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Zienkiewicz Institute Community Event – 19th November 2025
Date: 19th November 2025 Overview of Event: Dear colleague, For the upcoming ZI community event, Professor Oubay Hassan and Professor Siraj Shaikh have kindly agreed to share their recent experience in winning a Programme Grant and a Prosperity Partnership Grant. Date: Wednesday 19th NovemberVenue: Eng North 102Agenda:• 1:30pm: short presentation by Professor Oubay Hassan, followed…
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Connecting Expertise Webinar Series: HDR UK Wales & Grenoble University
Date: Thursday, 27 November 2025 Overview of the Event: Join us for the first event in the HDR UK Wales “Connecting Expertise” webinar series – bringing together researchers, professionals, and industry partners to share expertise and explore opportunities for collaboration across health data research. This session will focus on Pharmacy, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Modelling, highlighting how data-driven…
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Zienkiewicz Institute Community Event for Grant Calls
Time: 15th October 2025 Overview of the Conference: The next Zienkiewicz Institute community event will be held on Wednesday, 15th October 2025. It will focus on the following three grant calls: UKRI Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science Phase One (Deadline 11 December 2025) UKRK Addressing Nuclear Fission Challenges for a Prosperous Future (Deadline 15 January 2026) Horizon Europe Predicting…
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Constitutive Modelling by Symbolic Regression
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 9th September 2025 Overview of the Seminar: Symbolic regression represents an interesting method of machine learning which allows an unbiased, automated generation of constitutive models for various materials. In comparison to other data-driven methods, symbolic regression reproduces a mathematical expression (for example, of a strain energy or damage function)…
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Zienkiewicz Institute Community Event – July 2025
Time: 23rd July 2025 Overview of the Conference: Programme:• 09:30-10:00: Welcome coffee & collection of your FREE ZI polo shirt• 10:00-11:00: Celebrating ZI’s achievements and looking ahead to new opportunities.• 11:00-12:00: Launch of the ZI PGR Society, with an intro by Fabio and 3-min spotlight talks by our students.• 12:00-13:00: Lunch• 13:00-14:00: Distinguished Seminar by…
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Machine Networks of Attention from Human Networks of Attention
Project Overview The addition of ‘attention’ to machine learning has recently improved many algorithms with the potential to transform a wide range of machine learning approaches (transformers, perceivers). Attention, simply, allows an algorithm to allocate more weight to input that is relevant for certain tasks, and less weight to the irrelevant. We propose that attention…
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for Reversible Actuation and Energy Dissipation
Time: 14:00-16:00, 18th June 2025 Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are a versatile class of functional materials exhibitingexceptional properties, including large-stroke reversible actuation, anomalous mechanicaland vibration energy damping, and reversible pressure-sensitive adhesion. A defining featureof LCEs is their soft elasticity, characterised by a plateau of low, nearly constant stress during stretching, slow stress relaxation, and enhanced surface…
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From Mechanics to AI: Engineering Lightweight Composites for Green Energy Systems
Time: 14:00-16:00, 28 May 2025 Lightweight composite and porous architected materials are pivotal enablers of the global transition to net-zero emissions, offering transformative potential across sectors such as transportation, aerospace, and renewable energy. By reducing structural weight while maintaining performance, these materials minimise energy consumption and carbon footprints. However, their design and optimisation are challenged by…
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Mathematical Modelling of Cancer – Adipocyte Interactions in Ovarian Cancer
Project Overview Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate of all gynaecological cancers, with 5-year survival rates of less than 50%. A primary reason for this is the location of the adipocyte-rich omentum, which has been demonstrated to play an important role in generating a pro-metastatic tumour microenvironment within the peritoneal cavity. This project aims…
