What's On at UWA

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 (...)

An often surprising journey through the checkered relationship and cultural impact between the arts and architecture and faith, including pioneers, principles and idiots. This is the second in a series this month, all at Trinity or in the City. See website for more details. Trinity welcomes you to (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 13th August

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Francis Woodhouse (The University of Western Australia)

Title: Mimicking magnets with lattices of bacterial vortices.

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The emerging picture from the Australian archaeological record shows a varied pattern of human responses to the environmental and climatic fluctuations that characterised the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, beginning c.30 ka and peaking between 23 to 18 ka) and the terminal Pleistocene in arid Australia (...)

In this international panel, three scholars will place the current Australian and American debates about immigration control, detention, and deportation in historical contexts, discussing the origins and consequences of policies in each country, and the conditions that drive migrants from their (...)

Given what we know about Traditional Knowledge, about the dangers of appropriation and misrepresentation on the one hand, and of loss, (ir)relevance, and transformation on the other, this seminar will offer a hands on demonstration of a toolkit with which people can cheaply record and transmit (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 14 August in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Joanna Fawcett (University of Western Australia)

Title: Affine rank 3 partial linear spaces

Abstract: A partial linear space consists of a finite non-empty set P of points and a collection L of subsets (...)

The 2015 Fred Alexander Lecture by Joy Damousi, Professor of History and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Melbourne.

This lecture considers the ways in which the sounds of the battlefield and the home front during the Great War defined the memory of the war and elicited a range of (...)

The Seminar: The diversity of human breast cancer subtypes has led to the hypothesis that breast cancer is a number of different diseases arising from cells at various stages of differentiation. We have derived clonal multipotent metastatic mammary cancer stem cells from the polyomavirus middle T (...)

An often surprising journey through the actual history of science and faith, including pioneers, principles and idiots with some potential for collaboration on today's big issues. This is the third in a series this month, all at Trinity or in the City. See website for more details. Trinity welcomes (...)

In this public lecture Dr Vanessa Guthrie, Managing Director and CEO of Toro Energy Limited, will uncover the science and facts behind the mining and use of uranium globally, and bust a few of the myths that have circulated for a long time. Dr Guthrie is the 2015 ATSE Eminent Speaker.

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A public lecture by Dr Vanessa Guthrie, Managing Director and CEO of Toro Energy Limited and 2015 ATSE Eminent Speaker.

In this talk, Dr Vanessa Guthrie will uncover the science and facts behind the mining and use of uranium globally, and bust a few of the myths that have circulated for (...)

Associate Professor Fang-Xu Jiang was trained as a medical doctor in China and is now Head of the Islet Cell Development Program, at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. He pioneered, during his PhD studies, male germ stem cell transplantation. For this contribution, he won The European (...)

In this public lecture Gustavo Striker, Assistant Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, will address the question of what we are doing to solve new problems. The increased area and yields of crops has benefited farm incomes. However, new challenging problems have emerged: (i) the appearance (...)

A public lecture by Gustavo Striker, Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires.

For 100 to 120 years, agriculture in the Pampas traditionally consisted of a sequence of arable crops alternated with sown pastures for livestock production. However, during the last two-to-three (...)

Abstract- When assessing socioeconomic health inequalities researchers often draw upon measures of income inequality that were developed for ratio scale variables. As a result, the use of categorical data, such as self-reported health status, produces rankings that may be arbitrary and contingent (...)

The reasons for the rise in late and non-marriage are varied and complex. Konkatsu('marriage-partner-hunting') is focused on matching marriage-minded individuals, with konkatsu literature, websites and businesses focused on promoting meetings between individuals looking to marry. The literature of (...)

The ageing and impending retirement of much of the academic workforce, as well as the growing casualisation of university staff, are two major issues impacting Australian universities today. These issues are particularly pertinent for recent PhD graduates who hope to secure academic positions (...)

Composed whilst he was prisoner of war and premiered by his fellow prisoners at a Nazi prisoner of war camp in 1941. Messiaen's magnificent and moving Quartet for the End of Time will be performed in this special ANZAC concert by School of Music staff.

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A public lecture by Professor Peter Klinken, Chief Scientist of Western Australia.

Western Australia has become a world leader in mining, petroleum and agricultural industries, all strongly based on science. In addition, the application of science in processing methods has allowed the (...)