What's On at UWA

This workshop aims to give students some help and suggestions in studying for their upcoming maths exams. We give general methods which students use to prepare, while discussing which ones are good and which ones are not so good.

The UWA Health Promotion Unit (HPU) runs regular free RSA training to all UWA students & staff. The RSA course is an approved training course through the Australian Academy of Hospitality Management (AAHM). Participants receive a RSA certificate upon completion of the course. This certificate (...)

This workshop discusses how Laplace transforms can be used to solve differential equations. Sense is made of the definition of a Laplace transform and a few examples are seen. The focus then turns to applying this knowledge to solving differential equations.

FAWA is pleased to invite you to join us for a seminar with ROBERT MONTANARI, Director at ANZ Institutional Banking in Perth. With a successful international track record, Robert has had extensive banking experience across the Asia-Pacific and Europe. This seminar is a great opportunity for (...)

Dr. Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia will be presenting a lecture on “Islamic Art in Western Art Museums: A Century of Displays and Interpretation” in loving memory of Dr. Joan Trevelyan. The lecture will discuss the history of displays of Islamic art (...)

Writing essays in an exam situation can seem like a slightly chaotic process! This workshop will describe the range of things you can do to prepare yourself for essay exams.

Dr Helen Mayberg is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine and holds the Dorothy C Fuqua Chair of Psychiatric Neuroimaging and Therapeutics.

Dr Mayberg’s laboratory has systematically examined depression pathophysiology in both psychiatric (...)

The Seminar: The current world wide accepted consensus criteria for neuropathological staging of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD & PD) have been developed in his Anatomy lab in Germany (Braak stages). In the seminar, Estifanos will briefly introduce these staging systems and (...)

Luba Kalaydjieva obtained her medical degree at the Higher Medical Institute in Sofia, and a PhD in biochemical genetics at the Moscow Institute of Pediatrics. Her career in Bulgaria has been devoted to setting up and developing services and research in the field of human and medical genetics. She (...)

This workshop aims to give students some help and suggestions in studying for their upcoming maths exams. We give general methods which students use to prepare, while discussing which ones are good and which ones are not so good.

Learn techniques to help you better understand the written and spoken components of the IELTS test. You can apply what you learn to your unit readings and lectures at UWA. This workshop runs for 2 hours. Free for UWA degree course students.

This workshop discusses how Laplace transforms can be used to solve differential equations. Sense is made of the definition of a Laplace transform and a few examples are seen. The focus then turns to applying this knowledge to solving differential equations.

Significant challenges remain in the remediation of low-permeability porous media (e.g. clays, silts) contaminated with dissolved and sorbed organic contaminants, with current remediation technologies, such as in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO), often being ineffective. Recent laboratory-scale (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Cheryl Praeger (UWA)

will speak on

Conditions for solubility of finite groups

at 1pm Friday 4th of November in Maths Lecture Room 2

Abstract: In John Thompson's famous N-groups paper, he proved that a finite (...)

Bertrand Russell has suggested that learning begins with inarticulate certainty and moves towards articulate doubt. Creative endeavour requires doubt, and failure: studios and workshops open spaces for it, practitioners accept it as an ever-present possibility, a state to embrace, or as the (...)

Professor Smith is the Vice-President (Research) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Founding Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

Professor Smith’s address will focus on the changing face of health care and the need for improved integration (...)

The Co-op Bookshop Sale finishes Tuesday November 15th. All Sale Books now 50% off Marked Sale Price. Last chance to grab a bargain from the huge range of gifts, reference books and fiction for summer reading. Co-op Members receive Member prices on Sale books.

Opening Hours: 8.45am-5.30 (...)

The Seminar: Nanotechnology is a valuable tool for optimizing the delivery of a drug that is disadvantaged by poor in vivo solubility and specificity of drug action. In this lecture, Lee Yong will share how her laboratory has utilized nanotechnology to promote the efficacy and specificity of the (...)

Launched in March 2011, The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector.

Speaker Bio: Andrew is a co-founder The Conversation. He previously edited The Age, The Observer (London), The Scotsman and Scotland on (...)

Australia unlike most other parts of the Western world does not have a national comprehensive Human Rights law. However, there have been some recent developments in case law in Australia, based on a patchwork of Commonwealth and State statutes which indicate that there are at least some protections (...)