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Displaying from Monday, March 06, 2017
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March 2017
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Monday 06 |
10:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Orbital graphs
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Speaker: Rebecca Waldecker (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Time and place: 16:00 Friday 10/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT
Title: Orbital graphs
Abstract: In joint work with Markus Pfeiffer and Chris Jefferson (both in St Andrews) I got interested in (...)
6, 7, 8 & 9 March 2017;
12:00pm - 12:30pm;
Limit of 10 people per session
As part of our mission to engage all communities around the University, provide opportunities for learning and discovery and advance the capability of our NAO robot we engaged our own UWA Computer Science (...)
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Tuesday 07 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Placental origins of adult health and disease : School of Human Sciences (APHB) Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Environmental challenges in utero perturb fetal growth and alter subsequent adult health outcomes. The role of the placenta and in particular, placental vasculature, in modulating these processes is uncertain. This imbalance in knowledge needs to be addressed in order to develop much (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Fifty Years of Writing Australian History from the Periphery : The Inaugural Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture
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By Professor Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania.
Henry Reynolds is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He grew up and was educated in Hobart and after a few years in Europe he took up a lectureship in history at the Townsville University (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
At UWA we are invigorating learning, teaching and research through digital transformation. This is evident in a number of Education Futures Scholarships awarded to various academics over the past two years.
In this one hour session, Learning Technologist Ezrina Fewings will discuss how (...)
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Thursday 09 |
Dr Nathan Pavlos is an Associate Professor and Head of the Cellular Orthopaedics Laboratory at the School of Biomedical Sciences (UWA). He completed his PhD studies in Cell Biology at UWA (2005) and undertook his postdoctoral training as an NHMRC CJ Martin Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series 2017 : The ‘Works of the Old Men’ in (Saudi) Arabia
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For over a century aerial archaeology has been in the vanguard of archaeological discovery and recording. Thanks to a unique twenty year programme of aerial reconnaissance in Jordan combined with the growing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery we can now thickly ‘populate’ with (...)
17:30 - BOOK LAUNCH - Book Launch: Like Nothing on this Earth by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth : Celebrate the release of this significant literary history of the Wheatbelt
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UWA Publishing warmly invites you to the launch of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth.
Like Nothing on this Earth will be launched by Prof. Matthew Tonts, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean.
Please RSVP by Monday 6 March (...)
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Tuesday 14 |
Tuesday 14 March 2017; 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Thursday 16 March 2017; 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Friday 17 March 2017; 10:00am – 10:30am
Limit of 2 people per session
Futures Observatory partner Hewlett-Packard (HP), have loaned a Sprout Pro to the Futures (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - The timing of stress: understanding adaptation in changing environments : School of Human Sciences (APHB) Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Given the prediction for the increase to both the frequency and intensity of natural disasters due to global climate change, it is becoming increasingly important that we understand the impact of past disasters so we may be able to better mitigate the effects of future ones. Using (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - �Hardly any women at all�? Literary landscapes at the time of Jane Austen : A Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Institute of Advanced Studies Public Lecture
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In a famous scene in Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland confesses to Henry Tilney that she rarely reads history, finding it ‘tiresome’. ‘I read it a little as a duty’, she admits, ‘but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or (...)
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Wednesday 15 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Families Still Seeking Asylum: Political Impacts and Community Responses in Australia : The 2017 Grace Vaughan Memorial Lecture
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By Dr Caroline Fleay, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University.
The responses of most political leaders to people seeking asylum lie in contrast to growing numbers of others in Australia who are disturbed by the impacts of policies on asylum seekers and their (...)
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Thursday 16 |
Excessive UV exposure can be damaging for your skin and your eyes. However, lack of time spent outdoors increases the risk of myopia. Data from the Raine, Busselton, Kidskin, Australian Twin Registry, WA liked data and the WA Eye Protection Study are helping to identify the optimal time outdoors (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium: Snowflakes, viruses and algorithms
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Everyone is warmly invited to the Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium.
Talk title: Snowflakes, viruses and algorithms
Talk abstract: In this talk we will look at different objects that have one thing in
common: they exhibit symmetry.
Why is this relevant? How can we (...)
16:00 - FREE LECTURE - Archaeology Seminar - "Horse of another colour?" Heritage studies and the critical turn - Dr. Kynan Gentry : UWA Archaeology Seminar Series
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In 2012 the newly established Association of Critical Heritage Studies appealed for a critical turn in heritage scholarship, calling on its members to ‘critically engage with the proposition that heritage studies needs to be rebuilt from the ground up’, and that this required the ‘ruthless (...)
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Friday 17 |
12:30 - FREE LECTURE - SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES, SEMESTER 1, 2017 : Grammar revolutions: Transformative Knowledge in Solomon Islands
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After decades neglecting grammar in schools, some Western educators are calling for a grammar revolution. The revolution may be happening in some unexpected places. In this paper, I discuss building interest in grammar on the island of Ranongga in the Western Province of Solomon Islands (...)
Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.
This week features Chris Tonkin and Adam Pinto performing works for Piano & Electronics by late UWA lecturer Roger Smalley.
13:30 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series, Seminar 1 2017 : What Does an Australian Look Like? Asia-Australian Perceptions of ‘Australian Appearance’ in Multicultural Australia
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This talk draws on a small scale pilot study which focused on identifying some key themes relating to appearance, attractiveness and belonging, and which were considered important for young Asian Australian men and women. Some existing literature on appearance and belonging in Australia and other (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, 16:00 17/03/2017 Weatherburn LT: Hui Zhou
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Speaker: Hui Zhou (University of Western Australia)
Time and place: 16:00 Friday 17/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT
Title: On top locally-s-distance-transitive graphs
Abstract: A graph with some graph symmetry property is called "top",
if it cannot be viewed as (...)
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Saturday 18 |
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents The Winthrop Singers : Pipe Organ Plus: Anniversary
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Celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Winthrop Singers, join us
for a spectacular concert of favourite choral and organ works presented in association with Pipe Organ Plus.
Tickets: Standard $40 | Concessions $35 | Under 18's $20
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