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Displaying from Sunday, September 02, 2012
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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 (...)
18:00 - LECTURE - George Winterton Memorial Lecture : Republican virtues: truth leadership and responsibility
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Please register your attendance by emailing your name and number of guests to [email protected].
19:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Expanding Universe : A public lecture with Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt about the discovery that won him and his team the prize.
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In this one off very special event for Perth, Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt will describe the discovery that won him and his team the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and explain how astronomers have used observations to trace the Universe's history back more than 13 billion years, leading (...)
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Thursday 06 |
Intended Audience:
This workshop is for all academic and sessional teaching staff at UWA.
Workshop Description:
Effective teaching is a central aspect of an academic career at UWA. This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a (...)
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: Percussion Showcase
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A free lunchtime concert showcasing percussion works for small ensemble. Works of this size are rarely performed in Western Australia. Join artists in an exploration of this facet of the genre.
14:00 - SEMINAR - Infinite Divisibility I - The Elements : STATISTICS SEMINAR
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Among other things, in recent years I have investigated infinite divisibility properties of some new probability laws: generalized Planck, Lambert, and generalized stable. Although infinite divisibility is now important in physics and quantitative finance, it has dropped out of the undergraduate (...)
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Friday 07 |
10:00 - BOOK LAUNCH - CMSS invites you to meet the Author Mrs Savitri Goswami. : Mrs Savitri Goswami is one of the limited number of Indian writers who use Urdu language as a medium of expression. Her new book Dard key Rishtay has been published in Urdu by Mavara Publishers in Lahore.
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Savitri Goswami was only a child when she wrote her first play. It was so good that she was advised to take it to the local radio station, in her city Gorahkpur, Inspired by her first broadcast, the young Savitri took to her pen with great vigour, churning out many dramas, to the delight of her (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Ireland: Church, State and Society, 1800-1870 : Seminar Series
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"Disraeli, Catholics and Ireland"
Professor Oliver Rafferty SJ, the 2012 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies, will present the fourth in a series of six lectures on nineteenth century Irish history.
The Chair of Jesuit Studies is jointly recognised by (...)
In a festival extravaganza, the 90th birthday and 10th anniversary of Xenakis’ death is celebrated in one magnificent event. This unique composer wrote music of extraordinary power and originality, and the imposing stone and space of Winthrop Hall provides the perfect architectural counterpart to (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - In vivo strategies for tissue engineering, from a beating heart to a beating drum : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The field of tissue engineering has seen significant advances in materials and cell biology research over the last twenty years, but most development has been through ‘in vitro’ technologies. Translation of these methods to the clinic will require ‘in vivo’ methods to be (...)
A public lecture by Professor Anne Dell CBE FRS FMedSci, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College, London.
Cells from all domains of life are shrouded in a sugar-rich layer called the glycocalyx. Acting as “identity tags”, polymers of sugars (called glycans) within the (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Research IHC tips, tricks and pitfalls : CELLCentral Seminar (School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology)
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Research tissue poses a number of issues when it comes to immunohistochemistry. The tissue may be human or non-human in origin, but either way care needs to be taken to obtain robust and reproducible IHC results. During this seminar Jane will try to give you some of the information that you need to (...)
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Thursday 13 |
12:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - Public Lecture : Raine Visiting Professor Lecture: The TwinsUK Cohort: an international biomedical resource
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The TwinsUK Cohort is one of the most phenotyped and genotyped cohorts in the world. The cohort is a major international bioresource with much data openly. Professor Chris Hammond, who leads the eye studies at St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College London where the cohort is based, will illustrate (...)
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: Kit Buckley (composition)
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
School of Mathematics and Statistics
STATISTICS SEMINAR
Title: Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in marine biogeochemistry
Presenter: Lawrence Murray
CSIRO (...)
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