Past ZCCE Seminar Series

Explore Our Past Seminars

The previous Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering operated a joint seminar series with the Computational Modelling cluster of the Wales Institute for Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WIMCS).

The seminar series consisted of a mixture of distinguished invited speakers and internal speakers from the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering.

Seminars in 2023-2024

Date	Location	Speaker	Title
Thursday 23 November 14:30 - 16:00	School of Management 113, Bay Campus	Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda	Phase field modelling of multi-physics problems: Li-Ion battery degradation, corrosion and hydrogen assisted failures
Thursday 23 February 15:00 - 16:30	103, School of Management, Bay Campus	Dr Rainer Groh	Complex instability phenomena in soft matter
Wednesday 25 January 14:30 - 15:30	001, ESRI, Bay Campus	Professor Laurence Brassart	Theory for coupled large deformation and hydroltyic degradation in hydrogels
Wednesday 15 May 13:00-16:00	003 Computational Foundry	Professor Emile Greenhalgh	Structural power composites: aspiring for 'massless' energy

Seminars in 2022-2023

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
Thursday 16th June 13:30 -15:00			Characterisation and classification of metallic threat objects for security screening
Wednesday 29th June 14:00 - 15:00	Online	Prof Lu Lu, Penn State University, USA	Physics-Informed Neutral Network (PINN): Algorithms, Applications and Software
Monday 11th July 14:00-15:00	School of Management, Bay Campus Room 247	Dr Masato Tanaka, Toyota R&D, USA	Turning Patterns based Design and Fabrication of Inflatable Shape Morphing Structures
Thursday 22nd September 14:00-15:00	Robert Record Room, Computational Foundry, Room 102, Bay Campus	Prof Joris Degroote	Quasi-Newton methods for partitioned simulation of fluid-structure interaction
Thursday 27th October 14:00-15:30	Y Twyni 108, Bay Campus	Prof Fabrizio Scarpa	Fractality, hierarchy and architecture in mechanical metamaterials and metasurfaces: impact on mechanics and multifunctional properties
Thursday 1st December 14:00-15:30	Egineering Central, B001	Prof. Janaka Ekanayake	Challenges and Solutions of Future Renewable-rich Grid for Power Utility
Monday 5th December 10:00-11:00	Room 401, Computational Foundry	Dr Linbing Wang	Digital Twin Methods for Material Design and Infrastructure Resilience

Seminars in 2020-2021

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
Tuesday 24th March 2020 14:00 - 15:00	The College 017	Dr. Daniil Yurchenko, Hariot-Watt University, UK	Title: Energy harvesting using soft dielectric elastomers
Thursday 12th March 2020 14:00 - 15:00	Y Twyni 106	Prof Yibin Fu, Keele University, UK	Title: Localized necking of a dielectric membrane under the action of an electric field
Wednesday 19th February 2020	GH029 Great Hall	Dr Aldo Rona, Associate Professor, Engineering, University of Leicester Mr Shubhesh Verma, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo	Title: Collaborative research on jet and cavity flow aeroacoustics
Tuesday 14th January 2020 10:00 - 10:50	B003 Eng Central	Prof. Fehmi Cirak Cambridge University, UK	Title: Geometry and analysis models for generative design
Tuesday 14th January 2020 10:50 - 11:40	B003 Eng Central	Dr Jun Zang Bath University, UK	Title: Towards accurate and efficient modelling of wave-structure interactions
Tuesday 14th January 2020 12:00 - 12:50	B003 Eng Central	Dr Gianluca Tozzi University of Portsmouth, UK	Title: In situ XCT mechanics and digital volume correlation of biological tissues and biomaterials
Monday 13th January 2020 10:10 - 11:00	B003 Eng Central	Prof. Spyros Voutsinas National Technical University of Athens, Greece	Title: Aeroelastic problems of rotary wing systems
Monday 13th January 2020 11:00 - 11:50	B003 Eng Central	Prof. Oliver E. Jensen The University of Manchester, UK	Title: Feeding the baby: a multiscale model of placental transport
Monday 13th January 2020 12:10 - 13:00	B003 Eng Central	Dr Dayal Gunasekera Schlumberger Oilfield UK PLC	Title: Digital transformation of Schlumberger
Monday 13th January 2020 14:00 - 14:50	B003 Eng Central	Prof. Jörg Schröder University Duisburg-Essen, Germany	Title: On new developments in mixed FE-Technologies of Hellinger-Reissner type

You can find out about previous years ZCCE Seminar Series here.

Seminars of 2019-2020

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
Friday 18th October 14:00 -15:00	ESRI 101	Dr Amirul Khan	Real-time LES for indoor and outdoor environments
Wednesday 30th October 14:00-15:00	ESRI 101	D Mehran Moazen	Biomechanics of Skull Development
Monday 18th November 14:00-15:00	SoM 113 (School of Management)	Dr Enrico Dell'Ara	In Vivo assessment of bone interventions in preclinical mouse models
Friday 29th November 14:00-15:00	ESRI 101	Dr Angela Mihai	Likely instabilities in stochastic elastic solids
Monday 2rd December 14:00-15:00	SoM 111 (School of Management)	Dr Sathiskumar Anusuya Ponnusami, City University of London, UK	Computational modelling of fracture and healing in self-healing materials
Monday 9th December 14:00-15:00	GH018 (Great Hall)	Dr Fabien Volpi, University of Grenoble Aples, France	Development and application of a multifunctional nanoindenter: coupling to electrical measurements and integration in-situ in a scanning electron microscope

Seminars in 2018-2019

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
14.00, Wednesday-16-January-2019	B001	Dr Mattia Montanari Oxford University	On the development of distance algorithms for contact detection and optimisation problems
14.00, Friday-18-January-2019	ESRI 001	Prof Peter Wriggers, Leibniz Universität Hannover	Virtual element formulations for engineering applications
10.00, Monday-5-November-2018	GH022	Prof. Francesco Migliavacca & Dr. José Félix Rodriguez Matas Politecnico di Milano, Italy	Double seminar Stent Modelling GPU accelerated solver for nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems. Application to the electrophysiology problem
15.00, Friday 5-October-2018	GH 011	Dr Timur Gamilov, Laboratory of Mathematical Modelling, Sechenov University, Russia	1D Modelling for the Fractional Flow Reserve: problems and parameters estimation
14.00, Thursday 27-September-2018	ESRI 101 (First floor)	Prof Ralf Landgraf, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany	Modelling and simulation of acrylic bone cement curing within the framework of vertebroplasty
15.00, Thursday 20-September-2018	Engineering Central B003	Dr. Marlon Franke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany	Energy-momentum preserving time integrators for coupled problems: thermo- and electro-mechanics
14.00, Wednesday 5-September-2018	Engineering Central B003	Prof Christian Hesch University of Siegen, Germany	Variational space-time formulations

Seminars in 2017-2018

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
14.00, Wednesday 11-July-2018	ESRI 101 (First floor)	Prof Peter King Imperial College London, UK	Upscaling flow in heterogeneous porous media
14.00, Wednesday 20-June-2018	ESRI 001 (Ground floor)	Prof Luis Dorfmann, Tufts University, USA	Modelling of residually stressed materials
14.00, Thursday 19-April-2018	ESRI 101	Dr P. H. Maire, CEA/CESTA, France	Cell-centred Finite Volume methods for solving the Lagrangian form of gas dynamics and solid mechanics equations on unstructured grids
14.00, Tuesday 13-March-2018	GH 022	Prof Makoto Ohta Dr Hitomi Anzai Mr Yuta Muramoto Tohoku University, Japan	Multiple ZCCE Seminar Bio-model for performing mechanical testing of endovascular devices Exploring stent design from Computational Fluid Dynamics Drilling of acrylic composite materials towards the development of a new bone bio-model
13.30, Monday 19-February-2018	Engineering Central B003	Prof Toshiro Ohashi Hokkaido University, Japan	Development of bio-MEMS devices towards high throughput cell culture study
10.25, Friday 2-February-2018	Engineering Central B004	Dr Irene Vignon-Clementel Institut National De Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)	Data driven choice of reduced model parametrization of multi-scale cardiovascular and respiratory applications Part of the III Annual ZCCE PhD Workshop
9.30, Friday 2-February-2018	Engineering Central B004	Professor Greg Dimitriadis University of Liege	Experimental non-linear aeroelasticity Part of the III Annual ZCCE PhD Workshop
11.35, Thursday 1-February-2018	Engineering Central B004	Professor John Whiteman Brunel University London	Acoustic localisation of coronary artery disease; computational and experimental aspects Part of the III Annual ZCCE PhD workshop
10.40, Thursday 1-February-2018	Engineering Central B004	Professor George N. Barakos University of Glasgow	Fundamental CFD research supporting practical aerospace applications Part of the III Annual ZCCE PhD workshop
14.00, Wednesday 6-December-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Régis Cottereau, Université Paris-Saclay, France	Wave propagation in random media: technical issues and physical insights
Wednesday, 29-November-2017, 6pm	Bay Campus, Great Hall 043	Professor Dame Ann Dowling, University of Cambridge President of the Royal Academy of Engineering	Towards a Silent Aircraft This talk is part of the Inaugural Zienkiewicz Lecture 2017
Tuesday, 31-October-2017, 1.30pm	Great Hall 029	Prof Chris Jones, BAE Systems	Future Challenges for Electromagnetics Hazards Protection of Aircraft
Wednesday, 4-October-2017, 11am	Engineering Central B001	Dr Ryo Torii, University College London	Applications of computational biomechanics to coronary arteries in health, disease and post-intervention
Wednesday, 20-September-2017, 1.30pm	Engineering Central B003	Markus Mehnert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany	Towards continuum thermo-electro-mechanical modeling
Wednesday, 13-September-2017, 1pm	Engineering Central B003	Vu Ngoc Khiem, RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Unified analytical network averaging theory and its applications in rubber multi-physics
Thursday, 7-September-2017, 2pm	Engineering Central B003	Prof Gyan N Pande, Emeritus Professor, Swansea University G.N.Pande@Swansea.ac.uk	Self-learning Intelligent Finite Elements and their Applications Seminar 2: Embedding AI in FE code and applications Slides available here
Tuesday, 5-September-2017, 2pm	Engineering Central B003	Prof Gyan N Pande, Emeritus Professor, Swansea University G.N.Pande@Swansea.ac.uk	Self-learning Intelligent Finite Elements and their Applications Seminar 1: Artificial Intelligence Demystified for Engineers Slides available here
Wednesday, 23-August-2017, 2pm	Engineering Central B003	Prof Massimiliano Gei, Cardiff School of Engineering	Homogeneous and composite soft dielectric elastomer actuators: instabilities, homogeneization and performance optimisation

Seminars in 2016-2017

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
14.00, Thursday 20-July-2017	Engineering Central B001	Jose Manuel Navarro, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.	Efficient integration within the 3D Cartesian grid Finite Element Method
Wednesday 19-July-2017	Engineering Central B001	Tsinghua University Prof ZL Liu; Prof ZH Xiang; Prof X Zhang; Prof Y Liu; Prof YX Ren; Prof Z Zhuang Swansea University Prof AJ Gil; Dr WG Dettmer; Dr M Ellero; Dr PD Ledger; Dr S Pant; Prof E de Souza Neto; Dr H Haddadkhodaparast	4th Swansea-Tsinghua University Workshop for Computational Engineering
10.00, Tuesday 18-July-2017	Engineering Central B001	Prof Z Zhuang, Tsinghua University, China.	Discrete dislocation source controlled crystal plasticity flow stress theory at micron-submicron-scale.
14.30, Wednesday 5-July-2017	Engineering Central B004	Alexander Janz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Mechanics, Karlsruhe, Germany.	Energy-momentum consistent time integration schemes based on a polyconvex framework for non-linear (thermal)-elastodynamics
14.00, Tuesday 6-June-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Juan Jose Rodenas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)	From recovery-based h adaptivity to automatic patient specific FE simulations. The Cartesian grid finite element method – cgFEM
16.25, Wednesday 31-May-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Sanjay Pant, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Inverse problems, model identifiability, and uncertainty consideration in models of blood-flow Part of the Mathematics – Engineering Research Workshop
16.00, Wednesday 31-May-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Alexander Shaw, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Handling nonlinearity in engineering dynamics Part of the Mathematics – Engineering Research Workshop
15.20, Wednesday 31-May-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Pawel Dlotko, Department of Mathematics, Swansea University	T-Omega formulation of discrete geometrical approach to Maxwell's equations Part of the Mathematics – Engineering Research Workshop
14.55, Wednesday 31-May-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Nelly Villamizar, Department of Mathematics, Swansea University	Multivariate spline approximation: algebraic tools and applications Part of the Mathematics – Engineering Research Workshop
14.00, Thursday 18-May-2017	Engineering Central B001	Eliab Ricarte Beserra, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Ocean energy in Brazil
14.00, Wednesday 15-May-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Gary Mirams, Nottingham University	Cardiac electrophysiology modelling for drug safety testing
14.00, Wednesday 10-May-2017	Engineering Central B003	Dr Catherine Powell, Manchester University	Adaptive Stochastic Galerkin FEMs: Accurate error estimation & fast solvers
14.00, Tuesday 25-April-2017	Engineering Central B003	Prof Arnaud Malan, University of Cape Town	Toward improve non-linear aerolastic modelling for design
14.00, Wednesday 5-April-2017	Engineering Central B004	Prof Stanislaw Stupkiewicz, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland	Size-dependent microstructures: sharp- and diffuse-interface modelling
14:00, Thursday 30-March-2017	Engineering Central B003	Milan Ťapajna	'Mystery' of oxide/III-N interfaces in GaN Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Heterojunctions: Selected Physical Aspects and Characterization
14:00, Wednesday 22-March-2017	ESRI 001 (ground floor)	Prof Hadi Hajibeygi, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)	Acceptable solutions to uncertain subsurface flow equations: Algebraic Dynamic Multilevel Multiscale (ADM) Method
14:00, Wednesday 15-February-2017	Engineering Central B001	Dr Ludovic Renson, Bristol University	Exploring the dynamics of nonlinear experiments using control-based continuation
16:00, Wednesday 8-February-2017	Engineering Central B003	Prof Roger Tanner, The University of Sydney, Australia	Elongational flow of non-Brownian suspensions Joint seminar with SPEC
14:00, Wednesday 8-February-2017	ESRI 001 (ground floor)	Dr Steven Niederer, Imperial College	Linking physiology and cardiology through mathematical models
17:30-18:30, Thursday 2-February-2017	ESRI 001 (ground floor)	Prof Abukar S Bahaj, University of Southampton	Public lecture: Sustainable energy across scales Free drinks reception at 17:00
11.00-12:00, Thursday 2-February-2017	Engineering Central B004	Prof Spencer Sherwin, Imperial College, UK	Development and analysis of spectral/hp element techniques for high Reynolds number flow simulations relevant to Formula One. Part of the II Annual ZCCE PhD workshop.
10.00-11:00, Thursday 2-February-2017	Engineering Central B004	Mr Duncan Nicholson, Arup Group, UK	The innovation process in geotechnical engineering. Part of the II Annual ZCCE PhD workshop.
14:30-15:30, Wednesday 1-February-2017	Engineering Central B004	Mr Clint Davies Taylor, Dassault Systemes UK	From solve to innovate: use of power of the portfolio. Part of the II Annual ZCCE PhD workshop.
10:40-12:00, Wednesday 1-February-2017	Engineering Central B004	Prof Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, USA	Modelling and simulation challenges in materials design for additive manufacturing applications. Part of the II Annual ZCCE PhD workshop.
14.00, Wednesday 7-December-2016	Engineering Central B001	Dr Andrew Rees, University of Bath	The modelling and computation of flow and convection of a Bingham fluid in porous media
14.00, Wednesday 30-November-2016	Engineering Central B001	Dr Joseph Anthony, University of Leeds	Why is it difficult process materials in particulate form?: new scientific understandings Joint seminar with Materials Research Centre
14.00, Thursday 24-November-2016	Engineering Central B001	Dr Jim Parr, McLaren	McLaren Applied Technologies: from F1 to healthcare
14.00, Wednesday 9-November-2016	ESRI 001 (Ground floor)	Dr Régis Cottereau, Université Paris-Saclay, France	Upscaling of the wave equation and strong localization in a ballasted railway track
16.00, Tuesday 1-November-2016	Engineering Central B003	Carl Brookes Ramboll, Southampton	Computational modelling in Civil Engineering
14.00, Wednesday 12-October-2016	Engineering Central B001	Dr John Brigham, Durham University	From concrete to the cardiovascular system: computational mechanics for engineering inverse problems
14.00, Wednesday 5-October-2016	Engineering Central B001	Dr Andrew Barlow, Atomic Weapons Establishment	Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian methods for modelling high-speed multi-material flows

Seminars in 2015-2016

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
4pm, Monday 20-June-2016	ESRI 101 Seminar Room	Dr Jonathan Mynard, Murdoch Children's Institute	Multi-scale modelling of coronary haemodynamics: design, validation and insights
11am, Friday 10-June-2016	ESRI 101 Seminar Room	Dr Ikumu Watanabe, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan	Multi-scale finite element modelling in structural materials
3.30pm, Monday 23-May-2016	ESRI 001 Ground floor	Prof Michael Sacks, University of Texas at Austin	The Valve Interstitial Cell: From cellular biophysics to surgical repair
1pm, Friday 22-April-2016	ESRI 101	Bill Hewlett Technical Director at Costain	Meeting National Needs as a Civil Engineer
2pm, Wednesday 9-March-2016	ESRI 101	Dr Benjamin Almquist Faculty of Engineering & Department of bioengineering Imperial College	Engineering the Interface with Biology: Adventures in Space and Time
2pm, Monday 15-February-2016	Engineering Central B001	Dr Polina Prokopovich Cardiff University	Biomaterials for orthopaedic applications: challenges and novel approaches
10.25am, Thursday 28-January-2016	ESRI 001	Prof Jonathan Cooper Faculty of Engineering, The University of Bristol	Aeroelasticity - Exploiting aircraft flexibility for improved aircraft performance (Annual ZCCE Student Workshop)
9.30am, Thursday 28-January-2016	ESRI 001	Dr Jenny Brown National Oceanographic Centre Liverpool	Waves, surge & coastal vulnerability (Annual ZCCE Student Workshop)
2.05pm, Wednesday 27-January-2016	Engineering Central B004	Prof Shahrokh Shahpar Aerothermal Design Systems Rolls Royce, Derby	Role of simulation and optimisation in design (Annual ZCCE Student Workshop)
1.10pm, Wednesday 27-January-2016	Engineering Central B004	Dr Bindi Brook School of Mathematical Sciences The University of Nottingham	Interactions of cell-scale and tissue-scale mechanics in asthmatic airways (Annual ZCCE Student Workshop)
2pm, Wednesday 13-January-2016	Engineering Central B004	Dr Katherine Fraser Department of Bioengineering Imperial College	Bleeding hearts: Improving mechanical circulatory support
1pm, Wednesday 25-November-2015	Engineering Central B001	Dr Alberto Gambaruto University of Bristol	Transport in physiological flows
2pm, Wednesday 21-October-2015	ESRI 101	Dr Bo Liu Department of Computing Glyndwr University	Modern optimisation techniques and their applications to simulation-driven engineering design automation
2pm, Wednesday 7-October-2015	ESRI 001	Dr Paul Ledger College of Engineering Swansea University	Towards finding hidden metallic targets using polarizability tensors
2pm, Wednesday 30-September-2015	Engineering Central, B001	Dr Zhongzhao Teng Department of Radiology and Department of Engineering, Cambridge University	Looking beyond luminal stenosis

Seminars in 2014-2015

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
3pm, Thursday 25-June-2015	Faraday B	Dr Santiago Badia CIMNE, UPC Spain	On a highly scalable finite element framework for unstructured LES simulations of incompressible flows
1pm, Friday 29-May-2015	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Dominic Gallagher Photon Design Ltd Oxford, UK	A comparison of FDTD, FETD, EME and BPM simulation methods for photonics - Choosing and algorithm
Thursday 9-April-2015 and Friday 10-April-2015	Faraday Building, Rooms A, K, L, M	Several speakers, including Prof Jaime Peraire Prof Rainald Löhner Prof Luca Formaggia Prof Jörg Schröder	23rd ACME Conference
2-5pm, Wednesday 8-April-2015	Faraday Building, Room A	Prof Ken Morgan Dr Antonio J Gil Dr Rubén Sevilla Dr Paul D Ledger	4th ACME School
2pm, Tuesday 3-March-2015	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Gwenael Gabart University of Southampton	A comparison of wave-based and high-order polynomial methods for wave propagation problems
11.30am, Friday 6-February-2015	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Athanasios A Pantelous University of Liverpool	Random vibration of linear systems with singular mass matrices
12.15pm, Friday 6-February-2015	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Prof Michael Beer University of Liverpool	Dealing with vague and imprecise information in engineering
2pm, Tuesday 20-January-2015	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Hadrien Beriot SIEMENS industry software Belgium	High-order methods for tackling acoustic problems
2.15pm, Wednesday 5-November-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Susanne Claus Department of Mathematics University College London	CutFEM: a novel stabilised XFEM approach
2pm, Wednesday 5-November-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Postgraduate poster award ceremony	- Rogelio Ortigosa. Winner of the Y2 competition (poster & picture) - Roman Poya. Winner of the Y1 competition (poster & picture)
1pm, Wednesday 29-October-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Gibin Powathil College of Science Swansea University	Bystander effects and their implications for clinical radiation therapy: A mathematical modelling approach
2pm, Tuesday, 28-October-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr José Luis Perez Universidad de Granada Spain	Applications of non-linear finite elements and discrete methods
2pm, Wednesday 15-October-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr Bjornar Sandnes College of Engineering Swansea University	Multiphase flow patterns revealed in experiments and simulations
2-5pm, Thursday 18-September-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	- Year 1 PhD students - Year 1 & 2 EngD	Postgraduate poster session
2-5pm, Wednesday 17-September-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	- Year 2 & 3 PhD students - Year 3 & 4 EngD	Postgraduate poster session
2.30pm, Tuesday 2-September-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Matt A. Price, Institute of High-Performance Computing, Singapore	Numerical modelling of explosive detonations and airblast for risk assessment
2pm, Tuesday 2-September-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Angel Leon, Ecole Centrale Nantes, France	PGD method for solving the Poisson equation and its application on the ATP process
2pm, Thursday 28-August-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Alessandro Franci, International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)	Unified Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems with thermal coupling using PFEM

Seminars in 2013-2014

Date	Location	Speakers	Title
2pm, Tuesday 15-July-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Professor Nick DoddDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham	The mathematics of morphodynamic pattern formation
Thusdary 10-July-2014 08:30h - 13:00h	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Ettore Barbieri, University of London Dr. Fehmi Cirak, Cambridge University Dr. Grégory Legrain, Ecole Centrale Nantes Dr. Rubén Sevilla, Swansea University Dr. Robert Simpson, Glasgow University	WORKSHOP Bridging the gap between computational geometry and analysis
2pm, Wednesday 2-July-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Josep M Carbonell, International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Possibilities of the PFEM in non-linear solid mechanics
2pm, Wednesday 25-June-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Jordi Alastruey Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Division, King's College London	Reduced modelling of blood flow in the cardiovascular system
2pm, Wednesday 4-June-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Andrew Comerford Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London	Image-based modelling of water and LDL transport in the rat aortic wall
11am, Thursday 29-May-2014	Executive Boardroom	Prof. Hermann G Matthies, Institute of Scientific Computing Technische Universität Braunschweig	Non-intrusive uncertainty quantification and inverse problems
2pm, Wednesday 28-May-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Prof. Antonio Huerta Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya College of Engineering, Swansea University	Advances in Proper Generalized Decomposition for parametrized geometry, materials, boundary conditions,...
2pm, Wednesday 21-May-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Ashraf W Khir Brunel Institute for Bioengineering, Brunel University	Wave speed and wave intensity in the arterial system
2pm, Tuesday 6-May-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Mr. Abhishek Kundu College of Engineering, Swansea University	Efficient uncertainty propagation schemes for dynamical systems with stochastic finite element analysis
2pm, Monday 14-April-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Chun Hean Lee ASTUTE, College of Engineering, Swansea University	A stabilised Petrov-Galerkin formulation for linear tetrahedral elements in Lagrangian fast solid mechanics
2pm, Tuesday 8-April-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Alejandro Diaz de la O Institute of Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool	Probabilistic methods for inverse problems in Engineering
4pm, Monday 31-March-2014	Faraday A	Ronald Ayers MBE, Head of Performance on the BLOODHOUND SSC project	Supersonic cars
2pm, Thursday 27-March-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Hammed Haddad Khodaparast, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Stochastic Model Updating in Structural Dynamics: Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic methods
3pm, Thursday 6-March-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Ing. Roland Wuchner Technical University of Munich, Germany	Computational fluid-structure interaction in wind engineering
2pm, Thursday 20-February-2014	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Prof. Michael Friswell College of Engineering, Swansea University	Modelling and optimisation of morphing aircraft
2pm, Wednesday 29-January-2014	MNC Seminar Room	Dr. Marco Ellero College of Engineering, Swansea University	Smoothed particle dynamics simulations of complex fluids
2pm, Wednesday 11-December-2013	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Dr. Ettore Barbieri School of Engineering and Material Science, Queen Mary University of London	Distance fields and meshfree methods: new ideas for 3D fracture
2pm, Wednesday 4-December-2013	MNC Seminar Room	Dr. Guangtao Fu Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter	Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimisation of Complex Water Systems
2pm, Wednesday 13-November-2013	MNC Seminar Room	Mr. Chennakesava Kadapa C2EC Research Centre, Swansea University	Mixed Galerkin and Least-Squares formulations for Isogeometric analysis
2pm, Wednesday 30-October-2013	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Mr. Patrick Wlodarski College of Engineering, Swansea University	Temperature cycle injection moulding of micro channels
2pm, Wednesday 16-October-2013	MNC Seminar Room	Dr. Antonio Martinez, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Study of dielectric induced dynamical many-body correlation effects on Si Nanowire transistor
2pm, Wednesday 2-October-2013	ZCCE Lecture Theatre	Mr. Miquel Aguirre C2EC Research Centre, Swansea University	A 3D vertex centred finite volume solver for a new conservation law in fast solid dynamics

Some past seminars

Date	Speakers	Title
22nd-25th July 2013	Various distinguished researchers in computational engineering and computational mechanics	The 2nd Tsinghua-Swansea Workshop on Computational Mechanics and Computational Engineering
2pm Wednesday 19th June 2013	Professor W. Larson, Mathematical Sciences Institute, The Australian National University	NuMRF: A Numerical MapReduce Framework
2pth Thursday 23rd May 2013	Dr Jose Luis Curiel, Sheffield University	Damage modelling of composite laminates
2pm Thursday 5th May 2013	Dr Pushpa Dissanayake, PDRA, C2EC, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Modelling long-term morphodynamic evolution of coastal systems
12noon Thursday 15th March 2013	Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi, Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia	Sea level variability over a range of temporal scales
2pm Thursday 7th February 2013	Dr Dan Johns, Bloodhound SSC.	Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing and Star Trek Replicators
2pm Thursday 6th December 2012	Professor John R. Barker, University of Glasgow, Scotland	Green functions and Causality: exploring Electron Transport in Nanowires
2pm Wednesday 5th December 2012	Professor C.S. Manohar, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India	Bayesian methods for updating mathematical models for instrumented structures
2pm Thursday 22nd November	Dr Ruben Sevilla, Lecturer, C2EC, College of Engineering, Swansea University	NURBS-Enhanced Finite Element Method (NEFEM)
2pm Thursday 25th October 2012	Dr Peter Vincent, Lecturer, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London	The flux reconstruction approach to high-order methods - theory, implementation and application
2pm Thursday 1st October 2012	Dr Robert Laramee, College of Science	Adventures in flow visualisation
2pm Friday 7th June 2012	Dr Ikumu Watanabe, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan	Multi-scale finite element modelling of structural materials
2pm Thursday 12th January 2012	Dr Mathew Santer, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London	Time-dependent materials for morphing adaptive structures
2pm Thursday 30th August 2012	Zainorizuan M. Jaini, PhD Student, Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Multi-scale simulation and numerical modelling of reinforced concrete slabs subjected to blast loading
2pm Thursday 5th July 2012	Dr Akshai Runchal, Analytic and Computational Research Inc, USA	The future of CFD and the CFD of the future
2pm Thursday 7th June 2012	Professor K. Miller, Director of Intelligent Systems for Medicine Lab, The University of Western Australia	Challenges for computational biomechanics for medicine
2pm Monday 14th May 2012	Mr Richard Taylor, PhD Student, Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction model problems solved using stabilised finite element analysi s
2pm Thursday 26th April 2012	Dr Kalna, Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre, Swansea University	Impurity Potential Induced Resonances in Doped Si Nanowire: Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions Simulations
3.30pm Thursday 15th March 2012	Emeritus Professor Gyan Pande, Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre, Swansea University	Computation of permeability of pourus media using a pipe network model
3pm Thursday 8th March 2012	Professor Antonio Huerta, UPC Barcelona, Spain	Improving numerical efficiency: model reduction, high-order vs. low-order & continuous vs. discontinuous Galerkin
2pm Thursday 1st March 2012	Dr Thomas Franz, Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa	Computational Biomechanics in treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Africa
2 pm Thursday 23rd February 2012	Dr Igor Sazonov, Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre, College of Engineering, Swansea University	Patient-Specific Flow Simulation. Part 1. Geometry: Image Processing and Mesh Generation
2pm Thursday 17th February 2012	Dr Carlos Alberto Figueroa, Biomedical Engineering, Kings College London.	Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Blood Flow Modelling: Theory and Applications
2pm Thursday 28th May 2009	Professor Mike Kirby, School of Computing, University of Utah, USA	Bridging the gaps: h-to-p efficiently and CG-to-DG transparently
2pm Thursday 21st May 2009	Mr Marc Hassler, Institut fuer Mechanik, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany.	Quasi-Static Fluid-Structure Interactions Based on Geometric Descriptions of Fluids
2pm Thursday 30th April 2009	Dr Hennadiy Netuzhylov and Professor Zilian, Computational Science and Engineering, Braunschweig Technical University, Germany	A Space-Time Meshfree Collocation Method for PDE's
2.30pm, Thursday 9th April 2009	Professor Wing Kam Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Western University, USA.	Recognition of complex biological/nano molecular pheomena
1pm Thursday 26th March 2009	Professor C. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology.	Research Activities at the Wessex Institute of Technology
2pm Thursday 19th March 2009	Professor M. Heil, School of Mathematics, Manchester University.	Flow-induced, self-excited oscillations of collapsible tubes- theory and computation
2pm Thursday 5th March 2009	Dr. Raoul van Loon, Civil and Computational Research Centre, School of Engineering, Swansea University	Fluid-structure interaction and heart valves
2pm Thursday 19th February 2009	Professor Michael Friswell, School of Engineering, Swansea University	An Institute for Smart Materials, Structures and Machines for Swansea?
10.30am Thursday 15th January 2009	Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes, Institute of Computational Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA	Bubble-scale modelling of flowing forms
2pm Thursday 4th December 2008	Dr S. Cox, Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University.	Bubble-scale modelling of flowing forms
2pm Thursday 20th November 2008	Dr B. Evans, Civil and Computational Research Centre, School of Engineering, Swansea University	How CFD was used to shape the BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car
2pm Thursday 6th November 2008	Dr R. Mehmood, Swansea University	Computational stochastic modelling for large-scale systems methods and applications
2pm Thursday 9th October 2008	Prof. S. Adhikari, Civil and Computational Engineering Research Centre, Swansea University	Uncertainty quantification in computational predictions for complex aero-mechanical systems
2pm Thursday 25th September 2008	Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala , University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Condition Monitoring of Mechanical Systems with Incomplete Information
2.30pm Tuesday 16th September 2008	Prof. Rainald Lohner, George Mason University, USA	Clinically Relevant Computational Haemodynamics
11am Tuesday 22nd July 2008	Mr Ruben Sevilla, visiting PhD student at Swansea University from UPC, Spain	NURBS-Enhanced Finite Element Method (NEFEM) for electromagnetic scattering problems
2pm Thursday 29th May 2008	Dr. Joaquim Peiro, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, London	Patient-specific high-order CFD simulations of biomedical flows
2pm Thursday 22nd May 2008	Dr. Chris Bennett, Civil and Computational Engineering, Swansea University	Development of a comprehensive model of heap leaching of copper minerals
10am Thursday 15th May 2008	Various. Organiser Dr P.D. Ledger	Higher order methods in computational science and engineering WIMCS workshop
2pm Wednesday 7th May 2008	Various. Organiser Professor M. Cross	Dynamic Fluid Structure Interaction Workshop
2pm Thursday 17th April 2008	Dr. Wulf Dettmer, Civil and Computational Engineering, Swansea University.	A fully implicit strategy for fluid-solid interaction
2pm Thursday 6th March 2008	Dr. Bram Sengers, Bone and Joint Research Group, Southampton General Hospital.	Computational-experimental characterization of cell behaviour for skeletal tissue regeneration
2pm Thursday 7th February 2008	Prof. Spencer Sherwin, Aeronautics, Imperial Collage, London.	Direct optimal growth analysis for timesteppers
2pm Thursday 24th January 2008	Dr. Mariano Vazquez, Department of Computer Applications inScience and Engineering (CASE), Barcelona Supercomputing Center	High Performance Computational Mechanics in Marenostrum Supercomputer
2pm Thursday 13th December 2007	Dr. Antonio Gil, Civil and Computational Engineering, Swansea University.	Dynamic analysis of prestressed structural membranes
2pm Thursday 22nd November 2007	Dr. Christoph Ortner, Oxford University Computing Laboratory,Oxford University	Variational Models of Brittle Fracture: Analysis and Computation
2pm Thursday 8th November 2007	Dr. Antonio Orlando, Civil and Computational Engineering, Swansea University.	Numerical relaxation of nonconvex functionals in solid mechanics
2pm Thursday 25th October 2007	Dr. Richard Curtis, Dental Institute, Kings Collage London.	Titanium bioimplants scaffolds-stretching the limits through Superplastic Prosthetic Forming.
3pm Monday 22nd October 2007	Prof. Vaughan Voller, Dept. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota	An enthalpy/ narrow-band level-set method with application to two non-standard Stefan problems
2pm Thursday 11th October 2007	Dr. Paul Ledger, Civil and Computational Engineering, Swansea University	Finite Elements in Electromagnetics- hp Approximations and Fast Solvers.
10.30am Monday 3rd September 2007	Professor Dr.-Ing. Holm Altenbach, Martin-Luther University,Technische Mechanik, Germany	Creep Mechanics - Past Present and Future