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February 2015
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Friday 13 |
8:00 - EVENT - Networking Breakfast : Graduate Women WA and Women in Science Enquiry Network WA invite you to join us in a Meet and Greet Breakfast
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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 (...)
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Monday 16 |
18:30 - FREE LECTURE - Catharine A. MacKinnon Public Lecture : Sex Equality in Global Perspective
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - 'A role for RUNC3 in inflammation-induced expression of IL23A in gastric epithelial cells'
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 18 |
11:00 - EVENT - Statistics Seminar : The Swinging Moods of Bayesians
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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 (...)
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Thursday 19 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics & Statistics Colloquim: The Bayesian Paradigm for Statistical Inference and Decision Making.
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 25 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - COPD Management and Treatment Options Including the Role of Ultibro : Medical Research Seminar
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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.
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Thursday 26 |
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 (...)
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Friday 27 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Research Seminar : Adaptive Learning, Heterogeneous Expectations and Forward Guidance
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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 (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The regular one-face dessins and surface coverings
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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 (...)
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March 2015
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Wednesday 04 |
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 (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - The Amazing Cavitation Bubble- from Ship Propellors to Medical Supertools : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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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 (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Transport and Storage of CO2 and why it�s not the same as Oil and Gas
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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 (...)
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Thursday 05 |
12:00 - LECTURE - Raine Lecture: Direct to brain treatments for psychiatric illness: the new wave or a new fad?
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After graduating from The University of Western Australia, Professor Anthony Levitt undertook his specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, which he completed in 1989. From 1992-2002 he was Head of the Mood Disorders Programs, initially at the Centre for Addictions and Mental (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - 'Direct to brain treatments for psychiatric illness: the new wave or a new fad?'
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After graduating from The University of Western Australia, Professor Anthony Levitt undertook his specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, which he completed in 1989. From 1992-2002 he was Head of the Mood Disorders Programs, initially at the Centre for Addictions and Mental (...)
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Friday 06 |
12:00 - EVENT - Economic Research Seminar : Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities
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Abstract - Residential segregation by race first emerged in the United States as black migrants from the South arrived in northern cities in the early twentieth century. The existing literature emphasizes discriminatory institutions as the driving force behind the particularly rapid rise in (...)
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Multimarkdown and typesetting mathematics
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Time and place: 3pm Friday 6 March in Weatherburn LT.
Speaker: John Bamberg (UWA)
Title: Multimarkdown and typesetting mathematics.
Abstract: Markdown has been around for around a decade or so, and is a simpler alternative to xml for producing simple easy-to-read (...)
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Wednesday 11 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Age of Experience: cultural heritage in museums of the future : A public lecture by Sarah Kenderdine, Director, iGLAM Lab (Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
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This lecture will examine new paradigms for developing cultural heritage as embodied museum experiences inside
a series of large-scale immersive and interactive museum display systems.
The lecture will conclude with a focus on two exhibitions currently in production: the 'Atlas of (...)
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Friday 13 |
12:00 - EVENT - Economics Research Seminar : The Optimal Monetary Response to News of an Oil Discovery
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Abstract- I study how monetary policy should optimally respond to an oil discovery. Oil discoveries provide news that the natural level of output will increase in the future. Anticipated increases in natural output lower the natural real interest rate. Optimal monetary policy must accommodate these (...)
17:00 - CONCERT - Voice! Fridays@Five : The UWA Voice program aims to celebrate our emerging young artists and their mentors in a series of vocal performances, workshops and masterclasses throughout 2015
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Under the leadership of Helpman award winner Andrew Foote, Fridays@Five showcases the UWA voice students. From the Vocal Consort, solo song in recitals, public workshops, mixed instrumental and voice ensembles, or public Masterclasses with Q&A, Fridays@Five are an ideal way to start your (...)
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Tuesday 17 |
In this public lecture, Professor Hermann Nicolai, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, will review some recent ideas and approaches towards a more complete theory of quantum gravity unifying the fundamental interactions of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
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