Past Events
January 2016 | |
| Mon 11 Jan 2016 | Semester Starts |
Mon 11 Jan 2016 13:00 - 14:00 | SEMS Careers Session These vary weekly, please see one of the flyers around the SEMS office |
| Tue 12 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Research Group Meeting - Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Materials |
| Wed 13 Jan 2016 | Paper Deadling for Taught Programmes Board on 03.02.2016 |
| Wed 13 Jan 2016 09:30 - 10:30 | Visit to Brampton College SEMS will deliver a talk to Y12 students entitled "Alternatives to Medicine and Dentistry" |
| Wed 13 Jan 2016 10:00 - 11:30 | ELC meeting |
| Wed 13 Jan 2016 13:00 - 14:00 | SEG Meeting Provisional |
| Mon 18 Jan 2016 09:30 - 12:00 | Visit to St Dominic's Sixth Form SEMS will deliver three talks entitled "What is Engineering?" |
| Mon 18 Jan 2016 13:00 - 14:00 | SEMS Careers Session These vary weekly, please see one of the flyers around the SEMS office |
| Tue 19 Jan 2016 12:30 - 14:30 | School Strategy & Policy Group Meeting |
| Wed 20 Jan 2016 09:00 - 18:00 | QMUL Teaching and Learning Day |
| Wed 20 Jan 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Research Group Meeting - Centre for Simulation and Applied Mechanics |
| Mon 25 Jan 2016 | Post App Open day |
| Tue 26 Jan 2016 | Visit to Urusline School |
| Wed 27 Jan 2016 12:00 - 14:00 | UG SSLC meeting |
| Wed 27 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Polymers at soft interfaces by Dr Paola Carbone, Speaker: Dr Paola Carbone, University of Manchester |
| Wed 27 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:30 | SEMS Health & Safety Committee |
| Thu 28 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Functional Principle of Explosive Autonomous Movable Nanorockets Controlled by focused Laser Functional Principle of Explosive Autonomous Movable Nanorockets Controlled by focused Laser, with guest speaker Professor Johannes Frueh, Harbin institute of Technologies.
Authors: Johannes Frueh*… |
February 2016 | |
| Mon 1 Feb 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | Visit to Birkbeck SEMS will visit Birkbeck and speak to the students undertaking a foundation year about engineering |
| Tue 2 Feb 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | All Staff Meeting |
| Wed 3 Feb 2016 | Paper Deadline for Taught Programmes Board on 24.02.2016 |
| Wed 3 Feb 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Taught Programmes Board |
| Thu 4 Feb 2016 09:00 - 17:00 | Christ The King Sixth Form College visits SEMS Sixth form students will take part in a series of engineering based activities |
| Tue 9 Feb 2016 12:00 - 14:00 | Athena Swan SEMS Self-Assessment Team (SAT) Meeting |
| Wed 10 Feb 2016 | Postgraduate (taught) Open Evening |
| Wed 10 Feb 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Application of Non-homogeneous Rapid-distortion theory to the trailing edge noise problem by Dr Mohammed Afsar Goldstein, Afsar & Leib (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 736, pp. 532-?569, 2013) showed that the hydrodynamic component of the small amplitude unsteady motion on a transversely sheared… |
| Wed 10 Feb 2016 14:00 - 17:00 | Visit to Woodhouse College SEMS will speak to Y12 students about engineering and materials science |
| Sat 13 Feb 2016 | Post App Open day |
| Tue 16 - Fri 19 Feb 2016 | Engineering Spring School EECS and SEMS combine forces to deliver an inspiring course for Y12 students. |
| Wed 17 Feb 2016 10:00 - 11:30 | ELC meeting |
| Wed 17 Feb 2016 13:00 - 14:00 | Study Abroad SEB |
| Mon 22 Feb 2016 15:00 - 17:00 | Discipline Teaching Group for Medical Engineering |
| Tue 23 Feb 2016 | Visit to Featherstone High |
| Wed 24 Feb 2016 | Medical Open Day |
| Wed 24 Feb 2016 | Post App Open day |
| Wed 24 Feb 2016 | Visit to Jo Richardson |
| Wed 24 Feb 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | The Lifetimes of Evaporating Droplets and Related Problems by Prof Stephen Wilson Speaker: Prof Stephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde |
| Thu 25 Feb 2016 | What is Bioengineering? Tina Chowdhury's event |
March 2016 | |
| Wed 2 Mar 2016 | Paper Deadline for Taught Programmes Board on 23.03.2016 |
| Wed 2 Mar 2016 14:00 - 15:30 | Discipline Teaching Group for Mechanical Engineering |
| Thu 3 Mar 2016 10:30 - 16:00 |  Industrial Liaison ForumThe next Industrial Liaison Forum in the School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) is scheduled for Thursday 3 March 2016, here at QMUL in the Octagon. This particular forum will focus on our… |
| Mon 7 Mar 2016 | Visit to Watford Grammar |
| Tue 8 - Wed 9 Mar 2016 | Periodic/Internal Review |
| Wed 9 Mar 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Dr Cristina Rodrigues Rivero, University of Cambridge Speaker: Dr Cristina Rodrigues Rivero, University of Cambridge |
| Wed 9 Mar 2016 14:00 - 18:00 | Year 12 event for Prof Knight's inaugural lecture |
| Fri 11 - Sun 20 Mar 2016 | British Science Week |
| Mon 14 Mar 2016 | Visit to Bishop Thomas Grant School |
| Mon 14 Mar 2016 11:00 - 12:30 | Admissions Meeting |
| Tue 15 Mar 2016 11:00 - 13:00 | SEMS Research Committee |
| Wed 16 Mar 2016 10:00 - 11:30 | ELC meeting |
| Wed 16 Mar 2016 12:00 - 14:00 | School Strategy & Policy Group Meeting |
| Wed 16 Mar 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Research Group Meeting - Centre for Simulation and Applied Mechanics |
| Thu 17 Mar 2016 09:00 - 14:00 | Visit to Christ The King Sixth Form College SEMS will talk about Engineering and Materials Science to the Y12 students |
| Tue 22 Mar 2016 | Post App Open day |
| Tue 22 Mar 2016 | Visit to Bexley Grammar |
| Wed 23 Mar 2016 13:00 - 15:00 | UG SSLC meeting |
| Wed 23 Mar 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | "Wrinkly fingers" by Prof Matthias Heil Speaker: Prof Matthias Heil |
| Wed 23 Mar 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Taught Programmes Board |
| Wed 30 Mar 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | DTG - Materials |
April 2016 | |
| Fri 1 Apr 2016 | Semester Ends |
| Fri 1 Apr 2016 | Taster Course: Aerospace Engineering |
| Mon 4 Apr 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | SEMS Research Centre Meeting - Biomedical Engineering and Materials |
| Wed 6 Apr 2016 14:00 - 15:30 | SEMS Health & Safety Committee |
| Fri 8 Apr 2016 | SMD Open Day |
| Mon 11 Apr 2016 | SMD Open Day |
| Mon 11 Apr 2016 12:00 - 13:30 | ELC meeting |
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 | SMD Open Day |
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | School Strategy & Policy Group Meeting - Cancelled |
| Wed 13 Apr 2016 12:30 - 13:30 | Academic Standards Committee |
| Tue 19 Apr 2016 12:00 - 13:00 | SEMS Research Centre Meeting - Biomedical Engineering and Materials |
| Tue 19 Apr 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Athena SWAN SEMS Self-Assessment Team Meeting (SAT) |
| Wed 20 Apr 2016 | Visit to St Charles Catholic School |
| Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:00 - 17:00 | Bionic Man at 13th Annual Science Conference SEMS will speak to Key stage 3 students about Medical Engineering |
| Thu 21 Apr 2016 | The Bioengineering Experience Tina Chowdhury's event |
| Mon 25 - Fri 29 Apr 2016 | Revision Week |
May 2016 | |
| Tue 3 May - Fri 10 Jun 2016 | Exam Period |
| Tue 3 May 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Teaching Qualification Training |
| Tue 3 May 2016 15:00 - 16:00 | SEMS Research Centre Meeting - Biomedical Engineering and Materials |
| Wed 4 May 2016 | Paper Deadline for Taught Programmes Board |
| Wed 4 May 2016 09:00 - 17:00 | First Edition Schools visit at SEMS Y7&8 take part in a series of fun and engaging engineering activities |
| Wed 4 May 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | All Staff Meeting |
| Wed 4 May 2016 14:30 - 16:30 | Discipline Teaching Group (Medical Engineering) |
| Fri 6 May 2016 09:00 - 17:00 | First Edition Schools visit at SEMS Y7&8 students take part in a series of fun and engaging engineering activities |
| Tue 10 May 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | School Strategy & Policy Group Meeting |
| Wed 11 May 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Research Group Meeting - Centre for Simulation and Applied Mechanics |
| Thu 12 May 2016 15:00 - 17:00 | Discipline Teaching Group (Aero-Engineering) |
| Mon 16 May 2016 12:00 - 13:30 | ELC meeting |
| Tue 17 May 2016 14:00 - 15:00 | Teaching Qualification Training |
| Wed 25 May 2016 14:00 - 00:00 | Taught Programmes Board |
June 2016 | |
| Wed 1 Jun 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | DTG - Materials |
| Mon 6 Jun 2016 | Visit to Highams Park School SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Mon 6 Jun 2016 12:00 - 14:00 | IOB symposium - presentations by iBSc students |
| Tue 7 Jun 2016 | Visit to St Marks CoE Academy SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Wed 8 Jun 2016 | Paper Deadline for Taught Programmes Board on 27.06.2016 |
| Mon 13 Jun 2016 | Visit to Eltham College SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Mon 13 Jun 2016 | Visit to Highams Park School |
| Mon 13 Jun 2016 12:00 - 13:30 | ELC meeting |
| Tue 14 Jun 2016 | Visit to University of Essex SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk for school children from the local area |
| Tue 14 Jun 2016 10:30 - 12:30 | EC Committee |
| Wed 15 Jun 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | UG Engineering Years 1&2 Prelim |
| Wed 15 Jun 2016 13:00 - 17:00 | UG Materials Preliminary Exam Board |
| Thu 16 Jun 2016 13:00 - 17:00 | UG Materials Final Exam Board |
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 | Visit to University of Essex SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 13:00 - 16:00 | UG Engineering Year 1 and 2 Progression Board |
| Tue 21 Jun 2016 09:00 - 17:00 | UG Engineering Final Exam Board |
| Wed 22 Jun 2016 09:30 - 16:30 | Teaching and Learning Day |
| Wed 22 Jun 2016 16:00 - 18:00 | SEMS Summer BBQ Tickets are subsidised to £2 each.
Please buy your tickets by Monday 20th June 2015 from Jon, Saima or Clare in the School Office |
| Thu 23 Jun 2016 | Visit to SEMS: Enfield Sixth Form They will visit SEMS to take part in a Physics day |
| Fri 24 - Sat 25 Jun 2016 | QMUL Open Day Major recruitment event. |
| Mon 27 Jun 2016 | Visit to William Morris Sixth Form SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Mon 27 Jun 2016 13:00 - 17:00 | TPG SEB Prelim |
| Tue 28 - Thu 30 Jun 2016 | Inspire Girls course Y11 students will visit SEMS to take part in a number of engineering and materials science activities.
They will also take part in a project. |
| Tue 28 Jun 2016 13:00 - 17:00 | TPG Final SEB |
| Wed 29 Jun 2016 | Visit to St Francis Xavier Sixth Form SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Wed 29 Jun 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Taught Programmes Board |
| Thu 30 Jun 2016 | SMD Y12 Health care school SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk and do an activity |
July 2016 | |
| Mon 4 Jul 2016 | SEMS at Big Bang SEMS will present Bionic Man |
| Tue 5 - Fri 8 Jul 2016 | Headstart Residential Course at SEMS Y12 students will visit SEMS and stay overnight on campus to take part in a number of engineering and materials science activities.
They will also take part in a project. |
| Tue 5 Jul 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team (SAT) Meeting |
| Wed 6 Jul 2016 | Paper Deadline for Taught Programmes Board on 27.07.2016 |
| Wed 6 Jul 2016 | Barts and QMUL Science Festival SEMS will present Bionic Man |
| Wed 6 Jul 2016 11:00 - 13:00 | Aero DTG |
| Wed 6 Jul 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Research Group Meeting - Centre for Simulation and Applied Mechanics |
| Wed 6 Jul 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | DTG - Materials |
| Thu 7 Jul 2016 | SMD Y12 Health care school SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk and deliver an activity |
| Fri 8 Jul 2016 | Visit to Langley Grammar SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk |
| Mon 11 Jul 2016 12:00 - 13:30 | ELC meeting |
| Tue 12 - Fri 15 Jul 2016 | Engineering Summer School EECS and SEMS get together to host an engineering summer school. Y11 female students will take part in a number of engineering based activities. |
| Wed 13 Jul 2016 | Official undergraduate module results release date |
| Wed 13 - Thu 14 Jul 2016 | Visit to Blackfen School for Girls SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk.
Exact day TBC |
| Wed 13 Jul 2016 14:00 - 15:30 | SEMS Health & Safety Committee |
| Tue 19 Jul 2016 | SMD Medicine Open Day SEMS will promote Medical Engineering as "fifth choice" |
| Wed 20 Jul 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | School Strategy & Policy Group Meeting |
| Thu 21 Jul 2016 | SMD Dentistry Open Day SEMS will promote Dental Materials as "fifth choice" |
| Fri 22 Jul 2016 | SMD Medicine Open Day SEMS will promote Medical Engineering as "fifth choice" |
| Fri 22 Jul 2016 12:00 - 13:00 |  Prof Zhongqiang Yang (Tsinghua University), Spontaneous formation of water droplets at oil-solid interfaces (Athena Swan Seminar Series)Prof Zhongqiang Yang obtained Gates Cambridge Trust and Overseas Research Studentship to do her PhD with Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck at the University of Cambridge, focusing on nanofined liquid… |
| Fri 22 Jul 2016 16:30 - 18:00 | Graduation SEMS |
| Wed 27 Jul 2016 | TPG official module results release date |
| Wed 27 Jul 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Taught Programmes Board |
| Thu 28 Jul 2016 | Visit to Dartford Grammar SEMS will deliver "What is Engineering?" talk and play Mystery Medical Implants quiz |
August 2016 | |
| Mon 15 Aug 2016 12:00 - 13:30 | ELC meeting Cancelled |
| Wed 17 Aug 2016 15:00 - 16:00 | Admissions Meeting - UG only |
| Wed 24 Aug 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | Discipline Teaching Group (Mechanical Engineering) |
| Wed 31 Aug 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | DTG - Materials - CANCELLED |
September 2016 | |
| Thu 1 Sep 2016 14:00 - 17:00 | LSR SEB |
| Mon 12 Sep 2016 | Official Late summer resit/first sit results release date |
| Tue 13 Sep 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | All Staff Meeting |
| Wed 14 Sep 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | ELC meeting |
| Fri 16 Sep 2016 10:00 - 16:00 | Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Materials - Research Away Day TBC |
| Mon 19 - Fri 23 Sep 2016 | Welcome week |
| Mon 26 Sep 2016 | Semester A teaching begins |
| Wed 28 Sep 2016 10:00 - 17:00 | TPG Final board |
October 2016 | |
| Mon 3 Oct 2016 09:30 - 17:00 | Induction: PhD Induction DC100 - PhD Induction
This is a one day induction event for PhD students who have recently enrolled at Queen Mary.
This day will give a brief overview of a research degree at Queen Mary and allow… |
| Tue 4 Oct 2016 13:00 - 14:00 | Academic Standards Committee |
| Wed 5 Oct 2016 14:00 - 16:00 | DTG - Materials -CANCELLED |
| Thu 6 Oct 2016 13:00 - 15:00 | SEMS Health and Safety Committee |
| Sat 8 Oct 2016 10:00 - 16:00 | QMUL Open Day |
| Wed 12 Oct 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | ELC meeting CANCELLED |
| Fri 21 Oct 2016 15:00 - 17:00 | SEMS Research Committee |
| Wed 26 Oct 2016 13:00 - 17:00 | UG SSLC meeting |
November 2016 | |
| Wed 2 Nov 2016 18:30 - 20:00 |  The Inaugural Lecture: Remarkable RubberProfessor James Busfield gives an insight into the magical world of rubber physics, James will explore what makes rubber so magical that it can sustain a $1,000,000,000,000 industry and what the… |
| Fri 4 Nov 2016 | TPG official final results release date |
| Wed 9 Nov 2016 11:00 - 13:00 | Exam paper scrutiny meetings All DTG to meet at this time to scrutinise exam papers |
| Fri 11 Nov 2016 10:00 - 22:00 |  IRC 25 Year CelebrationInterdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials
A celebratory event marking 25 years since the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials' launch will be held at QMUL. … |
| Tue 15 Nov 2016 10:00 - 12:00 | SEMS Athena SWAN SAT Committee |
| Wed 16 Nov 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | All Staff Meeting |
| Wed 23 Nov 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | Education Board Meeting |
| Tue 29 Nov 2016 11:00 - 17:00 | Industrial Liaison Forum |
December 2016 | |
| Thu 1 - Fri 2 Dec 2016 | The workshop STATES of FLUX - Soft Robotics in Arts and Engineering The workshop is part of more than seven hundred activities takign place as part of European Robotics Week. The robotics lab is a new facility for the Faculty that will play a key role in the new joint… |
| Wed 7 Dec 2016 10:30 - 11:30 | Winter Graduation |
| Wed 7 Dec 2016 13:00 - 14:30 | Academic Standards Committee |
| Tue 13 Dec 2016 12:00 - 13:30 | All Staff Meeting |
| Wed 14 Dec 2016 13:00 - 15:00 | UG SSLC meeting |
| Wed 14 Dec 2016 15:00 - 16:00 | TPG SSLC Meeting |
| Fri 16 Dec 2016 | Semester A Teaching ends |
| Fri 23 Dec 2016 | Christmas Closure Day |
| Wed 28 Dec 2016 | Christmas Closure Day |
| Thu 29 Dec 2016 | Christmas Closure Day |
| Fri 30 Dec 2016 | Christmas Closure Day |