Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminars 2009

All are welcome to attend the following departmental seminars:

December

Date: Friday 4 December 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Adaptive Beamforming Applied to Acoustic Imaging (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Ann Blomberg, University of Oslo

November

Date: Friday 12 November 2009
Time:
1:10 - 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Active Stirling Engine (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Vinod Kumar

October

Date: Friday 9 October 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: DSP - Beyond Binary (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
William Kamp

Date: Friday 2 October 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Evolving Structures of Predictors: Results and Simulation Methods(pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Russell Webb

September

Date: Friday 18 September 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Exploding wires: Long distance plasma paths and creation via induction (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Rowan Sinton and Ryan van Herel

Date: Tuesday 15 September 2009
Time:
3:10 - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Quantum Dots, Split Gate Transistors, and Tunnel Devices - Manufacturable or Intrinsically Unmanufacturable? (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Michael Kelly

Date: Friday 11 September 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 pm.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Blast those cells (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Paul Gaynor and Thomas Cronje

August

Date: Friday 21 August 2009
Time:
Cancelled.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Surface roughness effects in planar superlenses (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Mikkel Schøler

Date: Friday 7 August 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Surface electronic and structural properties of InN and InGaN alloys (pdf 14KB)
Speaker:
Chris McConville, Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Warwick

July

Date: Friday 31 July 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: An Introduction to Superlensing Photolithography (pdf 14KB)
Speaker:
Ciaran Moore

Date: Friday 24 July 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Integrating Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources onto the Power Grid (pdf 16KB)
Speaker:
Thomas Ortmeyer, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York

Date: Friday 17 July 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Software Defined Radio using GNU Radio (pdf 18KB)
Speaker:
John Daigle, The University of Mississippi

June

Date: Friday 5 June 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Model Checking or "Do I really understand what this system is going to do?" (pdf 15KB)
Speaker:
Allan McInnes

May

Date: Friday 29 May 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Drawing at a Nanoscale (pdf 15KB)
Speaker:
John Foulkes

Date: Friday 22 May 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Vision Assisted Control of an Autonomous Four Rotor Helicopter (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
John Stowers

Date: Friday 15 May 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Voltage Quality: Now and in the future (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Neville Watson

Date: Friday 8 May 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: The EPECentre Way (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Joseph Lawrence

April

Date: Friday 3 April 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: The Sputter Deposition of Thin Films (pdf 18KB)
Speaker:
Prof. Robert Somekh

March

Date: Friday 27 March 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: On the number of independent channels in multi-antenna systems (pdf 307KB)
Speaker:
Assoc. Prof. Peter Smith.

Date:
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Time:
3:10 - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Computing for the Future of the Planet (pdf 17KB)
Speaker:
Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge.

February
Date:
Friday 27 February 2009
Time:
2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Transparent conducting oxides in the context of thin-film CdTe solar cells (pdf 307KB)
Speaker:
Timothy J Coutts, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, USA.

Date: Friday 13 February 2009
Time:
4:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Electronic Properties of Indium Nitride (pdf 17KB)
Speaker: Tim Veal, Dept. of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

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