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Displaying from Thursday, November 22, 2012
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November 2012
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Thursday 22 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - To flip or not to flip? The promise and pitfalls of flipped classrooms : Associate Professor Mark Pegrum and Associate Professor Christine Howitt will outline the approaches they took to flipping their classrooms, along with the advantages and limitations they experienced in doing so.
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The flipped classroom is a term that is widely used to describe almost any class structure that provides pre-recorded input materials linked to in-class
activities. In this pedagogical model, the typical pattern
of lectures and activities is reversed. Thus,lectures are provided through pre-recorded (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Special Plant Biology Seminar: Peta Clode (CMCA): "The CMCA: An old dog with new tricks" : CMCA now offers many new and exciting opportunities for bio-researchers.
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The Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) provides local researchers and students in biology and biomaterials with access to infrastructure and expertise across imaging (small animal, optical, confocal, 3-D and electron microscopies), analytical (elemental, isotopic, and (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Coastal Figures: a spatial study of Murujuga rock art
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The Pilbara is one of the major rock art areas of Australia, and the foremost region for petroglyphs. The Dampier Archipelago stands out in this region for its high-density rock art assemblages, and extreme heterogeneity of rock art motifs. Now a coastal area, the Archipelago was an inland range (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - New insights into the proteome of the transcriptionally active chromosome from spinach chloroplasts : Chloroplasts possess their own DNA (ptDNA), which is packaged with proteins proteins into structures analogous to bacterial chromosomes, termed nucleoids or plastid nuclei.
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Dr Melonek completed her PhD in 2010 in Plant Cell Biology at University of Kiel, Germany. She continued her work in Kiel for the next 1.5 years but recently moved to Perth to join the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at UWA. Her research will focus on characterization of proteins (...)
A Public Lecture by Louise Adler, CEO and Publisher-in-Chief, Melbourne University Publishing.
In 2010, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) acquired the rights to a collection of titles by one of Australia’s most outstanding novelists, Christina Stead, including her masterpiece, 'The (...)
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Friday 23 |
The Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA and the Chair of Australian Literature are pleased to present this research symposium.
Starting out from Sydney, Christina Stead lived and worked across Europe, England and the United States, only returning to Australia at the end of her long life (...)
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Monday 26 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series: : W/Prof John Newnham presents "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Improving lung health by preventing prematurity" by W/Prof John Newnham, Head of School, School of Women's and Infants' Health,
University of Western Australia.
A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
14:00 - STAFF EVENT - UWA Staff Retreat : two night residential retreat for rest,reflection and refocussing
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This in the fifth year of offering these end of year retreats for staff at UWA. The feedback from previous participants has been universally positive.
The format includes some reflection on poetry, time alone in silence (walking, resting, reading) and we also introduce a process for (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - Gibbon Ecology and Distribution: Unanswered Questions : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Despite the considerable knowledge we have accumulated about gibbons (Primates: Hylobatidae), which now include 17 recognized species, some of the most basic questions about their biology remain unanswered. One challenge is to explain why there is so little overlap in ranges (sympatry) (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Respiratory load-induced cardiorespiratory failure : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Respiratory loads have long been used to stress the respiratory muscles. When these loads cause failure, however, this has been attributed to inadequate pressure generation by the respiratory muscles, especially the diaphragm. Recently, we discovered that in a rat model of load-induced (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Graphs and general preservers of zero products
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Bojan Kuzma (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
will speak on
Graphs and general preservers of zero products
at 1pm on Tuesday 27th of November in MLR2
Abstract: We survey some results in preserver problems (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Defining good outcomes for autistic people: What are "we" striving for?' : Free public lecture by Dr Liz Pellicano on defining what is a "good" intervention or outcome for individuals with autism
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At present, there is little consensus between policymakers, scientists, and advocacy groups as to what defines a "good" intervention or a "good" outcome for individuals with autism.
Scientists often concentrate on narrowly-defined outcomes such as changes in IQ scores (...)
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Wednesday 28 |
8:00 - CONFERENCE - Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia Conference : An essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems.
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Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA) meetings aim to provide an essential international forum for scientists and practitioners who look to restoration as a means to conserve the planet's dwindling biodiversity and failing ecosystems. These meetings provide a critical platform to (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia.
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A target to reduce phosphorus flows into the Gippsland Lakes in south-eastern Australia by 40% in order to improve water quality has previously been established by stakeholders. This target, like many others worldwide, has been set mostly on the basis of environmental concerns, with limited (...)
Assistant Professor Vance Matthews is an NHMRC Career Development Award Fellow at the Western Australia Institute for Medical Research. Since completing his PhD in 2002, he has completed successful post-doctoral positions in Germany, Western Australia and Melbourne. The results of this work have (...)
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Thursday 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 (...)
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Friday 30 |
9:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning invite you to attend a presentation �Designing technology-enhanced university programmes and courses in the 21st Century
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The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning invite you to attend a presentation “Designing technology-enhanced university programmes and courses in the 21st Century” , by CATL’s Adjunct Professor Carmel McNaught, , Professor of Learning Enhancement, CLEAR - Centre for Learning (...)
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December 2012
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Monday 03 |
8:45 - CONFERENCE - CONFERENCE: 2012 Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference : Indigenous business leaders, corporate representatives, leading academics and policy makers talk about the new opportunities for Indigenous people and communities being created by the rapidly expanding Indigenous business, enterprise and corporations sector.
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The UWA Business School Centre for Social Impact is delighted to announce the 2nd annual Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations (IBEC) Conference to be held at UWA Business School on 3 –4 December 2012.
The theme of the 2nd IBEC Conference is Growth and New Opportunities for (...)
14:00 - SEMINAR - Sleep Disorders - an Indian Perspective : RAINE LECTURE
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by repeated collapse of the upper airway during sleep. It affects 4 - 9% of the adult population. Obesity is a major risk factor for OSA. Research and awareness of OSA is slowly but steadily on the rise and so are the co-morbid conditions (...)
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Tuesday 04 |
Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Neil Gillespie (UWA)
will speak on
Completely regular codes with large minimum distance
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Daniel Hawtin (UWA) will speak on
Elusive Codes in Hamming Graphs
at 1pm Tuesday 4th of December in MLR2
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