Our guest speakers always provide highlights on Open Day.
- What difference does Obama make?
- Speaker: Professor Kim Beazley
- Time: 1.15 pm to 2.00 pm
- Location: Webb Lecture Theatre
- Barack Obama has shifted international perspectives on the US dramatically. He has moved to run US policy toward the Islamic world directly rendering his legacy hostage to measurable success. What does this mean for Australia?
- The Global Financial Crisis
- Speakers: Winthrop Professor Ken Clements and Winthrop Professor Ray da Silva Rosa
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Time: 11.15 am to 12 noon
- Location: Wesfarmers Lecture Theatre
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The financial crisis, an event scarcely comprehensible in the speed of its unfolding and severity, is likely to have significant knock-on effects on the WA economy, among others.
In view of widespread community interest, the UWA Business School’s highly regarded experts in their fields, Winthrop Professor Ken Clements and Winthrop Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa, will discuss the crisis and what it may mean for the local, national and international economy with the intention of informing and broadening public debate.
Winthrop Professor Ken Clements is the winner of a UWA Award for Excellence in Supervision and is the Head of Discipline/Professor of Economics. He is an economist with expertise in international finance, demand analysis and index numbers. Examples of Ken’s research include purchasing power parity and equilibrium exchange rates; the income and price sensitivity of the consumption of alcohol and drugs; cross-country consumption comparisons, to name some.
Winthrop Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa is Head of Discipline/Professor of Accounting and Finance at the UWA Business School and is Director of the WA Centre for Capital Markets Research. He is on the editorial board of the Australian Accounting Review and is co-author of the textbook named ‘Investments’. Raymond's key research areas are mergers and acquisitions funds, management corporate governance and behavioral finance.
- Astronomy in the 21st Century with the Square Kilometre Array
- Speaker: Professor Peter Quinn, Premier’s Fellow in Radio Astronomy
- Time: 12.15 pm to 1 pm
- Location: University Club Auditorium
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Astronomy is the oldest scientific endeavour of mankind. Over the past 400 years, the invention and the development of telescopes has allowed us to step outside our own solar system to begin a new voyage of discovery, back in time, to the birth of the cosmos.
We are now nearing a period in our cosmic time travel that will contain one of the Universe’s most profound events –the first light from the first star – the “dawn of creation”. This event will be found and studied by a new telescope which, when completed in 2020, will be the world’s largest astronomical facility.
The telescope is called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and Western Australia is currently the front-runner in an international competition to host the SKA. In my talk, I will give a broad overview of our cosmic journey back in time – what we have found so far, what mysteries we have uncovered and what we hope to find with the new generation of telescopes we are about to build.
