What's On at UWA

Bringing together aspiring and experienced leaders of social change and innovation, this 2-day Summit is designed to inspire and empower. It moves far beyond just talking - it is a carefully designed journey for learning and co-creating our future together.

We believe facilitating (...)

Lake Kinneret, the only natural freshwater lake in Israel, is of prime importance to the country. Since the mid 1960’s it has provided a significant portion of the country’s drinking water, and acts as a major recreation, cultural and religious site and has a vibrant fisheries. Due to its (...)

Find out how social media can help research engagement and networking. Use social media to stay up to date with the latest developments in your field. Discover tools like Altmetric.com and PlumX which capture and measure online sharing, mentions and engagement with research outputs.

Speaker: John Sheekey (University College Dublin)

Title: Subspaces of Matrices over Finite Fields with Restricted Rank

Time and place: 4pm Friday 20 Jul 2018, Weatherburn LT

Abstract: Rank-metric codes are codes consisting of matrices over a finite field, with the (...)

MMoB's 2018 WA Migration and Mobilities Update Conference will focus on Modern Slavery and Migration, with keynote speakers Professor Jennifer Burn, Anti-Slavery Australia, and Assoc. Professor Marie Segrave, Border Crossing Observatory, plus a range of panellists from community, academia and (...)

The outreach program will cover the requirements companies and organisations must meet when exporting controlled goods and technologies or supplying related information by intangible means. These include military or commercial items that may have potential military end use or could be used in (...)

Regulated assembly and horizontal transfer of tripartite mobile DNA elements

Speaker: Phill Schultz (University of Western Australia)

Title: The curious incident of the Leningrad mathematicians

Time and place: 4pm Friday 27 Jul 2018, Weatherburn LT

Abstract: The solution of a famous Sherlock Holmes mystery hinges on the fact that none of the (...)

At the UWA Conservatorium of Music, we know that performance enhances your brain, your social skills and helps you reach your full potential.

We also know that exams and auditions can be a daunting experience for young musicians!

Join us for the annual Keyed Up! Day of Piano (...)

Treated wastewater (TWW) is infiltrated into aquifers via infiltration ponds for disposal and non-potable reuse at many wastewater treatment plants across WA. Infiltration, a form of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), provides water quality improvement of TWW associated with natural processes during (...)

The 2018 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.

Over less than two human lifetimes, discoveries in physics transformed the world and our sense of place in the universe. We harnessed electromagnetic (...)

Exploring the evolution of artefacts and related behaviours (e.g., artefact production) spatio-temporally is a long-standing issue for both archaeologists and cultural historians. In the modern world, the survival of traditional craftsmanship and corresponding craft production are significantly (...)

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

The lunchtime concert series resumes this week with a special performance by Head of the Conservatorium, Professor (...)

Social, cultural and archival knowledge frameworks have historically made sense of sexually-diverse youth through a concept of mobility in order to achieve community belonging. Specifically, the conceptual stories of queer youth coming out, transitions to adulthood, social engagement and identity (...)

Speaker: Gordon Royle (University of Western Australia)

Title: Online Collaborative LaTeX Authoring with Overleaf

Time and place: 4pm Friday 03 Aug 2018, Weatherburn LT

Abstract: This seminar is in the (very) occasional CMSC Technical Seminar Series covering useful (...)

The 2018 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture by Ann McGrath AM, the Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellow and Distinguished Professor, School of History, Australian National University

In this memorial lecture, Professor McGrath will focus upon the story of how ‘Terra Australis’ or ‘Sy (...)

A panel discussion presented by the UWA School of Human Sciences (Exercise and Sport Science) and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies.

Why Tamper? Understanding the aerodynamics of a cricket ball - Professor Andrew Cresswell, Head, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences and (...)