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April 2016
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Friday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The superelliptic covers and the lifting mapping class group
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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 (...)
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Monday 18 |
12:00 - EVENT - "Plan on a Page" Workshops : Learn about this new tool to help you draft a compelling and comprehensive case to research funders.
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
8:30 - Short course - Introduction to statistics using Microsoft Excel : The course is open to anyone and is designed for those who have little or no experience with statistics or Microsoft Excel but who would like to learn more.
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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 (...)
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Friday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Relative elementary groups and their applications
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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 (...)
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Friday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Bruck nets and partial Sherk planes
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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 (...)
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May 2016
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Friday 06 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Counting curves on surfaces
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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 (...)
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Friday 13 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries
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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 (...)
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Friday 20 |
16:05 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The Weiss Conjecture and inspirations thereof
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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 (...)
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Friday 27 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: What do you do when Krull-Schmidt fails?
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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 (...)
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June 2016
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Thursday 02 |
Title: Galois and his groups
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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 (...)
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Friday 03 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: TPP subgroup triples in finite groups
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 08 |
18:00 - EVENT - Fresh Science Pub Night : Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as WA's fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.
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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 (...)
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Thursday 09 |
10:00 - EVENT - Pawsey Roadshow at The University of Western Australia : The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and UWA would like to invite you to the Pawsey Roadshow.
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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 (...)
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Friday 10 |
16:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The characteristic polynomial of a graph
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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 (...)
18:30 - DINNER - ASMR MRW(R) Gala Dinner : Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Medical Research Week (R) WA Gala Dinner 2016
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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 (...)
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Friday 17 |
10:00 - EVENT - Blakers Mathematics Competition : Closes Fri 19 Aug 2016 4:00pm
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The 2016 Blakers Mathematics Competition is now open.
Eligible candidates are all undergraduates in first, second and third
years at a WA university.
Entries must be received by Friday, 19 August 2016. They may be mailed or
given to Dr Greg Gamble, School of Mathematics and (...)
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July 2016
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Thursday 07 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - 7th Wave Conference Series : he '7th Wave' reflects the ever changing landscape in Higher Education
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The '7th Wave' reflects the ever changing landscape in Higher Education - every 7th wave is larger than the rest and will bring the biggest learning innovation changes.
The first of the 7th Wave Conference Series is a two-day event exploring opportunities to build on the momentum of (...)
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Friday 08 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - How can CERI help researchers develop an entrepreneurial mindset? : Discover what the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation has to offer UWA researchers
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This workshop will outline how CERI can help researchers develop entrepreneurial skills and assist them through the innovation process. CERI is a not-for-profit organisation based in Nedlands.
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Tuesday 12 |
14:00 - Short course - ANOVA, Linear regression and Logistic Regression : The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
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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 (...)
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August 2016
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Friday 05 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 5 August in Weatherburn 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) (...)
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