What's On at UWA

Whatever your idea of impossible might be, visit UWA 7 - 11 September for Research Week and discover the possibilities when we showcase UWA Research and its contribution to local and global communities. With over 40 events, there is sure to be something that ignites your interest.

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Bernadette Harvey (piano)

Tickets:

Unreserved seating, tickets available at the door.

Standard $10 / Students free

Meet the leaders of science in Western Australia and advocate for your future. The Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Forum of the Australian Academy of Science invites you to an afternoon networking and learning about what the EMCR Forum does and how you can be a part of it.

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In this public lecture Professor Peter Eastwood, Head of the Centre for Sleep Science at UWA, will discuss the causes of sleep apnoea and its current treatments. He will talk about the cause of sleep apnoea, and in particular the importance of the structures of the face, head and neck.

As (...)

A public lecture by Professor Peter Eastwood, Centre for Sleep Science, and Associate Professor Ajmal Mian, Machine Intelligence Group, UWA.

In this lecture Professor Eastwood will discuss the causes of sleep apnoea and its current treatments. He will then talk about the causes of sleep (...)

Presenter: Prof. Paul Salmon

Professor Paul Salmon holds a chair in Human Factors and is creator and director of the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He currently holds a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (...)

The Seminar: Some forms of smooth muscle show a property known as 'catch', where force production is maintained even though intracellular Ca2+ (the trigger for muscle contraction) drops back to very low levels. Skeletal muscle has also been reported to display a 'catch-like' enhanced contractile (...)

Chris Higgins was a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, London, winning the Hugh Bean prize as a violinist, and then entered Durham University where he obtained a first class degree (1976) and PhD (1979) in botany.

He won a SERC Postdoctoral Fellowship to research in (...)

In this free public lecture, Associate Professors Grace Oakley and Mark Pegrum will discuss a research project funded by the Australia China Council (ACC), where school students aged from 13 to 15 years living in Australia and China produced and exchanged digital stories about their everyday lives.< (...)

Semi-finals from 9.15 - 12.00. Finals from 3-5pm.

Come and learn about Intellectual Property and Commercialisation at UWA. Everything you need to know in 45 minutes or less!

The seminar will give an overview of:

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

. Patenting - what you need to get a patent < (...)

The concept of archaeological significance and its assessment is a particularly vexing issue for archaeologists working in Indigenous heritage management in Western Australia. Recent events including the resources boom, proposed heritage legislation reform, associated changes to the application of (...)

The 2015 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture by Bruce Thom AM FTSE FIAG, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney.

This lecture will offer some personal examples of where coastal science has been of use, where it has been ignored, and where it could be of value in the (...)

UWA Farm Ridgefield near Pingelly will open its doors to the wider community at the 2015 Field Day on Friday, 11 September.

The 1600-hectare farm is home to the Future Farm 2050 Project, a multidisciplinary project undertaking research into best practice farming techniques for the future (...)

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 (...)

A Conversation with Michael Small, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Applied Mathematics, The University of Western Australia.

What is the significance of the 'big' in 'Big Data'?

While there are certainly applications where massive volumes of varied and verifiable data (...)

The Seminar: Objectives: In 1971 Tudor Hart first described the inverse care law, which states that the availability of good medical/dental care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served. Does this still apply to modern day services? If so, why is this, given our current (...)

Presenter: Prof Jason Mattingley

Professor Jason Mattingley is Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Queensland, and an Austalian Research Council Laureate Fellow. His work is directed towards understanding the mechanisms of selective attention, in health and (...)

Dr Yu Suk Choi from the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, will give a talk with the title of, Stiffness does matter, ECM stiffness controls stem cell fate. The talk will be held in Room G24 at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, QEII Medical Centre.

An On the Edge lecture by Dr Clarke Jones, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.

With the arrest rate of young terrorist offenders likely to increase in the near term, Australian courts are faced with the difficult (...)