A list that includes all seminars in Engineering.

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Chelsea Cormack (GSK) Industry Insights Seminar
Chelsea Cormack, Chemical Engineering Associate - Ecodesign GSK
Wed 16 Mar 2022, 14:00 - 15:30
Classroom 2 (Sanderson Building, KB)
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Dr Gareth R. Williams Keynote (UCL School of Pharmacy)
Dr Gareth R. Williams
Wed 11 Mar 2020, 14:30 - 15:30
Alrick building Classroom 10
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Dr Antigoni Barouni Keynote (University of Portsmouth)
Dr Antigoni Barouni
Fri 31 Jan 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare Classroom 8
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John Brightling Keynote (Johnson Matthey)
John Brightling
Tue 26 Nov 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Prof. Ian Metcalfe Keynote
Professor Ian Metcalfe
Tue 19 Nov 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Sanderson Building, Lecture Theatre 1
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Graeme J Greenan Seminar
Graeme J Greenan
Tue 12 Nov 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Fernando García Ferreiro Keynote (Transition Network)
Fernando García Ferreiro
Mon 23 Sep 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Meet Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Arumugam Nallanathan
Wed 05 Jun 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
AGB seminar room




Dr Rita Ambrus Keynote
Dr Rita Ambrus
Fri 10 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Dr Crystal Shin Keynote
Dr Crystal Shin
Fri 10 May 2019, 12:30 - 13:30
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Dr. Sweatman Martin Keynote (University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Sweatman Martin Keynote
Thu 09 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
LT1, Sanderson Building
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Professor Emmanuel (Manolis) Tzanakakis Keynote
Prof Emmanuel (Manolis) Tzanakakis
Mon 15 Apr 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Access Point Selection Scheme for LiFi Cellular Networks using Angle Diversity Receivers
NO SPEAKER AVAILABLE FOR THIS TALK
Fri 12 Apr 2019, 13:20 - 13:40
JCMB 2.2009a






IDCOM Seminar Talk by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Karl Peissig
Jürgen Karl Peissig
Fri 29 Mar 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
AGB seminar room
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Prof. Tony Kiss Keynote
Prof. Tony Kiss Keynote
Wed 27 Mar 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Prof. Constantinos Theodoropoulos Keynote
Prof. Constantinos Theodoropoulos
Mon 18 Mar 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Dr Ilias Louis Kyratzis Keynote
NO SPEAKER AVAILABLE FOR THIS TALK
Fri 15 Mar 2019, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Prof. F. Doghieri Keynote (University of Bologna)
Prof. F. Doghieri
Thu 14 Mar 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
JCMB 1.501
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Dr Claudio Toncelli Keynote
Dr Claudio Toncelli
Fri 25 Jan 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
LT1, Sanderson Building
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Imbibition and evaporation on surfaces with topography and porous coatings
Prof. Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman
Mon 10 Dec 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
AGB seminar room
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IMNS Seminar Series - Teng Lijun and Matthew Donora
PhD researchers Teng Lijun & Matthew Donora
Wed 10 Oct 2018, 12:45 - 13:50
Conference Room 1:03, SMC, Alexander Crum Brown Road
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Prof. Thomas Tsakalakos Keynote
Prof. Thomas Tsakalakos
Thu 04 Oct 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Sanderson Building, Lecture Theatre 1
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Understanding Plant Robots: Robots, Imaging and Computer Vision
Hanno Scharr, Dr. habil., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany,
Fri 07 Sep 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL
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Prof. Andreas Zuttel Keynote
NO SPEAKER AVAILABLE FOR THIS TALK
Mon 20 Aug 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Lecture Theatre 2
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Prof. Alexander V. Neimark Keynote (Rutgers University)
Prof. Alexander V. Neimark
Thu 12 Jul 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Professor Yun Hang Hu Keynote (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Professor Yun Hang Hu
Thu 14 Jun 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
LT1, Sanderson Building
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Adsorptive recovery of renewable chemicals: the case of biobutanol
Prof. Joeri Denayer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Tue 05 Jun 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
LT1, Sanderson Building
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The SoC Baseband Processor Design For VLC
Trio Adiono
Tue 08 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Classroom 6
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Dr Terry McGrail Keynote (University of Limerick)
NO SPEAKER AVAILABLE FOR THIS TALK
Wed 02 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
Classroom 3, Sanderson Building
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Fire Safety´s Contribution to a Sustainable World - Kathleen H. Almand
Kathleen H. Almand (NFPA, USA)
Tue 24 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
JCMB 4319B

Fires in Compartments Built with Sandwich Panels - Rolff Ripke Leisted
Rolff Ripke Leisted (Technical University of Denmark)
Fri 13 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room



Design of fire safe bamboo structures - Mateo Gutierrez Gonzalez
Mateo Gutierrez Gonzalez (University of Queensland)
Thu 05 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Classroom 6

Fires in corner configurations - Davood Zeinali
Davood Zeinali (University of Ghent)
Wed 04 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Classroom 8



Modeling the Pyrolysis of Polyurethane Foam for Fire Safety Applications - Dr Sarah Scott
Dr Sarah Scott (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Tue 27 Mar 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
JCMB 4319B

Whole-life geotechnical engineering challenges and solutions - Prof. Susan Gourvenec
Prof. Susan Gourvenec (University of Southampton)
Mon 05 Mar 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Classroom 7

Compartment and Wild Fires - Dr Bhisham Kumar Dhurandher
Dr Bhisham Kumar Dhurandher (University of Edinburgh)
Mon 26 Feb 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room


Debonding : A Study in Chance - Dr Richard Emberley
Dr Richard Emberley (Cal Poly)
Fri 16 Feb 2018, 12:00 - 13:00
AGB seminar room






The development of travelling fire methodology and industrial application
Marion Charlier (ArcelorMittal Global R&D ) Xu Dai (The University of Edinburgh)
Thu 30 Nov 2017, 14:00 - 15:30
AGB seminar room
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Sustainable Construction, Simulation and Testing Research Team - Juan Enrique Martinez
Juan Enrique Martinez (University of Oveido)
Wed 29 Nov 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

Prof. Gintaras.V. (Rex) Reklaitis Keynote
Prof. Gintaras.V. (Rex) Reklaitis
Tue 28 Nov 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Eng Sanderson Building, Classroom 2
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Tsakalakos Keynote
Prof. Dr. Thomas Tsakalakos Keynote
Fri 24 Nov 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Eng Sanderson Building, Classroom 2
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IIE Lunchtime Seminar - Christine Coonick (BRE)
Christine Coonick
Mon 23 Oct 2017, 13:00 - 14:30
Sanderson Building, Classroom 3










Process Systems Engineering for Renewable Energy
Professor Christos T. Maravelias
Fri 29 Sep 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
Sanderson Building, Classroom 2
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Challenges for fire safety of high-rise buildings & studies on window-ejected facade fire
Prof. Longhua Hu - State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) & University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Wed 16 Aug 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL


Interdisciplinary Research - Bridging the Gap
Dr Fiona Denison of the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
Wed 19 Jul 2017, 12:30 - 14:00
Conference Room 1:03, SMC, Alexander Crum Brown Road
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Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging and Sonothrombolysis
Prof Xiaoning Jiang from North Carolina State University
Thu 13 Jul 2017, 12:30 - 14:00
Conference Room 1:03, SMC, Alexander Crum Brown Road
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Robust Sparse Blind Source Separation
Cecile Chenot
Tue 27 Jun 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room
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Technology Modules from Microelectronics for the Life Sciences
Dr. Mario Birkholz (IHP Microelectronics)
Tue 27 Jun 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
Conference Room 1:03, SMC, Alexander Crum Brown Road


























In-Situ Burning of Crude Oil on Water: A study on the fire dynamics and fire chemistry in an Arctic context
Laurens Van Gelderen – Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Fri 17 Mar 2017, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room























IIE Lunchtime Seminar - George Hadjisophocleous
George Hadjisophocleous
Fri 09 Dec 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room






















Sparse Hybrid Precoding and Combining in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems
Aryan Kaushik, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM)
Tue 20 Sep 2016, 13:00 - 13:30
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL







Waveform Performance for Asynchronous Wireless 5G Uplink Communications
Shendi WANG, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh
Tue 30 Aug 2016, 13:30 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL

Fair and Efficient Full Duplex MAC Protocol based on the IEEE 802.11 DCF
Jinho Kim, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh
Tue 30 Aug 2016, 13:00 - 13:30
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL
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Applications of Mobile Robots In Future Wireless Communication Systems – Intelligent Trajectory Planners
Dr Des McLernon, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Mon 18 Jul 2016, 15:00 - 16:00
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL
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On Visible Light Communication and Quality of Light Emitted from Illumination LEDs
Dr. Wasiu O. Popoola, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh
Wed 01 Jun 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
Classroom 4, Hudson Beare Building



Energy Efficiency Optimization of 5G Radio Frequency Chain Systems
Ran Zi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China
Tue 10 May 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL


A New Approach to Moving Targets and Background Separation in Multi-Channel SAR
Di Wu, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh
Tue 26 Apr 2016, 13:30 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL
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Phase Recovery for 3D SAR Range Focusing
Dr Mehrdad Yaghoobi, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), University of Edinburgh
Tue 26 Apr 2016, 13:00 - 13:30
AGB seminar room



An Advanced Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Biomedical and Industrial Imaging
Yunjie Yang, nstitute for Digital Communications (IDCOM)
Tue 12 Apr 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room
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A Bayesian Inversion Approach to Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Imaging
Dimitris Kamilis, University of Edinburgh Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM)
Tue 29 Mar 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL

Data Fusion based on Coupled Matrix and Tensor Factorizations
Dr Evrim Acar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Thu 17 Mar 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, King’s Buildings, EH9 3JL
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Zafiris Triantafyllidis, IIE seminar
Zafiris Triantafyllidis
Mon 15 Feb 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room




IES Seminar Series - Dr Ton van den Bremer & New Starts
Dr Ton van den Bremer
Fri 05 Feb 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED
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Jamie Maclean, IIE seminar
Jamie Maclean
Mon 25 Jan 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room


Francesca Ruggeri and Kate Ward, IIE seminar
Francesca Ruggeri; Kate Ward
Mon 11 Jan 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

Mo Houssami, IIE seminar
Mo Houssami
Mon 14 Dec 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

Rongxin Zhou, IIE seminar
Rongxin Zhou
Mon 07 Dec 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

Juan Hidalgo, IIE seminar
Juan Hidalgo
Mon 30 Nov 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

IMNS Seminar Series - Upcoming Talks
Jun Gao / Francesco Mattioli Della Rocca
Wed 18 Nov 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Conference Room 1:03/1:04, Scottish Microelectronics Centre
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Martyn McLaggan, IIE seminar
Martyn McLaggan
Mon 16 Nov 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

INVITED Seminar By Dr. Aaron Thornton (CSIRO, Australia): Pros"porous" Materials as Gas Sieves
Dr. Aaron Thornton, CSIRO Australia, President of the Membrane Society of Australasia
Fri 13 Nov 2015, 15:00 - 16:00
Sanderson Building, Lecture Theatre 1
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Distinguished Eng KEYNOTE Seminar by Prof Konstantinos Kontis (Uni of Glasgow):Cross-disciplinary approaches to challenges in Aerospace Engineering
Prof. Konstantinos Kontis CEng EurIng, Chair of Engineering, Prof of Aerospace Engineering, Head of Division of Aerospace Sciences, University of Glasgow
Thu 12 Nov 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Lecture Theatre 2
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Eric Mueller, IIE seminar
Eric Mueller
Mon 09 Nov 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room




Chuanchuan Hou, IIE seminar
Chuanchuan Hou
Mon 26 Oct 2015, 12:45 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

IES Seminar Series - Mahdi Jalali & Reza Jalali
Reza Jalali & Mahdi Jalali
Fri 23 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Classroom 4
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Chemical Engineering Diamond Jubilee Keynote: Avoiding Major Climate Change in a Cleaner Fossil Fuels World
Professor Geoffrey Maitland, FREng FIChemE FEI FRSC CEng CSci CChem (Immediate Past President of IChemE and Professor of Energy Engineering, Imperial College London)
Thu 15 Oct 2015, 17:00 - 18:00
Swann Lecture Theatre, Michael Swann Building
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Hybrid engineering: Testing and simulation in the civil construction field
Assistant Professor Mar Alonso Martinez; Associate Professor Felipe P Alvarez Rabanal
Mon 12 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
AGB seminar room

IMP Seminars: Coal Combustion Pollutants: Research Driven by Increasingly More Stringent Chinese Environmental Regulations
Prof. Minghou Xu, State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Fri 09 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Sanderson Building, Classroom 3

IES Seminar Series - Dr Donghyuk Shin & Dr Rick Jefferys
Dr Donghyuk Shin & Dr Rick Jefferys
Fri 09 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Classroom 4
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Konstantina Davididou and CJ Ness, IIE seminar
Konstantina Davididou; CJ Ness
Mon 05 Oct 2015, 12:45 - 14:00
AGB seminar room


IMP Welcome Seminar: Welcome to the Institute for Materials and Processes
Dr. Vasileios Koutsos (Head, Institute for Materials and Processes)
Thu 01 Oct 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Sanderson Building, Lecture Theatre 1
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IES Seminar Series - Dr Dimitri Mignard & Jagadeesh Gunda
Dr Dimitri Mignard & Jagadeesh Gunda
Fri 18 Sep 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
Hudson Beare, Lecture Theatre 2
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Ionogel Electrolytes for Electrical Energy Storage Applications
Dr. Matthew Panzer, Tufts University
Mon 14 Sep 2015, 13:00 - 14:00
LT1, Sanderson Building
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