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Displaying from Sunday, October 27, 2013
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October 2013
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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 (...)
19:00 - EVENT - Winthrop Singers present Handel's Messiah : UWA School of Music and Saint Mary’s Cathedral proudly present Handel’s Messiah
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Written in 1742, Handel's Messiah was almost banned by Jonathan Swift, Dean of the Cathedral in Dublin, the city in which it received its first performance. But the piece more than survived the challenge, going on in its composer's own lifetime to be seen as his greatest work. In a year of (...)
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November 2013
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Friday 01 |
Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking (...)
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 (...)
13:30 - EVENT - Asian Studies Seminar Series : ‘Becoming Asian’: Processes of westernization and cosmopolitanization at an international school in Indonesia
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Young people at international schools (who are often referred to as Third Culture Kids) are expected to be “international” and open to difference by virtue of their education and transnational upbringing. However, the processes involved in becoming “international” are fraught with tensions (...)
14:00 - SYMPOSIUM - The Longevity Dividend Symposium : Health, ageing, creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
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The Longevity Dividend is a symposium on a variety of issues related to health and ageing, including the potential for and benefits of creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
Presented by the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) and the UWA (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Algebraic geometry codes
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Codes arising from algebraic geometry, first introduced by Goppa, gained attention when Tsfasman–Vladut–Zink used them to improve the Gilbert-Varshamow bound. We will give a gentle introduction to some of the beautiful ideas from algebraic geometry used to build these (...)
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Sunday 03 |
A Preclinical Imaging Workshop on radiopharmaceutical, MRI & optical imaging is being held in the FJ Clarke Lecture Theatre at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Sunday November 3, 9 am – 3 pm.
This Workshop is aimed at workers with a strong interest in, but possibly limited (...)
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Monday 04 |
The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Cell therapies for lung cancers and mesotheliomas" by Dr Sam Janes. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Wednesday 06 |
16:00 - EVENT - A microscope-in-a-needle: New technologies to image disease : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Optical coherence tomography is a recently developed imaging technology, capable of high resolution in vivo imaging of tissue. It is analogous to ultrasound, but uses near infrared light instead of sound waves.
It is used clinically in ophthalmology, and is rapidly gaining importance in (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Physics Seminar : Challenges in seismic Full Waveform Inversion for oil and gas exploration
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Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a data fitting technique in which we seek to find a three-dimensional model of the earth¹s elastic parameters from the data recorded in a seismic experiment. FWI images could be used to explore for oil and gas targets in a basin, to plan and safely drill (...)
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