What's On at UWA

The Business School is hosting an information evening for its Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) programs.

We invite you to attend the upcoming information evening which will give you the opportunity to learn about the programs on offer, to discuss your study options, meet Business School staff and have all your questions answered before applying for your chosen MBA course.

The event starts at 5.30pm with the following format

5.30-6.00pm: Meet the current students and professors 6.00-7.00pm: Presentation 7.00-7.30pm: Individual question time

Register now to attend http://www.business.uwa.edu.au/school/news/infoevenings/register

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 course is subsidised for UWA postgraduate research students.

Supercomputer simulations have played a transformative role over the last 30 years in establishing the paradigms of the growth of cosmic structure and galaxy formation. Theoretically they allow us to tackle problems that are otherwise intractable analytically, such as predicting the structure of the cosmic web and the internal properties of galaxies. Observationally they allow us to build virtual universes that allow us to interpret the results of large galaxy surveys. I'll review what goes into one of these simulations, explaining why and how supercomputers have proven to be crucial. I'll also highlight key predictions from simulations and identify areas where more work is needed as we enter the era of SKA-science.

The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. Those without this experience are encouraged to attend the Introductory Statistics course first.

This course covers material ranging from Kaplan Meier curves to the analysis of censored data and Cox's proportional hazards models.

Participants must bring their own laptop with R installed.

A collaboration between the UCC and CASSA, the GigaLAN will combine both club's MegaLANs into one awesome event. The GigaLAN will be a great event with lots of Gaming. Tournaments include: DOTA 2, Team Fortress 2, Starcraft 2, Age of Empires 2, Trackmania and more! Prizes for all tournaments and competitions are proudly supplied by our great sponsors Retro, Tactics and Good Games

For Dinner, pizza will be available for purchase and various snacks and drinks will be for sale over the course of the night, Red Bull will also be making an appearance.

Tickets will be $10 for club members and $15 for non-members. For the club member discount you must purchase a ticket directly from your respective club; for UCC this is directly through dispense. For more information and to buy tickets, please see the GigaLAN website.

This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple linear regression and then proceed with approaches that can be used with more than two variables such as multiple regression. ANOVA with interactions and blocking will also be covered. The course will end with techniques that address the analysis of binary or ordinal variables.

Subsidised fees are available for UWA Graduate Research Students.

The event you've been waiting for is approaching fast! This year's UCC camp will again be at the lovely Camp Leschenaultia in Chidlow. The camp involves a weekend of gaming, tech talks, and (for those who are inclined) physical activities such as swimming. The camp is a great way to get to know more members of the club and to get away from the city for a weekend! Accommodation is in dormitories, so don't worry, you don't need a tent. A list of stuff to bring is on the wiki (http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/UCCCamp2013). Meals will be provided and will be prepared by volunteers. The menu has not been finalised. To volunteer for cooking or something else, visit the wiki. No alcohol will be supplied at this event. When registering interest, please supply a valid email address, as we will use this for further communication. There is a limit of 80 places, which will go to the first 80 people who pay.

'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' info evening: Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA.

In conjunction with the UWA Business School, the UWA Careers Centre is organising an expo to promote vacation and work opportunities.

Employers attending include: EY, PwC, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Chevron, Department of Health, Shell, IBM, Communications Council, McGrath Nicol, Korda Mentha and the UWA Careers Centre.

All student welcome!

Google Tech Talk – NEXT WEEK:

What: Tech Talk - Distributed Storage & Data Processing

When: 1:00 - 2:00PM, Tues 6 August

Where: University of Western Australia, Engineering Lecture Theatre 2

Pizza provided, RSVP at link below.

The Vacation Networking Evening is a night not to miss for students looking at securing vacation work in the Oil & Gas and related industries this summer. Students from ALL Engineering disciplines (Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, Petroleum, Environmental, Electrical…) and all Commerce disciplines are urged not to miss this exclusive opportunity. Attending companies include: Wesfarmers, Chevron, BP, Shell, Schlumberger, Subsea7, Ernst & Young…and more to come! Tickets are on sale from 12-2pm in front of ECM or can be purchased online from the following link. http://www.trybooking.com/DDZK

Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.

There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities for the whole family as we celebrate our 100th birthday.

Configuration management and the death of system administration (we have systems to do that now) presented by Luke Williams.

Being a sysadmin is hard work. You maintain complex, changing systems using an arcane library of command-line incantations to inspect and modify elaborate configurations. Quick fixes congeal into messes of dirty undocumented hacks. Repetitive tasks are traditionally automated with scripts: sequences of commands where every line is a potential point of failure that can leave the system in an unknown state to be painstakingly resolved by hand.

Configuration management (CM) takes the mystery out of system administration. Instead of explicitly listing steps that (hopefully)result in the desired system state, a high-level description of the desired state is processed by the CM platform to determine the steps to reach it, using package adapters to reason about the current system state and generate commands to alter it.

In this talk I'll introduce Puppet, a mature configuration management platform with adapters for thousands of server applications, and Vagrant, an automatic VM provisioning tool that we can use with puppet to effortlessly spin up new environments. We'll see how a single command can rebuild an entire system, how version control makes rolling back to a previous state as simple as checking out a revision and how to use layering to avoid duplicating configuration information common to your servers.

If you'd like to follow along with your laptop, I'll be around the clubroom half an hour before the talk helping people get set up. Hope to see you there!

The Careers Centre will be promoting its services and resources in the Science Library from Monday 12th to Friday 16th August 2013.

Got a question you want answered? A Career Adviser will be available from 1.00pm-2pm, (12, 13, 15 and 16th August only) to assist with a career or employment based question you might have. Just drop in and see us.

All students welcome!

It's that time of the year again!

Head down to the tav at 7:00pm on the 21st of August for CSSC's annual Quiz Night!

Come down to the clubroom to register a table, $10 per person or $72 for a table of 8.

This year our sponsors are Good Games St James, Tactics and White Dwarf books so come down for a chance at some awesome prizes and a night of fun!

Scope: How do you creatively plan for a population of 62 million by 2100? Australia’s current major city planning frameworks only account for an extra 5.5 million people. Whether we want a ‘Big Australia’ or not, Australia’s 21st century is likely to see rapid and continual growth – if we want liveable, high performance cities and regional centres we need to think outside the box.

Speaker: Dr Julian Bolleter is an Assistant Professor at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia. His role at the AUDRC includes teaching a master’s program in urban design and conducting urban design research and design projects.

Julian and his colleague Richard Weller have recently completed a book entitled ‘Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities’, which scopes the urban implications of Australia’s population reaching 62.2m by 2101.

Event: This is the inaugural seminar of the Water Sensitive Cities Seminar Series for the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities (Western Region), facilitating knowledge sharing amongst CRC-WSC participants and the wider community.

Following the seminar, light refreshments will be served from 5:00pm in the nearby foyer of the School of Environmental Systems Engineering. A map of the venues and parking may be found at http://goo.gl/maps/KsFBJ

For further information please contact [email protected]

We look forward to welcoming you.

'Becoming an Engineer with UWA' info evening: Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend one of our info sessions to learn more about how to achieve an engineering career with UWA. Please RSVP via http://www.ecm.uwa.edu.au/community/engineering-info-evenings

Mathematica exhibits a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art image processing and analysis functions for two and three-dimensional image composition, segmentation, feature detection, transformation, alignment, and restoration. The talk will touch several image processing application areas and demonstrate how Mathematica's fully integrated, powerful mathematical capabilities aid the rapid prototyping of image processing algorithms. We will also show how to implement dynamic and interactive interfaces for routines that require manual intervention and how to incorporate Java, C/C++, and GPU-code in the Mathematica programming language.

Dr. Markus van Almsick studied theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and biomedical image analysis at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has held positions at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt, working on loop quantum gravity, isomer enumeration, stochastic line propagation models in image processing, and on high angular resolution diffusion imaging. For 25 years he has been a consultant to Wolfram Research Inc., contributing code to Mathematica, promoting the software with talks about scientific applications, and showing researchers how to solve their problems using Mathematica.

The School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia, with generous support from Google, is holding a CS4HS workshop in September 26-27 at UWA. The workshop is free and aimed at helping K-12 teachers (both pre- and in- service teachers) and educators learn more about using ICT through hands-on activities, presentations, sharing of innovative teaching and discussions with other educators, industry speakers, and UWA researchers. In particular, we will demonstrate how teachers can encourage learners to think and analyse a particular topic through use of ICT/CS. The workshop requires no previous programming experience.