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Displaying from Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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April 2016
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Tuesday 19 |
8:30 - Short course - Introduction to statistics using Microsoft Excel : The course is open to anyone and is designed for those who have little or no experience with statistics or Microsoft Excel but who would like to learn more.
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This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)
Following a dazzling international career specialising in the virtuoso repertoire for the harpsichord, Virginia has come full circle and returned to her roots as a pianist. She has been delighting audiences in recent recitals in England and Europe and will continue to enchant our Keyed Up! (...)
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Friday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Relative elementary groups and their applications
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 22 April in Blakers LT
Speaker: Cai-Heng Li (UWA)
Title: Relative elementary groups and their applications
Abstract: Motivated by some problems about Cayley graphs and permutation groups,
we introduce and study a class of finite (...)
17:00 - RECITAL - School of Music presents - Fridays@5: Gesture and Theatre in Percussion : A lecture-recital by percussionist Thea Rossen
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
In the 400 years since his death in 1616, Shakespeare has stirred at least as many emotions among his publics. This event will present highlights from the research of scholars working in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (1100-1800), exploring some of (...)
18:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Paris in Winter - The COP21 Climate Change Conference and the Future of the Planet
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This talk looks at the history of climate change negotiations and how everything has changed as a result of the Paris climate change negotiations in Paris. It examines the outcomes of the talks and what they mean for Australia and the world. In particular, David Hodgkinson and Rebecca Johnston (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
Professor David Lawrence from the Telethon Kids Institute and the Faculty of Education will present key results from Young Minds Matter, and will also draw on findings from Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts and the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey to (...)
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Shann Memorial Lecture with Professor Mary Morgan : “Economic Models: Facts, Artefacts or Fictions?”
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The 55th Shann Memorial Lecture with Professor Mary S. Morgan (Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics, London School of Economics) is co-hosted by the UWA Business School and The Economic Society of Australia, WA.
Mary S. Morgan is Professor of History and Philosophy of (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Whatever it Takes: legal and sport science perspectives on the 'Essendon Saga'
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The Essendon Football Club doping scandal involves a biochemist, a high performance manager, a club doctor, a favourite son of the club as coach, elite footballers, the Australian Crime Commission, politicians, AFL and club administrators, the Australian Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), the World (...)
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Thursday 28 |
A public lecture by Norimitsu Nakata, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University and 2016 Gledden Short-Stay Visiting Fellow.
In this lecture, Dr Nakata will discuss data mining techniques that he uses to retrieve subsurface information, the discovery of post-earthquakes relaxation (...)
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Friday 29 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Free Lunchtime Concert: Vagabonds at the Opera
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Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.
This week, Ensemble Vagabond takes the audience on a journey through both the classics and lesser-known works of the operatic repertoire (...)
14:30 - SEMINAR - Anthropology / Sociology Seminar Series : Climate Changing High Himalaya: Production of Vulnerabilities and the Shifting Nature of Conflict on the India-China Frontier
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The Climate Change discourse generates a certain level of political consensus amongst the Indian and Chinese policy makers about an urgent need to preserve the high Himalaya, also recognised as the ‘water towers of Asia’, for the sake of South Asian security. Contrary to such dominant and (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Bruck nets and partial Sherk planes
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 29 April in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Jesse Lansdown (UWA)
Title: Bruck nets and partial Sherk planes
Abstract: In Bachmann’s Aufbau der Geometrie aus dem Spiegelungsbegriff, it was shown that a finite metric plane is a Desarguesian (...)
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 (...)
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May 2016
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Sunday 01 |
Featuring performances and open workshops by local specialists and internationals guest artists from Africa and the USA in drumset, orchestral percussion, percussion theatre and gesture, marimba technique, Zimbabwean mbira (thumb piano), African sabre drumming, Balinese gamelan and more.
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Tuesday 03 |
The ‘transition to retirement’ (TTR) option is a government initiative which recognises that members may want to decrease their working hours over time towards the end of their career. It allows members to access their super benefits as an income stream prior to retirement. Some members use it (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Detection of Gravitational Waves : The Detection of Gravitational Waves
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The quest for gravitational waves began with Einstein’s prediction exactly 100 years ago. The first experimental search began in 1960. From 1970 onwards the gravitational wave spectrum was mapped out theoretically. Misunderstandings and false claims of detection have created scepticism and (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof Richard Ryan (U Rochester and ACU)
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Psychology colloquium
Tuesday 3rd May in Bayliss MCS G.33, with post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room on the 2nd floor of the main psychology bldg.)
Presenter: Prof Richard Ryan
Richard M. Ryan is a clinical (...)
This illustrated lecture will examine one of the more popular images of the Vikings, that of stridently pagan thugs deliberately targeting and destroying Christian churches. Following a look at the evidence for paganism and attacks on English churches, the lecture will concentrate on the period (...)
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Wednesday 04 |
A public lecture by Guy Houlsby, Professor of Civil Engineering, Oxford University.
Wind, wave and tide are all potential sources of renewable energy, and the industries to exploit them are at different stages of maturity. Offshore wind is already well developed, with the UK for instance (...)
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