What's On at UWA

A public lecture by Dr Joseph Ndunguru, Molecular Plant Virologist, Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Tanzania.

Cassava is an important food staple in sub Saharan Africa, however it is under threat from deadly viral diseases, which are decreasing yield and leaving many (...)

In this lecture, Dr Joseph Ndunguru will outline his involvement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the subsequent investment in his viral diagnostic projects. He will also outline the increasing biosciences capacity in sub Saharan Africa that is leading the transformational change to (...)

An unexpected outcome of the global environmental crisis is the emergence of conservation as an important aspect of conflict resolution. While there has always been a strong historical association between conflict and resources, with disagreements arising over their use and ownership, it is (...)

2014 Western Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Awards with our guest speaker, Professor Peter Klinken, Chief Scientist of Western Australia

Please R.S.V.P. to Meredith Eddington by the 12th November on [email protected]

Abstract: This talk will examine the development of a sentimental response to theatre in the eighteenth century, particularly amongst women and particularly with regard to the staging of Shakespeare. Letter and diary accounts by female audience members frequently attest to them crying in the (...)

Professor Jennings is an internationally renowned cardiologist who will explore the latest medical research on the causes, prevention and treatment of heart disease

This Oration is a FREE event for the community but registration is essential as places are limited

Please RSVP (...)

This workshop is designed for experienced supervisors of research students at UWA want to update their current conceptions and practice of supervision at UWA, including updates on UWA policies and rules.

It provides an overview research training at UWA and is designed for supervisors of (...)

Neil Fleshner is currently a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto, Head of the Division of Urology at the University Health Network and Princess Margaret Hospital, and was recently awarded the Love Chair in Prostate Cancer Prevention at the Princess Margaret Hospital (...)

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 suitable for supervisors of all research students. In order to get the most from the workshop it is expected that participants will have a basic understanding of the most common types of mental health issues and be familiar with the Graduate Research School's Policies and Rules for (...)

Alice Devillers (UWA)

will speak on

Tits' buildings as combinatorial objects

at 3pm Friday 28 November in Mathematics Lecture Room 1.

Abstract:

Buildings were invented in the 1960s by the Belgian-French mathematician Jacques Tits. They are a (...)

LMS for New Users will provide participants with an introductory overview of the Moodle powered LMS (Learning Management System) used as our online learning environment here at UWA. You will need to complete this workshop before being eligible to take part in any intermediate or advanced LMS (...)

From the ninth century on, there was an indigenous Jewish community in the city of Kaifeng in north-eastern China. Largely cut off from contact with the main centres of Jewish life, the Kaifeng Jews developed a distinctive culture that was unquestionably Jewish, but progressively absorbed Chinese (...)

In partnership with St George’s College, the School of Music is proud to announce a new collaboration in 2014 designed to bring together young musicians for a week of intensive music training and fun!

This residential camp is specifically aimed at young musicians (14-21 years) who have (...)

Please join us on Thursday, Dec 11th for our end-of-year sundowner. We will have five mini thesis summary talks by our newly minted immunology honours students, followed by beer, pizza and good company. This was a popular event last year and is a great opportunity to catch up with those who (...)

Under the direction of Nicholas Bannan, join in the carols this Christmas with the Winthrop Singers

Under the direction of Nicholas Bannan, join in the carols this Christmas with the Winthrop Singers

Alice Niemeyer (UWA)

will speak on

Symmetric p-groups

at 11am in Weatherburn LT

(The time will be finalised on Wed evening. There may be the need for a change of time to 1:30pm.)

Abstract: In 1978 R.M. Bryant and L.G. Kov acs showed that for (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 16 January in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Irene Pivotto (UWA)

Title: Growth rates of binary matroids.

Abstract: The growth rate of a class of matroids is a function of the rank which expresses how large a matroid in the class can be. For (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 23 January in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews)

Title: Generation of finite groups.

Abstract: There is a beautiful result, due to Liebeck, Shalev, and others, that the probability that two random elements (...)