What's On at UWA

In the mid 1850s the officers in charge of the convict system in Western Australia engaged in a lengthy debate over the make up of the official convict ration. The debate is captured in a voluminous correspondence, leading to a wide range of documentary evidence that recorded the official convict (...)

The film demonstrates how villagers living in the Trobriand Islands, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, transformed the game of cricket into their own form of ritual and fun. Methodist missionaries introduced cricket to the Trobriand Islands in 1903, the residents then altered the game to represent (...)

A public lecture by Professor Shaun P. Collin, WA Premier’s Research Fellow, and Winthrop Professor, The UWA Oceans Institute.

The eye, and ultimately the brain, mediates the detection of light by all organisms on earth. However, eyes are all different and the levels of light available (...)

A/Prof Mohammed Benghezal will give a talk on "Xer recombination in H. pylori" in the Microbiology & Immunology Seminar room, Friday, 25 May 2012 at 09.00am. In the model organism E. coli, recombination mediated by the related XerC and XerD recombinases complexed with the FtsK (...)

The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Lung function – going global in 2012" by Professor Graham Hall from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

The Seminar: The seminar will focus on the two main areas of research conducted in the comparative and thermal physiology lab; the mechanism and use of selective brain cooling in some animals, and the variation in the circadian rhythm of core body temperature (and what it might mean). When it was (...)

A public lecture by Professor Jean-Pierre Burg, Institute of Geology, ETH Zurich 2012 UWA Gledden Visiting Senior Fellow.

The Himalayan syntaxes, at the western and eastern extremities of the Himalaya Mountain Range, are anomalously high regions around which the mountain trends turn by (...)

The next lecture in the ‘Three Universities Lecture Series’ is……

Same-Sex Relations: A First Century CE Perspective, Emeritus Professor Bill Loader

Tuesday 29th May, 4–6pm at Murdoch University, Education and Humanities Building, Room EH1.001. Use Car Park 4 or 5 (...)

The Seminar: Compelling evidence suggests that cancer cells are generally under reactive oxygen species (ROS) stress. As mitochondria respiration is the main source of ROS generation in the cells, MnSOD is of prime importance in maintaining the tumor cellular ROS balance. It has recently been (...)

My research focuses on the role of epigenomic modifications in genome organization and transcription in complex eukaryotic organisms. After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia, I joined Joseph Ecker's laboratory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 2006. I (...)

A public lecture by Professor Eric Higgs, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Canada and 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

The science and practice of ecological restoration have thrived for several decades on the idea that historical (...)

This seminar reviews the process of cultural contact over the last millennium throughout the world. Traversing the globe from crossing the North Atlantic at AD1,000, and opening trade routes across Asia by the 18th century, Europeans had established colonies and trading posts in the far reaches of (...)

In a synergy of sound, the UWA Symphonic Chorus and Symphony Orchestra blend strengths in the renowned acoustic of Winthrop Hall. Under the direction of resident conductor Alan Lourens, experience the depths of emotion of these remarkable works. Wagner Meistersinger Overture/Hindemith Mathis der (...)

The Westerly Centre, Philip Mead (Chair of Australian Literature), and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature will hold an event to celebrate the life and work of one of the most respected and admired scholars and teachers in Australian literary studies, Bruce Bennett, who sadly (...)

The lecture will focus on the as yet unsuccessful attempts of the opposition to unite, and the determined campaign of the regime to crush the revolt by force. Dr Spyer will give background details and an assessment of both the regime and the insurgency, and will ask why it has been that unlike in (...)

Do you teach a capstone? Might you teach one soon? Are you interested in innovative approaches to teaching that facilitate student learning? Or are you a faculty executive member/learning adviser/staff developer/program director interested in curriculum development generally, and capstones in (...)

The Seminar: The lung is a remarkable organ with gas exchange and vital immune defence roles accomplished in a branching network of airways and about 200 million alveoli. It is also an extremely dynamic tissue with rapid turnover of lung cells and their surrounding matrix which may explain the (...)

The ninth Mathematics in Industry Study Group in South Africa was held at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Muizenberg, Cape Town, in January 2012. A brief review of some of the Problems considered at the meeting will be given. The talk will concentrate on the problems submitted by (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Guang Rao (UWA)

will speak on

SCVT-Graphs

at 11am on Wednesday 6th of June in MLR2.

Abstract: A graph is called self-complementary if its complement is isomorphic to itself. SCVT-graphs are the graphs that are (...)

Oliver Messiaen's ethereally stunning twentieth century masterpiece first premiered in 1941 to an audience of Messiaen's fellow prisoners of war at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Gorlitz, Germany. On this viciously cold night hundreds were offered hope, Graeme Gilling (piano), Ashley (...)