University Events Calendar
31 March, 2010

Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 1:10 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace Campus.
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Academic development seminar. Free to students enrolled at the University of Adelaide.

Contact: CLPD Reception (email), website, Level 2, Schulz Building West, North Terrace Campus, Business: +61 8 8303 5771, Fax: +61 8 8303 3553

Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Napier 209
Cost: Free
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The Environment Institute and the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide will host a public presentation by Professor Georg-Christof Bertsch.

Georg-Christof Bertsch is a visiting professor of Design Management at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, a visiting lecturer at Istanbul Technical University and a Honorary Professor at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach am Main.

Together with Petra Kellner, he set up the International Project Platform Offenbach (IPPO), an interdisciplinary international working platform for sustainable design.
Their projects include:

• The Shell - Local projects concerned with the integration of local groups with no specific design experience;
  
• "Build or die" temporary shelters;
  
• TAXI - Sustainable group transport systems, and Reflecting Waters.

Student projects include seminars and workshops in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, Delhi, Düsseldorf, and Istanbul.

Various projects include how the Frankfurt Rhine-Main regions deal with rivers and the impact of climate change on their ecosystems.

This presentation will give an introduction to the ideas of their inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural projects.

Contact: Adriana Russo (email), Marketing and Communications Officer, Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Business: 08 8313 3670, Mobile: 0422 210 189

Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Art Gallery Auditorium
Cost: FREE
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Staff at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) invite you to attend a series of seminars presenting a selection of the Centre's work and research outcomes.

The CASR seminar series will address major topics in the fight to reduce road trauma and highlight the latest research in the area.

Title: Regulating Vehicle Design for Pedestrian Protection
presented by Daniel Searson

Vehicles can be designed to minimise the risk of death and level of injury to a struck pedestrian. Impact testing is used to measure the extent of pedestrian protection offered by a vehicle. Such impact tests are part of regulations in Europe and Japan, and a similar regulation may be adopted in Australia in the near future. This seminar provides an overview of the potential Australian regulation, and what its implementation would mean in terms of vehicle design changes, and reductions in pedestrian death and injury.

Please RSVP to Leonie Witter: 8303 4114 or leonie.witter@adelaide.edu.au.

Contact: Ms Leonie Witter (email), Business Manager, Centre for Automotive Safety Research, The University of Adelaide, Business: +61 8 8303 4114

Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace Campus
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Academic development seminar for postgraduate coursework students. Free to students enrolled at the University of Adelaide.

Contact: CLPD Reception (email), website, Level 2, Schulz Building West, North Terrace Campus, Business: +61 8 8303 5771, Fax: +61 8 8303 3553

Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Room 102, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide
Cost: Free
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The Environment Institute presents William Laurance at a free public event at the University of Adelaide on March 31, 2010.

The forests of our world - a haven for countless plant and animal species - are in crisis. Our drive for continued economic growth has had devastating consequences for the world's ecosystems that provide critical human services.

Join us in conversation with William Laurance as he shares his prolific observations from a career in tropical ecosystems research. Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University and also works with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

Contact: Adriana Russo (email), Marketing and Communications Officer, Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Business: 08 8313 3670, Mobile: 0422 210 189