Past Events

December 2008

  Fri 12 Dec 2008End of semester 1
  Wed 10 Dec 2008
 11:00 - 14:00
Degree ceremonies
  Wed 10 Dec 2008
 13:00 - 16:00
UCAS Information Day Aerospace & Mechanical
  Thu 4 Dec 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Postgraduate Seminar Series
Abstract 1: Title: Ceramic – Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites Fawad Inam Abstract: The increasing availability of nanopowders and nanotubes combined with new processing techniques is enabling the…
  Wed 3 Dec 2008
 13:00 - 16:30
UCAS Information Day Medical Engineering & Materials
  Tue 2 Dec 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
ISCO visit

November 2008

  Wed 19
 - Fri 21 Nov 2008
MAT 700 Presentations
15 minute presentations by MAT700 students
  Fri 14 Nov 2008
 12:30 - 17:00
SEMS Prize Giving Day
  Fri 14 Nov 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Industrial Liaison Forum meeting
  Mon 3
 - Fri 7 Nov 2008
Reading Week

October 2008

  Fri 31 Oct 2008
 14:30 - 15:30
Developing New Materials for Organic Solar CellsDeveloping New Materials for Organic Solar Cells
David L. Officer ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia. The…
  Thu 2 Oct 2008
 09:30 - 12:00
MSc Tech/Proj Management Vivas

September 2008

  Wed 24 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 12:00
Induction: New MPhil/PhD Research Student Enrolment
  Mon 22 Sep 2008Teaching begins
  Mon 22
 - Thu 25 Sep 2008
Induction: Returning MPhil/PhD Research Student Enrolment
Returning MPhil/PhD Research students will need to collect their enrolment pack from teh Research Administrator in the School Office if you wish to enrol in person at the Enrolment Centre, Please note…
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 09:30 - 10:00
Induction: New Postgraduate School welcome
MSc Programme co-ordinators, John Stark, Hazel Screen, Ray Smith, Mike Reece
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Induction: All 2nd Year Continuing UG Students Information Session
PRW, JCS, EC, 1TA, GD
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Welcome to your Taught Postgraduate degree, MSc
Ray Smith, MSc Programme co-ordinators, Hazel Screen, Emma Shapcott
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Induction: Welcome to your MPhil/PhD
Dr Mike Reece, Jonathon Hills
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 11:00 - 11:30
Induction: Campus Tour - All Postgraduates
Teaching Assistants
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 11:00 - 12:00
Induction: 2nd Year Tutorials
All academic staff
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 11:30 - 12:00
Induction: Welcome to Taught Postgraduate Foundation Students
Ray Smith
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 12:00 - 13:30
Induction: Lunch for all new Postgraduate students
All School Staff
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 13:00 - 14:00
Induction: New Undergraduate Students Safety Talk
Chris Straw, David Lee, Bob Hunt
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 13:30 - 15:00
Induction: Undergraduate 2nd year Information session and course registration
All student admin staff, Programme co-ordinators and TA's
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 14:00 - 15:00
Induction: All 2nd Year Tutorial
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 14:00 - 15:00
Induction: New Engineering UG Library Services
Kathy Abbott
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 14:00 - 15:00
New Postgraduate Student Safety Talk
Chris Staw, David Lee and Bob Hunt
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 15:00 - 16:00
Induction: New Engineering Undergraduate PBL Briefing
Dr Peter Wormleaton
  Fri 19 Sep 2008
 15:00 - 16:30
Induction: New Taught Postgraduate student course registration and information session
Programme co-ordinators, TA's, ES, EC
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 09:00 - 11:00
Induction: New UG Student Course Registration
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 09:00 - 11:00
Induction: BSc intercalated students, introduction talk, course registration
Prof David Lee and Prof Gleb Sukhorukov
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 11:00 - 12:00
Induction: Materials UG Enrolment
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 11:30 - 12:30
Final Aerospace SEB
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 12:00 - 12:30
Induction: 1st Year UG Personal Tutor Meetings
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 12:30 - 14:00
Induction: New UG Students Maths Test
Details of this will be circulated at the Materials and Engineering welcomes on Wednesday 17th September 08.
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 14:00 - 15:00
Induction: Engineering UG Enrolment
  Thu 18 Sep 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Induction: New Materials UG Hands On Computer Session
Raymond Lam/Alem Million/Steve Wicks/Kathy
  Wed 17 Sep 20081st Day of semester 1 - Teaching begins on 22/09/2008
  Wed 17 Sep 2008
 09:30 - 10:00
Induction: School Welcome to New UG Students
  Wed 17 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Induction: New UG Engineering Students Information
  Wed 17 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Induction: New UG Materials Students Information
  Wed 17 Sep 2008
 12:00 - 14:00
Induction: All New UG Students Lunch
All new UG students are invited to a welcome lunch, This will give you the opportunity to meet your new class mates and your personal tutor.
  Wed 17 Sep 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Induction: Principal's Welcome to all New Students
  Wed 17 Sep 2008
 16:30 - 18:00
Retirement party for Professor Roy Crookes
Anybody wishing to attend should inform Catherine Jones.
  Tue 16 Sep 2008
 09:00 - 15:00
Induction: Individual and group project supervisors start up meeting
  Tue 16 Sep 2008
 11:00 - 12:00
Induction: Pre-masters registration
Simon Pate
  Tue 16 Sep 2008
 15:00 - 16:00
Induction: New academic staff briefing
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Induction: Engineering 3rd year UG students Induction Session
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 10:00 - 11:00
Induction: Materials 3rd year UG students Induction Session
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 11:00 - 12:00
Induction: Engineering 4th year UG Students Induction Session
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 11:00 - 12:00
Induction: Materials 4th year UG students Induction Session
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 13:00 - 15:00
Induction: All UG 3rd and 4th Year Students Tutorial and Course Registration
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 15:00 - 16:00
Induction: All 3rd year UG students Information and Registration Session
  Mon 15 Sep 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Induction: All 4th year UG students Information and Registration Session
  Wed 3 Sep 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Searching For Deep Blue Phopshorescence For Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Professor Paul Burn from the Centre for Organic Photonics & Electronics, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia, 4072 Innovation in materials has played a crucial role in development of…

August 2008

  Mon 18 Aug 2008Deadline for Final Dissertation - TODAY
If you are submitting your final dissertation today (i.e. if you are a Materials Science MSc student or Proj/Tech Management MSc student), - please deliver 2 bound copies and a CD copy in person to…
  Sun 3
 - Wed 6 Aug 2008
Conference: IVESC2008 - The Seventh International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference
The Seventh International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference will be hosted by Queen Mary, one of the largest multifaculty colleges of the University of London. The Mile End campus, the venue of the…

July 2008

  Thu 17 Jul 2008
 11:00 - 13:00
Degree ceremonies
  Wed 16 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 13:00
Industrial Liaison Forum meeting (formerly known as the Industrial Advisory Board)
  Thu 10 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Medical Materials
  Thu 10 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Mechanical Engineering
  Wed 9 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Materials in Dentistry
  Wed 9 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Aerospace Engineering
  Tue 8 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Materials
  Tue 8 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Mechanical Engineering
  Thu 3 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Medical Materials
  Thu 3 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Design and Innovation
  Thu 3 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Aerospace Engineering
  Wed 2 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Materials in Dentistry
  Wed 2 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Medical Engineering
  Wed 2 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Mechanical Engineering
  Tue 1 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Aerospace Engineering
  Tue 1 Jul 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Medical Engineering

June 2008

  Fri 27 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Medical Materials
  Thu 26 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Materials in Dentistry
  Thu 26 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Design and Innovation
  Tue 24
 - Wed 25 Jun 2008
Taster Course: Options for Women in Engineering
  Fri 20 Jun 2008
 11:00 - 12:00
Engineering Design & Innovation Final Exam Board
  Thu 19 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 12:30
Engineering Aerospace Final Exam Board
Staff in attendance: F Motallebi (H. Horton, 402)(DEN302, DEN402) E Avital, Deputy Chair, (DEN303) P Wen (Fabian Duddeck)(DEN307) G Dorrington (M. Paine)(DEN305) J Stark (M. Paine)(DEN335,…
  Thu 19 Jun 2008
 14:00 - 17:00
Engineering Mechanical Final Year Exam Board
  Thu 19 Jun 2008
 14:00 - 17:00
Materials Undergraduate Final Exam Board
All materials based staff teaching course units and/or supervising students on the programme MUST be in attendance
  Wed 18 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 12:30
Engineering Year 1 Final Exam Board
Staff in attendance N John (Chair, DEN218) P Wormleaton (DEN101) T Alexander (DEN107) P Dabnichki (DEN102) A Briggs (DEN108, DEN208) D Lee (DEN117) E Avital (DEN118) C Lawn (DEN119) H Shaheed…
  Wed 18 Jun 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Engineering Year 2 Final Exam Board
Staff in attendance N John (Chair, DEN218) P Wormleaton (DEN101) T Alexander (DEN107) P Dabnichki (DEN102) A Briggs (DEN108, DEN208) D Lee (DEN117) E Avital (DEN118) C Lawn (DEN119) H Shaheed…
  Tue 17 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 12:30
Engineering Medical Years 3 & 4 PrelimExam Board
Staff in attendance: Y Lu (DEN322, DEN429) D Lee (DEN323, DEN400) D Bader (Chair, DEN324) M Knight (DEN430) J Shelton (DEN437) J Mueller (DEN403) H Screen (DEN406) P Dabnichki (DEN424)
  Tue 17 Jun 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Engineering Mechanical Years 3 & 4 Final Year Board
Staff in attendance: J Cooper (DEN313) P Wormleaton (DEN320, DEN420) A Munjiza (DEN321, DEN401) H Huijberts (Chair, DEN336) R Crookes (DEN326) A Briggs (DEN338, DEN409) T Lovas (DEN436) M…
  Tue 17 Jun 2008
 14:00 - 17:00
Materials Undergraduate Preliminary Exam Board
All materials based staff teaching course units and/or supervising students on the programme MUST be in attendance
  Mon 16 Jun 2008
 10:00 - 12:00
Engineering Medical Years 3 & 4 Preliminary Board
Staff in attendance: Y Lu (DEN322, DEN429) D Lee (DEN323, DEN400) D Bader (Chair, DEN324) M Knight (DEN430) J Shelton (DEN437) J Mueller (DEN403) H Screen (DEN406) P Dabnichki (DEN424)
  Thu 12 Jun 2008
 12:30 - 13:30
Engineering Design & Innovation Preliminary Board
  Thu 12 Jun 2008
 14:00 - 15:00
Engineering Aero Years 3 & 4 Preliminary Board
Those in attendance are F Motallebi (H. Horton, 402)(DEN302, DEN402) E Avital, Deputy Chair, (DEN303) P Wen (Fabian Duddeck)(DEN307) G Dorrington (M. Paine)(DEN305) J Stark (M. Paine)(DEN335,…
  Wed 11 Jun 2008
 15:00 - 16:00
Developments In Turbulence Theory And Its Application
Speaker: Julian Hunt FRS Affiliation: Professor of Climate Modelling in the Department of Earth Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London
  Thu 5 Jun 2008
 11:00 - 13:00
Education Board

May 2008

  Wed 21 May 2008
 17:00 - 18:00
QMUL Discipline Bridging Initiative seminar programme
The seminar programme is as follows: Dr Jens Mueller-, Lecturer in Biofluid Mechanics, School of Engineering and Materials Science "A Fluid-Structure Interaction Model for Prosthetic Heart Valves 
  Fri 9 May 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Organic Electronics Seminar
"Polymer based x-ray photodetectors for medical applications" Panagiotis E. Keivanidis, J. C. Blakesley, I. A. Howard, R. Speller, N. C. Greenham, H. Sirringhaus, R. H. Friend Currently…
  Wed 7 May 2008
 13:00 - 17:00
SEMS Career Development Day
The purpose of this event is to provide an opportunity for postdoctoral researchers to explore some of the career pathways available to them.
  Tue 6 May 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Quality Committee
  Thu 1 May 2008
 14:00 - 16:00
Materials Characterisation Seminar
"UV/Vis/NIR Spectrophotometery & InGaAs Detection" Presented by Steve Upstone "New approaches to Raman Spectroscopy" Infrared: "Macro-sampling Made Easy and Advances in Imaging" Presented by Dr…

April 2008

  Mon 28 Apr
 - Fri 6 Jun 2008
Exam period
  Mon 28 Apr 2008
 11:00 - 13:00
Curriculum Development Committee
  Wed 23 Apr 2008
 14:00 - 15:30
Academic Staff Meeting
  Wed 9 Apr 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Application of Meshless local integral equations for engineering problems
Prof. Jan Sladek is currently a visiting professor of SEMS.
  Fri 4 Apr 2008End of Semester 2
  Fri 4 Apr 2008
 11:00 - 13:00
Space and Resources Committee meeting
  Wed 2 Apr 2008
 08:40 - 18:00
Engineering IMechE Accrediation Visit
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society are visiting the School of Engineering and Materials Science to re-accredit a range of undergraduate degree programmes (MEng…
  Wed 2 Apr 2008
 13:00 - 16:00
MAT700 Final Year Project Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations for projects from final year MEng students

March 2008

  Fri 28 Mar 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Physics - Colloidal Dynamics in Confined Geometry
Over the last decade technological developments in microfluidics as well as in self assembly on substrates have made clear the need to understand the dynamics of mesoparticles suspended in a fluid…
  Thu 27 Mar 2008
 16:00 - 18:00
"Bridging the Gaps: Building a New Community"
The is the launch of a new discipline-bridging initiative, where you have an opportunity to informally meet colleagues interested in multidisciplinary research. The goal of this project is to build a…
  Wed 26 Mar 2008
 14:00 - 15:00
Postgraduate Curriculum Development Committee - POSTPONED
Shall be rearranged during April 08
  Thu 20
 - Wed 26 Mar 2008
Easter student vacation
  Wed 19 Mar 2008
 13:45 - 15:15
Engineering Staff Meeting
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Engineering Academic Staff Meeting 19 March 2008 AGENDA For information / approval 1.1 Apologies for…
  Wed 19 Mar 2008
 15:45 - 17:15
Materials Staff Meeting
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Materials Academic Staff Meeting 19 March 2008 AGENDA For information / approval 1.1 Apologies for absence…
  Fri 14 Mar 2008
 14:00 - 15:30
Education Board
  Fri 14 Mar 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
The NanoVision Centre: Opportunities and Current Progress
”The NanoVision Centre was opened on January 9th and has been using state-of-the art facilities to provide solutions to academics both within Queen Mary and outside. Prominent amongst these…
  Thu 13 Mar 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Process intensification using particles across length scales
Abstract: In this talk, I shall illustrate how particles across length scales can be used to intensify various processes including heat and mass transfer, heterogeneous catalytic reactions and…
  Thu 13 Mar 2008
 17:30 - 19:00
Professor Gleb Sukhorukov 's Inaugural Lecture
"Is it enough space in microcapsules? Pack your stuff in"
  Mon 10 Mar 2008
 14:15 - 16:15
Renewable Energy Technologies - Some Interesting Challenges in Engineering Science
Professor Infield is Professor of Renewable Energy Technologies in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. He leads the New and Renewable Energy group…
  Sat 8 Mar 2008
 10:00 - 16:00
Taster Course: Materials
  Wed 5 Mar 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Academic Staff Meeting
  Tue 4 Mar 2008
 17:30 - 20:00
Engineering and Materials Alumni Evening
Opportunity for undergraduates to see which careers might be open to them.
  Mon 3 Mar 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
TBC
Prof. Nigel Brandon EPSRC/Shell Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy, Imperial College

February 2008

  Wed 27 Feb 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Vortex Tracking and Mixing Enhancement in Stirred Processes
Professor Michael Yianneskis CEng CSci FRSA FIMechE FIChemE FKC Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Head of the School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London The precession of…
  Wed 20 Feb 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Enhancing hydrocarbon recovery with smart fluids and processes
Prof. Geoffrey C Maitland FREng Professor of Energy Engineering Director of Research Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College Abstract: The talk aims to illustrate how advances in a…
  Wed 20 Feb 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
TBC
Prof. Geoffrey C Maitland FREng Professor of Energy Engineering Director of Research Department of Chemical Engineering Imperial College
  Mon 18 Feb 2008
 11:00 - 13:00
Space and Resources Committee meeting
  Thu 14 Feb 2008
 11:30 - 13:00
Education Board
  Wed 13 Feb 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Dual Fuelling of internal combusion engines
Prof. Brian E Milton, School of Mechanical and Manuacturing engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  Wed 13 Feb 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
Photochemistry on polarisable semi-conductors - where are we?
S Dunn Nanotechnology Centre, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL E-mail: s.c.dunn@cranfield.ac.uk The controlled deposition of metal nanostructures and the use of semi-conductors for…
  Thu 7 Feb 2008
 15:00 - 16:00
Phonons, localization and thermal transport mechanism in nanocrystalline and layered materials
Prof. Pawel Keblinski, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA, and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.

January 2008

  Wed 30 Jan 2008
 13:00 - 15:00
Teaching Committee
  Wed 16 Jan 2008
 16:00 - 17:00
School Seminar given by Prof. Nigel Brandon of Imperial College (Cancelled)
Prof. Nigel Brandon is the Shell Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy at Imperial College.
  Wed 9 Jan 2008
 13:00 - 18:00
Official opening of The NanoVision Centre
The Official Opening of The NanoVision Centre, at Mile End Campus, will be marked by a special event. A series of scientific seminars will be followed by an opportunity to tour the facilities before…
  Mon 7 Jan 20081st day of semester 2