Research Seminars – Faculty of Technology
Research seminars
Seminars run by the Faculty of Technology are open to all our postgraduate students and academic staff, and some are also open to members of the public and other institutions.
See our full timetable for spring 2022 below, or jump to the school or department you're most interested in to find out more.
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School of Civil Engineering and Surveying
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 February 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Microplastics in air | Sophie Ring | PGR students and staff |
Portland Building, Room 2.33C |
| 16 February 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Sustainability in Engineering | Kieron Roberts | PGR students and staff |
Portland Building, Room 2.33C |
| 23 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Concrete and CO2 | Stephanie Barnett, Gideon Asare, Matthew Travis | PGR students and staff |
Portland Building, Room 2.33C |
| 30 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Comfort in low income housing in Nigeria | Mak and Brett | PGR students and staff |
Portland Building, Room 2.33C |
School of Computing
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 February 2022 | 2.00 - 3.00pm | Phishing detection using machine learning approach | Jibrilla Taminu | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 23 February 2022 | 2.00 - 3.00pm | Cyber-Range Federation and Cyber-Security Games | Nicholas Kolokotronis | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students follow this link |
| 2 March 2022 | 2.00 - 3.00pm | Early Warning Scores And Measuring Patient Vital Signs: the Frequency of Observations (FOBS) project | Prof Jim Briggs | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students follow this link |
| 9 March 2022 | 2.00 - 3.00pm | ANGTHAS (A Next-Generation Telemedicine and Health Advice System): Knowledge Engineering and practical implementation | Shah Siddiqui | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students follow this link |
| 27 April 2022 | 2.00 - 3.00pm | Cybersecurity & Resilience in Smart Grid | Prof. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students follow this link |
| 11 May 2022 | 2.00 - 3.00pm | Emotion recognition with four different types of data, using deep learning techniques | Enguerrand Boitel | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students follow this link |
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 February 2022 | 2.30pm | Black Holes in the Extremes, from the smallest to the largest to the naked | Karl Gebhardt (Austin) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 17 February 2022 | 2.30pm | Binary black holes with scalar hair and Kepler orbits | Diederik Roest (Groningen) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 24 February 2022 | 3.30pm | The Renaissance of Astrophysics: a landscape of opportunities in the era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger investigations | Raffaella Margutti (Berkeley) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 3 March 2022 | 2.30pm | TBC | Isobel Hook (Lancaster) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 24 March 2022 | 2.30pm | There’s no place like home: Placing Earth in its astronomical and geological contexts | Raphaëlle Haywood (Exeter) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 31 March 2022 | 2.30pm | TBC | Sam Robson (Portsmouth) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 5 May 2022 | 2.30pm | A Universe of Black Holes | Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University) | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 12 May 2022 | 2.30pm | The Noble Quest to Detect Dark Matter | Jocelyn Monroe from Royal Holloway | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
School of Energy and Electronic Engineering
School of Mathematics and Physics
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 February 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Bayesian framework for the spatial data of dialects: a phylogenic approach | Takuya Takahashi, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 9 February 2022 | 5.00pm | Earth versus Sun: A precarious relationship in space | Dr Jenny Carter, University of Leicester | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students, register at this link |
| 15 February 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | On the Painlevé XXV-Ermakov equation | Galina Filipuk, University of Warsaw, Poland | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 1 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Mathematical modelling of brewing espresso | Jamie Foster | PGR students and staff |
Lion Gate Building 2.04a and online. Staff and Students follow this link |
| 22 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Maximal (strong) monotonicity and the relaxed Peaceman-Rachford splitting method to find the zero of the sum of two maximal strongly monotone operators | Chee-Khian Sim | PGR students and staff |
Lion Gate Building 2.04a and online. Staff and Students follow this link |
| 29 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Pseudospin- and spin-orbit coupled dynamics: from normal metals to Dirac systems | Cosimo Gorini, CEA, Saclay, France | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 19 April 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | TBC (Transportation Engineering) | Nima Dadashzadeh | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 26 April 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Search and Rescue in the Arctic | John Merchant | PGR students and staff |
Staff and Students follow this link |
| 3 May 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | (Data) sport, exercise and health science: considering opportunities for collaboration | Matt Dicks | PGR students and staff |
Online and in-person. Staff and Students follow this link or attend Lion Gate Building, Room 1.22 |
| 10 May 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Ergodic and non-ergodic many-body dynamics in strongly nonlinear lattices | Remy Dubertrand, Northumbria University | PGR students and staff |
Online and in-person. Staff and Students follow this link or attend Lion Gate Building, Room 1.22 |
| 17 May 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Computer-assisted proofs for renormalisation fixed-points | Andrew Burbanks | PGR students and staff |
Online and in-person. Staff and Students follow this link or attend Lion Gate Building, Room 1.22 |
| 24 May 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | TBC | Matt Dicks (SHES) | PGR students and staff |
Link coming soon |
| 7 June 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | TBC | Jaewoo Joo | PGR students and staff |
Link coming soon |
| 14 June 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | TBC | Alain Zemkoho | PGR students and staff |
Link coming soon |
School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
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All our faculties run seminars open to academics and students within the University and in the global research community.