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Find out about exchange opportunities to study overseas as part of your UWA degree including semester long and short term programs. Meet international students from UWA partner universities from all over the world and get advice on how an overseas experience can add to your UWA degree.

Are you aged 15 - 25? We want to hear from YOU! Tell us, what is important to YOU about health and wellbeing? How do YOU want to have a say about health research? Join us at Telethon Kids Institute for a community forum. Free parking, free pizza and payment included.

Time and place: 11:00 Friday 1 April in MLR1

Speaker: Steven Noble (Brunel University London)

Title: Counting labelled delta-matroids

Abstract: Delta-matroids were introduced and studied by Bouchet in the 1980s, but have largely been ignored until the last few years (...)

Title: Mathematics and Statistics of Scuba Diving

Abstract: Scuba divers are trained to follow procedures that keep them safe while diving and afterward. Surprisingly, these safety measures are based on just a handful of simple mathematical and statistical principles, which will be (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 8 April in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Kyle Rosa (UWA)

Title: Invariable generation of permutation groups

Abstract: An invariable generating set for a group is a collection of conjugacy classes from which any choice of representatives form a (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 15 April in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Ty Ghaswala (University of Waterloo)

Title: The superelliptic covers and the lifting mapping class group

Abstract: Given a finite sheeted (possibly branched) covering space over a surface, one can ask (...)

UWA encourages its researchers to be proactive and plan early for applications to competitive grant schemes. With the move to continuous rounds of the ARC Linkage program from the 1st July, it is more important than ever to plan ahead! To help you in this regard, the UWA Research Development team (...)

This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 22 April in Blakers LT

Speaker: Cai-Heng Li (UWA)

Title: Relative elementary groups and their applications

Abstract: Motivated by some problems about Cayley graphs and permutation groups, we introduce and study a class of finite (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 29 April in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Jesse Lansdown (UWA)

Title: Bruck nets and partial Sherk planes

Abstract: In Bachmann’s Aufbau der Geometrie aus dem Spiegelungsbegriff, it was shown that a finite metric plane is a Desarguesian (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 6 May in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Norman Do (Monash University)

Title: Counting curves on surfaces

Abstract: Choose an even number of points on the boundary of a surface. How many ways are there to pair up these points with disjoint (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 13 May in Blakers LT

Speaker: John Bamberg (UWA)

Title: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries

Abstract: This is a longer version of the talk I will be giving at “New Directions in Combinatorics” (Singapore). Beniamino (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 20 May in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Luke Morgan (UWA)

Title: The Weiss Conjecture and inspirations thereof

Abstract: In 1979 Richard Weiss made a beautiful conjecture: There exists a function f on the natural numbers such that, for each (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 27 May in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Phill Schultz (UWA)

Title: What do you do when Krull-Schmidt fails?

Abstract: I present some old and some new results on partitions of positive integers and direct decompositions of torsion-free (...)

Title: Galois and his groups

Abstract: When Galois invented groups they were very different from the structures taught and learned and loved in undergraduate courses at UWA and other modern universities. My purpose in this lecture will be to explain the differences and calibrate (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 3 June in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Peter Neumann (Oxford)

Title: TPP subgroup triples in finite groups

Abstract: About a dozen years ago, Henry Cohn and Christopher Umans proposed a group-theoretic attack on a famous problem in the (...)

Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.

The ten young scientists will describe their scientific discoveries in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.

One hundred early-caree (...)

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and The University of Western Australia would like to invite you to the Pawsey Roadshow, an event showcasing services and resources that Pawsey provides to researchers across Australia.

This free event will see researchers presenting about their (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 10 June in Blakers LT

Speaker: Gordon Royle (UWA)

Title: The characteristic polynomial of a graph

Abstract: The characteristic polynomial of a graph G is the characteristic polynomial of its adjacency matrix.  While there are many (...)

The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)WA Branch invites you to share and enjoy the fellowship of the health and medical research community at our annual gala dinner to celebrate ASMR medical research week (MRW®)

Friday 10th June – 6:30pm for 7pm start Ballroom - Duxton (...)