We would be delighted if you would join us for the 2021 SCEEM Research Conference, a chance to hear about the research being carried out by some of our esteemed research colleagues and take part in a panel Q&A with our invited speakers. This event is primarily intended for academics and professional service staff from within or who work in collaboration with the Engineering Faculty, though we welcome anyone who has an interest in the research being presented. 

Please register in advance for this webinar.

Short Talks

These 5 minute talks are an opportunity to get a broad overview of research occuring within SCEEM, with a couple of talks included from friends from outside of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol.

Speakers:

• Kate Robson-Brown: "Science in space - data analytics at the heart of payload development"
• Leon Danon: 'Modelling the COVID19 pandemic in the UK'
• Marc Holderied, Faculty of Life Sciences, UoB: 'Acoustic Metamaterial gives Moths Stealth Camouflage’
• Martha Lewis: 'From words to sentences and beyond: Teaching computers to understand language'
• Nicolas Wu, Imperial College London: 'Effective Programming'
• Rob Dean, Where the Wall: 'How Bristol Influenced The World Wide Phenomenon Of Street Art’ 
• Xiaoyang Wang: 'Future Open RAN - Intelligence and Challenges'

Other speakers are currently being confirmed. 

Discussion Panel and Q&A: 'The Climate Crisis - is engineering enough?'

Each of our panel members will briefly discuss their ideas around the question 'The Climate Crisis - is engineering enough?'. Questions will then be taken from attendees. 

Panel Members

We are pleased to introduce our confirmed panel members as follows: 

• John Sauven, CEO Greenpeace
• Philip Taylor, PVC for Research, UoB
• Rachel Lunnon, Activist, Extinction Rebellion
• Chris Preist, Professor of Sustainability & Computer Systems, UoB     

Conference Schedule