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June 2016
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Thursday 23 |
Don’t miss the UWA Friends of the Grounds Plant Sale on Thursday 23rd June and Friday 24th June between 12 and 2 pm in the Taxonomic Garden, near the Botany glasshouses.
There are exotic and native plants as well as herbs and succulents for sale.
Sales are cash only and (...)
A public lecture by Dr Kyungrock Paik, Associate Professor School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University and 2016 UWA Gledden Short Stay Fellow.
Rivers, landscapes and people are deeply connected. Landscapes continuously evolve their form over time (...)
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Friday 24 |
17:30 - LAUNCH - WINTERarts 2016 Launch with the Winthrop Singers : Join us for the launch of the Cultural Precinct’s 2016 WINTERarts season
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Join us for the launch of the UWA Cultural Precinct’s 2016 WINTERarts season, with a short guest performance from the Winthrop Singers, directed by Nicholas Bannan.
The Winthrop Singers are choir in residence at the Chapel of St George’s College, where they have sung the service of (...)
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Monday 27 |
In 2016, UWA is participating in The Big Idea - a social enterprise planning competition between university students around the country. The Big Idea invites to develop a concept and business plan that might become next 'Big Issue', potentially going on to change lives of thousands of disadvantaged (...)
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Wednesday 29 |
15:30 - FREE LECTURE - Panel discussion for the - Asian Research Network: Survey on America�s Role in the Asia-Pacific : Panel Discussion
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The launch of the inaugural Asian Research Network: Survey on America's Role in the Asia-Pacific in Sydney on the 8th June was well received. In follow up of this event, the Perth USAsia Centre in collaboration with the United States Studies Centre, at the University of Sydney, is proud to invite (...)
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Thursday 30 |
18:00 - LECTURE - Bateman Lecture with Prof Jerry Hausman, MIT (Economics) : Future Productivity: Pessimistic and Optimistic Viewpoints
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Productivity is among the most important determinants of wages and economic welfare. Measured productivity growth in most large economies has decreased to very low levels in the last decade. Some analysts have pointed to this development and the slowdown in Moore’s Law to reach pessimistic (...)
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July 2016
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Monday 04 |
A three-day program that provides high-achieving Year 12 students with the opportunity to experience various aspects of university life at UWA.
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Wednesday 06 |
The UWA Future Students team will be running School Advisory Sessions in the July school holidays.
This is a chance for high school students and parents to come on campus and speak directly to a Future Students Adviser. The sessions will last about 30 mins each and will give a chance for (...)
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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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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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Thursday 14 |
15:00 - FREE LECTURE - Towards an Australian Maritime Strategy for the 21st Century : Indo-Pacific Security Forum
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Perth USAsia Centre together with Australian Industry & Defence Network WA (AIDN-WA) are pleased to invite you to attend our second Indo-Pacific Security Forum event with Professor Michael Evans, General Sir Francis Hassett Chair of Military Studies at the Australian Defence College and a (...)
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Tuesday 19 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Bridging the Measurement Scale Gap in Seismic and Rock Physics Characterization of Unconventional Plays
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A public lecture by Dr Kyle Spikes, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.
Seismic and rock physics characterization of unconventional oil and gas plays requires the integration of data from nanometer and micron scales to (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
The Social Impact Festival is your chance to create, learn, connect, and build capacity to make Western Australia a better place for all.
We live in a time characterised by both crisis and opportunity, and by a groundswell of initiative across all sectors. This is a time for Western (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
Music has the power to to enrich and change lives. Here at the UWA School of Music, we provide classes that support this and promote music in the community for everybody.
Our JMS group music programs, designed for children aged 18 months to 12 years, will nurture your child's musical (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Evolution at the End of the World - stories of plant resilience in the southwest Australian biodiversity hotspot
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The 2016 George Seddon Memorial Lecture by Professor Kingsley Dixon, Director, ARC Centre for Mine Restoration, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University.
Western Australia and the southwest in particular is blessed with one of the richest floras on earth - in fact we (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - What is Australia's Role as a Regional Leader? : Panel discussion facilitated by ABC's James McHale
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The McCusker Centre for Citizenship are co-hosting an event with Global Citizen next Wednesday 27 July at 5.00pm in Wesfarmers Business School,UWA.
Why not come along and hear in person from UWA's very own Michael Sheldrick from Global Citizen in New York?
http://pursueimpossib (...)
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Thursday 28 |
Public lecture by Professor Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia.
Conceptions of Australian national identity have emphasized the nation’s collective youth and innocence, federated only in 1901. The Australian national anthem reminds (...)
19:00 - Poetry Night - Strumfrei Poetry Night : Poetry with a difference in Perth's hidden spaces.
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Head downstairs to the Studio Underground Foyer at the State Theatre Centre. Listen to Australian poets Paul Hetherington, Amanda Joy and Siobhan Hodge while enjoying a beverage or two. Strumfrei16 will also mark the launch of UWA Publishing's new poetry series, UWAP Poetry.
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Friday 29 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Poetry as Painting : In this workshop, critically acclaimed poet Paul Hetherington will demonstrate how visual imagery activates and energies poetry.
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Poetry and painting have been compared since antiquity. John Hollander (echoing Simonides) has said that ‘Works of art are silent; poetry speaks its mind’.
In this workshop critically acclaimed poet Paul Hetherington will demonstrate how visual imagery activates and energises poetry (...)
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Saturday 30 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Prose Poetry as a Contemporary Art Form : In this workshop poet Paul Hetherington will introduce you to key prose poetry techniques and provide the opportunity to write your own prose poems.
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Prose poetry is a powerful literary form in the 21st century. It is neither exactly like lyric poetry, nor is it quite like conventional prose fiction.
As Peter Johnson says, ‘the prose poem plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels� (...)
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