What's On at UWA

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Hua Zhang

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Vertex primitive 2-path transitive graphs

at 1pm on Tuesday 6th of October in MLR1

Abstract: Let (a,b,g) be an 2 arc. Then we also have another 2 arc (g, b, a). By identifying these two (...)

Michael Borowitzka is Professor of Phycology at Murdoch University and the head of the Algae R & D Center. Michael has worked for over 30 years on the commercial cultivation of microalgae using both open pond and closed photobioreactor systems. He was one of the team which developed the (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

S. Hassan Alavi will speak

On parabolic triple factorisations of general linear groups

at 1pm in Maths Lecture Room 1 on Tuesday 27th of October.

Abstract:

For a group G, an expression G = ABA, where A, B (...)

More than 200 of the State’s best young mathematicians from over 25 schools will decipher complex mathematical and statistical problems in the WA Junior Mathematics Olympiad to be held at the University of Western Australia.

Once again the WA Section of the Australian Mathematical (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Pablo Spiga (UWA)

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On the derangement graph of PGL(2,q) acting on the projective line

at 12 noon in MLR1 on Tuesday 3rd of November

Abstract: Given a finite set X and a family S of k-subsets of X, we (...)

IN THE ZONE is a major international public policy conference initiated by The University of Western Australia. The conference's key objective is to stimulate debate on the public policy, geopolitical and business challenges facing Australia and its major trading partners in China, Japan, India (...)

Are you a PhD student contemplating a career in academia? If so, this workshop is directed at you! This workshop provides tips on how best to postition yourself now, during your PhD, to increase your chance of becoming competitive for a postdoc or teaching and research postion following the (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Amy Glen (Murdoch University)

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Combinatorics on Words & Some Applications to Problems in Number Theory

at 12 noon Tuesday 17th of November in Maths Lecture Room 1

Abstract: I will briefly (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Stephen Howe (ANU)

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Analysing random graph processes using differential equations

at 12 noon in MLR1 on Tuesday 24th of November.

Abstract: Differential equations often arise when approximating (...)

Connect your career to the world, enhance your degree and improve employment prospects with postgraduate courses in Integrated Human Studies and Science Communication. Investigate postgraduate educational possibilities with course coordinators Prof Neville Bruce and Assoc Prof Nancy Longnecker.

PASW Statistics (formerly SPSS, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis package used extensively in health research in WA.

It is available in hospitals, universities, government and other organisations. It is possible to 'teach yourself' with (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an introductory to intermediate level.

Rapid growth in data linkage projects has led to a shortfall in analyst skills.

Some researchers understand (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo)

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Quantum Geometry - MUB's and SIC-POVM's

at 12 noon in MLR1 on Tuesday 1st of December

Abstract: Quantum physicists can use various interesting geometric (...)

Increased demand for feedstocks to meet Australia's biofuels goals include many uncertainties such as what types of feedstocks will be used, at what prices, grown where, and with what implications for greenhouse gases and sustainability?

Adjustments in the agricultural sector to this (...)

Two-Day Media Skills Workshop

9am to 5pm on December 4 & 11, 2009

The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

Have you ever wondered… What makes a media friendly story? Why doesn’t the story look like the information I provided? Why do I feel at the (...)

This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an intermediate to advanced level. Course outline

Advanced principles of health care epidemiology are combined with hands-on practical exercises in the (...)

Health informatics is a relatively new scientific discipline that incorporates knowledge from biomedicine, computer science, information science, psychology, business and other fields.

It deals with the systematic processing of data, information and knowledge in health in order to (...)

All academic staff and postgraduate students are encouraged to contribute to this proposed book "Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances" edited by Mr Wilson Wong, Assistant Professor Wei Liu and Winthrop Professor Mohammed Bennamoun.

Abstract: Agile motion is so common that it seems deceivingly simple – one just accelerates, decelerates, or turns. However, combining these actions in a principled manner for optimal control is non-trivial as large and dynamic systems are coupled, compliant, and differentially constrained. Mo (...)

2pm Simon Guest (UWA/Baylor University)

Title: A Solvable Version of the Baer--Suzuki Theorem

Abstract: Let G be a finite group, and take an element x in G. The Baer--Suzuki states that if every pair of conjugates of x generates a nilpotent group then the group generated by (...)