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Displaying from Tuesday, September 03, 2013
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September 2013
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Tuesday 03 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Adam Wigley: Music and literacy: Things to know and tell
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Adam Wigley: Music and literacy: Things to know and tell
The UWA School of Music Tuesday Seminar series runs every week in the Tunley Lecture Theatre (G5) at 5.00 pm. The series mixes visiting lecturers and presenters with presentations by the School's own research students at Honours (...)
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Wednesday 04 |
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Molecular Functions as Targets to Control Plant Sap Feeding Insect Pests : Plant sap - extreme diet, utilized through lifecycle of hemipteran insects only
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We are investigating insect adaptations for plant sap utilization from the perspective of molecular physiology, with the goal to identify molecular targets to control pest species.
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Changes in phytoplankton biomass due to diversion of an inflow into the Urayama Reservoir
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The three-dimensional hydrodynamic Estuary, Lake and Coastal Ocean Model (ELCOM) coupled with the ecological Computational Aquatic Ecosystem DYnamics Model (CAEDYM) was applied to Urayama Reservoir in order to examine the effect of an inflow bypass on the water quality in the reservoir.
The (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Is 'more efficient' food production in conflict with animal welfare? : 2050 Food - Lecture Series
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A public lecture by Marion Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford.
Cost: Free, but RSVP required. Register online: http://2050food2-eorg.eventbrite.com.au/#
Greater efficiency may for some people be an obvious goal for providing food security for an (...)
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Thursday 05 |
This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a teaching portfolio and used for PDR and promotion. You will leave this session confident and eager to make a start on your own portfolio. This workshop is a good follow-up to the 'What counts as evidence of good (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES : Rock Markings-A useful archaeological category?
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Archaeology is concerned with identifying and interpreting marks, literal and metaphoric, left behind by people past
and present. Rock art is one such mark, sub-divided into ‘engravings/petroglyphs’, ‘paintings/pictographs’ and
‘geoglyphs’. But there is also an overlooked and (...)
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Friday 06 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Seminar : (Don’t) Make My Vote Count
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Abstract: Proponents of proportional electoral rules often argue that majority rule depresses turnout and may lower welfare due to the “tyranny of the majority” problem. The present paper studies the impact of electoral rules on turnout and social welfare. We analyze a model of instrumental (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Connections between Graph Theory & Combinatorics on Words
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A string or word is usually thought of as a sequence of letters drawn from some alphabet. Applications to bioinformatics and other areas suggest the utility of defining strings on subsets of the alphabet instead -- so-called "indeterminate" strings. I describe (...)
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Tuesday 10 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Lipid replacement of myofibres in dysferlin-deficient muscles : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: There many forms of muscular dystrophy that affect skeletal muscles; some manifest in children e.g. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), whereas the onset for others is after adolescence e.g. dyferlinopathies, or in older adults. Thus age and growth influence the onset and severity of (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why : A conversation with Erika Techera, Dean of the Faculty of Law
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Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with Erika Techera, Dean of the Faculty of Law)
When: Wednesday 11th September, 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 (...)
This session will examine what constitutes robust evidence. This workshop is intended to provide the evidence basis for the workshop on Developing your Teaching Portfolio.
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Thursday 12 |
This workshop will examine:
Why it is important to set out a proper case with respect to teacher and unit evaluations.
How you go about demonstrating a case.
Key elements in showing the effectiveness of your teaching.
What other evidence can be included to support your teaching.
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Space and Place: Using Geographical Information Systems to Assess Theories of Late Holocene Economic Landscape Use in the Eastern Hamersley Ranges of Western Australia
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The current paradigm of arid zone landscape use in Australia during the late Holocene focuses on the opportunistic exploitation of ephemeral resources by flexibly sized social groups. This generalized model of landscape use has been adapted to explain human behaviour patterns in a wide variety of (...)
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Friday 13 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Seminar : Religion, Minority Status and Trust: Evidence from a Field Experiment
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It is now well accepted that trust is crucial for economic and social development. There is also evidence that religion strongly affects how individuals act when interacting with others. The same is true of status. Using a field experiment conducted in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, two (...)
13:30 - EVENT - Asian Studies Seminar Series : The Javanese University in Uncertainty: Between Neoliberal Globalisation and Islamisation
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This research will explore how neoliberalism and Islamic resurgence intersect and interact within a secular Javanese higher education institution that I will call The Javanese University (TJU). In keeping with anthropological commitments to understanding the world from the ground up, I will focus (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, On The Non-commuting Graph
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In this talk, we will consider the non-commuting graph of a non-abelian finite group G; its vertex set is the set of non-central elements of G, and two distinct vertices x and y are joined by an edge if they do not commute together. Actually, we study some properties of the (...)
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Monday 16 |
13:00 - EVENT - Rose Lucas poetry reading : Rose Lucas will read from her new book, Even in the Dark
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The Westerly Centre and UWA Publishing will host a poetry reading by visiting poet, Rose Lucas, from her latest book, Even in the Dark.
In this, her first book of poetry, Lucas distills years of writing into an impressive debut. Even in the Dark contains delicate poems of the lives of (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Some Results From the Motivational Leadership Training Program : Psychology Colloquium
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Organizations need to know how to motivate and engage their employees in a healthy fashion (i.e., preserving or enhancing their well-being). A large number of organizations send their managers to leadership training, even though we know surprisingly little about its impact on employee motivation (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Stephen Benfall and Naomi Smout
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Stephen Benfall: The Music of John Exton: An investigation into the factors that shaped his compositions in the years 1972 - 1979.
Naomi Smout: Reflections on performing 20th cenury Argentine Piano music
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Wednesday 18 |
9:00 - WORKSHOP - OII PhD Retreat 2013: Developing Commercialisation Skills Workshop : 18 and 19 September 2013
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This two day workshop will be structured into discrete modules along the following lines and will be presented in an interactive manner, by both UWA and external presenters:
• UWA IP Policies and Processes
• IP and IP Protection
• Assessing Commercial (...)
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