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Displaying from Friday, October 24, 2014
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October 2014
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Friday 24 |
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : The Olympic Economy in China
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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 (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs
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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 (...)
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Saturday 25 |
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 (...)
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Monday 27 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 'Birth of emotional communities, or the power of emotional communion in the medieval West' : Public lecture with Prof Piroska Nagy
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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.
18:30 - PUBLIC TALK - A Future Made Together: New directions in the ethics of autism research
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A public lecture by Liz Pellicano, Director of the Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Institute of Education, University of London.
In this talk, Dr Pellicano will suggest that we not only need greater investment in currently under-researched areas in autism and under-ser (...)
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Tuesday 28 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - �Combined molecular and cellular therapies promote the regeneration of adult retinal ganglion cell axons� : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: The mature CNS has limited intrinsic capacity for repair after injury. I will summarize results from the lab over the past 10 years that have quantified the effects of various pharmacotherapy and gene therapy regimes on the survival and regenerative capacity of injured adult retinal (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A decade of developments in tsunami science and warning systems since the 2004 Sumatra event
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A public lecture by Charitha Pattiaratchi, Winthrop Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia.
In this lecture, Professor Pattiaratchi will discuss advances in the tsunami science in terms of deep water propagation and inundation with respect to Western (...)
Following on from successful collaborations in 2013, the School of Music proudly presents a concert for the serious music lover in Saint Mary’s Cathedral featuring the UWA Symphonic Chorus and Wind Orchestra with Saint Mary’s Cathedral Choir.
Bruckner Mass in e minor for choir and (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
14:30 - EVENT - Free Public Panel Discussion : Rare Earth and Geopolitics: Security implications of, and strategies for, rare earth elements
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Please join us for the panel discussion on rare earth elements which are used in magnets, hybrid cars, lasers, mobile phones, and computers. Growing demand for rare earths has strained their supply, and global supply chains are prone to instability with significant economic and security (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Long-term ecosystem development and terrestrial plant diversity : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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Over tens of thousands of years, soils gradually lose plant nutrients, especially phosphorus (P). This long-term process of soil formation, which strongly influences vegetation and ecosystem processes, can only be studied by using natural gradients of soil age – also called ‘soil (...)
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Thursday 30 |
Professor Stefan Rose-John is the Director of the Department of Biochemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany. He has authored 320 Original Publications and has a current H-index of 72. Over the last 25 years, his laboratory has focused on understanding the molecular biology of (...)
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.
Our last concert of the semester will feature students of the highest calibre - including some of our 2014 prize winners and graduating students!
FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during (...)
Wesfarmers and The University of Western Australia proudly present the inaugural Wesfarmers Chair in Australian History Oration by Winthrop Professor Jane Lydon.
In 1905 HG Wells wrote that photographs ‘send out a ray of special resemblance and remind one more strongly of this friend (...)
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Friday 31 |
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar : Duty and Desire: Women’s Experiences of Marital Sexual Relationships in Indonesia
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This paper explores the experiences of Muslim married women in their marital sexual relationships with their husband. It encompasses women’s expectations, desires and practices of marital sexual relations with their husbands based on ethnographic research on Islam and women’s sexuality in (...)
15:30 - TALK - Talk by Visiting Professor Zi-Bing Jin : Mutation spectrum in Chinese population with retinitis pigmentosa
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Under the auspices of the Australian Academy of Science,
the National Committee for Chemistry and the Royal
Australian Decadal Plan for Chemistry. As part of the
consultation process, we are holding a series of open
forums called ‘town hall meetings’ around Australia.
What do you think the (...)
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents: Assembled! Broadening Unit - Show Choir & Jazz Ensemble
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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!
The Show Choir (now in it's 6th season) led by UWA graduate Dr Aaron Hales will be joined on stage by (...)
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November 2014
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Tuesday 04 |
16:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - RESEARCH WEEK EVENT: Teacher wellbeing and its impact on student learning : This presentation will discuss the relationship between school staff’s and students’ wellbeing and achievement
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Given the development of young people’s academic, social and emotional competencies in school settings is highly dependent on the presence of skilled and competent school staff, this presentation will discuss the relationship between school staff’s and students’ wellbeing and achievement.
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - WA on the threshold - new understanding, new discoveries and new opportunities with the SKA
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An Inquiring Minds lecture by Professor Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
Mankind’s understanding of Nature is now at a point of crisis. More than 95% of the Universe we live in is composed of mysterious stuff - matter that is (...)
Missed out on the Postgrad & Honours Expo? Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to learn more about both our exciting new Postgraduate courses, or our longstanding Postgraduate courses. The Law Postgraduate Admissions team and the Dean of the Law School will be on hand to answer any (...)
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