What's On at UWA

If you're new to Australia and want to learn some Strine (Australian) so you understand the local lingo (language) better, join this workshop.

Honours and Masters students need to execute multiple tasks and manage conflicting demands to a tight schedule. This workshop will highlight strategies to help you 'keep on track' and prepare yourself for the many demands and expectations of Honours and Masters studies.

A kick-start course to refresh your knowledge and improve your confidence working with numbers. Topics include types of numbers, order of operations, fractions, operations with fractions, number lines, operations with signed numbers, powers.

Recommended for anyone wanting to revise vital maths foundations

Like atheism? Like free food?

Well, do we have the event for YOU!

Meet the club and join us for a barbecue as we elect our Committee for 2013!

You can see where exactly we'll be on the following Google Map; http://goo.gl/maps/4YxHC (the blue marker)

The actual AGM will run from about 1:30PM, and should only take 20-30 minutes.

If you're interested in running for a position, feel free to email [email protected]. If you can't attend, but have 2013 membership, you can delegate your vote to someone else, if you someone on committee know.

Welcome back to the new academic year and we hope everybody had a great summer holiday. To welcome all members, we've organized a welcoming BBQ in UWA! it's FREE and anyone is welcome to join!

For new members, this is your chance to meet new people and friends. For old members, this is your opportunity to re-unite with other (new and old) INDOSS members. For ALL members, seriously, who could resist a free lunch?!

Those who entered the O-Day comp, the draw will take place on this day. Two Gold Class movie tickets will be handed out to the lucky winner! There will be games with rewards as well, so stay back if you can! (We don't recommend missing out on classes or lectures!)

Find us at Matilda Bay, opposite the Tavern. Don't hesitate to join and we are hoping to see everyone there! The event is public, so bringing a friend or two is no problemo. Invite your fellow Indonesians and Indo-philes!

Lost or need directions? Please call the committee for help: Kiki: 0425462814 Ario: 0450530320

Knowing how to make notes will save you time, energy and stress when it comes to preparing for assignments and exams. This workshop gives you effective note-making strategies for lectures and reading.

Learning your way around the campus, managing busy timetables, coping with expected work loads, and trying to fit in can bring some stress to your first year experience. In this Skillshop we will discuss important psychological tips for settling in, developing a strong motivation and enjoying the most of your first year at UWA.

The Seminar: This presentation will introduce you to the resources and expertise iVEC can provide to support your research. iVEC is encouraging the use of supercomputing, large scale data storage and visualisation for WA researchers. This is achieved by making available facilities and expertise to the research, education and industrial communities. Application areas include nanotechnology, radioastronomy, high energy physics, medical and mining training, medical research, mining and petroleum, architecture and construction, multimedia, and urban planning.

The Speakers:

Valerie is the Education Program Leader for iVEC. Valerie is responsible for training in supercomputing and eResearch along with internships and school outreach. She enjoys the challenge of communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences – breaking through the jargon to create a shared understanding. Valerie holds a PhD in Computer Science (SoftwareEngineering) and an honours degree in Computer Science.

Chris is a HPC Application Analyst and Parallel Programmer. He joins iVEC from Paratools, Inc. located in Eugene, Oregon where he was the Principle Investigator in several small business innovative research projects focused on developing HPC tools to support HPC application development and research.

Chris has also worked at University HPC centres both in the United States and in the United Kingdom as a Parallel Programmer. His career in High Performance Computing started at the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland as an Application Analyst. He has a Masters degree in Scientific Computing at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden; while his undergraduate degree is in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

International students bring with them unique skills and experience as they traverse cultures and settle into the UWA community. We understand that this transition can be both exciting and stressful. This support group is designed to bring together international students and share experiences of transition. We will introduce information and strategies for managing transition to Perth and UWA. We will focus on forming a supportive group environment with plenty of interaction, fun and learning opportunities. The group is open. You can come alone or bring friends. You can attend every group or just one.

Knowing how to make notes will save you time, energy and stress when it comes to preparing for assignments and exams. This workshop gives you effective note-making strategies for lectures and reading.

Finding it hard to get your thinking in order? This workshop shows you new ways to absorb and conceptualise what you learn, as well as how to generate new ideas, solve complex problems and think creatively.

Finding scholarly books and journals to support the arguments you make is a key part of successful essay writing. Discovery tools such as OneSearch and the Subject Guides for your discipline are available on the Information Services web pages. During this workshop you will learn how to make the most out of these tools to find and use reliable sources for your assignments.

Organisational accidents are typically rare, catastrophic events that can occur within complex modern systems such as nuclear power plants, commercial aviation, petrochemical plants, aerospace, marine, rail transport and complex technological organisations such as banks and mines. It is generally appreciated that single causes of system failures are extremely rare and that they usually result from a series of (relatively minor) events that become chained together to enable a disastrous outcome or failure to occur. Organisational accidents therefore, usually have multiple causes involving many systems and people operating at different levels of their respective companies and can have devastating effects on stakeholders, assets and the environment.

Today there are very few mining organisations that can survive the financial, legal and environmental repercussions from a major failure. This talk will illustrate how systemic (epidemiological) accident model theory, that has been very successfully applied in the aerospace and petrochemical industries in particular, can and has been applied to prevent failures in all aspects of mining organisations. The presentation will illustrate how the design and construction of successive layers of protection and defences contribute to ensuring a complex well‐defended mining operational system that not only addresses risks from physical mining activities and processing, but the stability of all types of landforms on the mine as well as surface and ground water contamination and management.

A critical issue in managing mining organisational risk is adapting to constant change that includes transfer of ownership and temporary cessation of mining activities (i.e. periods of care and maintenance). During these periods, organisation risk from the stability of landforms and water contamination does not reduce and may actually increase. The final aspect of the presentation details how layers of protection and defences need to be adapted accordingly to meet different types of change management requirements.

PS* This seminar is free and open to the public & no RSVP required.

****All Welcome****

Finding it hard to get your thinking in order? This workshop shows you new ways to absorb and conceptualise what you learn, as well as how to generate new ideas, solve complex problems and think creatively.

Honours and Masters research projects require you to execute multiple tasks and manage conflicting demands to a tight schedule. This workshop will highlight strategies to help you 'keep on track' and prepare yourself for the many demands and expectations of Honours and Masters studies.

A useful refresher for anyone using matrices (eg. to solve systems of equations or linear algebra). Covers the definition of a matrix, basic operations (addition, scalar & matrix multiplication), identity matrix, determinants and inverse matrix. Recommended for MATH1712 students who are rusty or haven't studied matrices before.

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester

INVITATION TO THE 2013 BIG MEET CAREERS FAIR

Every year Australia’s leading employers travel the country looking for high quality graduates and undergraduates. The Big Meet is your opportunity to meet up to 100 of these organisations in one day, in one location.

The Big Meet is the ultimate careers fair for undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates from all disciplines. Whether you're looking for graduate employment, a new job, vacation work, an international internship, a gap-year experience, voluntary work, travel, overseas opportunities, a teaching job or postgraduate education, The Big Meet can get you started. Don't miss out!

Entry is FREE, and you'll get some fantastic free stuff as well.

Register for the event via: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TheBigMeet2013Perth Further Information For more info, visit The Big Meet website www.thebigmeet.com.au

Confirmed Exhibitors To Date

ABB Australia, ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), Accenture, ACS Foundation, Alcoa of Australia, Arup, Aurecon, Aurizon, AusAID, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Federal Police, Australian Institute of Personal Trainers, Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Taxation Office, Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD), Chevron, Clough Projects Pty Ltd, Crowe Horwath, Defence Force Recruiting, Deloitte, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), Department of Defence, Department of Education (WA), Department of Finance (WA), Department of Human Services, Department of Mines and Petroleum, Department of Regional Development and Lands, Department of State Development , Department of Treasury (WA), Department of Veterans' Affairs, Edmund Rice Camps WA, Fulton Hogan Pty Ltd, Fortescue Metals Group, GradConnection, Graduate Opportunities, Hatch, Hays Recruitment, IBM, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Intergen, KBR, Kiewit, KordaMentha, Lawler McGillivray, Leighton Contractors Pty Limited, Linfox Logistics, Main Roads WA, Mainfreight, Monadelphous Group Limited, Meltwater Group, National Australia Bank, Navitas Workforce Solutions, Newcrest Mining, NRW Civil & Mining, PPB Advisory, Public Transport Authority WA, Readygrad, Real Gap, Rio Tinto, Shell Australia, Sinclair Knight Merz, SThree, Subsea 7, Teach For Australia, Technip, The Ride to Conquer Cancer, The Tax Institute, Thiess, Water Corporation, Woodside.

UN Women UWA are putting on a High Tea for International Women's Day. This will be a delicious way to come and show your support for gender equality.

You can either book through trybooking on this link: http://www.trybooking.com/42841

Or we will be at the guild village from 12-2 all of this week (week 1)

Get your tickets quick because we only have 40 TICKETS LEFT!!

Everyone is welcome!