What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Colloquium time date and location: 4pm, Thursday 29th January, Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Colva Roney-Dougal, University of St. Andrews.

Title: Groups, diagrams and geometries.

Abstract: The study of finitely-presented groups has been ongoing since the work of (...)

Prof Rama Bansil is visiting UWA and presenting a seminar titled 'How Helicobacter pylori moves in stomach mucus: Motility of H. pylori in mucin gels'. All are welcome to attend her morning seminar on Friday 30th January. Snacks and refreshments will be served from 9.45am.

Time and place: 3pm Friday 23 January in MLR1.

Speaker: Seyed Hassan Alavi (Buali Sina University)

Title: Recent studies on symmetric designs.

Abstract: A symmetric design (v,k,l) is an incidence structure consisting of a set of v points and a set of v blocks with (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 6 February in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Gordon Royle (UWA)

Title: Homomorphisms and Endomorphisms of Graphs.

Abstract: A homomorphism from a graph X to a graph Y is a function f from V(X) to V(Y) that preserves edges (but not necessarily (...)

In February, iVEC will offer the following short courses on supercomputing topics:

* Introduction to iVEC: 9:30 - 10:30am Tues 10 February

* Introduction to Linux: 10:45 - 12:00pm Tues 10 February

* Introductory Supercomputing: 1:00 - 4:00pm Tues 10 February

'Development and analysis of anti-SFK (Src family kinase) drug resistance in basal breast cancer cells'

'Expression of CCL21 on LIGHT treated NIH/3T3 cell lines and RIP1-Tag5 mice'

'The Role of p53 in Spontaneous Transformation of Liver Progenitor Cells in Culture'

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Dr Stoddart gained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Glasgow, UK under the supervision of Professor Graeme Milligan. In 2009, she took up a postdoctoral position with Professor Stephen Hill and Dr Stephen Briddon within the Cell Signalling Research Group at the University of Nottingham, UK (...)

Members, staff and postgraduate students from all WA universities are invited to a casual breakfast, simply buy your own coffee or breakfast and join our table. Come along to network and learn more about our organisations.

Graduate Women WA Postgraduate Bursaries 2015 application round (...)

The University of Western Australia Law School presents a unique opportunity for members of the public to hear from globally renowned scholar and advocate for women Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon.

Catharine A. MacKinnon is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and Harvard (...)

Dominic Voon received his Ph.D from The University of Western Australia under the mentorship of Dr. Lawrie Abraham, where he worked on transcriptional regulation of the TNF-related ligand, Lymphotoxin beta. This was followed by a short stint with Dr. Peter Leedman at Western Australian Institute of (...)

Coherence is the declared hallmark of Bayesian inference. By coherence it is meant here a strict adherence to the calculus of probability. But to achieve coherence a Bayesian is required to undergo mood swings from the indicative to the irrealis, and back to the indicative. The purpose of this (...)

Colloquium time date and location: 4pm, Thursday 19th February, Blakers Lecture Theatre.

Speaker: Prof. Nozer Singpurwallah, City University of Hong Kong.

Title: The Bayesian Paradigm for Statistical Inference and Decision Making.

Abstract: In this expository talk (...)

Prof Eric Bateman is visiting from the University of Cape Town. He is an Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Director of the UCT Lung Institute. A light lunch will be service after the seminar.

Dr Samantha South is a Life Sciences technology transfer manager in the Research Development & Innovation (RDI) office at UWA. She has a PhD in behavioural pharmacology and an extensive background in medical research which includes working at Cornell University (NY), The University of (...)

Abstract - In a Cagan-type model of inflation we investigate how announcements of forward guidance may help lower inflation persistence. An important component of the model is heterogenous expectation formation - while market participants consider a time series model that uses sample (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 27 February in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Cai-Heng Li (UWA)

Title: The regular one-face dessins and surface coverings.

Abstract: I will present a classification of edge-transitive dessins (orientable bipartite maps) with a single face, and (...)

The University of Western Australia's Careers Fair provides excellent opportunities for students to engage, network and meet prospective employers looking to recruit students for graduate programs, vacation work, internships and voluntary positions. From first year to final year, Undergraduate to (...)

We generally think of bubbles as benign and harmless and yet they can manifest the most remarkable range of physical effects. Some of those effects are the stuff of our every day experience as in the tinkling of a brook or the sounds of breaking waves at the beach. But even these mundane effects (...)

In this public lecture, Professor Roland Span, Dean, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum will highlight how models developed for oil and gas applications are deficient for many important Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) applications. He will discuss new models for predicting (...)