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Displaying from Saturday, October 15, 2011
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October 2011
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Saturday 15 |
12:00 - FUNDRAISER - Relay for Life @ UWA : The Cancer Council Relay For Life at UWA is a Guild Volunteering student run event for campus and community
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The Cancer Council Relay for Life at UWA is a Guild Volunteering run event. In it's inaugural year in 2010 Relay@UWA raised over $100,000 for The Cancer Council and we hope to go above and beyond that this year. The event will be held on the 15th and 16th of October. We require as many teams and (...)
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Monday 17 |
9:00 - COURSE - SHORT COURSE : Explosion Modelling and Blast Resistant Design and Analysis
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Students will hear from several speakers including the President of GexCon Australia. GexCon is a leading, global consultancy in fire and explosion safety. Day one of the program will discuss the topics; explosion effects, Explosion fundamentals, structural response analysis and design, explosion (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2011 Ian Constable Lecture - Now, free, and perfect? : How to live a long and healthy life in the 21st century
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The 2011 Ian Constable Lecture will be given by Professor Ian Frazer FAA, FRS, CEO and Research Director, Translational Research Institute.
Australians born in 2011 can expect to live to see the 22nd century, but how can we ensure that they will enjoy their 90+ years of life? Professor (...)
The 2011 Ian Constable lecture will address the topic; “Now, free, and perfect? How to live a long and healthy life in
the 21st century.”
This will be presented by Professor Ian Frazer, the internationally renowned co-creator of the technology for the cervical cancer vaccine and (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
1:00 - STUDENT EVENT - Lunch on the Verandah : Launch of the new UWA Museums Student Committee
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Students and staff, bring your lunch and meet the new UWA Museums Student Committee on the verandah of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Hear about the committee's plans for future events to be held in conjunction with the gallery. After lunch enjoy a tour of the gallery's current exhibition led by (...)
9:00 - COURSE - SHORT COURSE : Explosion Modelling and Blast Resistant Design and Analysis
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Students will hear from several speakers including the President of GexCon Australia. GexCon is a leading, global consultancy in fire and explosion safety. Day one of the program will discuss topics including Ignition sources, blast mitigation and control and will include a practical session (...)
12:30 - OPEN DAY - 'Whole-farm Carbon Emission' Field Day : Showcasing programs related to on-farm green house gas mitigation and adaptation
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The Field Day showcases the 'Reducing Emissions from Livestock Program' focusing on the measurement and modelling of emissions on-farm.
On display will be the latest technology for measuring in-field emissions, with experts to explain how it works, as well as information about emission profiles (...)
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Wednesday 19 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Towards a better understanding of aquatic environments: a real-time management system tool.
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Recent advances in environmental monitoring and modelling have led to improved knowledge on how aquatic environments function. The Centre for Water Research at The University of Western Australia has developed a software suite, the Aquatic Real-time Management System and the Real-time Management (...)
It’s been nearly two decades since the Hubble Space Telescope began giving us its awe inspiring view of the cosmos. The images it has sent back to Earth have revolutionised astrophysics and inspired people all over the globe, both in terms of scientific understanding and pure artistic beauty.
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Thursday 20 |
Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.
In this free lunchtime concert, Brett Baker performs (...)
The UWA Arts Union is proud to present the inaugural Arts Union Public Policy Address, this year being presented by the US Consul General, Aleisha Woodward.
The topic on which she will be speaking is entitled "Diplomacy and Technology – Opportunities and Challenges" and will (...)
Brett Baker is one of the brass worlds leading lights. As Principal Trombone for more than ten years of one of the world’s best known ensembles the Black Dyke Brass Band, he has weathered one of the most high pressure jobs in music.
Observe Brett Baker working with some of WA’s most (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA Business School Public Lecture : Social Finance: Mobilising capital for social change
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Social change, an understanding of impact investing and the potential it holds to mobilise capital beyond traditional government and charitable monies, is becoming critical.
Impact investors seeking a blended financial and social return are increasingly active in mobilising capital to (...)
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Friday 21 |
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Managing for HEALTHY FORESTS Symposium : Discussion of research investigating effects of climate change on forests
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The Centre of Excellence for Climate Change, Woodland and Forest Health brings together researchers from UWA and Murdoch University.
We invite you to participate in our Symposium: ‘Managing for Healthy Forests’ where scientists, environmental managers and community will come together (...)
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Helicobacter pylori outer membrane vesicles: biogenesis and protein sorting : PhD proposal
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Ms Tingting Liao will give a talk on "Helicobacter pylori outer membrane vesicles: biogenesis and protein sorting" in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 21 October 2011 at 9:00am.
The release of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) is conserved among Gram-negative (...)
12:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS: INAUGURAL LECTURE : Increasing the “3Ps” of Productivity, Participation and Population: What can we expect of Australian workers?
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There is much talk in Australia at present about the need to increase participation in paid work and productivity, and at the same time increase Australia’s population. This conversation is partly driven by the prospect of an ageing population, and transformation in Australia’s employment base (...)
12:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Big Country, Small Flowers : Free public talk on art, landscape and Australia.
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Artist and lecturer in Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University, Gregory Pryor will talk about Sidney Nolan's, Flower panels [Paradise Garden series], c. 1968, in relation to his own attempts at articulating the Australian flora and landscape.
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Sentient Relics: Exhibiting Difference in the Museum : Public talk by Dr Janice Baker
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Meaningful encounters with artefacts in museums have always generated thinking about difference. In this context the term ‘difference’ ranges from an encounter with something unfamiliar and therefore strange to the philosophical notion of difference as singularity, that is, of difference (...)
Join Brett Baker, Principal Trombone of the Black Dyke Brass Band, and Perth’s own Royal Agricultural Society Brass Band of WA in this feast of music for Trombone and Brass.
Featuring the famous Grondahl Trombone Concerto, and a special version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue arranged (...)
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - The Changeling : English and Cultural Studies present the Jacobean Revenge Tragedy The Changeling
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Beatrice-Joanna, newly betrothed to one man, sees another man she fancies more. She gets Deflores, the man she loathes, to sort things out, promising money. But Deflores has other ideas of payment. Meanwhile, at the lunatic asylum run by Alibius and his helper Lollio, two nobles have had themselves (...)
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