What's On at UWA

We are organising the 2nd Oceans Institute Postgraduate Student Conference on Thursday 16 October 2014, taking place at the University Club of Western Australia.

The idea is to give you a platform to discuss and present your latest research (Research Proposals can also be presented) (...)

This is an exciting venture which consists of a $5000 grant from the Perth Convention Bureau to enable a staff member to attend an international conference in their chosen field of endeavour. This is done with a view to assessing the potential for the conference to be staged in Western Australia (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

In June 2014, six researchers in archaeology and ancient languages, were asked to participate in an independent review of interpretations made by an English-American historical linguist working in Pingguo County, Guangxi, China. He had interpreted rocks and features as being aligned with stars as (...)

The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA.

Come and hear part of the wealth of musical talent on campus in this concert featuring our brand new ensembles for Semester 2 - the Ukulele Ensemble & Rumba (...)

Often translated from the Latin as ‘remember you must die’ or ‘remember your mortality’, memento mori serves as a symbolic representation of the inevitability of death. The term ‘memento mori’ first entered English in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) and was immediately accepted (...)

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College)

will speak on

Magic words

at 3pm Friday 17 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

A word map on a group G is a map sending (g_1,...,g_k) to w(g_1,...,g_k), where w is a fixed word in k variables (...)

Featuring late Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe's monumental work Memento Mori, plus a new arrangement of Lament for String Orchestra plus solo Violin and Cello, this concert will coincide with UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies’ 2014 Day of Ideas – Memento Mori.

Finalist (...)

THE UNDISCOVERED symposium is the first of a proposed series of symposia that will emerge over the next three years, presented by Artsource and The University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct.

Speakers include: Victorie Laurie, Ian McLean, Trevor Vickers, Stuart Elliot, Olga (...)

Dr Sophie Jamal is a scientist at Women's College Research Institute, and a clinician with the Multidisciplinary Osteoporosis Care Team at Women's College Hospital. She chairs the Women's College Hospital department of medicine research committee, and she is an associate professor in the Department (...)

A public lecture by Achim Kempf, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Waterloo and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

The two deepest laws of nature that are known to date are quantum theory and general relativity. Not all is well with these two theories (...)

The Seminar: Tinnitus is a phantom auditory sensation, a continuous “ringing in the ears” that is frequently associated with hearing loss. Tinnitus is remarkably common, being experienced by about 10% of the Australian adult population and reduces the quality of life for many. There is as yet (...)

A public lecture by Susana Agusti, Professorial Fellow at the UWA Oceans Institute, and Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA).

In this lecture Professor Agusti will describe the current state of the (...)

The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA. Come and hear part of the wealth of musical talent on campus!

This concert will feature 2 of our well established broadening ensembles, the Broadening Percussion (...)

Animals are often highly reflective - the skin of silvery fish and the eye shine of a cat are familiar examples. But animals make mirrors in a way very different from us: they cannot deposit metal films and, instead, rely on arranging stacks of transparent materials to make their reflectors.

Professor Rasko is an Australian pioneer in the application of adult stem cells and genetic therapy. He directs the Department of Cell and Molecular Therapies at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and heads the Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Centenary Institute, University of Sydney.

The Olympic Games, as a mega event, can potentially have a significant economic impact on the host city and, for the smaller countries, on the host nation as a whole. While the event itself will only last for a few weeks, its preparations commence up to a decade beforehand and may entail (...)

Guang Rao (UWA)

will speak on

Self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs

at 3pm Friday 24 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

A graph is self-complementary if the graph and its complement are isomorphic. In this talk I will (...)

Oceans Community is a once a year event created for the broader community who want to better understand marine issues in WA and contribute in some way to the marine environment. This year's event has been organised by The Oceans Community and the UWA Oceans Institute with the objective to (...)

Piroska Nagy is a Professor of Medieval History at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). From 2014 to 2017 she is also an International Partner Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.