What's On at UWA

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is pleased to invite you to the Nectar Research Cloud Training Introductory Workshop. The workshop will provide attendees with the available Cloud resources at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, and will aim to provide a basic introduction to the NeCTAR Research Cloud (...)

In this public lecture, Galen Halverson, T.H. Clark Chair of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology, McGill University and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow, will discuss the flurry of new radiometric ages that confirms the synchronicity in the onset and demise of two global glaciation events in the (...)

Samuel Lundin is a Visiting Professor at the Marshall Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Training. He received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he worked on T-cell regulation of immunity and tolerance to food antigens. This was followed by joining the group (...)

School of Music is proud to present: UWA Piano

Tickets Entry is free, no bookings required.

The Gates Foundation and its Grand Challenges partners are now accepting applications for a number of programs, including its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, which encourages innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions.

To learn more about the (...)

In this collaborative presentation, the Aboriginal Heritage Action Alliance's (AHAA) four cofounders share their differing perspectives on the role research has played in Aboriginal heritage campaigns in Western Australia, and present some findings on the evolving Aboriginal heritage legislative (...)

Cultural traditions in China go back 7,000 years. With that long history, and in such a large country, colours have accumulated a great richness of meanings. Meanings can be subtly different in different parts of the country and in different strata of society. And the meanings of colours in China (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 27 March in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Gabriel Verret (University of Western Australia)

Title: Vertex-primitive digraphs having vertices with almost equal neighbourhoods.

Abstract: Apart from some very trivial examples, a vertex-primitive (...)

School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology

David started his career as a theoretical physicist, completing his PhD at Caltech under Nobel prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann. His interest in neurophysiology started there under the influence of Prof Jack Pettigrew. David's (...)

The Speaker: Dr David Coall completed his PhD in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia and his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Centre for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. After returning to UWA as a Research (...)

Professor Melissa Little heads the Kidney Research Laboratory at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. An alumnus of The University of (...)

Time and place: 14:00 Thursday 2 April in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Padraig O Cathain (Monash University)

Title: Combinatorial designs and compressed sensing.

Abstract: Traditionally signal sampling and signal processing have been regarded as two separate tasks. Shannon's (...)

The Western Australian Minister for Water announced on 13 March 2015 that the State Government is proceeding to draft a Water Resources Management Bill along the lines of the 2013 position paper: 'Securing Western Australia's Water Future'.

The Department of Water says that community (...)

The Symposium of WA Neuroscience (SWAN) will begin with a plenary presentation from Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, at 17:30 on Wednesday 8 April, at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. The meeting will continue on 9 April at the same venue, featuring four themed sessions on: (i) (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 10 April in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Jason Semeraro (University of Bristol)

Title: Conway Groupoids.

Abstract: To a supersimple 2-(n,4,lambda) design (a simple design where lines intersect in at most two points), one may associate a " (...)

Presenter: Prof Stephan Lewandowksy

University of Bristol & The University of Western Australia

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky is a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol. He was an Australian Professorial Fellow from 2007 to 2012, and was awarded a Discovery (...)

Dear Researcher,

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (formerly known as iVEC) is calling for applications from researchers to access time on the Petascale supercomputer - Magnus. If you are interested in using supercomputing resources for your research in 2015 - 2016, please consider (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Tuesday 14 April in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Laura Mancinska (National University of Singapore)

Title: Graph homomorphisms for quantum players.

Abstract: A homomorphism from a graph X to a graph Y is an adjacency preserving mapping f:V(X)->V( (...)

Representatives from UWA's Exchange Partner institutions, returned students and faculty representatives will be there to tell you all about the fantastic opportunities they have available. Make sure your students come along to the Oak Lawn to check it out!

Kevin V. Morris received his BS degree from Humboldt State University in 1996 and his PhD in 2001 from the University of California Davis. During his post-doctoral training at the University of California San Diego (2001-2004) he determined that non-coding RNAs were capable of modulating (...)