What's On at UWA

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 (...)

Through the Eyes of Henry Gray. Investigating the influence of the Temperance Movement and Wesleyan Methodism on the Greenough Flats, Western Australia, 1839 to 1900.

A public lecture by Professor Benjamin J. Eggleton, Director, ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)

Photonic integrated circuits use light rather than electrons to perform a wide variety of optical functions. Recent developments in nanotechnology have (...)

Marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, a combined Wind Orchestra from the UWA School of Music and the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts will present works such as Nelson's haunting Morning Alleluias in a free concert opening the UWA ANZAC commemorations.

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Abstract- This paper investigates the spatial dynamics of per capita carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in China. The analyses are conducted by employing a continuous dynamic distribution approach and panel data of 286 prefectural and above cities during the period 2002-2011. The results show that per (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 7 August in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Daniel Hawtin (University of Western Australia)

Title: 2-Neighbour Transitive Codes in Hamming Graphs

Abstract: We consider a code C to be a subset of the vertex set of a Hamming graph, with alphabet Q (...)

A public lecture by Axel Lorke, Chair, Faculty of Physics and CENIDE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and 2015 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

In 1959, Richard Feynman, one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, delivered a lecture, titled 'There's Plenty of Room at (...)

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 started his PhD under the supervision of Dr (...)