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September 2012
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Tuesday 18 |
17:00 - LECTURE - School of Music Presents: Distinguished International Guest lecture Series: Dr Jon Prince
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Dr Jon Prince, School of Psychology, Murdoch University, investigates how listeners combine pitch and time when listening to music. In his talk he will share findings from empirical research he has conducted on this topic.
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Wednesday 19 |
12:00 - FREE LECTURE - After Afghanistan : Beyond embedded conflict, beyond embattled politics, Phil Sparrow's personal engagement with Afghanistan
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Phil Sparrow has been an aid worker in Afghanistan for over twelve years, travelling and living with his young family. Recently forced out of the country, he brings his own remarkable journey in photographs and eye witness accounts, as he weathers a grief for a love lost.
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Sept19: : "Nitrogen - future challenges for agricultural science"
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All welcome!
Title: “Nitrogen – future challenges for agricultural science”
ABSTRACT: Fertilisers currently represent 15-20 per cent of the cost of production wheat grain. This cost will rise with the shortage of raw materials used to make fertiliser, the increasing (...)
16:00 - EXPO - UWA Postgrad and Honours Expo : Discover how further studies can help you achieve your ultimate career or research goals.
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UWA's Postgrad and Honours Expo provides an outstanding opportunity to explore the array of coursework and research programs we offer.
You will also have the chance to learn about admission requirements, scholarships and discuss your options with staff, honours and postgraduate students (...)
16:00 - EXPO - UWA Postgrad & Honours Expo : Come find out more about the honours, coursework or research opportunities available at UWA in your area of interest.
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Come and chat to faculty staff and students to learn more about how postgraduate study can help you achieve your career, study or research goals.
A series of information sessions will also run throughout the evening that cover everything from course information, scholarships and research (...)
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Thursday 20 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: Reedefined Clarinet Quartet
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
16:00 - SEMINAR - PEG seminar - The Epidemiology of Injury in Scuba Diving : Dr Buzzacott will describe the epidemiology of injury in recreational scuba diving, coincident with the release of the latest volume in the Karger “Science and Medicine in Sport” series of peer-reviewed, edited epidemiology books.
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Dr Peter Buzzacott, BA, MPH, PhD, is a research associate at the School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health at the University of Western Australia. His area of specialty is environmental injury epidemiology, particularly diving injury risk factors but also high altitude and tissue super-saturati (...)
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Friday 21 |
7:30 - EVENT - UWA Bike and Bus Day : Free coffee and muffin for cyclists and bus-riders to celebrate World Car Free Day
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Fuel your stomach and not your petrol tank by cycling or catching the bus to UWA.
Friday 21 September, 7:30am - 9am
All coffees made from Fairtrade and organic certified beans
BUSES:
Our friendly voluteers will meet you at UWA's major bus stops on Stirling Highway. Flash your (...)
12:30 - FREE LECTURE - Reflections on the War on Terror : Ret'd Lt. Colonel Dan Mori , legal counsel for David Hicks, brings stories from the courts of human rights and military pressure.
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Jointly hosted by the Chaplain Rev Dr Ian Robinson and the Uniting Church Social Justice Board. Dan Mori is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps. Mori was appointed by the United States Department of Defense to represent David Hicks in November 2003. He handled Hicks’ (...)
13:00 - EVENT - Ireland: Church, State and Society, 1800-1870 : Seminar Series
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"Gladstone and the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland: An Overview"
Professor Oliver Rafferty SJ, the 2012 St Thomas More College Chair of Jesuit Studies, will present the final in a series of six lectures on nineteenth century Irish history.
The Chair of (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Thesis Presentation: : Hydrodynamic modelling and fluorescent spectral methods for characterising the spatial distribution of phytoplankton.
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Identifying structure in aquatic environments and showing the relationship to phytoplankton diversity is challenging because it is difficult to make direct measurements of all relevant variables at the necessary temporal and spatial scales. Two new approaches are demonstrated, which allow (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - The Shootout at the OK Corral : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: In supporting the hypothesis that the skeleton found at Liang Bua on the Island of Flores is an adult of a new species, the main proponent asserts that one alternative hypothesis, that it may represent the skeleton of an adult endemic cretin, is wrong. His reasoning is that the Liang (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Corals form characteristic associations with symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria
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A. Kimberley Lema1,2, Bette L. Willis1, and David G. Bourne2 1ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia ( [email protected]; [email protected])
2Australian Institute of Marine (...)
Chris Parish is an immunologist and cancer biologist with a research career spanning 40 years. He is recognised as a world leader in studies of immune regulation and the role of heparanase and heparan sulfate in cell migration. He has also developed several carbohydrate-based drugs, such as PI-88 (M (...)
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Thursday 27 |
13:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Symposium of WA Neuroscience : Symposium showcasing student and early career neuroscience research presentations
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The Symposium of WA Neuroscience 2012 will be held in conjunction with the Neurotrauma Research Program of Western Australia on the 27th of September, 2012. The Symposium will showcase research presentations by Honours and PhD students as well as early career researchers, who will compete for cash (...)
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Friday 28 |
18:00 - EVENT - Cameron Hall Charity Vigil : Unigames, Unisfa and UCC, host the annual Charity Vigil, this year raising money for STS Leeuwin II
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The Cameron Hall Charity Vigil is a long running charity event, run by clubs at UWA. It is dedicated to raising money for local charities that help the young people in our state. This year we are supporting the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation:
The Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation (...)
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October 2012
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Tuesday 02 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Iron and its influence on hepatic lipids : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are major health problems in Australia. All are characterised by an initial accumulation of lipids which, along with the contribution of confounding factors, such as iron, can lead to organ dysfunction and death. In the presence of (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Oct3: : "The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
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The next Soil&Water Seminar will be Prof. Matthew Tonts from SEE, at 12pm on Weds, Oct 3rd. All welcome!
Title: “The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
Abstract: In the 1930s, Canadian historian Harold Innis developed his 'staples thesis' to (...)
Extreme rainfall over the south and north-west of Western Australia and the Sydney region of NSW over the last fifty years has been modelled using a Bayesian hierarchical approach based on statistical extreme value theory. Spatial variability of the extreme rainfall distribution is modelled using a (...)
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Thursday 04 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: UWA Guitar Ensemble
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
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