What's On at UWA

Deciding what to do when it’s time to use your super for retirement can be daunting. This seminar aims to explain the common options available to generate income and fund your retirement goals. Topics discussed include: • challenges in retirement • pension options including annuities and (...)

A public lecture by Associate Professor Jane Balme, Archaeology Discipline Chair, UWA.

String may have its antecedents in the behaviour of our ancestors, however subsequent use by our own species (Homo sapiens sapiens) to create complex tools, symbolic items and to colonise new (...)

Title: Mathematics and Statistics of Scuba Diving

Abstract: Scuba divers are trained to follow procedures that keep them safe while diving and afterward. Surprisingly, these safety measures are based on just a handful of simple mathematical and statistical principles, which will be (...)

From the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, South Beach enjoyed a period of extraordinary popularity as a leisure destination, attracting an estimated 35,000 people to its opening ceremony in 1909. However, at the South Beach of today, little remains to indicate this vibrant past, prompting (...)

Tania Frazer is the solo oboist and Creative Director of the Southern Cross Soloists, one of Australia’s leading chamber music ensembles. A dedicated teacher, Tania is also the oboe lecturer at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and Director of the Southern Cross Soloists Winter Music (...)

Alex Raineri, described by Limelight Magazine as ‘a soloist of superb skill and musicality’, is an active soloist and chamber musician, currently based in Brisbane.

His performance experience includes tours of California, South- East Asia, England, New Zealand, Germany and a vast (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School

This week Southern Cross Soloists present 'Three’s Company'

Members of the Southern Cross Soloists: Tania Frazer (oboe) (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 8 April in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Kyle Rosa (UWA)

Title: Invariable generation of permutation groups

Abstract: An invariable generating set for a group is a collection of conjugacy classes from which any choice of representatives form a (...)

The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)

Presenter: Prof Brett Hayes

Brett Hayes is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He is a former Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW, and has held previous appointments at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, and honourary appointments (...)

A public lecture by Miranda Hart, School of Biology, University of British Columbia and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

The use of bioinoculants (bacteria or fungi) is a common practice in many managed systems. In some cases, this practice is essential and plants will not grow (...)

You are invited to attend a one-day workshop on Intensive Mode Teaching (IMT). Intensive mode teaching (IMT) is part of the 21st Century student experience. IMT engages students in facilitated learning activities or classes intensively over longer than a few hours in a day, and over fewer days (...)

Abstract - Over 61 million children have been left behind in the Chinese countryside while at least one parent and often, two parents work away from home long term. In this talk I draw on qualitative fieldwork carried out between 2010 and 2015 in Jiangxi and Anhui provinces to examine the role of (...)

A public lecture by Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina.

This lecture will examine three issues: the problems involved in using survivor testimony as the sole or primary source to write on otherwise undocumented aspects of (...)

In a collaboration of performance and research, Head of Vocal Studies Andrew Foote leads staff and students, in presenting a series of intimate and cozy salon style performances to delight every concertgoer.

The Bard in Song 'A celebration of William Shakespeare'

To mark the (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

This week senior UWA Piano student James Dekleva will present a solo recital, including works by Schubert and Liszt.

Waltzes - (...)

The Western Australian government’s recent proposal to close up to 150 of the state’s remote Aboriginal communities sparked condemnation from community members including Aboriginal organisations, the state and federal opposition Labor governments, a range of activist groups and the United (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 15 April in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Ty Ghaswala (University of Waterloo)

Title: The superelliptic covers and the lifting mapping class group

Abstract: Given a finite sheeted (possibly branched) covering space over a surface, one can ask (...)

The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)