Location:
University of Edinburgh - George Square Lecture Theatre Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LH GB
Date:
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 10:00 to 17:00
#engineer_ed is a one day conference of "TED" style talks, showcasing some of the best, and most interesting, recent research carried out in Edinburgh. Talks will be presented in an accessible manner, and aimed at a scientifically literate undergraduate audience.
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- Registration gets you free food and drink!
Talks and Speakers:
- 10:00 - Welcome and Session 1
- Prof Bernard Mulgrew, Deputy Director of Research | #engineer_ed Welcome
- Timm Krueger | State-of-the-art computer simulations of blood flow for disease detection
- Anna Dunbar | Catch22 for Energy Storage
- Rory Hadden | How s#!t burns!
- Tony Corcoran | Label-free biological imaging
- 11:15: Coffee & Cakes
- 11:40: Session 2
- Mohamed Sufyan Islim | Wireless communications by light Li-Fi
- Antonis Giannopoulos | Landmine detection using radar
- Rhiannon Grant | Engineering the liver
- Adam Stokes | Bioinspired Soft Robotics and Integrated Soft Systems
- 12:45: Buffet Lunch
- 13:45: Session 3
- Ignazio Maria Viola | The aerodynamics of America's Cup yachts
- Mathieu Lucquiaud | Energy, fossil fuels, climate change... and carbon capture storage
- Filippo Menolascina | Engineering and controlling life, one cell at a time
- Philip Hands | Liquid crystal lasers: Anti-counterfeiting security & next-generation microscopy
- Jiabin Jia | Seeing through Agile Tomography
- 15:15: Coffee & Cakes
- 15:40: Session 4
- Ricky Carvel | Life safety: when is a wrong choice the right thing to do?
- Brian Peterson | Looking inside an operating engine
- James Hopgood | Separation and Marriage: Signal Processing for Life Science
- Camilla Thomson | The Carbon Savings of Wind Farms
- 17:00: Talks End
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