Launch event Event
- Date:
- 6 January 2016
- Venue:
- University of Southampton
Event details
This event at the University of Southampton welcomed over 80 staff and students for the launch of MENSUS: a multidisciplinary group of researchers interested in Monitoring of Engineered and Natural Systems using Sensors
Launch event Agenda
University of Southampton, Monday 6th January 2016
29/1101
Time Presenter Topic
13:15 Lunch available in the lower foyer of building 29
14:00 Dr Ling Wang Welcome and Introduction
System characterisation
14:10 Dr Tim Waters Theme overview
14:13 Dr Emilano Rustighi Detection and assessment of underground utilities
14:16 Dr Joel Smethurst Transport infrastructure: piles and slopes
14:19 Prof David Simpson Biomedical signal processing
14:22 Dr Nicola Symonds Axle bearing degradation
14:25 Questions - 5 minutes
Sensors and devices
14:30 Dr Chris Holmes Theme overview
14:33 Prof John Atkinson Thick film (screen printed) sensors
14:36 Dr Natalie Wheeler Optical sensors
14:39 Dr Xize Niu Microfluidics/lab-on-a-chip sensors
14:42 Prof Steve Beeby MEMS and Textile Sensors
14:45 Questions - 5 minutes
Energy Harvesting
14:50 Prof Neil White Theme overview
14:53 Dr Nick Harris Novel wind harvesting systems
14:56 Dr Alex Weddell Energy harvesting for engine condition monitoring
14:59 Krongboon Singhanat Opportunistic Direct Interconnection between Wireless Sensor Networks
15:02 Dr Iris Nandhakumar Novel thermoelectric materials
15:05 Questions - 5 minutes
15:10 COFFEE BREAK - 30 mins
System Integration and mission plans
15:45 Prof Janice Barton Theme overview
15:48 Dr Rachael Tighe Quantitative thermographic assessment of structures in-situ
15:52 Prof Ole Thomsen Integrated testing, monitoring and simulation of large wind turbine blade structures subjected extreme loading conditions
15:55 Dr Sally Bennett Novel instrumentation for towing tank testing
15:58 Josef Camilleri Full-scale measurements on a high-speed craft in waves
16:02 Dr Joe Banks Full-body sensor networks in elite sport
16:05 Questions - 5 minutes
Big data and analytics
16:10 Prof Honor Powrie Theme overview
16:13 Dr Zoheir Sabeur Big data analytics and reasoning for critical industrial drilling operations and decision-support
16:16 Dr Markus Luczak-Rosch Context-free data analysis with Transcendental Information Cascades
16:19 Prof Paul White Monitoring Fin Whales off the Galician Coast: Drowning in Data?
16:22 Dr Chris Phethean The European Data Science Academy project
16:25 Questions - 5 minutes
16:30 Dr Ling Wang Closing Comments
16:45 Drinks reception in the lower foyer of building 29
Speaker information
Dr Emiliano Rustighi,Associate Professor within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.