Event Archive

2019

March

• Uncertainty and Chaos in Shallow Flows

  07 March 2019, 13:00 - 14:00

  Abstract: Uncertainty (1350–1400 Middle English uncerteynte) involves a state of limited knowledge where it is impossible exactly to describe the present state and future outcome(s). Chaos (from the ancient Greek, Χαος or Khaos – the first of the gods) has several meanings. One, a state of disorder and confusion. Another, a...

2018

November

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  Business Breakfast - Long Term Liability in Decommissioning

  21 November 2018, 08:00 - 09:30

  Receive a certificate for one hour of continuing professional development (CPD) with no cost to attend.

July

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  Women in Engineering Conference 2018

  30 July - 01 August 2018

  For girls aged 15-17   Flyer Book Now Girls aged 15-17 from schools across the UK are invited to apply for a fully funded place at this unique residential conference hosted by the University of Aberdeen. The conference, which is being run in partnership with St Margaret’s School for Girls and is generously sponsored...

June

• Global Warming: An Engineering Perspective

  01 June 2018, 15:30 - 16:30

  Global warming has been characterized as THE challenge of the 21st century, yet individual perspectives vary:  Global warming is not happening Global warming is happening, but humans are not responsible Global warming is caused by humans, but the impacts are negligible or beneficial Global warming is caused by humans, the impacts are detrimental, but...

May

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  The 31 st Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting

  29 May 2018

  This year's Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting will be held at the University of Aberdeen on Tuesday the 29 th of May. This lively and informal meeting will showcase any and all aspects of fluid mechanics from across Scotland. We will have posters, as well as talks, in order to give...

• The hidden causes of volatile behaviour around non-smooth events

  23 May 2018, 12:00 - 13:00

  Abstract: There are three things vital to a good understanding of a system: analysis, simulation, and experiment. Finding agreement between these three might be difficult if a system is very large and complex, if it is very noisy, or if it contains nonsmooth events (like impact, switches, or discontinuous parameters). Obviously a large complex system might...

April

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  The 9th Engineering Postgraduate Research Symposium

  18 April 2018, 09:00 - 18:00

  The annual Engineering Postgraduate Research Symposium presents a snapshot of the work of Postgraduate Research students within the School of Engineering, spanning the diverse fields of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.

March

• Diffusion and adsorption- Fundamentals and transient measurement methods

  28 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00

  Abstract of the talk: Diffusion and adsorption of gases on solid surfaces are two important, highly correlated process steps which occur in numerous applications such as heterogeneous catalysis, gas storage processes, e.g. in shales, gas separation processes in chemical industry, host-guest systems, e.g. gas hydrates or MOF's, membrane processes, adsorption processes,...

2017

December

• ABE - A method to achieving low Internet latency and high throughput

  13 December 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Recently proposed active queue management mechanisms can minimise the time packets spend enqueued at a network bottleneck by deploying shallow buffers with short-term burst tolerance. However, this shallow buffering causes noticeable performance degradation in the throughput for a path delay is higher above typical intra-country levels. Using a less-aggressive backoff...

November

• A few snapshots of Environmental Fluid Mechanics: turbulence, sediments, and flow-biota interactions

  15 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) has emerged at the interfaces of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, oceanography, and meteorology to deal with multiple problems involving environmental fluid flows. The talk will briefly introduce EFM and outline the typical problems addressed by this fairly new discipline. Then, a few ‘snapshots’ of EFM will...