Wednesday 02 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Art & the Heart: The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System & the Polyvagal Theory of Stephen Porges : A Public Lecture by Alexander Cohen
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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 (...)
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Thursday 03 |
16:00 - FREE LECTURE - The shifting landscape of Australian schooling reform : Free lecture on "The shifting landscape of Australian schooling reform: Possibilities, problems and politics."
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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 (...)
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Friday 04 |
13:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - AB SEMINAR SERIES : Stem Cells and Genome editing; exploring novel ways to engineer large animals for biotech and biomed outcomes
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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 (...)
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Monday 07 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Like a Libyan Lion: Getting to Grips with Rage in Eighteenth-Century England : A CHE Seminar with Thomas Dixon
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - To copy or not to copy; why do bottlenose dolphins imitate each other�s vocal signature? : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
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 (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Theories of Art/Theories of Terror. Avant-garde, Totalitarianism, and Post-Structuralist Epilogue.
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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 (...)
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Thursday 10 |
17:00 - ORATION - Wesfarmers Harry Perkins Oration : 21st Century Medicine: insights from the world's largest medical center
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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 (...)
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Friday 11 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Seminar: How to Conduct and Write a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for Exercise Science Topics : This Seminar will outline the practical "why, what, how" for research/conduct, reporting/critical assessment of systematic and meta analysis reviews
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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 (...)
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Sunday 13 |
12:00 - CONFERENCE - Australian Society for Medical Research national Scientific Conference Nov 2016 on the Gold Coast : ASMR is pleased to announce that we have opened the National Scientific Conference for late-breaking abstracts.
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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 (...)
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Monday 14 |
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
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Tuesday 15 |
8:30 - Course - Introductory Statistics : The course is open to anyone and is designed for people with little or no knowledge of statistics who want to develop understanding of basic statistics.
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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
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 (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
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 (...)
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Friday 18 |
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.
Friday 18 November
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Saturday 19 |
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.
Saturday 19 November< (...)
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Monday 21 |
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 21 November
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Tuesday 22 |
12:30 - EVENT - Special Lunchtime Psychology Colloquium: Prof Simon Garrod (Glasgow)
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Psychology Colloquium
Tuesday 22nd November 12:00-1:00pm in Bayliss MCS G.33
Presenter: Prof Simon Garrod (Glasgow)
Title: Cognitive Science for joint activities and dialogue.
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This talk presents a cognitive framework for analyzing (...)
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