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Displaying from Sunday, November 06, 2011
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November 2011
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Monday 07 |
8:30 - EVENT - UWA Co-op Bookshop Sale : UWA Co-op Bookshop Book Last Chance Sale
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Optimizing drug delivery via nanotechnology : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 09 |
12:00 - SYMPOSIUM - �The Conversation� : Andrew Jaspan, Editor of “The Conversation” will talk about his experiences.
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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 (...)
This lecture by Michael Champion is part of a series of lectures organised jointly by UWA, Murdoch University and University of Notre Dame exploring religious and theological themes. The lecture will be followed by snacks and drinks.
In the early fifth century, the Neoplatonist (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - "A Systems approach for re-expressing cardiac (fetal) α -actin as a therapeutic strategy for treating skeletal muscle α -actin diseases". AND "Investigation of genetic causes of foetal akinesia and motor neuron disease�
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Jordan Boutilier is a PhD student based at WAIMR. In 2005, he graduated from Oregon State University, Corvallis OR USA with a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) and a minor in Biochemistry. He subsequently pursued a career in the biotechnology industry and has contributed to programs focused on early (...)
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Friday 11 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Combinatorial counting principles in axiomatic number theory
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Alan Woods (UWA)
will speak on
Combinatorial counting principles in axiomatic number theory
at 1pm on Friday 11th of November in Maths Lecture Room 2
Abstract: Proofs of even simple statements in number theory (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Intracellular vesicle trafficking of bone resorbing osteoclasts : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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Prof Ming-Hao Zheng is the Winthrop Professor and Director of Research at the Translational Orthopaedic Research Centre, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth and the Associate Dean (International) of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, the University of Western Australia. He is (...)
15:45 - SEMINAR - Physics Seminar : A smooth transition to the black hole: new resonances, particle capture and collapse of spectrum
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We show that a quantum scalar particle in the gravitational field of a massive body of radius R which slightly exceeds the Schwarzschild radius rs, possesses a dense spectrum
of narrow resonances. In the limit R goes to rs their lifetimes tend to infinity, and one can interpret the capture of the (...)
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Wednesday 16 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : The contribution of soil N2O emissions to the carbon footprint of wheat and biodiesel production in Western Australia
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Correctly accounting for soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions is necessary when assessing the carbon footprint of agricultural and bioenergy cropping systems. Although soil N2O emissions appear low in relation to N fertiliser inputs [e.g., 1.0% if Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �The islet beta cell in Type 2 diabetes � why it is important and what we can do to save it."
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Sof Andrikopoulos is a NH&MRC Senior Research Fellow/Associate Professor and Head of the Islet Biology and Metabolism Research Group at the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine (Austin Health) which investigates the genetic susceptibility of islet dysfunction using animal models of (...)
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Thursday 17 |
18:00 - FREE LECTURE - Public Lecture at UWA: KIMBERLEY CLIMATE AND PEOPLE: THE LAST 100,000 YEARS : 3rd annual Kimberley Foundation Australia public lecture
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WHAT CLIMATIC VARIATION HAS PREVAILED SINCE THE FIRST PEOPLE ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA? DID ABORIGINAL FOREST BURNING AFFECT THE AUSTRALIAN SUMMER MONSOON? WHAT IMPACT HAVE PEOPLE HAD ON KIMBERLEY CLIMATES?
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Friday 18 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar:On probabilistic generation of classical groups
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Sukru Yalcinkaya (UWA)
will speak
On probabilistic generation of classical groups
at 1pm Friday 18th of November in MLR2
Abstract: Let G be a classical group and V be the underlying vector space of dimension 2n (...)
15:00 - Colloquium - Towards a climate change scenario that is ecologically sustainable, fair, and welfare-increasing
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To resolve the climate change dilemma, many believe that a global emissions protocol must be negotiated with the aim of stabilising greenhouse gases at no more than 450 parts-per-million (ppm) of CO2-equivalent. But more is required than this to deal with climate change and to promote the broader (...)
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - The Museum of Human Disease; Know Your Enemy : Friday afternoon seminar at SymbioticA
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This talk will be about the tension the Museum of Human Disease faces between acts of law and being interesting. And will link this to the types of ways art fits into trying to resolve these tensions.
Derek Williamson is currently manger of the Museum of Human Disease at the University (...)
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Saturday 19 |
The II International Congress of Environmental Medicine will have its focus towards recognising those there environmental factors which causes diseases to individual beings and that it can be diagnosed, treated and prevented
Join us for our II International Congress of Environmental (...)
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Tuesday 22 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - RNA Helicase DDX20, a Novel Prognostic Marker Defines Metastatic Potential of Breast Cancer : School of Anatomy & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Mortality from breast cancer is almost entirely the result of invasion and metastasis of neoplastic cells; therefore, understanding gene products involved in breast cancer metastasis is an important research goal. Prompted by a recent study showing increased expression of a DEAD-box (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
8:45 - SYMPOSIUM - WA Synchrotron Symposium - * HEALTH * INDUSTRY * BASIC RESEARCH * : One-day meeting for interested, new and experienced synchrotron users.
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What research can be performed at a synchrotron? What are WA scientists achieving at synchrotrons? What opportunities are there for cutting edge research in MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, and for WA's INDUSTRY?
This one-day symposium, 23rd November at UWA's University Club, is suited for (...)
The Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing invites staff, students and members of the public to attend a seminar.Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson is presenting Bodies that Matter: Performing White Possession on the Beach, and Associate Professor Len Collard is presenting (...)
Glenn Cook will describe the activities of the Bureau of Meteorology in WA, in the WA Regional Office in Perth, and in particular in the WA Climate Services Centre (CSC).
His talk will focus on the Data Services, Climate Monitoring, and Climate
Forecasting roles of the WA CSC, whi (...)
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