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Networking Session and Lunch at the Distinguished Zienkiewicz Institute Seminar Organized by ZI PGR Society
Time: 12:00 pm – 15:00 pm, 8th October 2025 Overview of the Conference: The ZI-PGR Society, in collaboration with ALTAIR, successfully organized an engaging seminar that brought together PhD students and members of the Zienkiewicz Institute community. The event provided an excellent platform for scholars to network, share experiences, discuss challenges, and exchange innovative solutions…
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Continuum Robotics Workshop at Swansea University
Time: 18 Sept 2025 Overview of the Conference: The 18 September 2025, was truly special! Thank you to everyone who brought their curiosity and positive spirit to Swansea University for the Continuum Robotics Workshop. Your enthusiasm lifted every moment of the day—from inspiring keynotes and rapid research pitches to the lively panel and our dinner…
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GIVING BIRTH TO A COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL TWIN
Time: 12:00 pm – 15:00 pm, 8th October 2025 Overview of the Conference: “GIVING BIRTH TO A COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL TWIN” What is a Digital Twin, how are they built, and what can they bring to current and future product development environments? A Digital Twin can be developed to capture complex or simple product behaviour, but…
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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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BREAKING BARRIERS: Swansea University hosts inaugural Google DeepMind Research Ready programme, opening doors to AI careers for underrepresented students
Time: 1st August 2025 Ten talented undergraduate students from across the UK recently completed a transformative eight-week journey into artificial intelligence research through the Google DeepMind Research Ready programme at Swansea University, running from 9th June to 1st August 2025. Selected from a highly competitive pool of over 65 applicants, students from Swansea, Durham, Newcastle,…
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Modeling and simulation of viscoelastic liquid crystal elastomers
Time: 14:00-15:00, 30/07/2025 Combining the self-organisation of liquid crystals (LCs) with the flexibility of elastomers results in a special class of stimuli-responsive solid materials called liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). These materials deform in response to changes in the LC orientation driven by temperature variation, electric, magnetic, or optical fields, and their LC alignment changes when…
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SUMMER LEARNING: three Zienkiewicz Institute students selected to attend International Data Science, Learning and Optimisation summer school in Italy
Three talented students from Swansea University’s Zienkiewicz Institute recently returned from an inspiring and formative week at the international DataSLO Summer School, held in the picturesque town of Norcia, Italy, from June 23–27, 2025. Fully funded to attend through the Phoenix project, Eman Alhayki, Rosie Finnegan, and Harry Bevan joined peers and faculty from around…
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Characterising Optimisation Landscapes via Trees and Networks
Time: 13:30, 10 July 2025 We often conceptualise the optimisation function as being on the continuous 1D line. Here, the bottom of “dip”s local are local minima, and the “peak”s are saddle-points between them. We can see the landscape of the underlying function clearly and it is easy to see its structure and features. In two…
