Event Archive

2012

February

• Log-Law for Velocity Distribution

  10 February 2012, 12:00

  Hydraulics Group Seminar

2011

December

• Nonlinear methods for studying structure and dynamics at molecular scale

  16 December 2011, 13:00

  Dr Johannes Kiefer, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen

• The quest for truth

  09 December 2011, 13:00

  Prof. M. Okrouhlik, The Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

November

• Structural stability and shadowing in dynamical systems

  25 November 2011, 13:00

  Prof Pilyugin is a visiting academic from St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.

• 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.