Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminars
Seminars are presented at least once a week during the academic year, by staff, students and visitors to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Everyone is welcome to attend.
2023 Seminars
2022 Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr George Buchanan |
Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) for the orbital vehicle Electron | E5 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:00:00 NZST | Volker Nock and Gary Turner |
Nanoscale 3D Printing | Link Lecture Theatre 309 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 13 May 2022 14:00:00 NZST | Mohamed Mahmoud
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Neuroimaging of Endogenous Lapses of Responsiveness | Link 309 Lecture Theatre
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2021 Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:00:00 NZST | CANCELLED - Volker Nock and Gary Turner |
Nanoscale 3D Printing | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Aran Warren, PhD student |
The Dark Side of Plasmonics | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Parham Taghinia, PhD student |
Wave-front Sensorless Adaptive Optics | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:00:00 NZST | George Buchanan, PhD Student and
GNC Launch Systems Lead |
Real Time Trajectory Optimisation for Orbital Launch Vehicles | Link Lecture Theatre 309 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Richard Jones |
Forensic brainwave analysis: Detecting concealed knowledge via EEG-based Brain Fingerprinting – Two independent validation studies | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 28 May 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Ben Mitchell, PhD Student |
The road to accurate surface measurement of groundwater flows using electromagnetic flowmeter | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 21 May 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Peter Smith |
Statistical Design and Analysis of RIS-aided Mobile Communications | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 14 May 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Aston Taylor,
Masters Student
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Integration and continued development of snow radar for Gateway Antarctica. | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 14 May 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Will Sloane, PhD Student |
Where to next for 5G? Modelling the millimetre-wave wireless communication channel for 5G and beyond communications. | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 07 May 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Steve Pawson - Senior Lecturer |
UC Biosecurity Innovations: Making the NZ Biosecurity System Stronger | E5 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Zachary Heywood - PhD Student |
Reservoir Computing with Percolating Networks | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:00:00 NZST | Robin McNeill - Adjunct Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury |
Some Recent Developments in Southland's Space Initiatives | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:00:00 NZDT | Andrew Berry, PhD |
Snap, Crackle, Pop! Three Stages of High Voltage Testing | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:00:00 NZDT | Eugene McNearney |
High-voltage, lasers and pesticides – Investigating pesticide transfer efficacy with electrostatically charged sprays, and how 6 months took 3 years. | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Saloni Pal |
Multi-scale Methods for Deconvolution from Wavefront Sensing | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:00:00 NZDT | Sevgi Onal
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Putting the Pressure on Cancer | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
2020 Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Bill Heffernan |
Trapezoidal Current Generator for an Electromagnetic Flowmeter | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Byron Engler |
Sensing petal piston modes with a pyramid wavefront sensor | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Prof Richard Jones |
Is brain function impaired in moderate sleep apnoea?: Before and after six months of CPAP | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Richard Jones |
Is brain function impaired in moderate sleep apnoea?: Before and after six months of CPAP | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:00:00 NZST | Kerry Clapham |
Designing an antenna for space applications | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:00:00 NZST | Ahmed Hayali, Christine Franke, Sierra Hickman, Daniel De Gouw, Mohamed Mahmoud |
Thesis in three | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 08 May 2020 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Phil Bones |
Towards a neuromorphic device | https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/91388820677 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:00:00 NZDT | Alastair McDowell |
Consulting & climbing: engineering abroad as a digital nomad | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Philipp Sueltrop |
Commercialising the Stratosphere | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Mohamed Mahmoud |
fMRI 101 | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Joe Chen |
Diffractive imaging with x-ray lasers | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
2019 Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Byron Engler |
Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:00:00 NZST | Robin McNeill |
Making Space in Southland | E12 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:00:00 NZST | Professor Sir Colin Humphreys |
Nitrides: Past, Present and Future: From the Invention of LEDs to Predicting Earthquakes | A3 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Radnya Mukhedkar (Ceng, FIET, SMIEEE) |
Systems perspective to engineer a solution | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:00:00 NZST | David Wright |
To America and Back Again | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Roy Smith |
The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:00:00 NZST | Dr Ebubekir Avci |
Micro-Nano Robotics for Bio-Medical Applications | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 26 Aug 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Wallace Vosloo |
High Voltage Engineering and Insulation | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Volker Nock |
50 Years of TWALK – the movie | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Bill Heffernan |
Application of Smart Electrodes to logs, for timber assessment and Joule Heating | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Christine Franke (PhD),
Sierra Hickman (PhD),
Joshua Taylor (PhD),
Thomas Galbraith (ME),
Andrew Berry (PhD), |
Thesis in 3 | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Graeme Wake |
Why are our Pine Trees going red? Analysis using a preferred systems modelling approach. | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 31 May 2019 16:00:00 NZST | Dr Adriel Kind, Senior Research Engineer |
Through the Gates of Uncertainty | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 24 May 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Mark Reeves |
Some examples of optics in engineering and medical devices | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 17 May 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Philipp Sueltrop |
To fail, or not to fail... | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 10 May 2019 14:00:00 NZST | Thomas Galbraith |
Development of an Internationally Competitive Electric Race Car | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:00:00 NZST | Dr Tara Hamilton |
Silicon Intelligence | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:00:00 NZDT | Dr Sarah Kessans |
Per aspera ad astra: reaching for the stars via research and adventure | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Prof Vic Gosbell |
Power Quality Benchmarking for Transmission Systems | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Prof Richard Jones |
Some interesting presentations and papers at EMBC 2018 | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Richard Zhang |
Scalable and Guaranteed Computation: Optimization and Machine Learning for the Future Electric Grid | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | David Wright |
To America and back again | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Prof Alexandre Dmitriev |
Magnetic, chemical and electrical steering of light at the nanoscale | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
2018 Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | Zubia Ishrat, Iain Finer, Will Austin, Philip Houte de Lange |
Special topic students (WRC and UC Rocketry) | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | Abdul Baseer Buriro |
Using inter-channel relationships between EEG signals for detection/prediction of microsleeps | Link 301 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Scott Post |
From Rockets to Orchards | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Graeme Woodward |
Drones to the rescue (Or why a drone may one day save your life) | Link 301 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Mike Shurety, Computer Systems Manager/Lecturer |
A Cat, an Electron, and a Meta-physicist walk into a bar … The Sequel | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Euan McGill and Luke Schwartfeger |
Research Seminars from EPECentre PhD Students | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Richard Jones |
Some topics on Sleep | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Josh Schipper (PhD), Rob Hockey (Masters), Miguel Reis (PhD) |
Thesis-in-Three Departmental Heat | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Richard Strahan |
Managing connection of distributed generation, designing brushless motors, and levitating heavy things | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 25 May 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Duncan Schaut |
Intellectual Property 101 | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 18 May 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Claude Meffan |
Versatile thermal measurement system used for measuring small and challenging samples | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 11 May 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Regina Eisert and Alexa Hasselman |
Killer whale research for the Ross Sea region MPA | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 04 May 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Dr K Khorasani |
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Health Monitoring of Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Complex Industrial Systems | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Taylor Welsh |
Low power 2D Optical Sensors for the Detection and Identification of Flying Insects | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Zixiang Xiong |
On the energy-delay tradeoff in streaming data | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Marwan Katurji |
The invisible realm of atmospheric coherent turbulent structures: Resolving their dynamics and interaction with Earth's surface | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | Associate Professor Martin Allen |
Square Nanotubes, Chameleons, and the English Cricket Team | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:30:00 NZDT | Mark Rocket |
Developing a New Zealand Space Industry | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | George Buchanan |
Design and launch of the Electron rocket into orbit | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:00:00 NZDT | Reza Shoorangiz |
Prediction of microsleeps from the EEG: A Bayesian machine-learning perspective | Link 309 Lecture Theatre |
2017 Seminars
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:00:00 NZDT | Louise Orcheston-Findlay, PhD Candidate |
A Microfluidic Gradient Generator to Simulate the Oxygen Microenvironment in Cancer Cell Culture | E14, Engineering Core block |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:00:00 NZDT | Dr Graeme Bathurst |
Delivering power electronic solutions for transmission and connection of renewables around the world | E14, Engineering Core Block |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Michael Braasch |
Inertial Navigation Systems: The Heart of Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control | E14, Engineering Core block |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Ryan Van Herel |
Joule heating of Pinus radiate logs in the high voltage lab | E14, Engineering Core Block |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Belen Andres |
From the Human Eye to Space Eyes | E14, Engineering Core Block. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Dr James Tee |
Is the Brain Discrete? | Elec Link 309 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Maan Alkaisi |
Light Harvesting Nanostructures | E14, Engineering Core block |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Michael Braasch |
Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Where have we come from? Where are we going? | E14, Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Richard Jones |
Forensic brainwave analysis | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Andrew Berry, George Buchanan, Byron Engler, Claude Meffan, Louise Orcheston-Findlay, Josh Schipper, Philipp Sültrop
|
Thesis-in-Three | Kirkwood, KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Mike Shurety, Computer Manager/Lecturer |
SpaceTime Symphony: Things to think about while waiting for the pub to open. | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 26 May 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Phil Bones (on behalf of Laura King and Rick Millane) |
2-D and 3-D phase unwrapping in MRI | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 19 May 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Prof Rick Millane |
Phase problems | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 12 May 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Dr Andrew Lapthorn |
Electric Boogie: Solid State Musical Tesla Coils | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:00:00 NZST | Robin McNeill |
Making space in Southland | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Jeffrey B Burl |
Power Flow Control of Electric Hybrid Vehicles | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:00:00 NZDT | Josh Schipper |
Impacts of Variable Renewable Generation on Frequency Quality | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:00:00 NZDT | Professor Richard Jones |
Some interesting papers and tangents from EMBC 2016 | Kirkwood KH03 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:00:00 NZDT | Dr Rebecca Soffe |
Discontinuous Dielectrophoresis Enabled Investigation of Shear Stress Stimulus on Intracellular Calcium Signalling of Non-Adherent Cells | Kirkwood KH03 |