What's On at UWA

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Students who are currently in first or second year of university are invited to attend an in house breakfast event where we will showcase the career paths available (...)

A public lecture by Paul Baird, Professeur Classe Exceptionnelle, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Laboratoire de Mathematiques de Bretagne Atlantique

This question is the last of J. A. Wheeler's four puzzles that challenge our conception of the world. We have a profound sense that (...)

Abstract: The independent discovery by Lobachevsky and Bolyai of hyperbolic geometry in the 1830's was followed by slow acceptance of the subject from the 1860's on, with the publications of relevant parts of the correspondence of Gauss. A new phase was entered from 1903, when David Hilbert, in his (...)

St George's College and the SAS Resources Trust are combining together on Saturday 10th October for a day of interest and enjoyment at the College. The activities will include an SAS historical display and talks from former SAS officers. The "Midday Live Set" featuring resident musicans (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 16 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Melissa Lee (University of Western Australia)

Title: The 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum and related mathematics.

Abstract: The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is a prestigious conference held in (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 22nd October

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Paul Baird (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale)

Title: Encoding geometric information into combinatorial structure

Abstract (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 23 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Adrian Petersen (University of Western Australia)

Title: Pairwise transitive 1-designs

Abstract: Design theory has extensive interactions with other areas of mathematics, especially group theory (...)

Join us for an evening of all Mozart concerti performed by local champion soloists Paul Wright, Robert Gladstones and Raymond Yong accompanied by a chamber orchestra of brilliant young musicians.

The program will include Piano Concerto No.12, Horn Concerto No.2 and Violin Concerto No.5.

The Catholic Chaplain Rev Father Cyprian M Shikokoti invites you, your friends and colleagues to our last of 2015 weekly Masses; this Wednesday at 12.00pm in the University's chapel; located in the Law Link Building - Room G.32.

Students and staff, please do come and join us in thanking (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 30 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Irene Pivotto (University of Western Australia)

Title: Decomposition theorems for graphs and matroids

Abstract: Wagner proved that every graph that does not contain a clique on 5 vertices as a minor (...)

Time and Place: 15:00 Wednesday 4 November in Blakers Speaker: James Parkinson (University of Sydney)

Title: On automorphisms and opposition in spherical buildings.

Abstract: The opposition relation is fundamental in Tits' theory of spherical and twin buildings. When studying (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 6 November in MLR1.

Speaker: Yian Xu (University of Western Australia)

Title: Generalized Thrackle and Graph Surface Embeddings

Abstract: A thrackle on a surface X is a graph of size e and order n drawn on X such that every two distinct (...)

The GeneMappers conference has traditionally focused on novel concepts for the genetic dissection of common complex human diseases. This year the emphasis of the conference will be on exploring these themes in detail, with a particular focus on the contemporary methods and techniques that will take (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 13 November in MLR1.

Speaker: David Raithel (University of Western Australia)

Title: Innately transitive groups

Abstract: An innately transitive permutation group is a permutation group with a transitive minimal normal subgroup. Innately (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Monday 16 November in Monadelphous DS

Speaker: Reza Naserasr (Université Paris-Sud)

Title: Bounding K_4-minor-free graphs in the homomorphism order

Abstract: Given a graph B of odd-girth 2k+1 we are interested in the following question: Does (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 19th November

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Professor Andrew Bassom (The University of Western Australia)

Title: Grrrrr...... linear stability should be simple -- the saga of (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 20 November in MLR1.

Speaker: Stephen Glasby (University of Western Australia)

Title: How big is the Sylow p-subgroup of an irreducible solvable subgroup of GL(d,p^f)?

Abstract: Let G be a subgroup of GL(d,q) with q = p^f, where p is a (...)

This course focuses on model selection techniques for linear and generalised linear regression in two scenarios: when an extensive search of the model space is possible as well as when the dimension is large and either stepwise algorithms or regularization techniques have to be employed to identify (...)

Social research skills are highly sought after in a wide variety of sectors to identify social, organisational and government needs. This course can open up avenues for improving society, developing the wellbeing of communities and working towards solving the world's problems.

Find out (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 27 November in MLR1.

Speaker: Michael Giudici (University of Western Australia)

Title: Classical groups, derangements and primes

Abstract: An elementary result of Jordan shows that every finite transitive group of degree at least two (...)