What's On at UWA

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 05 June in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Istvan Kovacs (University of Primorska)

Title: On regular Cayley maps for dihedral groups.

Abstract: The classification regular Cayley maps for cyclic groups was recently completed by Conder and Tucker (...)

In this talk, Dr Stuebler will give an overview of global Bayer crop science and crop protection research.

He will announce details of a major new research joint-venture investment with Australia

Incorporating perspectives from Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Geography, History, Health, and more, MoB draws upon a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques, to investigate how movement generates new forms of subjectivity and new political formations, new uses of space, new (...)

In June, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is offering a range of FREE short courses on supercomputing topics. On 8 - 9 June, the sessions are aimed at those new to supercomputing (8th), and those wanting to understand more about using our systems (9th). Later that week, we offer two days targeting (...)

In June, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is offering a range of FREE short courses on supercomputing topics. On 8 - 9 June, the sessions are aimed at those new to supercomputing (8th), and those wanting to understand more about using our systems (9th). Later that week, we offer two days targeting (...)

Increasing evidence suggests that small airways (defined as <2mm) are important sites of inflammation, remodelling and altered reactivity in chronic lung diseases. Dr Bourke has applied a unique in vitro approach to examine small airway dysfunction, visualising changes in intrapulmonary airway (...)

The Seminar: Small airways in the distal lung were long considered a "silent zone", accounting for less than 10% of total airway resistance and contributing little to standard lung function measures. However, increasing evidence suggests that they are an important but relatively neglected (...)

Are you an entrepreneur and about to turn your idea into a business? Interested in start-ups and networking? Then join this free workshop!

Start-Up Xchange is a series of 4 events run by the WA Innovation Centre in collaboration with UWA and the other major WA universities to promote (...)

Dr. Vallence received her BSc (Hons Psychology) and PhD from the University of Western Australia under the supervision of Professor Geoff Hammond and Dr. Karen Reilly. Following completion of her PhD, she worked as a University Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Neuromotor Plasticity and (...)

Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts a postgraduate showcase where some of UWA's best PhD students present the major highlights and outcomes of their research in agriculture and related areas. Professor Paul Johnson, UWA Vice Chancellor will give the opening address.

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The film raises worrying questions about where Australian higher education may be headed under the Abbott government, and reinforces why there is such strong public and political opposition to the Americanisation of our world class public higher education system.

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 12 June in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Simon Smith (City University of New York)

Title: The suborbits of infinite primitive permutation groups

Abstract: In this talk I'll discuss the subdegrees (cardinalities of suborbits) of infinite (...)

A public lecture by Professor Marlene Zuk, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota.

Today it seems everyone is fond of paleofantasies, stories about how humans lived eons ago, and we use them to explain why many elements of our lives, from the food we eat (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 19 June in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia)

Title: Permutation groups with "LPS"

Abstract: My collaborations with Jan and Martin were centred on group actions, that is, on permutation (...)

Dr. Cornelius Gross has been a group leader at the Mouse Biology Unit of EMBL since 2003. In January 2009 he was promoted to a tenured position as Senior Scientist and Deputy Head of the Unit. His research has focused on the role of genetic and environmental factors in shaping the development of (...)

This public lecture by Toby Burrows, the European Union Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, will look at serendipity in the context of humanities research processes generally.

Why are classification and categorization so important? What do (...)

Professor Ian Frazer is a clinician scientist, trained as a clinical immunologist in Scotland. As a Professor at the University of Queensland, he leads a research group working at TRI in Brisbane, Australia on the immunobiology of epithelial cancers. He is recognized as co-inventor of the (...)

You are invited to attend a training session supported by the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, SCGH Unit outlining the use of the latest technology Hologic 2D scanning densitometer the Horizon W. This is the most sophisticated machine for measuring body composition in the world. Body (...)

Despite decades of research and applied efforts, interpersonal prejudice continues to occur at epidemic rates around the globe. Classic work focused on social categorization as the locus of prejudice formation, with volumes of research demonstrating that merely categorizing others as members of (...)