What's On at UWA

Psychology Colloquium

Monday 31st October 5-6pm in 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: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)

Title: Testing (...)

> Honours is regarded as the minimum qualification to call oneself an ‘archaeologist’. > Wide range of dissertation topics available (Honours, Masters & PhD). > Explanation of how the Honours year works (and also Masters and PhD). > Information on what funding and resources are (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Joint Physics and Mathematics Colloquium. This special event is due to the visit of Professor Rod Gover from the University of Auckland. Please come along to hear about some interesting developments in mathematical physics.

Talk title: Conformal geometry (...)

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 (...)

In the late nineteenth century, the study of the human flourished – both as an entity of flesh, blood, bones and nerve tissue, and as a vehicle for emotion that was also subservient to external forces. This study was heavily influenced by the emergence of a school of hard-heads: practitioners of (...)

Dr Glenn Savage from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne will discuss the complex ways that national schooling reforms are evolving in Australia’s federal system, with a particular focus on how state education departments and agencies are responding to (...)

Pluripotent (embryonic) stem cells have long been an elusive target for livestock as they were seen as the exclusive route for effecting precise genome editing. The first generation of cattle and reprogrammed sheep induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from our lab raised exciting possibilities to realise (...)

This talk takes its title from an account in Daniel Defoe’s The Complete English Tradesman (1726) describing a shopkeeper of a fragile temper who was often enraged by the impertinence of his customers. Although the man maintained a polite and civilised exterior with his annoying customers, when (...)

The Seminar: Bottlenose dolphins are one of very few species that use vocal learning to develop their own unique vocal signature early in life. Many animals may encode identity in a signal through general voice features, but each bottlenose dolphin produces one stereotyped whistle type, called a (...)

In November this year the University of Western Australia will again be hosting the 29th PhD Conference in Economics and Business.

The Conference was initiated by the UWA Business School in 1987 and is now a joint venture between UWA, the Australian National University, the University of (...)

A public lecture by Professor Anatoly Rykov, St Petersburg State University and 2016 Institute of Advanced Studies Short Stay Visiting Fellow.

In this public lecture Professor Anatoly Rykov will address the convergence between totalitarian (proto-fascist) discourses and early avant-garde (...)

Robert C Robbins MD is the President and CEO of the Texas Medical Center. This medical center employs over 106,600 staff in 54 institutions including 21 hospitals which take eight million patient visits a year.

Prior to joining the Texas Medical Center, Dr Robbins served as professor and (...)

This seminar will outline the practical “why, what, how” for research/conduct and reporting/critical assessment of systematic and meta-analyses reviews that would be suitable for publication in high impact journals such as Sports Medicine. Practical “tips and tricks” will be provided to (...)

55th Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) National Scientific Conference

“NEXT-GENERATION HEALTHCARE: MERGING BIOLOGY & TECHNOLOGY”

November 13-15, 2016 – Bond University, Gold Coast

Look beyond disciplinary boundaries and join us at NSC 2016 for (...)

Each year the School of Music celebrates the amazing talent of our perfromance and composition students in a series of senior and graduation recitals.

We invite you to join us to help celebrate our students' endeavour and enjoy some wonderful free music.

Monday 14 November

The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Joint Physics and Mathematics Colloquium.

Title: "Dualities in Mathematics and Physics"

Abstract: In this talk I will review some geometric analogues of the Fourier transform, which arise in String Theory under the name of ‘dua (...)

Each year the School of Music celebrates the amazing talent of our perfromance and composition students in a series of senior and graduation recitals.

We invite you to join us to help celebrate our students' endeavour and enjoy some wonderful free music.

Tuesday 15 November

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18:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Voltaire and contemporary France

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In the eighteenth century Voltaire waged a campaign against religious intolerance, and fought for victims who had suffered persecution by the Catholic Church. More broadly, he and other French philosophers of the Enlightenment sought to combat religious superstition and to encourage members of (...)

A public lecture by Kishan Dholakia, Professor of Physics, University of St Andrews and 2016 Institute of Advanced Studies Short Stay Visiting Fellow.

Light is incredible. It has formed the basis of so many advances in the world around us, including revolutionising the way we communicate (...)