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Displaying from Thursday, May 15, 2014
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May 2014
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Thursday 15 |
18:00 - PRESENTATION - What's Christianity Ever Done for Arts and Architecture? : This WXED talk presents stunning visuals of soaring and uplifting Christian art and some stories of iconclasm and censorship in order to draw a picture of Christianity's contribution to our current artistic culture.
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'Verily it is by beauty that we come at wisdom,'so it says at Winthrop Hall, so what are all the 'words' for? This WXED talk presents stunning visuals of soaring and uplifting Christian art and some stories of iconclasm and censorship in order to draw a picture of Christianity's contribution to (...)
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Friday 16 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Classic problems of packing in 2d, 3d and on a cylinder
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Denis Weaire
Gledden Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, UWA
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School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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Classic problems of packing in 2d, 3d and on a cylinder
at 3pm Friday May the 16th in (...)
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Saturday 17 |
10:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Technology : UWA Archaeology Department celebrates National Archaeology Week on 17 May
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The UWA Archaeology Department invites you to join us to celebrate National Archaeology Week on Saturday, 17 May.
What do archaeologists actually do? How do archaeologists use cutting-edge technology in their research? What kind of archaeological research goes on at UWA? How can you even (...)
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Monday 19 |
Distance and time based road pricing schemes have been proposed by many transport economists as an efficient way to manage scarce road infrastructure. Introducing road pricing involves many stakeholders, and there are many issues that need to be resolved before implementing such a scheme in (...)
18:00 - EVENT - *Sold Out* UWA 2014 Research Tasting Night - An Intellectual Tapas *Sold Out*
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An Inquiring Minds event co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Research Services and the Centre for Software Practice at UWA.
After the success of our first Intellectual Tapas in 2013, we are pleased to host another research tasting night. In this special event, guests will (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
iVEC and CSIRO invite you to attend training on MOOSE – Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment. The MOOSE platform is a general problem solver that can accommodate many mathematical models. It has recently been released as open-source software, making it even easier for academic (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Pole position: Spindle mechanisms that regulate asymmetric cell division and brain size : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Asymmetric division is a specific form of mitosis that generates two unequal daughter cells with different fates. It is an intrinsic property of pluripotent, self-renewing progenitor cells and required for tissue morphogenesis and homeostasis. Defects in mechanisms regulating division (...)
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - India-Pakistan Relations: An Overview : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sanu Kainikara
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Ever since the birth of Pakistan and India as independent nations after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, Indo-Pak relations have been vexed to say the least. The nations have fought three accepted wars; two unacknowledged wars; and is still in the throes of insurgency and counter-i (...)
13:00 - EVENT - The objectified self(ie) � young women�s use of Facebook and The orientation dependence of a motion streak aftereffect reveals reciprocal gain interactions between orientation and motion neurons
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Two talks will be presented that have recently been given at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists and the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology conferences respectively.
Abstract 1:
Recent years have seen the ‘selfie’ become ubiquitous. The act of taking a (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
This workshop is recommended to those who are interested in applying for a Fellowship. The Fellowship scheme supports innovative, reasonably short-term projects that promote the University's education strategic objective to improve the quality of the student learning experience. In the workshop you (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Chemical and isotopic imaging at the sub-micron scale with NanoSIMS : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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To understand large-scale phenomena, such as ecosystem health or ore mineral deposition, researchers are increasingly looking at the chemical processes occurring at the nano-scale. Mass spectrometry traditionally requires material to be extracted in bulk from samples, at the expense of information (...)
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Thursday 22 |
14:00 - SEMINAR - 'O, that this too, too pixelated flesh would melt' : The Decade in Digital Shakespeare Studies
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A Digital Humanities Research Seminar with Dr Brett D. Hirsch, ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies, UWA.
How has the field of Shakespeare Studies responded to the emergence of exciting new technologies, innovative computational and quantitative (...)
18:00 - PRESENTATION - What's Christianity Ever Done for the Law? : This WXED talk uncovers some pioneering persons, values and structures that Christianity has contributed to the Law as we have it, though its track record is stained by times of corruption and assumed privilege.
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Complex ethical questions, judgements for the crime or the criminal or society? And what place mercy? Much of our talk takes place in a vacuum. So, taking a leaf from "Life of Brian" this WXED talk uncovers some pioneering persons, values and structures that Christianity has contributed (...)
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Friday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Threshold effects and climate change policy : Assistant Professor Morteza Chalak, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy
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Climate change scientists have shown concerns about possible sudden changes due to crossing a temperature threshold. Many authors emphasized the importance of sea level rise due to melting ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica and its large economic consequences. We study the economic (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Chromatic roots of graphs and matroids
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Gordon Royle (UWA)
will speak on
Chromatic roots of graphs and matroids
at 3pm Friday May the 23rd in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
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The location of the real and/or complex roots of the chromatic polynomial of a graph has been studied (...)
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Monday 26 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Shadows of Success: A critical development geography of Southeast Asia
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A public lecture by Jonathan Rigg, Professor of Geography, National University of Singapore and 2014 IAS Professor-at-Large.
We have become so used to Asia’s rapid economic expansion and the idea that the world’s future lies with the East rather than the West that the continuing and (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - RDI Intellectual Property for UWA Researchers : A seminar to be held on Tuesday 27 May 2014
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Come along and learn more about IP and what it can do for you:
. types of IP, why and how to protect it
. managing IP to protect future research opportunities
. accessing funding from various sources including Pathfinder, industry contracts, Enterprise Connect and (...)
Dr. Allbritton obtained her B.S. in physics from Louisiana State University, her Ph.D. in Medical Physics/Medical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. Upon completion of a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - CANCELLED - Police line-ups in 2064: Getting the bad guy with certainty.
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CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
Neil Brewer is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Flinders University. He was Dean of the School of Psychology for around 10 years between 2000 and 2013. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and (...)
Dr Amanda Wheeler joined the School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science at Edith Cowan University as a Senior Research Fellow in August 2013. Prior to this, Dr Wheeler was a Research Scientist with Health Canada where her research included personal exposures to air (...)
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