Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminars 2011
All are welcome to attend the following departmental seminars
Date: Friday 21 October 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Measuring Antarctic ice - new results from satellite and helicopter measurements (pdf 30KB)
Speaker:Dr Wolfgang Rack, Senior Lecturer – Remote Sensing/Glaciology, Gateway Antarctica, Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 14 October 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Biologically Inspired Visual Flight Control(pdf 29KB)
Speaker: Mr John Stowers, PhD students, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 7 October 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: 1)High-rate Space-Time Block Codes in Frequency-Selective Channels 2) Soft output decoding algorithm for CPM detection in frequency selective channel(pdf 32KB)
Speaker: Ms Alice Chu and Mr Tri Pham, PhD students, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 30 September 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Development of an Adaptive Wire Straightening Control System(pdf 29KB)
Speaker: Greg Skinner, Design Engineer, South Fence Machinery Ltd.
Date: Friday 23 September 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Commercialising research: Aligning your research to commercial opportunities (pdf 30KB)
Speaker: James Robertson, CEO Invert Robotics.
Date: Friday 16 September 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Experiences Determining the AC Current Rating of HTS Tapes in Power Transformers (pdf 79KB)
Speaker: Mr Andrew Lapthorn, PhD student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EPECentre,
University of Canterbury.
Title: Harmonic Modelling and Light Flicker Estimation using the Harmonic State Space (pdf 79KB)
Speaker: Mr Lance Frater, PhD student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, EPECentre,
University of Canterbury
Date: Friday 9 September 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Splitting the Wavelength: Quality and Fidelity in Silver-Dielectric Near-Field Imaging Systems. (pdf 30KB)
Speaker: Mr Ciaran Moore, PhD student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury, MacDiarmid Institute.
Date: Friday 19 August 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: 1) Removing the Coriolis Effect From Centrifuge Model Data of High Speed Rock Avalanche Spreading 2) Modeling landslides in a giant spin dryer (pdf 35KB)
Speaker: Ms Kim Rait and Mr Pat Kailey, PhD students, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury
Date: Friday 12 August 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Line-Edge Roughness and the Ultimate Limits of Lithography (pdf 127KB)
Speaker: Dr Chris Mack, Erskine Visitor, University of Texas.
Date: Friday 5 August 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Microfluidics: Small Volumes, Large Potentials (pdf 100KB)
Speaker: Dr Volker Nock, Research Fellow, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 29 July 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: UC rocketry research (various titles) (pdf 37KB)
Short presentations by: Mr Jason McVicar, Mr Brett Clark, Ms Maelle Coic, Ms Kirstin Middelkoop, Ms Olivia Winn and Mr David Wright.
Date: Friday 22 July 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Visual Navigation for Mobile robots using the Bag-of-Words Algorithm (pdf 32KB)
Speaker: Mr Tom Botterill (PhD oral in August), Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury. Funded by MSI via the Vision Based Automated Pruning project Robust.
Date: Friday 10 June 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Engineering Biology: using Bioimprint to alter the cell adhesion microenvironment (pdf 34KB)
Speaker: Ms Lynne Murray, PhD Student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Title: Light trapping in photovoltaic devices (pdf 34KB)
Speaker: Mr Senthuran Sivasubramaniam, PhD Student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 3 June 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Test driving silicon carbide JFETs (pdf 29KB)
Speaker: Mr Rory Shillington, PhD Student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 27 May 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Determining the Feasibility of an Electric Jetpack (pdf 31KB)
Speaker: Mr Tim Yourd, Masters Student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Title: Jetpack Flight Envelope (pdf 31KB)
Speaker: Mr Michael Speck, PhD Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Date: Friday 20 May 2011
Time: 2:10 - 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre A309, 3rd floor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Building.
Title: Plasma by induction from exploding wires, and pictures and impressions of China (pdf 28.57KB)
Speaker: Mr Ryan Van Herel, Masters Student, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.