Event Archive

2009

June

• New Approaches to Inverse Problems in Engineering and Medical Diagnostic Imaging

  10 June 2009, 13:00 - 14:00

  We consider a novel family of pseudo-time marching schemes for a class of nonlinear inverse problems of parameter identification that involve statically acquired and noisy measurement data.

May

• General perspectives on engineering challenges associated with fusion reactor development

  19 May 2009, 16:00 - 17:00

  In this seminar, the feature of magnetic fusion energy (MFE) and inertia fusion energy (IFE) are introduced at first.

• Metallurgical Effects Upon the Shock Response of Face Centred Cubic Metals and Alloys

  13 May 2009, 14:00 - 15:00

  The response of materials to shock loading is controlled by factors at the meso-scale (for example grain size, distribution of second phases etc), micro-scale (dislocations, twins etc) and the unit cell levels (face centred cubic, body centred cubic etc).

• Hydrodynamics of heterogeneous distributions of benthic organisms in...

  12 May 2009, 16:00 - 17:00

  Hydrodynamics of heterogeneous distributions of benthic organisms in inter-tidal and shallow sub-tidal zones.

• Optimal Fault Tolerant Design of Linearly Mapped Systems

  04 May 2009, 16:00 - 17:00

  Many complex systems are described locally by linear mappings.

April

• From Nanostructure to Infrastructure

  24 April 2009, 12:00 - 13:00

  From Nanostructure to Infrastructure: Nano Particle Reinforced Composites for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

• Bifurcations and Tipping Points of the Earth's Climate

  24 April 2009, 11:00 - 12:00

  Earth's climate can be viewed as a large dynamical system evolving in time.

March

• Our typical project is one we have never done before!

  06 March 2009, 16:00 - 17:00

  Prospect's niche is its ability to go back to first principles and use these, often combined with cutting edge computational mechanics, to solve its clients' problems and give them engineering answers they can use directly. This presentation will demonstrate, using two examples, the diversity of the engineering challenges Prospect's...

February

• Large deformations of inextensible sheets: Möbius strips and helical nanoribbons

  20 February 2009, 16:00 - 17:00

  I will present a new set of geometrically-exact equilibrium equations for the deformation of thin inextensible strips of finite width.

• Near Grazing Dynamics of Piecewise Linear Oscillators

  13 February 2009, 15:00 - 16:00

  Impacts in mechanical systems are ubiquitous.