Department of Engineering - LT2


2014-11-21 13:30: Syllable based keyword search: transducing syllable lattices to word lattices (Jim Hieronymus, ICSI (US))

2015-11-20 14:00: Counting with symmetry for structural mechanics (Dr Simon Guest, CUED)

2018-01-26 12:00: Convex Optimization (Stephen P. Boyd, Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University)

2018-02-23 12:00: Intelligent Self-Driving Vehicles (Paul Newman, BP Professor of Information Engineering, University of Oxford)

2018-03-19 12:00: Active Machine Learning: From Theory to Practice (Robert Nowak, McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2019-02-18 12:00: Unleashing your inner maker (Prof. Daniela Rus, MIT)

2019-05-10 12:00: Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design? (Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford)

2020-02-14 12:00: Intellectual Debt and the Death of the Programmer (Prof Neil Lawrence)

2022-10-21 14:00: Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment (Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven)

2022-11-18 14:00: Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective (Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford)

2023-05-26 12:00: Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale (Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany)

2023-11-14 14:00: Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems (Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich)

2024-02-09 14:00: Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution (Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong)

2024-03-01 14:00: Mechanics of Soft Composites:  The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and  Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior (Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia)

2024-10-30 14:00: Lippmann Photography: The Art and Science of Multispectral Imagery (Professor Martin Vetterli (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne))

2024-11-01 14:00: Designer alloys for tailored deformation-induced phase transformations: Revealing per-grain behaviour  (Dr David Collins, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge )

2025-02-21 14:00: Conceiving, designing and testing giant ultralight coilable space structures (Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology)

2025-05-23 12:00: What If We Succeed? (Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley)