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Displaying from Monday, October 07, 2013
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October 2013
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Tuesday 08 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Innovative Methods for Facilitating and Understanding Feedback Use in Clinical Practice : Adelln's PhD explores the role of psychotherapeutic feedback in improving treatment outcomes,
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ABSTRACT: This talk will consist of two smaller presentations. The first will focus on the application of technology within clinical practice to monitor and improve patient outcomes (which is the topic of presentation at the C9-G08 Forum for Graduate Perspectives on Sustainable Health Futures in (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Honours presentations
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Honours presentations:
Chadwick Beins; Selena Clohessy; Kailee Marshall; Davina Chung
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Wednesday 09 |
8:30 - Short course - International oil and gas production sharing contracts : The aim of the short course is to provide a working knowledge of state-company petroleum contract regimes, focusing on concessions and production sharing contracts.
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The course is an introductory course and will explain the contract structures, and their strengths and weaknesses. This will be accessible not only to lawyers entering the field but also to oil company personnel, government officials and others who seek an understanding of the legal and practical (...)
10:00 - EVENT - Co-op UWA Clearance Sale : CO-OP Clearance Sale Final Days
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The Co-op’s Clearance Sale finishes Friday November 1st. Items on sale include gift items, fiction, art and reference books at heavily reduced prices.
Limited stock of Tshirts at $5 for Co-op members.
Co-op Members receive 50% discount off Sale Price.
16:00 - SEMINAR - The Hydrodynamics of Large Lakes and the Implications of Carbon Sequestration : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series at UWA
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Large lakes play an important role in global carbon cycling. However, deep lakes are susceptible to anoxia with the associated loss of biodiversity if overloaded with nutrients; the balance between the forces that stabilise a lake and those that mix the water column is very delicate (...)
An Inquiring Minds lecture by Erika Techera, Professor and Dean of Law at The University of Western Australia.
This presentation will trace the development of the Law of the Sea from ancient origins to modern challenges. No doubt significant advances have been made but recently it has (...)
18:00 - COURSE - Quit Smoking Successfully! : Smoking cessation treatment program
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The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a SMOKING CESSATION treatment program commencing on Wednesday 9th October 2013. The group will meet for two hours each week for ten sessions, with an initial assessment session before the group commences and a follow- (...)
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Thursday 10 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - Investing in International Mining & Petroleum Projects : This conference brings together leading speakers on the issues faced by Australian companies making overseas investments in mining and petroleum.
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The sessions will deal with the theory and practice of how you measure the risks posed by the legal system of a host country, sovereign risk, contract stabilisation, bribery and corruption, social licence to operate and corporate governance.
GUEST SPEAKERS: Philip Wood, QC, Allen & (...)
This workshop will introduce you to the theory behind Active Learning, model a range of Active Learning strategies, and give you some practical tips and techniques to help you develop appropriate Active Learning activities for your lectures. The workshop will also touch on the use of technologies (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Do genetic effects threaten the sustainability of marine fisheries? : 2050 Food - Lecture Series
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A public lecture by Fred Allendorf, Regents Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, University of Montana and 2013 US Fulbright Senior Specialist UWA.
Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. Register: http://2050food3-eorg.eventbrite.com.au/#
Wild marine fisheries comprise (...)
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Friday 11 |
10:00 - EXHIBITION - Centenary Celebrations : Faculty for medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will celebrate in Kalgoorlie
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The UWA centenary celebration for the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be held in Kalgoorlie. We will have a mini-med school with various demonstrations that include suturing, plastering and painting of muscles and skeletons onto volunteers. Other exhibits include the RFDS (...)
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Education for character building and citizenship in Indonesia
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The Indonesian government recently introduced “character building” as a central focus of school curricula. This seminar surveys the main literature on education for character building and morality, to see how the new Indonesian version of character education both borrows and departs from the (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Multiply tiling Euclidean space by translating a convex object
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We study the problem of covering Euclidean space R^d by possibly overlapping translates of a convex body P, such that almost every point is covered exactly k times, for a fixed integer k. Such a covering of Euclidean space by translations is called a k-tiling. We will first (...)
16:00 - ORATION - 2013 Wesfarmers Harry Perkins Oration : Translational Research and the Clinician Scientist: Asking the Right Question
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Professor John Eikelboom who originally trained at Royal Perth Hospital, is a world leader in blood disorders and blood clotting,having co-authored over 350 research papers,including several in the most prostigious international journals. He is an expert in translational clinical research and is (...)
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Monday 14 |
14:00 - EVENT - Art After Death Symposium : A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and other issues affecting artists after death
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Art After Death
A half day symposium exploring legal, financial and
other issues affecting artists after death.
Arranged and supported by The University of Western Australia Law School, The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct, and Artsource.
An artist� (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Representation of spectral contrast in auditory cortex : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The role of early auditory processing may be to extract some elementary features from an acoustic mixture in order to organize the auditory scene. To accomplish this task, the central auditory system may rely on the fact that sensory objects are often composed of spectral edges, i.e (...)
13:00 - EVENT - When to Learn and When to Perform : What factors influence individuals’ decisions regarding the allocation of resources to developing skills vs. exploiting existing skills.
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ABSTRACT: Two critical and interrelated means of success in the workplace are maximizing one’s current performance by exploiting existing skills, and improving one’s future performance by developing ones skills. In the short-run, trade-offs often exist between learning and performance; time (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - When to learn and when to perform? : Colloquium
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Aaron Schmidt is a Marvin D. Dunnette Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Michigan State University in 2003. Prior to joining the faculty at UMN in 2009, he was an assistant professor of I/O (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Honours presentations
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Honours presentations:
Cathering Bapty; Michelle Welschbillig; Eboney Nheu-Leong; Jessica Khoo
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Plastic Pollution in the Global Ocean : Where has all the Plastic Gone?
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An Inquiring Minds public lecture by Professor Carlos M. Duarte, Director of The UWA Oceans Institute.
The ocean is the ultimate sink for plastic pollution, impacting marine life from tiny copepods to whales. The finding of an accumulation of plastic debris floating in the NW Pacific (...)
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