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October 2013
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Friday 18 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Are we Postnational yet? : Seminar - Anthropology & Sociology
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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
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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
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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
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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 (...)
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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!
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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 (...)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
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) (...)
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 (...)
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Thursday 24 |
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
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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.
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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 (...)
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Friday 25 |
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 (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Seminar : Heterogeneous Effects of Preschool on Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from India
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ABSTRACT: The positive impact of early intervention on children’s cognitive and behavioural outcomes is now well-recognized in the developed world. However, little is known about whether these programs confer similar benefits in developing countries. This paper focuses on the effect of preschool (...)
13:00 - TALK - Documenting and Presenting Performance : Cultural Knowledge and Experience Embodied in Musical Recordings, Objects and Images
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Jennifer Post, an ethnomusicologist, is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow working with the John Blacking Collection at the Callaway Centre, UWA.
In this talk, Jennifer will explore the way saved sounds, objects and images hold stories and conjure memories of music-making (...)
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Moving out of the Kitchen”
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In this seminar, I will give an overview of the background of the project, and introduce some of the aims of my research. What I am going to present is a study of migration as practiced by an Indonesian ethnic group, the Bugis. The Bugis homeland is the low-land central-western part of Sulawesi (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Coprime actions of finite linear groups
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Abstract:
Let H be a finite linear group acting completely reducibly on a finite vector space V. Gabriel Navarro asked: if the H-orbits containing vectors a and b have coprime lengths m and n, is there an H-orbit of length mn?
We answered, by showing that the H-orbit containing a + b (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
I came to Australia in 1990 to work with Professor D. Siddle in the School of Psychology, University of Queensland on a postdoctoral research scholarship from the German Research Council. In 1994, I joined the academic staff in the School of Psychology, teaching in the areas of Human Associative (...)
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