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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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Friday 12 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: On constructions of arc-transitive maps
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 12 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Shu-Jiao Song (UWA)
Title: On constructions of arc-transitive maps
Abstract: A map is a 2-cell embedding of a graph into a surface. An automorphism of a map is an automorphism of the underlying graph (...)
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Sunday 14 |
9:00 - OPEN DAY - University Hall Open Day Breakfast : YOU can meet our UniHallers and join us for breakfast and a tour before heading over to UWA Open Day.
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YOU can meet our UniHallers and join us for a free exclusive breakfast and a tour before heading over to UWA Open Day.
This is a great opportunity for you to discover what it’s like to live on campus at UWA. On the day you will meet our UniHall ambassadors who will take you on a tour (...)
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Monday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Reflection subgroups of unitary reflection groups
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 19 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Don Taylor (The University of Sydney)
Title: Reflection subgroups of unitary reflection groups
Abstract: The usual notion of a reflection in Euclidean space has a natural analogue in vector spaces (...)
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium : Colloquium: The Discovery of Janko's Sporadic Simple Groups
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Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.
Talk title: The Discovery of Janko's Sporadic Simple Groups.
Talk abstract:
In 1966, Zvonimir Janko published a paper which revolutionised finite group
theory. The previous year, working as a Research Fellow at the (...)
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Friday 26 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Generalising hemisystems and relative hemisystems
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 26 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Melissa Lee (UWA)
Title: Generalising hemisystems and relative hemisystems
Abstract: Segre determined in 1965 that the only nontrivial m-covers of H(3,q^2), q odd, have m=(q+1)/2. He named these (...)
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September 2016
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Friday 02 |
15:00 - STAFF EVENT - mLearning Month - September 2016 : Are you interested in learning about mobile technology and applications in Higher Education?
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Across the month of September, the Centre for Education Futures will be hosting a range of workshops, presentations, webinars, panels and a half-day summit that will explore the use of mobile and in-context learning in Higher Education.
All mLearning Month events will be held at the (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Infinite permutation groups with all infinite normal subgroups transitive
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 2 September in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Cheryl Praeger (UWA)
Title: Infinite permutation groups with all infinite normal subgroups transitive
Abstract: The "O'Nan-Scott approach" to describing structure for finite primitive (...)
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Monday 05 |
17:00 - EVENT - Psychology Colloquium: Prof David Burr (U Florence)
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Psychology Colloquium
Monday 5th September 5-6pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building.)
Title: A generalized visual sense of number
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Friday 09 |
16:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Partial linear spaces with a primitive affine automorphism group of rank 3
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 9 September in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Joanna Fawcett (UWA)
Title: Partial linear spaces with a primitive affine automorphism group of rank 3
Abstract: A partial linear space consists of a finite non-empty set P of points and a (...)
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