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Displaying from Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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May 2013
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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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Tuesday 21 |
The Co-op UWA May Clearance Sale Last days!
Clearance stock of fiction, non-fiction and academic reference titles including dental, forensic psychology and Linguistics titles at $10, $5 and $2. Co-op members also receive Member discount off Sale Prices.
Selected stationery at 50% off RRP.
13:00 - SEMINAR - Teaching in a virtual world, Building a virtual school on the UWA campus in Second Life : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The Vice Chancellor has called for “a full review of pedagogic purpose and practice in 2013, with the aim of introducing new pedagogies from the beginning of 2015” this aim was subsequently approved by the Academic Board. Unfortunately the primary driver for such change is often (...)
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Eva-Marie Middleton
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Eva-Marie Middleton: Choral Performances of the Past
The archive of recorded music available for academic study now extends back for over a century. One of the avenues of study provided by this resource is a stark portrayal of differences in performance style over that period. This (...)
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Wednesday 22 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : A conversation with John Dell
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with W/Prof John Dell)
When: Wednesday 22nd May, 2013, 12pm to 1.30pm
Where: Science Library – 3rd Floor meeting room
'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA Academics (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Effects of reservoir operations on the biogeochemistry of Deadwood Reservoir, USA
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Deadwood Reservoir was created in 1931 by impoundment of the Deadwood River by Deadwood Dam. It is located in west-central Idaho, USA, at approximately 1600 m above sea level, in an extremely harsh environment where winter temperatures regularly reach 30 degrees below zero. The U.S. Bureau of (...)
A public lecture by Professor Burdett Loomis,
Fulbright Flinders University Distinguished Chair in
American Political Science.
The American political system was not designed to produce speedy or highly responsive policy-making. Given the US’s separation-of-powers structure, a grossly (...)
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Thursday 23 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
Presented by Distinguished Visiting Professor Lambert Schuwirth, this workshop will introduce you to the background behind workplace-based assessment, cover sense and nonsense of WBA, and give you practical tips and techniques to help you find a way to combine it with daily clincal/practical tasks (...)
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Friday 24 |
10:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Around the World with Archaeology and Beyond : Informal day of free lecture presentations in celebration of National Archaeology Week
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Current archaeology staff members will give interesting and entertaining insights into their research projects in Australia and around the world. As a special guest and expert in space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (Australian Cultural Heritage Management and Flinders University) will take visitors (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Algebraic graph theory applied to configurations of polar spaces
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The speaker will give the second half of his talk from a fortnight ago, but with a different context. We will first go through some background on the basics of algebraic graph theory, eigenvalue techniques, and strongly regular graphs, before giving some short non-existence (...)
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Sunday 26 |
In celebration of the University’s centenary, UWA School of Music joins with UWA Choral society for an extravagant evening of sound. As part of the celebration, an orchestra of over 170 will perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on it’s 100th anniversary before being joined on stage by the (...)
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