What's On at UWA

The program will provide a solid introduction to the body of research around student learning and effective teaching. For those who have some teaching experience, it will provide a firm foundation upon which to improve your teaching and develop your teaching skills. For those new to teaching, it (...)

UWA's free open and online courses begin with "Developing the Sociological Imagination" and "Ocean Solutions"

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The Seminar: For over more than a decade the research on BARD1 was a side-product of the research on the breast cancer gene and protein BRCA1. Co-expression of both proteins in most tissues, their similar structure, the same phenotypes in knock-out mice, and the hetero-dimeric complex formation of (...)

A trillion text messages are sent and received every hour. Every minute 48 hours of video is uploaded on YouTube alone. The “present” has never been as ever-present as it is now. Institute of Advanced Studies Writer-in-Residence Kunal Basu will discuss whether such a high premium on the (...)

Recent developments in water accounting include the release of:-

1. the Australian Water Accounting Standard,

2. a draft Water Accounting Assurance Standard for public comment,

3. a Water Accounting Framework for the members of the Minerals Council of Australia,

In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for facilitating discussion and running engaging, interactive classes. The intended audience are tutors, including postgraduate students, teaching in any subject area. Note: Business students should contact Professor Phil Hancock for subject- (...)

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One of the principles enshrined in all international patent treaties is that equal treatment should be provided to inventors regardless of their nationality. However, little is known about whether this ‘national treatment’ principle is upheld in practice. In this paper, we (...)

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In 1961 G.E. Wall conjectured that the number of maximal subgroups of a finite group is less than the order of the group. The conjecture holds for all finite solvable groups (proved by Wall himself in his original paper) and holds for almost all finite simple groups, possibly (...)

An investigation of science podcasting, using social media and the reach of online radio. What is podcasting, what can it contribute to the understanding of science and what are the pros and cons of using such a medium? Kylie Sturgess has been podcasting since 2005, and brings her experience and (...)

Two illustrated lectures by Winthrop Professor David Kennedy and Rebecca Banks. 1:30pm Lecture 3: The Claudian invasion of AD43. 2:30pm Afternoon tea. 3:00pm Lecture 4: A new province and the rebellion of Boudicca. These lectures are the second set given as a prelude to our guest lecture by Guy de (...)

You are invited to join us mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the University of Western Australia’s Convocation.

The First meeting was held on March 4th 1913 in St George’s Hall, Hay St near the corner of Irwin Street. The historic façade including the portico (...)

Please join us for a seminar and interactive session with international academic integrity expert Dr Tricia Bertram Gallant from the University of California, San Diego about the OLT strategic commissioned project on academic integrity: Embedding and extending exemplary academic integrity policy (...)

Dr Tracey Bretag, from the University of South Australia, in 2012 led an ALTC funded project Academic integrity standards: Aligning policy and practice in Australian universities. Dr Bretag and her team will be presenting a seminar on Tuesday 5th March, with international academic integrity (...)

The scheme supports innovative, reasonably short-term projects that promote the University's education strategic objective to improve the quality of the student learning experience. Staff interested in applying for the Teaching Fellowship Scheme should attend.

Jiping Zhang (Peking University)

will speak on

Control of fusions in fusion systems and applications

at 1pm on Tuesday 5th of March, in MLR2

Abstract:

Fusion systems were introduced by L. Puig in early 1990's mainly for the purpose of block (...)

The Seminar: This presentation will introduce you to the resources and expertise iVEC can provide to support your research. iVEC is encouraging the use of supercomputing, large scale data storage and visualisation for WA researchers. This is achieved by making available facilities and expertise to (...)

The Australian Academy of Science, through its National Committee for Mathematics, has initiated the development of a Decadal Plan for the Mathematical Sciences, comprising an assessment of the current state of the mathematical sciences in Australia, a description and prioritisation of (...)

A Lecture by Director and Playwright, David Milroy.

In being commissioned to contribute to this anthology I was intrigued by the theme that had been chosen. Given the recent traumatic events caused by bushfires in the South West and other parts of Australia, it is a topical theme. While (...)

Echo360 Personal Capture is software that allows you to record your voice, your presentation and yourself to produce a short video recording. Staff use this software to record lectures specifically for an online audience, or summary or other small recordings for learning purposes. In this workshop (...)

The “21st century microscope” will not be a single instrument; rather it will be an orchestration of specialised imaging technologies, data storage facilities, and specialised data processing engines. This presentation will detail two complimentary national projects that are creating an (...)