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February 2014
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Monday 17 |
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 (...)
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Thursday 20 |
7:00 - EVENT - Reforming Legal Frameworks for Mining and Economic Development in Africa : CMSS Presents: A Breakfast Meeting with Congolese Diplomat Ms. Stephanie Mbombo Bodson
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Date: Thursday 20th February
Breakfast Meeting: Reforming Legal Frameworks for Mining and Economic Development in Africa
Also supported by Minerals and Energy Institute, Centre for Exploration Targeting.
Summary:
Ms. Stephanie Mbombo Bodson, former (...)
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March 2014
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Wednesday 05 |
17:30 - EVENT - MBA Information Evening (Perth) : An information evening for prospective Master of Business Administration students
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Come along to the UWA Business School's information evening for the Master of Business Administration (MBA), where you can learn about our new MBA Full Time as well as MBA Flexible. You will have the opportunity to meet professors and current students, have all your questions answered, and even (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
As PhD students you have ambitions beyond your doctoral research. As supervisors and scientists you have bold plans. You probably have ambitions not just to do everyday science, but to break the paradigm. How are you going to do this? How will you get funded for novel, groundbreaking research? (...)
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Wednesday 12 |
17:15 - FREE LECTURE - Start-Up Exchange: Idea to Venture : Learn from and listen to speakers and companies, who did it!
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In conjunction with four WA universities, The Innovation Centre WA is hosting a series of Start-Up Exchange workshops throughout 2014. The first of these workshops “Idea to Venture” is jointly hosted by UWA’s Office of Industry and Innovation.
You will hear from Prof Tim St Pierre (...)
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Friday 14 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Social Entrepreneurship - Social Service or Social Change? : Public Lecture
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The UWA Business School Centre for Social Impact (CSI) is delighted to welcome Dr Pamela Hartigan to present a public lecture on social entrepreneurship. Pamela Hartigan is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate schools of business in the USA, Europe, Asia and Latin (...)
In association with the UWA Cultural Precinct, the UWA Business School and the Graduate Management Association are delighted to invite you to a very special viewing of Anne Ferran: Shadow Land exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday, 14 March 2014, 6pm. The event will include a (...)
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Friday 28 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The acceptability of marine offsets and the social license to operate : Professor Michael Burton, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia
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This paper reports the results of a choice experiment to examine the features of marine offsets that the public finds acceptable. Offsets have become an established element of what is required if developments are to impose no net loss on the environment, once avoidance and mitigation activities (...)
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April 2014
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Friday 04 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Predicting pro-environmental agricultural practices: The social, psychological and contextual influences on land management
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Pro-environmental agricultural approaches have been developed, but their uptake has not been sufficient to mitigate environmental degradation. A lack of suitable theoretical frameworks limits research on famers' environmental behaviours, and there has been little integration of social sciences in (...)
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Friday 11 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Australia's grain supply chains : Dr Ross Kingwell, Chief Economist, Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre
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Australia’s grain supply infrastructure has been in the news. Late last year the Federal Government blocked ADM’s proposed take-over of GrainCorp. Here in Western Australia, Bunge have built grain export port facilities in Bunbury and the Chinese firm Heilingjiang Feng Agricultural are (...)
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Sunday 13 |
15:30 - EVENT - 'Modern Moods' Concert : Isabel Hede from the Australian Academy of Music plays a program of MOODY Music.
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Isabel Hede, a guest of the UWA and a visiting artist from the Australian National Academy of Music puts her best forward in a program of MOODY modern music! She will showcase works for violin and piano from composers such as Prokofiev and Messiaen, and finish with the universally adored Dvorak's (...)
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May 2014
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Monday 12 |
12:00 - Art Exhibition - The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition : A compelling fine art exhibition reflecting the human rights situation in China (Free event)
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The Art of Zhen Shan Ren (Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance) takes viewers through the story of Falun Dafa - from its introduction to the public in 1992, through the beauty and enlightenment of the practice, to the unjust and unrelenting persecution, moving forward through the peaceful (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - The Role of Universities in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Faculty of Engineering Experience
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Professor Lynch has a remarkable record in Canada for his entrepreneurship especially in his fundraising work for his Faculty.
I encourage you to attend and look forward to seeing you there - Prof John Dell, Dean of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics UWA
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Monday 19 |
Distance and time based road pricing schemes have been proposed by many transport economists as an efficient way to manage scarce road infrastructure. Introducing road pricing involves many stakeholders, and there are many issues that need to be resolved before implementing such a scheme in (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - India-Pakistan Relations: An Overview : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sanu Kainikara
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Ever since the birth of Pakistan and India as independent nations after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, Indo-Pak relations have been vexed to say the least. The nations have fought three accepted wars; two unacknowledged wars; and is still in the throes of insurgency and counter-i (...)
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Friday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Threshold effects and climate change policy : Assistant Professor Morteza Chalak, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy
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Climate change scientists have shown concerns about possible sudden changes due to crossing a temperature threshold. Many authors emphasized the importance of sea level rise due to melting ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica and its large economic consequences. We study the economic (...)
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June 2014
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Monday 02 |
In the week beginning 2 June 2014, iVEC will offer the following free short courses on supercomputing topics:
Introduction to iVEC: 2:00 – 3:00pm Mon 2nd June
Introduction to Linux: 3:30 – 4:30pm Mon 2nd June
Introduction to Supercomputing: 10:00am – 4:00pm (...)
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Wednesday 04 |
17:30 - EVENT - MBA Information Evening (Perth) : An information evening for prospective Master of Business Administration students
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Come along to the UWA Business School's information evening for the Master of Business Administration (MBA), where you can learn about our new MBA Full Time as well as MBA Flexible. You will have the opportunity to meet professors and current students, have all your questions answered, and even (...)
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Thursday 05 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - 10th Australasian Development Economics Workshop : This event brings together development economists from Australia and internationally with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.
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The annual Australasian Development Economics Workshop, sponsored by DFAT, brings together development economists from Australia and internationally with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.
The next workshop is the tenth in the series and will be hosted by the Business School (...)
13:30 - EVENT - IOA Postgraduate Showcase - Frontiers in Agriculture : 9 PhD students present their diverse agriculture-related research
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The Institute of Agriculture's annual Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research.
This year, nine presentations covering a wide range of disciplines will highlight some of the research and progress underway at UWA in the area of (...)
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