http://tv.theiet.org IET.tv IET.tv Copyright IET.tv #dateformat(now(), "ddd, dd mmm yyyy")# #timeformat(now(), "HH:mm:ss")#"> http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/2283.cfm Presentation from Peterborough, UK 2007 marks 50 years of space exploration. Whilst there have been many discoveries, all the planets in the Solar System (except Pluto, which may not be a planet anyway) have now been visited. But there have been world over….In fact people have laughed at space explorers and their efforts to find life elsewhere in the universe for more than 400 years. Organised by IET Peterborough and Huntingdon Local Network 2007-11-27 11:15:36.0 Research 2283 Presentation from Peterborough, UK 2007 marks 50 years of space exploration. Whilst there have been many discoveries, all the planets in the Solar System (except Pluto, which may not be a planet anyway) have now been visited. But there have been world over….In fact people have laughed at space explorers and their efforts to find life elsewhere in the universe for more than 400 years. Organised by IET Peterborough and Huntingdon Local Network Professor Colin Pillinger Colin Pillinger, CBE, FRS, is a professor of planetary sciences at the Open University in the United Kingdom. He graduated with a BSc. and a PH.D at the University of Wales, Swansea. For more than four decades he has been an enthusiastic NASA team member and world-class research scientist and was the driving force behind Beagle2, the Mars Lander. Always optimistic about space exploration, he says: “We’re good at science, we’re good at engineering and we’re great at ideas. This country should be pushing forward in the exploration of the Solar System.” http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1625.cfm Click here to add your information. Energy and Climate Change – 2007: the year everything changed? Stephen Brown Sustainable Development Manager - Energy and Climate Change 2007-10-31 10:44:24.0 Research 1625 Click here to add your information. Energy and Climate Change – 2007: the year everything changed? Stephen Brown Sustainable Development Manager - Energy and Climate Change Steve Brown, Yorkshire Forward Click here to add your further details. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1603.cfm Professor Gerhard Materlik, CEO of the Diamond Light Project Diamond Light Source is a new scientific facility in South Oxfordshire on the Harwell Chilton science campus. This giant machine, called a synchrotron, can be described as a series of 'super microscopes'. It is housed in a futuristic doughnut-shaped building which covers the area of 5 football pitches. Diamond will ultimately host up to 40 cutting edge research stations, called beamlines, supporting the life, physical and environmental sciences. The Prime Minister said about it, 'This new world-class facility shows the importance this country attaches to science and scientists.' 2007-10-18 04:58:19.0 Research 1603 Professor Gerhard Materlik, CEO of the Diamond Light Project Diamond Light Source is a new scientific facility in South Oxfordshire on the Harwell Chilton science campus. This giant machine, called a synchrotron, can be described as a series of 'super microscopes'. It is housed in a futuristic doughnut-shaped building which covers the area of 5 football pitches. Diamond will ultimately host up to 40 cutting edge research stations, called beamlines, supporting the life, physical and environmental sciences. The Prime Minister said about it, 'This new world-class facility shows the importance this country attaches to science and scientists.' Professor Gerhard Materlik CEO of the Diamond Light Project http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1556.cfm Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Dr Alan Stevens, TRL, Editor-in-Chief of IET Intelligent Transport Systems What the presentation will outline: • What are intelligent transport systems? • ITS and strategic transport issues • Safety issues • Congestion issues • Environmental issues • Social issues 2007-07-11 05:30:29.0 Research 1556 Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Dr Alan Stevens, TRL, Editor-in-Chief of IET Intelligent Transport Systems What the presentation will outline: • What are intelligent transport systems? • ITS and strategic transport issues • Safety issues • Congestion issues • Environmental issues • Social issues Dr Alan Stevens Alan Stevens BSc PhD MBA FIET is the Chief Research Scientist and Research Director, Transportation at TRL (The UK Transport Research Laboratory) where he has been working on the application of new technology to transport for nearly 20 years. After training as a physicist and research work on medical image processing, he worked for the UK Home Office as part of the team developing the first vehicle numberplate readers. Later, for a commercial geographic information systems company, he developed machine vision equipment for digitisation of paper maps and for automatic generation of 3-D terrain maps from satellite images. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1555.cfm Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor David Infield, Director of CREST, University of Loughborough, Editor-in-Chief of IET Renewable Power Generation What the presentation will outline: • What is renewable power generation? • Renewable energy technology • Systems integration • Wind power • Photovoltaics • Marine power 2007-07-11 05:30:28.0 Research 1555 Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor David Infield, Director of CREST, University of Loughborough, Editor-in-Chief of IET Renewable Power Generation What the presentation will outline: • What is renewable power generation? • Renewable energy technology • Systems integration • Wind power • Photovoltaics • Marine power Professor David Infield David Infield was born in Paris in 1954 but was brought up and educated in the UK. He has a joint honors BA degree from Lancaster University in Mathematics and Physics (mathematics being regarded with some justification as an art) and a PhD in Mathematical Physics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Following his PhD he joined the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), located in Bracknell, UK, to work on solar thermal systems. Then, from 1981 to 1993 he was with the Energy Research Unit at Rutherford Appleton. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1554.cfm Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor Ronald Pethig, University of Wales Bangor, Editor-in-Chief of IET Nanobiotechnology What the presentation will outline: • What is nanobiotechnology? • Top-down fabrication • Bottom-up self-assembly • Scanning probe microscopy • Cell probing tools • Nanoparticle gene therapy 2007-07-11 05:30:27.0 Research 1554 Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor Ronald Pethig, University of Wales Bangor, Editor-in-Chief of IET Nanobiotechnology What the presentation will outline: • What is nanobiotechnology? • Top-down fabrication • Bottom-up self-assembly • Scanning probe microscopy • Cell probing tools • Nanoparticle gene therapy Professor Ronald Pethig Ronald Pethig has held a Personal Chair in the School of Electronic Engineering at the University of Wales, Bangor, since 1986. He obtained Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering (Southampton) and Chemistry (Nottingham) and a D.Sc. in Biomolecular Electronics (Southampton). In 1982 he was elected a Corporation Member of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and in 2005 appointed Adjunct Senior Scientist. During the period 1986-1998 he served as Director of the Institute of Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics at Bangor, and through 1991– 1993 as Dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering. In 1998 he was seconded as VP technology to the university spin-out company, Aura BioSystems Inc., located in San Jose, California, and from 2001 to 2003 he acted as President and CEO of the company. At various times he has served on the editorial boards of learned journals, and in committees of the UK Research Councils: BBSRC, EPSRC and MRC. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1553.cfm Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor Ravi Iyengar, Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, Editor-in-Chief of IET Systems Biology What the presentation will outline: • What is systems biology? • Emerging experimental technologies in biology • Scientific computing • Bioinformatics • Network sciences • Mathematical models 2007-07-11 05:30:26.0 Research 1553 Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Professor Ravi Iyengar, Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, Editor-in-Chief of IET Systems Biology What the presentation will outline: • What is systems biology? • Emerging experimental technologies in biology • Scientific computing • Bioinformatics • Network sciences • Mathematical models Professor Ravi Iyengar Ravi Iyengar is a professor and chair of the department of pharmacology and biological chemistry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Professor Iyengar trained as a biophysicist and biochemist. His research has focused on cellular signaling systems with emphasis on heterotrimeric G protein pathways. He uses a combination of experimental and computational approaches to understand the regulatory and information processing capabilities of cellular signaling networks. Iyengar and coworkers use a wide range of theoretical approaches from graph theory to differential equation-based models to analyze signaling networks. The Iyengar laboratory is also adapting and developing multivariable experiments to both constrain models and test predictions from the models. Iyengar and coworkers are also integrating experimental and theoretical approaches to identify potential drug targets and develop small molecule interactors with these targets. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1552.cfm Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Dr Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge, Editor-in-Chief of IET Synthetic Biology What the presentation will outline: • What is synthetic biology? • Standardisation of parts for construction • Engineering principles for biology • Abstraction • Standardisation • Decoupling 2007-07-11 05:30:24.0 Research 1552 Presentation from The IET Academic Insight Talks: Savoy Place, Council Chamber, London, UK Speaker: Dr Jim Haseloff, University of Cambridge, Editor-in-Chief of IET Synthetic Biology What the presentation will outline: • What is synthetic biology? • Standardisation of parts for construction • Engineering principles for biology • Abstraction • Standardisation • Decoupling Dr Jim Haseloff Jim Haseloff is a plant biologist working at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. His scientific interests are focused on the engineering of plant morphogenesis, using microscopy, molecular genetic, computational and synthetic biology techniques. Prior to joining Department of Plant Sciences, Jim served as group leader at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and his group developed advanced imaging techniques and modified fluorescent proteins for efficient use in plants. Before this, Jim served as research fellow at Harvard Medical School, working on trans-splicing ribozymes. He also served as postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. He developed methods for the design of the first synthetic RNA enzymes with novel substrate specificities. Jim attended University of Adelaide where he studied RNA genetics of viroids and earned a Doctorate degree in 1983. His core expertise includes synthetic biology, developmental genetics, computational biology, molecular biology, microscopy and scientific visualisation techniques and an interest in homebrew instrumentation. Jim is deeply involved with teaching Synthetic Biology at the University of Cambridge, and is very interested in its wider potential as a teaching tool for biology. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1551.cfm Click here to add your information. Peter Mackie is Professor of Transport Studies at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds and currently Dean of the Faculty of Environment. His research interests lie in the field of economic regulation and appraisal of transport. In the first of these areas he has worked on the economics of the bus industry for Government and operators in Britain and Ireland. In the second, economic appraisal of roads and transport policies and projects has been the main focus, including work for the World Bank, EU, national and local governments. He was a member of the Government's Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and is one of the academic 'friends' of the Eddington review of transport infrastructure and economic performance. He directed the ITS input to the EU project HEATCO-Harmonised European Approaches for Transport Costing and project Assessment. 2007-06-18 12:17:36.0 Research 1551 Click here to add your information. Peter Mackie is Professor of Transport Studies at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds and currently Dean of the Faculty of Environment. His research interests lie in the field of economic regulation and appraisal of transport. In the first of these areas he has worked on the economics of the bus industry for Government and operators in Britain and Ireland. In the second, economic appraisal of roads and transport policies and projects has been the main focus, including work for the World Bank, EU, national and local governments. He was a member of the Government's Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and is one of the academic 'friends' of the Eddington review of transport infrastructure and economic performance. He directed the ITS input to the EU project HEATCO-Harmonised European Approaches for Transport Costing and project Assessment. Professor Peter Mackie Click here to add your further details. http://tv.theiet.org/channels/research/1558.cfm Professor White discusses the future of optical data-communications networks Speaker: Professor Ian White, Head of the Photonics Research Group at the University of Cambridge In a recent Insight Letter published in Electronics Letters, Professor Ian White, Head of Photonics Research at the University of Cambridge, along with David Cunningham of Avago Technologies, theoretically showed that ever-increasing data rates could soon present problems for existing networks using multimode fibre. Helen Dyball talks to Professor White to find out more. 2007-04-24 12:00:00.0 Research 1558 Professor White discusses the future of optical data-communications networks Speaker: Professor Ian White, Head of the Photonics Research Group at the University of Cambridge In a recent Insight Letter published in Electronics Letters, Professor Ian White, Head of Photonics Research at the University of Cambridge, along with David Cunningham of Avago Technologies, theoretically showed that ever-increasing data rates could soon present problems for existing networks using multimode fibre. Helen Dyball talks to Professor White to find out more. Professor Ian White Professor Ian White is currently van Eck Professor of Engineering, Chair of the Council, School of Technology and Head of the Photonic Research Group in the Engineering Department at Cambridge. He has built up a substantial research activity in the field of optoelectronics and optical communications. Highlights of Ian White´s research have included: the development of the first all-optical laser diode flip flop, the first negative chirp electro-absorption modulator and the invention of a technique for transmitting radio frequency signals over long distances of multimode optical fibre. Several of these advances have already made commercial impact, the offset launch technique for enhancing the bandwidth of optical fibre links having already been adopted within Gigabit Ethernet standard. He has also chaired the channel model sub-task force of the IEEE 10 GbE LRM standard.