What's On at UWA

During the last week of November The University of Western Australia will be hosting the biennial EPHEA conference in conjunction with Curtin University, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University.

The theme for this year’s conference is "Building for the Future: Leadership (...)

This mini 45-minute workshop follows on from the seminars on blended learning and flipped classroom. If the goal is meaningful, deeper, transformational, learning-oriented activity in class and online - what can I do in each environment that is best for learning? Bring lesson aims for a week's (...)

The next couple of years will see significant changes in the landscape of research into childhood health and disease with the completion of the New Children's Hospital at the Sir Charles Gairdner site and it's co-location with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, one of the largest and (...)

Bayesian nonparametric analysis with the multinomial distribution and non-informative Dirichlet prior has an important application in survey analysis.

It provides a robust representation of the covariate distribution for incomplete covariates with randomly missing data. This allows fully (...)

Westerly will launch issue 58:2 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The launch is being held in conjuction with the Bliss exhibition, for which the Westerly Centre was campus partner.

This special edition, On Beauty, has been guest edited by long-term former editor, Dennis (...)

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 (...)

Professor Stephen Hill studied Pharmacology in Bristol (BSc, 1976) and then undertook PhD studies in the Department of Pharmacology in Cambridge (PhD 1979). After postdoctoral studies in Cambridge (1979-1981) he was appointed to a lecturer position in the Department of Pharmacy at the University (...)

A Joint Seminar with speakers from ARC CoE Plant Energy Biology (UWA) and Kings Park Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority labs.

UWA alumnus, diplomat and renowned folk singer, Fred Smith, who performed in the Sunken Garden at LUMINOUSnight in February this year, is returning to WA in early December for two performances in Perth and one in Albany. UWA Staff and alumni are being offered a ten per cent discount on the ticket (...)

This mini workshop follows on from the seminars on blended learning and flipped classroom. If the goal is meaningful, deeper, transformational, learning-oriented activity in class and online - what can I do in each environment that is best for learning?

It is open to any participants � (...)

This lecture describes the development and application of a laser breast scanner (LBS) that can be used in a variety of settings, ranging from hospitals to physician's offices and remote clinics.

Master of Music (Research) student Marco Lombardi presents his Master's Piano recital. The program includes:

Chopin, Frederic - Preludes Op 28 Mozart, W.A. - Rondo in A minor K511 Busoni, Ferruccio - Sonatina Seconda Castiglioni, Niccolo - Sonatina

Entry is free - all welcome! (...)

Brian Corr (UWA)

will speak on

Analysis and Implementation: the Two 'Editions' of a Matrix Group Algorithm

at 3pm Friday January the 10th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.

Abstract :

The quality of an algorithm in computational mathematics is (...)

We are all aware that nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole. Well, maybe not! In 1974 Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes emit a form of radiation, which has become known as Hawking radiation.

This radiation originates at the black hole horizon – the spherical (...)

This mini workshop follows on from the seminars on blended learning and flipped classroom. If the goal is meaningful, deeper, transformational, learning-oriented activity in class and online - what can I do in each environment that is best for learning?

It is open to any participants � (...)

Alice Devillers (UWA)

will speak on

Graphs and transitivity on 2-geodesics

at 3pm Friday January the 17th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.

Abstract :

Joint work with Wei Jin, Cai Heng Li, Cheryl Praeger, Akos Seress.

An s-geodesic in (...)

There is increasing attention to the fact that global increases in sex work occur not only among female sex workers, but also among cohorts of male sex workers. However, current research continues to focus predominately on female sex workers, and specifically on street sex workers, despite the (...)

Three correlational studies investigated implications associated with explicit-implicit sexual orientation ambivalence for information processing and psychological well-being in samples of straight and gay individuals.

Across the studies, 243 straight participants completed explicit and (...)

Irene Pivotto (UWA)

will speak on

An introduction to IPE

at 3pm Friday January the 24th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

IPE is a drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format, which can then be inserted into LaTeX documents (...)

The Seminar: Chris will present an overview from a biomedical and agricultural perspective of studies done in his lab on the growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor 1 and myostatin, which form part of a common axis (GH/IGF-1/Mstn) that regulates growth, maintenance and aging of the body. Knowing (...)