Faculty of
Science and Technology

September 2010

• Catchment & Aquatic Processes PhD Seminar Day (Research Seminars)
• Postgraduate Show -Innovate 2010 (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)

August 2010

• The Impact of Biochar on Biodegradation of Organic Contaminants in Aged Soil (Research Seminars)
• PBDEs in Colonial Water Birds from Pakistan (Research Seminars)
• General Biology Open day (Undergraduate Open Days)

July 2010

• Application of infrared spectroscopy to biochemically signature the effects of chemical mixtures in mammalian cells (Research Seminars)
• Information Fusion: the Concepts, the Technology, the Community, and Modern Research Challenges (Research Seminars)
• Why the impact agenda will secure a sound future for NERC research (Research Seminars)
• Parents required for Online Child Protection Focus Group (Focus Groups)
• Energy Lancaster Symposium on Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Conferences)
• Water saving agriculture and food security in China (Research Seminars)
• London Mathematical Society Workshop : Rigidity of Frameworks and Applications (Conferences)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Reducing Uncertainty in Models for Environmental Decision-making : Synthesis (Demonstration Workshops)
• Centre for Biophotonics: One-day symposium and launch (Conferences)
• Human action control: Segregation and integration – Physiology and Pathology (Research Seminars)
• Faculty of Science and Technology Industrial Showcase (Networking Events)
• Reducing Uncertainty in Models for Environmental Decision-making : Chemicals (Demonstration Workshops)
• What Statistics Do GPs Really Need To Know? (Conferences)
• Year 12 Science and Technology Taster Day (Sci-Tech Taster Days)

June 2010

• Reducing Uncertainty in Models for Environmental Decision-making : Land & Water (Demonstration Workshops)
• Exploit fresh market opportunities (Business Workshops)
• Civil Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (Research Seminars)
• Thermal treatment and use of biochar in soils to minimize nutrient losses (Research Seminars)
• Putting the Sustainable City in its Place: Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Urban Sustainable Development (Research Seminars)
• LEC Research Seminar: 25 years of the Ozone Hole: The World Avoided (Research Seminars)
• Reducing Uncertainty in Models for Environmental Decision-making : Atmosphere (Demonstration Workshops)
• Graphene: Magic of Flat Carbon (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)
• Knowledge Exchange Show Case (Demonstration Workshops)
• The effect of raindrop impacted flow on sediment composition (Research Seminars)
• Adaptations and climate change in Antarctic marine animals (Research Seminars)
• Thermal treatment and use of biochar in soils to minimize nutrient losses (Research Seminars)
• Think RaRe - Rational-Reactive Intelligent Agents for Collaborative Thinking in Virtual Worlds (Research Seminars)
• Transnational educational spaces: The transformation of HE in Hong Kong and the new (im)mobilities of Chinese students (Research Seminars)
• Instrumental Developments in the Field of Solid Sampling for ICP-MS and ICP-OES (Research Seminars)

May 2010

• How Bad are Bananas? (Networking Events)
• A New Flow-Through Directional Passive Air Sampler Applied to Monitoring Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide (Research Seminars)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Design and Application of Industrial Fuzzy Logic Controllers (Research Seminars)
• Physical and Link Layer Implications in Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (Research Seminars)
• Manipulating photosynthesis and photoprotection in tropical rice (Research Seminars)

April 2010

• Biological Pesticides Against Insect Crop Pests in Asia and Africa: Turning Research Into Use in Developing Countries (Research Seminars)
• Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling (Research Seminars)

March 2010

• Phenanthrene catabolism in Zn and Cu amended soil (Research Seminars)
• Review of Organochlorine Pesticides in Azerbaijan (Research Seminars)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Nitrogen competition in the rhizosphere (Research Seminars)
• Fixing fuel poverty - challenges and solutions (Research Seminars)
• UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes (Undergraduate Open Days)
• LEC Research Seminar: Living with Environmental Change (Research Seminars)
• An open day to find out about the STOR-i (Postgraduate Open Days)
• National Science and Engineering Week 2010 (Schools Events)
• Dissolved organic matter in montane systems, climate and vegetation effects (Research Seminars)
• The Social Brain (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)
• UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes (Undergraduate Open Days)

February 2010

• Nutrient and carbon cycling in sediments of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (Research Seminars)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes (Undergraduate Open Days)
• LEC Research Seminar: NERC 2010 theme action plans (Research Seminars)
• Novel technologies for eutrophication control in shallow lakes (Research Seminars)
• Our Food Future - Reflections on Changing Paradigms, Shifting Power and Rewriting Rules (Research Seminars)
• Codes with parent identifying property and digital fingerprinting codes: what is in between? (Research Seminars)
• UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Characterizing dissolved organic matter (DOM) using fluorescence and parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) (Research Seminars)
• Digital Pathways (Networking Events)

January 2010

• Oldham Wired City Reconnected (Networking Events)
• LEC Research Seminar: Environmental Evidence for 2010-15: Needs, Skills and Partnership (Research Seminars)
• Why Social Inequalities Persist (Research Seminars)
• Field measurements of air-soil exchange gradients of persistent organic pollutants (Research Seminars)
• Airborne LIDAR: principles, processing and applications to volcanic areas (Research Seminars)
• UCAS Open Day - Environmental Science schemes (Undergraduate Open Days)

December 2009

• Ethnographies of Cycling (Conferences)
• Weathering solar storms (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Tropical land use change and atmospheric composition - a case study in Borneo (Christmas Conference Talks)
• HEFCE's views of impact (Christmas Conference Talks)
• The EPSRC's views of impact (Christmas Conference Talks)
• The Wray Broadband Project - 5 Years On (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Impact of Accelerator Engineering at the Cockcroft Institute (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Geometric Constraint System Stories: Evariste Galois, CAD and Crystallography (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Catching Neutrinos! A detector for the T2K experiment (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Plants, people and ultraviolet light: from ozone depletion to better nutrition (Christmas Conference Talks)
• SNAREs at the junction of traffic, transport and transpiration (Research Seminars)

November 2009

• Food web bioaccumulation of halogenated compounds in high mountain lake food webs (Research Seminars)
• Stopford; Current R&D for Green Technologies (Research Seminars)
• Managing the monster in the middle - why is IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) so hard? (Research Seminars)
• Global Environmental Change and Food Security (Research Seminars)
• Presentation by the IET (Presentations)
• Biofumigation as a component of a methyl bromide replacement strategy in disease management (Research Seminars)
• Exploring the Relationship between Personalised Learning and Enquiry-Based Learning in Enhancing the Student Learning Experience (Research Seminars)

October 2009

• The Challenge of Climate Change (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)
• Global Climate Model Validation, Forecasting and Uncertainty (Research Seminars)
• Annual North West Business Pitch - Energy and Environmental Technologies (Conferences)
• Gulf War Illness and 'radioactive' uranium weapons: health and environmental consequences (Research Seminars)
• An overview of the EU Framework Programme 7 (Research Seminars)
• Why do Chinese farmers use so much nitrogen fertiliser? (Research Seminars)

September 2009

• Growing temperate plants in the tropics (Research Seminars)
• Postgraduate Show -Innovate 2009 (Exhibitions)
• REACH - Beyond the Horizon (Conferences)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)

July 2009

• Wind Turbines (Research Seminars)
• Year 12 Science and Technology Taster Day (Sci-Tech Taster Days)

June 2009

• Distributed Modelling, Estimation and Control for Road Traffic by Prof. Rene Boel, University of Ghent, Belgium (Research Seminars)
• Advanced Engineering for Global Science: The Large Hadron Collider (Research Seminars)
• Physics Relay (Social Events)
• NANOMOD 2009 (Conferences)
• ADSRs and FFAGs - what they are and why we need them (Research Seminars)

May 2009

• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Precision Bioresponse Engineering (Research Seminars)

April 2009

• In Pursuit of Pulsars (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)

March 2009

• Compact hydro opportunities in the UK (Research Seminars)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Environmental Science Visit Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• UK Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference (Conferences)
• The Impact of Crosstalk on Communication Links in Deep Submicron Technologies (Research Seminars)
• Environmental Science Visit Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Geography UCAS Taster Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• National Science and Engineering Week 2009 (Schools Events)
• Working effectively in SIEFs and Consortia (Business Workshops)
• Environmental Science Visit Day (Undergraduate Open Days)

February 2009

• GameJam @InfoLab21 (Lancaster University Student Events)
• Application of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Modelling and Control (Research Seminars)
• REACH Registration and Management (Business Workshops)
• Geography UCAS Taster Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Geography UCAS Taster Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Environmental Science Visit Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• REACH Management for Chemical Users (Business Workshops)
• Geography UCAS Taster Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Environmental Science Visit Day (Undergraduate Open Days)

January 2009

• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Environmental Science Visit Day (Undergraduate Open Days)

December 2008

• Is there too much 'water' in water research? Bringing the social dimension into sustainable water management (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Soil-water systems and the future of civilization (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Why should scientists bother getting involved in public affairs? (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Firefly: Highlighting future trends in computer systems (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Evolving Intelligent Systems - Concept, Applications and Opportunities for Security Systems of the Future (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Learning motor actions by observing others: The roles of the mirror neuron system and prefrontal cortex (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Using statistical methods to analyse environmental extremes (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Engineering Challenges of Particle Accelerators (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Where Galaxies Really Come From (Christmas Conference Talks)
• SciTech Christmas Conference 2008 (Conferences)
• Postgraduate Reception (Postgraduate Receptions)

November 2008

• On being the right size: Scaling and psychological laws (Research Seminars)
• LU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Physics behind Pre-Earthquake Signals (Research Seminars)
• Bough Down - A Forest Of Paintings (Exhibitions)
• The Music of Life: the principles of Systems Biology (Research Seminars)

October 2008

• Wireless Video Transmission: (Research Seminars)

September 2008

• Postgraduate Show - Innovate 2008 (Demonstration Workshops)
• BSU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)

August 2008

• Phase Noise and Suppression Method in the 3G-LTE Uplink Communication System (Research Seminars)
• Advances in Traceable Micro & Nanoscale Engineering Metrology (Research Seminars)

July 2008

• Modelling Evolving User behaviours (Research Seminars)
• Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis (Research Seminars)
• BSU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Research Seminar 'DIGITAL OBESITY addressed by Fuzzy Information Management' by Prof T. Martin (Bristol University and BT) (Research Seminars)
• Science and Technology Taster Day (Schools Events)

June 2008

• Physics Relay (Social Events)

May 2008

• BSU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• The Inaugural Doug Shepherd Memorial Lecture: Interactive Data Exploration with Diamond (Research Seminars)
• Geoscientists' new Earth models: the geospatial revolution (Research Seminars)
• The Misunderstood Placebo (Research Seminars)
• Vehicular Traffic Modelling and Traffic Flow Estimation with Particle Filtering Methods (Research Seminars)
• Professionalism - The Latest Challenge in Medical Education (Research Seminars)

April 2008

• To kill a parasite: Targeting protein kinases in the hunt for new drugs against Leishmaniasis (Research Seminars)
• Beyond Bali and IPCC: some new priorities for climate impact and policy research (Research Seminars)
• Ideas Festival 08 (Conferences)
• Hormonal control of shoot branching (Research Seminars)
• Introduction to Second Life for Educators (demonstration & discussion) (Demonstration Workshops)

March 2008

• Bonsai: mechanisms underlying the plant growth response to stress (Research Seminars)
• BSU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• The Subterranean Machinations of Explosive Volcanoes (Research Seminars)
• Information Security - Where Computer Science, Economics and Psychology Meet (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)
• Microbial sensing in mural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana (Research Seminars)
• National Science and Engineering Week 2008 (Schools Events)
• Computer Aided Knee Surgery (Research Seminars)

February 2008

• Biodiversity and ecosystem service provision in agro-ecosystems (Research Seminars)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Physics approaches to the cardiorespiratory system (Research Seminars)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Syncytialisation and Mosaic Formation in the Maternofetal Interaction Zone (Research Seminars)
• Ecology and evolution in insect-natural enemy interactions (Research Seminars)
• Chemical Signalling Between Insects and Plants for the Development of Sustainable Pest Management (Research Seminars)

January 2008

• A Tale of Two Parasites (Research Seminars)
• Quantifying human impacts on tropical forest biodiversity (Research Seminars)
• BSU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Typical Sex Differences and Their Link with Autism (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)

December 2007

• Engineering Reliability into Miniature Systems - The Design-for-X Challenge (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Exploiting Natural Plant Defence Systems as New Tools for Sustainable Pest Management (Christmas Conference Talks)
• The Search for the Higgs Boson (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Wireless Sensor Networks for Time Critical Applications (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Beams: Inner and Outer Dimensions! (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Ecohydrodynamics: The Physics of Ecological Engineers in Aquatic Environments (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Trees, Rings and Climate (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Computing Research (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Language Design for Language Learning (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Planetary Volcanism (Christmas Conference Talks)
• Transport Energy - Research in the Political Spotlight (Christmas Conference Talks)
• SciTech Christmas Conference 2007 (Conferences)
• LU Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• BSU Postgraduate Open Day (joint with LU Postgraduate Open Day) (Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (joint with LU Postgraduate Open Day) (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Technology Matters (Technology Matters Events)
• Interdisciplinary Seminar in Computer Simulation, Arts, and Media (Research Seminars)

November 2007

• X-ray Tomography: What it can (or can't) do for your research (Research Seminars)
• Is Everything Becoming the Same? Patterns and Drivers of Biotic Homogenization in Terrestrial Ecosystems (Research Seminars)
• InfoLab21 & Daresbury SIC Networking Event (Networking Events)
• Making Things Tiny - Will Nanotechnology Deliver a Revolutionary Approach to Healthcare? (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)

October 2007

• New Approximation Techniques in Nonlinear Filtering (Research Seminars)
• Escape from Natural Enemies during Climate-Driven Range Expansion (Research Seminars)
• IEEE SenseApp 2007 (Conferences)
• The Effects of High Population Density (in a High Consumption Society) on Stream Water Quality (Research Seminars)
• Adaptive Self-superparasitism in the Infanticidal Parasitoid Echthrodalphax Fairchildii (Research Seminars)
• Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (Conferences)

September 2007

• International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems 2007 (Demonstration Workshops)
• Technology Matters Event (Technology Matters Events)
• 21st Human Computer Interaction Conference (Conferences)

July 2007

• Plants Mitigating Global Change via Sustainable Biofuel Production (Research Seminars)
• Ninth International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications (Conferences)
• Intelligent Sensors in Chemical and Petro-chemical Industry (Research Seminars)
• Fabry-Perot Spectrometers in the Australian Antarctic Territory (Research Seminars)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles Modelling and Control (Research Seminars)
• Science and Technology Taster Day (Schools Events)

June 2007

• Cognitive radio: A Future Communication Technology (Research Seminars)
• Technology Matters Event (Technology Matters Events)
• Towards an Artificial Conscience for Robots (Research Seminars)

May 2007

• SensorNet 2007 (Networking Events)
• Model-based on-line Fault Detection and Image Classification (Research Seminars)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• The mysterious flickering aurora (Research Seminars)

March 2007

• Water - The New Oil? (Sci-Tech Lecture Series)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Technology Matters Event (Technology Matters Events)

February 2007

• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• DCS Seminar (Research Seminars)
• Seminar (Research Seminars)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)

January 2007

• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)

December 2006

• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Technology Matters Event - Commercialising Research (Technology Matters Events)
• Personalized user behaviour models (Research Seminars)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)

November 2006

• Postgraduate Open Afternoon (LU Postgraduate Open Days)
• LEC Postgraduate Open Day (Postgraduate Open Days)
• Network Protection: Why you need a Security Policy... (Technology Matters Events)

October 2006

• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)
• Extending the capabilities of a clinician (Research Seminars)
• Communication Systems Open Day (Undergraduate Open Days)

September 2006

• Broadband (Technology Matters Events)
• Lancaster University Visit Day (LU Visit Days)
• DCS Seminar (Research Seminars)
• Data-Driven Evolving Fuzzy Models - Algorithms and Applications (Research Seminars)
• 2nd International Workshop on Evolving Fuzzy Systems (Conferences)
• Technology Matters - Rheged (Technology Matters Events)
• Technology Matters (Technology Matters Events)

August 2006

• lancaster University Visit Day (LU Visit Days)
• Talking Technology event (Technology Matters Events)

July 2006

• Power laws in the Magnetosphere - Why are they so interesting? A data analyst's perspective (Research Seminars)

June 2006

• HF Prediction Methods for Digital Communications (Research Seminars)
• The Impact of Information Technology on Deaf People (Research Seminars)
• Distributed Visual Information Processing in Camera Sensor Networks (Research Seminars)

May 2006

• Mastering Complex Causal Systems (Research Seminars)

April 2006

• From cluster analysis to finding interesting patterns (Research Seminars)

February 2006

• Wireless sensor networks (Research Seminars)

December 2005

• Audience Participation through Mobile Phones with a Multi-track Music video on a Large Public Display (Research Seminars)

November 2005

• Using Embedded Agents to Create Ambient Intelligence (Research Seminars)

October 2005

• Aspect Oriented Software Development (Technology Matters Events)

September 2005

• Evolvable Connectionists Systems: Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics, Brain Study and Intelligent Machines (Research Seminars)
• Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization and Its Application to Multiobjective Fuzzy Rule Extraction (Research Seminars)

June 2005

• Metric based on Rank Codes and Applications to Public Key Cryptosystems (Research Seminars)

May 2005

• InfoLab21 Networking for Business (Networking Events)

March 2005

• Connecting People - Connecting Machines (Technology Matters Events)