What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Professor David Mackey is the managing Director of the Lions Eye Institute and Head of the Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Western Australia. He has studied the genetics of many eye diseases for over 25 years, examining thousands of patients with glaucoma as part of (...)

Demand for protein is likely to increase as global incomes rise. What does Australia need to do to maintain its competitive export market? This year's Industry Forum will discuss the outlook for global demand for red meat and Australia's role in supplying it.

Cost is free but (...)

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is pleased to invite you to the FREE NeCTAR Research Cloud training - introductory workshop.

This training workshop will provide attendees with the available Cloud resources at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. At the end of the workshop, attendees should (...)

Peter Singer's challenging new book 'The Most Good You Can Do' has the power to change the way people think about how they live. Professor Singer presents a challenging new movement called 'Effective Altruism' in the search for an ethical life.

In this special Perth event, Professor (...)

Astrid Brull Canagueral studied Biochemistry at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Astrid then studied a Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Masters degree at the same university. After finishing her Masters degree, Astrid started her PhD studies entitled 'Phenotypic characterization of a murine (...)

Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc. (ACSPRI) will be holding a series of intensive short courses ranging from a basic grounding in qualitative and quantitative research methods to state of the art techniques for experienced researchers. The courses offer practical and (...)

Nigel Laing was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated with his PhD from Edinburgh University in 1979, did one post-doc year in Oslo in 1980 and emigrated to Western Australia in 1981. From 1976 to 1987 he was a neuroembryologist working on motor neuron and muscle development. In 1987-1988 he (...)

Professor Hans Lambers, School of Plant Biology, UWA, will highlight the importance of maintaining Perth's biodiversity through our gardens and verges. South-western Australia is a global biodiversity hotspot, where the greatest plant diversity is found on the most severely phosphorus-impoverished (...)

The Seminar: Glucocorticoid levels rise dramatically in late gestation to mature fetal organs in preparation for life after birth. This is mimicked clinically in the routine administration of synthetic glucocorticoids to pregnant women at risk of preterm birth, to improve neonatal survival. I will (...)

Presenter: Prof Andrew Whitehouse

Professor Andrew Whitehouse directs the Autism Research Team at the Telethon kids Institute (University of Western Australia). His research team use a range of methodologies to investigate the early identification and intervention of children with autism (...)

Maria Kavallaris has made seminal contributions to understanding the mechanisms of action and resistance to antimitotic agents in cancer. Her studies on the cytoskeleton revealed alterations associated with tumourigenesis and metastasis and she has applied this knowledge to develop effective and (...)

This seminar presents work-in-progress on the theory and practice of Environmental Education (EE) in Indonesia. It uses the concept of responsibility as a refracting lens to identify different components of education about environmental responsibility in schools in Indonesia. To analyse the theory (...)

Australian migration processes are rapidly transforming in the face of late capitalism. Most prominently, the settler migrant paradigm of the 20th century is being replaced with a multiplication in modes of entry and migrant statuses, and increased transience, circularity and transnationality (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 31 July in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Jingbo Wang (University of Western Australia)

Title: Quantum walk on graphs, unitary operation, Hamiltonian simulation, and efficient quantum circuits

Abstract: Quantum walk represents a generalised (...)

Nobel Laureate Professor Elizabeth H. Blackburn is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research. She discovered the molecular nature of telomeres - the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that serve as protective caps essential for preserving the genetic information - and the (...)

Presenter: Dr. Ann-Maree Vallence

Dr. Ann-Maree Vallence received her BSc (Hons) and PhD from the University of Western Australia under the supervision of Prof Geoff Hammond and Dr. Karen Reilly. Following completion of her PhD, Ann- Maree took up a University Postdoctoral Research (...)

The Seminar: The benefits associated with the development of powerful training programs in Science Communication (SC) are acknowledged. The author would undoubtedly have been better placed to meet and defeat the performance challenge that descended on him and the Finding Sydney Foundation (FSF) (...)

A digital humanities lecture by Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King's College London.

In this talk Professor McCarty will begin with a brief discussion of modelling then sketch the history of simulation from its origins in the physical and social sciences to its (...)

An On the Edge public lecture by Richard Denniss, Executive Director, The Australia Institute.

The Federal Budget and much economic discussion is based on economic modelling. People who use economic models want you to think that modelling is boring. The last thing they want you to do is (...)