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Displaying from Wednesday, October 23, 2013
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October 2013
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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 (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - �Why Comparative Physiology is relevant to clinicians: does it matter that our mice live at 22�C?� : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: In this seminar we discuss the relevance of comparative physiology to aspects of temperature regulation, and the problems of extrapolating from animal models to humans. Students of comparative physiology learn detail of size scaling laws in animal energetics, including laws that (...)
17:00 - CANCELLED - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir - CANCELLED
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Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - How to prevent depression in later life. : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Depression is a common and disabling disorder that affects people of all ages. The causes of depression are not well understood, but consistent information about risk factors is available.
These include familial predisposition, certain lifestyle choices, clinical morbidities and (...)
Dr. Peter B. Noble is an NHMRC Career Development Fellow in the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology. Research focus is on the structural and mechanical determinants of airway disease including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His general experimental approach utilises a (...)
A public lecture by Professor Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics and 2013 IAS Short Stay Visitor.
Register: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/theisen
Experimental physics explores natural phenomena from the smallest to the largest length scales, covering (...)
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Thursday 31 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
16:00 - SEMINAR - School of Animal Biology Seminar : A/Prof Dustin Marshall, Monash University
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We will be hosting our next Animal Biology Seminar next Thursday, 31 October, from 4-5pm in the Jennifer Arnold Lecture Theatre. We're very fortunate to have an invited guest coming to UWA from Monash University, A/Prof. Dustin Marshall.
We will also be serving wine and cheese, which (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Archaeology Seminar Series : Steam, Trains, Soldiers and Guns
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Steam, Trains, Soldiers and Guns
Rock art and Resistance in Northern South Africa
4-5pm
Thursday, 31st October
Social Sciences, Lecture Room 1
Archaeology
School of Social Sciences
Seminar Series 2013
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Carbonate Deposits in Roman Aqueducts : a Data Source for Archaeology, Palaeoclimate and Archaeoseismology
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A public lecture by Cees Passchier, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany.
Carbonate deposits in aqueducts are a new high-resolution data source for palaeoclimate, spring hydrology and earthquake occurrence.
Ancient aqueducts are also a promising archive for archaeoseismic (...)
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