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Displaying from Monday, August 27, 2012
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August 2012
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Monday 27 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : W/Prof David Mackey presents "Genome-wide Association Studies Success in Ophthalmology"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Genome-wide Association Studies Success in Ophthalmology" by W/Prof David Mackey, Managing Director, Lions Eye Institute. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Star-Crossed Stone - The Archaeology, Mythology and Folklore of Fossil Sea Urchins
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A public lecture by Dr Kenneth J. McNamara, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
On a March day in 1887 the skeletons of a young woman and a child were found on top of a windswept hill in southern England where they had lain in their shallow grave for about 4,000 years (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The biomechanical environment modulates airway smooth muscle phenotype and function in vitro: implications for studying asthma : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The cellular and molecular biology of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is typically studied with single-cell cultures grown on solid, thus extremely stiff, 2D substrates. However cells in vivo exist as part of complex 3D structures and experience a much softer mechanical environment. It is (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Are Three Squares Impossible?
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
BIll Smyth (McMaster University/Kings College London/UWA)
will speak on
Are Three Squares Impossible?
at 1pm Tuesday 28th of August in MLR2.
Abstract: This talk describes work done over the last 30 years or so (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
Intended Audience:
Those who are engaged in postgraduate supervision and who want to reflect upon, develop and refine their current conceptions and practice of supervision. This workshop not only provides grounding in the Graduate Research School's guidelines, policies and procedures for (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Critical requirement of Hedgehog Signalling in Small Cell Lung Cancer�
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Dr Martelotto is a cell and molecular biologist involved in full time basic research for the last 12 years. After completing his bachelor (biotechnology) degree and PhD in Biological Sciences and Molecular Biology in Argentina, Dr Martelotto was recruited by the Victorian
AgriBiosciences Centre of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - **SOLD OUT** WA on the threshold...SKA and the new view of the Universe
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UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies, Research Services and the Centre for Software Practice present the inaugural Inquiring Minds public lecture by Peter Quinn, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UWA and Director, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
Professo (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Prof Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Art History) Public Lecture : Jesuit Confraternities in Germany and the Art of Sensual Engagement
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JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH
Kay Fortson Chair in European Art and Professor of Art History
The University of Texas
Percussion Purity!
Masterworks from the percussion and piano repertoire come together in this extraordinary performance featuring some of West Australia's finest musicians; Paul Tanner, Louise Devenish, Graeme Gilling and Emily Green-Armytage. Works include Luciano Berio's Linea, and George Crumb's (...)
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Thursday 30 |
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Associate Professor Alan Lourens (euphonium)
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14:00 - SEMINAR - Modelling spatial and temporal movements of tourists : Statistics Seminar
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Tourist movement is a complex process. It can be modelled from a number of different perspectives; for example, Tourism, Geography, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Psychology. This talk aims to discuss a sound methodology, using Markov and Semi-Markov processes to model the spatial (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Bioerosion matters � trends of coral reef carbonate cycling by sponges : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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Bioeroding sponges are the most important internal bioeroders on many coral reefs, but are often overlooked because of their cryptic habit. In comparison with extensive research into reef calcification, bioerosion in general is critically understudied, and the mechanisms of reef degradation by (...)
A public lecture by Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Professor of Climate Science, University College London.
In this public lecture Professor Chris Rapley CBE will present a brief overview of the Earth system, and the evidence that human activities, especially our use of fossil fuel energy (...)
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Friday 31 |
14:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : Reimagining the Periphery: Tea, Trade and Tourism in Southwest China
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This paper explores the confluence of cultural heritage, economic development, and regional identity around the discourse and multifarious representations that are associated with the ‘Ancient Tea Horse Road’ (chama gudao 茶马古道) (ATHR) of Yunnan (...)
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September 2012
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Sunday 02 |
Percussion Purity! presents the first ever Marimba Orchestra assembled in Perth. WA’s most outstanding percussionists will perform a program of premieres by Nigel Westlake, Christopher Deane and Emmanuel Sejourne, followed by a massed Marimba Orchestra of 40 players. An exciting and unique event (...)
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Tuesday 04 |
17:00 - LECTURE - Cancelled - School of Music Presents: Distinguished International Guest lecture Series: Prof Adrian North
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled!
Professor Adrian North, Head of Psychology from Curtin University, will explore the role of music in our western consumer culture.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Free Speech, Public Discourse, and the Moral Blameworthiness of Suffering Fools
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A public lecture by Lawrence Torcello, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.
“It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated.” -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to (...)
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Wednesday 05 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Epigenetic Basis of the Pathogenesis of Neonatal Chronic Lung Disease : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Speaker: Dr Albertine graduated magna cum laude in biology from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1975. He graduated with a doctoral degree in human anatomy from Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, in 1979. He received postdoctoral training at the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - "Genetic Alterations: The stress story.� AND "Regulation of the mitochondrial transcriptome".
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I have been working in cytogenetics since I was 16. With a mother in cytogenetics and a father as a management consultant I was mentored and studied in both business and cytogenetics. The laboratory was originally located at Curtin University with involvement not only in pathology but research and (...)
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Percussion Purity! The Percussion Music of Steve Reich
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“There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history, and Steve Reich is one of them.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian.
Loved by audiences the world over, Reich’s mesmeric compositions embrace aspects of Western (...)
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