Thin Universals and Thick Practices : Second in the 2012 series of the Three Universities Lectures
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
16:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - High affinity phosphate transporters in Arabidopsis: a complex story! : PHT1 high affinity Pi transporters belong to a highly multigenic family of genes.
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The PHT1 high affinity Pi transporters belong to a highly multigenic family of genes. They are tightly regulated spatially and temporally by Pi supply at transcriptional and post-translational level. Combinations of genetic, cell biology and molecular biology experiment will be presented to (...)
16:00 - FREE LECTURE - Ethics Lecture : Moral Pragmatism: Thin Universals and Thick Practices
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
A public lecture by Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College and 2012 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
War is atrocious. In this this talk, Professor Joanna Bourke will explore the changing ways in which stories of murderous violence in wartime been told, reflecting on the terror (...)
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Friday 27 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - How Crude Was Life at Gdansk? : Public Talk at SymbioticA with Catts & Zurr
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Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr will discuss the Tissue Culture and Art Project(TC&A) retrospective in Lazina Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gdansk; they will use the opportunity to reflect on some of TC&A’s earlier works, and attempt to create a kind of a narrative to culminate with TC&A’s (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2012 John Toohey Oration, The Need for Reasons : A free lecture given by His Excellency Mr Malcolm McCusker AC CVO QC
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It is an inherent characteristic of humans that we want to know the reason for everything.
That “need to know”, to understand the reasons, is not confined to the physical world. It extends to decisions made by another, especially if they affect us.
Who has not, at some (...)
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Saturday 28 |
8:00 - EVENT - Chronic Lung Disease and Smoking Cessation : Educational seminar day with presentations from respiratory specialists including W.Prof. Phil Thompson, Dr Peter Bremner and international smoking cesstion expert Dr Hayden McRobbie.
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For all members of the health care team including physicians, GPs, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists and other allied health professionals.
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Monday 30 |
UWA staff are invited to Preview the Co-op Bookshop May Sale on Monday April 30th. Refreshments will be available during the day and each docket can be placed in a draw to win a Mother’s Day Pamper Pack.
Wide selection of titles from $5.95. Select from fiction and non-fiction, academic remainders (...)
11:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Research Opportunities in Canada : Information Session on Research Opportunities in Canada
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This presentation will provide information on Canadian research grants in all disciplines available to academic staff and postgraduate students.
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : Prof Jose Porcel presents "Pleural Fluid Biomarkers"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Pleural Fluid Biomarkers" by Professor Jose Porcel from Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Spain. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Shale Gas and Fracking: Environmental Saviour or Devil Incarnate?
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A public lecture by Derek Elsworth, Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University & 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
Shale gas is just one of a variety of approaches that may be taken to reduce the carbon footprint (...)
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May 2012
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Tuesday 01 |
The Co-op Bookshop May Sale ends Thursday May 31st All Sale stock half marked price this week only. Wide selection of fiction and non-fiction, academic remainders and children's books. The University Co-operative Bookshop Limited
Guild Village, UWA, Nedlands Campus
11:45 - EXPO - UWA Student Exchange Fair : A showcase of the Student Exchange Program's partner universities
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Did you know that UWA students can go on exchange to USA, Netherlands, Denmark, Singapore, Chile, Norway, China, UK, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Korea, Hong Kong and Spain?
The annual Student Exchange Fair has (...)
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Ms Victoria Schofied a Renowned Journalist Lecture on Resolving the deadlock over Kashmir : highlights the need to resolve the debate on the future of Kashmir. What is the nature of the Kashmir issue? How can it be resolved? What role do external actors play in the resolution? Victoria Schofield will address these and other related issues.
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Victoria Schofield is an internationally recognized scholar of the Kashmir issue. Her publications include Kashmir in the Crossfire (1996) Kashmir in Conflict (2000 and 2002) and Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia.
The Kashmir issue has bedevilled relations between India and (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The Merino-Welsh Conjecture
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Steven Noble (Brunel University, UK)
will speak on
The Merino-Welsh Conjecture
at 11am Wednesday 2nd of May in MLR2
Abstract: The Merino-Welsh conjecture states that for any loopless, bridgeless graph G, the (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, May2: : "Application of next-generation DNA sequencing to the analysis of long and short PCR products "
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The Soil&Water seminar at 12pm on Weds, May 2nd, will be given by Richard Allcock, with an introduction by Tony O'Donnell, Dean of Science. All welcome!
TITLE: "Application of next-generation DNA sequencing to the analysis of long and short PCR products"
Richard (...)
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