Programme Day 1

Tuesday 5th September

There are three presentation rooms running simultaneously. 

09:30 - 10:00 Registration for Doctoral Researcher only.

Welcome Refreshments for all, WPTH Foyer

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome and Introduction (WPT002)

  • Professor Dan Parsons, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation

10:15 - 10:45 Plenary 1 Keynote Speaker, Mike Wilson, MTC (WPT002)

10:50 - 11:50 Parallel Session 1

Session 1, Room 1 (WPT001). Advanced Manufacturing & Digital Engineering 

Chair: TBC

  • Maria Aslam (MEME)Conceptualisation of Mental Models for the XAI Requirements Elicitation 

  • Ben Marshall (AACME): Aerial Robot Experiments with A Nonlinear Mechanism
  • Prateep Kasinathan (Wolfson): Recycling Inert Gases for Plasma-Assisted Carbon Dioxide Splitting Using a Split-Ring Resonator  

Session 1, Room 2 (WPT002). Sports & Healthcare Engineering 1. 

Chair: TBC

  • Harry McGowan (ABCE): Understanding Traction Mechanisms on Artificial Turf
  • Owen Latham (MEME): One Component Knee Prosthesis
  • Ghazaleh Mazaheri-Tehrani (AACME): The Effect of Surface Charge and Rigidity on The Interaction of Liposomes and Gold Nanoparticles

Session 1, Room 3 (WPT003). Net Zero 1

Chair: TBC

  • Adam McKinley (AACME): Catalyst Development for HER
  • Luis Infante-Ortega (MEME): SnO2 buffer layers for high efficiency CdSeTe/CdTe devices
  • Will Chartier (AACME): Synthesis of Graphene Supported Efficient Nano-Catalysts for Biomass Applications

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch & Poster Session. Drop in to display area desks

13:00 - 13:30 Plenary 2 Keynote Speaker, Dr Brett Friskney, Frazer-Nash (WPT002)

13:35 - 14:35 Parallel Session 2

Session 2, Room 1 (WPT001). Advanced Manufacturing & Digital Engineering 2 

Chair: TBC

  • Zhanar Molgazhdarova (MEME): Digitalisation Roadmap for Garment Manufacturing SMEs
  • Lizzie Dichmont (MEME): Optimisation of Gas Shielding For Laser Welding
  • Jacob Lavin (Wolfson): Controlling Nozzle and Kerf Gas Dynamics to Manage Hazardous Laser Cutting Fume 

Session 2, Room 3 (WPT003). Net Zero

Chair: TBC

  • Matthew Beatty (MEME): Sorting and Grading Second Life Batteries for Second Life Applications
  • Haosong He (MEME): Analysing unbalanced ageing in EV battery Packs using the Low-Cost Lumped Single Particle Model (LSPM): the impact of temperature gradients among parallel-connected cells.
  • Mason Shipley-Jones (AACME): Microstructural Characterisation of Electromagnetic Pulse Welded High Strength Aluminium Alloyss

14:35 - 14:45 Break & Refreshments. WPTH Foyer

14:45 - 15:45 Parallel Session 3 

Session 3, Room 1 (WPT001). Advanced Manufacturing & Digital Engineering 3

Chair: TBC

  • Kansuda Kosolinsee (MEME)Development of Suitable Photopolymer Binders for Ceramic and Metal Stereolithography
  • Jinnuo Zhang (MEME)4D Printed Self-Forming Monofilament Structures in Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing
  • Yagiz Kayali (MEME)Tailorable Fibrous Networks for Additive Manufacturing: Design and Analysis

Session 3, Room 2 (WPT002). Sports and Healthcare Engineering 2

Chair: TBC

  • Xiaoyu Zheng (MEME): A Generative Adversarial Network (PPG-GAN) to De-noise Photoplethysmographic Signals during High Intensity Activity
  • Ekaterina Smotrova (MEME): Trabecula-level Mechanoadaptation: numerical analysis of morphological changes
  • Lisa Barrett (AACME)Biocompatible Microparticles for Breast Cancer Cell Encapsulation Produced by Membrane Emulsification

Session 3, Room 3 (WPT003). Net Zero 3

Chair: tbc

  • Francesco Fico (AACME): Advanced Numerical Techniques for Fluids Under Large Heat Loads and Magnetic Field
  • Tseno Tsenov (AACME): Low-Order Modelling of Low Frequency Thermoacoustic Instabilities
  • Qusay Hawari (MEME): Multi-Objective Control on Large Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Using Structural-Hydrodynamic LPV Estimators

15:45 Close Day 1