Time: 15th October 2025
Location: Eng North 010 and 008
Speakers:
- Prof. P. Nithiarasu: Nuclear fission
- Dr. Stephen Jones: Rapid alloy prototyping of steels for fusion reactors and potential applications to GenIV fission materials development
- Dr. Joe MacInnes: Spatial attention in complex visual environments
- Dr. Yue Hou: Lightweight deep learning for road infrastructure safety monitoring
- Dr. Simeng Qiu: Encoding angular information into computational imaging
- Dr. Wang Han: Multifactor driving mechanism of compound floods in coastal areas under climate change
- Prof. Mark Jones
- Dr. Sara Sharifzadeh: AI for environmental science call
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 and Avoiding Road Crashes Based on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (Deadline 20 January 2026)
The event aims to form teams for developing grant applications for these calls. The teams will be supported by a research hub and grant panel members from the ZI community.
Venue: Eng Noth 010, Bay Campus
Draft agenda:
12:00-12:30 Bring your own lunch (paper cups, tea bags, and instant coffee provided).
12:30-12:40 Dr. Dimitrios Pletsas to give a brief overview of the calls
12:40-13:30 Lighting talks from colleagues interested in applying
Prof. P. Nithiarasu: Nuclear fission
Dr. Stephen Jones: Rapid alloy prototyping of steels for fusion reactors and potential applications to GenIV fission materials development
Dr. Joe MacInnes: Spatial attention in complex visual environments
Dr. Yue Hou: Lightweight deep learning for road infrastructure safety monitoring
Dr. Simeng Qiu: Encoding angular information into computational imaging
Dr. Wang Han: Multifactor driving mechanism of compound floods in coastal areas under climate change
Prof. Mark Jones and Dr. Sara Sharifzadeh: AI for environmental science call
13:30-13:45 Group discussions to debate/communicate ideas
13:45-14:15 Grant panel member sessions: interview and Q&A
Prof. P. Nithiarasu: member of EPSRC digital twin panel, UKRI FLF panel and Alan Turing DTNet+ panel
Prof. Elaine Crooks: member of EPSRC Responsive Mode, EPSRC CDT Interviews, UKRI FLF
Dr. Monika Seisenberger: UKRI ICT Prioritisation Panels, EU COST Action