What's On at UWA

This exhibition aims to challenge the way you view older adults. It will showcase the photographs and audio-narrated film of 14 residential care residents who volunteered their time and their stories to help educate us and health profession students. All welcome, RSVP to [email protected]

Our panelists include two of the foremost experts in the UK on Mental Health: Rachel Perkins OBE and Ron Coleman. The discussion will be facilitated by Associate Professor Maria Harries AM, Senior Honorary Research Fellow at UWA.

Brought to you by the School of Population Health and (...)

Come and learn about Intellectual Property and Commercialisation at UWA.

This seminar will give an overview of

. Intellectual Property - what it is and why it's important

. Patenting - what you need to get a patent

. Developing your idea - including (...)

Ruohan Li is a PhD student based at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. He completed his BSc (Hons) in Biomedical science from the University of Western Australia in 2009. After working in the field of plant biochemistry for a year, he then joined Dr. Archa Fox's laboratory to pursue (...)

School of Music is proud to present: Vocal Consort

Tickets: Entry is free, no bookings required.

Ninghan Pastoral Lease: Developing the History and Managing the Future - Stephen Wells

This research proposal examines the links between oral history, archival research and material culture and how these sources of information can be used to "tell the story" of Ninghan Pastoral (...)

This paper constructs annual data for the aggregate wealth-income ratio, W-Y, and the savings-growth ratio, s-g, for Britain 1210-2013. The data are used to test one of Pikettys central hypotheses that the W-Y ratio is governed by the s-g ratios in the long run, while accounting for major events (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 15 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Stephen Glasby (University of Western Australia)

Title: p-groups, Weyl modules, and maximal subgroups of linear groups.

Abstract: Given a subgroup H of GL(d,p), there exists a d-generated p-group G (...)

The documentary depicts the struggles which took place at the Donetsk Airport and runs for 82 minutes. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles - a must watch! Admission: $15 per person for general public and $10 for teenagers and the university students, children 12 y.o. and younger - (...)

Got a problem with data?

A "Drop-in" Data Clinic is being held on Monday 18th May from 12 - 1pm in the iVEC@UWA Conference Room.

UWA researchers are invited to attend, to hear what data storage is available and how they can access this.

Researches will (...)

Got a problem with data?

A "Drop-in" Data Clinic is being held on Monday 18th May from 12 - 1pm in the iVEC@UWA Conference Room.

UWA researchers are invited to attend, to hear what data storage is available and how they can access this.

Researchers will be (...)

The Seminar: For 28 years, Mann has been studying the dolphins of Shark Bay, including tool use with marine sponges. This is one of the best-studied cases of tool-use in cetaceans. About 4% of the population regularly uses tools. This talk explains why some dolphins use tools while others do not (...)

The Seminar: Obesity is a crucial health and economic problem for Australians. In recent studies, we have found that frequent skin exposure to a low non-burning dose of ultraviolet radiation reduced weight gain in mice fed a high fat diet. These findings were independent of circulating vitamin D (...)

Psychology Colloquium: The colloquium this week features two presentations from the recent Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference.

Presenter 1: Briony Swire-Thompson

Briony is a PhD candidate with the Cognitive Psychology Laboratories. Under the supervision of Dr (...)

I recently completed my PhD at The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, where I worked in the Leukemia Research Group under the supervision of Louise Winteringham, with co-supervision by Charlie Bond of UWA. Here, I will present the work constituting my PhD and discuss my findings.

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13:10 - CONCERT - Lunchtime Concerts : Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

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16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium: Solving equations in free groups.

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16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Tibradden Station: An Archaeological Investigation

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This paper examines the long-term effects of exposure to civil war and genocide on the educational attainment, earnings, and fertility of individuals in Cambodia. Given the well-documented causal links between schooling and labor productivity, it is surprising that past studies show that civil (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 22 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Murray Elder (University of Newcastle)

Title: Solving equations in free groups and free monoids with constraints.

Abstract: My talk will give some details of the proof of our result - that the set of (...)