ZCCE Postgraduate Student Workshop 2021

Registration is required

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zcce-postgraduate-student-workshop-2021-keynote-speaker-presentations-tickets-132811951121

College of Engineering

Speaker

Professor Alistair Borthwick
Professor Christopher Pain

Speaker's Biography

Alistair Borthwick has more than 40 years’ experience in Engineering Science. He is a Professorial Fellow at The University of Edinburgh and Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. Alistair was previously a Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked for 21 years from 1990-2011. He was Head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UCC from 2011-13, where he was the Founding Director of the SFI Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy. Alistair’s research interests include Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, and Marine Renewable Energy. In 2016, Alistair was awarded Dr Honoris Causa by Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2019, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers for his lifetime contributions to Civil Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Professor Christopher Pain is head of one of ICL's largest research groups, Applied Modelling and Computation Group, consisting of 60+ postgraduate students and RAs. He is also head of the Data Assimilation Lab. within ICL’s Data Science Institute. He has >230 journal publications, has graduated 50 PhD students, and, with AMCG, received ICL’s research excellence award. Currently he works on the modelling for 5 consortia, MAGIC, PREMIERE, INHALE, RELIANT and MUFFINS, and co-leads the Royal Society’s volunteer initiative for academics on modelling aerosols and airflows (Rapid Assistance for the Pandemic). The original developer of the Fluidity model for fluid dynamics and the FETCH criticality model, he was the technical lead of the first AI approach to the formation of surrogate models for nuclear reactors, which was applied to the fuel management of the UK’s Advanced Gas cooled Reactors (AGRs). He has also applied AI to numerous geophysical inversion problems and fluids problems.

From: 18 Jan 2021, 9:20 a.m.
To: 18 Jan 2021, noon
Location: Online Event - Please see description

We are delighted to welcome Professor Alistair Borthwick, FREng, FRSE, The University of Edinburgh, and Professor Christopher Pain, Imperial College London, as our guest speakers for the 2021 ZCCE Postgraduate Student Workshop, which will be taking place virtually via Zoom on Monday 18th January from 9:20am. They will talks covering the spectrum of modelling, simulation and computational research interests within ZCCE.

All are welcome to attend. Please see the eventbrite registration for more information.


Contact: Kelly Bevan (Email: zccephdworkshop@swansea.ac.uk)

Website: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/zcce/events/postgraduate-workshop/


Event created by: k.a.bevan