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Displaying from Saturday, May 04, 2013
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May 2013
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Monday 06 |
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Scott Stephens CS Lewis Anniversary Lecture : Fifty years on, CS Lewis still inspires intelligent Christian commentator on society
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Scott Stephens of ABC Religion and Ethics will speak on "The Missing Middle: How we lost our sense of the Good (and our sense of God along with it)." This is one of several events commemorating C.S.Lewis and his impact. One of 2013 UWA CHaplain's International Lecture series.
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Tuesday 07 |
10:00 - COURSE - Policy, program and project evaluation in the 21st century in theory and practice : The life sciences and beyond
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An Institute of Advanced Studies Short Course Professor Peter W.B. Phillips,Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan.
In a time of fiscal restraint and economic slowdown, governments around the world are looking to technological innovation as one (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Louise Devenish
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Louise Devenish (DMA candidate)
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Wednesday 08 |
“This presentation will outline some of the public health challenges facing Australia, discuss the role of advocacy, and describe campaigns that have helped to change policy, behaviour and public health in Australia”.
Brief bio.
Mike Daube is Professor of Health Policy (...)
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Thursday 09 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - TACTILE IMAGES: RAPID PROTOTYPING RENDERING 3-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGING : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Advances in scanning geometries, detectors and computer vision are providing increasing detail in medical imaging, including dynamic 3-dimensional (3D) rendering allowing the user to view 3D structures of interest on a monitor. However, the interface between computer vision and (...)
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - FREE Lunchtime Concert : UWA Faculty Artists: Suzanne Wijsman (cello) & Martina Liegat-Wilson (piano)
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Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Western Australia as an old landscape transformed, altered, but not lost
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from the wheatbelt to the Murchison in the path of Surveyor Robert Austin’s 1854 expedition.
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Stephen Hopper, Winthrop Professor of Biodiversity,The University of Western Australia.
In this talk, Professor Hopper will present a modern journey (...)
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Friday 10 |
This workshop investigates three collaboration tools that allow either the teacher, or the students, or both to share resources, knowledge or to reflect: the Database, Glossary and Wiki activities. Participants will learn how to set up the Glossary, Database and Wiki activities and explore the ways (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Ovoids and spreads of finite polar spaces
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This talk is a survey of one of the driving topics in finite geometry, and the connections that ovoids and spreads have to other areas of finite geometry and permutation groups. Apart from a presentation of the history of the field and the main open problems, the speaker will (...)
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Sunday 12 |
15:00 - PERFORMANCE - Keyed Up! Raymond Yong : Continuing in the Keyed Up! tradition, the School of Music is proud to host internationally distinguished artists in 2013. Indulge your senses in the renowned acoustic of the Callaway Music Auditorium and give your Sunday afternoons a new dimension!
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Raymond Yong is widely recognised artist around Australia, performing solo recitals, concertos with orchestra, and chamber music concerts with some of Australia’s finest musicians and ensembles. He is the founding Artistic Director of Orchestra 21, Music Director of the Victorian Youth Symphony (...)
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Tuesday 14 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Raine Study � A unique West Australian resource for health and medical researchers. : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The Raine Study is one of the largest successful prospective cohorts of pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and now young adulthood in the world. It began in 1989 at King Edward Memorial Hospital with the recruitment of 2,900 pregnant women in early pregnancy. These families were (...)
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Wednesday 15 |
A public lecture by Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia.
In this inaugural Rio Tinto-UWA Education Partnership lecture, Professor Ian Chubb will discuss the importance of science to Australia’s future and its place in the world.
Professor Ian Chubb was appointed to the (...)
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Thursday 16 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : "IWRM and water resource modelling project experiences in Africa by our Aurecon Water Resources."
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My Seminar deals with two Aurecon Projects on opposite ends of the African Continent that might appear widely divergent, but which are actually closely related within the domain of IWRM.
Nile Basin DSS: Aurecon is the lead consultant on Pilot Studies on the development and establishment of (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Reconstructing a vanished landscape: a palaecological and paleoethnobotanical investigation from Barrow Island, WA through archaeobotanical analysis.
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Macrobotanical remains, such as charcoal, generate valuable data surrounding past relationships between people and plant communities. People are a part of ecosystems, and the role of the biophysical environment in offering challenges and opportunities to them is fundamental. After all, plants (...)
A cross-disciplinary forum.
The importance of water and its impact on society will continue to be one of the key challenges for future generations struggling with droughts, floods and the availability of clean drinking water. The need for cross-disciplinary strategies to deal with the (...)
Title: Addressing the social-ecological values gap.
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Addressing the social-ecological values gap - Can we find fisheries management solutions that work for people and nature?
The call for expanding social-ecological science and metrics for sustainability
will require resolving (...)
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - Helen Trinca Lecture : Helen Trinca will discuss her new biography of Madeleine St John
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Helen Trinca will discuss her experience of writing a boigraphy of highly-regarded Australian novelist Madeleine St John. The lecture will be held at the Webb lecture theatre on Thursday the 16th of May. This event is free and will start at 6:30pm, running for approximately an hour.
Madel (...)
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Friday 17 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Local transitivity properties of graphs and pairwise transitive designs
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One of the earliest triumphs in applying the finite simple group classification in algebraic graph theory was the characterization of finite distance transitive graphs. Recent work by Devillers, Giudici, Li and myself focuses on a generalisation of this class of graphs: locally (...)
Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00.
Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.
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