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Displaying from Tuesday, February 19, 2019
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February 2019
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Tuesday 19 |
A public lecture by Professor Rashid Sumaila, Director, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
A crucial question still facing humanity is how to successfully manage the ocean to ensure long term (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Overcoming the challenges of making high quality cross-national comparisons. The example of the European Social Survey
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A public lecture by Professor Rory Fitzgerald, Director, European Social Survey, City, University of London and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
In this public lecture Professor Rory Fitzgerald will first outline the challenges of cross-national measurement using social (...)
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics and Statistics colloquium : Particle modelling applied to industrial and biophysical problems
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Particle methods have capabilities that particularly suit numerical simulation of complex phenomena involved in industrial and biophysical application domains. The two core methods used in this talk are DEM (Discrete Element Method) and SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics). Coupling of these (...)
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Monday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
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A public lecture by Dr Joëlle Gergis, Lecturer, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of Melbourne.
What was Australia’s climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
Jennifer Young (Dual gradient hydrogel systems for mechanobiology applications): The spatial presentation of mechanical information is a key parameter for cell behavior. We have previously developed a method for creating tunable stiffness gradient polyacrylamide hydrogels with values spanning the (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Callaway Centre Seminar Series - Pedro Alvarez : Notation as transcription, composition as translation
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A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
This week: Pedro Alvarez | Notation as transcription, composition as translation
Abstract:
Music composition will be discussed in its dialectical situation between transcriptive and (...)
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Thursday 28 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Islands of History : Recent discoveries on Yaburara country (Dampier Archipelago) - historical inscriptions from pre-colonial visitors
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Research undertaken as part of the Murujuga:
Dynamics of the Dreaming project across the Dampier
Archipelago has discovered rock art that provides
significant new evidence about historical visits before
white settlement in 1861. These assist a better
understanding of Yaburara life in the islands (...)
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents Centre Stage: Royal Over-Seas League Travel Award Finals
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A jam-packed program of stimulating performances and events in 2019 showcases the immense talent of our young emerging artists and their mentors, our celebrated alumni, and nationally and internationally recognised guest artists.
From masterclasses and workshops to intimate chamber (...)
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March 2019
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Friday 01 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : Negotiating difference through everyday encounter and its implications for life and relationship: Narratives of Thai-farang American interracial relationship.
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As the number of people involved in interracial relationships around the world has risen, scholars have increasingly paid attention to various aspects of interracial relationships, including identity development and challenges faced by these individuals. Despite this growing trend, little is known (...)
11:00 - SEMINAR - 'You gotta have a purpose' : Complex motivations for reinstating the intergenerational transmission of Australian Aboriginal Languages
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If, as argued by Joshua Fishman (1991), intergenerational language transmission within the family is the ‘unexpendable bulwark’ of language revitalization efforts, then what are the perspectives of learners and semi-speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages regarding the reinstatement of (...)
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Free Lunchtime Concert | Conservatorium of Music Staff
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Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, this week featuring staff from the Conservatorium.
Free entry - no bookings required
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Tuesday 05 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The effect of drone strikes in Pakistan on terrorism and anti-US sentiment
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This paper analyzes the consequences of the 425 drone strikes the US has conducted in Pakistan from 2006 – 2016. The existing literature provides arguments both in favor of and against the use of drones in combatting terrorism: On the one hand, drones are lauded for being a low-risk, affordable (...)
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Thursday 07 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Further explorations of the fossiliferous chert artefact record – building the links between the West Australian and South Australian archival records
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Eocene fossiliferous chert is a distinctive stone used in
the manufacture of stone artefacts commonly found in
archaeological sites in southwestern Western Australia
(WA). Since disputing the ‘offshore source’ theory for
this material, our research has focused on the
characterisation and (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - Researchers in Agriculture for International Development (RAID) Seminar and Networking Event
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There is a rapidly growing interest among agricultural research to work in international development. Certainly, it is an extraordinary field, filled with challenges, yet bringing enormous rewards. Some key questions that many enthusiasts face are:
How do I get involved?
What (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | Smalley Unearthed
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An exceptional ensemble come together to perform works by Roger Smalley including the rarely heard Missa Parodia I & II and the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra arranged by Adam Pinto for 2-pianos
Featuring:
EMILY CLEMENTS (FLUTE)
PAUL DE CINQUE (CONDUCTOR)
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Friday 08 |
13:00 - WORKSHOP - Conducting a comprehensive literature search (Humanities and Social Sciences focus)
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Ensure that your literature searching is effective, efficient and thorough.
Learn how to:
Develop a search strategy;
Identify relevant, scholarly information sources;
Use tools and techniques to track the literature related to your research.
This session has a Humanities and (...)
Women comprise only 3% of mechanical and electrical trades in the Australian workforce. In recent years, state and national governments have provided incentives for more women to partake in trades. Additionally, following studies that show the positive correlation between gender diversity in the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Calin Borceanu, 4pm March 08 in Weatherburn LT
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Speaker: Calin Borceanu (UWA)
Title: Searching for partial congruence partitions in groups of order p^8
Time and Place: 4pm Friday 08 Mar 2019, Weatherburn LT
Abstract: A partial congruence partition (or PCP) of a group is defined simply
as a set of pairwise (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - China�s Marshall Plan : Neoclassical Realism, the European Recovery Program and the Belt and Road Initiative
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Since its advent in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been increasingly touted in media reports as ‘China’s Marshall Plan’. Despite these frequent references, there has yet to be an extensive comparative analysis of the BRI and the Marshall Plan. At its inception, the Marshall Plan (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Sabina Pannek, 4pm March 12
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Speaker: Sabina Pannek
Title: Elements with large irreducible submodules contained in maximal subgroups of the general linear group
Time and place: 4pm Tuesday 12 Mar 2019, Blakers LT
Abstract: We refer to an element of the finite general linear group GL(V) as being (...)
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