Event Archive

2011

November

• Boundary-value problems in the theory of lipid membranes

  16 November 2011, 13:00

  A Mechanics of Materials and Structures Research Group seminar by Professor David J. Steigmann, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

• Impact problems in engineering

  04 November 2011, 13:00

  CADR seminar by Dr. Joanna Mason, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

October

• From Instability to Chaos A Pictorial Overview of Nonlinear Phenomena

  26 October 2011, 18:00

  Professor Thompson will give a fascinating pictorial overview of non-linear phenomena and the chaos that can arise from simple changes, highlighting key findings from his own research throughout his career.

August

• Numerical and Experimental Bifurcation Control using Continuous Chaos Control Methods

  25 August 2011, 16:00

  Professor Aline Souza de Paula from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brazil.

June

• Explicit relations for the entropy production density for fluids and solids

  14 June 2011, 14:00

  Explicit relations for the entropy production density for fluids and solids and its dependence on ordinary material parameters

• Toward a Computation Channel for Digital Signal Processing Systems

  13 June 2011, 11:00

  Can we systematically accelerate basic mathematical operations in computers by trading off precision in the results in a stochastic manner? In this talk we address this question for one of the most basic operations: matrix multiplication.

• Introduction to Well Logging and FEA for Logging Tools

  03 June 2011, 16:00

  A two part presentation on Well Logging and the use of FEA Tools

May

• Epistemic Uncertainties in Climate Predictions

  13 May 2011, 12:00

  Prof Rafaela Hillerbrand is visiting our School until Friday. She is professor in ethics for energy technology at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. On Thursday she will give a guest lecture to our level 5 students

• Buildings, Bugs and Banach spaces: my journey through differential equations

  06 May 2011, 13:00

  Dr Fordyce Davidson from Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee will give a very brief overview of a range of topics he has worked on over recent years in the general area of the application and analysis of differential equations. Plus recent work regarding travelling waves in systems of...

April

• Time-stepping methods for nonsmooth dynamical systems simulation

  28 April 2011, 15:00

  Prof. Bernard Brogliato is Director of Research for INRIA at Grenoble University, and leader of the nonsmooth dynamical systems group. This talk concerns the numerical simulation of a class of nonsmooth dynamical systems.