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Displaying from Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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September 2011
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Tuesday 20 |
If you sometimes make notes of what you have read, and then wonder afterwards what you wrote down (and why) and how all those words are connected, you are not alone! This workshop will help you read with a purpose, ‘scan’ for information you need and remember material for longer. It will also (...)
Write like a student and you will sound like a student; write like a pro and you will sound like a pro. Convince others that you're an expert by establishing a clear, critical voice in which you set your ideas in the context of those of other experts in your field.
13:00 - COURSE - Event Management Training : For UWA staff/student Event Managers that want to conduct an event on or off campus
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Event Management Training aims to provide current and prosective Event Managers smf event staff with:
increased knowledge of the processes for planning and managing an event that will involve alcohol on unlicensed Univeristy premises or at an external venue;
increased knowledge about planning a (...)
This workshop addresses the notion of a subspace in a clear and intuitive manner. Students will develop an intuition for subspaces which will allow them to produce simple proofs and counter examples for test style questions. They will also see how a theorem from the lectures can make this really (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2011 Warren Jones Oration : “The Decade Ahead – Challenges for Australian Health and Medical Research”
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The Warren Jones Oration is given annually by an esteemed speaker of international significance, to inspire us to follow in Warren Jone’s footsteps and contribute to a better world. Enrty is free, but bookings are essential, via Jacky Jarrett.
Professor Douglas Hilton PhD FAA FTSE (Dir (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
11:00 - STUDENT EVENT - Workshop: Honours - Presenting your research at conferences (repeat)
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As an Honours student, you may be required to communicate your research through an oral presentation at a conference or seminar. This workshop will identify characteristics of successful conference presentations and will get you thinking about how you can clearly convey your research to a wider (...)
If you sometimes make notes of what you have read, and then wonder afterwards what you wrote down (and why) and how all those words are connected, you are not alone! This workshop will help you read with a purpose, ‘scan’ for information you need and remember material for longer. It will also (...)
12:30 - EVENT - International Peace Day : September 21 is International Peace Day, a UN recognized day of global non-violence.
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We are creating a banner with students writing on it what peace means to them. Starting at Oak Lawn we will walk the banner to different spots around campus for different students to add to it. Photos of the banner will be published on Peace One Day's website along with photos of events happening (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �Endothelial progenitor cells in cancer: the good, the bad and the ugly"
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Dr Mellick has a research history spanning almost 20 years, working at prestigious research institutions including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, University of QLD, and the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JSCMR), Australian National University (ANU). Dr Mellick took up his current (...)
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Thursday 22 |
11:00 - EVENT - Person Perception and Human Mate Choice study. : Heterosexual, Caucasian males are invited to participate in a paid experiment
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I am recruiting heterosexual, Caucasian males aged between 18-35 years to participate in a research project on person perception. Our broad aim is to understand the consistency and accuracy of impressions that we make of other people based on their appearance. You will be asked to view some people (...)
Presenting involves lots of thought about your material and your audience. This workshop will show you how to develop (and practice) presentations that are well structured, clearly thought-out and delivered with ease.
Write like a student and you will sound like a student; write like a pro and you will sound like a pro. Convince others that you're an expert by establishing a clear, critical voice in which you set your ideas in the context of those of other experts in your field.
This workshop addresses the notion of a subspace in a clear and intuitive manner. Students will develop an intuition for subspaces which will allow them to produce simple proofs and counter examples for test style questions. They will also see how a theorem from the lectures can make this really (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Briefing for About Face : Opportunity to live in supported way with Aboriginal communities in January 2012
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Are you up for a life changing experience?
A unique opportunity to live among an Aboriginal community, which could be anywhere in Australia. The next About FACE is coming up in early 2012! To be exact January 7-27.
This event on Sept 22 is an introductory meeting that will (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Dynamics of a tidally-forced stratified shear flow on the continental slope : SESE and Oceans Institute Seminar
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The energy contained in large-scale ocean flows is dissipated in small-scale turbulent motions and these control the rate at which heat, momentum, chemicals, nutrients, and biological matter are stirred in the ocean. On the global scale, a large proportion of the mechanical energy contained in the (...)
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Saturday 24 |
9:30 - Sporting Event - SPE Kick for a Cure - Outdoor 5-a-side soccer tournament : SPE UWA Chapter is organizing a 5-a-side soccer tournament - with proceeds going to support Cure Cancer Australia Foundation. Get involved!
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SPE UWA Chapter is joining the fight against cancer - and we want you to come along as well! Test your skills with the ball and get competitive for a cure.
This year SPE UWA Chapter is throwing their inaugural sporting event - an outdoor 5-a-side football tournament - with proceeds going (...)
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Monday 26 |
15:00 - Retreat - Student Wilderness Retreat : Annual willderness retreat for students at Koora, on the edge of the desert, led by the chaplains. Limit of 12 places.
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The space and dryness, the stars and the endless horizon, the white history and the Aboriginal history - all these are your companions on this wilderness retreat. The chaplains will be tehre to assist your exposure to Australian arid wilderness and around the campfire provide slow thinking and (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Towards the cyborg; integration of robotics and the nervous system in engineering and the arts. : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Since Galvani “galvanised” his frogs in the eighteenth century there have been attempts to link living tissue with electronics. However it has been the rapid reduction in size accompanied by increases in sophistication of electronics in the twenty first century that has opened up (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Works for performer and live electronics
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Christopher Tonkin, Associate Lecturer, School of Music, UWA and a leading composer discusses some of his recent works.
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Wednesday 28 |
12:30 - FREE LECTURE - Paintings and Emotion: The stuff of mind and spirit : Lecture by Winthrop Prof. Jane Davidson, Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music, Program Leader of the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions.
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Professor Davidson will examine works from the UWA collection which form the current exhibition, Recent Past, interrogating her emotional responses to the works.
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