What's On at UWA

This workshop is designed for new or experienced supervisors who are, or intend to, supervise international Higher Degree Research (HDR) students. This workshop grounded in the Graduate Research School's Policies and Rules. Supervisors of Honours and Postgraduate Coursework students are also (...)

Climate simulation models suggest that mean temperatures on the Loess Plateau of China will increase by 2.5 to 3.75°C by 2050, while those in the cropping region of south-west Australia will increase by 1.25 to 1.75°C. The rainfall in south-west Australia rainfall is predicted to decrease by 20 (...)

The annual Australasian Development Economics Workshop, sponsored by DFAT, brings together development economists from Australia and internationally with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.

The next workshop is the tenth in the series and will be hosted by the Business School (...)

Dr Janice Lam’s postgraduate research focused on understanding the cellular mechanism of ErbB receptors and development of possible therapeutic interventions for those diseases. ErbBs were linked to both human neurogenesis and cancer pathogenesis. Awarded at the Gordon Research Conference for the (...)

Frank Lübeck (RWTH Aachen)

will speak on

Computing Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials and some Applications

at 3pm Thursday June the 5th in Maths Lecture Room 2.

Abstract:

My interest in Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials comes from a certain character (...)

Economic growth and development depend on institutions such as administrative capability of the state and the capability of governments to affect the course of events through policies and programs.

Harvard University’s Professor Lant Pritchett will discuss how some countries manage to (...)

On Thursday June 5 at 6.30 p.m. in the Austin Lecture Theatre at The University of Western Australia, the Ambassador of Greece, Mr Haris Dafaranos, will give a public lecture on ‘Philhellenism’.

The lecture (open to the general public) will be preceded by a brief introduction (...)

NTEU Federal Budget Forum and Q&A: Come and discuss what the Budget means for UWA, for the sector, for staff and students.

A few years ago we stumbled upon an interesting peptide biosynthesis in sunflower seeds. A small peptide was buried inside another protein and the peptide emerged from its hiding place by hijacking the protein processing machinery of the 'host' protein. This system has become a lead-in to studying (...)

This workshop will cover both the technical and the pedagogical aspects of successful PowerPoint design, and is aimed at teachers interested in enhancing their presentations and their students' learning.

Kyle completed a Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science at The University of Western Australia. He is currently completing his PhD in the Neurogenetics Laboratory at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, under the supervision of Nigel Laing, Kristen Nowak, Mark Davis and (...)

This program is intended for staff teaching at UWA for whom English is a second language and who would like to enhance their oral presentation and pronunciation skills. Preference will be given to permanent teaching staff. Please note that this workshop will run over 4 consecutive Fridays: 13th (...)

How does Australia’s aged care system benefit from the latest scientific research? What are the opportunities for the future?

James Lush from ABC Radio 720 Perth will host this discussion presented by the CRC for Mental Health. Bringing together researchers, clinicians, and experts in (...)

The development of maritime archaeology in Sri Lanka began in the early 1960s when a 17th century shipwreck carrying a cargo of silver coins was discovered. At that time, investigations were undertaken by interested parties in the ex-pat community and it was not until 1992 when a formal maritime (...)

Nigel Bunnett was educated at Cambridge University where he was awarded a PhD degree in 1981. He spent the next thirty years of his career on the West Coast of the United States, as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and then an Assistant Professor at the (...)

Science education has long been the poor second cousin to literacy and numeracy. Australia’s Chief Scientist has recognised the urgent need for improving science education at all levels to make Australia competitive in innovative and economic terms. However, fewer students are studying science at (...)

Professor David Thomas is Head of the Kinghorn Cancer Centre and Head of the Cancer Division of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney. His research interests include quantitative evolutionary genetics in cancer cell populations, mapping a cancer neochromosome at single nucleotide (...)

The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)

This workshop is designed for supervisors of Higher Degree Research (HDR) students and is grounded in the Graduate Research School's Policies and Rules. Supervisors of Honours and Postgraduate Coursework students are also welcome to attend. Workshop Description - Supervisor and student (...)

Bruce Robinson is a clinician-scientist at UWA and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He is the current West Australian of the Year, and WA Australian of the Year. Bruce is the Director of the NHMRC-funded National Centre for Asbestos Diseases Research (NCARD), an Australian national cooperative of (...)