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January 2016 Professor Strang (MIT) will share his experiences with online teaching and in lecturing linear...  The theory of focusing by a lens was developed by Airy, Rayleigh and Lommel in the nineteenth...  Confocal microscopy has made a dramatic impact on biomedical imaging, in particular, but also in...  Understanding your degree and working out a timetable for the first time can be difficult. The... February 2016 Our Universe - and Some Others. Presented by Professor John D Barrow, University of Cambridge.We...  Imaging and chemical mapping techniques in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) can...  From Drought to Ice Roads To Sea Ice, this seminar exposes a New Approach to Assessing and Pricing...  There are lots of events, workshops and activities scheduled during UNSW Orientation Week (aka O-...  There are a million and one Science activities happening on campus during O-Week, including all our... March 2016 Two-dimensional materials can be arranged in layers and stacked as needed to achieve many different...  Dynamics of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and of the Southern Ocean are examined...  Please note, this event is for Talented Students' Program participants and strictly by invitation...  Transition metal oxides are often the materials of choice for energy storage and conversion...  Darwin’s mystery of mysteries, the origin of species, remains a subject of intensive research and...  Cholesterol is an essential molecule for life in higher organisms, but too much or too little can...  This seminar discusses the role of planetary wave resonance in causing extreme weather events. ...  The evolution of antimicrobial resistant pathogens threatens much of modern medicine. For over one...  This seminar focuses on the importance of interacting climate modes on Australia’s contribution to...  Although seeing black and white surfaces is rapid and effortless, the brain is faced with...  What type of Energy for the future of humanity?Presented by 2016 Australian Academy of Sciences...  The process of colonisation and subsequent settlement of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)...  Energetic arguments, observations and models suggest that mesoscale eddies are likely to play a...  This seminar will focus on the recent discovery of an unusual type of microbial interactions via...  In 1996, a wildlife photographer captured images of wild Tasmanian devils with large growths on...  This seminar examines how therapy for glaucoma in genetically susceptible individuals can be...  Cleve Moler, the creator of MATLAB, will share his story about the origins of MATLAB and the...  Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) serves as an excellent model for studies on coenzyme Q... April 2016 What are the factors that encourage university students with their long lasting learning? The most...  Chebyshev technology is frequently used for approximation of functions, but there are some...  Strategies are explored under which solar climate engineering may be useful and how global climate...  Molecular photoisomerization plays a crucial role in biological systems (cis-trans isomerization of...  This talk will cover power bounded operators, similarity problems and the Blum Hanson property.A...  How do cancer chemotherapeutic agents work?Cisplatin and bleomycin are anti-tumour agents that are...  This seminar presents new evidence about the evolution of life and the search for life on Mars....  This presentation will describe ways in which human life and health are valued in $$ terms....  In this talk, a new paradigm of statistical testing of point null hypotheses is suggested.Current...  Interest in luminescent metal complexes has rapidly increased in the last decade in view of their...  Wood traits in plant and ecosystem function.Wood performs several functions during the life of a...  Geometry dominates modern optics, in which we understand the structures of light through its...  Life on earth is heavily based on chemical communication between cells. Quorum sensing enables...  This seminar presents new research that identifies pre-existing allergy as a predictive cause of...  Two different “regimes” are suggested when making predictions from data. The first deals with...  This seminar presents an approach to optimizing air cargo schedule adjustments by taking into...  Males and females are ultimately defined by the size of the gametes they produce. But what caused... May 2016 Ocean interior mixing and transport in bottom boundary layers.The bottom-intensified mixing...  Improving conservation efforts by understanding how microorganisms influence the health and...  Biofilms are known as highly-structured microbial aggregates encased in a self-produced matrix...  We invite you to learn about our current understanding of Quarks, Dark Matter and the Universe!In...  A geological perspective of man-made carbon emissions, climate change, and ocean acidification....  On Tuesday 10 May, students thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to meet Adam Cheney and Elizabeth...  Join WiRN for an informal conversation around work/life balance issues and tips for women in...  The rapidly increasing volume and complexity of biological data calls for new approaches to help...  Interaction between microorganisms and multicellular eukaryotes is a common feature of life and a...  Gadrian and Lauren will discuss the history of invasive mining and the unfolding environmental...  Discoveries and rediscoveries of “star” materials with exceptional functionalities have been the...  We discuss new strategies for the analysis and interpretation of noncoding variation in complete...  Aspects of global and regional sea level changes will be discussed in this talk, with focus on...  Whatever our interests may be, whether they be the social sciences, medical sciences, history,...  In situ imaging is leading to a new understanding of beta cell structure and function in the islets...  In this presentation, the roles that microglia play in regulating the normal mammalian retina will...  Appreciation of the fact that an organism’s interactions with its environment and with other...  This talk will cover corneal cross-linking for patients with progressive keratoconus including... June 2016 Join us for an inspiring morning with EY! Aimed at girls in Years 9 to 12, this is an EY - UNSW...  Understanding how mitotic errors drive chromosome instability is key to uncovering the mechanisms...  Understanding the landscape-level interactions between land use, disturbances, and natural...  Professor Bill Ballard will present on research which employs population cages to explore the...  This seminar will explore the “gene for speed”, ACTN3 and how not having this gene influences human...  SCINEMA International Science Film Festival will showcase not only the best, but also the diversity...  "Semi-algebraically" defined graphs and hypergraphs obey much stronger combinatorial theorems than... Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a clinical syndrome due to heterogeneous... The attractive and unique properties of two-dimensional materials have led to rigorous multi-...  This seminar explores the interactions between climate forcings and feedbacks, particularly the...  Public lecture discussing one of the most interesting questions in science, and one unlikely ever... July 2016 Prof Arieh Warshel (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013) presents his seminal developments in...  The Forum on the Future of Chemistry at UNSW will be a panel discussion with some of the world's...  Apoptosis (programmed cell death) occurs in essentially all tissues as part of development,...  Magnetite Fe3O4 guided the humankind towards unknown frontiers. Since those early days, oxides have...  The computational infrastructure required and cost incurred in running Earth system models...  2016 Optometry and Vision Science Alumni Evening We are excited to present an evening of short and...  New students are invited to attend a Science welcome and orientation session hosted by Associate...  In this talk the various algorithms for the automated analysis of images from the human cornea,...  The workshop and discussion panel will showcase the latest research insights into young drivers,...  Come along to hear the state's brightest new researchers talk about their research, results and...  Explore the possibility of going beyond the black hole using thermal dynamics. School of Physics...  Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their...  Teaching writing provides a vivid portrait of the students' struggle with exactness and abstraction...  Some years ago Carol was perched on a high rocky outcrop with two geologists. As they looked across...  This seminar will explore recent evidence which suggests that the principal central respiratory... August 2016 An exciting showcase of our best student research, from Honours to PhD. Doors open at 12:45pm. The...  Energy technology learning curves are a foundational component of climate and energy models...  Are we alone? The search for intelligent aliensThe puzzle of whether or not we are alone in the...  Research relating to driver attention and interactions with higher levels of automation will be...  The arms race between prey and predators is a central theme in evolutionary biology, yet some of... From hallucinations to the imagination: Seeing what’s not there and measuring it in normal observers
 Cases of visual awareness without a corresponding stimulus occur in special conditions, such as...  By combining electron based and X-ray based novel imaging techniques, Dr. Y. Shirley Meng will...  Presented by UNSW Engineering & ScienceNuclear Fusion is the energy source of the sun and stars...  Come and listen to BD Biosciences on the career opportunities within their company followed by a Q...  The majority of the research undertaken in my group focuses on making better batteries to meet the...  In eastern Australia, diverse coral assemblages extend along a natural stress gradient from the...  This talk will provide an overview of the Ocean Model, Analysis and Prediction System (OceanMAPS),...  To fully exploit the enormous technological potential of 2D materials, methods to introduce defects...  Recent observations have shown that the properties of dense intracluster gas cooling in the cores...  In Virgil’s poem The Georgics, worker bees are described as happily sacrificing their reproductive...  Pertussis is the least well-controlled vaccine preventable disease in Australia. A significant...  It is often said that we live in an uncertain world. Our neural processes face a generic problem of...  This seminar will discuss a variety of fluid flows in porous media, relevant to situations in...  Uranium diboride, UB2, is a poorly studied material that exhibits remarkable thermal and mechanical...  The evolution of daily temperature extremes is investigated over the 20th and the 21st centuries in... September 2016 This seminar will discuss our adventures in translating Whole Genome Sequencing into the Australian...  This seminar will discuss the role of microorganisms in health and disease of marine macroalgae (... A Novel Case-Control Subsampling Approach for Rapid Model Exploration of Large Clustered Binary Data
 The identification of risk factors associated with a binary endpoint is a typical problem in...  Large-scale reference data sets of human genetic variation are critical for the medical and...  It is broadly accepted that changes in gene regulation are a key driver of phenotypic differences...  The 2016 Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship Lecture: "Alfred Nobel and the History of the Nobel...  Modern genomics is revealing how the health and function of higher animals is reliant on...  This work studies some tests for the homogeneity between two independent samples of functional data...  Virulence is the sum of required metabolic pathways, traditional virulence determinants,...  Big Fat Myths Book Launch and Expert Panel DiscussionUNSW Science will host the launch of the newly...  Join us for a Science Meets Industry talk with the Department of Defence, followed by a BBQ lunch...  The PANGEA Short Seminars bring together short talks from postgraduate students, academics, and...  Sydney Harbour is renowned for it’s diversity and beauty, both above and below the water. At the...  The seminar explores how tactile perception involves processes far removed from visual perception....  The ocean's ability to store large quantities of carbon, combined with the millennial longevity...  Presented by the UNSW School of Aviation, this two day short course will be delivered to secondary... October 2016 A talk about Klaus Roth, one of the greatest mathematicians of the second half of the twentieth...  The North Australian Cloud Line (NACL) is used to describe a family of mesoscale cloud lines... Doped-manganite with perovskite structure is a spin-charge-orbital coupled system, which exhibits a...  Science Students, did you know you need to declare at least one Science major(s) after your first...  Join us for a special afternoon at Sydney's Cochlear headquarters for our latest UNSW Science 50:50...  How do cancer chemotherapeutic agents work? Cisplatin and bleomycin are anti-tumour agents that are...  The incredible size and urban density of the ancient Cambodian city of Angkor is revealed through...  This talk will explore a range of biological soil crust microbiomes and their associated patterns...  Ready? Set? UNSW Science Race!Join the Ultimate UNSW Science Race and complete a series of science-...  Dark Matter in the UniversePresented by 2016 Dirac Medallist Kenneth Freeman FAA FRS Duffield...  Diet affects the expression of important life history traits, such as reproduction and ageing....  This symposium, arranged by the UNSW iGEM team, will be focused on discussing the potential of...  This talk focuses on the way international law has been engaged in addressing environmental...  In this talk, Associate Professor Inge Koch will provide a background about the function, vision...  How cell systems adapt and respond to chronic states of nutrient excess remains poorly understood....  This seminar will discuss the application of large-scale molecular phylogenies and massive...  This seminar reveals how two eyes are be better than one for perceiving self-motion in real and...  Dr Jan Zika will examine how we can detect changes in the global water cycle from changes in ocean...  Hiatus periods are defined as decades where the surface of the Earth does not warm, despite...  Glucose is the primary fuel to life on earth. Cellular uptake of glucose is a fundamental process...  Complex bird song remains an evolutionary problem to explain. Evolutionary theory predicts that... November 2016 Pure glycans are key to enable biochemical, biophysical and immunological studies aimed at...  Temporally consistent individual differences in behavior are a pervasive phenomenon throughout the...  In 2011, Jao and de Feo introduced a key exchange protocol based on isogenies of supersingular...  The strengthening of the Pacific trade winds in recent decades has been unmatched in the...  Dear Colleagues and Alumni,You are warmly invited to an exciting evening with two highly regarded...  Bordetella pertussis is the bacterial agent of the disease pertussis or whooping cough. Pertussis...  Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2.1.1) are metalloproteins widespread in organisms all over the...  Recognition of pathogens by the host cell is paramount for the initiation of an immune response....  Abstract: Dry eye is one of the most common ocular complaints suffered by people throughout the...  Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide. The...  Babette is interested in finding ways to reconstruct surface ocean phytoplankton/ particulate...  In this seminar, Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for...  Earth's climate is changing. Temperatures are increasing globally, but at varying rates, both...  Speaker: Prof. Steven SherwoodSummary:Do we understand climate or don’t we? Prof. Steven Sherwood...  Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty, ABC broadcaster Natasha Mitchell, astronomer Fred Watson and...  Storing hydrogen in materials is based on the observation that metals can reversibly absorb...  The dynamics of an iterated linear or affine map of the plane is well understood and one considers...  High carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in sea-water (ocean hypercapnia) can induce neurological,...  Dear Colleagues and Alumni, We are fortunate in November to have the pleasure of hosting two...  Life is constantly faced with variation, be it genetic, stochastic, or environmental. Despite this...  The aim for environmentally friendly and sustainable processes as well as higher efficiency of...  This seminar will explore novel insights into the causes of insulin resistance. Insulin stimulates...  Join astronomer Dr. Duncan Wright to discover how we can determine if life exists on other planets...  Antarctic Bottom Water is the most voluminous water mass of the World Ocean, and it feeds the...  Worldwide efforts are underway to create revolutionary and energy-efficient data storage technology...  Sub-Laplacians arise as sum of squares operators L, i.e., sums of squares of smooth vector fields...  Climate change risks will be due not just to the hazards associated with changes in weather and...  Professor Rosenthal will discuss randomness and probability, to answer such questions as: Just how... December 2016 Insulin resistance is a condition where insulin’s capacity to reduce blood glucose is impaired....  Global environmental change has implications for the spatial and temporal distribution of water...  Taking little other than common cuticle, loaded with a small amount of melanin, butterflies have...  Atmospheric levels of the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH4) have been rising since the industrial...  Neurological disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are highly heritable polygenic conditions...  Join Antarctic astronomer Matthew Freeman (PhD Candidate) on his telling of his 6-week journey to... |
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