Professors Tiina Roose and David Smith Inaugural Lectures Event
- Time:
- 17:00 - 19:15
- Date:
- 26 October 2015
- Venue:
- Southampton Boldrewood Innovation Campus, Building 175 (accessed via 176), Room 1025
For more information regarding this event, please email Natasha Webb at n.webb@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Engineering@Southampton lecture series
You are warmly invited to celebrate the inaugural lectures of Professor Tiina Roose (Engineering Sciences) and Professor David Smith (Physics and Astronomy) in the first Engineering@Southampton event of the new academic year.
The lectures will take place at the Southampton Boldrewood Innovation Campus, Building 176, Lecture Theatre 1025 on Monday 26th October from 17.00. Refreshments will be provided after the first lecture at 18.00.
My Journey in Science
Professor of Biological and Environmental Modelling Tiina Roose, Diploma Engineer, MSc (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), 17.00-18.00.
Exploring the journey from Estonia during the period of “fruitful” communism to becoming a Professor in Engineering at the UK’s premier Engineering department and how Professor Roose has made the best out of every situation along the way to get to here.
Good Vibrations
Professor of Nanotechnology David Smith, MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), 18.15-19.15
Physics of phonons (vibrations) and how they may be explored using Raman and ultrafast spectroscopy has been a key theme of Professor Smith’s research career. This talk will illustrate how Raman spectroscopy contributes to the study of solids through research examples including research undertaken on time resolved Raman in the semiconductor GaSb; work on the growth of single walled carbon nanotubes and the investigation of the world’s thinnest wires and high pressure electrochemistry.
Speaker information
Professor Tiina Roose, Diploma Engineer, MSc (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon),is a Professor of Biological and Environmental Modelling. Her work aims to develop modelling technologies and methodologies to deal with branched biological systems such as blood and lymph vessels, plant roots in soil and lung system. In all projects I collaborate with the leading experimentalists in their field across the world to ensure speedy uptake of my models by the user communities.
Professor David Smith, MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon),is a Professor of Nanotechnology and Head of the Nanomaterials Rsearch Group. He has a strong background in laser spectroscopy and measurements of the dynamics of solids on the femtosecond timescale. He has worked on vapour-liquid-solid nanowires, in the group of Professor Lieber (Harvard) including e beam contacting of nanowires and charge transport measurements. He has developed methods for the growth of single walled carbon nanotubes from non-metallic nano particles and has been funded by Merck to research organic electronic transistors and have developed a single molecule electronics test bed.