Inaugural lectures

The rapid expansion of offshore renewable energy - particularly wind, wave, and tidal power - requires innovative engineering solutions to efficiently harness ocean resources.

During this pre-Halloween lecture, we’ll look at wind turbine technology, explore how those turbines work and reflect on some of the challenges faced by modern wind turbine designers. Although some of the modern turbines are monstrously large and the engineering science challenges are fiendish, we don’t need to be spooked.

In this lecture, I will talk about the multidisciplinary challenge of achieving net zero which has energy justice, socio-economic and technical implications in addition to environmental benefits. Together, we will look at some of interesting insights and methodologies that emerged from my research, using some real-life case studies.

In this lecture, I will give a historical overview of representation learning, from principal component analysis to the state-of-the-art of representation learning empowering all modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Along this timeline, I will share some of my work on data representations for various societal applications, from restoring paintings of Matisse to enhancing medical imaging diagnosis.

In this lecture, Professor David Ingram will explore how CFD analysts work in partnership with large scale experimental test facilities and field measurements in offshore renewable energy, and ask the question “How green is your simulation?”

In this lecture, Tom will tell the story of waves breaking violently onto steep and vertical walls, old and new, the resulting forces, the wave overtopping, and what some of this means for safe design. In doing this, he will also have the honour to thank so very many inspirational colleagues – many now dear friends – who have played huge parts in this always-collaborative research.

Milne Lecture: Inaugural Lecture of Professor Themis Prodromakis

Join the inaugural lecture of Professor Aristides Kiprakis on 'Agile Energy Systems – Enabling the Transition to a Sustainable Future'.

Computational modelling is being extensively employed to assess the biomechanical properties and response of bone and bone-implant systems. Recent years have seen increasing emphasis on the development of personalised or patient-specific models, to address clinical problems. Routine use of personalised models, which require numerous patient-specific features, remains a challenge.

Imaging Time: Cameras for the Fourth Dimension

The Duality of Sustainability: Exploring Durability & Recoverability in Multi-Functional Composites.

Remote laboratories: a Tolkien adventure in digital education

This talk will explore the amazing versatility of lasers when combined with interferometers, special optical devices that can measure tiny changes in light waves.

Adhesion and friction phenomena are ubiquitous; they affect our everyday life and play a key role in many engineering and biomedical applications. At the same time, they offer an excellent playground/context for basic science at surfaces and interfaces.

This lecture will explore some of those opportunities in the development of process, methodology, technology, and the skill base and consider how those efforts can impact and involve us all.

In this talk, Professor Prashant Valluri, Personal Chair in Fluid Dynamics, will give a glimpse of the fascinating world of multiphase flow instabilities, to "listen" to them and then understand their unique language to engineer a better and inclusive future!

This lecture will explore the wonderful world of power electronics, its applications and where it may be going next.

In this lecture Professor Jason Reese will describe recent advances in engineering analysis - across some 8 orders of magnitude in space, and 10 orders in time - which mean that ideas and designs for new products and processes can start being tested. This new kind of simulation-driven design promises to be a productive enabler of emerging technologies, propelling the UK to the cutting edge of multi-scale innovation.

The noisy environment - How determinism and stochasticity beget resilience and shape sustainability.

The lecture addresses an overview of the main challenges related to structural mechanics and integrity of tubulars from a holistic perspective, in connection with recent technological advancements.

From Phlogiston to Spacecraft Fire Safety - The Chemistry and Physics of Flames

Lightweight Composite Materials: How Far and How Fast?

Water and Sediment: A Cascade across Scales

Clean Combustion - is that really a thing?

Back to the Future - Infrastructure for a Changing World

Energy, Exergy and How We Can Achieve a Low Carbon Economy

The lecture will address this challenge and explore some of the more promising solutions that are being developed across the globe.