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July 2014
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Thursday 24 |
This workshop will provide an overview of what a rubric is and the steps involved in development. The practical hands-on workshop will allow staff to consider their current/future assessment tasks and effective ways of assessing these using rubrics.
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - �What�s the magic number behind epithelial cell differentiation, innate immunity and asthma: (p)300� : Medical Research Seminar
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Professor Knight has published over 110 papers and 4300+ citations and a H-index = 36, and is focused on his research interests of pulmonary pharmacology and pathology and how they impact on airway and lung function.
12:00 - SEMINAR - �What�s the magic number behind epithelial cell differentiation, innate immunity and asthma: (p)300�
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Professor Knight received his BSc Honours degree in Pharmacology and his PhD from The University of Western Australia and undertook post-doctoral training at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Senior Research Officer in the Asthma & Allergy Research (...)
17:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Pop West: A foundation for understanding multiple global wests as mediated by popular culture : A symposium on popular culture and geographical 'wests'
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The Pop West research project will analyse a range of popular media–film, music, radio, television, storytelling, maps and novels–to explore how different political formations come to popularise and understand their own wests.
The Pop West Project began in late 2013 when researchers (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Afghan Culture in an Era of Globalisation : Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Series
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The Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a series of events as part of the 'Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul' exhibition, presented by the WA Museum.
This lecture by Professor William Maley, AM FASSA, Professor and Director of the (...)
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Monday 28 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - �The TOLL of knowing you are sick: implications for pain and addiction�
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Associate Prof Mark Hutchinson is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Having graduated with a PhD (Med) in Pharmacology from the University of Adelaide, Mark joined Prof Linda Watkins lab at the University of Colorado at (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Making Marine Protected Areas More Effective: resilience through diversity
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A public lecture by Peter Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London.
There are growing societal concerns about the health of our seas and increasing interest in the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) to help address these concerns. However (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Electrical imaging of axon function using an 11,000-electrode CMOS circuit : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: A growing body of literature suggests that central nervous system axons are not just stable transmission cables, but actively contribute to information processing, for example, by modulating action potential magnitude or velocity and cell excitability. However, the axon's submicron (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - A comparative study of time-frequency masking approaches to blind source separation and source number : this seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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A remarkable skill that is often taken for granted is the ability of the human cognitive system to distinguish between multiple simultaneously active speakers. In fact, in 1953 a challenge was proposed to the engineering community:
"How do we recognise what one person is saying when (...)
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Thursday 31 |
This workshop is aimed at new teaching staff looking to develop teaching skills. Experienced tutors will also benefit from attendance as a re-energiser and refresher to current teaching repertoire.
The workshop will be run in such a way as to model the facilitation of a small group teaching session (...)
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August 2014
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Friday 01 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Quasi-isometry and commensurability for right-angled Coxeter groups
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Anne Thomas (University of Glasgow)
will speak on
Quasi-isometry and commensurability for right-angled Coxeter groups
at 3pm Friday 1 August in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre
Abstract:
Let Gamma be a finite simple graph with vertex set S. The associated (...)
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Sunday 03 |
16:00 - CONFERENCE - IsoEcol 2014 : International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies
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This will be the 9th International Conference on the Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies (IsoEcol 9). The conference will be held 3-8 August 2014 at The University Club, on the campus of The University of Western Australia, adjacent to the beautiful Swan River.
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Monday 04 |
Research staff and students are invited to a workshop on volume visualisation using the Drishti and Voluminous software. Presentations will be conducted by Ajay Limaye, the main developer of Drishti from the NCI Vizlab at the Australian National University. A general introduction to Drishti and (...)
Research staff and students are invited to a workshop on volume visualisation using the Drishti and Voluminous software. Presentations will be conducted by Ajay Limaye, the main developer of Drishti from the NCI Vizlab at the Australian National University. A general introduction to Drishti and (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Living and Working Underwater: The Aquarius Reef Base underwater laboratory and residence
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A public lecture by James W. Fourqurean, Director, Marine Education and Research Initiative at Florida International University and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
Humans are limited in their ability to study the health of the coastal ocean. While robots, cameras (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Science Communication: Winning Hearts and Minds : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: As Chief Scientist of Western Australia I had the privilege of seeing many examples of terrific science, technology and engineering across the length and breadth of our great State. They represent major opportunities and challenges, spanning the resources sector, agriculture, education (...)
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Gender and Social Choice in Saudi Arabia: Rights versus the Optimal Social Choice : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sean Foley
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Although the women’s driving movement in Saudi Arabia has gained tremendous visibility in recent years, it has failed to meet its basic objective: winning women the right to drive. While there is no question that the movement has encountered sustained resistance to its agenda, resistance alone (...)
The 2014 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Anas Ghadouani, Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Australia.
Throughout the history of humanity there has always been a strong link between water and society. The most successful of our past civilisations are (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Sediment geochemistry in freshwater seas: Lakes Superior and Malawi and comparisons with marine systems : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Lakes are often referred to as “the test tubes of oceans”, but how much of the geochemical information is transferable between marine and freshwater systems? Should relationships such as those developed for the mineralization rates of marine organic carbon or marine rates of denitrification be (...)
A public lecture by Pip Willcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio arrived at the Bodleian Library in 1623. Why and when did it leave? What chance brought it back in 1905? What had happened to it in the (...)
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