What's On at UWA

With life expectancy on the rise, osteoporosis, the most common form of skeletal disease, is likely to pose a significant burden on both patients and healthcare infrastructure for the foreseeable future. Imbalances at the unique immunological niche of the bone marrow in osteoporosis, and diseases (...)

The 2016 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Professor Kingsley Dixon, Director, ARC Centre for Mine Restoration, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University.

Western Australia and the southwest in particular is blessed with one of the richest floras on earth - in fact we (...)

The McCusker Centre for Citizenship are co-hosting an event with Global Citizen next Wednesday 27 July at 5.00pm in Wesfarmers Business School,UWA.

Why not come along and hear in person from UWA's very own Michael Sheldrick from Global Citizen in New York?

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Public lecture by Professor Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia.

Conceptions of Australian national identity have emphasized the nation’s collective youth and innocence, federated only in 1901. The Australian national anthem reminds (...)

The nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex remodels the genome in the context of both gene transcription and DNA damage repair. It is essential for normal development and is distributed across multiple tissues in organisms ranging from mammals to nematode worms. In common with other (...)

Speaker: Professor Raffaele Dellacà was awarded a Masters degree in Information Technology Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1997. He obtained a PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2001 on the assessment of respiratory mechanics by opto-electronic plethysmography and forced oscillations (...)

UniSuper offers flexible products for new and existing members to choose from. This seminar seeks to introduce (primarily) new employees to the basic fund offering, including details of the defined benefit option versus accumulation alternative. Issues covered by this seminar include:

Mem (...)

A public lecture by Ben H. Shepherd, 2016 Fred Alexander Fellow and reader in History at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.

The German army is widely regarded as having been the most skilled and effective land-based fighting force of World War II, but also one whose reputation is (...)

Professor Ross Baker presents ‘Another Bloody Breakfast' with special guest, Dr Clair McLintock, Lead Clinician of Obstetric Medicine and obstetric physician and haematologist at National Women’s Health, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand.

Dr McLintock specialises in women with (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 5 August in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: John Bamberg (UWA)

Title: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries

Abstract: This is a longer version of the talk I will be giving at “New Directions in Combinatorics” (Singapore) (...)

Psychology Colloquium: Monday 8th August from 5-6pm in the Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd Floor of Main Psychology building).

Presenter: Peter Lovibond (UNSW)

Peter Lovibond is a (...)

of enzyme allostery may not apply to DHDPS. However, we show using biophysical analyses that DHDPS from Triticum aestivum (i.e. bread wheat) is allosterically regulated by lysine-induced dissociation of the active oligomeric species. This represents a rare example of the morpheein allosteric model � (...)

UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)

Each year the Telethon Kids Institute hosts a Prospective Postgraduate Student Evening to inform potential students about the postgraduate opportunities available at the Institute, the School of Paediatrics and Child Health and Princess Margaret Hospital.

If you are interested in any of (...)

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

Free entry - no bookings required!

This week UWA's talented Guitar students, under the direction of Jonathan Fitzgerald (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 12 August in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Shu-Jiao Song (UWA)

Title: On constructions of arc-transitive maps

Abstract: A map is a 2-cell embedding of a graph into a surface. An automorphism of a map is an automorphism of the underlying graph (...)

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 (...)

YOU can meet our UniHallers and join us for a free exclusive breakfast and a tour before heading over to UWA Open Day.

This is a great opportunity for you to discover what it’s like to live on campus at UWA. On the day you will meet our UniHall ambassadors who will take you on a tour (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 19 August in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Don Taylor (The University of Sydney)

Title: Reflection subgroups of unitary reflection groups

Abstract: The usual notion of a reflection in Euclidean space has a natural analogue in vector spaces (...)

Each year UWA SNAGS host a women in agriculture breakfast to introduce readily involved and influential women of the industry to those studying in the natural and agricultural sciences.

This year the event will be on the 16th August at 7:30am. This event has been a great success in (...)