What's On at UWA

Speaker: Professor Richard White, Stanford University.

Nature films and animated features – largely but not entirely American – have made popular culture a critical element in shaping national and international views of the natural world. Beginning with the UR nature film, 'Bambi' (...)

This Masterclass will focus on the Spatial History Project at Stanford University, co-directed by Professor Richard White.

The Spatial History Project at Stanford is part of a larger spatial turn in history. The project brings together scholars working on projects at the intersection of (...)

There is no way that a vague and jargon-heavy paragraph will give you any idea of what an artist's work will be. What is the purpose of a description of the work - is it meant to provoke thoughts? questions? confusion? Certainly not to actually tell the viewer what the work is or does. Because if (...)

Speaker: Professor Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics, UCLA.

How do we know the distances from the earth to the sun and moon, from the sun to the other planets, and from the sun to other stars and distant galaxies? Clearly we cannot measure these directly. Nevertheless there are (...)

Professor Dieppe’s research interests stem from his dual professions as a physician with an interest in rheumatology and as a health services researcher.Among many appointments he is currently the Chair of Clinical Education Research, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry and Honorary (...)

Suppose one wants to recover an unknown signal x in R^n from a given vector Ax=b in R^m of linear measurements of the signal x. If the number of measurements m is less than the degrees of freedom n of the signal, then the problem is underdetermined and the solution x is not unique. However, if we (...)

THE INAUGURAL WESFARMERS' HARRY PERKINS ORATION Presented by Professor Ian Frazer Australian of the Year 2006

The Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) is proud to announce that cervical cancer vaccine inventor and 2006 Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer will (...)

UWA Chamber Winds; Peter Moore, director; UWA String Orchestra; Paul Wright, director

Mozart: Serenade No. 10 for Winds K361 “Gran Partita”; Tippett: Little Music for Strings; Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 7

During almost 20 years on staff at the UWA School of (...)

Abstract: The ultimate and desirable outcome for rehabilitating exhausted mines is to leave the affected land in a state that has future value for use by subsequent generations. For companies to meet this goal and ensure that stakeholder satisfaction is obtained, consultation with land owners prior (...)

Speaker: Ken Freeman, Duffield Professor and E3 Distinguished Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University and IAS Professor-at-Large 2009.

Globular clusters are dense nearly spherical clusters of typically 100,000 stars. They are among the (...)

Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) Messe de Nostre Dame. Presented by The Giovanni Consort. In the Chapel of St George's College. Tuesday Sept 8th, 7.30pm. Lecture-Recital: Machaut, his world, and the Mass, including introductions and commentaries by Kate Bartel, Andrew Lynch and Nicholas (...)

To provide up to date information regarding the School of Music courses in performance, composition, music education and music studies.

All are welcome to attend this free event. Please come and join us for some interesting and stimulating philosophical exchange. A community of inquiry will be held around the chosen topic and facilitated by a trained philosopher. See you there!

How did ordinary people in the years around 1300-1600 arrange their family lives? It’s often said that they lived in nuclear families rather like ours (or like our ideals) - parents committed to a stable marriage, living with their children under one roof. But more recent research suggests that (...)

“What we need is a great big melting pot.”

Australia has boosted its population through immigration, and Australians are peaceful, tolerant people. Has multiculturalism succeeded here, or are there new stresses and considerations?

Chair Prof Dennis Haskell introduces (...)

Speaker: Professor Ray Norris, Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO.

Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? We are trying to answer this question, using information from two main sources.

Once source consists of the thriving and vibrant Aboriginal (...)

Classics and Ancient History at UWA is pleased to announce a public lecture by Dr Anton Powell (University of Swansea), under the title

*Sparta, the scandalous origins of her ideals*.

Dr Powell is a noted scholar and author of such tomes as *Athens and Sparta: Constructing (...)

An IAS Masterclass with Ken Freeman, Duffield Professor and E3 Distinguished Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University and 2009 IAS Professor-at-Large.

The central bulges of spiral galaxies can form via several routes. Some are produced (...)

The event will focus on the breadth of work undertaken by researchers in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology's four Units to promote collaborations within, and beyond the School. Heads of Unit will each present a brief overview of the research carried out in their respective unit, with senior (...)

Andrew Hayim De Vries will tour and discuss his latest art/design project Home Where Project #2 Garage Mahal. The house is designed and constructed using simple and cost effective industrial components and practices addressing the key areas of environmental sustainability to minimise the use of (...)