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Displaying from Wednesday, October 16, 2013
 October 2013
Wednesday 16
13:30 - WORKSHOP - Supervising International Postgraduate Students Website | More Information
Using a discussion-based approach, this workshop builds on the material about international student supervision introduced in the one-day Supervising Postgraduate Students workshop. However, prior attendance at the Supervising Postgraduate Students workshop is not a pre-requisite for attendance at (...)

17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA Centenary Celebration of Archbishop Riley : Afternoon and evening of events to mark Archbishop Riley's vital contribution to the founding of UWA and St George's College. Website | More Information
Join us in acknowlegement of Archbishop Riley, a key figure in the foundation of the University, the second Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia, first Warden of the UWA Convocation and co-founder of St George's College. It will be an afternoon and evening of events to mark (...)
Thursday 17
9:30 - WORKSHOP - Using Student Feedback to improve your teaching Website | More Information
This workshop will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the different items in the SPOT questionnaire; look at how to interpret ones report and explore strategies that could be utilised to improve these areas of teaching; discuss a range of tips and strategies to collect feedback other than the (...)

16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Some Key Issues in South American Archaeology:Colonization, Discontinuities, and Linguistic Replacements More Information
South America was the last large continental landmass to be peopled by humans, during the Late Pleistocene, initiating an occupational history of ca. 15.000 years. This presentation outlines this history from a biogeographical and demographic perspective, by selecting a few cases extending from (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Lascars' Lives in the Eighteenth Century Indian Ocean Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Jesse Ransley, Researcher in Archaeology at the University of Southampton and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.

Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/ransley

The labour of Indian Ocean sailors (known by Europeans as ‘lascars’) underpinned (...)
Friday 18
11:00 - SEMINAR - Are we Postnational yet? : Seminar - Anthropology & Sociology More Information
Academic debate about the anachronism of national borders has been common for some time. The general population, however, has been less keen to embrace such ideas. This paper considers some of the academic arguments, and then offers evidence from focus groups conducted across Australia, that (...)

12:00 - EVENT - Economics Seminar : Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes More Information
ABSTRACT: The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This (...)

12:00 - SEMINAR - CANCELLED SEMINAR - Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes : CANCELLED EVENT - ECONOMIC SEMINAR More Information
TOPIC: Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Regular orbits of Sym(n) and Alt(n) on irreducible representations More Information
Abstract:

Given a finite group G and a faithful irreducible FG-module V where F is a field of prime order, we can ask whether G has a regular orbit on the vectors of V. This problem is related to determining which primitive permutation groups of affine type have a base of size 2, as well (...)
Monday 21
17:45 - LECTURE - The Warren Centre Innovation Lecture 2013 : Dr Alex Zelinsky Chief Defence Scientist, DSTO presents: Think Big and Make It Happen! Website | More Information
The Warren Centre’s annual Innovation Lecture Series puts successful Australian innovators in the public spotlight.

Dr Alex Zelinsky, Chief Defence Scientist and head of The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), presents The Warren Centre’s 2013 Innovation Lecture (...)
Tuesday 22
12:00 - EVENT - What matters to me and why? : A conversation with Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) More Information
Lunch time talk: What Matters to me and Why (with Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)

'What Matters to me and why' is a series of lunch time talks and conversations with UWA Academics. The talks explore personal stories of family, place (...)

13:00 - Colloquium - What is Stereo Vision good for? : Our knowledge about the location and shape of real objects More Information
The natural world provides a rich and varied array of depth information – numerous cues that are commonly divided into monocular and binocular categories. Our experience with two-dimensional representations of depth in paintings, 2D movies and computer simulations is so vivid that the additional (...)

13:00 - SEMINAR - Anthropology Seminar : Atikamekw postcolonial territoriality: A complex co--existence and entanglement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous regimes of values More Information
The Atikamekw are an Algonquian group, now living in three communities in the Upper St- Maurice region (Québec, Canada) and number around 6,000 people. While they have been “invited”, all through the colonial period, to gradually exclude themselves from Nitaskinan, their ancestral lands, they (...)

18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Balancing the Role of Government and the Market - the Challenge of Formulating Public Policy 'In Public' : 2013 Reid Oration Website | More Information
The 2013 Reid Oration will be presented by Paul McLeod, Associate Professor of Economics, UWA and Adjunct Professor with the Australian and New Zealand School of Government.

This lecture will discuss how policy formulation is potentially fragmented and losing its ability to distinguish (...)
Wednesday 23
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Stem Cells and Melanoma� Website | More Information
Dr. Frank's laboratory research, conducted in the Transplantation Research Center of Children's Hospital Boston and the Department of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, focuses on the physiological and pathological roles of the human P-glycoprotein family of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) (...)

18:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Western Desert Art: Another Story Website | More Information
Join us for a special talk by visiting speaker Dr Diana Young on October 23, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Ernabella Arts, situated on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the Western Desert, is the oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre in Australia (...)
Thursday 24
11:00 - EVENT - Master Class: Steven Isserlis : Internationally renowned cello soloist Website | More Information
Acclaimed worldwide for his technique and musicianship, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator and author. As a concerto soloist he appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including in recent seasons (...)

16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Summary of Results of the 2013 Field School at Fremantle Prison More Information
This year’s archaeological field school (ARCY3002) took place at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Fremantle Prison. Field work began on September 23rd and continued until Oct 4th. In this presentation we will discuss the background history of the site, the areas chosen for investigation, an (...)

18:00 - LECTURE - 27th Dr George Hondros Memorial Lecture : Unique designs — the power of multidisciplinary collaboration. Delivered by Tristram Carfrae Award-Winning Structural Engineer, Director and Arup Fellow. More Information
Tristram Carfrae is responsible for the design of an impressive array of award-winning buildings and is regarded internationally as a leading designer of light weight long-span structures.

In collaborating with some of the world’s best architects, he has a reputation for challenging (...)
Friday 25
10:00 - SEMINAR - The Methodology behind the Nurses� Health Study Website | More Information
The Nurses’ Health Studies are among the largest and longest running investigations of factors that influence women’s health. Started in 1976 and expanded in 1989, the information provided by the 238,000 dedicated nurse-participants has led to many new insights on health and disease. While the (...)


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