What's On at UWA

Focused visual attention is a mechanism by which relevant visual information is selectively prioritised for further processing. Given this vital role, focused attention is essential for the efficient visual perception of a world that is not only richly varied, but also continually changing. Great (...)

Chris Budhan: Jazz, education and the music business

Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford) Mahler Lecturer and IAS Professor-at-Large

will speak on

The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics: from arithmetic to topology and back again.

at 11am in the Science Library Access Grid room.



I will discuss some models of (...)

The DOW owns and operates an extensive network of monitoring bores and gauging stations throughout Western Australia and also holds copious amounts of data collected on a project-by-project basis. Each year the Department services around 3,000 water data requests through a process which is entirely (...)

The 2013 Mahler Lecture by Akshay Venkatesh, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University.

Surprisingly, there have been fundamental new discoveries about prime numbers in the last decade, most recently by Yitang Zhang a few months ago. In this lecture, Professor Venkatesh will survey (...)

The Seminar: Aging is accompanied by a decline in the homeostatic and regenerative capacity of all tissues and organs and it is generally associated with a decline in stem cell function. Muscle aging, in particular, is characterized by the reduction of tissue mass and function, which are (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

Featuring musicians and dancers from the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Denpasar

A public lecture Ed Jocelyn, Director of Red Rock Treks & Expeditions.

This public lecture draws on five years' personal experience in developing environmentally and culturally sensitive tourism programs in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Prefering to work with local communities (...)

Abstract: We explore the role played by libel laws in selecting the information delivered by mass media to voters. The focus is on whether such laws can reduce political corruption and increase voters' welfare. By endogenizing the response of the voters to information from the media, we clarify (...)

Abstract:

Straight-line programs offer a method for encoding group computations in a "black box" sense, namely without using specifics of the group's representation or how the group operations are performed. We advocate that straight-line programs designed for group (...)

Part of The Bayliss Seminar Series http://www.chembiochem.uwa.edu.au/research/seminars

Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.

To mark the availability of Data Stores @ iVEC the eResearch Programme is offering a variety of increased outreach services to assist researchers maximise the value of the increased storage capacity being offered at iVEC.

Part of the programme of work is a series of ‘drop-in’ Data (...)

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 (...)

Come and hear from a number of Indigenous speakers and join in a discussion on Indigenous health issues. The event will highlight stories from Indigenous health professionals and provide an opportunity for students and graduates to be involved in a discussion about Indigenous health.

We (...)

The first section of the short course will introduce the international law-making process, institutions and actors, the principles of international environmental law, compliance, enforcement and liability issues, and dispute resolution.

Particular environmental law regimes explored (...)

The seminar covers the following topics: - The history of Feng Shui - Differences of Feng Shui as a knowledge, culture and religion - The threes types of force: Cosmic, Earth & Human - Explanation of the myth of Feng Shui from a scientific perspective - General application of Feng Shui - (...)

Participants will explore the functionality of the Grades area (from both a staff and student perspective) and learn how to use it effectively for grade administration.

Professor John Forrester, Professor in Ocular Immunology at UWA, Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti and Dr Matthew Wikstrom are currently exploring the role of viral infection in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity using uveitis as a model system. Uveitis is a sight-threatening disease for which there (...)

Come along and learn more about IP and what it can do for you:

. types of IP, why and how to protect it

. managing IP to protect future research opportunities

. accessing funding from various sources including Pathfinder, industry contracts, Enterprise Connect and (...)