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June 2013
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Wednesday 26 |
Sharks, Camera, Action! is a forum and a mini film festival, focused on sharks and their relatives, which aims to encourage, inspire, and educate the general public about the important role that these animals play in our oceans. Our goal is to facilitate communication about sharks and their (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - HPC Seminar: Why HPC is crucial to understanding how galaxies form
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Supercomputer simulations have played a transformative role over the last 30 years in establishing the paradigms of the growth of cosmic structure and galaxy formation. Theoretically they allow us to tackle problems that are otherwise intractable analytically, such as predicting the structure of (...)
Language attitudes are inextricably linked to linguistic variation and deeply tied up to groups of people and what is believed about them. The study of people’s beliefs about language, including evaluations and discriminations of language variety, falls in the area of sociolinguistics known as (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - The socioeconomic pattern of Aboriginal health: the evidence and consequences
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Carrington Shepherd is a senior analyst at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, with qualifications in economics and statistics (BEc) and health sciences (PhD). His research focuses on the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and the use of (...)
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Thursday 27 |
8:30 - STAFF EVENT - Quiet Day : for academics and professional staff at UWA
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Quiet Day for UWA Staff – Thursday 27 June 2013
8.30am to 4pm
Location: Nathanael’s Rest Retreat Centre, Mundaring
Set on a lovely bush block these Quiet Day provides some space to 'be alone' in the company of other UWA academics and professional staff with the intention of marking (...)
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Friday 28 |
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - A Life Worth Hearing : 3rd Annual Symposium on ear and hearing research
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This is the 3rd Annual Symposium highlighting research in ear and hearing.
The keynote speakers have a high international profile. Dr Wayne Wilson (UQ) will be speaking about (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder, and Dr De Wet Swanepoel will be speaking on mHealth.
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July 2013
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Monday 01 |
9:00 - EVENT - Masterclass: Research with Impact : Planning a pathway to impact for your research
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This masterclass for doctoral and early career doctoral researchers will focus on the development of plans for achieving research impact through collaborations and the two-way exchange of knowledge between the university and a range of external stakeholders.
In this presentation, Joelle will discuss the impact on academics of the forms of governance that have come to prevail in higher education, particularly in Europe, the US, and Australia, in the new century. Over the past few decades, reliance on state funding has gradually decreased whilst, at the (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
Lake Baikal has a unique natural heritage. There is no other water body similar to this huge fresh-water reservoir whose maximum depth exceeds 1 mile (1,600 m). The lake contains about 20% of the world’s unfrozen freshwater; more than that held in all of the Great Lakes of North America.
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Worshipers of the Cross and Eaters of Pork': Food, Conversion and Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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A public lecture by Eric Dursteler, Associate Professor History Department, Brigham Young University.
One of the central credos of food studies is Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s famous aphorism, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” What Brillat-Savarin sensed (...)
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Thursday 04 |
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Translational Research Symposium on Skeletal Health
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Skeletal Health is one of the key initiatives in health care. More than 30% of patients admitted to hospital are for skeletal health related issues including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, trauma and other degenerative diseases.
This one day symposium brings together a wide range of (...)
18:00 - EVENT - WinterARTS in Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery : This is a free event. Bookings are essential
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As part of the WinterARTS Festival and in celebration of the magnificent exhibition ORIENTing on show at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, join Western Australian guitarist Christine Yeong for an intimate performance and evening viewing of works. Yeong, brings her passionate, energetic, and unique (...)
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Friday 05 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, On Pseudo-Injective Group Algebra
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A module M is called pseudo-injective if for every submodule X of M, any monomorphism f : X -------> M can be extended to a homomorphism g : M -------> M. Let K be a field and G a group. It is well known that a group algebra K[G] is self-injective if and only if the group (...)
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Monday 08 |
8:00 - SYMPOSIUM - ACHRC 2013 Meeting : Spaces and Networks for the Humanities: Building Research Environments
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The 2013 annual meeting of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres is co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA.
This year’s meeting will provide opportunities for those engaged with humanities-based research to discuss many of the key issues related (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - �Canadian Research in Respiratory Health Care Delivery� : A presentation on the latest research on Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, pulmonary function testing and respiratory health care delivery issues.
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By Professor Kenneth R. Chapman,
Director, Asthma and Airway Centre of the University Health Network; President, Canadian Network for Asthma Care; Director, Canadian Registry for Alpha1 Anti-trypsin Deficiency. 12 noon for light lunch, 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation
LMS for New Users will provide participants with an introductory overview of the Moodle powered LMS (Learning Management System) used as our online learning environment here at UWA. You will need to complete this workshop before being eligible to take part in any intermediate or advanced Moodle/LMS (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
Dr Megan Balks, Senior Lecturer in Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Waikato New Zealand, has undertaken 18 trips to study soils in Antarctica and has travelled five times to the Arctic to study soils and permafrost. Megan will share her understanding of the soils in these extreme (...)
16:00 - EVENT - CWR Presents : Surface water convergence and divergence due to wind vorticity
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Using a numerical model, FANTOM3D, horizontal circulation observed at the head of Tokyo Bay on the 10th of August 2001 was shown to appear in conjunction with surface water convergence.
The effect of negative wind vorticity and other components, such as river discharge and heating/coolin (...)
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Thursday 11 |
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 (...)
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Friday 12 |
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 (...)
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